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sobs

2012-01-31T01:31:00.001+08:00

阿彬哥, I'll see you when I see you. :)

人日

2012-01-29T23:59:00.002+08:00

Helliew.

I just remembered that this doodoo forgot to add in pictures of the reunion dinner in the CNY post. Sorreh. Another time. Let me get a few assignments clear first. I know EE is waiting to see the pictures heh. By this week okie!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTNER-IN-CRIME J! I wanted to drop her card at her mailbox. Then I forgot which floor she stayed on doodoo moment #2. Then managed to find it out via H. Then poked at her mailbox and realised that it's one of those sealed kinds. So took lift upstairs. Her cute neighbour's kid was outside and just going to enter her house, so I just 顺便 told him to "pass it to J jiejie okay, bye!" Later on, J told me that he said "一个戴眼镜的姐姐给你的" hahaha so cutezx.

As I left I was wondering how awkward it would be if some stranger just passed things to you and asked you to hand it to someone else. Sekali is some poison or death-inducing thing. Aiyo. But anyhoo I had seen him before, though I highly doubt he remembers.

Also, someone searched this blog today via "happy birthday J january" hahaha. Like that also can.

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Another J aka B1 coined a new simile today, as mysterious as a Ruiqi *cheyyy self-esteem upz +10. And also, I dreamt of her being a Virgin Mary-cum-Bella combo because she gave birth to a girl without being impregnated and her girl grew up damn fast like Bella's girl. Siao wan. And in the dream I remember just being *eye big big* at the fact that she could give birth without a male. Modern Mother Mary yo.

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2 Js done, I would also like to mention one D. Thank you D for your concern yesterday morning :) It's better, but still erratic. Heh. Aiyaiyai.

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Some pictures of normal day-to-day life of chooahqi! Yay! Finally after a long while cuz I've just been too lazy to switch accounts to upload photos and back etc.

Our fortnightly Aunt L who helps Empress clean the bigger parts of the house came today, saw the couplet and liked it; Empress asked me to write it for her. I was satisfied by my handwriting *pats self on back* teehee.

Went to Telok Blangah because ze beloved brother went to the SAFRA there to get some stuff because *SOBS SOBS SOBS* he's going in in two days *SOBS SOBS SOBS*.

There was a Teochew kueh stall manned by this old lady and mua and Empress wanted to try. And I was so happy when she started making the peng kueh and orh kueh right in front of my eyes and later steamed and fried it immediately thereafter woohooooo. But as a result of everything-make-on-the-spot, I had to wait about 15 mins. But it already plussed many points for being handmade (Y)(Y)(Y)

It was 3 pieces of $2. So cheap.
I saw this arrangement on the table behind us. Empress said it was for the lion dance troupe. I went up to ask the stall holder if I could take a picture of it. She looked surprised, smiled and say, 你要拍你拿去拍 lor! Heehee. Yay I like this kind of place where everybardy and their uncle is your best friend. Likes.

I didn't get to eat 7 vegetables today cuz ze Empress didn't cook. But I went out with Emperor to eat at Simpang (yay to yummy chicken cutlet and bak chor kway teow soup and highly fattening lard slurpz) instead of being at home and waiting for him to buy back because today should lagi eat with family and I am good girl. Hee. *hangs halo around head*

And I was glad I went out. See, another and more elaborate pattern for the lion dance troupe!

The mandarin orange slices make out the words 荣华富贵!

Beancurd too which I ate about a quarter cuz I know Emperor wants it. And woah he just devoured it. I did not expect that. That was quite sumthin'.
Ah. Back to reality tmr. I dowan. :((((((((

cny 2012

2012-01-28T15:23:00.004+08:00

So CNY post.

Fave CNY song.
This is the first new year I bumbled about with the humongo Sephora eyeshadow palette and realised that I was the last to get ready and fai tee grabbed and shoved things in my bag before leaving. Wah lau. Stress. I used the red bag the PPGs gave me for my birthday last year! Thanks babes! :)

House decor:

Cutely shaped kueh baulu container at paternal grandmother's.

These two were hawtstuff that day. They are going into the army in the next few days. We were like paparazzi taking multitudes of photos of/with them and touching them.

Not sure if you can see this so I'll type it out. I captioned this "These are the two boyz that will go into army in a week's time and turn into MEN. *chey" The middle Z commented "SORRY ALREADY MEN." And the brother liked that comment. WAH LAU. I just wrote back CHEYYYYYYY. Later on, EE wrote, okay, from MEN to UNCLES... HAHA. You go, EE.

I like I like! :D

See the sotong by the corner. It was freaking spicy and shiiiiiiioookkkkk. And my beloved pig stomach wooooo~~

All ze cousins.

The Secret Seven.

With Grandma!

X so cool-looking!

Kena spotted by her two days prior. Hahahahaaaaa. I got long life. She thinks of me and ta-dah I appeared in front of her eyes! :D

The height disparity between the two of them cannot be more pronounced...

I also like :DDD

The little girl was going around showing off her shaky tooth. Eventually it dropped off. In this candid picture taken by T, I was showing her how to smile without showing the lower teeth.

Still can see the lobang if you look closely enough heh. This is going to be Twitter display picture! The current one has been there for a year, cuz it was a picture of me and her last CNY!

Grandma wearing Fifth Aunt's belt - SO CUTEEEEEEE!!!!!

With T. I likeee!
After that it was my first time visiting a friend during CNY. And I just have to put it down on record cuz it's just too funny. I just knew last night that the mother said that after I wished her Happy New Year I was like a fairy who 飘来飘去 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ohmygod could not stop laughing saya is like not the skinny genteel ladylike guniang kind I cannot imagine 飘-ing around, more like 笨拙-ly (boy am I mixing English grammar with Chinese words, good job chooahqi) bumping into things la. I told Empress this morning, she laughed long and hard also, said it was probably cuz of the dress design - quite floaty and stuff. But still. 天啊~~ *wipes tear from eye*

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Second day. Nothing exciting. As usual, people are bitter and will just complainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn about everything single thing in the universe. They should go live on the moon.

At aunt's house.

French toast!

Golden fork!

This decorated the table. They are the recently married ones.

The words on the packet are "My favourite place is right beside you." I also say. ♥♥

At uncle's house later on. The brother and I were just waiting only for this. Heh.
We spent the afternoon watching two short Kungfu Panda CNY skits and Avatar for the second time hur.

There was homemade yusheng again like last year! Only the sauces were those prepacked kinds, all the ingredients were grated and chopped at home.

There was abalone also but at this point I took the picture too late, they were already covered by the bed of golden crackers. Wasted right. Oops. My timing is perfect.

WHEE.

Wah all know how to hold chopsticks correctly (Y)

I am increasingly liking this. Last time all I took were the crackers. I started eating a bigger lump last year, and this year heaped an even bigger lump. Yoohoo. And the abalone was damn nice manz. I told the brother. He also thought so. We were both like, adoi, our tastes getting expensive *shakes head*

Soup, dried oyster stew which if I'm not wrong Empress says is a Teochew thing, meat, fa cai which I no like but I still ate.

There was kong bak pau too!

And my nephew whom I was playing with. This is the younger, the elder one was sleeping cuz he wasn't feeling too well.

No pictures of mua cuz I didn't take any.

And I think that's it for my CNY this year.

新年快乐心想事成!

happy mode back on

2012-01-28T02:34:00.001+08:00

happy mode back on

Thank you, ♥, for appearing at the right moment. :)

the C word

2012-01-27T21:23:00.001+08:00

I am increasingly disliking the word Compromise.

Because the few times it's used in conversations I'm central to, the implied text is that I am supposed to be the one who should, nay, must be more accepting and relenting cuz I need to let go all that anal attitude inside.

Deep in the recesses of my unconscious mind, I probably do know that.

But my defense mechanism of choice is denial: I choose to pretend not to.

This week, short though it is, has been emotional. Hur understatement. I tweeted it better - I called it 'mad'.

sleepy

2012-01-24T23:24:00.000+08:00

I am sleepy. How to TRY to catch up with school work? And it's a 9am class tmr omgggggggggg *sobssssssssssssssssssssss*

Pictures, see Facebook for now. I already have them uploaded but I'm too lazy to do anything major.

And the worst thing is I can feel a runny nose coming up. Noooooooooooo. *sobssssssssssssssssssssssssssss*

除夕

2012-01-22T11:58:00.000+08:00

Hello.

I have a few things I've wanted to blog about for the last week, but it is vair tak CNY and doesn't fit the mood, so I'm gonna save it till after the new year. And I'm not supposed to owe anything over the new year or it will never happen hahaha oops. Let's see if I can make this no-post thing NOT happen then.

So today is going to be trying to come up with some semblance of a pattern using ugly angpaos, and if not just forget about them. The National Museum gave such a weird kind of angpao I seriously donch know why. This year I went to get a couplet! Empress says it's fake wan and doesn't make sense. I got it cuz it was less common. E: Ya, because fake what. Okay lor.

And now we are going off for lunch. When I come back, packing, painting, pruning etc until midnight or even past. Ah well.

Have a good 除夕 and eat till you half-burst, cuz must save for tmr onwards! :D

auspicious packages

2012-01-19T14:00:00.001+08:00

Hello it's been three days.

It is absolutely glorious to wake up on a weekday at 11am.

I perused (warning: lots of other pretentious words coming up) the news this morning.

And found two pieces that I feel compelled to respond to.

One, auspicious dragon fish and chinchilla (or dragon cat).

I'm not sure which organisation it was, guess it's SPCA, but this 'please do not purchase chinchillas cuz they live up to 15 years' tweet has been circulating to tell people not to buy "auspicious" animals like these for one year and then dispose of them after the year is over.

I was just thinking that ST might have influenced previous people who didn't know about chinchillas to GO GET ONE PRONTO. Which is vair bad. Not good advertising things like this. What's more, it had a third-of-a-page coverage, together with the dragon fish. I'm guessing the fish is less likely to suffer the same fate since fish by default has a good connotation to it. But chinchillas surely need more care and attention and SPACE in the house to run about - I have no idea what chinchillas do, I'm guessing they DO run? Hur.

Okay did some vair extensive research aka Wikipedia:

Chinchillas require extensive exercise. Chinchilla teeth need to be worn down as their teeth grow continuously and can prevent the chinchilla from eating if they become overgrown. Wooden sticks, pumice stone and chew toys are good options, but conifer and citrus woods (like cedar or orange) should be avoided because of the high content of resins, oils and phenols that are toxic for chinchillas. Birch, willow, apple tree, manzanita or kiln-dried pine are all safe woods for chinchillas to chew.

So yup. High maintenance.

Please, tolong sikit, don't get pets just cuz they are "auspicious". They are not going to be "auspicious" forever.

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The other issue is closer to human beings.

My dear MP says that the ministers' pay should be "[pegged] to the average Singaporean at a level where Singaporeans can aspire to".

I have issues with the use of the word 'aspiration'. I have tried to come up with something for the last ten minutes but kinda failed I think in getting the main point because I'm not sure if my argument is sound enough. And being a highly sensitive topic I thought I should be extra careful so that there is only one sole intended interpretation which hits the mark. The gist of it is that I don't think aspiration alone can count towards anything much because there are still various rounds of stringent tests to go through. Furthermore, surely the huge amounts of time one needs to put in and consistent rigour throughout at that should be a main factor in the pay consideration. (Oh hooray I managed to get that out in three minutes, so much for ten minutes of long-winded grandmother story.)

I also don't like the fact that the Workers' Party suddenly shoot pattern at the Parliamentary debates. They wanted PAP to be transparent and lay out every single rule in the book, yet they are not emulating that policy themselves - why?

(Train of thought has ended. Can't think of anything else to carry on.)

Still on politics but different sub-topic, I recall a friend who blogged that she detested being called 'a government mouthpiece' just because she is under a scholarship from a government company. It is interesting to see how the direction of cause and effect is REVERSED - the COMPANY seems to be the one influencing one's apparently gullible decisions, rather than the fact that it's because HE/SHE respects what the company does, does not mind (or mind but just grins and bears it anyway) being bonded as long as HE/SHE can get the scholarship, and seeks out that scholarship HIM/HERSELF. Surely he/she can think for him/herself, what makes you think he/she is such a puppet?! Also, I still marvel at how supporting the opposition means 'standing up for the rights you believe in'. How come supporting the non-opposition cannot mean that? And mind you, I'm all for having a credible opposition to challenge ideas, but the arguments must be valid in the first place. (Disclaimer: This is a general sweeping statement.)

Suddenly only chooahqi can phrase her arguments in a much better (may still suck, but I was much worse in articulating cheem things like these before) manner than previously. Now let's see what Mr Dragon brings in terms of expanding my curiosity and knowledge about politics.

(As usual posts about politics must have other unintended interpretations disclaimed first. So stressful.)

radicality

2012-01-15T17:13:00.003+08:00

Ohaiyo I exceeded my own expectations and did not blog the very next day of the previous post. Good job, chooahqi.

Because I have been swamped. And I will be swamped for until I can find the perfect balance between having a life and not having a life.

While I'm sorting that out, in the mean time, I will not be having a life.

Chinese New Year will be the only entertainment for me these few weeks. Other than that, I will be lugging everything to school everyday (despite having a three-day week) in the hopes that I will actually do even ONE of the things I bring.

For you to stalk me:

EL3204 Discourse Structure
EL3252 Language Policy and Planning
EL3257 Investigating Language in the Media
PL3251 Atypical Language and Development

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I've always thought of myself as quite open. But being open and talking about certain things does not equate to actually doing it. Some are radical and go all out, and I accept that of others and would respect their choices, but I am not so daring. Put it this way, sounds cowardly eh.

Aye T, can you and ze brother play piano while I 喝 my 闷酒? Tanks, everybardy, tanks.

Oh speaking of that, Michelle Chong replied my tweet directed at her. Go see Twitter to know what. *happy dance*

Update: waheyyyyy! My blog appears HERE!! Self-esteem upz +10.

Update 11.05pm: Another two up-sides today is reading miss-J-in-UK's email :D and another J's psychic-ness. The rest of the day, dowananyhumancontactantisocialtothemaxnoteventryingpmspmspms

Oh and ye-si I changed the blog layout a beeet.

efficiency

2012-01-12T22:15:00.001+08:00

is scary sometimes. Now I know how my friends feel every time I'm super efficient and finish something wayyyyyyyyyy ahead of time.

The others just feel superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr stressed.

So, super efficient lecturer has ALL 13 weeks of notes already uploaded.

Obviously must read beforehand.

Obviously don't have time to read beforehand.

But still can, as long as I sacrifice sleep i.e. sleep late.

Sleeping late means being unable to wake up early.

When the intention was to wake up early to do another thing.

So obviously that thing is going to be pushed back some more.

But it has a deadline of next week so I have to squeeze in time still anyhoo.

Add to that only slightly more than a week to Chinese New Year.

My part of the house is STILL in a terrible mess and I get more fidgety by the day every time I see the looming amount of everything all over the place.

My CNY clothes and shoes are thankfully more or less settled.

But the hangers are being weighed (I typed weird then wayed at first whaaaaat) down by clothes I don't really want to wear anymore, and there are already various items I have put aside for cold storage but haven't given to ze Empress to get rid of.

(I did say MY part of the house is in a terrible mess.)

So that needs to be cleared.

And then I still have hair and nails to consider - whether I want to put things/colour on them - yes please excuse the vain moment.

Oh by Jove jolly old chap.

I'll see you again when this madness ends.

P.S. Knowing me, that will be tomorrow, eh.

P.P.S. The title - irony. My style. Eh.

books, limbo, ninja, weight, troubles

2012-01-11T23:59:00.001+08:00

You never thought these five things could ever appear together ehh.

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I've finally finished all the books I've borrowed over the short break. I had two more to go: John Green's Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns.

Shows how far technology has come - I knew about John Green the Youtuber before I knew about John Green the writer. Hur. Logically speaking, shouldn't it be the other way round? But nothing is logical anymore ey.

His books are interesting. I would go so far as to compare him to a modern not-quite-at-his-level-but-on-the-way F. Scott Fitzgerald. And considering that The Great Gatsby is one of my favourite books, that is paying him a damn huge compliment.

