Thursday, July 31, 2008
1 year and 5 months later and she joins him and Him.
But this time i cant and wont be there.
It sucks to study overseas. totally.
Just The Girl @
11:08 PM
Friday, July 25, 2008
it's really cold andi have to wear 3 layers of clothes which includes a thick jumper.
it's really cold and i have to wear the 4th layer of jacket (S11 jacket is proving to be v useful)
it's really cold and i have to wear a scarf on top of the 4 layers
it's really cold and i have to wear the pair of gloves S11 gang got for me
it's really cold and i have to wear boots to keep my feet warm and away from the rain
it's really cold and i have to shut my window tightly, close the door and switch on the heater full blast
it's really cold and i am considering wearing tights under my jeans
it's really cold and there is mist when we talk
right, so i look like a big ball.
sunny singapore looks really attractive now
Just The Girl @
9:19 PM
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Slowly getting into the mood to study and read lec notes. But i still have the urge to want to watch tv. har.. and i did today. kungfu panda online. Now i understand why theodore likes it so much. And one of the things that the turtle said was : the past is history. the future is a mystery. today is a gift, that's why it's called present. Interesting.
1st week of sch is almost over and think it's pretty alright cos the days are rather short. But no more, starting next week.
Mon was clarence's 21st bday and all of us gathered at his place for a party. Having 20 plus pple squeeze into a small living room apratment was rather amusing. There was a point in time when a group of us were standing in the kitchen chatting. Ever heard of duck embryo? apparently it's a vietnamese thing and some guys bought if for clarence to try it. Embryo=half formed head and limbs including its skeletal structure. And he gamely ate it all up. Party was pretty fun, with almost everyone knowing that im trying to detox here. But how to when there was pizza, brownies and fried stuff? gosh.. and to think that the first thing mingfei said to me was: (in hokkien) le bui liao. thanks.
And how to detox when on wed owen invited a bunch of us over to try his culinary skills. he cooked like a kilo of beef taco, a HUGE plate of kimchi lasagne and prepared a refreshing salad. love the kimchi lasagne alot and u wont get sick of eating it, unlike the traditional ones, perhaps it's because it's sour and a lil spicy. And then we had a little champagne with me having a really red face (i only had half a cup!). it was hilarious.
Realise that it's really interesting how that when we are overseas, we would frequently invite frens over for a homecooked meal or we had home parties. But in singapore, this is seldom the case. How often do we invite pple over to the house and cook for them. But well, we dont exactly have control over the house. There is always the parental permission.
Alrights back to the heart. lub dub.
Just The Girl @
6:38 PM
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Overnight flights definitely take a toil on me. Was so tired that i didnt have the excitement to go for the once in a lifetime world youth day mass which is right outside my doorstep. But there was that teeny bit of excitement that i am about 300m or so away from the pope. When chrisite and i couldnt stand being in the cold for so long and adding to the fact that we were very shagged from the flight, we dragged ourselves to do minimal grocery before heading home to sleep.
3 hrs of sleep later, i started to unpack my barang, do laundry and do a bit of cleaning in my room. No idea why i took so long, but it was only 3 hours later that i finished.
Having nothing much to do today feels weird. The thing is that in aussie, it's mugger time. It is only in singapore that it is play and slack time. i shall sleep early tonight.
School starts. TMR.
Just The Girl @
8:47 PM
Friday, July 18, 2008
sighs. last night in singapore. really cant believe that 3 weeks have just flew by just like that. Short it may seem but i really enjoyed myself spending time with family and friends over good food.
dont really like the nostalgia feeling that i will get everytime i leave for sydney. Makes me miss sg.
oh wells. like what oi says (but in a different context), i have to move on and stop remaining at the same place.
