Oh i got a haircut. i look slightly neater now. haha. but they really cheat my money. they wrote $25+, so i tot ard 30 bux is fine with me... so i went in... den they charged me $36 lor! kaoz.... think i chai tao arh?
My bro jus sent my Pentium IV computer over to my place. heehee. but it feels the same as the PIII one leh. nvm... mayb i m just not pro enough to realise the diff. plus i dun play games oso. oh well.. i think its supposedly my bday present. In case my bro sees this: THANKEW DA GE!!! erm den my mp3 player how huh? he say he will check it out when he has the time. does it mean i'll still get my mp3 player? yes riteeee? hmmm... lardidar~
i just spent qte some time teaching my sis-in-law to use internet today. So tiring... she took like 5mins to send me a msg over msn. haha... (btw, she is an IT-idiot. so forgive her.)
"When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Grrreat its GP tmr. And this will be a great test of summary skills. Then again, not really, but just read if u feel like it... =)
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btw, i haf many mAnY MANY photos not uploaded, but as soon as i find the time, i'll get them up! kk? -promise-
I'm officially eighteen!!! WOW!!! *cheers* haha... how exciting.. a new beginning to yet another episode of my life. well, i shud think of my resolutions another time. meanwhile i cant wait to blog more abt today. haha. wheee~ ok lets see... surprises? i had more than i can handle man... haha =)
lets see... early in the morning... i went to the class table, and they happily pretended that they forgot. but wh really cant act la. he looked much more hostile than normal, and it felt so intentional. so i cud tell he was acting lor. haha. plus that day when i went orchard, he insisted on shopping separately, so i cud more or less guess they went scouting for my present that day. heehee...
oh den wy passed me the first present of the day at the library. guess wad she got? Ashley-the-runaway-pig stuff toy from action city! so cuteee la.. btw, she habitually calls me zhu san for no particular reason. oh she also gave me another souvenir from her hometown, this oriential wooden fan from Suzhou. nice momento for me. hmmm...
den later on in class, kp n wh went to front carrying a beeg plastic bag. wh announced my bday n they sang me my BIRTHDAY SONG! *happie* and they gave me a personalised red cushion with my name written on using fabric paint. i heard wh did it himself, using 3 fonts from. thanks wh. and thanks to steph too! i was told u were harassed by wh coz he din noe wad font to use. haha.
Ohhh and py passed me the second part of the present from my 11 wonderful classmates. I think they are kp wh steph jes feng zl elena py ws jl & ccc. It worth the mention. Thanks a lot!!! ^^ Btw, it was a bottle of addidas perfume. i think py chose that coz its blue? i dunno la... it was very nicely wrapped anw.. look out for it in my pics later.. =)
oh yarr.. jireh cc n ben got me this precious moments 'treasure box', u know those kind to hold accessories.. It was so sweet and yet fragile, i was so scared that i might break it... hee~ handling it with extreme care, i opened it up and saw to my surprise lotsa sweets and little notes overflowing... how sweet again, literally.. haha... i heard from jes that they were trying very hard to stuff in everything.. lolx!~ so amusing... oh btw, thanks to ms lee's hydrogen peroxide n maganate joke, wh insist that the 'treasure box' is the catalyst. - insider joke not to be shared -
den the rest passed me my presents also... ccc n wz gave me a lovely dream catcher! exactly wad i need. i bet they saw from my blog. did i mention jac got a dreamer catcher for present too? hee.. so coincidental. oh n they still rmb i like blue... yay~ ys n pia gave me this nicely wrapped monkey soft toy thingey. (It feels too beeg for a keychain. haha.) it was so cute lor. ys said they got it coz it looks like me. hmpf. but its cuteee la, so i dun mind... lardidar!~
oh after sch, i was in for yet another surprise! jireh told me to go canteen after lect. i tot got cake or smth. den cc said its smth i like and smth better than cake! i was so excited! and guess wad? haha.. its BEN & JERRY's New York Super Fudge Chunk ICE CREAM!!! WOahhh... i was over the moon lar... damn happie!!! of coz i ate only some of it and shared the rest of the tub. cc ate more than just a bit. i got evidence. haha. anw, so thoughtful lor, even had cutleries supplied. lolx!~ oh btw, jes termed it +ve externality. haha...
