吉乐世界

Plans delayed

2010-11-03T19:30:00.003+08:00

Due to certain reasons, I am going to delay my job hunting, and continue staying on with my current job...at least wait till next year's CNY is over, before I try again...

At first I was very disappointed, why do I have to wait?? I have been waiting for the moment to leave and now I have been advised by various people not to...

Of cos, I can choose not to listen to them and just continue with my plans..but, does fate or luck work with me? So far I have only applied to 2 jobs, and none replied me..so what if I quit now? I can go ahead and quit, but I have to face the consequence of staying at home and not contributing to the household...AS IF I dare to do that... :S

Well, solution?
Don't think so much and re-tune my mindset. :)

SO long never blog here!

2010-10-19T02:33:00.002+08:00

OMG, I just realised that I have not blogged since June!!!

That is really, super duper long! I think nobody is going to read my blog anymore, LOL...

Don't know why I have not thought of blogging, perhaps I'm too involved on Facebook, too hooked to it, such that whenever I have things to write, I'll update on FB instead of my blog...

I have many things to say in my mind, however when it comes to penning things down, I'm dumbfounded, I don't know how to express myself well ba, I thought...

Recently, quite a few friends of mine are going through breakups. Feel sad for them..some relationships lasted a year plus, some 5 years!! First thing I thought about was: 问世间情为何物？只叫人痛不欲生…… I have been through 2 relationships so far, but they are very short-lived, 3 months and 1 month, but no matter what, they are still breakups, and I had to deal with the heart pain too, so I can understand how they feel, it's just that I cannot feel to what extent is that pain, must be very, very, very bad...I cannot imagine how would I feel if I'm the one experiencing it...
Definitely cannot take it, I thought to myself.

I sincerely hope they can quickly recover from the heart pain, and be their happy selves again...see the way they are sufferring, I think I am getting more and more uninterested to get into another relationship again...but I will still be positive, wont shut myself up lah, but I guess, I may not like someone easily like what happened in the past le..不敢放心去爱...

很感人的短片

2010-06-19T02:41:00.002+08:00

好感人啊，发现最近MCYS的“家庭”系列短片都很有“感觉”，看了都会让人忍不住想哭。这些“催泪弹”害我哭了不少……哈哈！

亲情，的确要经得起考验啊。现在有多少人的亲情还是那么地深厚？尤其是对于家中的老父亲、老母亲？人是不是奇怪的动物？都只记得要照顾、疼爱小的，却忘了老的？其实有些人说得对，老人家就和小孩一样，我想，耐心的确是不可缺少，问题就在于，有多少人能够做到这点？

小学时常常听到“饮水思源”这个成语，在这种情况下运用实在是再贴切不过了。也许用在祖先上或许有些遥远，不如就先用在自己的祖父母和父母上，更能感受到其意义？:)

Updates

2010-06-12T15:54:00.003+08:00

Hiannie just reminded me that I have not been updating my blog. Haha..oops! Always forget about it..

Almost half of 2010 has past, and it's time for the 2nd half to unfold! Basically, seems like the 2nd half of 2010 will make me very much busier. I plan to learn driving (I hope I'll make it happen, haha!), I'm going to be A380 trained in July, and I'll be going to New York with Keelee for a 2-week holiday! :D

A380 - Love-hate relationship. It's going to be lots of hard work but more European stations, which also equates to more money, hehe.. Hopefully things will be fine at work!

I gotta buy air ticket for the New York trip soon! And start planning for the trip, places to go and accomodation. Not a lot of time left, but I don't think we will take a long time to do those planning...hehe..and we have to do it via email and phone calls.

Other than that, I think that it should be all that I wanna do this year. Other things to plan, will be to consider when to quit my current job, and to apply for new jobs. I would like to obtain my driving license first before I quit. Oh, another thing, maybe to plan a Taiwan trip to go with my parents next year or what.

Argh! So many things to do! One thing at a time...

Happy Mother's Day!

2010-05-10T00:43:00.004+08:00

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers in the world! :D

It's Mother's Day again, a day to remind the children how good our mothers are, and a day for our mothers to take a break. Is that all? I think it's also a day for eateries, salons, florists and other businesses that you can link Mother's Day with to earn BIG bucks. Haha. Just thinking from the practical side..heh..

Nevertheless, meaningful or meaningless, as I always say, 开心就好. It can be a day for extended family members to gather, other than during festivals or events like CNY or Christmas. :)

My cousins and I decided to order buffet dinner to treat our family on Saturday. It was an evening filled with laughter. :D

The buffet spread!

Mother's Day cake!

Our mothers and grandmother! :D 母亲是最伟大的！

Please be careful with your belongings!

2010-03-30T22:26:00.002+08:00

Just lost my wallet at Johannesburg, South Africa. Lazy to type the details cos I have repeated the story N times. Haha.

I can only say that things do happen, and as much as possible, we have to be really be careful with our personal belongings... There are many reasons one can lose their items. Misplace, dropped because item was not kept properly, carelessness, pickpockets etc. We cannot control a pickpocket's actions, but we definitely can control how we take care of our things.

This time, I am considered lucky that I did not lose important documents such as Identity Card and passport. I do not bring my IC overseas and my habit is to separate my Singapore wallet and overseas wallet. Even in Singapore, I do not keep my IC inside the wallet as well. I'm also lucky because my wallet is not a branded one, although it's new, it costs S$15 "only" so the situation is not worse off.

Cash is gone, credit card has been used as well. So, another important lesson learnt: Once a credit card has gone missing, report IMMEDIATELY. The warnings are there for a reason, and now I experienced it the hard way...
More experiences: Travel to airport alone in order to make a police report. Call the bank and report about the case.

These are really important lessons in life.

I lost my choir concert ticket sales during JC times and it cost me $100+. Since young I have a tendency to be careless, especially with monetary items. I thought I had learnt my lesson since then. Ever since I had never lose my handphone and wallet once. To think after 7 years, it happened to me again. Complacency? Too tired after a flight to be alert? Well...what happened has happened. I just hope that I'll not be so careless again.

So folks, be very careful with your belongings! :)

Good Days After One Bad Day

2010-03-19T14:47:00.003+08:00

Well, as the title suggests, I had a bad day (or rather, a bad flight) recently. What happened I do not wish to recall, not because I'm running away from it, but because I do not want to add on the negativity to my life, thus I choose to let it past, and hopefully forget it soon (which is what I'm good at anyway...).

:)

This Dubai-Riyadh flight was, however, great! Not only were my colleagues nice and humourous, the flight itself is easy to do, as compared to other sectors. I'm grateful for that, and this further strengthen my belief of 事过境迁，雨过天晴. :D

I had a good rest in Dubai too. Slept like more than 10hours a day, went shopping, had a good supper with colleagues etc. I wish all my flights could be so happy...hee...
But that's life, there will always be ups and downs, happiness and unhappiness. I am grateful that I experience much more happiness than unhappiness, and I would like to reduce the unhappiness to a minimum, who wouldn't want anyway? :)

I would say my life is almost complete now, I have my beloved family, friends, and a loving and caring boyfriend. I only wish for everyone to be safe and happy, and I'm contented. Regarding my future, especially my job/career, I guess I am putting it on hold for a little longer, and see what future lies for me. :)

Going to studio tomorrow I hope, and I wonder what's in store for me. :) And meeting Keelee and Libing on Sunday too...I wanna cut hair!

CNY this year, must work...

2010-02-13T03:14:00.002+08:00

农历新年到了，可是我一点感觉也没有，或许吃团圆饭的时候就会有了。哈哈！

农历新年，却要出国，sian...

现在只希望同事都好，飞行工作一切顺利、平安……不要full load...haha!

CNY in Auckland! I wonder 这次的大年初一会怎么过…… :)

我似乎越来越没耐性

2010-02-11T13:47:00.002+08:00

哈哈！很奇怪。本以为，飞行会让我磨练磨练，培养我的耐心和忍耐力。可是，飞了一年半，效果似乎刚好相反。总觉得自己越来越没耐性，本是个急性子的我，个性也变得越来越急，很多事情要做得快。我不否认在机上我们得经常跟着时间赛跑，所以若手脚不快那真的不行。不过，我不希望因为这样而使得我整个人都变得很急、很紧张。有时因为这样，我对乘客的态度就不是很好，至少不是我想像中的好（因为有些同事对乘客的态度真的很差）。我以前会静静地、乖乖地，但是心里未必是服气地。现在的自己比较会把不满表现得更明显些吧，因此会觉得自己比较火爆。

在成长的过程中（当然现在的自己还是处在成长的阶段），我一直在想，一直在比较现在和过去的自己，而且也一直在思考我到底想成为一个什么样的人。有时候发生了一些事，会让我很想变成一类人，但有时发生了其他的事，又会让我想做回自己，那个比较懦弱，但却不会得罪人，可是没什么主见，没什么自信的自己。也许自己也没长什么智慧吧，很多时候发生的事情，应该怎么处理，我都没什么头绪。

真的是"one-third life crisis" 啊！Not quarter cos I don't expect myself to live till 100...LOL... 25岁了，都还不知道自己未来的路该怎么走，更不知道自己到底是什么样的一个人……

Longest flight ever...

2010-01-02T22:56:00.002+08:00

9 days away from home, for work.
This time was to Moscow and then Houston, Texas. I am in Moscow's hotel right now with my colleagues, waiting to go for dinner. And Moscow is damn bloody cold!!! OMG!!
Negative temperature! Snow covered Moscow's ground everywhere...but I'm glad I'm going abck home tomorrow! No need to work somemore! Woohoo! :D

Going for dinner now, will update when I'm back.. :D

Long leave, and back to work...

2009-12-22T19:47:00.003+08:00

Just had about 10 days of leave, including off days from the previous flight. I went to Bali for a short trip with a couple of friends, and it was fun and enriching. If not for this trip, my only impression of Bali will be the airport and the hotel we stayed at during the nightstop. And I had always thought that Bali is a damn small island, in fact, it's quite big!

We went snorkelling, parasailing, sight-seeing, eating, sleeping...etc. Snorkelling was not a very good experience, the water is murky, there are not may fishes to see and there's a stinging sensation every now and then (according to the crew it's due to small, harmless jellyfishes). Parasailing was cool and scary, I felt I was going to fall from the sky anytime...from about erm, 4-5storeys high?! But the view from the top is beautiful, as well as the wind and the sun...well..3min is enough...LOL..

The weather in Bali is HOT HOT HOT! One of the days the temperature even went up to 35 degrees Celcius! It was super humid as well, we were sweaty and sticky the whole day. In the end we just wanted to go back to our room, to enjoy the aircon and bathe!!

