blergh.

long overdue 2

2009-10-08T21:49:00.003+08:00

it has been ages since I have last written anything here. final semester in uni feels very surreal, and at the same time it's frightening.

Saw 'Mao's Last Dancer' with huge this evening. I haven't read the book, but I enjoyed the movie very much.

Apart from that, my mountain load of work has not disappeared.

off to work.

long overdue.

2009-06-20T17:58:00.003+08:00

someone stole my purple Pilot HiTecpoint V5. :(

so it's another week before I head home, got one more paper this coming Wednesday. Thank heavens it's an open book one, so we can bring notes in, except now I have to compile those notes. *grumble*

to sum up the whole exam period:
nurofen
kfc
bad fanta
brain training (darn you Dr. k, darn you!!)
late nights
bad coffee
missing out on masterchef :(
stupid neighbour who blasts his stupid horrible music at 10am in the morning till 11 at night

sigh.

happy ending.

2009-05-10T21:32:00.002+08:00

there's no such thing as one.

veinteuno años, lo no acaba.
y todo el mundo le pregunta por qué tengo mucho odio.

when will it end?

Easter break.

2009-04-14T16:07:00.008+08:00

So we've got about 5 days left till the end of our mid-sem break. Time's flying by so fast! I've also got TWO essays to complete and start thinking about research for 922215. argh.

Well, among other things, resh, huge and I went by cafe 3a in Brunswick yesterday to have brunch. The food was really good, whoever came up with the idea of cooking eggs was a genius.

3A Edward St, Brunswick

The wall has little cups filled with lilies.

Huge's Cappuccino

3a's Basic Breakfast

Spent some time walking around Brunswick after brunch, it's a really nice place. Too bad the weather was a little too warm, if not the experience would have been perfect.

View opposite the cafe. resh says he'll live there one day.

Well, here's hoping I'll finish C&C essay on time. 1800 more words to go!

----
'the distance between each save point is really far' (:

'Try to look. Just try and see.'

2009-03-28T18:16:00.014+08:00

Finally watched Gran Torino. As suspected, a tear-jerking end there was. Although throughout some bits of the movie, it was kinda difficult to make out what Clint Eastwood's character was saying.

Resh and Louie got Huge a poker chip set as a belated birthday gift last night. So we opened it up and played some Texas Hold'Em. After a couple of hours, Ken got bored and started flicking the cards round like how Gambit does it.
Then Shern does something awesome:

Right smack into a corner of the Foosball table.

Among other things, Domo-kun has found a new home:

Been reading 'Auschwitz and After' by Charlotte Delbo for 119211 presentation on Tues. It's been proving to be quite a tedious read. In any case, must finish it!

Also, I've been busying myself with a lot of Target. If you don't know what that is, basically it's a 3x3 square, with 9 alphabets that make one word. Also you have to use the middle letter to make words of four or more letters, and everyday there's a target you must meet to reach 'good', 'very good' or 'excellent'.

I've been spending WAY too much time on them:

But they're really really fun! And you get to expand your vocabulary!

as samee has said, i'm such a nerd.

----
'jia you jia you... *awkward dance movements*'

Witness.

2009-03-24T13:04:00.002+08:00

It's been a whole month since I started school, and time sure is passing by real fast. School's been pretty draggy.

Yo no creo en las clases de la cultura son muy muy aburrido! No me gusta ir a las clases. De verdad, es muy mal, pero siempre entro las clases, y despues de quince minutos, me siento muy cansado y empezo pensar a hora de almuerzo.

Sigh. Apart from that, we've finished up our analysis of Primo Levi's If This Is A Man in 119211, it's been pretty interesting. Samee's convinced that Levi was a mean person, who judged everyone even though he claimed that his memoir would be written in 'clear sober language'. It's been an unique experience studying post-Holocaust topics, and today we had seen a little bit of an interview which included Jean the Pikolo and Charles, who were Levi's comrades during the last days before everyone evacuated the camps when the Russians arrived. They were so old! And as they recall events, you can see how the emotion overcomes them.

Now we're on to Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz And After, a much more tedious read than Levi's, and I have to do a presentation on her. GAH.