Just The Girl @
11:05 PM
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Sun 13/7
That day was really the ultimate! First, i went to yum cha with my family at 12. Then i went to meet weilin and kezia to see shun perform at the WAFF carnival. But we always being late for our appointments, we missed her performance by that few minutes! darn. And then we went for dessert at a jap place at cine, which was on the 2nd floor. Besides talking and eating, we ended up people-watching and i must say that it is rather interesting cos from our view, we can see alot of pple and we spotted quite a number of pple whom we knew.
After dessert, it was onto upp thomson to meet my sj for our casurina prata!!! The nonsensical thing is that we would always meet up at the franchise shop which is further down the original one. The reason is perhaps because we always went to that shop during sec sch cos it's near cherie's place and it has quite a number of memories for us. And then da bao a few pratas home for my family ( i went there so many times but this is the first time im letting them try nice prata from there). And then dinner at home was kong ba pao + nice and tasty chicken soup which i havent drank in ages. Seriously, that day i ballooned! i even felt full well after midnight!
Mon 14/7
Meet up with nus friends for dinner. it was an excellent intro by yingqi who recommended a turkish restaurant at arab st.
Tue 15/7
went to nus with oi to get our transcript to see if we are able to transfer points from nus to unsw so that we dont have to take so many electives and hence no need to pay for the modular units that we have to take. Had the engine's indo food!!! yumyum! and then went to buy books at coop. was walkng through science fac and then alot of the memories came back. and seeing a new batch of freshies (probably from engine), it makes me MISS ORIENTATION CAMPS!!! gosh! i want to go for camps! Not like those in aussie where they drink till they are drunk, but having station games, fright nights, water games and all sorts of nonsense that u do during these camps. maybe sj has made me sorta love camps.. leisure camps it is though. lol. And seeing those freshies makes me feel old..
Then met ian and we decided to go ka chiao yiki and wee keat who were having their pre camps. Thot that we would get entertained by watching them do mass dance but seriously, the music was nice and the moves were even worse. Maybe it's because of me coming from vj, with 6 nice mass dances, i have a rather high expectation of mass dances. oh wells
Wed 16/7
lunch with yins aka sesame seed bun (totally forgotten why we call each other sesame seed bun, but that was in sec sch days) at cine. it was a special trip i made to town so that i could see her during her lunch break.
and then i went home to rest and watch tv before heading out again for dinner with S11!! Whee!! Havent seen andrew and george for a looong time. yeah and as usual, we made a helluva ruckus at manhatten's fish market while there were a few couples sitting opp of our tables. anw too bad. And because we were feeling bored after dinner and it was only 8plus, andrew, george, hongjun and i decided to take a walk to esplanade from ps. and as usual, it was cam-whoring session. lol. gosh. i love these pple!
Thurs
Going out everyday can be really tiring so i decided to give myself a break and rot at home. well i didnt exactly rot. i had lots to do.. like accompanying my mum to shop&save and sweeping and mopping the hse (which took me about 2 hours).
I had thought that by staying at home i wouldnt eat so much.. but NO! i think i end up eating more!! First it was eating pork leg at the east coast food centre after fetching theodore to childcare. Then dinner was crayfish hor fun made by my father. And i walked over to my grandma's hse(which is really close) after dinner. And she started stuffing me with food!!!! And i couldnt not eat! Everyone must be thinking now that im a pig and that i will just eat when there's food in front of me. BUT NO! I WAS REALLY FULL! But i had to eat because otherwise, she wouldnt eat her dinner! and then we started playing the passing food around kinda game. this is always the case when i eat with her. Not only that, she stuffed me with outram ang ku kueh and durians( ok those i dont want to resist)!!! then later she stuffed me with apples! GOSH! I HAD 2 DINNERS CONTINUOUSLY!!! the jog that i had before dinner went down the drain.
im going back to aust to DETOX!! eat more fruits and vegetables and a lot less oil. i need to shrink my stomach. Dont want to have like 4 stomachs alr la! sheesh.
but oh no! im going to eat katong laksa tmr!! CRAP! argh!