Photos here

Food was OK lah. Barbequed seafood, so-so. The prawns are not fresh, and the food is really dry. There is no gravy at all, except for some sambal chilli sauce and mashed garlic. If without these 2 condiments, I bet the meal will be worse. Luckily, on the last day we managed to look for our own food. Meaning to say, we get to choose what we want to eat, so we had western food, BBQ pork ribs (WITH GRAVY) and pasta for lunch and dinner. They tasted so much better... hehe...

The hotel was not bad, it was a 4-star hotel called Aston. Upon arrival, we were given a glass of pink guava juice each, and the rooms as well as the facilities were not bad too. I recommend it! :) It's even better than the one we stay at during night stops...haha!
Airfares plus room rates only $400+, for a 4-day, 3-night stay, from Zuji.com. Not a bad deal.

Recently I also bought a cabin bag, a hair iron and a laptop, cost me $1100+, actually for these 3 items it is considered very cheap already...hee..but still, I gotta face reality. It's time to earn more money after spending so much! I still got a camera to buy...hee... :P

Why no Chatterbox??

2009-11-15T20:14:00.003+08:00

Sian, don't know what is wrong with my blog or what...set up the Flooble Chatterbox so many times le, still cannot work, last for a few days then it would be gone mysteriously...怪怪的... :(

So I've decided...heck the chatterbox liao lah!

Waste my time and effort only, just comment ok? I know it's more lechay (troublesome)...but bo bian lah..I lazy to do the same things over and over again..hee..

Recently, don't know why suddenly my sec sch and JC 姐妹淘 started asking me, when am I going to work till...
Hmm so I gave the standard ans, probably next yr end, or the following yr the most...I seriously don't wanna stay long ah..always go to work feeling uneasy, very dreadful leh..
Well, means I should start looking for other jobs...checking out journalism...and yy's idea is not bad, go to schools and be counsellor..need training of course, but I think it's interesting job as well... :)

Should start searching le...at least get more ideas first.. :)

Home alone for 2 weeks

2009-10-27T23:07:00.003+08:00

Firstly, quiet. Really quiet. No kids at home, parents also not at home, I'm the only one in the house. It is still ok in the day because my brother's maid will come over for a few hours in the morning to clean the house during weekdays, whether I'm in town or not. But, I don't see her much as well. When she's around, I'm usually asleep. Once she leaves, she'll either call or sms me, and I wake up after that...

The house is clean and neat, only my clothes being washed and put up to dry. the toilets are clean and dry as well, with the pails neatly stacked up and they are DRY too...haha..

I tabao dinner, or cook instant noodles for dinner, and I eat and watch TV at the same time..I make my own comments, talk to myself, sing to myself, laugh to myself (loudly). I helped my Dad to bai4 bai4, pour tea for Toa Pek Gong and other deities, light the joss sticks and pray to the deities as well..praying that my parents and other family members be safe and happy wherever they are, whatever they are doing, and of course for my own safety and happiness as well... :)

I go out and meet my friends, come back super late at night, to the quiet house again...but one good thing, I don't have to worry that my parents will be disturbed when I come home, or worrying about me when I'm out late.. hehe... Totally guilt-free!

But before going for flight is depressing...especially if I don't know anyone within the set of crew...it's just so...ultimately lonely...sometimes even feel sad for no reason...dread to go to work, and yet there's no one to encourage me, or talk to me about other things, there's even no one to send me to work, other than the taxi driver...

But, it's alright! It's a different kind of experience...although I am SOOOOO lucky I don't have to wash my own clothes...I realised...it's not difficult to be independent, or to even survive. But, surviving is one thing, existing is another...without love from your family, you are just like a corpse living in this world, work, eat, sleep, wait to die...
Life can be very simple when you're alone, but you cannot live without love...

Oh and I forgot to mention, I went to my brother's house for dinner once, met my nieces and sis-in-law too...

有家人、朋友的陪伴，人生真的更充满了意义，还有生存的价值。

记得珍惜你身边的亲人。 :D

Random random

2009-10-07T16:29:00.002+08:00

Haha...realise the trend, everytime I put "Random" something as title, it means I don't know what to blog about...

In the end it becomes 流水账..just talk about what happened in my life...

Yay I'm on leave now! The only sad thing that it's going to end...but nevermind, it's coming back again in November and December! Woohoo! Slack...wahaha...
But next year, back to full force work liao... :S

It is always good to have holidays...slack, no need to work, just nua big time....but sometimes, cannot nua too much, will feel useless, or feel that time is going away...for nothing...jialat...

BUT, do what?! I don't like to study, so keep going online, sometimes read book...when I'm really bo liao, seriously bo liao, I thought maybe I should dig my past readings/notes out to read, perhaps I will 温故知新，重新了解我以前在读什么书...WAHAHA...that is actually quite scary..last time don't understand, or never study, 毕业了 then study...WAT THE HECK...haha!
Sekali I realised I could have done betta...how?! Aiya, also too bad lor...what can be done??? LOL

I gotta go already, later going for my friend's chalet...meeting my batch mates...yay! Long time no see le... :D

爱情的成熟与不成熟

2009-09-16T00:48:00.003+08:00

刚刚听到YES933的周重庆说了一段关于爱情的话。有个名人（不知道是谁，我听到但忘了，应该是某位西方的思想家之类的人物吧）说了这句话：“成熟的爱情是因为爱而需要，不成熟的爱情是因为需要而爱”。

我认为或许也能这么说：“真正的爱情是因为爱而需要，而不是因为需要而爱”。很明显的，一个是爱对方，另一个则是爱自己。

我还在等待一个爱我，而我也爱他的人。爱情应该是双向的，如果不是，那只能说：“对不起，NEXT PLEASE!”

Hmm..the above statement is meant to be funny...with a funny sound saying..N.E.X.T P.L.E.A.S.E lidat...when I read it, hmm, seems a bit "arrogant"...I'm just trying to say...if not meant to be, then one gotta look forward and look for the next Mr/Ms Right...it's just a general statement...haha...

Finally Blogger is back to normal

2009-09-06T00:33:00.008+08:00

Hmm Blogger is normal here in Manchester, I wonder if it will be the same back home. Previously I can't upload pics here...weird..

Now since I got the chance, I can post some pics taken in Manchester...last week...haha

A friend told me that this street is the gay street. Many gays will gather together at night for meals, drinks etc. It's called Canal Street, I did not take the pic of the street's name.

Manchester street in the morning...late morning...gloomy sky hor? That's UK..

Chinatown! Forgot to take the 牌坊! (forgot what is it called in English, it's like the gate, the entrance to Chinatown)

Yummy dim sum! And quite cheap! This whole table of food for 6 people, costs us 6 pounds each..cos got half price promotion! :D Not in Chinatown though...it's at Oxford Street...

Uniquely Singapore! Cool hor! We were so excited when we saw it, 2 times in a day! This time I'm lucky enough to take a pic of the taxi during red light...haha..

More pics to come next time, I forgot to bring my cable so I can't upload the pics from the camera into my comp...this time there will be more pics! :D

Manchester

2009-08-31T19:36:00.000+08:00

For Ireland trip, I'm a bit too lazy to blog about it because it's a whole 9 days experience! Was thinking of blogging about it day by day....but I guess, haha...Just visit my facebook to see the pics once I upload them lah ok...LOL

My friends took like 1000+ pics, excluding my 200+ or so? LOL... It's gonna take some time...hahaha...

I just came back from Manchester. People who have been there are right, there is really nothing much to see in Manchester. We missed the opportunity to visit Scotland, and due to the fear of being trampled upon at Old Trafford on the day of Man U VS Arsenal match, I had decided to give Old Trafford a miss too. No worries, HOPEFULLY I will go there next week. Ya I got the same flight again, back-to-back flight as we called it. Heng I don't have to work both ways, so, I don't mind going back there, it's a good deal...hee...

Other than shopping and food (we ate Macdonald's and collected the Coca Cola glass! I wanna collect another one on my next trip!), we did nothing else. Haha. A few of them went partying, cos it was Gay Festival during the weekend. But I am not a party person, so I gave it a miss and watched movie in my room.

And thanks to Kester who has wished me good luck a few times because of the weather, we really kena quite a bad rainy day, imagine 10-minute rain, after which the sun came out, shining brightly, and 10 minutes later came a sudden heavy downpour... All of us looked like this: -_-|||

I will post a few photos up soon, something is wrong with my windows, I don't seem to be able to upload pics...

对于工作，我似乎越来越想放弃。可是我又不想作出一个冲动的决定。也许，我需要更多时间去适应，毕竟又是新的环境，可是有时候做回最简单、最基本的事，我还是会...不舒服。换句话说，我对自己没信心。我知道逃避不是办法，而且我也经常想，如果我有这个问题，我到哪儿工作都没差，因为，本来就没有信心。我也不知道我在害怕什么，也许我太在乎别人怎么看我，又或者我对自己的要求太高，也可能我不能承受压力……也许，3个可能性都有……

我干吗要这样啊？难道就不能够开开心心、轻轻松松地工作吗？真是个笨蛋！烦死了！

I still believe in beating kids...

2009-07-17T13:38:00.002+08:00

When it's time to discipline the kids, you just have to do it.

小孩子都是不懂事的。不懂事，就要教。好言相劝，不要听，刷性子、搞固执，就要体罚。到现在我是相信这些的，只要恰当，我觉得没有不对。Of course don't go overboard, to the extent where the kids got abused and lived in fear...how to prevent that? For a start, don't do it often I supposed.

I scold my brothers' daughters at times, at most I threaten to beat them if they don't listen, sometimes they are just so stubborn that you either give up, or you lift the cane and whack once, or twice. So far, I've done it twice. Today I hit the youngest one. She's getting stubborn, just like her elder sister. But the elder one is more sensible now, and getting smarter, so when we discipline the young one, she knows how to avoid making the same mistake again. Of course, she has her naughty times too...

The little one was playing with some stickers with her name on it, and the maid was "niam-ing" her, telling her that her mum bought it for her, and she herself wanted it as well, so should not play like that and waste the sticker etc... When I heard it I was a bit pissed already. "真不懂得珍惜！" That's what I thought to myself.

Next, she refused to eat. She has the habit of "siam-ing" and play a fool when the maid was feeding her. We can see when she really has no appetite, her mood would be bad, and she would be begging the maid that she does not want to eat anymore. But this time, she is just playing a fool. The spoon was going towards her and she backed off, all the way till she lie down on the floor. She just lie down and refused to get up. That is when I got real angry with her. We asked her to sit upright and eat her food, she refused to budge. I threatened her that I am going to bring down the cane, she totally ignores me and continue watching the TV...guai lan kid...I took the cane and hit the sofa, she's not afraid. I went in front of her with the cane asking her to sit up again and she still ignored my warning.