These two books are actually written for youth, so I'm kinda a bit overaged (admitting to my not-so-youth for once hurrr) but I still enjoyed them. I recommend them!

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It sucks being in limbo about things. I hate uncertainty. It is the cause of the messed-up-ness that was me this morning. Urgh. Messed up. Too many things to do. Don't know how to fit things nicely so that I can do all the things I want to do and not think about wrong things at wrong times.

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The scald mark on my hand is healing. Writing is a bit of an issue though. The way I'm holding a pen now resembles how I would hold a calligraphy brush. And my handwriting is obviously not fantastic as a result. Lesson learnt from this incident: be careful when handling hot coffee nowadays. You never know when there's a ninja out to bump into you accidentally anytime, anywhere.

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Y said that she thought I lost a lot of weight over the hols and asked if I was well. I was like, wahhhhh that's the best thing I've had since the year started teeheehee. And for the record no leh I don't think I have, and the last I weighed was at EE's house when I baked the biscotti and I still weighed the same as the previous time I weighed which was in November. Though I DID wonder how come it didn't increase when I have been eating quite good food over the holidays. Suddenly metabolism so good ah. Of course I'm not complaining. Keep it up, yo.

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I shall sleep to take my troubles away. Though how to have restful sleep when I'm thinking of the troubles? Haiyo.

saikolingwist

2012-01-10T19:42:00.001+08:00

So I'm now all alone in the Psycholinguistics lab.

The routine has started again.

The audio files gave me a headache just now; now that I've eaten I hope they won't feel that bad.

Note to self: no more 2am sleep days.

2 serious 1 not

2012-01-09T22:17:00.001+08:00

Serious #1

The sharks' fin company who said to "screw the divers" seriously need a PR refresher course as well. Once you are in a public domain, whatever you say will be accountable at all times. Once you are a public figure, you can no longer make 'off the record' non-committal comments and expect reporters not to publish it. You will be seen as representing whatever company it is you work for. Even if you blog about it on your personal blog, you will ALSO be seen as speaking from the perspective of an employee of the company you work for, unless you explicitly disclaim it to be otherwise - a case in point for this is how the Housing Minister Mr Khaw wrote on his blog about housing policies right and everyone was wondering whether he was saying it from Mr Khaw, citizen or Mr Khaw, minister.

And, if you tweet/Facebook from your COMPANY'S Twitter/Facebook account, you are representing your company, and it is the COMPANY as a result that is saying "screw the divers", and it is the COMPANY who is going to suffer terrible negative backlash. And when companies suffer non-complimentary responses, it is harddddd to gain back a good reputation.

Think twice before hitting 'publish'/'tweet'/'share' etc., all you people in charge of corporate accounts whose one tweet/Facebook status is a news blast to the rest of the world, eagerly waiting to see you falter, think twice.

Serious #2

If and when I have a wedding, there will be no sharks' fin soup to eat. There, I said it. Too bad.

Not #1

First day of school ended with someone bumping into me while I was carrying hot kopi-o at VivoCity's basement food court. Dear person, just because I didn't scream bloody murder does not mean my hand was not hurting. I just do not do that in general. Your non-committal 'sorry' and nonchalant walk-away was not a sufficient apology. But it's okay, dark soya sauce saved the day, as it always does.

one of the best smells in the world is the smell of books

2012-01-08T23:59:00.002+08:00

[Posted on 9 January 2011]

Last day of holiday was spent with S. 'Twas a good day.

EE told me about Littered with Books two weeks ago when I went to bake blueberry pie again, he brought Empress there between the week of the pie and the biscotti, and the minute Empress raved about it also I decided to sms S.

M: Good morning buttercup! Are you free on Sunday? I want to kidnap you somewhere :D ...
S: Wahhh you make me feel eggcited I like! ...

Teehee.

She liked the place, yay.

We were gossiping halfway and stopped the minute we stepped into the bookstore because after that we both rationalised that something as sacred as books should not be done in the same breath as idle (I typed 'idol' at first adoi Freudian slip ah) chatter *cheyyy.

We spent about an hour looking at the books and just smelling the delicious smell.

Then after that we went towards Orchard and along the way carried on talking about scandalous stuff.

I like that we think alike and have the exact same opinion until can put words in each other's mouths - no wonder we are such good fwens.

At one point, she said, "I like you!"

Whee self-esteem +10.

We also went to H&M, got freaked out by the long queues, balik-ed kampung. Headed to Far East and walked. And talked. And laughed.

I like.

It was a good 'last day of holiday'. Thank youuu S :D

Best quote we saw in the bookstore -

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

almond & pistachio biscotti

2012-01-07T23:59:00.001+08:00

Please refer to this post for recipe. Also, read alongside this post!

I last baked a biscotti slightly more than a year ago; there was still spelt flour remaining from then and EE's wifey suggested I use it up, I still had some almonds, she suggested me doing a nutty biscotti with a combination of almonds and maybe pistachios, I went to Victoria Wholesale Centre - likes the atmosphere there!, and made Almond & Pistachio Biscotti.

Pictures are almost the same as those in the above linked post heh.

Bake for 10 mins. Let cool, then roughly chop.

Sift spelt flour (I had about 2 cups), plain flour (I had about 1/2 cup so just nice total 2.5 cups like required), salt, baking powder. Didn't zest any oranges this time, this was a pure nut biscotti.

Chopped up almonds and pistachios.

Bake for 25-30 mins till light brown. Let cool a while, then cut as thinly/thickly as you want.

The other time I got 52 out of it because I cut like the recipe stated of 0.5 inch, but this time I wanted to get it thinner cuz my idea of a biscotti is thinner than 0.5 inch and I got 75 this time.

This is batch 1/3. But they are going to look the same so I'm not uploading the other two.

Whee.
Reviews about this have been generally positive (macam some movie/drama critique).

Yay.

After baking was the looking at young chewren jump into pool previous post.

That day i.e. Thursday - happy. :)

the wisest words are said by children

2012-01-06T15:51:00.002+08:00

I have another baking post to be done, but I am not in the happy-crazy-sot mood to blog that yet.

But this is still a post on happy things.

Children.

Yestyday's baking session involved an hour of looking them swim, jump into the pool wishing I was jumping into the pool with them, and cute gems by both the little chewren.

The little girl was chatting nineteen to the dozen after coming back from school. I waited with her mama for her school bus, I saw her face and eyes light up while mouthing (actually saying out loud?) my name when she caught sight of me from her seat - likes :) Her stories are cutezx, replaying all that happened in the day, describing the people around her in response to her mama's questions of whether the teacher is 高高的，胖胖的，矮矮的，瘦瘦的，有没有戴眼镜，长头发还是短头发?

Later,

Little girl T: Mama I wish our house has a spa.

Even the mama was wondering when she had gone to a spa before, then she remembered their holiday in Dubai.

I lauggggghhhhhhhheeeeeddddddd long and hard.

Then off to the swimming pool we went!

They were jumping into the pool via Superman jump, sitting jump, mushroom jump, arrow jump, London Bridge jump and various others. I am supposed to remember to do the Yoga, Cross, Twig and Flower with Leaf jumps the next time I go over.

Little boy T: Quick, T, faster think of a name for this jump. Then register for patent.

I lauggggghhhhhhhheeeeeddddddd long and hard.

We also went downstairs to the pool playground. We saw a few children already in the playground and the little boy didn't really want to go in anymore. His mama told him to just go down.

Little boy T: Ya I'm anti-social like that to people I don't know. Eh you don't say like that ah I'm not anti-social to the people I know okay.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! See la, going-on-12-year-old can spout the mindset of a 10 years *SHRIEKS IN HORROR* older person. I was telling them that I also won't go and play with the other chewren there! You go, boy. 有前途。 :D

Later later, after the boy had gone back up to shower, the little girl and I were observing a humongo ant.

The leftmost leaf is the living room, the other one on the same side of the leaf is the shower, the small little one peeking out from the main vein of the leaf is the IforgotwhatandwilladdinwhenIdo, the last leaf on the big leaf is the 'entrance' to this marvellous 'house'. Hur.

Peek-a-boo...

...I see you.
Parting shot, cuteness maximus, pose totally uncoordinated, it happened that they did opposing sides,

the Yoga jump:

As I tweeted, Little children swimming and making me laugh with their various jumps into the pool. Precious ♥

FINALLY DONE!

2012-01-03T23:59:00.000+08:00

Oh yessah, the last three posts of Japan -

Day 12: red-faced, distress and weri cute xiong mao
Day 13: Idontwannagohome!
Day 14: sayonara sakura

Excuse me while I go sob because I miss Japan's cheesecake vair much. *wipes tear*

On the upside, I found the C had a blog entry about Japanese cheesecake before, I want to try it soon soon soon.

typity typity

2012-01-02T23:24:00.004+08:00

Updated at end of post!

This is the what, fifth post I'm typing today or something? Goodness. Such dedication.

I finally read Stephan Pastis' blog, creator of Pearls Before Swine comics today. Lucky he is on a signing tour so didn't blog much so I didn't need to read sooooo many posts at once.

I like this post of his!

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I have been uploading photos and inputting words to the Japan posts since 2pm when I came back from lunch. My eyes are going cuckoo nuts soon.

Note to self: please stop pushing everything to the last and then doing all at once. WILL TIRE WAN!!! Same for reading newspapers! As of now, I've caught up with the main section, but I still have one huge bag of Life! sections to clear! Empress is Not Happy of course. Oops.

Nah, two painstakingly-typed posts to read. Please appreciate every letter can. Kam xia.

Day 9: distinctively Japanese
Day 10: vermillion and socially awkwardness

Update 3 January 2012 2am - Day 11: speed

You're welcome. *plonks on bed and Ks-O in a second*
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family ♡♡♡

2012-01-02T15:12:00.007+08:00

family ♡♡♡

A continuation of this post.

I forgot that today is a public holiday and so I am actually entitled to rot my day away uploading posts instead of doing any killjoy stuff so YAY CHOOAHQI IS HAPPYGIRLZ89 laadeedums. And taking a breather from uploading photos to post something that came into my mind yesterday while I was changing history like Winston in George Orwell's 1984 like I mentioned in this post hur.

I tweeted last night,

Reading some of the blog archives. After all these years, family is really the only constant. Much ♡♡♡

Really, after all these years, the family has been there all the way. From my prepubescent and hence pre-bitchiness days, to when I was extremely bitchy, to now where I am past the bitchy stage but when the need arises it will still STRIKE.

At my worst, I was terrible to people who dared come against me. But I think I drew the line at the family. Partly cuz they were never the cause of anything major, partly because X has had a habit from young of suan-ing me until I'm super used to it and if she's too nice I will feel weird HAHAAA backhanded compliment much, and also partly cuz if I dared to be against anyone, I'm sure there will be ten other voices telling me to shut up and know where I stand.

And while I may have made noise when young cuz when you are young everything your parents do/say is ridiculously strict, I definitely appreciate all that now. It really takes growing up to understand all the stuff you were forced to do when you were younger. If I ever have children next time, oh dear I'm sure they will go through their own hate-me stage then oops. Maybe I can then refer them to this blog, to show them that see, mama last time also like this! And it's all recorded down! It can't be that I suddenly cooked up how many years' worth of entries! Heh.

All that strict upbringing of eating whatever is on your plate = eat almost everything and not as fussy now, not being able to eat fast food all the time and as a result I have not eaten A&W okay heh = not fat like how some of the kids are these days gawd I think I will get crushed by them, taking violin/piano lessons = at least got some sense of musical talent (I use this word loosely with reference to mine; not being humble, it's a fact - yes I can read notes and I can play, but not well), going for swimming lessons = if need to save my own life or someone else's by swimming I can, forcing us to read from young = now we devour books on our own and actively search for titles to read.

Vair grateful also for the cousins who are also confidantes - X and J less now than last time, and T now more than ever. :D They are like an extension of best friends but even better, cuz you share genes and so think alike in situations and understand the same stupid jokes and laugh at the same stupid things no one else will get. Let's shout in unison, "IT'S IN THE GENES!"

More pictures from the chalet that day from EE's and S biaosao's cameras - one of the best days of 2011, without a doubt.

The brother looks so happy here.

Girrrls!

Upstairs and downstairs - this was the context of the photo. We were pointing up to those on the roof, they were pointing down at us.

Best picture of the day - J the 'wind' was blowing us three away. Hahaha.
We all look so cuckoo and carefree. Likes x100000000000000000.

new year post

2012-01-01T17:44:00.002+08:00

And it's a deep one. Haha.

I am still uploading all the photos of the last few days of Japan 2011 so pictures and blog post of yesterday etc will have to wait a leetle while.

I woke up at 12noon thereabouts. Hahaha. First day of new year and half the day gone.

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Read J's blog after a while. His this post attracted my attention. - READ FIRST BEFORE YOU PROCEED! Vair fast wan.

My six-word short story is a bit adapted from Ernest Hemingway, and I'm sure tons of other people have thought about it, I don't claim much credit to it other than the fact that it was the first thing that popped in my head:

For sale: one heart, never loved.

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I haven't read Scott Adams' blog for ages.

His this one is NICE. Psychology teaches something along these lines. Whee.

And from this post, also Psych-related: "And if you haven't noticed, people are quite addicted to their religions. Is that coincidence or causation?"

Hur. Nice way of putting that.

blue and black

2011-12-31T23:59:00.010+08:00

blue and black

[Posted on 2 January 2012]

So Second Uncle's birthday is on 31 December 2011, yes the last day of the year.

So we had a partay of sorts - birthday-cum-New Year's Eve.

The Zees were back from their quite long Europe trip and my souvenir was EE's suggestion - they got me an Amsterdam clogs magnet. THANK YOUZZZ. P.S. eldest Z, I read one of your posts - YES I do remember when we brought cables to connect the GameBoys just so that we could trade Pokemon etc!! Hahaha. Retro yo.

Ever since big girl T started her Early Childhood Studies in Poly, little girl T has been the object of observation. This week, the big girl got the little girl to cut several shapes of textured paper and it came out like this:

Later, the little girl had an even littler girl D to play with:

Maximum cuteness.
Lots of food, all home-cooked.

Later, some of the cousins watched the video that EE created.

J the ever-photogenic heh.
And it was cake-cutting time!

Some of us were having inside jokes about certain people hurrrrr. It's a fact actually, so I should be able to 光明正大 and say what I mean to say, but I shall be a saint and be nice and forgiving so I shan't.

Blackforest cake from Pine Garden. Empress and I think the quality is not as good as last time, but she also suggests that maybe our standards have upped even more heh. I think both are true!

Star from the cake.

And this littler girl was the centre of many people's attention because she didn't cry and was peaceful and quiet in various positions. Someone set her on her stomach and she kept looking at the brother. I was laughing at that. Big girl T on the other hand was jealous, cuz they kinda have something going on HAHAHAHA.
And then we went our separate ways after that - some heading for home, others heading to see fireworks at various parts of the island.

throw out the old, bring in the new

2011-12-31T23:59:00.009+08:00

throw out the old, bring in the new

I've never really done the whole resolutions thing.

One big part is cuz I never remember what I resolve to do.

I just checked what I said I would do this year:

For 2011, I will
- exercise more.

HAHAHA big fat whoop. After yoga ended, I didn't do anything much anymore heh.

But EE's wifey mentioned going for yoga, and it has made me want to start again.

And since I now have this at home courtesy of somebardeh:

I think I WILL be more committed in doing yoga, for the sake of my health and my back.

Highlight of the year was definitely going to Japan to seek inner peace. Sought it, got it, reaffirmed my thoughts. 'Twas a good trip.

(Many setbacks that I faced but I am choosing to only say the good stuff hur.)

Next year,

I want to do more yoga.

And eat healthily.

And have fun laughter peace joy everyday.

And not have so many stewpid things cropping up here and there and making my life dramatic like what.

Hope everyone did what they wanted to fulfil this year.

Especially to you, I am vair thankful. This year we lost 4 months. Next year hope not okie. :) ♥♥♥

last joke of the year

2011-12-31T16:27:00.000+08:00

last joke of the year

Empress: ... Last time when we went clubbing...

Me and the brother simultaneously looked at each other and tried hard not to laugh.

sexy juices reprise

2011-12-30T17:22:00.004+08:00

Nothing to do with the rest of the post, but, Japan travelogue updated!