back to more presents, ie. more people to thank... Thankew astee n yeatian for the earrings. can wear to sch rite? heck... thanks seng for the book - the five people you meet in heaven. i'll find time to read it, so that i can b intellectually enriched.. thanks katt for the butterfly earrings n necklace set. they r pretty lor... and those who gave me angbaos... i hope i din miss out anyone... whoeva whom i missed out, its really not intentional, thanks so much for ur presents and nice messages... i'm really touched!!! wad a tear-jerking day! ^^
More sinful food to come. katt, seng, peng n i met up for dinner for cafe cartel at J8. there goes my angbao, but anw... i had a very satisfying meal... we ordered mushroooom n ham pasta and some huge combo... yummy... i think i ate a lot, chao full lor... but NO that din stop up from proceeding to northpt later on for swensen's ice-cream. my aunt with the same bday as me treated us! wad a blessing to have an aunt with the same bday... heehee~ apparently it took me a while to realise that was the 2nd serving of ice-cream for the day... *guilty looks* later on, seng walked me to find gor, and gor sent us home. and more imptly, he confirmed that my present is on its way... lolx!~
THANK YOU EVERYBODY! I love u guys! *hugS*
I had so much fun at jacq's hse today. it technically her bday party la, but we share the same bday, so she invited me to celebrate bday tgt. we had bbq (not exactly, since there wasnt much to bbq), with lotsa finger food - courtesy of my mummy, and other stuff like longan almond jelly (which i miss eating), and others la. But the main focus wasnt the food. food played a supportive role.
And the lead of the day? MAHJONG. wahahaha.. and u must really believe in bday luck, me n jacq took turns on winning streak... lolx!~ i think michael was kinda trashed qte badly despite being experienced and wearing red. haha.. ohh n beginner's luck works well too. Aloy was winning lotsa money (for steven actually. haha. in the end he took sandra's place n lost abt err 90 cents? haha... btw, i was banned from the mahjong table from the 2nd round onwards. lolx!~ so i end up being shifu/advisor/wadeva-u-call-that to aloy n steven. Mahjong aside, i think i met many nice frens... really... i m qte glad la, coz if not for this, we might not cross each others' paths... i think i like meeting nice ppl. haha. after all, i have since majority of the ppl in my sch for years! qte sick sometimes, apart from those frenship that i totally cherished...
Oh, btw i felt qte bad, coz i was older than most of the ppl there. they are mostly the 88 batch... hai, feel so old lor... anw, the pt is i felt as if i was bullying little kids when i won their money. haha. but seriously they dun look that young n i dun look that old. riteeee?
btw, jacq's family was how nice to me lar.. Jacq got me a white billabong pencil case! and jessica gave me a piggy happyhouse photoframe and auntie gave me a beeg angbao!!! thankew so much!!! =) I bought a really cool pink n white MYUK wallet with an attitude for jacq. and guesss wad? it GLOWS in the dark. haha. how cool lar... i wanted to keep for myself lor. *grinz* hope she likes it...
basically to sum the day in a word - FUN. anw we took qte a couple of photos, with my new frens, other mahjong kakis, n my self-claimed 'disciples'... haha... rmb to come back for the uploaded fotos... =)
aiyoh, how to choose?
Eh fren, thanks a lot for the present n million apologies for ur wasted trip. i know bishan very far.
kk.. next time --> ice-cream --> i'll treat!
After wh's earthquke treat at j8, i went orchard to shop for jacq's present... and guess wad??? i met MAD!!!! Ahhh... i haven seen her for ages man. i missed her to bits. i knew her since K1 lor. haha. coindentally, we're both scouting for presents alone in orchard (coz everyone else is mugging). we intended to shop n leave orchard early, but as soon as we met, we realised that was impossible. wahahaha...