忍无可忍。

The cane went down to her butt, and as I hit, I scolded her.

After 3 seconds, she cried. I carried her to sit upright, now she is willing to sit down and eat her food.

When I went back to my room, she came in. Trying to get near me liao... -_-|||

I think I will discipline my kids this way too. If school teachers want to punish them for their mistakes I will say, "Go ahead!", unlike some parents who instead wrote in to complain about the teachers.

Sigh. Kids nowadays.

Long time no see!!

2009-07-11T14:27:00.003+08:00

Hey all! Long time no updates!

Haha...not that nothing happened, just that so many things happened that I do not have time to blog...

Super tight schedule, my uncle's passing, meeting up with friends and family etc...lazy to blog etc, watch drama, TV, movies etc...haha..

Actually, there are many times when I have the urge to blog about something, but I'm always outside when I have things to say...perhaps next time I should carry a note book with me, so that I can jot down my thoughts and feelings at that moment, so that I can blog afterwards. Many of those thoughts have been forgotten, so as I am blogging this, I don't know what should I blog about...LOL

After a few months of not-so-good destinations, I am finally going to new places in August...hee...

Not to mention my August holiday to Ireland with Keelee. After that I am also going to Sydney and Manchester! The Manchester one is interesting, I will be going to London first as a normal passenger, then transit in Heathrow to Manchester, via British Airways...a few days later back to Singapore via Manchester...woohoo!

Of course, I will also be trained..to work in a more atas environment...
And I have also enrolled myself in a one-day Elementary Korean course sponsored by the company..haha...it's going to be an eventful, busy and perhaps stressful August..
:S

*cross my fingers*

I just came back from Beijing and realised it is quite a cool place, as in the "city hall" area is actually quite amazing, and I didn't know it is so near to the hotel!

Nice lightings...

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This place is very cool...the screen on the rooftop is super huge, and I think they should broadcast some movies there, people can lie down on the floor and watch..LOL!

The famous recycled bag brand Freitag in Switzerland...the bags looked dirty and all, but they are made of 100% recycled materials and can cost SGD$100+ and above ok!
The toiletries bag has the same name as my baby niece! Cheyenne!

I had Spring Chicken pasta at the hotel, and I have the privilege of having a feathered chicken wing...my colleagues all laughed at me...haha...

Anyway, I realised India has very lame/funny slogans on the roads that remind drivers not to use handphones while driving, and to practise safe driving etc...they came out with things like:

"Lane driving is sane driving."
"No mobile while mobile."

Can see that they really love playing with words...there are more...but I forgot to note them down..so I forgot the rest...shall observe more next time..LOL...

What a torturous trip

2009-05-19T13:39:00.002+08:00

Finally! I'm home!

The 8 days trip kinda sucks..other than the shopping part and sightseeing part of cos...haha...but shopping, half of the things I buy are meant for other people, so I am damn broke now...lol..owe money quick pay money!

Went to Lucas films in San Francisco! My friend's friend is working there, so he brought us around the place..if not it is not opened to public, meaning only their staff can bring outsiders in...so I am very lucky..
We passed by the Transformers team, but of cos we can't meet them or go into the office cos the information is confidential...

Too bad I can't post any photos online, not allowed, if you wanna see I can show you, inside my camera..hehe..

The environment outside the office is very scenic...got park, lake (with ducks swimming inside somemore), Star Bucks coffee, and the offices don't look like offices from outside at all...those pics I can post...

Wait till I upload the pics...haha...

Spent a lot in SFO and Korea man...like S$400+?! Bought a lot of clothes from Forever 21, weird, I don't even shop in SG's F21...and bought a pair of Levis jeans, some cosmetics stuff, hand cream, masks, mascara and all...buay tahan myself!

I shall not complain about work, spoil mood nia..haha...
And I had Royston Tan on my flight from Korea to Singapore! My colleague said surprisingly..big director sits in Economy class..haha..

That time from Beijing back to Sg, I also had ex-actor Qin Wei on my flight as well..and according to my friend, he is as hao4 se4 as usual..the way he looks at gals is just..se4...haha..

Oh and Qinghui, to answer ur qn..touch screen is just..different lor, u need to get used to it...after some time I think basic phone is still betta...easier..haha..or perhaps cos Omnia is more complicated that's why...

Random stuff again..just to have some updates..haha

2009-05-11T22:43:00.002+08:00

My blog is stagnant again...basically there's nothing much to update...oh ya...there are..

My little niece is born! On 28th April 2009...seems like she waited for me to come back from Dubai before she's willing to "pop out"...LOL

More pics next time..didn't take much pics actually, cos I was more focussed and concerned about her Chinese name.

She's officially called Cheyenne Tan Yan Xin (I think should be like that ba..) 陈妍心

意思是希望她能有个美丽、聪慧的心。是我取的！

Not exactly...her eight characters was given to fortune teller, where by they calculate her name, and came out with a few characters...but due to the limitation of the number of strokes, there are not many words, so no matter how we put the words together, the names either sounded very common or just simply, NOT NICE.

姝文、姿允、施匀 etc...or whatever other ways you put them together, just don't sound right...

妍心...haha..is one of the nicer ones..sweet and nice... hee...

I got a new phone for myself too..Samsung Omnia...really loved touch screen phone at first...but now I understand why some friends perfer basic phones ultimately...

I don't regret buying it so far..but I guess, in the end, I will go back to using a basic phone..haha..

Going to Korea and San Francisco...must take care of myself and hygiene!

Spiderman spotted in NUS?!

2009-04-23T23:59:00.002+08:00

NUS Central Library got Spiderman?!

Haha...I'm in Dubai now...OMG...news really travel fast. It happened on 23 April 2009 1.30am, when the NUS muggers are STILL studying in school at freaking 1.30am...

And here I am in Dubai, watching such a video! LOL...

I wonder who is so bo liao...But I thumbs up to him man, entertaining the muggers' sian studying life...he's good! haha..

Joyce, maybe you can write this on OMY le!

No chance to do desert tour in Dubai this time, cos too expensive le..other people said it should be about S$50, but when we asked the Concierge, it was more than S$100! Hmm..also there's only myself and another girl, so we decided not to go le...

But nevermind..I ice-skated with other friends and my batch-boy though! At the world's largest mall, The Dubai Mall..

It is so huge that it takes you like 30min to walk from one end to the other on ONE level. There are like 4 levels or 5 levels...enough liao...but more high-end shops, doesn't appeal to me much...so never buy anything for myelf..wahaha..spent a lot on food though, cos the food is quite expensive...luckily got bring dry stores (aka 干粮..wahaha!

Can't wait to see my little niece! :D

2009-04-21T18:19:00.005+08:00

My 2nd brother's child is coming to this world very very soon, but the sian thing is, I would not be around to witness her coming into this world. I wonder how she's going to look like, and what her cute name would be. But I know this little girl is going to be very sweet and cute! Hehe... I've told my brother to contact me when she's born, no matter where I am, I must not miss the special day! :D

Anyway, I'll be going to Dubai tonight, and going to Istanbul on Saturday morning...
Pray hard whoever I meet is nice..haha..ok...I must not have 分别心...no matter good or bad, I should not judge in the first place... :)

Most importantly, I must do my job well and then enjoy myself on my off days...
Appreciate the world around me, and share the happiness with the people around...

Pic of a little dog we saw in Amsterdam's tulip garden...he's called Elmo! The old lady at the back is his owner... :)

Haha! When I'm "drunk"...I get high...just 3 small glasses of Heineken and I go crazy.. Super Tak Glam!!

One of my fave pics takenin Amsterdam! :D

Myself, Fay and Naomi...who shares the same birthday as me but 1 year younger!

Trust me, this mule walked towards me..very very closely, like he's going to eat me up anytime...I don't know why! So I backed off a bit, but decided to embrace the animal and take a pic with it! LOL..

My cousin in Amsterdam! :D

Back from Amsterdam

2009-04-18T00:32:00.003+08:00

Haha..lazy to post pics here for now..maybe it's better to just see the pics in facebook, which I am going to post some time later also...

Quite busy after coming back...on the same night after the flight, it was meeting my colleagues again for dinner and drinks...haha..yes...see them again after the flight...because they are so fun and nice to be with! :) Went for dinner at the Firestation, then to Wala Wala Holland V for drinks, then to Sentosa Siloso beach for a chit-chat chillout session...by sitting on the beach...so damn fun...even though in the end I reached home at 5am in the morning...!!! Haha!

Anyway, very soon...tonight, I went for another "联谊" session organised by Diane..and it's Japanese guys this time..LOL...
2 of them..not bad looking..
But according to Diane, in the end, one of them is actually attached..the other one, also not bad, but a bit too quiet, and he's 33 years old...hmm...a bit old lah..my 2nd brother's age wor..but he knows Chinese...

Hmm..sometimes really feel I don't have enough time for myself in SG...keep going out...simply treating my house like hotel in Singapore also..my parents din say that but I feel that way..
come home from work, sleep, go out...come back sleep, next day morning go out again...not only I din see my family much...I feel exhausted also...too packed with activities...I'm really tired sometimes...

So if sometimes I said I wanna stay home...It's not I don't wanna meet up, but I really need more time to be at home...to be with my family, or at least stay in my room and be in my own little world...

To be continued...

In Copenhagen now

2009-03-24T22:36:00.002+08:00

Wah kao! It's damn cold here! The moment we arrived at the hotel, it's feezing cold! I think so far it's the coldest place I've ever encountered..

And we saw snow! Not on the floor lah, but when we arrived in the morning there was light snow! Haha...and my friend said it looked like dandruff flying around...OMG...what a description, come to think about it, YUCKS... LOL

Feels like just hibernate in the room cos it is simply too cold to go out. I think it's about 2 degrees celcius or so? Brrrrr...

Cold till all of us wanna curse and swear...even myself....haha..

Later going out for dinner with my friends..hope we get nice food! :)

More updates...

2009-03-18T14:40:00.002+08:00

Haha...I'm back!

Took 2 days MC so I'm very free now. Mon rested, Tue and Wed MC, Thur off, Fri then work. SHIOK!

Shiok 个屁！

I sprained my back at work, and according to the Chinese sinseh, I bathed late at night also, so 湿气 (damp air) entered my body and caused my back to hurt... usual same old problem that I kena in uni lah...well..MC!

Still hurt a little, but much better le...perhaps I gotta wayang a bit at work...look at customers with a pathetic face and act weak, so I no need to help them with their luggage..LOL 偷懒!

Slack at home these 2 days, and it feels damn shiok and energetic to have enough rest and sleep...haha!

Ok I can feel angry eyes staring at me liao...I have times when I don't have enough sleep also mah...then still must work for more than 12 hours..

Talking about my back treatment process. It was torturous, yet shiok... machiam everything is shiok to me...haha...