I've been feeling the urge to pick up Jap again. But, as usual, time makes all these things so difficult. And about driving? *frowns*

Yo quiero hacer muchas cosas en mi tercera ano en uni, que triste! porque no tengo mucho tiempo para completar todos, y porque no creo hacerlo en los anos pasados.

here we go again!

2009-03-19T17:50:00.005+08:00

okay, I shall try my bestest to update this regularly. So here goes:

nothing much has happened recently, it's almost the end of week 3. School is an utterly painful and draggy experience, weather is annoying too. Apart from that, I have seen a couple of films in the past couple of weeks:

Baby Mama
The House Bunny
Watchmen
Slumdog Millionaire
Step Brothers
Zack & Miri Make a Porno

The only one that disappointed me was Watchmen. I guess maybe if I were a comic book fan, I would understand it better. But I must say the cinematography was very tasteful and I loved the music, but it was confusing, and really difficult to follow after a while. I also liked the cinematography in Slumdog, but I haven't seen the entire film yet, but I thought the kid that plays young Jamal was very brave for diving into a pile of poop. :)

I guess I'm just a sucker for cheesy romance flicks and mindless slapstick humour and fun. I thoroughly enjoyed Baby Mama and House Bunny. But maybe that's only because I think Tina Fey and Anna Faris are awesome.

Step Brothers was a mistake, I had already seen it once and it was definitely NOT a good idea to see it the second time at 3 in the morning. But it was still funny. And I'm glad I finally got to watch Zack & Miri, I thought it was hilarious! And it made it quite difficult to refrain from swearing. But still good fun.

I'm hoping to see Gran Torino soon, I hear it's really good and there is the possibility of a tear-stained ending, we'll see about that.

Apart from my almost religious movie watching, I had decided to continue working on my doodles and a FRIEND and MYSELF had decided on submitting doodles on a weekly basis, but laziness has gotten the better of me. I'm hoping I don't lose the skill, but you know how you get that feeling when anything and everything you draw just sucks? yeah im getting that a lot now, and I feel like my doodles lack a direction. Like I haven't got anything that I really want to draw. :/ Maybe i'll have to dig up some old ideas and practice.

I remember creating this when I was just about to begin second year of uni. Now it's week 3 of my peniultimate semester, and time is just going by so quickly. It makes me feel sad sometimes, that I let it go by me just like that without actually doing anything about it. Like attempting something crazy or doing smth fun. Well, this year I finally did it, I decided to join a club, a dance club. I saw them perform when they were at uni and I decided to give it a shot. At first swing dancing looked really complicated, but after 3 weeks of classes, it's heaps of fun but incredibly sweatifying (I do wish we had better ventilation at the venue).

Well.
Here's to regular posting *toast*

--
Change. Yes We Can.
Why not?

in a nutshell.

2009-01-09T23:13:00.005+08:00

it's been about a month and a half since coming back from Melbourne. Will be commencing final year on March 2nd. Never thought graduation would come so quickly. December back in Singapore was rather event-less, except for moving back to Peakville Grove and baking up a storm. huge made a very generous Santa Claus in '08, much to my dismay. He keeps saying I don't have to return in kind, and I think he means it. :/ Spent New Year's Eve at a potluck with huge and his family at their church. Went into 2009 while driving along the expressway.

So now it's 2009. I suppose big changes would include da's transition into secondary school, ren's 2nd shot at his Os, and mos currently on his way to San Diego for his 6 month study exchange. It's been pretty quiet at home while everyone's away. Took a shot at applying for relief teaching, looks like nobody really needs a substitute for 2 months.

So most mornings to afternoons are spent with Joanne Fluke's murder mysteries (they make me awful hungry), the works of Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto (I for one don't think it's immature or anything, I'm really envious of the artwork.) If it's not hitting the books, it's afternoons with Sandi Richard, Peter Ishkans, a little bit of Jaime Oliver, a little bit of my favourite couple and their godkid if I'm lucky, and maybe watch Finola Hughes make fashion victims cry. Cable TV is great, but I don't feel as glued to it as I used to be (which is really good).