Did i mention that i found my LONG LOST TWIN? haha... we took out our ez-link cards, saying how toot we looked last time... and den *fwah* we placed the 2 photos tgt, and to our surprise, we realised the fact that we're long lost twins. we took photos of our ezlink cards tgt, but we have mutually agreed nva to let that photo see light. haha. we dun look qte alike now, coz she is kinda petite (small). BUT, omg... we totally think like each other... for instance, while shopping at heerens, we went into new urban male (their logo looks like mum! =P), i picked up a white skirt and said "ehhh not bad..." and i turned round to see this dunbfounded gurl, who eventually manage to speak and she told me that she bot that same skirt a few months ago. freaky. More to come... we were tokkin abt esprit sales, den she told me abt a black halter she wanted to buy at esprit the other day. so i went, "i jus bot one the other day. does it have white prints, with '1998' in the design, and with sequin sewed on the digit 8?" the next moment, we exchanged looks of astonishment. wahahaha... she din hafta ans, but i knew she tried on THAT halter top. haha...
We found so many SIMILARITIES between the two of us, that i cant even finish listing them myself. gawd. we both take pcme (thou one in rj n one in hc) . we both love chocolates. we like the same kinda accessories. we hate mussels n sea-hum n almost anything shell-related. oh correction: i love crabs and i bet she likes it too. (mad: i know u know how i know.) haha.... den we both craved for mudpie when we past nydc, but in the end, we settled for baked pasta instead coz it was close to dinner time.. can u imagined we shared ONE baked pasta but we were both too full to move. too bloated for mudpie that we tot we cud haf later on. nvm, mayb we'll have her fav jedi mudster next time. anw, had i ice-cream earlier, qte sinful alr.
thou we haf the same taste for clothes n stuff, but we realised if we shop tgt, we'll end up going out of control n overspending coz we cant check each other. haha. btw, i was qte glad that she takes chilli, while i dun haf a fetish for too spicy stuff thou i dun mind a little chilli. i said 'glad' coz that was the FIRST DIFFERENCE i found today. haha.
at paragon, we bot food from mark n spencers, haha, we cant say no to food. and we made a discovery termed the mad-n-cindy-discovery (her name came first coz she spotted it first). we're staring at a quiksilver-logo shaped pencilcase den we found out that the QUIKSILVER logo makes exactly half the ROXY logo. woahhhh... call us slow, wadeva... i bet many ppl wont realise if i dun pt it out... haha...
aiyoh got so many things to blog, i damn tired liao... shall end here...
Yepp... its wh's bday today... his gifts were darn unique... wahahhaa... we prepared a '3 course meal' for him... with my card as an appetizer... we gave him one course after one lesson... we told him the gifts were branded. which is true, coz its a branded baby product. haha... imagine how much truma the guys hafta go thru when they went to buy his present. wahahaha... u will understand better once u haf found out the abt the presents.
we gave him the presents in the order: 1) a card with a drawing of a big baby carrying an even bigger milk bottle hand-drawn by me! (rare hor, cant really draw u see..) 2) a pacifier (according to him, to shut him up for tokkin tooo much) 3) a breast pump (no kiddin') 4) a damn cool black MYUK sling bag
all of us went out to eat at J8 during break... the whole class was late for maths lesson. lucky the grp of us took a bus and the tcher was late too. haha. the suay suay batch who walked back were damn late... sad... did i mention we were laughing on the bus when we saw them walking at the junction? so bad riteee?
1. i took cab to sch and got damn pissed by the taxi driver. He asked me for my future plans after jc. i couldn't be bothered. so i said UNCERTAIN. den he gave me a damn lecture on how i terrible and gonecase i m for not having a concrete plan. and that i m too slow, and i m lagging behind others by many many yrs. and its too late for me to do anything. he shud jus go die. den i ignored him. apparently he felt bad, so he said smth along the lines of i m telling u this coz i used to take the easiest approach to wadeva that comes along, so i ended up with nothing. HELLO! that's YOUR business. btw, i m giving u a job here by taking ur cab so pls let me have a peace of mind.