I did acupuncture, 推拿和拔罐...TOGETHER in one day...
One drop of tear rolled down my eye...haha
I wanna scream in pain, but in the end I grabbed the pillow and bedside and screamed in silence...

DAMN PAIN LAH! 痛死我了！

But really felt much better after that...

And you are right Diane, many of our dear friends don't blog already, I think they are too busy, such that blogging is the last thing in their mind to do...I will be like that as well if I am busy with other stuff too...haha...bo bian...

Updates...

2009-03-17T18:03:00.007+08:00

Finally got time to update more about my life...if not I think my readers/stalkers are going to disappear soon...LOL

Went to New Delhi (India) last Monday, and came back on Thursday. I thought I will be rotting in my room for 3 days, luckily some of my colleagues want to go out, so we managed to go to some flea market places and Taj Mahal! :D

First day of arrival we went to a shopping area called Priyas Complex...something like that, I'm not sure if I've spelt wrongly or what...

There is a cinema, a few eateries/restaurants, pub, bookshops, MacDonalds etc...but don't look like a complex at all...9 of us went together, and we split into 3 different "toot toots". haha.

Oh, and there's a cow walking around at the area..."hey my buddy!"...haha...so cute...and it just walked around nonchalantly...got attitude... :)

Then we went to another flea market place called Janpath...
There sells a lot of Punjabi suits, more of "Indian wear", books, usual clothes we wear like T-shirts, handbags, table cloth etc...many many things...and I feel that the people there, are not very friendly..

The vendors are very "hiong"..(fierce)..haha! But when you are more fierce than them, they wont disturb you anymore..

Vendor: "Hey Madam, come come!!"

I walked away, ignoring the person.

Vendor: "Hello! Hello!!!!"

Me: "NO THANK YOU!!!! (shouting out load)

Vendor: "Ok thank you madam! Welcome to India!" *Smile*

Me: Stunned....

Anyway, the books there are damn cheap. Ok really pretty cheap..

I bought these books, for less than S$60... each story book is about S$7 on average...cheap hor!

The next day we went to visit the Taj Mahal at Agra, 4 hours bus ride from Delhi.

Other than Taj, we also visited the Agra Fort and the palace area, where the family (家族) of the Taj Mahal stayed...(I forgot the surname of the Kings, :S)

On the 11th March, it's the Holi festival of the Hindus..where the people will pour powder and water over you etc, make you very colourful...we avoided that day because we do not want to be "coloured", haha..no lah, we thought it will be very messy and chaotic, especially for girls, it can be quite dangerous...

The kids drew on the floor, including the word "HAPPY". Can imagine how happy they get... :)

Taj Mahal with my colleagues...(above)

I have not watched Slumdog Millionaire. But according to my colleagues who did, they said the scene is really very "slumdog"...the kids begging us for money...when we saw the bottle caps on the water bottles they gave us, we will be thinking if it has been glued...LOL...very funny...

Very exotic experience...

The sky is ALWAYS clear, with no or few clouds, so what we see is blue sky, green patches of grass, yellow muddy grounds/floors, black people, white people, yellow people (like us) and so on...what an interesting colour-combination.

But seriously, looking at the living conditions of the people there, we Singaporeans really should cherish what we have...our living conditions are like HEAVEN to them...

Culture shock.

In love with new songs again

2009-03-08T14:03:00.003+08:00

This time...it's Jason Mraz!

He just came to Singapore for his live concert on Thursday...I did not go...but I'm in love with the 2 songs that's playing on my blog now! :D

Sometimes, I see the ang mohs wear till very slack, going around the world to backpack (it rhymes! LOL) I feel like joining them!! Hope I get to backpack one day..anywhere is fine, as long as I have friends with me.. :)

Loh Wei! I wanna join you for the Mexico trip! Seems so fun...too bad you're back in Toronto liao...haha...

I will be going to India-New Delhi tonight...too bad not a backpacking trip...haha...just hope I don't have spider webs growing around me..lol..if I don't get to go out..I have to rot in the room for 3 days! Time to exercise!

I've been told to slim down

2009-03-05T01:07:00.003+08:00

Yes I'm fat...I've been told to slim down because my uniform cannot fit me well anymore. They even told me it looks like my skirt is going to burst soon...
And I was told I gotta do something about my hair, it can look unkempt. Yes "unkempt" was used. Even my watch also 被嫌弃, because the face is light pink, which is not allowed actually...

SIAN.

How motivating. How nice to hear those words. Perhaps I should start eating bread and instant noodles especially when I'm overseas, just like those people who tried to do that in order to save lots of money. In that case I can save up a lot too. :)

Ya I am fatter. SIAN. I thought building muscles could help me work better. Yes I'm not wrong, but I thought I got exercise so perhaps I eat more, and eat much richer food, and I become FAT!

And my hair! Should I maintain a short hairstyle for the rest of my working life in this line? I really wished to have long hair yet I look so ugly tying my hair up. Even my friend asked me not to leave long hair. And not to mention that I don't really look good in my short hair either, after using the spray to make it "helmet-like". *Hmpf*

I wonder if I suit this job. It took me months for me to accept the fact that I'm in this line actually. And you know what? Sometimes I have the idea that, if the economy is so bad that the company has to ask people to leave, I don't think I would feel upset about it if I were to become one of them. Yet, there are times that I thought to myself, I would not mind working for more than 2 years...

I really don't know what I want. I cried at night sometimes, panicking over what I should do after I quit the job next time. I panicked because I still do not know what I want. Even though I still have time to think about it. Perhaps I just worry too much. I just want to be simple and happy. But I also want my family to be happy. The money I earn now is good for my parents to live more comfortably...my mother kept telling me to just go ahead and do what I wanna do next time, don't worry about money..but how not to? I also have to save up, for marriage and house and retirement...as well as for my parents' retirement...it's not that they don't have money but I'm afraid it's not enough...after I quit I have to go back to entry level..come on, don't tell me to be sales person, property agent or what...it's not that I look down on these jobs, but I'm totally not interested in them..

OK enough of sudden rambling..didn't intend to talk so much wan...guess I will become a fat, grumpy and naggy old woman next time..LOL

But I don't want! I wanna age gracefully and be a 气质与智慧兼具的老女人！

A Message by George Carlin (a comedian)

2009-02-26T16:19:00.003+08:00

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

George Carlin

This is interesting..and it is so true..take some time to think about it, digest it..and hopefully, slow down our pace and love again.. :)

On leave!

2009-02-09T14:27:00.003+08:00

Yeah! I'm on leave from 3rd Feb till 13th Feb...a total of 10 days!

So far I'm enjoying it, meeting up with friends, catching up with them, and making new friends during the “联谊”session on Friday evening..haha...

I even went back for choir and learn a few new songs... I thought if there is any Japanese or Spanish customers talk to me, and I don't understand them, I can start singing "Yuki ga Tokeru" or "No Importa La Distancia" to them...LOL...ok lame..

I still have a few days before I go back to work! But somehow, as a typical Singaporean, the kiasu part of me is starting to worry...or rather, dread the feeling of going back to work...I DON'T WANT MY LEAVE TO END!!!

But it's not that bad lah..cos once i arrive in Paris, I can meet my JC friend Kenneth! He is over there for an exchange programme..what a coincidence..such a faraway place and I can meet a friend just because we are both there at the same time.. Too bad I don't get to go Toronto, if not I may get a chance to meet up with Loh Wei as well..nvm lah, like what you said, meet up when you come back in May!

Haiyo..time flies lor...which is also good, this may not be a very good year, so, 快快过去！ :P

Random pics

2009-02-08T17:57:00.003+08:00

《生活与生存》

Happily singing KTV...hehe...

Taken in Barcelona...

100 种生活

2009-02-06T17:16:00.002+08:00

作詞:鍾成虎
作曲:盧廣仲

整個世界停止不轉動很寂寞
走在海邊數著螢火蟲好困惑
想要的生活怎麼有一百種
不想掉進這深深漩渦

整個海洋擺動柔軟地舉起我
孤獨給我自由猶豫得好感動
想要的生活怎麼有一百種
該怎麼走誰來告訴我 wow

每當我背對星空
抱著地球
發現自己其實脆弱不敢說
當我背對星空
孤獨摸索
愛情漸漸萎縮我猜不透
無邊的宇宙哪裡有我要的生活

整個海洋擺動柔軟地舉起我
轉載來自 ※Mojim.com　魔鏡歌詞網
孤獨給我自由猶豫得好感動
想要的生活怎麼有一百種
該怎麼走誰來告訴我 wow

每當我背對星空
抱著地球
發現自己其實脆弱不敢說
當我背對星空
孤獨摸索
愛情漸漸萎縮我猜不透
無邊的宇宙哪裡有我(想)要的生活

每當我背對星空
抱著地球
發現自己其實脆弱不敢說
當我背對星空
孤獨摸索
愛情漸漸萎縮我猜不透
無邊的宇宙哪裡有我要的生活
原來一百分之一

I really like this song. It's a very nice song to chill with. Comfortable. :)

《生活与生存》

2009-01-31T12:25:00.003+08:00

昨晚与几个朋友看了由张艾嘉、郑元畅和王耀庆祝演得一场舞台剧《华丽上班族之生活与生存》。长达3 个小时的戏“延长”至4个小时，而可怜的演员们便从8时演至12时，之间张艾嘉和王耀庆还得重演其中的一场戏，接吻了两次。观众也连续“中场休息”了3次，我想，加起来大家也休息了1个钟头，哈哈！“榴莲壳”的人员只好提供免费的饮料和酒来赔偿我们这些无辜的观众。

无辜，真的好无辜，我无辜地多付了25元搭taxi回家…… :S

好drama的一场舞台剧哦。

舞台剧本身也很drama。

挺不错的，张艾嘉也演得很好。郑元畅在刚刚出场时显得有些不自然，不过到后来他慢慢入了戏，只是中间说台词的时候还是有不小心出错，吃了一些螺丝……

更drama的是，我被activated for work on the next day...which is today...and I have to cancel my dinner appointment with my friends! :(

这场戏很直接地表达了现代人工作时的情景，人吃人、勾心斗角、然后到最后伤害了人，才发现大家一直在争取的名和利根本都是空的，换来的只有压力、伤害，然后还有难过和后悔，中间没有快乐，没有发自内心的真正的快乐。

满沉重的一部戏，不过中间穿插了一些好笑的剧情，所以还不至于那么“重”。可是，作了4个钟头，大家都患了由Joyce 讲的 Economy Class Syndrome...