Day 7: of 散心 and a lot of writing
Day 8: of deer and drama

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I did say I was up to no good in my last post.

It is code for "chooahqi is going to bake/cook".

I usually do not like to bake the same thing more than once.

If I do, I usually make sure there is some variation to it.

Because I will get sick of it, even if the people around me don't.

It's been almost two years since I last baked this item. It was for the partner-in-crime J's 21st birthday, thereby making me realise how old we will be in the coming year. Hur.

For her 21st I baked a blueberry pie. For her 22nd I told her that I'm just gonna shove it and not give her anything, and I only gave her a card plus treated her to a dinner, that's it. Haha. For her 23rd which is akan datang? We'll see.

Yestyday, I baked.

The day before, I kneaded.

Today, my arms are aching like nobody's biz. Baking is a workout on its own. And it might even help you lose weight, as long as you share the fats of whatever you baked with the world.

(That's my secret haaaaa.)

Got up at 7am, when I have been waking up at 11+am the past weeks hahaha. Had to miss a train cuz too crowded, ate breakfast at EE's house, saw the little girl wake up with hair that's smooth and smells of cucumber yoghurt conditioner, told the little boy we all enjoyed his blog post, he darn cute told his mama "I wanted to sleep longer wan leh then you woke me up" HA.

And then rolled the dough that I had painstakingly toiled at the previous night and got to work.

Recipe from here. Followed quite word-for-word, I'm lazy to do all the embedding stuff I usually do.

The chewren helped to plonk some blueberries into the bowl.

Sexy juices spilling all over.
I had various issues with it - should have rolled the dough thinner to that there was more overhang, should have pressed the dough more firmly into the pie plate so that all the juices, while vair sexily bubbling all over, won't bubble until spill OUT of the pie, could have used less water with the dough, and most importantly, less sugar with the blueberries. Aieeeee. A bit sweet as a result.

But it was well-received by J whom I of cuz must give again to see if she can do a compare/contrast haha (she couldn't, said it was as yummy as ever awww :D ), somebardeh and the dad said nice, Empress up-ed my self-esteem also teehee, and Emperor despite saying that he doesn't want to eat too much cuz the blueberries are a bit sweet has eaten 1.5/4 pieces I left for the family heh. I told the brother he better fai tee come back home and eat up the remaining slice, he sent back "nvm la let him eat la haha".

I had leftover dough; I let the little girl play with it. These were her creations:

Rabbit.

Imitating how my pie looked like hahaa so cutezx.

Mountain.

I said it looked like the Hollywood sign, just needed to add the word to that strip.

Present!

Baby in a cot! Haha.
Check out this doll with changeable face!

My camera and its 20x zoom of them at the pool.

I used their Christmas present from the Leong cousins that we also got - cooling rack to put the hot tray of pie.

And my recipe at the end of yesterday -

Macam kena eaten by dogs heh. My bottle leaked, the paper nicely came in two. Ah well. I think I've had enough of blueberries for a bit now anyhoo.
I shall do other thingamajigs! *puts thinking cap on*

up to no good

2011-12-28T18:40:00.000+08:00

Just read little boy T's blog cuz he told me he updated about the chalet - HE BLOGS SUPER FUNNILY!!!!! Much better than so many people much older than him. So cutezx omg.

The posts I promised are taking a bit long. Hur. Sorreh. I have been doing killjoy stuff which I am actually damn proud that I did. After putting them off for... a month. Oops. Serious stuff first k.

My hands smell of butter.

I need to get lemons. And parsley.

Hurhur.

I am up to no good. *evil laughter*

inconsistent

2011-12-26T21:03:00.000+08:00

Happy Boxing Day!

I have been terrible with posts lately, and I apologise for that. Is it ironic or what that I blog more during school term?! Heh.

I have just been this no-life, holed-up-almost-24/7-if-I-don't-have-to-go-out person just watching HIMYM everyday - for the record, I carried on from Season 2 where I stopped watching and have caught up to date Season 7 Episode 12 hur I did say no-life.

I have soooooooo many posts that I should get out before the end of the year. And also that end-of-the-year post too. This year, sooooooo many things. Drama follows me all over the place.

For now, I will clear my backlog of magazines and newspapers and find a place for all those I want to keep, before I clear all the online journal entries.

Beg pardon! Hope to be back soon!

Cheerio!

now the holly bears a berry

2011-12-25T17:37:00.006+08:00

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! :)

My tweet last night basically summarised the entire day's happenings:

Today - chalet w extended family, Christmas carols and many other songs spanning generations, lots of laughter, no voices left. Much ♥♥♥

I woke up today with a sore throat. Heh.

EE managed to ballot for an SAF Changi Seaview Resorts chalet.

Little boy T and L by the beach.

Two of the quite a few people in green.

EE's wifey baked cookies!

Hantu alert :p

Fifth Aunt asked, "banana also want to take ah?!" I said, "Take lor." Haha.

Baby girl Dana!

EE had already told us to come prepared for singing a lesser-known Christmas carol Now the Holly Bears A Berry. It's a four-part song that harmonises vair nicely and we were to split into Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass. So we were in different rooms - there were enough to go around heh - and we practised for about half an hour before we all came downstairs.

The score.

All gathered to listen to the conductor's instructions.

We so happy. Likes.

From left to right per row, S, A and T, B.
We sang pretty damn well awesome, if I may say so myself heh. I had wanted to record and video it but wasn't in time to take out the Blackberry and needed to sing and couldn't video respectively. But when I get the recording I might share it!

R biaojie also brought along her son S' birthday cake to celebrate together.

We went trigger-happy outside after that.

Sho shweeet.

M: Don't take yet! I'm peeling banana!
X: Whose banana?

M: Eee can don't so near not!
X: Terrible! So many issues!

M: Eeyo can still see the banana!
Laughing as we took these few, hence the super natural smiles hur.

We then went upstairs and sat on the landing outside the rooms.

This was 20x zoom heh.

Emo brother.
Then S biaojie took my camera down and from there 20x-zoom-ed us heh.

Neo Garden's food cuz they have one of the nicest catered food around.

Lime juice! So uncommon.

Third Aunt was calling on these birds to come nearer. This was also zoomed in a lot.
And here Third Aunt said something which made us, especially one of us laugh vair hard. Since I promised the person that I won't reveal his/her identity and that I will call it the cousins' inside joke, that's all I will say. Teehee.

And then Z biaojiefu brought out his guitar! And so started singing Christmas carols. Then it started drizzling, so we moved indoors and sang countless more songs spanning sooooo many generations. And we also saw a different side to a particular aunt - she's usually soft-spoken but yesterday she was singing her heart out at all the oldies. Quite amusing.

Parting shot (that I'm uploading, not actual parting shot): the second generation of the three musketeers.
EE planned it such that only the direct siblings were invited to stay, everyone else was kicked out. And so the siblings took a group shot. X was telling them to have one candid one. In the end, the last shot was taken by me on flash mode, and only Third Aunt made a funny face. The funny thing about it was that she also had a damn loud sound effect when she stuck her tongue out, and everyone was laughing after that. Omg the picture is epic. But too bad, since it's a picture of the adults, I'll only upload on the private family album online away from prying eyes. Heh.

Family is ♥♥♥

Update 2 January 2012: More words and photos here!

careful

2011-12-24T00:24:00.001+08:00

No end. Deal?

seeing stars

2011-12-21T23:30:00.001+08:00

The artiste variety. This week.

Sharon Au and Timothy Nga two days back at Changi Airport. I feel so poor thing for them artistes. People are really BLATANLY STARING. So obvious leh!

Then today - Terence Cao, Glenn Ong, Jade Seah (in hair salon haha), Constance Song and Ronald Susilo (at Skinny Pizza where I had dinner) all in Orchard Road. Christmas shopping/pampering eh.

I also need a manicure and pedicure. I will work on my awful nails hopefully tmr. I am simply just too layzee.

I would post pictures, but ze camera is charging.

I am just spamming HIMYM episodes like I have no life. Oh wait, the last part is right. I DO have zero life. By choice yo, not by circumstance. Ta.

one word

2011-12-20T12:53:00.001+08:00

URGH.

restless

2011-12-18T20:20:00.001+08:00

So I have had restless nights since Thursday night. Friday was the worst. I took vair long to sleep and when I finally did I kept waking intermittently and tossing and turning and thrashing my pillow which has not been in good shape because. Tonight will hopefully be the last night to be restless for the same reason as the last few nights; then tmr night I bet I'm going to be restless still, but for a totally different reason OH good god.

I am going back to being a bum and watching HIMYM good day.

sings train is coming, train is coming

2011-12-17T16:29:00.001+08:00

I have caught up with Straits Times! I was lagging by two months. Finito! Yay! But the Life! section not yet. Neither am I finished with 8days hur.

Speaking of news,

I tweeted two hours ago,

If there's no ventilation in a confined space, of course the windows shld not be broken to let in air. We shld keep calm n let everyone die.

Air, according to my knowledge of human beings and science, is THE most important things to survival. So may I know how keeping calm ensures air supply?

The SMRT PR team should SERIOUSLY take a refresher course on crisis communications; I also tweeted about this a few days back.

I think that whoever smashed the window is a GENIUS for having thought of that. Desperate times call for desperate measures, totally clichéd but true.

Keeping calm in these situations will not provide you with more air. Breaking windows --> air can enter stuffy train with too many people --> people can breathe --> people will survive.

Of course if one was stuck in a lift it would be a different matter. Panicking will make you inhale more and there is nowhere that you can break so that air comes in.

Let's see what happens in the next few days.

*shakes head*

non-significant

2011-12-16T16:45:00.001+08:00

#1 I woke up at 10+ am today! Not 12! *pats self on back*

#2 I have finished sorting FOUR MONTHS OF PHOTOS into proper albums! *pats self on back*

#3 I am slowly but surely clearing blog posts, newspapers and magazines. *pats self on back*

I better get back to them. Ta.

Sidenote: It's a Friday and I'm staying home. How guai.

Sidenote II: This pimple has taken root on my nose and it hurts HOWLONGYOUWANTTOSTAYTHEREGOAWAYYYYY.

Sidenote III: Day 2 of pretending non-existence. 3 more days to go.

history

2011-12-15T14:27:00.001+08:00

Finally met up with J on Tuesday for our "sem-ly post-exam activity", her words. Ate at the coffee shop near both our homes. Or rather, she ate mee goreng which looked nice I'm so gonna try it next time and I ate a cheese sandwich biscuit which was supposed to be breakfast but as with the past few days I've been waking up past 11 and what with all that rich food in me the previous day I didn't feel like eating anything much.

Then we headed to the ice cream shop nearby.

Her brother said that he saw our picture there. I went to look for it. Ta-dah! I nearly wore that same top there but didn't.

Earl Grey for mua, banana with hazel nut and Oreo topping for her.

There was this beautifully drawn eagle.

M: I upload this picture then say I draw wan.
J: Haha!
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So I'm now doing what Winston in George Orwell's 1984 did to old archives - editing/deleting them.

Only I'm better. I just save them as drafts.

Hurhur. *sheepish*

I've decided that my earliest entries are reaaaaally quite ewww and so I'm not going to let all and sundry have the luxury of laughing at my writing and grumbly moody pubertal hormones tones and so am no longer leaving them published.

I only now read that in 2005 I already got some weird stalker on MSN. That's interesting. Same thing happened last year, 5 years later.

And all the drama, fights and shows of class unity involving Sec 3 and 4 class. Funnyyyyy.

I'm going to 2006 now. Oh dear. I already want to cringe.

I'm vair sorry, those unwitting objects of my immature bashing. Oops.

a decade on...

2011-12-13T23:59:00.008+08:00

[Posted on 14 December 2011]

Yesterday afternoon before the event was spent wondering what to wear, feeling apprehensive about the night cuz scared awkward and all, and thus the previous post came about.

The occasion? It was the Primary School class gathering, the first in 10 years. My my my. 10 years. And on such an auspicious date, I only thought of that this morning - 131211.

My apprehension was for nothing. It was just one hoot of a night. We laughed like mad. Everybody remembered all the various stuff we had to do last time -

#1 Our teacher's (who was there too) traumatising black book of Bad Stuff We Did where Y imitated "That book is going to follow you for the rest of your life!!"

#2 eye exercises complete with precise positioning of fingers

#3 silent reading times

#4 autograph books which a few of us still kept (of cuz one of them is yours truly) and how we said we should have thought of bringing them but didn't think of it prior

#5 who sat beside whom in class, who cried, who fought with whom, who was the guy in primary 3 and 4 class who liked all the girls - now we know that the term is called Flirting, who was the tall/short/fat/skinny one, who were the Hong Kong girls HAHA what a category right, who were the unfortunate few whom nobody liked and therefore always bullied oops 10-years-ago us weren't that mature obviously.

Etc etc.

And talk interspersed with food and booze = funnnnn.

10 years ago when the class suddenly became ultra quiet, a few people would go "eh why the class suddenly so quiet" and everybody will laugh and talk again, sometimes even with teacher present HUR.

10 years later in the form of last night, we lost count of the number of awkward silences where the whole table was silent for a while, before some giggled and then we talked and laughed again.

All till 2am. And the host R was the only one who needed to work and needed to be up at 5 or something OH DEAR so poor thing. Lucky she hosted so she could just proceed upstairs heh.

She told us to bring food enough for two people. Obviously we all brought more than that. Heh. There was so much food - curry chicken K's mum made, damn nice dip that J brought to dip with Doritos chips - I fai tee asked him how to make it the minute I got home and now can't wait to make it urgh itchy finger, S with his assortment of sausages and stuff that he elusively didn't want to tell us what it was and just headed for the kitchen to find a plate, Y got Hokkien mee, L brought ice cream, A got cakes, M brought 9 cans of Tiger beer and 1 Jim Bean - he drank the Jim Bean, we all finished the beer hur, R the host prepared lotsa fishballs and sausages stuff and two (!) roasted chickens. Someone also brought delicious and soft and fluffy Beard Papa cream puffs omgggggg SO NICE!!! And etc etc I can't remember who brought what!

So much food. I felt like it was an early Christmas dinner heh.

I was also mistaken for a classmate by R's parents until everyone started calling me her name and when the real McCoy came she was confused as to why everyone called her Ruiqi. Hahaha.

And we all still talk and laugh in the same way and have the same mannerisms. And we all also have not moved house/away from the East (Eastie FTW!) for the past 10 years too.

We ended off and for a looooooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg while talked about this, interspersed with booze and cake that A opened and force-fed us respectively (heehee just kidding about the force-feeding part obviously): giving birth, pregnancy, all that jazz which goes on in The Life of A Doctor(-in-training) cuz M is one. And adoooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii there were five of us unmarried girls there and I can safely say that at the end of all that, there are five more females who are NOT going to contribute to Singapore's ever-declining births and the world's ever-increasing population, thank you very much.

Popeyes cajun fries and mashed potato courtesy of mua!

Word of the day: civilised. *inside joke hurhur*

Each cup had a different trinket at the bottom! It was quite funny at the end when the glasses all got mixed up somehow and THEN I realised that the purpose of the trinket was for identification purposes! Slowwwww.

K thought of pouring orange juice into the tequila, M named it 'Tequila Sunrise' waaahhh CHEEM.

♥♥♥
Till the next time, hopefully not 10 years later! :D

blues

2011-12-13T15:33:00.001+08:00

blues

Went to a few nice places the past few days. Will probably blog about them when I'm in a happier mood. Wants to talk with certain people but they are away/busy. Yeesh I hate it when the PMS hits badly. Like now. Gahhhhhhhhh.

HIMYM to chase away the bluesssssss!

of quaint and rich

2011-12-12T23:59:00.001+08:00

[Posted on 14 December 2011]

D and I went to the PS Cafe at Palais Renaissance. It's a place we've both heard of and want to go and we finally did yay. Although this was second choice, the first choice is closed on Mondays. Ah well.

The setting is so pretty. But I dared not take a picture of it. We also saw Cheryl Fox. In slippers. Um.

Deep thoughts. Scandalous gossip. Unrepeatable. Oh, we were happily eavesdropping on the conversation beside us too. Lagi more scandalous hurhur.