That's all pretty routine now, and lately, I've become incredibly detached from my daily/weekly/not as often as I'd like it to be webcomics. Hm. Maybe it'll come back as my little getaway once I get back to school.

Ugh. School. Graduation's just around the corner, and life after that is still a big blur. As much as I'd like to blame the melb model for everything, I suppose not everything's always going to be peachy, with or without a new model to make choices difficult for the 2007 batch. Sometimes I wish for a sign, a big fat obvious sign that'll make things easier.

But that will be like me perfecting chocolate brownies.

The first attempt produced brownies that were hard enough to use as weapons.

been wanting to attempt the recipes in Fluke's books, maybe I'll give it a whirl.

--
'i know it's broken but i love MY BENCH.'

the best.

2008-11-22T11:24:00.016+08:00

okay, so, this is how to story goes:

it started out as a birthday gift.

then it was a 'end of exam surprise'.

and a 'ah let's just get the opposing deck to see what happens'.

and then it became a 'we have to KO that stupid Metagross..'

now we're thinking 'let's get a more powerful Mewtwo'.

or maybe a 'let's get this to use the Glaceon Lv. X!'

so much for 'i'll just buy one more booster and that's it.'

-----
'can i have it?'
'can i have it?'

ontological revisionism.

2008-11-06T21:42:00.004+08:00

110228 essay due tomorrow.
IR exam in 3 days.
Spanish exam in 12 days.

'i'm getting too old for this sh*t.' -Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon

I wish I may, I wish I might

2008-10-21T17:51:00.001+08:00

is it because it's somebody else's turn to shine?

----
to have the wish I wish tonight.

so it begins.

2008-09-24T09:14:00.002+08:00

less than a week before we go to gold coast! however, been down with a nasty virus which has taken hold of my eating, drinking and sleeping abilities. it's gotten slightly better though, so i'm happy about that.

but other than that, the only way to sum up how the past few days of my break have been spent can be summarized in a few words:

scrabble
lord of the rings
congee
cough
sleep (or at least the attempt to)

feeling kinda homesick too. i can't wait to see what the house on peakville grove looks like.
oh, feliz cumpleanos, fly. (:

why'd you go?

2008-09-08T21:44:00.002+08:00

miss your cooking already sudha! :(

Mal Bicho.

2008-08-25T21:28:00.003+08:00

all that wackiness, wrapped up in a 3 minute commentary; my personal interpretation of what it means and why it is important.

meep.

dos!

2008-08-05T09:21:00.002+08:00

week two of uni. tutorials start this week. rarrr.

it seems that every year, no wait, every semester, we MUST have drama. and they get weirder and weirder every time.

tendra veinte anos en 2 dias pero esto parece tiempo pasando, y no hay nada entusiasmo. :/

but i still can't wait anyway.

rarr.

2008-07-23T11:36:00.002+08:00

FINALLY had my prata with josh down at syed in simpang bedok yesterday. it's like tradition for us to go there and talk the night away. except this time it was in the afternoon, because josh was going to go off to work later in the afternoon. ren was with us too, he got off school early so it was pretty fun, catching up one more time over ribena, briyani and incredibly-pricey-thanks-to-increase-in-fuel-prices prata.

but i'm not really complaining. i've always like the prata from syed.

one more night in singapore before i'm on a plane back to melb on thursday evening. i hear its raining down in melb too, i hope it stops by friday morning. i don't have enough layers to brave the cold once i reach.

so not looking forward to the unpacking, getting ready for school, workscheme (damn!), high table and totally unnecessary fire drills.

but. monday off makes up for everything. (:

big mouth.

2008-07-21T17:11:00.003+08:00

met up with renj for lunch this afternoon. her hair's much longer now, and it was nice catching up with her. time's passing so quickly and it feels like it was only yesterday when we were sec 2, running around school, without much to care about, going crazy with the then very fashionable must-have nike water bottles (which you can squirt at people!).

3 more days before flying. about a week before school starts. renj told me that i should be happy about schooling, cuz when you're not its much much worse.

meh.

men. *rolls eyes*

'why so serious?'