刚从柏斯回来的我，也在工作时看到了drama……我可怜的同事被上司骂得哭了起来，我也看到了上司那凶恶的嘴脸，完全毫不留情的怒骂……很恐怖、很惊心动魄……在我同事哭泣的那霎那间，我也很想和她一起哭，可是，没办法，还是得工作。她也很坚强，去了厕所一趟出来后，她若无其事的看着我，对我微笑、对乘客微笑……

可是从她的眼神里，我看到了不甘心……Haiz...

为了在这样的社会里生活与生存，大家要坚强啊！

Talk about some trips

2009-01-11T15:03:00.009+08:00

Recently I had been to Japan and Beijing, and I would like to share some things that I had seen overseas which are interesting, but may not be new to you all..

I arrived in Japan on New Year day, and they have a tradition of inviting guests to drink Sake on New Year. Thus I had my first experience of drinking Sake, in Japan somemore! I was very excited about it actually, hehe. The hotel offered us one cup of Sake each when we arrived. It somehow tasted like Vodka, but it was less pungent (I think) and very smooth to drink.

Conclusion: It was quite nice, and it should taste better if it was hot. :)

The "mountain" of Sake cups at the hotel.

The Japanese are a very civilised group of people (let's not mention about history here..). Just like the local Taoists who would go to the temples to pray for good luck and good fortune in the year ahead, the Japanese also flock to their temples during New Year to pray. And they are very very "guai"...they queue up to go into the temple! Some of the queues are even in single-file...goodness...I don't think we will ever see that in Singapore anytime soon..

But this is a picture of the crowd squeezing to queue before they reached the temple.

Then on New Year day, the group of us had a gathering at the hotel for New Year dinner, as organised by the company. So for the whole night we ate, drank and watched TV...

Oh next is Beijing...went there with my "training classmate"..was super happy and excited about the flight..cos I do not need to work as much, and it's my first time to Beijing! Too bad, due to time constraints and weather restrictions, I do not have the chance to sightsee over there...
I shall wait for summer, or when the weather is not as cold...and I will brave my way to The Forbidden City, and Tiananmen Square! Wait for me! :D

Happy New Year!

2009-01-05T23:53:00.006+08:00

Ok ya this post lagged for like...FIVE days...haha! But never mind lah, who cares? It's just another day and year, but remember to change your dates to 2009 instead of 2008, that's all...

New Year resolutions ah, I don't have the habit of doing that...I always don't plan, no organisation, no planning, no goals etc...
I am a very "impromptu" person...haha...that's why, I'm also messy and "anyhow"...

Well, one of my goals that I want or hope to accomplish, is to learn and pass my driving...it's kind of a dream of mine to know how to drive since young, but because of financial constraints, I was not able to fulfil this little dream until now, when I have a job, and I can finally save up some money to learn driving... :)

And one little secret...

Everytime when my Dad or brothers are on the road, if they met some kayu drivers, they will say that the driver must be a lady...and almost 100% of the times, they are true...
So, my wish of wanting to drive is also, in a way, a desire to prove them wrong...that not all female drivers are kayu...
I'm kinda 大女人 in this sense..always 不服气 when guys think in a certain way...about ladies...

Another good example is our sense of direction...recently met a colleague...he asked a lady for directions, and she seemed to be unsure about the area...so he feels that females' sense of direction is very bad...which is what he has experienced before...
I told him jokingly that there's a female here (referring to myself), so don't say this kind of things in front of me because it's kinda rude...then he said, "then you lead the way lor!"
I kept quiet..cos I don't know what to say...I admit my sense of direction is not very good, but it's not that bad...just that I need more time to read the map, get my bearings right before I can get the correct direction...but if all the while I know where I am going, I will be able to get to the destination...

Well...I just feel kinda 不服气 when he said that..haha..yet I feel useless that I was not able to prove myself right...真是不争气！
Next time I shall jiayou! So guys, stop looking down at females ok!

Got one colleague said I not bad cos I was the one who brought him to take the correct trains in Paris ok... but he took me around Paris lah.. haha..

Night view opposite the hotel

Copenhagen

2008-12-27T14:03:00.002+08:00

Hey all! I'm in Copenhagen now..internet is free in this hotel, so shiok ah...I can use internet the whole day...hee..

This is a very special Christmas for me. Although everywhere is closed here, I had my share of fun and nice memories... :)

Only regret: I did not get to see a white Christmas...but the weather is damn cold... -2 degree Celcius! Freezing man...
But cold on the outside, warm in the heart.. :)

I will be going back to Singapore in a few hours' time! It's 7.07am here now, 1020am the plane will take off for Singapore...

Home sweet home! Yay! :D

Anyway, this is dedicated to Naimin: Happy Birtday to you! I know it's 27th, not 28th yet, but here's a greeting from me in advance! Cya tomorrow! :D

Merry Christmas everyone!

2008-12-23T13:03:00.003+08:00

Merry Christmas to all! Ok, I know there's another 2 days before Christmas, but I will be working so this is an early greetings to all of you! :P

I am getting more used to being alone..in fact, I like being alone! Especially when I go out overseas, shop alone, eat alone, walk alone, drink coffee alone...
Ok, probably that's a sign of me becoming anti-social..what an irony, my job making me more anti-social...LOL...

Well...being the straightforward me...说话总是口无遮拦...my bad...always say things without thinking twice...and worse is that I say things that hurt others...happily!
So ends up it seems as if I'm proud and talking down to people...especially friends that I love.. :(
Sometimes I even make jokes at the expense of others' pride..and it can be hurtful, no matter how unintentional I want to be..

Sometimes I wish my mouth can only sing, and that's all..
But I guess that's not going to be the way I grow to be a better person..I have to learn how to speak and listen wisely...talk only when necessary..if I can't joke, then I might as well just remain a boring person as I am now..sometimes try too hard will get negative results...WORSE!

To the people whom I have hurt by my words or actions, I apologise! :)
I am really sorry to have said things that will be better off left unsaid...but I know that the damge has been done. I don't know if any of you will read this, but I have no intention of putting you down when I said certain things. I just lack the wisdom of phrasing my words properly before they come out of my mouth. In the end, they hurt.

Anyway, nowadays I can't even catch my colleagues' jokes..especially the guys'..their jokes are simply too chim for me to understand, or we are just of very different frequency...oh well...as long as they are happy and don't tekan me can le..I just wanna work my share and get my money...haha..

矛盾的心情

2008-12-05T14:41:00.003+08:00

很久没有用中文写部落格了。

我是个很容易emo的人，一点点小事就会不开心，或是想很多事，而且是往比较负面的方面想。可是我不喜欢这样的自己，觉得人生就只有几十年，做人应该要看得开，能有多开心就有多开心。人生应该是充满欢笑的，不是多愁善感。至少，我不喜欢这样。

偏偏，我就是这样。我不要！我要做一个开开心心，很会开玩笑，事事都能从容应对的人。

可是到最后，我还是会作回我自己。哈哈！

最近这几个月发生很多事情，我步入人生的另一段旅程、刚开始的恋情一下子就结束、父亲生病动手术等等。每一次好不容易平复的心情又再一次地被波动。

很累。

孤独。

不安。

难过。

哭不出来的心痛。

还要强颜欢笑。
一边阻止眼泪流下，一边微笑工作的时候真的很难熬。

没关系，这些不愉快的日子很快会过去。

我期待美好明天的到来。

:)

Thank you my dear friends!

2008-11-30T18:16:00.002+08:00

Hey all...

Thank you so much for all your concern! My dad is fine! :D

He's recuperating at NUH now and he's recovering slowly. We are not sure if there is a need for him to undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy treatment, but we will find out from the doctor on Monday, which is tomorrow. Currently he still cannot eat anything except to drink water...

Tonight I will be flying off to Adelaide and will only be back on Tuesday evening. By then I will update again.. :)

Thanks again for everything my dear friends!

For choir peeps: I will be flying around during Christmas, and it is so coincidental that I would not be in town on all your performance dates.. :( which means I cannot join you guys AT ALL... SIANZ...
You all jiayou ok! I will give you all moral support no matter where I am! :D

I love AJ Alumni Choir!

Life is unpredictable

2008-11-25T14:49:00.020+08:00

This kinda title always give people a negative feeling, doesn't it?

Haha! Well, life is not that negative for me, but some hiccups here and there... Which is enough already.

Work is fine, I just came back from San Francisco and Korea (Incheon). Worked hard and 挂了彩. haha. Got awarded a cut on my index finger and a burnt mark on my arm. Please, don't become a permanent mark, if not I will wonder if my company will continue to keep me or not. LOL

The 2 places are fun, went sightseeing, shopping, had good food. I had breakfast buffet at the hotel in SFO and had dinner buffet at the hotel in Incheon, with my colleagues. They are very nice to me, and I received praises of my good attitude at work.. :)

But, I did not really enjoy myself that much too.

The day before I flew, my dad went for a body check up at NUH and he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, after 9 years, but this time, it's on the opposite as before. So, the irritating thing is, after knowing this, I still have to report for work in the early morning on the next day.. I got to work as normal, smile to colleagues and customers... and to be away for 7 whole days.. not able to accompany my dad...

On Wednesday, the results of the CT scan came out. There is cancer but luckily there is no spread to other organs and whatsoever. I was relieved, but I seriously can't wait to go home... :S

My parents were so happy to see me back at home. Especially papa... I can see and feel his sense of relief when he sees me back at home. And he started WHINING to me...LOL..so cute..

But, that also shows his insecurity and fear. Now, it's my turn to give a sense of security to my parents. And I am glad that I am able to provide that security for them. Switching of roles. When we were young, we often have to rely on our parents for everything we need. Perhaps many of us are still relying on our parents, including myself of course, because most of our parents are still healthy and working to provide for the family. But after this incident, I suddenly realise, things may change all of a sudden. Everything can swap positions. So, we have to be prepared. We are already adults, right?

My dad will be undergoing an operation on Friday, and he will be admitted to the hospital on Thursday, hope I won't be called up for work on Wednesday so that I can go with him, together with my brother. He is scared. Who won't? Last night he could not sleep. He told my mum that he is afraid. Haiz...poor papa... I hope after the operation he will become very healthy and happy. Same for my mama..she's been suffering as well...

Everything will be alright! :)

Streets of Chinatown

Chinatown in San Francisco (reminds me of the 海外华人 module in NUS, haha)

Fisherman's Wharf

St Paul and St Peter's Church (where Marilyn Monroe got married)

Inside the church. It's a Catholic church...so during the prayer, I suddenly felt a sense of "belonging" to it, reminds me of my secondary school days.. :)

Digress a bit here...this pic was taken in Auckland. Very pretty right? It contains the envelopes and hotel information...if you wanna bring them home, especially the box..you gotta pay... :)

Seals! Oops..sorry they are sea lions and not seals.. acoording to the description at the Wharf..there's a difference between sea lions and seals... most of it that we see at the zoos which performed are sea lions and not seals.. I forgot what's the difference... hehe..