Bacon caught my eye. The other ingredients were negligible. Haha. Turkey ham! NOW I remember what the main cast is. Teehee. Anyhoo, the bread was so hard to cut through that the next day I woke up with right arm muscle ache FAAAAAIIIILLLLLL.

Mine had roasted chicken alphabet soup alongside. First time I have letters in my soup!

D's pork with APPLES and other assortments with quite rich portobello mushroom with that over-rated in both our opinions truffle oil.

We waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeedddddddddddddd along Orchard after that. The next day my legs were aching. SIGHHHHHH. 20-year-old trapped in 50-year-old body.

Headed to Far East. Came out of there with a top and more shoes. Teehee oopsy. I like it when I manage to get things when I'm not looking for them. Now I know how to get the best everything: don't go out expecting to shop!

The horses move like those in carousels!
We also went to check out cute guys.

BIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGG crowds. Hurhur. D took a picture with the two cutest ones. Omg so cutezxzx.

Next time - our first choice, setz? :D

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After that I headed towards Raffles City cuz Empress booked us an atas dinner at Raffles Hotel.

Bar & Billiard Room.

The brother and I wanted to get Singapore Sling but then Empress reminded us that that is from the Long Bar.

Round 1: that mess on bottom left hand corner is ratatouille - it's basically a mix of peppers and tomato and onion. There is also potato gratin, ham, bread, quail egg, lemon for the oyster that the brother was giving me - WHICH IS DAMN AWESOME OMGGGGGGGGG I had just watched a Jamie Oliver episode on how he shucked oysters and how you are supposed to eat it so I followed and OMGGGGGGGGGGG BLISSSSSSSS, salmon, tuna, vegetable thingys and other unknown stuff.

Round 2: table water biscuit, nuts, baguette with two swipes of butter, roasted chicken with BBQ sauce yums, lettuce with lemon dressing and two croutons, tomato, pork belly, ANOTHER OYSTER WITH LEMON omg first time I was hyperventilating over the oysters like mad but this kind of thing must control cannot eat too much *like real the heart says WANTWANTWANTWANTNOWNOWNOWNOW* and prawn which the brother was wondering why they neh take out the feelers.

Round 3: Various cakes and one cut-up madeleine which me and Empress agree that kwei neng ko taste nicer HAHA sorry la more espensif does not equal to more gooder.

Round 4: some berry and cheesecake thingy, chocolate thingy, eclair with pistachio cream EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I want my vanilla cream wan please so disappointing, tiramisu which was yummmmm BUT cheat wan no amaretto aka almond liqueur inside CHEAT WAN and bread and butter pudding with SO MUCH CINNAMON adoi chilakak tak boleh tahan.

Round 5 and final (acherly a bit cheat wan cuz in between I kapo-ed some from the brother and Empress): Fruits! That green apple-looking thing is not apple, it's guava! Cheat my hweeling. And yes, the minute I snapped this picture, I was like oh mannnnnn I should have switched on the flash for the previous few plates FAAAAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLL.

The brother made us all laugh because he opened the packet and poured out the contents macam inside is tea powder ADOI that one is epic.

Is tea bag, not powder!

Some tart with raisins inside. I only looked through the photos before blogging and was surprised to see that the raisins could actually be seen!

Vanilla and chocolate ice cream with caramelised hazelnut yums and 'crunchy pearls', their term. Not bad too.

One proceeds down to the ~~dungeons~~ washroom.

Got comfortable couch to sit and relak also okay mai siao siao.

Like courtroom.

We walked past Tiffany & Co.

One of the elephants of the Elephant Parade we guessed - in LV.
Bloated to the max that night. Woke up next morning not really eat much for breakfast or lunch cuz anyhoo I predicted correctly that dinner was going to be funnnnn. Next post! Stay tuned!

finito

2011-12-11T16:07:00.001+08:00

I have finished Breaking Dawn!!! *pops champagne* *throws confetti* *lights fireworks*

Amazingly, the second half of the book is muchhhhh better. Cuz the proper real kill vampires vampires want to kill Bella. That is of cuz an exciting story.

So yayyyyy I have finished. And now I can start on real proper books.

One of her acknowledgements was - thanks to my fans for their unparalleled taste in books and music.

I snorted so hard when I saw that. Dear god Stephenie Meyer, please tolong sikit stop flattering yourself.

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In other news, watched my first late night movie, New Year's Eve this early morning. It was not bad.

Last week, ze royalty and I went to watch Tintin too. Also good. I thought Tintin should be slimmer, they made him look a bit plump.

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My desktop wallpaper now. So pretty right! Picture from this Japanese journalist blogger I love (Ai) then I just tiled it cuz quite strangely there is some nice colour toning going on even though it is the same picture x many times.

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Off to read a vair interesting email teehee and then some long-neglected HIMYM!

best book in the world

2011-12-09T23:12:00.003+08:00

This entry is about my all-time most favouritest book in the entire universe aka Breaking Dawn. Those who want to read this highly engaging book but haven't and don't wish to be spoiled the story may kindly proceed to another site. Those who hate the book may not want to carry on reading too. Those who sincerely love it may lagi not want to carry on reading as well.

#1 Jacob says:

I felt like—like I don’t know what. Like this wasn’t real. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom.

I am SO GLAD this isn't real.

#2 Bella FINALLY makes sense after three books and 127 pages of the fourth:

"I don’t deserve either of you."

YES-S YOU DON'T YOU WHINY MARTYR. Siao wan.

And those two cuckoo people - hur one vampire one werewolf to be more precise; one must not generalise - hankering after her. ALSO siao wan.

#3 So it turns out that the baby is bruising her. Baby-making process bruise her, baby also bruise her. What kind of a scary baby will kick the mama until the outside stomach skin can see orh ceh wan?! Oh right, cuz this baby is VAMPIRE BABY, YAW!

#4 “Why do you always have to love the wrong things, Bella?”
“I don’t think I do.”

YOU DON'T THINK YOU DO?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

#5 Jacob says: But I knew that I had to quit Bella, quit her cold turkey, before she killed me, like she was going to kill him.

Like Brokeback Mountain eh, "I wish I knew how to quit you."

#6 I whined/whimpered out loud the minute I read this: Bella drinks donated O- human blood cuz it seems like Vampire Baby is thirsty for human blood.

"Monstrous" and "repulsive", those are the two adjectives Stephenie Meyer offered.

Yes indeed. Same goes for her book.

#7 And oh good lord she thinks that the blood smells good. WHAT THE ~!#$%^&*()_+_)(*&^%$#w!#$%^&*()??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I could carry on, you have no idea how absolutely excited to read some more, but Empress needs to use my laptop for a bit. Ah well, till the next time.

idyllic

2011-12-09T12:42:00.002+08:00

idyllic

[Edited]

Every so often, on a rather predictable basis, my idealistically-painted picture gets a crack in the frame. Cognitive dissonance takes over in the form of the battle between fortune-telling and self-fulfilling prophecy. The solution is always to just let it be and I forget about it a few days later.

Every so often, the PMS pisses me off. This and the aforementioned tend to coincide.

May that few days later come sooner, rather than later.

I write you read, you write I read

2011-12-08T23:59:00.002+08:00

My vair cute friend H sez that my Breaking Dawn blog posts are hilarious. So sweet. Made my night. Thanks girrrl :)

Aiyo. Now got pressure to try to keep up that sarcastic standard. Hurhur.

I went to read her posts afterwards. NIIIIICE. I likey. And I've caught up, woohoo! Hello you, if you're reading this, I will be religiously pop back into lj from now on just for your posts okay :DDD

One of the posts she had which I like:

"Math tells us of the 3 saddest love stories: Of parallel lines, who were never meant to meet. Of tangent lines, who were together once then parted forever. And of asymptotes, who could only get closer and closer, but never could be together."

Reading her writing (heh) always makes me think. (P.S. I love your puns :D )

And what I do is hug my knees in front of the laptop, with music in my ears, and with paper and pen in front of me, write.

beloveds

2011-12-07T23:56:00.008+08:00

The brother indirect only.

M: Eh we go get specs first then after that you carry on shopping for your shoes la?
B: *non-committal grunt* (ahem somebardeh it runs in the family :p)

Later,

M: Oh my friend will be late.
B: Ya, it's a sign you should postpone your outing.
M: Nyeh.
B: I've never shopped alone before.
M: Wahhhhh indirectly asking me to go with you only righttttt. *thinks a while cuz he's quite a fun person to shop with hehhh* Okay laaa.

See I so nice. And good lord the only annoying thing about going out with him is that he is so freaking tall I get a neck ache every so often.

That friend was S.

Oh rewind a bit to yesterday.

Sombardeh: So where are you going tmr?
M: Why I must tell you? (Donch worry, he's used to me giving this sort of answer haaa) *thinks if I should give serious answer* Going on date.
S: *silence for a short while* Oh, so sad.
M: *laughing to self* I neh say whether guy or girl what.
S: I think no matter what girl will still be better right.
M: Really meh I think worse leh heh! Anyway okay la it's girl, and it's S!

We went on our Reading Date today!

Esplanade library. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for her, Summer Psychic by Jessica Adams for me.

I haven't had the drop-everything-and-read (chey helping NLB promote wor, though I don't know why but the first time I read that as Drop Everything And Die = DEAD HURHUR morbid much) feeling in dammmmmnnnnnnnnnn loooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg.

I started at 3pm, we went for Mac's Shaker fries at 6+pm and I bitched to her about Breaking ~~Hymen~~ Dawn, I carried on from 7-ish till the library closed at 9pm and then went downstairs to the basement seats and read till I finished at 9.30pm. PHEWWWWWW. Love that feeling.

Pity the ending wasn't spectacular. Eeyerrr. Cheat hweeling.

S had suchhhhhhhhhhhhhh a quotable quote that aiya she already said "eh you don't come and quote me ah" so fine I shall have to not publish it. TSK. Constraining me only!

And we had quite an interesting sms conversation about *eyes glinting*, my eyes to be precise, at what she's said. You can see the picture on Twitter. Teeeeeheeeee.

Twas a nice day! :D

And then tmr is killjoy day. Siaaaaannnnn. I am sooooo in holiday mood please. *whines*

matchmade

2011-12-05T23:39:00.011+08:00

So hello.

Last Sunday, 27 November, was my cousin's wedding. Not going to upload many pictures of it and not clear full-on shots of them too.

The French-braid-hair-after-showering-then-sleep technique I learnt from Bubzbeauty on Youtube is a GODSEND I tell you. Went to bed with that hair without feeling much expectation for it or anything and then TA-DAH it came out to be such a nice messy mound of hair!

There have been times where this came out more like lion-head than anything else so YAYYYYY. See, again it's cuz there was no expectations that's why I was pleasantly surprised. Likes.

Hair looks pink here heh. I had another similar picture - I picked this cuz my eye looked bigger here HAHA.

Oh so vair pretty flowers and pretty picture. This is fake btw. And I was shocked when I heard the price. $60 for this?! I don't believe there aren't any cheaper ones around!

This is $55. Also unbelievable!

Baby's breath. From the caterer.

For the tea ceremony.

Belated birthday present courtesy of J the partner-in-crime. It was the first time I wore it out. THANKS YOU MUCHHHHH IT'S VAIR PRETTYYYYY! ♥

I thought this moment between them was sweet.

Love the flower petals. So fun to throw, so pretty on her train.

Poison for the night - white wine.

Orh nee which had too much coconut milk. The only food picture I took of the night. The brother warned me beforehand to please do not embarrass him. Fiiiiine.
Overall 'twas quite an enjoyable wedding, better than I expected - see, have zero expectations, really - and this is considering that we only knew us 4 at the table - the other 6 adults were people whom we saw for the first time. I was just talking with the brother throughout.
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December started off fine - last paper, hooray.

Celebrated with the beloveds at this quaint little French-Japanese cafe - B1 chose it because it is such a Sakinah-meets-Ruiqi kind of place. EXACTLY. And the name of the cafe lagi suits it more - it's called L'etoile which is star in French and is part of my email so it suits yours truly hur *by some stretch of imagination*

We all love the place. S and I have already decided another time to have a Reading Date ooh la la so eggciting I have already borrowed my books, as mentioned in one of the previous posts.

Must-have in mine and S' houses next time: book shelf. Incidentally, a few days later I also talked with the brother about houses, and this is also on his must-have list! Woohoo.

So out of proportion heh. And this photo was taken by S taking a Harry Potter which was thick enough to prop the camera up. Such blasphemy! I thought she was taking it to read it! *shakes head*

Emo nemo #1

Emo nemo #2

So pretty.

Ciabatta with roast duck and Earl Grey tea.

We left to go Orchard after that.

One of S' shoes had given way so we walked around trying to find glue to help her glue back temporarily. We were highly amused that the shops we went to thought we wanted to get those industrial glues to SNIFF hahahahahaaaaa. Goodness.

Found help in the form of a provision shop owner who let her scotch tape her shoe. We walked all the way to Dhoby Ghaut after that, stopping for Each-A-Cup Honey Milk Tea recommended by S with 20% sugar - yes I'm mad but it's sufficient and like this then I can taste the tea! - before taking bus hur she lasted all the way to Far East Plaza!

Where I also bought a pair of shoes. Shopping with them is terriblez. Confirm burn hole in pocket.

We also walked to F21 and also left with more goodies.

And ended off with delicious stuff:

For me, especially this. Yummmmmm.
Oh, I also read S' mind three times. She was screeching away that she dowan to be my friend anymore. Teeeeeheeeee. *wicked grin*

messed up

2011-12-05T21:52:00.004+08:00

messed up

Hello!

Agenda for now is blogging! So yay! A few posts coming up! Yay!

I also want to send a few emails.

And everywhere is a mess. I am going nuts. But I like to have a whole day to whack everything but don't have that whole day yet so ARGH have to put up with it. Yes I put up with it for three months but now that there's no more school there's really no excuse for me to slack but I just don't have one whole beautiful day to spare!

Rambling on and on. I've lost my cut-to-the-chase blogging style slightly. Sorreh.

Oh, more Breaking Dawn updates. SPOILER ALERT PLEASE LOOKIE AWAYYYYY!

Edward, the vampire who is technically dead, has impregnated Bella, the human -- necrophilia anybardy? The baby is a monster who is killing her not softly. Edward is in agony because of it. Whereas Bella the act-hero doesn't want to abort it.

Not warped enough for you? It gets better, trust me.

Edward tells Jacob, the werewolf, that he is fine with whatever kind of children she wants, cuz well, she obviously wants children, even puppies. Jacob takes it to mean that he (vampire) is willing for him (werewolf) to have sex with her (human) to have wolf puppies aka bestiality.

So yes, someone's husband is willing to let another man have sex with his wife.

Ahhhhh. This crap is so bad it's almost good. Ahhhhh. What else next man, Stephenie Meyer? You've written it of course, I just haven't read it. Can't wait.

(It doesn't do justice to all the novels I've read before so I'm not going to put the 'Books' label for this post.)

breaking her dawn

2011-12-03T22:57:00.003+08:00

What I wrote on Facebook a few days ago:

One of many holiday plans: curl up on the sofa and read a book. Like, a proper novel made of paper, not any electronic finger-swipe-to-turn-page thingamajig. And a real book, not anything like the Breaking Dawn crap. Recommendations welcome! :)

I got the most number of responses to this ever.

The thing is, I have borrowed my "proper novels".

But before that, because I always save the best for the last, I'm starting with the the very crap that I mentioned first.

Yes, I am proud to say that I am reading Breaking Dawn.

Not in the way I would usually read proper books though.

I am just laughing at every other line in it.

It is just HILARIOUS omgz.

And also weird.

They just had sex. She slept through it. Yes it's called rape.

She's always sleepy/sleeping. So eggciting to read that she was sleeeeepy, she doesn't know half the things she's doing, she woke up dunno where she is, she gets terrible nightmares in bright colours, she cries because she woke up from a good dream, yaddaaaaa.

Edit: OH now I know what good dream she woke up from and she was crying cuz it's not real - they were really having sex! Her sexual need was fulfilled! Which makes me confused, I thought they had sex before already?! Okay now I'm confused. Sorry, too much info and too boring minute details. [/edit]

Aiyaya when will I ever get to read such a ridiculously funny book ever again right?