2008-07-17T22:43:00.003+08:00

The Dark Knight with mos this afternoon at Downtown East.

incredibly intense. The first time I've felt like leaving a movie because it was seriously freaking me out. Heath Ledger at his best. Must've wanted to go out with a bang.

one more week before melb. I'm not ready for school.

'one more time.'

2008-07-08T21:05:00.001+08:00

watched Hancock with mom and manda today at Downtown East. it was pretty interesting, mom says that the concept's been used before for a chinese film. well, i liked it and i think it's one of the only movies i've seen where will smith only smiles like, twice.

but he's still cool.

---
'you didn't!'

right here waiting.

2008-07-04T23:04:00.002+08:00

FINALLY met up with josh today for dinner/supper. was supposed to go down to simpang for some good ol' prata, but change of plans led us to Teasire at Downtown East instead. dinner was pretty good, and it was fun catching up with josh again.

absolute drama outside Ramen Ten at Century Square today. da wasn't feeling well and she ended up spewing infront of the restaurant. She reckons it was due to the spoiled spaghetti she had in school that morning. but the good thing is, she's all better now.

got about 20 more days before i fly back to melb. *does not look forward to second sem*

'dim sum heaven let me down sia!'

fat paper.

2008-07-01T14:04:00.004+08:00

century egg and pork porridge at Downtown East hawker center

back in sg for about 24ish days. the weather is absolutely insane.

weather aside, I have missed the food tremendously. had dinner at downtown east last night to celebrate mom and dad's 26th wedding anniversary. nothing fancy, local food gives a great homely feeling. speaking of downtown east, the place is looking pretty good. the only downside is that it's super out of the way for me to actually get to all the shopping and eating places. not that it's a real problem. a tv with 70 channels can be a good substitute. (:

'she bitter you!'

al final.

2008-06-23T17:33:00.002+08:00

it's finally over. though i'm a little paranoid about how i'll do.

*post-exam jitters* <-- no one really understands why this only happens to me. :/

-----
time to pack!
6 more days. (:

one more time.

2008-06-17T12:59:00.001+08:00

last paper on 23rd.

getting incredibly impatient. ):

----
rapido!

posiblemente.

2008-06-09T12:40:00.004+08:00

where I'd rather be.
we took this picture before we left Alishan (Taiwan) in December '07

currently struggling to finish one research essay. exams on the 16th and 23rd. this is unusually painful for someone who's more or less used to just writing massive essays. :/

rawr.

----
jia you!

are you ready for this.

2008-05-25T19:09:00.003+08:00

In 3 days, sem one will be over and then it'll be a week of swot vac then 3 weeks of exams.

el tiempo esta pasando muy rapido en este semestre. :/

on another note, 'Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull' was awesome. okay, hordes would disagree but this is the opinion of someone who's watched Indy and the Last Crusade more than 7 times.

3 more days. lezgo.

'snakes. why'dit have to be snakes.'

seis.

2008-05-16T19:00:00.004+08:00

FINALLY managed to finish that policy research paper, managed to hand it in on tuesday, though i lost 2% in the process. *crosses fingers and hopes to pass*

now to worry about spanish oral, one more mini quiz and a listening test. then it's 2 essays and two more exams, then i'm done.

6 more weeks. can't wait!

---
on another note, 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' is hilarious. incredibly lame, but hilarious.

so is 'What Happens In Vegas'. <- must see.

sg, here i come! (:

nonsense.

2008-05-12T17:58:00.007+08:00

that basically sums up my soon-to-be 2,700 word policy research paper.

which is already LATE.
it was SUCH A HUGE MISTAKE choosing to do this stupid subject.

.......
no more regrets.
lezgo.

La Llave De Mi Corazon

2008-05-09T11:22:00.001+08:00

me gusta juan luis guerra (:

injusto.