I like this pic. The gal is pretty and the guy is suave and cool...ahem...I mean the other gal looks handsome...but gals, pls don't fall for me cos I'm straight! LOL!!
(OMG pls don't throw shoes at me!! I'm just joking! :P)

The Golden Gate Bridge right behind me!

Santa Claus gallery in Incheon's hotel. Did not take many pictures there, and most of the pics are with my colleagues...LOL

Good attitude and Positive Thinking goes a long way

2008-11-04T15:53:00.003+08:00

Hi all!

As usual, I'm just back here to crap a bit..haha..

Been working for 2.5 months, and things are getting better, at least I am more used to the job liao..won't get so dreadful..

And I received some compliments from my superiors, saying I have a very good attitude and I'm enthusiastic about the job, and they ask me to keep it up. :)

I do not wish to become complacent or too comfortable with the job. I mean, once I become more senior, I can just go for flights, not prepared, as long as I know my work. But I don't like the feeling of being caught off-guard unprepared, especially when the leaders ask me questions about the job. I don't like being "blur blur" during work and then get criticised, of course, who likes that? No one. It makes me feel useless and irresponsible. I have seen some bo chap people. Really bo chap. For example, things that we can do, or give to customers, because of the inconvenience, they just said we cannot do this, or we cannot give that. I know it's inconvenient, but it's part of the job right? Customers pay so much, our salary is not little also, since it's just a simple request, why be so pek chek about it?

Anyway, I agree with what some seniors said, when you knowyour job better, you will start to enjoy more when you are not working. It's true, I am not saying that I know my job very well now, I still get corrected everytime I work, but generally, I am more or less ok, so as things get easier, I can interact with my colleagues better, and when we're out together, I won't feel that uptight and uncomfotable anymore. That's something good. How I wish I can become senior soon, clear my probation, then I think I can really enjoy what I am doing. :)

Anyway, things should not be too easy. Challenges are good for improvement. The more experiences we get, the more things we learn, and the more knowledge and wisdom you will achieve.

Say YES to difficulties, obstacles and challenges!

放屁过来！呃，是放马过来！:D

Finally can load some pics!

My colleague and I, on the train from Narita to Shinjuku...

I hate uploading pics

2008-10-15T14:13:00.002+08:00

CG, it's not that I don't wanna upload pics....everytime I upload halfway, it either jams or hang etc...wat a waste of my time....haha...
I shall try again...

(After 2 failed attempts)

Still cannot upload...even facebook also...haiz...

Wait long long for the pics ok? LOL

Athens

2008-10-05T01:31:00.004+08:00

Went to Athens from Tuesday till Saturday. It was a beautiful city and it is very historical...too bad I did not join the hotel tours to find out more about the place. My colleague went for the tour alone and heard that she went to a theatre that has very fantastic accoustics. She said if you drop a pin in the middle of the theatre (provided it's silent of course), you can hear the sound of the dropping pin throughout the theatre...imagine one day, if AJ or AJ Alumni choir has the chance to go there and perform..woohoo! Shiok! :D (Think too much)

We went to Acropolis and the town centre where there are flea markets and shops...the flea markets don't really look like flea markets to me...or rather, they are not really the kind of flea markets we see in Singapore...they cater more to tourists...so basically many shops sell the same stuff...local food products, accessories, etc etc...

Captain was very nice to bring us around...with him and another guy around, we gals felt very relieved...with them asking around for us, navigating the place using the maps etc, we felt very safe...haha...gals...haiz...
Being the usual kpo me, I tried learning how to read maps from the Captain...actually it's not that difficult, just that I have very "moody" direction sense, sometimes OK sometimes cui...lol...

The weather was nice too! 16 degrees to around 20+...very cooling and comfortable...as compared to Singapore..aiya...cant compare lah...Singapore's weather, only one word to describe: CUI

Dammit, I can't upload any pics... sian...

I'm back!!!

2008-09-28T00:02:00.003+08:00

Im sorry my dear friends...MIA for ONE MONTH! How are you all??? :)

Oops...not on purpose...always wanna blog, but plenty of excuses to avoid blogging, lazy lah, no time lah, forget lah...whatever...haha

For the past month I've been to quite a number of places...Japan, South Africa, China, Paris, Bombay, Dubai and so on...

Took quite a number of pictures, so it's totally impossible for me to upload them here...so..please click here if you are interested to see where I've been...hee..

For the Paris pics, half of the pics are my colleague's pics, I just copied and paste his pics into my com that time, so that we don't have to waste time sorting out.. so the room was his! My room was bigger and nicer..lol

Went to Shanghai to look for dear Joyce, passed her the mooncakes and other stuff bought by her mummy...and we went Qi Pu Road to shop!!! (together with my colleague as well)
Shopping was great, things were cheap and we hada great time together. The best part was taking "Tut tut" (those small taxis you see in Thailand) back to our hotel...the people there, according to Joyce, has no concept of time wan, the uncle was telling us that 3 of us can squeeze into the "car", and the journey is only 20min...

WAH LAO, the journey was 45min long! And we all agreed that the uncle is very zai..in fact the people there has very "hiong"(fierce) driving skills...this uncle, in order to avoid the jam, actually drove up to the pedestrian walkway and went back down to the road...at their high class shopping area lah! We were laughing throughout the journey man...amazed by how we actually got such an experience...
I even got cramps on my right leg...it was totally numb, and I can't feel my heels touching the bottom at all... :S

We were fated to take that Tut tut...cos initially we wanted to go back to hotel and eat our dinner near the hotel, then we could not get any cabs..the same tut tut uncle wanted to take us, but we refused, so we went to Mac to eat instead, thinking we may get transport after some time...

So we went back to the road, and the same tut tut uncle came back! He was laughing at us, saying that he had just came back from 1 trip and we are still there! (What the...) So bo bian...running out of time le..so we took the tut tut back... haha.. what a super long story...

Ok lah, regarding my job, I'm getting the hang of it le I think...of course still a bit blur every now and then, but I think I got the gist le...and I'm more confident to speak to passengers le...especially during safety checks... :)

But every time before work, I'll tend to become moody...dread going to work...got emotional..struggling inside me...and suddenly recalling all the unhappy things that has happened to me in these few months...emotional struggle...sometimes pulling me apart...not to mention that I gotta plan my finances, getting insurance and stuff...all the little little things...I'm such a messy person with a messy life and I'm trying to sort it out and simplify things with whatever little free time I have...

Feel confused sometimes, and sian...about my life, especially my future...what is my future going to be like? How long will I stay in this job? What kind of job will I get next time? Fancy worrying about this when I just started work..I have to tell myself, I had betta try to enjoy this part of my life now, my job, etc...because once it's over, it's over, and I have to move on...time waits for no man...

活在当下!

So tired sometimes...but I wanna be happy!!! I wanna be happy! Luckily I'm blessed with a great family and friends whom I can turn to for support...

Guess I have to learn to stop thinking so much.

Wish everyone have a fulfilling life and future! Live the moment! Learn to enjoy and appreciate whatever you are doing now and all the other things that are coming your way!

Greener pasture on the other side??

2008-08-24T20:25:00.002+08:00

Once my colleague told us before...

Why do you think the pasture is greener on the other side?

Some of us thought it's because of human psychology, some don't know, etc...

He answered:" Because the other side has more shit lah! Fertilise the grass that's why the pasture is greener what.."

Haha..quite true...sometimes from our side we thought that other people are better, their jobs are better etc...but who knows? Maybe they have more shit work to handle?

:P

So what's next?

2008-08-23T00:21:00.003+08:00

Recently many things happened to me...

Makes me very tired...

and yet I have to put on my mask everytime I put on my uniform...no wonder some instructors say many actresses/actors were former "colleagues"...can act very well...maybe soon I'll be a 变脸大师 even...

Anyway...regarding Dubai...aiyo it was SUPER hot...40+ degrees vs 30+ degrees at night...my colleagues brought me out to buy their local snacks and we all had dinner before going back hotel to rest...

Had a gathering at one of the colleagues' room and we played Dai Dee, a few rounds and sian already..and we had beer also..I sounded like a bad girl hor? I drank one can of Heineken...then we all chit chatted..about all kinds of things, about life/work experiences...all the way till Spore time 6am before we went back our own rooms to sleep..I was the only one who stayed at a different level with the rest...the "manager" also but he's the most senior of course different...then me being the most junior I got the lowest floor...LOL...

Luckily everything was fine...just that when I ate lunch in the room halfway, wanting to watch TV, so I meddled with the remote, but the TV channel's don't work...then after a while the TV switched on itself...but the channels were blurred...crazy TV...anyway, it was broad daylight...I opened the curtains wan...so don't think too much..some TVs are quite auto wan... :)

so I stayed in my room, watching TV the whole time, slept, wrote my diary and went to sleep before I prepare myself to go work again....

The food we had at a Dubai restaurant..shiok..the mutton curry and chicken...I love their Naan (which means bread)... each person ard S$14 ba...reasonable.. :)

And the view from my hotel room...they seem to be having construction everywhere...so nothing much lor...but it's really HOT HOT HOT...

Some thoughts recently

2008-08-18T23:17:00.002+08:00

Changed my song profile...my current favourite song...石欣卉's 《我知道我变漂亮了》..the show 《一切完美》 was nice, and the song is also good, I like the lyrics...written by 石欣卉 herself.

过去的批评嘲讽 (Let it go, let it go)
过去的轻蔑冷落 (Let it go, let it go)
有些人口不饶人
却忘了瞧瞧自己又有什么资格

时刻都善良待人 (let's move on, let's move on)
时刻都做好本分 (let's move on, let's move on)
有些人心思浅薄
绝不是宽容自暴自弃的理由

也许确实也受过言语打击
也许从来也没什么好际遇
千万别将勇气深锁在阴影里
我们又不会妨碍这世界继续美丽

我知道我变漂亮了 (我知道我被注意了)
曾难过曾失落微笑一下就过
外在的美貌容易戳破
内在的美好细水长流
我知道我变漂亮了 (我知道我也豁达了)
不自卑不埋怨就算还差一点点
用内涵弥补一切缺陷
内在的美迷住每个人的眼

时刻都善良待人 (let's move on, let's move on)
时刻都做好本分 (let's move on, let's move on)
有些人心思浅薄
绝不是宽容自暴自弃的理由

也许想说的话总埋在心底
也许想要的爱可望而不可及
竭尽全力争取幸福会看到你
大声说你的真心全世界最动听

我知道我变漂亮了 (我知道我被注意了)
曾难过曾失落微笑一下就过
外在的美貌容易戳破
内在的美好细水长流

我知道我变漂亮了 (我知道我也豁达了)
不自卑不埋怨就算还差一点点
用内涵弥补一切缺陷
内在的美迷住每个人的眼

一个两个不懂丑小鸭变天鹅啊
需要时间比较多
走过了伤痛才看得更通透
不到最后不会懂命运安排了什么

我知道我变漂亮了 (我变漂亮了)
曾难过曾失落微笑一下就过
外在的美貌容易戳破
内在的美好细水长流

我知道我变漂亮了 (我知道我也豁达了)
不自卑不埋怨就算还差一点点
用内涵弥补一切缺陷
内在的美迷住每个人的眼

用内涵弥补一切缺陷
内在的美迷住每个人的眼

I'm going to Dubai tomorrow! Coming back on Thursday morning 9am...means a night flight for me again...shag but also good, that means people will be sleeping...hiaks...