Am also listening to emo music at the same time to make the book better. Hur.

This is just an FYI-so-skippable post. Ta, back to my all-exciting book!

filler

2011-12-02T16:20:00.000+08:00

So hello.

I have two posts with the theme 'matchmade' akan datang. I have already uploaded all the photos.

I am just lazy to put the words to them.

Another time okeh okeh.

No more school for a bit, but saya is busy. Watching many many frivolous videos.

Teehee.

taking wedding notes

2011-11-27T23:59:00.002+08:00

Some highlights of the wedding (my cousin's, paternal side; congratulations btw!) I just attended:

#1 Hilarious conversation between me and B1. I said I won't be present for my own wedding IF it's something that will happen cuz I will be jittery and prancing around and want to get out of there. She said "so we have to find the bride for the ceremony to commence, during the ceremony (when she's prancing around) and after the ceremony when she has eloped. That'll be quite an interesting wedding. I'll enjoy myself, definitely:)"

See, already someone promises that she will have fun. I am doing everybardy a great favour manz.

#2 One of the pastors whom the brother affectionately christened the "awkward pastor" was really talking quite some... WHAAAAAT things. Adoi.

#3 After hearing Mariah Carey's (I think it's hers) Because You Love Me for n times while waiting for the ceremony to start, it has been demoted to one of the okay songs to songs that I don't really want to hear anymore.

#4 Then they had Anne Murray's You Needed Me. AH YESSAH THAT'S MUCH BETTAH!

#5 Empress and I said in the same tone at the exact same time to the brother about the Subaru Impreza Challenge, you get a car you know! and both of us proceeded to laugh at the hilariousity of it and the brother just shook his head.

#6 Also, we both stared at something and looked at each other, and had the same thought in mind. PSYCHIC. Like Empress, like Empress' daughter.

#7 Also also, she told me not to have prawns, but prawn fritters, when I get married cuz it's easier to eat. When leh. So optimisticzx.

#8 My uncle, the groom's ah pa, said to me when we said bye, "Next one your turn ah." *awkward laughter ensues*

Updated wedding post: 5 December 2011 matchmade

sarcasm is my middle name

2011-11-26T19:26:00.002+08:00

For some reason I think it's worth pointing out that today I am exactly 19 *ahem* and a month old.

It feels longer than just a month actually.

A few things have changed about me.

I have become

- more sot
- more hyper and prance-y around
- more sarcastic and dare to be outrightly sarcastic to the point where sometimes it's a bit insulting, sorry to whoever's kena-ed

I like this new spunky devil-may-care me.

Also, the conversations I have these few days revolve around sex and/or sexuality. Contrary to popular belief, I am not always the firestarter.

Also also, Kim/Thursday on the SarcasChicks Youtube channel is SUPER DUPER HILARIOUSLY FUNNY OMG British people rock. Love their ability to laugh at THEMSELVES most importantly. I do that all the time. Self-deprecating humour (and yessah with a 'u') FTW.

authority

2011-11-25T18:46:00.000+08:00

Am I an authority on school stuff now? I have a friend in Year 1 who sometimes asks questions on Twitter so I reply her if I know it. Recently she retweeted me and in turn that got retweeted some more.

Then today someone searched 'violingal dev psych' and got here.

That's nice. I like being useful.

Another paper down. Like I tweeted, there was ball, buttocks and 'Boys Over Flowers', all in one paper.

Cool or what.

Thinking Deep Thoughts

2011-11-22T15:33:00.002+08:00

Another hilarious spam tag:

Wong: Just put my footproof

Footproof?!

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As I tweeted last night, I spent two hours digesting a sociological paper on the judiciary. It was comparing the judiciary system as a form of theatre with ritual. It was dense. Vair dense.

As I also tweeted, I am so glad I did not choose to major in Law or Philosophy. 18-year-old me didn't think of both as THAT exciting topics yet anyway. I think it was only end of last year/beginning of this year (good heavens we are at the end of the year already) that I started being more freeeee and open in my thinking (leading to many instances of unwanted tao hua yun and T kindly reminded me last week that I better be careful of lesbians HAHA) and thought about Life in a more Intellectual fashion. Also, B made me open my mouth to TALK about politics and I realise how I actually can carry off a political conversation wan wor, though I'm vair vair selective about who I talk about it with, I underestimated myself a bit. Heh.

Back to main point. I am glad I didn't pick either. Because while they are nice to indulge SOME intensity in as and when I feel like Thinking Deep Thoughts, if I had to Think Deep Thoughts every day for three/four years with my whole brain fired/fried with MAXIMUM INTENSITY like last night I think I would have come out soul-less and/or gone mad. Not that I'm not already mad, I will be madder. Goodness. Lucky 18-year-old me was such a sprightly young complacent kid with not a care in the world (hence 19*AHEM*-year-old wiser more logical more betterer me is currently in this state).

I was just reading a paper on the Mexican elections. They are not called elections. They are selections. There are people who X the ballots of the whole kampung, not really anyone gets to vote for him/herself. It is quite funny actually.

Which makes me wonder - these papers are published to the world - the Mexicans allow that without a squeak from them? Which makes me wonder some more - I'm sure there have been papers published on the Singapore political/electoral system, I should go search around and read them, just to see what kind of content they have. I wonder if any professor's, shall we say, more critical piece has been published and the professor remained unscathed. I'm quite sure someone must have written about this year's vair exciting one, I should seriously go poke about the databases becozzz I is VAIR interested.

Okie. Back to sociology and its wonderful prospects.

(Woohoo today's date and time are all repeated numbers!)

why huh

2011-11-18T23:36:00.005+08:00

Can somebardy tell me why awkward questions related to food are always directed at me?

Last year, B1's friend bumped into her, started talking with her. I was happily minding my own business eating my fish soup and expecting him not to talk with me cuz well, I try not to make small talk cuz I iz anti-social and all and then suddenly I heard,

"The fish very fresh right?"

And I realised, OH, the guy is talking with me. Erm, this is the first thing that he said to me. And erm, how am I supposed to answer him? Oh wait, he is expecting an answer. "Err... ya...?" mustering as much willpower as I could not to laugh at the incredulity of it.

B1 and S were happily laughing it off just cuz they can. Terriblez. Know I cannot control this kind of laughter yet not helping.

And then today. S's friend's friend i.e. I do not know him well at all; this is just the second consecutive day of eating dinner with him (not by choice, it's by circumstance) and I reaaaaally have zero intention of making friends wan leh hurhur seriously sooooo anti-social omgzx cannot take it.

He had eaten up all his rice but still had chicken.

I had nicely kept one part of rice because I eat neatly and actually I realise that I always cut up various parts of my food and scatter them around the whole plate until it looks like I don't want any of them anymore haha even though it's quite neatly done heh. Which is why he asked the next question,

"Aiya I finish my rice already. *looks at my nice small mound of rice in the corner* Do you still want your rice?"

Weiiiiiii. I don't know you leh. Isn't it awkwardddddd to ASK ME FOR MY FOOD?!?!?!!

Once again, the answer was, "Err... ya...?"

And once again, S and her friend happily laughing away, I was busy hurting my insides trying not to laugh.

Adoi. Whyyyyy liddis.

meh

2011-11-17T14:50:00.000+08:00

I just spent half an hour trying to find an email which I was vair sure it should exist in my school email but nuh-uhhhhh no can do. GRRRRR.

I just got back another grade that is unspectacular. The exam is this Saturday. You're dead meat, chooahqi.

I also had a fever on Monday, recovered some on Tuesday, developed weird stomach feelings yestyday and still can feel the stomach being wonky today.

As a result of all the aforementioned, I am feeling damn MEH~~~~~. Also, GRRRRR. Also, sleeeeepy. Sighhhhh.

too happy

2011-11-13T23:59:00.000+08:00

Yestyday chooahqi was an extremely happy girl.

I still donch know and donch understand why.

Or I could make B1 upz her self-esteem by saying that it's because after we took that short bus ride together I went away with lots of Joy. Ahem. *shudder*

So chooahqi was a happy birdie when she reached Grandma's.

Oh maybe one reason is cuz I didn't need to take food, I had already asked T to ask Empress to take for me teehee so I came, and I immediately just took rice and tang hoon and ATE.

One major reason was the food. Best food of the island was eaten: black pepper crab from Joo Chiat, sambal sotong by my aunt, pig stomach soup by Grandma but I dunno if it was her that cooked it yestyday. Because E biaojie is going to work in the UK for 2 years. It was kind of a send-off party of sorts.

Another reason, more important: family.

Haven't had full attendance from everybardy in vair long. OH YA we didn't take pictures of the 7 of us together! Aye.

So X told a vair interesting story, chooahqi was laughing through it, at one point X and J shrieked in unison and chooahqi laughed even more.

Aiyaya. I think I was just a bit high the whole day and hence superbly happy. Siao wan.

We had prepared a cake and card for her too!

Yummmm. (The picture auto-rotated itself, urgh.)

And here the two of three A-level-ers were sitting and eating like kings.

Family is lovez. ♥♥♥
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I also had a nice long walk to walk off all that glorious food. And also received an exam welfare pack that is muchhh better than the school one.

Thanks, "someparteh" (how B1 pronounced it heh). ♥

stayin' alive

2011-11-10T23:40:00.000+08:00

Helliew. (B1 is always eagerly waiting to hear this whenever I answer her call, awww. Once I said hiiiiii instead and she spent 20 seconds analysing why I didn't say helliew and I was like, hello, are you going to get to the main point of your call? Heh.)

It's been... another three days without posts? Heh. Oops.

Every time I come home nowadays I totally do not think academic stuff and instead think frivolous nonsense, talk to myself, irritate the brother, make myself laugh, try to make other people laugh, say nonsense things. You get the gist.

I didn't read blogs until one moved link and deleted already and I only knew it today. Alamak I still want to read yo!

Okay off now to whack my last paper for the term that four other people are ALSO whacking. I dunno how we are going to manage it. But whooboy here comes the fifth.

in a perfect world,

2011-11-07T12:07:00.001+08:00

1. my assignment is able to restructure itself neatly into one smooth paper.

2. the anomalies of Friday can be eradicated like *that* and that Tuesday would bring perfect things that Friday should have but couldn't have.

3. everything that we want to control for IS controlled.

4. time is flexible so that we can do too many things in a short span of time.

5. I will not be going more insane by the second and drowning in my thoughts of mainly the sound AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH.

Addendum 2.40pm:

The brother is making me spiral into more madness because I just read two of his GP essays and want to whack him for not writing content befitting of his English standard. I have decided to be the good sister and come home earlier than I intended tmr to helpch him with it cuz WEDNESDAY is his paper oh dear god. *calms self by saying 'better late than never' and meditating ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*

MISSING: dream paragraph

2011-11-05T12:12:00.000+08:00

Oops it's been four days since the last post. Soz. I can't really remember what I did on Wednesday and Thursday. Shows how good my memory is. I think I must have been rushing some assignment or other. As usual.

Some updates.

Yestyday was hectic. Woke up early in the AM to go to Yishun. Good lord. As always, the person who lives the furthest reaches the earliest. Heh.

Came back to school in the afternoon. B1 was half-dead and she still had a lesson some more. I was equally dead but I had the option of going home. And after an hour of futilely staring at the computer with no ideas to squeeze for my second-last assignment, I balik-ed kampung and slept. At 7pm. And woke up at 9am today. HAHAHA. Glorious sleep, I tell you. Sleep debt confirm repaid! I did wake up at 5.30am too, in case you think I'm that powerful to sleep so much non-stop.

The thing is, in my dream I came up with the beginning chunk of words for my assignment. And when I finally woke up, I had forgotten the whole thing. DAMNNNNN. Now I still can't come up with a good enough one as that in the dream!!!!!! So annoyingzzzzz.

Okay. Back to dreaming and getting back my awesome first paragraph. *snores*

it's time of the month semester...

2011-11-01T19:34:00.001+08:00

...where I start pushing people away, dowan to see anyone and hole myself in my misery and multitude of things to do.

I have three assignments and one major data collection in these two weeks. Please wish that I'm still alive and kickin' by the end of it. Toodles.

yukata FTW!

2011-10-31T23:59:00.002+08:00

BIRTHDAY POST UPDATED. SCROLL DOWN!

Today is a colourful day.

We had poster contest presentation in Bilingualism class today. Since our topic was on Code-Switching in Japanese-English bilinguals, we managed to get hold of three yukatas so three of us wore them, L wore her vair cute SIA skirt and H from Japan managed to borrow a kebaya skirt.

Some pics here, rest on Facebook.

The yukata is really nice to wear!

Of course cannot forget the twist.

I folded two sakuras! Cuz thanks to Origami J (haha yes I'm calling you that) for making me vair interested in origami again, I have been obsessed with folding stuff. It's my form of catharsis for now!

Not vair sakura-looking. But it was the only single paper one on Youtube, the others were more elaborate like:

We didn't use it though. But I just wanted to fold it cuz fun. There are actually three shades of pink in the second picture! But in the picture it's not vair obvious.

Everyone was kinda stunned to see us in costume. I think others thought we were some Japanese society. I think the yukata is really prettttttyyyyyyy and comfyyyyyyy ♥ I really should have bought one back from Japan HA.

Presenting the five of us:

Second from left is our lecturer.

My preciousssss. M: You know, your poster has a lot of text. But it is surprisingly still very neat. Wah seh self-esteem upz.

So kawaii desu ne! (The 'u' is kind of silent, it's like light /i/ sound. This I picked up from hearing people speak, see so smartzx no need learn Japanese also can pick up such nuances so sensitive to sound *chey well cuz I is anal bitch about pronunciation so actually makes sense heh)

My hair so pretty! Thanks L I LOVE ITTTTTT :DDD

Parting shot:

catharsis

2011-10-29T18:07:00.003+08:00

突然很想写歌。

哈哈笑死人了。朱阿琦写歌？！

十年前如果我告诉我自己我十年后会有这样的想法。。。

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Backbone check yestyday. Minus 2 degrees here (yay), maintain same there (yay), increase 2 degrees elsewhere (not yay but not nay also).

Did a research study thereafter. Got $30 transport reimbursement. Which was like free money cuz I was already THERE. Needed saliva samples. During importune times you have too much of it and anyhow spit when talking. When you need to consciously "spit, drool, whatever, as long as you fill it up" as told to me just 2ml it takes years.

Went to collect $60 pay after that. Wah suddenly yestyday wallet got more pieces of money than receipts.

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Printing shops can be quite coolz. The one at Queensway monopolised almost the whole floor, got dunno how many staff, even bring you (warm!) water (albeit in polystyrene cup and not Royal Copenhagen). Not baaaaad.

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Am hooked on 郁可唯's songs. Dunno how I suddenly click click click and found her also. Turns out, I have heard and liked a few of those songs! Emo songs rock.

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Shall end off with something I tweeted a few days back. It comes from the transcription that I'm going to attack now. I just like the sound of it.

Dakara dakara doushi dakara doushite!

toadally awesome

2011-10-26T23:59:00.006+08:00

Hello.

I don't have time to do a long post YET (operative word), but MUCH THANKS AND LURVE TO THE BELOVED GIRLS Joy and Sakinah for the surprise toadally awesome picnic at Botanic Gardens with surprise guest Deborah being in cahoots with them too! ♥♥♥♥♥

Post will be updated!

THANK YOU MUCH EVERYONE ELSE! :D

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Post updated: 1 November 2011 1.38am

So other people celebrated Deepavali, I celebrate my birthday.

It always falls around the period so I wasn't that surprised.

And I had muruku for supper so Happy Deepavali to me too.

Majority of pictures on Facebook, I will just publish select few. Because Facebook can upload 20 million at a time, Blogger only 5. Leceh.

My BlackBerry red light was flashing non-stop for the whole 24 hours, it never got a rest.

The Facebook wishes can be categorised into 1) close friends who will then follow up with an sms, 2) other friends not categorised in 1), 3) people whom I've not spoken with in godknowshowlong and who just wish because my birthday shows up on their news feed right sidebar and 4) people whom I can't even remember and wondered who she was oops - luckily this category only 1. Winner of funniest Facebook wish goes to K who wrote "what no McDonald's?!" HAHAHA.