2008-04-30T14:51:00.002+08:00

Suficientes son los problemas de un solo dia
como para preocuparse por el futuro
Cual?
Olvidamos que para poder llegar al otro lado
Al otro lado

hay que empezar derribando el primero de los muros
Nos pasamos la vida
viendo triunfos y fracasos
conseguidos en tiempo preterito
Cuantas veces se ha detenido el sol
a mediodia?
Cuantas?
Porque ya no quiere vivir mas atardeceres
Cuantas?
Cuantas veces?
Porque ya no quiere vivir mas amaneceres
El negro sera de ser negro sin el blanco
El bueno deja de ser bueno sin el malo

Continua repetitiva que constantemente termina
Vuelve a empezar de nuevo da fruto a la semilla
Porque envejeces?, porque tu piel se va arrugando
el paso del tiempo una broma te esta jugando

Sabes que la codicia puede dejarte en la ruina
Quieres solucionarlo?
Borrarlo de tu vida
De perros amores
Borrarlo de tu vida
De perros amores
Borrarlo de tu vida

Si alguna vez
si alguna vez
si alguna vez
si alguna vez
Amanece el alma
atardece en ti
Amanece el alma
atardece en ti

Accion es en real voluntad
sensacion la velocidad
fe e ilusion organica
Coincidencia armonica

No existe ningun borrador magico
para borrar todos los errores cometidos
que pasaria si las flores solo se marchitaran?
o solo se quedaran como botones.
Duele la realidad duele
La fantasia solo se queda en los suenos
Que pasaria si nunca muero?
y no tuviera la oportunidad de nacer de nuevo.
Amanece el alma
Vuelve otra vez, aparece
atardece en ti
desapareces te vas y vuelves

-- De Perros Amores by Control Machete

----
'such a stoner song.' una chica de la clase espanol :3

uh oh.

2008-04-28T14:43:00.002+08:00

when I told myself that I was going to stop eating tim tams, little did I know that grape juice, yoghurt-coated muesli bars, assorted gummy feet, lemon tea and lots and lots and lots of strawberry pocky would take over.

dr. chin is not going to be pleased. :/

the whole 'stay off sweet things for a semester' thing isn't really working out as well as I hoped. ):

*blames the stress*

but! I'm happy to note I haven't bought a single sushi roll from plush fish in 5 days.

*makes plans to go to plush fish tmw*

kaboom.

2008-04-21T10:23:00.003+08:00

CHC assignment out of the way (though the constant paranoia that I've done something terribly wrong is just driving me insane), had Spanish MCQ today only to fall into a surprise trap in the form of a 'fill in the blanks' test instead which pwned me very horribly. Told samee I needed retail therapy, we still haven't gone on our shopping trip. ):

After having my parade rained on, moments after the test, the fire alarm went off and we all had to evacuate the building. Good thing class ended early, I got to come back to college to start work on the PPM paper. :/

these essays just won't leave me alone. welcome to arts, dood.

*pulls on bulletproof vest*

---
no frickin' way.

maybe.

2008-04-13T22:08:00.002+08:00

one presentation
+ 1,500 word essay
+ one mini quiz
+ one grammar test
+ one 2,000 word essay
+ one 3,000 word essay
-----------------------------
all this piling on me and all due or happening in week 6,7,8,9 and 10.
am in great need of a miracle.
but one thing i'm happy about is that i managed to go for service at cross cultures at 9 with dawn and estha. and i didn't fall asleep!

--
'from nothing must make into something mah!'
'but that's when everything goes downhill from there. because you're forcing it. you know what i mean?'
...

torment.

2008-04-11T11:52:00.002+08:00

you know that angry/frustrated/exasperating feeling you get when you read a particular book? the feeling that the author couldn't have put it down on paper any better about the way things were, about how unfair a situation was? and it makes you feel like you really wanted to do something about it? The kind of feeling that makes you want to pen down your own thoughts and hope that there can be some sort of change? or the feeling that makes you want to rant about it some more?

10 books i'm flipping through for a certain research paper are making me feel that way right now.

someone asked me why i was doing this course, this particular subject, in that accusing manner like subjects like that didn't matter anymore.

like what YOU'RE studying is so important.

it's not a good day today. ):

--
'it is never a good day' t-shirt design from QC

Subliminal.