Seriously, currently at the initial stage, the job is tiring...and transition from a student to a working adult is kind of a drastic change, especially having to cope with the job...cos this job is kinda...special...
Sometimes I will even think, why did I want to try for this job in the first place...haha...the whole thing seems to have no link to my character at all...and that also explains the surprised faces when everyone knows that I'm into it...LOL...

Well, I think I really need time to adapt to all the changes, from a student to a working adult, irregular working hours, irregular working days, tons of DIFFERENT people I see everytime including colleagues...drastic change is the NORM for this job...I guess everyone who just got in also took quite some time to adapt ba...

I heard some people cry cos they kena scolded badly for the first day at work, some cried cos they cannot stand the loneliness overseas, all sorts...so far, I'm ok...still praying hard for myself though...haha...

I'm still blur and slow...TRYING hard to be steady...and I really must exercise lots!!! No strength to carry trays and pulling carts! Amazing!! LOL..

Oh...but...I don't really feel that excited having to go overseas leh...jialat..instead I feel very happy when I touched down in Spore...cos it's home sweet home! Maybe as what I've mentioned earlier, I need more time to adapt..and this job actually makes me realised that I missed my loved ones very much..and I should treasure having them around me even more...even my parents, I can feel that I talk to them a lot more nowadays, and they are seizing every moment to communicate with me when I'm home...not as if we aren't close before...but we are even closer now... :)

And it also made me miss someone even more too...i hope it's the same the other way round... :)

I'm off on coming Friday (22 Aug), Sunday (24 Aug), 30 Aug (Saturday evening cos I come back from Paris in the morning, I need to slp..hee), 31 Aug & 01 Sep (Sunday and Monday), 04 Sep (Thursday), 06 Sep (Saturday)...so far that's all I have... :)

Shanghai and Adelaide trips

2008-08-10T22:36:00.010+08:00

Hey friends, I'm back!

MIA too long le...not free and kinda lazy to blog...hee...I don't even have time to read friends' blogs now...so not sure how's everyone's doing nowadays...so sorry!!! :S

Just came back from Adelaide and Shanghai...Adelaide was cold and dark when I was there...winter mah, then Shanghai was hot and humid, but fun! :D

Taken in Adelaide from my room...Hilton Hotel...I stayed on the 3rd level and 2nd level has a swimming pool! But too bad it's winter so no point being so happy...LOL

The Shanghai Millenium Hotel...This is part of the room...notice the toilet, got glass window that you can look into from the room...hiaks... *don't think too much, I stayed alone..* :P

Further back is the sofa...

This makes the room even bigger! The room is seriously huge..bigger than the living room in my house now...

东方明珠！ My Indian friend took this pic for me...she has studied a bit of photography before...not bad sia...? :)

The 2 friends I went Shanghai with... :) We were on a cruising tour around Shanghai's "City Hall" area, I supposed...

Are these part of 外滩？ I'm not sure...but I know that area got 外滩，or what we people like to say “上海滩”...LOL

Soon I'll be going to some other places like Dubai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Paris, Perth, Chennai (India) etc...till early Sep...some are just for a day...if you get what i mean...so won't really get to shop...Paris will be fun I hope..hee..so far that will be the furthest place I will go... :)

When I'm not so lazy again I will put the dates of when I'm free here...pardon for my lousy and weird English..many things are kinda inconvenient to mention...so please do me a favour, don't mention anything on the chat box also..thank you very much! :D

毕业咯！NUS Commencement 2008

2008-07-14T20:02:00.004+08:00

我毕业了！

4年就这样过了，可见时间真得过得很快。在这4年里，除了上课、赶作业、作报告之外，我还认识了许多好朋友、老师、同事（因为期间有打假期工），甚至是男友，嘻嘻。这些点点滴滴的回忆都将成为陈香吉生命中的珍贵记忆，所以毕了业之后，除了带走文凭，我也会把这些美好的回忆给带走…… :)

谢谢大家对小妹陈香吉这段珍贵的记忆“做出贡献”。哈哈！我爱你们！:D

一些在毕业典礼后所拍的照片：

A pic with my beloved parents. :D

With Dr Ong who helped me with my ISM...as I have mentioned before, he's a super duper nice teacher!

With Dr Liang, who has helped me tremendously for my ISM too. It is my great honour to know him and got his help for my paper.

I like this pic. :)

This is a photo not to be missed...allow me to be a bit BHB...uh hum...六大美女 at THE CHINESE DEPT of NUS!!! :D

And 1, uh hum..*throat feels a bit stuck suddenly * 美女 at the Chinese Dept... hee..

And 2 pretty gals here! :D

Many people didn't turned up for my convocation because...because i didn't inform anyone except my parents and bf (but he's working so he can't make it)...HOW BLUR CAN I GET?!?!?!?! I'm so sorry!!!! :P

The moment I got home I got a "scolding" from my eldest brother...he always wanted to shoot the moment I receive the scroll from the Chancellor...and I smashed his..erm...dreams? But this goes to show that my brother is proud of me...hee... :P

1 more month to the end of my training...need to buy a cabin bag and luggage, and probably some winter clothing or what cos I'm going to a cold Adelaide...hmm...I'll continue to be broke even when my next pay comes... :S

Welcome back home Joyce and Joycelyn!!

2008-07-06T13:07:00.002+08:00

Recently 2 of my friends - Joycelyn and Joyce - came back from Australia and China respectively. Welcome back to Singapore girls! :D

Now I'm at the 3rd part of my course liao..learning emergency and safety stuff...

Remember people, whenever you take a plane, please try to wear LONG pants or skirts (for females of course)! You never know when emergencies will come (CHOI!), but if you ever need to use the slide, it's better to cover your legs and hands...they can burn your limbs for goodness sake... :S

Anyway, the course is fun yet boring...many many things to learn and remember, like the equipments and commands and procdures etc...but practical parts are quite fun...I shall not elaborate anymore... :)

Finally went to join AJ Alumni Choir last week! And congrats to Chee Guan (President), Whee Geok (Vice President), Guo Wei (Marketing), Zheng Kai (Secretary) and Mei Rong (Treasurer)!!! Jiayou guys! Keep the choir active and please try to get the juniors to join! I'll miss you guys though... :(

I'll be going to Adelaide on 30th July @ 2345, coming back the next day evening...for my very very first flight...ALONE...good and bad...other gals got company but I'm alone...nvm...I shall to pray hard that I get to meet good people onboard... :)

Then 3rd August @ 0805 I'll be heading to Shanghai, and coming back on the 4th... :)
Not much time to walk around though..sianz...but I know I'll have plenty of chances... :)

JIAYOU!! :D

Photos for Taiwan trip

2008-06-18T21:15:00.002+08:00

Hey folks!

Long time no see! Paiseh for MIA-ing...I don't think I can blog about TW trip much...no time, no energy..and it's my exams next week! :S

So, i shall provide the link to my pics...too bad not all pics were taken using my cam during the trip..so just view what I have first lah k? hehe...paiseh paiseh! :P

Here's the link: One
Two

2 links because in case one cannot work, the other still got chance...LOL...

6-day week can kill!!!

Hello everyone, I'm back!!!

2008-05-23T01:38:00.002+08:00

I'm back from Taiwan! Actually I got a chance to update my blog in TW but in the end something cropped up so I did not have the time to update.... :)

I'll blog about the trip SOON. (I'll try my best..it's 12 days!)

Seems like Peiying has told the choir that I'm not able to join the Alumni Choir's prac as often le...so people, you all jiayou k! I really love singing with you all...and I love you all too! Please continue to jiayou, and I hope the choir will get stronger and stronger! Fight on! :D

KL & Susanty: Thanks gals! I had lots of fun there! KL, hope you had fun in HK too!! :D

CG: I HOPE I'll be rich...haha..hope I have the discipline to save money and not splurge lor...if I splurge I'll always be broke...LOL..

Guowei: U mean I've been missed by the choir or you? LOL...I'll miss you all too! :(
I'll try to go back and visit you all whenever I can... :) I'll always be part of the choir!

Jiemin: Thanks! I'm back le! Bought many stuff lor! :D The clothes in TW are DAMN cheap! But the stuff in many shops are similar...

Geok: Dear LES, I miss ya too!!! Will go back and visit you all! Wont forget about the choir...you all don't forget about me too hor!!! :P

YZ: Sorry friend! I did not manage to check my blog etc before i fly, so didn't see your reply here...aiya!!! Wasted! I should have checked earlier so I can meet you up in TW!!! Wasted ah! Think we can only meet during our NY outing after you are back le..
Anyway which Uni are you in? Are you in Taipei?? :)

1_8: Hey hey...yaya...wont lose contact man! Will try to update my blog as often as possible at least! :D

TW trip will be up...sometime...haha! :P

Bo Liao Stuff

2008-05-10T14:48:00.003+08:00

Ya, as the title suggests, this post is about BO LIAO STUFF, so if you are not BO LIAO now, then better don't read... LOL

Some bo liao stuff discovered, seen, noticed, found during bo liao moments, especially during studying.. hehe..

1) Went to 某S Sushi at Park Mall on 30th April (Wednesday) with Lia and YY for supper buffet...hehe...
Had lots of food and laughter throughout the meal...laughing at each other, esp my dear gf YY...LOL..so bad, bf LAUGH at gf all the while with another fren...wahaha!
We ordered the fried vegetables and were wondering how come our order had not appeared on our table after half an hour...so we were kinda pek cek, and wanted to call for service using their computerised ordering system...
And this is what we saw:

See the Call for HELP??? The next moment 3 of us laughed and said: "HELP! HELP!救命啊！" .......

Idiotic...

LOL

2) Went to hand in our VERY LAST ASSIGNMENT IN NUS...训诂学作业3...
So I "copied" Irene (not exactly la, kinda lazy to stop and take pics) and tried to re-enact the scene of walking to Chinese department and hand in my homework...

At AS7 Level 3, Chinese Department. Just take the stairs next to level 2's computer cluster to level 3, and you'll see this long corridor of our profs' offices...