The smses are the more sincere ones. Partner-in-crime J wins for cutest, EMPRESS wins for funniest hahaha and literal 知音 wins for most heartwarming - 果然是知音!

THANKS EVERYBARDY THANKS!!

As to the celebrations, I got a strawberry something cake at midnight. Thanks, somebardeh.

Later in the day, "Orchard MRT, 1pm, casual" were the instructions.

The PPGs were busy annoying themselves by stating the obvious "Where are we going ah? Oh we just passed by Four Seasons. Sorry ah not there, too expensive." when I NEH even say anything and just looked at them in amusement. I was mainly silent all the way heh.

Botanic Gardens was the final destination (so ominous-sounding). And then it started raining after a while.

Lucky I carried my waterproof bag I bought from Japan. And lucky I brought umbrella. Psychic.

And we sought refuge at the National Orchid Gallery hurhur. They had a blackout for a while hurhur also.

And then D appeared out of nowhere!!!!!! Quite unexpected.

A few choice pictures.

Maxi from Japan. Bag from Japan. I looked Japanese. Yay. HAHA.

THANK YOU GIRLS FOR PLANNING THE WHOLE THINGGGGG!!! MAJORLY TOUCHED AND HAD MAJOR A LOT OF FUN TOOOOOOO~~~~~ MUCH LUUURRRVVVEEE ♥♥♥ (one heart for each of you heh!)

Later on, had dinner at Kopitiam the Singapore Restaurant at Raffles City with the family. Had Hainanese chicken rice. The place was playing all the wonderfully emo songs omg happy like bird.

So, thanks all who made my ahem, 19th, birthday something quite unexpected, especially the girls - thanks for my first ever planned picnic by friends and at such a pretty place! D wins for best picture taken! :DDD

(So many winners eh.)

(And sorry this post is a bit uninteresting. I can't think of anything witty oops.)

turnaround

2011-10-24T23:59:00.001+08:00

Thank you for making my day. ♥

whiny

2011-10-24T10:51:00.001+08:00

whiny

I really hate it when I have zero motivation to do something simply because there is a time constraint. I cannot think properly in restricted times. Unless someone else has ideas. Then I just chip in with my comments and possibly let my train of thought run from there.

Currently, I just don't want to do anything!

It doesn't help that I'm still not happy that we might have to do that potential thing that I'm against.

The Deck's coffee has helped to wake me up a bit. That's a start.

But otherwise, GRRRRR. I DOWAN TO DO ANYTHING!!!!!

let's talk about feelings

2011-10-23T23:26:00.004+08:00

Happy Part I: Thank you X for the mango fruit tart yestyday for the October babes. :D It was yummayeeeeee.

Happy Part II: 'Happy' is not really the right feeling. More like vair thankful that something was SO FUNNY UNTIL I LAUGHED MY HEART OUT, one of the rare few in a while and on a bad day at that, AND LAUGHED TILL STOMACH MUSCLES ACHED. It's in the genes to imitate, it's in the genes to be hilarious, it's in the genes to imitate until 惟妙惟肖 (EMPRESS LOOKIE I'M USING A CHENGYU WORZX) and super hilarious. Highlight of yesterday: whispers. Third Aunt called us monkeys. Now that we have all grown up and grown wiser (ahem), we are really cheeky. HURHUR. It sounds better in Chinese: 长大了，很会讲话了!

Puzzled: Fourth Uncle, being someone who interviews people or sits in to listen sometimes, recounted quite a while back that someone came in with an email that resembled prettycutegirlzx@hotmail or some such. Ever since then, I've made sure that I took note of which email I use to send important stuff. And then today's papers talked about bigcow@hotmail.com. Like seriously? Why would you use that email even for normal frivolous purposes?! Adoi.

Impassioned: Wanted to write a post solely on how I feel that someone is much too concerned about style prevailing over substance but I've since changed my mind.

Amused: Spent the day catching up on newspapers today. I found it quite amusing that a Muslim organisation quoted a Christian story.

Apprehensive: Note to self #839 for the millionth time - tolong siket, stop having expectations of anybody, except yourself. The dear poor fragile heart cannot take it.

Part-embarrassed/part-amused: Thank you dear B1, for yesterday. You are the first recipient. Are you honoured? HAHA like as if that's the correct word to use. Aiyooo. :p

Emotional: Free flow of tears on the side - read newspaper tear (haha read it the other way!), yawn tear, think of past/present/future tear. Siao wan. Chooahqi, SINCE WHEN U SO EASY CRY?! AND SINCE WHEN U GRAMMAR LIDDIS?

Stressed: I caught up with papers, and went out to celebrate Empress and my birthday (sort-of). And slept too much. That's kinda all I did today. And I am bombarded with a lot of things to do suddenly OMG FREAKING OUT. Damn it. Still wanted to do frivolous things grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. :( :( :( :( :(

nine

2011-10-22T00:10:00.002+08:00

Mr W in JC GP gave us an article entitled 'I Want A Wife' to read. It is written by a female. I also want a wife.

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Stress makes one emotional.

That, and other things.

Butterfly fly away.

much appreciated

2011-10-20T23:59:00.002+08:00

I think I am terriblez to be with when I have super a lot of things to do and donch know where to start and just wallowing in self-pity.

I push away my family by staying in school till godknowswhen and come home only to see them for less than 15 proper minutes before heading straight for my laptop or my bed. Soz. Please understand. (The beloved brother got his enlistment letter yestyday. I am emo alreadyz. :'( )

I only hang around with those friends who are in the same boat as me cuz it's too tiring to meet up with the rest. I'm sorry. I already said I'm terriblez.

And this is going to happen for the next month as well. Dear gods and goddesses, please let me not have 3-hour-sleep days this semester, that's all I ask for.

And to you, I can only thank you for still sticking by despite the multitude of moodiness I've flung at you. Vairrrrrrrr much appreciated. ☆

pointless

2011-10-19T00:02:00.003+08:00

Hello people from Bosnia and Herzegovina. So exoticzxzx.

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Dear Chooahqi,

Be careful whatchu wish for, because it WILL come true, and bite yo' ass (I speak Rap now, apparently) in the painfulest (my grammar is coolz) manner.

Sincerely,
The red beating and greyish churning things

social life (or lack thereof)

2011-10-18T14:35:00.000+08:00

I have no idea why I suddenly thought of this when it's already a week old. And also I'm supposed to be rushing stuff so that tmr I can take a short break.

We were preparing for our presentation last Wednesday. We met with the Prof on Monday. Y said that I sent my slides at 1am.

Prof asked, do you girls have no social lives?

HAHAHA.

I replied, pointing to the slides, this lor. HEH.

怎样

2011-10-17T23:59:00.000+08:00

The last time I wrote in the journal was the beginning of this month.

Then work piled up. So I left it aside.

Today, is a historic day. So I picked it up again.

Now what?

of sexting and pick-up lines

2011-10-16T13:07:00.001+08:00

So hello.

I have had a hectic week. I have two major things due tmr and I only woke up 2 hours ago and I am still here writing an entry and have three videos of a British dude loading waiting for me to watch. Time management is failz. Priority is even failz-er.

So today's papers had interesting things that caught my eye.

Sexting.

Can I ask, why would people do that?

I am sadly vair insecure about my own body - and I'm just going to assume that the majority of the population is insecure about theirs as well - and cannot imagine taking a picture of it thereby marking the "permanence" of the various flabby unsightly states, much less SENDING it to someone else. See on small screen - can see anything meh?! And even if it's on a big screen - vair nice to see meh?! Isn't real life better? HAHA now chooahqi just WHAT are you advocating?!

(I used to term my blog as family-friendly. Then I changed it to M18. Now, erm... maybe bordering on R21 HAHAHA. And I just changed the info bit on the right column - I do such things once in a while. I now have the line, "If you watch Youtube vloggers, on a scale of Charlie McDonnell to Alex Day, I am more on the Alex Day end.")

And anyhoo, as I read somewhere, I dare to say these kinds of more "prohibited" stuff because "if they're really doing it, they won't be talking about it, they would actually be DOING IT!!!!!"

And I think it's fun to push the boundaries. Chooahqi is so... *insert your own adjective*

Anyhoo, back to sexting.

One of the arguments made was that it can help to keep parties interested in a long-distance relationship.

Riiiight. Been there, done that. No salacious pictures exchanged. Do not ever want to. I dowan to pollute my phone/camera/laptop. They are innocent. I am not. HAAAA there I go again. *wicked grin*

Another article that interested me.

Pick-up lines.

As I told the girl who "brings Joy to people's lives" as proudly proclaimed by HERSELF *ownselfsayownself*, no need any talk about the stars and the moon, seems like the pick-up line that works best on me is 'excuse me'. -.-

As she has mentioned on the tagboard, we need to think of counter-attacks to that.

Please give us ideas. Thanks much.

so...

2011-10-13T23:59:00.002+08:00

Surprise successful.

At the cost of being bitten by mosquitos.

And getting picked up. Second time this week. By a creepier dude than the last one. Good heavens. Give me students who can speak properly any day. "Grace" was asked even lamer questions.

And you, take care k.

not zen

2011-10-12T17:16:00.001+08:00

I had thoughts about writing an entry on zen-ness. And how I think I've become much calmer since I-don't-really-know-when, even in the face of calamity. Cuz I was comparing myself to a few friends around me.

Then I gradually lost steam.

Could not find the right words and nuances. I am particular about words. (Previous sentence is as redundant as saying 'Grass is green'.)

I tried again.

Failed again.

Sorreh.

Maybe another time.

Not so zen after all, eh.

pink and orange

2011-10-10T23:59:00.000+08:00

And there I was thinking that I needed to re-tie (LOL I typed 're-tire' at first whaaaaat) my hair cuz it vos messy, if only there was a something around to put my laptop and file down.

I was then refreshing my Twitter DM feed becoz now the BB does not give me a notification when a DM is received and that is my mode of communication with J aka B1. I iz angries.

Anyhoo, back to main story.

I looked up becoz someone was talking with me.

"Excuse me, do you like pink a lot? Your bag, laptop bag and even your highlighter is pink."
"Not really, the bag was since JC, the laptop bag since Year 1 and the highlighter I alternate colours."
*nods*
"I like orange but find red easier to match."
"My slippers are orange, bag and watch also."

Orh. Okay.

*messes up hair; resolves not to comb hair anymore*

Ooh nose just got longer.

assortment

2011-10-08T23:40:00.003+08:00

Hello there.

It's been a while since there have been more than two/three paragraphs to read. Today I will recount bits and pieces from the past week. I typed them down in the phone. As usual.

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I find that it's the littlest of things from the most unexpected people that really make my day. Like really unexpected. Sorry, people whom I see everyday, you are rated second. HAHA. Kiddinggggg. I can think of vair few exceptions though. And most are girls. And maybe plus the brudder.

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Scandalous talk with J aka B1 at Science. First time in 4 years we were at Science together hurhur.

Then ate with the partner-in-crime-bitchy-sidekick J. The soup stall auntie damn funnehhh.

Auntie: 来拿那个tray上来，不要伤到你美丽的双手。 (Come, take up the tray, don't hurt your beautiful hands.)

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

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And then last Sunday I think I got the most cringeworthy tweet ever directed at me by T. Said she loves me. Oh good lord I am allergic to that L word *shudders like mad as I recall it*

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I like my Soci tutorial. And the two lovely people I always sit beside. They are R and J haha Romeo and Juliet only this is a female R and male J. She is the first person I know with her name and I think it's a vair pretty name. Not going to say what cuz may save for my future daughter HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *carries on shrieking in hysterical laughter*

As usual, origami must take some bulk of our conversation. I showed J the butterfly I made. He wanted to show me his version so I took out rough paper.

M: Nah, give you MJ Chemistry Volumetric Analysis tutorial to make your butterfly origami. Wah seh I never expected that these two things will ever appear in the same sentence together.
J: It's called ChemiGami!
R: Haha I like that name!

Presenting the one and only ChemiGami:

(Made clickable so you can save it if you want, if you're reading this!) Thanks once again! :)
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Yestyday went to watch the LOUD Festival music concert. Somebardeh had free tickets. Thanksssss. I likeeeeeee. Sodagreen, Landy Wen Lan, Ang Mo Pai, Cindy Yen and Jay Chou, in that order. Everyone was goooooood except Cindy Yen. Her first album is sweet and innocent just like how she looks. This album she is all sexed up and trying to sexy-dance and going her round with the male dancers - could tell she was soooooo uncomfortable and I was soooooo comfortable watching it omgzxzxzx.

Sodagreen opened with this psychedelic orange loves. They sang two new songs, one of which is 喜欢寂寞 omg totally me and both are NICEEEEEEE. I feel like getting the album when it comes out!

Landy! She didn't sing 北斗星 (N) but did sing 傻瓜 (Y) and 祝我生日快乐 (Y) so okay yay still pass.

The Ang Mo Pais sang the Ji Pa Ban song funnehhhhh (Y) also!

I have a weakness for people who play musical instruments, especially who play those that I do too. *swoons*

Some of the artistes themselves got shocked by the fireworks hahaha.

Someone on stage playing 彩虹 on guitar. Everyone sang along. So nice. He didn't sing it though. He didn't sing 我不配 also. Sad.

I did not think he was thaaaaaaat good-looking but yestyday I changed my mind. And this picture proves everything. *swoons some more*

Encore song: 屋顶 by Landy and Jay! Much lurrrve.
It was an out-of-sorts 破坏形象 day for me in general and it ended that way too. Adoi.

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Did my pilot study on the young kidz just now. Next time I need a perk-me-up, I'm going to listen to little boy T's recording so hilarious omgzx.

EE, your dear chewren are not bad! :D

My recorded voice sounds disgustingz. I knew that since a long time ago. I sound weird. And in real life I sound like a man. Eeyo.

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Many things coming up in the next few weeks. Expect short posts. I have no idea how come I'm so free tonight. Obviously not. Methinks vairrrrrr little sleep again *criiiiiiiiiiies*

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I just had second favouritest (favouritest is Maxwell's tapioca kueh) puteri salat kueh. I iz happy girl.

innuendoes

2011-10-06T17:39:00.004+08:00

"Things are funny because they are sarcastic, racist or insulting. Or it's because they are the three that's why they are funny." - J, the partner-in-crime who highly entertained my one hell of a night last night with her super bitchy smses hahahaha.

And just now, with another J aka B1,

J: *with glint in eye* So today are you going to have a certain four-wheel...
M: *interrupts; also with glint in eye* Yup, it has like erm... 50 seats on it?
J: *STILL with glint in eye* So not the small one la, it's a big one which is a few metres long.
M: *ALSO STILL with glint in eye* Yupz.

This J ah. Early in the afternoon spout so many sentences that my highly active mind immediately processes under the category 'INNUENDOES'. And so am laughing my heart out at what she says.

And a good afternoon to you too.

sad and lonely

2011-10-05T23:59:00.001+08:00

I carried so much stuff today. My bag and back are going to break any time soon.

I lugged all the stuff home feeling miserablez and drained. Thought of a song to sing (this has been my custom ever since the bus stop shifted and the walk home is slightly longer) but couldn't even think of any.

And then I think about all the looming deadlines and I'm even tired-er and in a panic-er (my grammar iz goodz) mode cuz there are so many unconfirmed things around good heavens.

When life throws you a whole bunch of lemons all at once, duck.

Happy birthday to you, thanks for making me part of your exclusive to-know clique. Heh. And you too, yes I still remember.

wants to hear witty

2011-10-03T23:59:00.000+08:00

Going to be graphic and rambly cuz I'm highly stressed.

The symptoms are all here.

Bloatedness.

Breaking out. My forehead can play join-the-dots.

Being moody and piss-y.

But it's not here yet.

Not funny people, please stay away.

Funny people, please tell more jokes.

I'm laughing too much, too hard, too long.

STRESS, I TELL YOU, STRESS.

of vlogging and blogging

2011-10-02T16:56:00.002+08:00

[Updated, scroll to red words]

I have just finished watching this relatively new collaboration channel called SarcasChicks. Yes, as you can tell from the awfully punny name (Y), it is what it promises to be.

It's been a month now.

This past week, all of them got quite emotional and stressed out, it was just simply not a good week for all of them.

They were being insecure, self-conscious about themselves and everything else.