2008-04-06T12:41:00.003+08:00

celebrated Grace's birthday at Shark's Fin House yesterday afternoon. We surprised her with Chocolate Bottom Cupcakes (chocolate muffins with cream cheese and chocolate chip filling) that ash, fly, sy and i baked the night before. They taste great (correction: really REALLY great) but I couldn't take more than 2 in a day, not like the banana muffins which i'm planning to bake for samee's 21st.

daylight savings has ended and mid-sems are coming up. Losing a lot of sleep and snacking way too much. Those tiny chocolates from Koko Black are not helping.

that trip to MB after dinner with chewie, andrew and ash didn't help either. But it was fun and that concoction in that old fashioned milk bottle is just deliciously lethal.

back to work.

--
'nice try with the subliminal messaging'
think you funny now lah. (:

Epidemic.

2008-03-25T18:31:00.005+08:00

it all started with fc introducing Mika Nakashima's Sakurairo Maukoro to us. now random people are whistling the tune everywhere.

not good. nice song though. the video is kinda sad. :/

Time To Say Goodbye is going to be the next addiction. :p

on another note, ash, fly and i used the big kitchen in the rec centre and:

banana muffins are terribly addictive. ash and fly absolutely love adding chocolate buttons into them and they immediately turn into molten chocolate. it's not all that pretty what with all the chocolate melting everywhere in a huge mess, but the taste is heavenly. the muffins turned out to be a huge hit this evening. fly's thinking of baking cookies tomorrow.

like I said, it's an epidemic.

tu media naranja.

2008-03-15T20:24:00.004+08:00

pulling an all-nighter is a bad idea.
unless it involves 6-person Big 2, lots of orange juice and uncontrollable laughing.
and some cheating here and there. :p
oh and a slice of 'Death By Chocolate' cake. yum.

had dinner at Masumoto this evening with the sg freshers, the usual bunch of us and the seniors fc, chewie and geoff. slightly pricier than Kaneda, but the food was pretty nice. had lots of fun laughing about everything under the sun with ash, whilst getting very strange looks from the freshers. (well they laughed along too :3)

after slowly making our way back to uc, attended Mahjong 101 under the tutelage of geoffrey, zph and chewie. i have to admit the rules are a little difficult to follow, but it's a ton of fun. nik and i were learning while playing, and it was pretty interesting especially since nik can't read those chinese characters.

sigh. spanish quiz this coming monday. so not prepared.

weather's been absolutely crazy. they claim it's autumn and it's 38 degrees outside. some people are coming down with flus, sore throats and as for me, was getting slightly feverish yesterday. hopefully i don't fall really ill during the school week. well it ends on thursday because of Easter break but i wouldn't want to be sick during that break. hopefully the weather would go below 25 at some point.

back to study.

'together-gether!!'

quiche and crumble.

2008-03-12T19:48:00.003+08:00

hung out at natty's for dinner and dessert. she claimed her cooking/baking wasn't good but we begged to differ. ash, jeff and I really enjoyed it. it's different now that she's not living in ACB and coming up to the tiny corridor, with her cup of tea and incredibly neat notes from school. her new place on Brunswick is really cosy, albeit the noise from the tram and train isn't all that great sometimes. you get used to it I suppose.

the others agreed we suffered from mid-week crisis yesterday. can't really understand why it's so easy to become so mentally drained. and it's only week 2! :/ muy, muy rara.

good thing easter's coming up real soon, but maybe a break so early in the year (plus the fact that it's about 10 days long) wouldn't be such a good thing. lazy bug will bite again.

in the meantime, *awaits arrival of box from sg*

week one.

2008-03-06T18:38:00.003+08:00

the arts faculty doesn't seem to work on fridays.
incentive for us. :)

totally drained from less than 3 1/2 days of uni. spanish class is more intimidating than usual. a lot of revision is in order. week one is barely over and so mentally drained now.

muy mal.

hate the erratic weather. piel's in super bad condition. dry like anything. *grumble*

day one.

2008-03-03T05:11:00.002+08:00

it's too cold.

school starts in about 2 hours for me then it's 1pm to 5pm straight.

*grumble*

here we go again.

tomorrow.