2.i have a screwed sleeping cycle. i m literally turning nocturnal. and its a vicious cycle. i cant wait to get home to slp aft sch (in fact i m very sleepy during lessons too). den i come home n i slp, only managing to wake up after dinner time for dinner and to start work really late. so i cant finish my work. dun even mention the word revision. not even half way thru. wad do u call that? screwed. yepp so i do work till qte late n end up zonked out again the next day.
oh n think of a niece who cries and makes a hell lot of noise in the middle of the nite when u r trying to get ur pathetic few hrs of sleep. ytd was the ultimate. aft my niece finally got back to slp at like 3am or 4am,k the stupid cat downstairs started making farnie, irritating noises. grrr... cant they jus shut up n let me slp. actually i haf lotsa work to do apparently. so that equals even lesser slp. arghhhhhhhhhhh... i m going crazy....
the thot of having to MUG thru my bday din help either. i hate life now. period. but nothing i can do abt it, shall go bathe n do work now.
Fwahhh... quote of the day it shall be... Haha... Indeed, time spent in doing stuff u wanna do, despite being unconstructive, is enjoyable, and thus shouldn't be considered wasted. Logical eh? o_OTime u enjoy wasting is not wasted.
Dark Chocolate*
: You look towards the future and always plan ahead. You are paitient, thoughtful and individualistic. You set high standards for yourself as well as others around you. An exceleent speaker who would be able to capture the audience attention.White Chocolate: You have difficulty in making decisions and often allow others to decide for you. You have a great sense of fairness and possess multiple options in life. A romantic, warm and loving person who cares about others and can be counted on easily.
Milk Chocolate: Youre playful, levelheaded and loyal. You’re a fun loving person who likes to laugh. People tend to hang around you, as you are fun to be with. A self-sacrificing individual who would rather help others and takes no credit for the work.
All of the above: You can be considered as flexible and modern individual. Due to your sociable nature, you will not have any difficulty in making friends or blending in the group. You are adventurous, love new ideas are a champion of underdogs and a slayer of dragons.
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We openly walked out of the sch gate even b4 the promethean ceremony. (Paiseh to pau, jing, jir n py =P) Anw, so the 5 of us just went macs at J8 for breakfast. lolx!~ we saw the paedophile at macs. Arhhhhh... gross! Anw, as we were eating breakfast, the promethean ceremony was over, and our group slowly grew in number, as the 2 couples n the ch gang joined us. haha.. yeppp.. some how all the girls left, so i was the only girl left, before we met steph n jes in sch later. so i felt qte bored whenever they start on their DotA talk. haha. Anw, we went to walk ard in nutc (sadly) since the other shops were not open, b4 heading back to sch for the talk.
Anw, after the talk, whi ch was kinda painful (the tcher had a terrible accent)... i went to meet up with cali for a movie. haha. charlie n the chocolate factory. chocolates, i love chocolates! wooohhh... so happy like re-living my childhood... those were the days when u can sit down, relax and read a Roald Dahl storybook, and have fun fantasizing. well, the show was nice, thou johnny depp was kinda eccentric. haha. t's probably one of the few shows that everyone unanimously clapped after the show ended. haha. cool huh?
Anw, after that i went to find peng and watched many many many episodes of bleach. yeahhh. not the time to, but heck... need a break sometimes... den peng enthusiastically showed me the replay of his DotA game. lol. wads with guys n DotA? haiz... den i finanally got home at 11 or so... tired sia...
Ooh... the happiest thing that happened to me today! Levan added me to friendster! he rawks man! i'm over the moon! Whee~A fren threw us this qn, take for instance a couple of a buddhist girl n a christian guy : If the girl is willing to step into a church, even just as an on-looker n not a believer, just for the guy, will the guy be willing to step into a temple for her sake? I thot this qn touched on qte a practical pt. Personally, i feel that christianity is one of the strongest faith, that probably wouldn't accommodate any other religion. It is not say impossible, however it'll just be hard.