From what I know, cuz I do watch a few Youtube channels (my British dudes duo of Charlie McDonnell and Alex Day - the latter being the funnier more sarcastic more in-your-face and erm probably not so family-friendly one) and occasionally a few others, many of them are currently in university, about my age, which makes me quite admire them.

They have a good Youtube following, which means the pressure is all the more there cuz they have to come up with something worthy to be video-ed every week/every how often they aim to release new content. And they are in university, which likely means projects and stuff (I'm not too sure, but I don't think they should be as stressful as Singapore's). I am always vair amazed at how much time they have to multi-task video and varsity life. Of course, that's why the SarcasChicks weren't multi-tasking vair well this week and it was taking a toll on them.

I thought about being a Youtuber before, as in like one who does what they do, only different - they do it for a living whereas I just do for fun.

But I know I can't.

I don't think I can ever

- get over my awkwardness and self-consciousness
- get over feeling quite AWARE of the camera and that I am talking to IT pretending that I am actually talking to OTHER PEOPLE (and if there are going to be OTHER PEOPLE watching in the first place)
- get anyone interested in my aimless talking cuz I'm not so relaxed and yuppie like them seasoned ones are and everything in the face of an inanimate camera and having to let my imagination run wild
- watching myself. It's like how some actors cannot bear to watch their own acting.
- have enough time to sit myself down and EDIT AND CUT AND PASTE AND WHATNOT a whole video to less than 4 minutes and put in effects/make sure lighting is okay/make sure sound is okay blahblahblah I just typed these things out and already I'm tired.

And anyway, their Youtube account to them is what this blog is like to me.

I try to get a post done everyday - I don't think video can though, because the effort that goes into cutting and pasting and whatever, unless you're a seasoned pro, would take SO LONG and for these kinds of major tasks I would make sure I have ample time cuz ironically when I have ample time to do it and do not have a time constraint to stick by, I tend to get things done faster (sorry for this long detour, back to main point) - for this blog, which is actually do-able, but here's the caveat: only with fully WORDS posts. You have zero idea how many ALBUMS of unpublished photos I have, some by choice, but mostly by the fact that I simply do not have the time cuz I know school work is going to pile up and I want to try to get things done early, something which I have not really been doing, obviously. (WRT Japan posts, methinks I have to postpone them till end of the year, cuz I don't want to just do a slipshod post, I want to document it down properly cuz the trip did me something GOOD.)

So I am glad that I am just a blogger, not a Youtuber. Words are easier to be typed out then said+video-ed+edited etc. I don't know how they can find the time and effort enough to be interested in doing it as a job. *RESPECT*

[Update 6.22pm]

Anyhoo, these are the things that as a result of these hectic two weeks I am unable to do:

- get myself sorted in Pottermore
- watch The Pupil - it's been two weeks
- Japan posts as mentioned
- one KTV post with the PPGs that really need pictures to go with, but I don't have the time to upload it

I will get to them as soon as I can.

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And for those of you who don't watch Youtube and don't follow these vlog-style (i.e. blogging with a video) channels then I don't think you really understand this post, sorry for making you sit through all of that, thank you for reading it anyway, have a good day!

writing

2011-10-01T13:10:00.000+08:00

Because everything else can die, but great literary quotes live forever.

Which is the reason why I am going to be using them as my laptop wallpaper from today onwards, starting with this:

(Credits: here)

Start of October, start of a new month, start something new.

decoding girl talk wants

2011-09-29T23:59:00.005+08:00

This post took some deliberation to hit the publish button. You will see why. I may just remove it if I feel like it. So read it while you can. And I realise that the title seems a bit not vair accurate but I iz lazeh to think of a new one. Update: GOT IT. It shouldn't be talk, it should be wants!

Talking with B1 - yessir, we have a new name now, as of yestyday cuz me and J wore yellow. S promptly christened us Bananas in Pajamas, J picked B1 and the rest is history (one day also considered history?) - over the past couple of days and we concluded that, as I have already tweeted as well,

Beneath a 'No', there lies some degree of 'Yes'.

Yes means yes.
But no means yes, sometimes.
And no means no, also sometimes.

The trick is knowing when the no/yes and no/no situations are.

Vair hard right. Sollie, this one I also can't help. Cuz we are inconsistent. Hurhur. And it depends on the situation!

Anyhoo, moving on to things that are (hopefully) a bit more clear-cut. Knowing how inconsistent we are (see, I admitted that for the second time), it may/not be true.

Please do not take my commentary as gospel. Whatever is here is not a compilation of my personal life stories. It's a general every girl's life story. Do not kay kiang infer left right under over make an ass of you and me. And please read the right sidebar over there -------> if I remember correctly I did say something like take this blog's content lightly with one grain of salt. *goes to check* Okay I did not say it in so many words, but please look at the 'Don't take what I say at face value' paragraph. Thanks much.

Part I: Let's start with the standard "Are you okay?" question.

I saw on Twitter a while back,

"I am not mad. You ask me ten times if I was mad. NOW I'm mad."

EXACTLY. If we don't tell you anything, STOP ASKING US IF WE'RE OKAY! Even if we weren't okay, your incessant questioning automatically pisses us off. What makes you think we're not okay if we didn't say anything was wrong? Okay, granted, we may not explicitly say we are not okay either, but surely you can read the body language? The one tight slap that follows should be quite a big hint. Rule number one: Do not ask if we are okay.

Part II: Males should know how to take initiative.

We don't like to impose unnecessarily. And will not be so forthright in saying HELLO I WANT XYZ THANKS MUCH. So don't bother telling us "Aiya next time if you want XYZ then you must tell me." Sorry no can do.

Sample negative demonstrations include: do you want me to

#1 wait for you to end
#2 send you to school/back home
#3 buy that XYZ that you've been eyeing since forever
#4 take you out tonight
#5 call you

?

Most of the time the answer will come back no. We are likely to say things like 'No need la tmr you have an early class/a test/whatever else, just go home'. Why? Because we are intentionally imposing on you what! And what did I say above? We dowan to impose. If you want to offer it out of the kindness of your heart (I cringed as I typed that) and show you are sincere, why not do it already and tell us as a fact afterwards?

So the above should come out as:

#1 I will wait for you at *insert venue* at *insert time*. Be there when you're done!
#2 I will send you to school/back home tmr. Wait for me at *insert venue* at *insert time*.
#3 I just got you something. I know you are free at *insert time* after your lecture at *insert venue*. I will wait for you there and pass to you cuz I don't want you to accidentally get the same thing.
#4 I have already planned something for tonight. Wear dress and proper shoes. I will pick you up at *insert venue* at *insert time*
#5 *picks up phone and calls*

The explanations:

#1 & #2 If we reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally don't need you to be around, we will tell you straight after you have mentioned it as a fact. We are not so evil. (Well, generally we are not. But of course there could be super duper to the max clingy ones around - my circle of friends donch have so I donch know.) If we know that you have an early class/a test/whatever else the next day, we of course don't expect and treat it like a god-given. Asking shows your sincerity. And pointer here, please ask only if you are really sincere. Or else #1 and #2 are moot already. You can ask, we can choose to reject. Whoopee that sounded like it could be a quote of the day. #shameless

#3 When you have said it until so explicitly and the first thing we see when we walk out of the lecture hall is you with XYZ in your hand, it's a bit too late to say "no la I don't want", right? Again, ONLY IF YOU ARE SINCERE. If you are getting it for the sake of it, sorry thanks you you can keep it for yourself.

#4 We like surprises. We'll take that.

#5 You can call. If we dowan to talk, we can choose to reject.

Wah. If every male follow this, I tell you, girls will have FAR fewer problems to deal with than we already have.

Of course I am generalising. But I think there is still some truth in it.

And of course it depends on what kind of guy/girl you are. But still, ditto.

Random question: do you think a guy or girl puts more effort in the relationship?

~~Part removed after the one person I asked said I sounded too feminist hahaha oops.~~

Ah well. We shall see.

whack

2011-09-27T23:59:00.000+08:00

Have not had this want-to-whack-things/myself/whatever feeling in long.

I want to take up kickboxing. Yoga is too peaceful. I need to channel my inner usually hidden physical and violent tendencies onto something. S is willing to join me. We shall kick the asses out of the punchbags.

Growls.

the Queen and zhi char

2011-09-26T23:59:00.000+08:00

I was revising a two-weeks-ago lecture.

People can choose to adopt different styles of speaking/presenting themselves/behaving, but it's another thing to be able to sustain it.

Imagine you plebeian visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

Wear atas gown, carry atas bag, eat atas food, must remember how to use atas cutlery and in which order, remember all sorts of etiquette.

Can you sustain that behaviour for long?

Now imagine the Queen visiting you plebeian in Geylang.

She in NOT her regal attire, but in t-shirt and jeans and pumps. (When in Rome, do as Romans do. When at Buckingham Palace, wear gown. When in Geylang, go casual. But she Queen ma, cannot ask her wear tee and shorts and slippers right?) Sit at table by the longkang and eat from Lor 17 zhi char stall. My fave - sambal kangkong. Using fork and spoon. Only. Spicy like anything. She cries in protest.

Can she sustain that behaviour for long?

My guess, not in both cases.

But it's fun to let the imagination run wild sometimes innit. Try imagining the two scenarios! I think it's funnehhhhh.

Such an odd random post out of nowhere. I could flesh out both scenarios more, but I am lazy to embellish it already hur. You could add in your own!

of cling and sling

2011-09-25T17:29:00.005+08:00

After you've finished reading this post, try not to laugh at the lameness of the title.

I just napped too long. Dreamt about some people bleeding from the inside and spurting blood all over. It was bloody everywhere. Nap also can dream. Dream also can until like that adoi.

Oh, just thought of something. Is that a sign of things to come? HA.

I was catching up on newspapers today. Yessah FINALLY someone shares my sentiments!!!!! This is specifically targeted at my PPGs HAHAHAHA. :p

Yestyday I tried the Singapore Sling for the first time.

It's not bad. I want to try the original Raffles Hotel one *chey act atas* next time!

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Soz, not much time to update now, I have an assignment due tmr. After tmr, maybe some more picture posts.

How is your Sunday coming along?

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Update 26 September 2011 12.12am: Thanks B and J (heh Ben and Jerry eh) for brightening up an utterly restless and distracted night. Already got approval to compile the cuckoo things she says into a book and publish it next time hahahaaaaa.

can't, won't

2011-09-24T00:01:00.001+08:00

Tried finding something to describe.

Can't.

And so, won't bother.

But then, no need to.

You know,

I know.

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cross-language input

2011-09-22T13:25:00.001+08:00

I think I've bugged my Twitter followers enough about listening to music while doing work so I'm here to elaborate on this random passing thought that suddenly struck me.

I have a hypothesis to make.

One can read English stuff while listening to Chinese music/read Chinese stuff while listening to English music, but cannot successfully read English while listening to English music - same goes for reading Chinese while listening to Chinese music. (This is precisely what I'm doing now: reading cheem Psychology article in English while listening to psyche-me-up A-Lin songs.)

I say this because English and Chinese are stored as different representations in the brain and they don't cross each other, so we can still quite successfully do something in one language while having input in another, although obviously not as well as if you had no distraction.

However, when we have to read and listen to either English or Chinese at the same time, it results in a conflict of resources. You end up trying to process both words and speech and end up not being able to do either of them vair well.

Especially when it's Chinese and Chinese. Reading Chinese characters already needs more time and effort, I think the result of the reading will seriously be quite screwed then.

You think?

gratitude

2011-09-22T11:18:00.003+08:00

gratitude

I suddenly have 3 unpublished drafts. Heh. Slowly k, slowly. Two of them are picture posts. Akan datang!

Anyway, I'm here because I want to express gratitude. My prof woke up early in the morning to help me with SPSS data analysis. Omg *touched* to the maaaaax. THANK YOU THANK YOU! (not like you'll read this but neh mind) And yayyyyy got significant results in what we want and non-significant results in what we dowan!

Also this morning, went to MOE to submit our research proposal. I love manila envelopes. Cannot thank my PR lecturer last time for insisting that our then-project be submitted in it. So professional-looking. Whee. And also, first thing I thought of when I woke up and saw that it was raining was how to protect this vair important document from the rain. Such dedication to my trade.

Also also this morning, I made a trip down to get something. Teehee. Picture when it can be shown.

Seeing how many things I did just this morning, is it any wonder that I only reached school about 11 when I left home at 8 plus? Of course the rain did not help, and the buses just did not come.

Okay now my turn to play with SPSS as I freeze in this the-only-room-that-has-SPSS terribly cold room.

晴天霹雳

2011-09-20T12:43:00.000+08:00

I slept at 4am, woke at 8.

Mother of all sleepiness, as I tweeted.

Had coffee, just.

Still, eyes were closing any minute.

J wanted to listen to D's singing, I showed her the link to her videos too.

She watched her 'We Are The Reason' video (heehee D I don't know if you want me to publicise your video here? Heh). It's a Christian song.

I've thought to myself before, that if I ever went over to the other side, I will be a formidable force.

After hearing a few lines, especially the two lines that I like (see, I am diverse wan okay, I listen and like all kinds of songs, whatever belief they may be of!),

I suddenly felt much more awake.

*JENGJENGJENG*

*thunder lightning thunder lightning thunder*

strategic locations

2011-09-19T11:48:00.001+08:00

I just knew that the mao shan wang durian is named after the civet cat. And I read this while searching for bilingualism articles hurhur. Can't see the link there right but there is, too leceh to say it all out.

One question for me to ponder upon this wet wet morning (going close to noon): why is the civet cat so popular?

I know it also plays a part in the most expensive type of coffee - civet coffee. The cat eats the coffee bean, it comes out the other end, and ta-dah, you have the prized posession in your hand.

All I can think is, ewww?

Why do humans like to eat things that are at various strategic locations of other animals' bodies? (Yes I'm questioning myself about my like of bishop's nose *ahemeuphemismonlyahem* too.)

Why are we so cuckoo?

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In the process of putting thoughts into words about another pet topic of mine besides religion - languages.

one down, more to go

2011-09-18T23:59:00.003+08:00

Post done:

Day 6: royalty, gold and luck

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Read something today.

I'm glad, I turned out better than you did, and I'm sure muchhh better than if anything had happened. *pats self on back*

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Yestyday was funny at times.

There was me, the brother, T and the little girl in the room.

EE: Eh, the little girl is also here? Wah, can find common topic ah, from 6 to 26.
M: *indignantly* HEYYYYYYYYY WHAT 26!?!?!?!?!!!!!! *small voice* I'm 19.

Later,

Middle Z: What's teh~?
T & MY BELOVED BROTHER simultaneously: Nggggg.....

HAHA.

And as I tweeted yesterday, lookie what's T's handphone screensaver!

Me and eldest Z were saying that she only put it just cuz I was there, and she will change it the next time she sees her friend. Hahaha. She was like, no lor!! Okay la thank you you ah, vair sweet! ♥

I also tweeted,

B: Eh can help me look for my ear piece? It rolled off the table...
M: *joins in with him* ...and onto the floor.

And we sing the rest of the meatball song together hahahaha. He found it by his bag in the end.

And we ate a lot of things past 9pm my self-imposed food curfew time.

Sesame snowskin mooncake from St Regis which is nothing spectacular.

The Coffee Connoiseur coffee and liqueur mooncake in which I can't taste the liqueur at all.

I think this is tie guan yin. Think.

Empress got a not-tacky-looking teapot for despite its quite cheap price. The downside of this is that the filter works too well - the Chinese tea is so not thick. Later on she removed the filter.

Teh with the two mooncakes.

Opened up the Famous Amos cookies that the new neighbour gave us.

The Cookie Museum cookies, courtesy of somebardeh, bought two months ago before my Japan trip (!) and we only ate it recently hurhur. It's vair nice!

It's made of purple wheat, apple (Y)(Y)(Y) and macadamia nuts. The apple really has a nice texture in this! Vair hard to describe, just that vair unexpected!

And finished up the remaining cookies.
Today:

I sat in the same spot for 7 hours, getting up to get breakfast/lunch then sat back at original spot, and read one whole month's worth of Life! section. And yayyyyy I have caught up!! I iz happyz.

