Saturday, January 26, 2008
When i have my own house in the future, i will NEVER stay in a landed property!! I would rather live in a condo. The cleaning in my hse now can just kill me. I am soooo sick of dirt and grime bcos i have been packing, throwing junk and wiping dust. The dust bin is always filled to the brim everyday and today, bcos the whole family was spring cleaning, the rubbish was placed along the road instead. LOADs of junk.
And really, the period before CNY is the grumbling period. My parents have sooo much cleaning to do that they get really moody. And somehow or rather, doanna is a super nice name to call for every errand running! because im home most of the time, i also have to bear with their nagging and scoldings. hai.. it's ok! everything will get better (:
Ang baos are a gd motivation (;
Just The Girl @
10:52 PM
Monday, January 21, 2008
I am sad to say that i have lost my appetite for food. And really, this is incredulous for me cos i looove to eat nice food. Blame it on the stomach flu that i had on fri. Ever since that day, i didnt feel like eating at all. Had only milo on fri night and sat morning yet i didnt feel hungry at all. Thought that was soo weird. And i lost 2kg bcos of that. I guess if i eat normally, the food that is in my tummy weights 2 kg la.. gosh.. that is a lot of food! Been better the past couple of days but the portion that i eat has decreased. Oh wells.. as long as i can get to eat alot during CNY, im ok with this. Right.. i can hear being called a pig at the back of my head...
Had a day of spring cleaning my room. BUT IM NOT DONE YET! grr.. only managed to clean the windows and grills and wash the curtains. And wiped away the dust on my table. Wanted to throw away the jc notes stashed away in a corner of my room that is collecting dust but my mom says to wait until she calls the garang guni man. And i will probably give my TYS to my sec 3 cousin.. ok i sound like i didnt do much cleaning but really, it's no joke cleaning all the dust in my room!! Need a reak from cleaning. Will probably continue part 2 the following day.
This is the part of CNY that i hate.
Just The Girl @
11:30 PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
i was tweaking the template of my blog just now and was re reading the entries i have written since 2004. all 157 of them. it kinda brings back some memories, whether is it good or bad. have realised that my style of writing has change somewhat but essentially, the blog is NOT abt gossips(unlike what terenze had imagined) but is more abt my life and what i have been up to recently. it may sound narcissist but i think updating abt what u have been up to allows ur frens to noe that u have been well. so yeah.. i think i will continue my life updates even when im in australia although the internet there is not as free to use as in spore. (There is a limit on the amount of downloads depending on the plan subscribed. So restrictive! grr...) And if u happen to drop by, leave a tag so that i noe that u care abt me to read my blog. And like what gen writes in her blog, i too like outright demonstrations of concern. (:
Blading at ecp with dan and shaomin (aka pig ma and pig ah pa) and fell a couple of times today. Now there is a long, red, slightly swollen scratch on my left thigh cos i rammed into the bushes and fell. What is it with me and ramming into plants? I rammed into the bouganvilla during sweat camp too while blading and got rewarded with a mini thorn stuck beneath the skin of my finger for a day. And now this! Sheesh!
And i got alot of advice from dan who has been studying in melbourne for a sem. He says i will probably go there and havoc since i have a number of frens who are gg with me to study. But but.. i will definitely prove him wrong and not get involved in drinking, clubbing and whatever nots. i have strong self control and discernment alrights...
And i realise that im being BULLIED often! argh! Whether is it yiki, andrew, or danvin.. they are all bullying me la! Sheesh.. and their reason for it is that im leaving soon and the chances for them to bully me will be smaller, so they should do it more often now.
Just The Girl @
6:55 PM
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
first time back in nus after abt a month makes me feel really really excited. Although i slept lesser than usual the previous night, i was super hyper. And while i was this hyperactive kid running ard science fac to meet frens, the rest were quite sian that sch has started. ok.. im weird but really, u cant blame this kid who is leaving nus, leaving spore, to start sch at a foreign land with no family and very few frens. Close frens can be made.. but it still takes a little time to get to noe one another better before forging that everlasting friendship (:
The main purpose for gg to nus on mon was to hand in the withdrawal form. But ended up attending a lousy boring stats intro lec that was only 30 mins. At least the train ride with yingqi was entertaining and catching up with jiaying, ian, terrenze was fun. Head anat lec at med was soo much interesting although i cant understand certain stuff. And blimey... it's alot to learn in that 1 hr lec! Have to be mentally prepared for the information overload that is to come!