2008-02-28T18:02:00.002+08:00

lunched at grandma's today. went to see her one more time before leaving tmw. met up with josh again for breakfast at nyp 2 days ago. the prata is GOOD. and CHEAP.

going to really miss home-cooked food.

and prata. :(

i miss her cooking already.

Eight.

2008-02-21T19:29:00.004+08:00

met up with josh for dinner last night. we went to Spizza at HarbourFront. i thought eating more than 3 slices would be impossible, and we ended up finishing two different pizzas (one had a really runny egg on top and the other with four different cheeses), which had about 10 slices each. Having pizza that's cooked in a wood-fired oven really wins hands down. no pictures again tho. :/ but it was awesome, something everyone MUST try. catching up was really fun too. josh is almost done with school and i'm about to begin. *sob*

wonder if the timetabling system could work in a better way, sans curses and millions of emails with people desperately begging for tutorial times of their choice and inadvertently about how the system is very lousy and then suddenly it boils right down to the political leaders and everything gets channelled to a quaint little forum. should probably just mark these days on a calendar and pop some champagne to celebrate.

and just like how my Linguistics lecturer puts it, 'that's the end of today's rant.'

time to pack. :(

'poopies.'

2008-02-18T23:51:00.010+08:00

they say it's good luck when a bird poops on your head. since one decided to on Sunday, here's to winning that million-dollar TOTO thing coming up soon.

met cat and steve with mos for lunch at Botak Jones @ Bedok. never been there before and the food was really, really nice.. cat's headed back to Brisbane on the 22nd, i will be headed back to Melb in about 11 days. seriously dreading school. :(

been bitten by the baking bug recently. chocolate chip muffins from saturday. spent the earlier half of the week with one failed attempt at chocolate cake/muffin/brownie-like thing followed by a much better banana muffin recipe which left us with way too many, but still good stuff. :)

will miss baking when i head back though. i would really like my own kitchen in my room in college. but unfortunately there's only a communal one, which i hope wouldn't be so bad.

oh well.

'go buy TOTO tomorrow!! BIG-BIG ah!' 'Why? 'Since the bird sh*t on you mah.' '...'

like oil and water.

2008-02-13T17:31:00.003+08:00

first the screwy subject selection.

then the muffin-like cookie brownie thing hard enough to knock someone unconscious.

and now this.

muchas gracias you clowns.

who'da thunk it?

2008-02-10T20:36:00.000+08:00

CNY = lethal mix of fried oily foods, too much to drink and teaching 4 year olds how to play Big 2.

missed out on last year's. it was nice to see so many familiar faces again. except that they are now older, taller, and the ones that used to crawl around and cry a lot are now schooling and saying things that actually make sense.

jordan (2nd uncle's 2nd daughter's son) put the armchair theory to good use. :) he's an adorable kid. no pictures though. wonder why we didn't take pictures. :/

on another note, picture a laptop. with a 7 inch screen.

that's some major squinting.

poor muay. :p

----

i knew it.

blimey.

2008-02-05T22:50:00.000+08:00

caught 'Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street' with sling at plaza sing today. a most depressing way to start off the chinese new year i thought.

but i have to say, tim burton, you did it again. *claps*

i enjoyed catching up with sling. although we were childhood friends since, well, the very year we were born, it's gone from 'see you on sunday' to 'see you in school tomorrow' to 'see you in melb' aka 'hopefully we can catch up soon if possible'. i guess closeness to friends isn't directly proportional to how often you see them. but i say that after spending four years in a row in the same school, with 12 years of growing up together before that too. with graduating from shs, she left for melb and i left for tw. and after 2 years we ended up in the same place again.

back home, we still live about 7 minutes from each other (if you walk real slow)

besides that, some things haven't changed one bit. (:

'you know, i think we should have just seen 27 Dresses instead.'

what's the word?

2008-02-03T14:39:00.000+08:00

26 more days before 2nd year of uni.

a large piece of crepe, honey baked ham, cheese and lettuce.

all rolled together accordingly.

yum.

a4: meels' mash and crepe rolls!

a restaurant business. here i come. (:

let's begin.

2008-02-02T23:30:00.000+08:00

'we were meant to live for so much more'

that's what it's for right?

to pen your thoughts?

lezgo.