And I'm currently doing up another Japan post. It's taking too long eh. I'm sorreh. Recess week has begun but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm terribly much free-r. Stay tuned!

Oh yessah, I started slowly slowly exploring Pottermore only now even though I already got the email a week back. JK Rowling is darn smart, making people wait for the Pottermore email is like waiting for the Hogwarts acceptance letter! So cool!! The website sill a bit laggy lehhhhh. And I'm one of the select million who get early access. They really need to touch up on the system! Aiyaya I want to feedback!

security

2011-09-16T23:59:00.000+08:00

Started this post two days ago, publishing it now.

Had a simple question directed at me. Was speechless for a while because didn't know how to put thoughts into words properly.

Ever since then, it seemed to seep unconsciously into my thoughts, cuz every so often something will relate to something along that line and I will be like, EH I could have said that!

So, to summarise (roughly) all the knick knacks of thoughts,

安全感 or sense of security can be defined as:

#1 Knowing that whatever you say will not repeated to others, whether or not specifically told, especially if specifically told.

#2 Knowing that the other party will not stray just because.

#3 Automatically watching out to make sure you don't trip and fall and whatever.

#4 Feeling safe as a result of the above, like you have another pair of eyes to look out for you when you can't be bothered to look out for yourself hurhur yes I'm talking about myself.

#5 Most importantly, feeling at ease everywhere with no awkwardness.

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In the battle between two people of similar build, who do you think will win in terms of physical strength, the long arms or the long fingers?

girls

2011-09-15T22:23:00.000+08:00

J: Guys think we think too much.
M: Because they don't think at all. So by default, we think too much!

J: Good that you're critical and cynical about things! Then you can get enlightened ma.
M: Ya then I go home blog about how many husbands I want right.
J: HAHAHA!

S: Thanks for always coming here, you vair sweet!
M: Awww thanks self-esteem plus another 10 points. - S if you're reading this, refer to this post first then you'll understand heh.

The Pupil 2 always has learning points. The past two times, learning points, ahem, not for me. This week - nudge nudge wink wink at myself. Hmmmm...

Frivolous last point: I saw too many handsomes today. Good-looking index for today shot through the roof. Had hilarious convos about this on Twitter. Ah what a pity for you people who can only see one side of the conversations... Teehee.

"you're going to scald your baby next time"

2011-09-15T19:10:00.002+08:00

"you're going to scald your baby next time"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY TWO BELOVED COUSINS L AND MIDDLE Z! :D

So yestyday was an odd day of sorts.

Empress thought I would be coming home way late, and because it rained the whole day, boiled up water so that I could still bathe with warm water when I came back.

It was fun bathing with a tub, pouring water over self is actually rawther therapeutic.

And then comes the soaping. And the washing off of the soap. Especially the latter. Not so fun. Felt like I didn't know if all the soap had gone off.

Okay, last time's way of bathing tried.

Thank goodness for showers.

Empress: You put hot water first ah?
M: Erm, ya, why?
E: Good, you're going to scald your baby next time.
M: HAHAHAHAHA!!

sleepy

2011-09-14T09:31:00.000+08:00

I have been sleeping too late and waking too early. And having too many million things to do in general. And procrastinating even when I know that that's the case. Like now, I have a tutorial in 30 mins and I'm lazy to write out properly what I have already scribbled down.

On the upside, the PPGs have been making me laugh like cuckoo nuts in the library. Everyone must seriously think that I AM a cuckoo nut.

J: Oh Soci lecture is the one you get enlightened wan right? Then next day get enlightened then blog that you want dunno how many husbands. Next time say dunno want how many wives.
M: HAHAHAHAHA!!

This is just a teaser. Song of the moment: Savage Garden's 'Truly Madly Deeply'

I'll be your wish I'll be your dream I'll be your fantasy~~

lights, camera, action

2011-09-11T15:21:00.003+08:00

Today's title is one of those where it comes in a snap, and fits like a T. (New catchphrase there yo.)

So I thought I should do up a proper picture post. Next week is going to be recess week, hope I can post more backdated picture posts!

Friday: Talk and thesis stuff with J.

J: That's why I like talking with you. Cuz you're open about a lot of things.
M: Wah you just help my self-esteem plus 10 points.

Later,

J: Eh you're my best friend... (forgot the end of that sentence)
M: Wah you just called me your best friend. Self-esteem plus another 10 points.

♡♡

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Also Friday: Was tasked to go look at the Mid-Autumn Festival lights with somebardeh.

Walked around first, saw Angry Birds lantern which I was like whaaaaat. Everything also can.

Outside Chinatown MRT:

I only knew that there was a temple there that day. Such a bimbo right. Obviously Chinatown will have temple right!!! Aiyo.

Such a cool bike.
Had claypot rice first. The kiam hee is darn shiok. *wants to laugh at somebardeh*

Before:

After:

Totally worth the 40-minute wait. While waiting we had this Malaysian auntie entertain us with stories about her grandchildren knowing how to speak Mandarin much better than their parents. You go, auntie's grandchildren (Y)
Wanted to try this:

Had the plain one cuz not a fan of the sauces they had. It's quite nice!

Look like fencing lance.

KUEH!!!!
The Mid-Autumn floats of the 12 animals were VAIR NOT spectacular. The other floats were fine.

Some poor soul's life hanging by a thread.

This is called snake.

Compare this rooster and the next picture.

I showed Empress, that is a rooster?! From which planet?!

Overheard, there was some horn sound. This mother was telling the child, "NO la it's not karang guni la!" HAHAHAHAHA. 'Twas amusing.

This lone guy in the middle of nowhere was just dancing~~~
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Yestyday I was talking and hanging about with the little girl. Her mama asked me to bring hooks for her ai swee daughter to a string of beads into a necklace. She is seriously vair vain. Haha.

Sorry big girl T, I kinda neglected you :p haha.

And then in the evening we (little girl and I) did origami together! There were two kinds of butterflies, I picked both.

The pink one is cheaterbug wan - there was a step involving scissors! Origami = only folding paper, no tear no cut! I had some difficulty with the purple one but eventually did it. Yay. Proud of self.
Okay I have a ton of work to do. And as usual, I'm procrastinating like nobody's biz.

I want to do more origami.

carefree

2011-09-09T23:59:00.000+08:00

The right mood makes all the difference, and that is yours truly's ever-fluctuating mood I'm talking about.

The weight on the shoulders is also another factor, as in literally weight on shoulders - no heavy with killjoy school notes bag! Just wallet, purse, handphone, camera is all you need.

The person, not that much usually.

But today, it did.

Thank you. ♥

a few firsts and a few funnies

2011-09-08T22:44:00.004+08:00

My first Milo cup in 4 years of varsity.

I know, I win.
J and I tried the dumplings at Biz for lunch. C brought me to eat before and it was not bad.

Unfortunately they don't have the fried version anymore, and this was what we were given:

Got unappetising enough know! Seriously man. Lucky tasted better than it looked.
Told her about someone who is getting too close for comfort. Eh, if you happen to chance upon this by some godforsaken reason, please have some decorum. Kam xia.

J: Wah what's that. Look like got eaten by dog. THANKS AHH.
We spent an afternoon dealing with a different sort of phonetic alphabet not like the standard International Phonetic Alphabet. It's basically a lot of @ and $ and % and & that stands for various sounds like the a in air or ado or aperni HAHA. And I'm proud to say that I'm a quadrilingual - English, Mandarin, Singlish and Gibberish (Y).

She also passed me popcorn dunno how many weeks ago. I only ate it while we were doing the above heh.

Like real 150 calories or less. Chocolate and popcorn do not 150 calories make.

J knows that I go home on Thursdays for dinner cuz there's The Pupil 2 at 8pm.

M: Eh? I just got a tuition assignment after how many years. Quite attractive, but sollie, no.
J: *reads sms* Wah $320! Oh JC Maths no wonder. Eh, Thursday 7pm ah. Cannot la! Got show to watch!
M: *slaps her* HAHAHAHAHA WAH LAU EH.

Vair glad I saw you today, Bubbly, hope you had a nice youknowwhatday today, see you tmrrrrr! :D

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Yesterday when I went home, this greeted me:

Empress: Guess who gave this. Cannot guess wan. [Cannot guess still ask me to guess. -.- Funny ah.]
M: Erm. *says someone who is quite impossible; she rolls her eyes and mock-faints; I laugh* HAHA you say cannot guess wan what!
E: Next-door neighbour.
M: *eyes open wider* Jay Chou?!
E: No, Jay Chou's wife.

Okay catch up with story time: we have a new neighbour, Empress has already seen the husband, says he looks like Jay Chou. Now that we have all caught up, laugh.

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Mr Low Thia Khiang does not want to be called the Unofficial Leader of the Opposition. I mean, OBVIOUSLY RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!? Who in the world would want to accept such an unglam name?! Give him some credit man, he is after all the head of the best opposition party there is here lor.

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I read with some amusement the Forum pages today. Some people can misconstrue things SO EASILY. And the editor actually allowed it to be passed?! Schools are still given travel declaration forms to fill in for every term break for travel health reasons in case an epidemic happens, and this parent claims that it is an insult to lower-income families who don't have spare resources that they can afford to go on holidays. ADOI CHILAKAK! Logic fail!

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It is possiblez to be accused of self-plagiarising. Plagiarism means passing off work as your own. How is self-p possible? When you reproduce what you have PREVIOUSLY written for some other thing for the current work you're submitting now - passing off YOUR PREVIOUS WORK as NEW ORIGINAL JUST-COME-OUT-OF-YOUR-BRAIN WORK. THAT'S how.

And that was my learning point today. Not like I will be citing myself leh, judging by the modules I'm reading this semester heh. But anyway, point to note for anyone else, please remember to at least disclaim that "some points in this essay were based on earlier work written in *insert whenever that time was*".

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Found a 陈绮贞 playlist on Youtube. Ears are feeling appreciative. Blisssss.

of fine food and a secret society meeting

2011-09-07T21:25:00.003+08:00

I haven't properly blogged in a long while. I think I can attribute it partly to lack of time. And partly because.

Pictures will be added later!

Monday met up with the dowan-to-go-back-UK J and had Chilli Padi in an ulu corner of school with her. The Bugis one has closed down, major sadness. And I think that the standard there is X1000 better lehhhh. The kuehs here were not as spectacular as the Bugis one. LE SIGH. But neh mind, THERE'S KUEHHHHH.

My gao deng kueh became si deng kueh gor deng kueh. I don't even know if I spelt the Hokkien correctly (and yes I'm aware I merged Hokkien and Malay) and eh, I didn't even know that Hokkien could be spelt HA with chooahqi anything can happen.
She passed me my souvenirs too. THANKSSSSS :)))))

Just now she came again and passed me Twelve Cupcakes' Red Velvet Cupcake. This is more spectacular than their chocolate one! But I still think it's overpriced.

Thesis meet is always luverly with the pretty luverly girls, as mentioned in the previous post this afternoon. OH YA WE HAVEN'T TAKEN A PICTURE. Okay one fine day when I see that everyone dress pretty pretty.

I am suddenly vair psyched to do a lot of things.

MS Word is saving my and J's asses by a lot of time. Thank you to the creator of MS Word and to the Ctrl+F and Replace function which helped me get rid of all the unnecessary / and ' and , in 10 seconds each - already considered fast; there are 3000+ PAGES to plough through okay mai siao siao - omg what would we do without the Ctrl+F and whyyyyy isn't there one in real life?!

During Thesis meet today - about 10 of us, Professors and students included will gather to listen to one student's project per week - this girl walked in. I immediately guessed that she was here for Psychology experiment. And that she was in the wrong venue. And marvelling at the fact that she thought that our gathering could be a possible psychological set-up. She sat there for five mins listening to words like high phonological density and stimulus quality confirm+guarantee+chop with ???????? circling her head, before she asked if it was the place for experiment XYZ. Obviously not. Poor thing, we kinda were laughing about it after that. Oopsy.

My Prof said, she probably thought this was a Secret Society meeting HAHAHA.

But seriously manz, and tip for all you Year 1s taking PL1101E - psychology experiments are usually individual, not group, definitely not 10 people listening to one person presenting ppt slides. We were thinking maybe she thought it was a social psychology experiment on group conformity and stuff. But then again, social psychology experiments won't tell you what they are testing in the description when you sign up wan - and they lie some more hurhur but of course it is within ethical guidelines. Ah well. Quite amusing. Ahhhhh. Year 1s. So young and innocent and naive and carefree hahaha like real.

And we, so old.

Sigh.

learning points

2011-09-07T16:32:00.001+08:00

learning points

I have 2 minutes to make a point. Or two. (Hur.)

1. Style vs Stylisation. It's not so easy a question to answer.

2. Thesis meets are less of a chore when there are pretty luverly girls to be around with. <3

Have not come online in two days. Promise a more substantial post tonight.

I have a minute left.

pouts

2011-09-05T23:00:00.000+08:00

Have not had this tug-heartstrings feeling for vair long. Grrrrr.

mass

2011-09-03T22:24:00.001+08:00

Attended a Catholic mass today. Slightly overwhelmed cuz of the "power" - I am sensitive to this kind of thing. I think I prefer Chinese temples. Not so "strong", more inner peace and calm. Heh.

Thanks, somebardeh, for bringing me. Appreciate it. :)

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Watched Cars 2 yesterday. I think it's much better than 1, which is surprising cuz sequels usually don't do better! Likes! And a bit of spoiler, but more Japan!!!!! :))

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Never read something out with so much expression for such a long time - the last time should be primary school oral where I always hoped that there would conversations then I can play around with Voices. Such passion and confession. Hurhurhur. The cousins had fun listening/laughing. I was laughing and reading.

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Luckily for me, it's only every two months that I feel a bit squirmy. Unluckily for me, this month is the every two months. *squirms*

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I want...

of cheesiness and the F word

2011-09-01T23:55:00.000+08:00

Happy Teachers' Day to my dearest dearest teachers. :)))))

So today has been an interesting day.

- Had funny lecturer in the morningz.

- Bumped into Y whom I'm always vair happy to meet. And we call each other pretty girl on Twitter/BBM hahaha. (Maybe that's why I'm so happy to meet her HAHA no la of course not)

- Had super cheesy conversation of cheesy pickup lines on Twitter with the PPGs and D. I seriously pity those who are on our mutual friends list who can see the whole list of cheesiness we were sending each other. HILARIOUS.

- Had project meeting with English people = puns and laughter galore. You know what prefixes and suffixes are right. There are other languages with infixes - certain set of letters that are inserted in between words. English doesn't have any, unless you consider this word like what we found in a 1976 book: fan-f****in-tastic. It was page after page of the F word proudly displayed in our faces. I like.

- Incidentally, I think the F word is the most productive word ever. Can use as noun/verb, turn it into adjective/adverb/continuous tense/whatnot. So flexible! One word, so many uses! Likes!

I am doing up a ppt and spamming all the funny comics I have. Teehee.

iconoclastic-

*sobs*

人日

cny 2012

happy mode back on

the C word

sleepy

除夕

auspicious packages

radicality

efficiency

books, limbo, ninja, weight, troubles

saikolingwist

2 serious 1 not

one of the best smells in the world is the smell of books

almond & pistachio biscotti

the wisest words are said by children

FINALLY DONE!

typity typity

family ♡♡♡

new year post

blue and black

throw out the old, bring in the new

last joke of the year

sexy juices reprise

up to no good

inconsistent

now the holly bears a berry

careful

seeing stars

one word

restless

*sings* train is coming, train is coming

non-significant

history

a decade on...

blues

of quaint and rich

finito

best book in the world

idyllic

I write you read, you write I read

beloveds

matchmade

messed up

breaking her dawn

filler

taking wedding notes

sarcasm is my middle name

authority

Thinking Deep Thoughts

why huh

meh

too happy

stayin' alive

in a perfect world,

MISSING: dream paragraph

it's time of the month semester...

yukata FTW!

catharsis

toadally awesome

turnaround

whiny

let's talk about feelings

nine

much appreciated

pointless

social life (or lack thereof)

怎样

of sexting and pick-up lines

so...

not zen

pink and orange

assortment

innuendoes

sad and lonely

wants to hear witty

of vlogging and blogging

writing

decoding girl talk wants

sobs

sings train is coming, train is coming

pouts