Then it was lunch with nus S11 peeps excluding yingqi who was having lecs. Of course the majority of them were the med pple. and out of the sudden, someone said that we should take a photo. Cos we were feeling paiseh abt taking a photo at the canteen, we ended taking one outside the lt while the med pple were waiting to enter the lt.
it wasnt intentional but we ended up standing non-med fac in front and med fac at the back.
And i have no idea why.. but yesterday i ate alot. After eating 'mix mix' mian, i had mudpie with yan ning and yq, which was a treat from ian. And after that ate icejelly sea coconut with aztec pple while waiting for time to pass so that they can go for lecs at 4. And while i was waiting with ian in the canteen for the rain to get a lil smaller, we had pocky sticks. Oh.. and i looove to chat with ian!(:
And one of the highlights of the day was the unsw pre-departure seminar. As usual, talks and tips on how to survive in sydney and in uni. But i guess it was more fun and interesting to get to noe ur future classmates. And boy.. u will realise that the worlds is really SMALL! Everyone noes the other person somehow. I dont think i will feel lonely. I think i may be able to click well with these pple. And oh.. i finally got to meet the guy who helped me in the interview. see... my sister's fren fren fren's bro got into med really early and i called him to ask advice abt the interview and housing stuff. At that point in time he was the only person i noe who is gg unsw so i was really comforted to noe there is another person i will noe when im there. (: But things in aust are really really expensive. 3 bucks for a BALLPOINT pen anyone? stocking up on refills is a must!
Just The Girl @
10:42 PM
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Staying over at frens hall is really fun! Whee!!
Went to NTU for the first time yesterday. Was a little apprehensive abt going there alone since shuyu pangseh me to rot at home. But i managed to get to the innovation centre successfully to meet up with wei and kez. Crashed biz law lec and it is really funny cos both of them were talking non stop while i was listening to the lec.( it is actually quite interesting and suddenly a lot of things make sense) And bcos wei wasnt listening, i would have to explain to her what the lecturer was saying. Hello! who is the one taking the course? Sheesh.. And perhaps i have the 'im from ntu' look all over my face cos hilda and chen nee didnt realise that i dont belong to ntu at all.
Onto dinner at hall 13 canteen. Korean bimbimbab there is nice and cheap. Yum. No wonder it was featured in campus yummy. And of course later, the highlight of the night was room visiting!
First it was puei san, hilda, lucia(never see her in 3 yrs!!!), fel+jolene, rina. It doesnt seem like i have visited alot of pple but spent 30 mins in each room talking to them and looking at their stuff. And of course i must thank wei and kez for bringing me around like im some tourist visiting a tourist attraction (: By the time rm visiting was over, it was abt 1130 and i could tell that everyone (wei, kez, fel, jolene, rina and me were gathered in rina's rm) was tired. But instead of gg back to our rm, we went to ADM (art, design, media sch) instead for a romantic time at the top of the building to look at stars. It was the perfect weather last night to stroll ard the sch bcoz it was cooling and there wasnt any clouds. At 12 plus and there is still a flurry of activities gg on at the halls: soft ball prac, cheerleading prac, road relay training, gatherings at bus stop. And thanks to me, wei and kez have broken their new year resolution of slping at 12.
While both of them had to wake up at 7 plus to go for lec at 830, i continued sleeping in the room until 1030. Wahah.. like some pig. Their bed is really comfortable to sleep on.
And then met puei san for lunch. walked to NIE to try the grilled fish that was supposed to be gd. (really, ntu has so much nicer food than nus) and met my sister there!! And her fren thought that my sister had just made a new fren (me). Strolled ard the biological science sch with ps before we settled down at the activity centre to chit chat.. it was fun talking to her abt anything, everything and anybody. After talking for almost 2 hrs, she had to go for lec.
And then i went home, dozing off on the train from boon lay to tanah merah. I will probably not invade that sch anytime soon. So felicia shouldnt worry so much eh.
On a side note, there are LOTS of insects ard in the school. Especially houseflies! eww.. cant stand them. flinging my hand here and there is a must while eating. The flies are really really huge!
Just The Girl @
7:05 PM
Monday, January 07, 2008
The past few days i felt old.