Sooo... what abt free-thinkers like me? does religion pose a problem? i respect most religions n faith... To me, another person's religion does not matter, thou some people might think otherwise... i hope i'll never have to b bothered over this. =)
Anw, on the issue of converting... i feel that converting for that sake of a guy is a nice gesture, but it totally defeats the purpose of converting. what if the relationship doesn't work out? r u just gonna 'convert back'? one should only consider converting to a religion if and only if u truly believe in it, if u truly have faith... otherwise, u're just not taking the religion seriously, and in a way not respecting it... On a personal note, i have many good friends n even family members who are christians, and many of them have so-called preached to me before. Well, its not that i do not believe in God, there are in fact many attributes of christianity that i think it's worth learning from, but i always have certain doubts abt the religion n soem of their beliefs, i guess i just do not have a strong faith. That explains y i remained a free-thinker. haha... ^^
If God does exist, why did he bear to put us through so much sufferings? Why are there innocent kids starving out there? Have they sinned in any way, that he has to put them through this? Why is there poverty, pain n suffering? Why do some poverty-strikened people still haf to endure and suffer from the most devastating natural disasters? How do u explain the countless unrest in the world? Is God just putting us to a test? But why? And why did he even allow all these to happen? gosh, that's qte a mouthful...
I rmb in sec sch, i wanted to do science/research related stuff, and i wanted an A*star scholarship so much, but now i haf lost that clear vision of wad i want to do in the future. I think my passion for research died ever since the only-grades-matter sch refused to shortlist me for terp in j1, coz my my o-level grades. bahhh.
Now i m thinking of doing business. It feels like a safe course. but of coz that not the only reason. i dunno. actually i think having a passion in wadeva u do is important, so maybe i should go think abt wad i m interested to specialise in if i m taking up business.
Well... as compared to medicine, which equates to doing a meaningful job in life, its good as long as u're up to it, and u're willing to spent many many years studying (the basic course gives u peanuts pay). I'm qte afraid i cant, so medicine is not really one of my choice. Neither is law, coz i dun really haf a flair for being a lawyer, n jobs r limited if u choose to take law n not practise as a lawyer. Econs, not really oso, my results for econs says a lot. Aiyah, we shall see lar... Do i want just a secured job? or do i want a meaningful job? Climbing the corporate ladder is not a diff thing, but is it that kind of life i wanna lead?
Theres always a catch to everything, including being offered a scholarship... after all the vigorous rounds n rounds of applications n interviews, even when u've finally manage to get hold of some form of schloarship, there are other things u have to keep in mind... like u must maintain certain grades to keep ur scholarship... u must b bonded... U know the thing abt a bond. Its sounds really sucky, esp if u're stuck with a job u dun like for 6 yrs. But the thing is, it works another way too.. it means assured employment for that bond period. blahhhh...
After the talks, kp, wh n i went to eat at j8. had korean food. i had my bibimbap! hehe... den kp left for tuition. so wh n i walked ard scouting for potential presents, for a while... oh yar, talking abt presents, i jus realised that perhaps presents shudden always haf that surprise element in it, so that when its for someone impt, the surprise is not as special anymore, n that its true that it gets a bit tiring after coming up with too many surprises.Oh well... erm, den we went to buy snack and wh left for tuition too, while i came home to nap. wad a slacker as compared. riteee?
This is pure heavenly!~Oh btw, i was just chatting with some frens and we happened to be on the topic of couples n singles. It provoked some thoughts. Some one used the term "loser" on unattached people. But the thing is that being unattached doesn't make a person a loser. Being unattached and feeling sore about it, is what makes a person a loser. It's all a matter of perspectives. Wad's the pt of claming urself up and doing stupid pointless stuff? It wouldn't make u better. And the worst solution is to rush into a relationship. just coz of peer-pressure? wad nonsense! If that's the case, u're not taking the relationship seriously in the first place, and it will probably not work out in the end. To quote smth a fren said b4: this kinda thing will come... it's just a matter of time. The right person at the right timing will make the best relationship. Even if u find a rite person, but it came at the wrong timing, it'll probably fail. So yeah, lotsa stuff to factor in, dun rush things, and more importantly, dun make urself a loser. Most of us still have a long way to go. And at this pt of time, there are better things to bother abt. Its okayyy to be single. Be cool abt it. =)
Just something to lighten up the atmosphere. its quite amusing to find out how some ppl have the weirdest phobias. For instance, lizards, cats, water, etc. haha~ shall go off for some serious work! ciao...