But i think the more irritating part is that im flying back on sat. why must 3 weeks fly so fast! WHY?! argh
Just The Girl @
11:48 PM
Saturday, July 12, 2008
i have been too lazy and too tired to update my blog. So im feeling hardworking now and i will talk abt the outings i had EVERYDAY for the 2nd week of my hols. (:
Mon 7/7
Dinner at amk new york new york with st nicks girlfriends. And we sorta had a surprise bday celebration for kezia's belated by ordering choc fondue before she came and making the nyny staff sing a rather embarassing bday song for her. lol. anw it was really great catching up with them and boy, they have been really busy. Going on ocip, hols, working, dancing etc etc. There's one more short: shuyu!!! who was enjoying herself in thailand and was flying back that night at midnight. But but at least i will get to see her tmr.(:
Tue 8/7
Sentosa with med pple. The outing was alright i guess. lunch at the food centre, which we ended up at for 2 hours cos we had to wait a continuous flow of pple who came later and had to eat their lunch too. played frisbee(our weekly thurs evening activity when we were still rather free during the foundations course), went on the skyride and luge(which is reallyreally fun) and nua-ing on the beach to do sth rather unimaginable: playing orientaion games like zhong ji mi ma, goggles game etc etc.
Us after a game of frisbee
getting ready to go down the luge.
wed 9/7
cyling with yiki to upper peirce reservoir!!! *gasp* and where do i stay? BEDOK!!! cant believe i actually did that and i took 2 hours to cycle there, eat my wanton mee and casurina prata that i have been craving since forever for 1 hour, and then took another 2 hours to cycle back via another route. and the good thing is that I SURVIVED both the physical part and the constant nagging from UNCLE yk. tired yes, with my ass hurting and arms aching but it was super super fun!(:
And after a bath, it was onto meeting ian and yingqi at novena for dinner. Talking to ian was really fun cos he provided the scoop on the happenings of the others, esp what happened at their kukup outing. In one night, he can discover so many things. gosh. i missed out on alot. But the main aim for the meet up was to eat ice cream. ian's great recommendation: the udders. Really superb nice ice cream that is made by themselves. And they have alcohol flavours like rum&raisin (which taste almost as good as sugar plum in aust), triple sec dark choc, baileys and bourne, lychee martini. Im not exactly a fan of strawberry ice cream but their strawberry was really good cos it is made from real strawberries. there are even the seeds in them which gives it a nice texture. yum yum.
thurs 10/7
k outing with oi, tiana and zhang. the outing almost didnt materialise cos beat ps oi and i. but lucky we managed to drag the other 2 along and we had a blast of a time. (:
fri 11/7
a 2nd k outing at the same place with wee keat, yiki, yingqi, jiamin. (: i think by the 2nd hour, my throat was dying but i was still singing happily away. lol. liked the room cos we had our 'private' free flow of refreshment (it was directly outside our rm) and our 'private' bathroom (a secluded toilet that is not used at all because it was connected through a door at the back of our rm). i think in that day along, i drank 5-6 cups of honey water. lol. well at least it helps my throat.
sat 12/7
taking a break from all the outings before i go out again tmr. But it was luck that stayed at home for dinner cos there was CHILLI CRABS AND FRIED WANTON for dinner. HAPPINESS!! lol. food makes me happy nowadays. i myself am astonished at how much i can eat. like what wee keat says, ni3 jia1 yang3 yi1 zhi1 zhu1. i dont think i can deny that. hahahaha.
Just The Girl @
10:52 PM
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
food check list:
-bak chor mee
-ou jian
-tau huay
-chai tau kway
-you tiao
-chicken rice
-bubble tea
-fried chicken
-mee siam
-steamed fish
-curry puff
-roast duck
-jap food
-keropok
-otah
-bak kwa
yepp.. i think that's abt the stuff that i have eaten the past 3 days. Come to think of it, it's quite a bit. And the realisation of becoming fat fat round round will come soon. But running everyday should help right.. haha
Just The Girl @
1:12 AM
Us after a game of frisbee
getting ready to go down the luge.