Went back to st nicks on fri to eat my fave orange bowl and uncle mobin's ice tea! Yum yum. Shu yu and i wanted to eat both the soup and dry ones so we ordered 1 $1 soup and 1 50 cents bowl. And so the 4 of us sat in the canteen eating lunch and at the same time reminiscing abt the past:
What we did in class in sec 3 wisdom. Where and with whom we were sitting with. How we got to noe each other. How ms chua disliked us and showed her outright favouritism towards debra. The nonsensical things that we would do in class like singing songs, rushing homework in sch so that we wont have to do them at home, smuggling mushroom cheese toast or wedges in our pockets so that we wont be caught by the 'white elephant' prefects who guard all the staircases leading out of the canteen and then eating the food in class, joining the tables in class so that we form rows of 4 instead of 2
And then later we were discussing abt the present st nicks girls. How the girls dont look as chio as before. Not that we were saying that we were chio but that in general there is a number of them who look quite pretty so much so that we will tend to develop crushes on them. Well.. it is very common to have a crush on a pretty senior while u are in a girls school. But it is just a passing phase that we soon grew out of. And then we discussed abt the hair trend. During our time(wow.. this sounds old) we would have long fringe which will be combed back and tied in a pony tail together with strands of hair at both sides of our face. Now, everyone has short fringe and they no longer have the 2 strands of hair.
We were saying that we didnt change much since sec sch. But shuyu insists that we have because of our hairstyle. "It is the hair that makes u look prettier" Maybe what she says makes sense.
And on sat it was k session with S11 clique (tancy, yanning, hongjun, george) at chinatown. Miss k-ing with them and having fun. oh and that was my 2nd consecutive day of k, with the 1st day with my sn frens at amk, without having sore throat. Wahaha.
Anyway, heard that there was the annual VJ yr 1 orientation mass dance at suntec so we went there to cou re nao. Brought back alot of happy and sad memories watching them dance. It has been 3 years since our orientation! I miss our wooden class table where we gather every morning and i would always sleep when i reach there and wake up with a big red mark on my forehead. I miss climbing up to our ct class which is the furthest class at the 4th level of v block with the guys trying to imitate tan yew hwee shouting at the students leaving sch early. I miss fooling around with choonyong, george, andrew and having bitching sessions about anything or anybody. I miss sashaying to class and always occupying the 2nd row of seats or choosing the 5th/6th row seats in lt5 that will not have air con blowing at us. I miss ....__________. Ah fill in the blanks.
We are turning 20 soon! well at least for me, in a month's time. No more _____teen years old but with a age that starts with 2.
Just The Girl @
12:18 AM
Thursday, January 03, 2008
My 2nd attempt at brownie making today. It wasnt as bad as the first one cos i used dark chocolate this time. But well, although the taste is correct, the texture is all wrong. Perhaps i took out too early cos the insides of it looks and feels like eating kueh. That kind of very smooth texture. At least it is more moist this time. Darn. I cant move on to baking other things(muffins, chicken pie etc) if i cant even perfect my brownie. 3rd time lucky maybe?
Just The Girl @
9:56 PM
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
First post of 2008! Whee~~~ Had a fantabulous night with wei, kez and shu(too bad shun is in hk) My first countdown!! Whoosh! Waha.. only get to go for countdown at 19 yrs old. yes i noe it's slow but last time swa gu and less freedom. I had thot that my parents would never let me go for countdown since my normal curfew is 1030! But it was easier than i thot when it comes to persuading my mom.
1. answer the parents IMMEDIATELY if they call my name
2. help my mom with hanging of clothes, bedsheets, curtains in the afternoon
3. do not ever talk back, just remanin silent even if im correct
4. do not answer their questions in a irritated tone, must control tone of voice
5. if going for countdown or anywhere else (such as ubin) besides shopping, tell them at least a day in advance. In the case of the countdown, tell them really sweetly in the morning and explain it was arranged at the last minute the previous night.
My mom said i had to be back AT HOME by 1am, no later. But in the end, because of the human jams along the road i was back at the hse at 125. Lucky both of them were sound asleep and my dear elder sis woke up from lala land to drive me home from the mrt (: So yepp.. all went well without any scolding!!
Now onto the countdown itself. Packed with thousands of pple, especially the 'construction workers' type (okay, i dont mean to sound racist or anything but i really cant stand them. For one, they seem to be everywhere in the crowd and they are really good in pushing and shoving. One of them stepped on kez slippers really hard and he said 'why like that' and we got the huh look) Nuff of them.
We were scared that we would lose each other in the crowd that everywhere we went to, we were holding hands. And it really helps bcos we have an excuse to run to the front of the barricade when one of us rushes forward during the confusion. Stood along the road along esplanade(no idea what is the name) and of course chatting to wait for time to pass. Fireworks display lasted for 8 mins. Love it alot! Dont noe izzit because of the position we were in but the fireworks seem like it was exploding towards me. Like there were huge balls of pretty lights. Amazing!!
After that it was photo taking time. Our zi pai really sucks but got a nice pic when we asked someone to take for us. And then it was trudging back to the mrt.
Goodbye 2007. It had been a good year with its ups and downs.
Hello 2008!! It will be an exciting year. Definitely!
Just The Girl @
9:50 PM