After walking past the corridor, you'll see blue sofas, turn left, and you'll see the Chinese Department office and these mail boxes...

Look for the "desired" (*puke*) mailbox and THROW your work in..

Met dearie Tannie yesterday at Orchard and we had a very nice and long girls' chat. Haven't seen her for more than a year...I've known her since 6years old...17 years liao...OMG...真的是“青梅竹马”的咯！
祝你幸福 dear! :D

Ok that's all...nothing much liao...haha..

Still gotta go back NUS and collect the 训诂学作业...S***...LOL

Taiwan tomorrow! Can't wait!!! :P

Happening post exam activities!

2008-05-10T00:19:00.003+08:00

Hey hey, exams are over, and I've been going out every day! *shag*

Went back to NUS ytd, the next day after my exam...GO BACK SCH FOR WAT???!!! It should be the last place one should go back once exams end!!!
But bo bian, cos need to try our Academic Dress! Aka grad gown...hehe...cos we're gonna grad!!

Ms Wanwen aka innocent gal joined us for lunch in school. :P Ate Yong Tau Foo laksa at Arts Canteen, and drank the milk coffee there, all in all only $3.10, cheap but I was feeling full and satisfied.. :P SHIOK!

We even did a good deed, found a handphone and returned it to the security at Admin Blk, so happening, the owner even smsed me to thank us...LOL...

We went to Vivo to shop, 5缺1 lor..Ms Caren did not come, Caren, I bet everyone is telling you to photoshop urself in, so 你自己看着办 ok? wahaha...I can't be mean to her, she's gonna 同居 with me in Taiwan, for 11 nights! :P 不想在台湾的酒店扮演“家庭暴力”...LOL!

在 BUS 拍照都爽咯...haha..

Us at a HK cafe! 黄宗泽! Eh, I seldom watch his shows la, but apparently some of the gals like him a lot..LOL...

Getting more and more excited about my trip...Taiwan rocks! :D

毕业了！

2008-05-08T01:17:00.002+08:00

这次真的结束了，毕业咯！:D

考完的感觉，除了CUI之外，还有一股莫名的爽快！很多事要做！

我要去台湾了！11th May to 22nd May 2008...

台湾等我哟，《我猜》也要等我哦！兴奋到……haha!

After that, rest a few days, should start training liao..but..after I've mailed the contract to them, the email they're supposed to send me regarding some details is not here yet..weird..have they forgotten about me again? But, somehow, if they really forgot, I won't 追究了..what for..

Maybe, it's fated that I won't be an air stewardess in the end...wahaha..after all the trouble..

Then, find a normal office job in Singapore lor!!! :D

Let's see what fate brings me to..

Last assignment ever in NUS submitted!!!

2008-05-02T21:51:00.003+08:00

Finally submitted the VERY LAST assignment that I had done in NUS..

Relieved? Relaxed? Happy? Hmm..relaxed, yes, but not exactly relieved or happy...more of...NUMB...

Probably like what Kailin had said, we have been rushing assignments for the past month or so..one after another...so, everytime after handing in one paper, we still have the next one to do...and so the gan cheong feeling continues to stay..probably because we still have one more exam...also ONE LAST EXAM to be taken in NUS le...haha..

Graduating very soon, going to work very soon..time flies..
From primary school to secondary school to JC to university...our life is so standard, ya standard is the word...
So standard and protected...
...

And next we're going to face REALITY, perhaps all the while in school, we've been living in a dream..as i said, we're so protected and sheltered..such that, whenever we face difficulties, there always seemed to be someone there for us to lean on..parents, siblings, friends, teachers, etc...the list goes on...
But working life...who exactly can we lean on when we face difficulties at work? perhaps u may think that im overly worried here..well, i'm not worried (yet), juz perhaps, skeptical..because u dunno who u can trust when u're out dere...hmm...
But, I'll still do my best to help others when ppl need help, I may not be able to trust ppl much, but i want to be trusted...at least be sincere towards ppl...others dun do it, but that doesn't mean i sldn't do it...right?

Hopefully, I can still believe that by treating others with sincerity, ppl will treat me with sincerity too..after I stepped out to work..unless their conscience have been eaten up, then I have nothing to say..haha..

Oh well, 一切要经历过才知道咯！

《身骑白马》——徐佳莹

2008-04-28T02:34:00.006+08:00

听了会让人想哭的一首歌

《身骑白马》
我愛誰跨不過從來也不覺得錯
自以為抓著痛總能修成愛的果
偏執相信著受詛咒的水晶球
阻擋可能心動的理由

而你卻靠近了逼我們視線交錯
原地不動或向前走突然在意這分鐘
眼前荒沙瀰漫了等候
耳邊傳來孱弱的呼救
追趕要我愛的不保留

我身騎白馬走三關
我改換素衣過中原
放下西涼沒人管
我一心只想王寶釧（摘自福建歌仔戏）

>>薛平貴和王寶釧的愛情故事

A competitor in 超级星光帮 composed and sang this song...nice...
I wanna learn how to sing it! Joyce, come back and we sing together! :D

21 year-old birthday party @ ..... McDonald's King Albert Park!

2008-04-27T17:26:00.004+08:00

Haha..kinda happening this weekend...when it's supposed to be the EXAM PERIOD for most of us...

Where did I go today?

Ans: To celebrate out dear Tan Chee Guan's 21st birthday party @ King Albert Park McDonald's!!!

I can only say it's a very innovative and BOLD idea to hold an ADULT BIRTHDAY PARTY @ MACS...LOL...

Birthday boy in BIG RED BOW TIE...hahaha..

We were literally treated like 5 year-old kids..playing games: follow the "big sister's" instructions and dance with the music...like doing the Twinkle Twinle Little Star action and shake butts, then proceed to playing another Island game, where we're supposed to dance around our Island (a pc of Mac tray paper), when the music stops, we have to step on the paper. As the music goes on again, the person will take away some of the papers, and more people will have to squeeze on the paper, who gets kicked out will kena penalty...but...we were just dancing and laughing around and nobody got 'punished' in the end...
And EVERYONE else in Mac were staring into the party room, amazed at so many "BIG KIDS" playing around, making so much noise...haha!

Big Sister: Ok kids, are all of you hungry??? *smiles*
BIG KIDS: (loudly) YES!!!
Big Sister: Ok, so before you eat, what should you do?? *smiled again*
BIG KIDS: WASH HANDS!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Then came the worst part...we have to queue up in twos and form a choo-choo train line and go out and wash hands!!!
Instead of going straight to the toilet which is just outside the party room, we were brought to parade around the whole of Mac, in 2 lines, with our hands on the shoulders of the person in front... (-_-|||) Damn AA, fun, but SUPER malu!!
*Hope no one I know saw me that please..*

It was really fun...and I just realised that many of us have either never held a party at Mac before or have never been to one when we were young.. I only attended Mac parties before, twice or thrice I think..can't remember..

It really brought back some childhood memories, if not, brought us back to the times when we were kids, and had a great time together playing, laughing, eating, making lots of noise...and..being cute!! haha..the party hat was...classic...haha..

Thank you Chee Guan for the party! Anyway Happy 21st Birthday! May your wishes come true! Welcome to join us ah! Enjoy being an adult! haha... :P

To the rest, good luck in the upcoming exams again! Then enjoy the long-awaited holidays! :D

五月天《回到地球表面》巡迴演唱會 Mayday Returns to the Surface of Earth Concert 2008

2008-04-27T01:57:00.006+08:00

五月天又回來了！

完美的搖滾音樂、‘從天而降的突擊隊員’和前所未有的吊橋同時出現在新加坡室内體育館！

新加坡是五月天《回到地球表面》演唱會的第一站。

這就是所謂的‘吊橋’，因爲它真的可以被吊起來，所以叫‘吊橋’。哈哈！

阿信直接站在眾歌迷的旁邊唱歌。帥斃了！:D

阿信漸漸走過我們，再回到臺上去。

忘了介紹，這是和我一起去看演唱會的好朋友之一，凱琳！:D

凱琳旁邊那位是她的雙胞胎姐姐，凱雯！也是我大學的好朋友哦！ :D

回到演唱會去，這是阿信和怪獸再次出現在我們面前的時刻！不好意思，用小妹我的手機拍的，效果不太好，盡請原諒！:P

我拍到的最好的照片！阿信就站在我面前，似乎有在看著我的鏡頭 hor! 可是如果放大來看的話，其實沒有啦……哈哈！超帥的啦！

It's not easy to write about a concert in a news article way, and I just reached home from the concert, quite tiring to think of how to write, so I shall just write in my own style, according to what I remember! hehe...

一开场，5個白马王子的出现就吸引了在场所有观众的尖叫聲！我忘了他们厂的第一首歌是什么，好像是我不太熟悉的歌。不过我发现，有些我没听过的歌其实很好听！好象《九号球》和闽南歌曲《垃圾车》，好听！摇滚歌曲一手接着一首，抒情的、快节奏的，不管是什么，只要是五月天的音乐，大家都high了起来！:D

到了演唱会的一半，他们都开始从台上走到吊桥去，中间还经过了观众席，从头到尾，让我们能够360度地看到五月天！其实他们几个男生也够A的，哈哈！大家为玛莎唱生日歌，后来他们又说什么没有蛋糕之类的话，玛莎便开起冠佑的玩笑来，说什么就把蜡烛往他身上插好了，之后大家都大笑，他们几个又说要鞭玛莎等。噢，玛莎还穿了裙子！从舞台跑到吊桥上，玛莎直言说他穿着裙子，很难跑！后来阿信也当场把玛莎‘推销’了一番，说什么玛莎今年31岁，单身，嗜好就是穿裙子，然后带着长长的吊饰（当时他的裙子上吊着一条链子吧）……又把我们惹笑了。哈哈！

其实，他们唱的歌曲好像不太多，反而是花了许多时间在和歌迷们在互动，比如来个感性时间的聊天啦、教我们配合做些动作、呐喊等。歌曲大概有（不分排名先后，只照我的记性记录下来），《闯》、《天使》、《知足》、《垃圾车》、《轧车》、《倔强》、《洋葱》、《离开地球表面》、《我又初恋了》、《九号球》、《恒星的恒心》、《生命有一种绝对》、《终结孤单》、《孙悟空》、《恋爱-ing》、《叫我第一名》、《爱情万岁》、《温柔》等。其他的我不记得了。hehe...

《生命有一种绝对》是阿信在趁其他队员在换装时所独唱的一首歌，超好听！之后他也有用吉他自弹自唱了一首歌，可是现在我太累了，想不起来，不好意思！他还说：“他们终于去换衣服了，我等他们离开等很久了。趁他们在换衣服的时候，我要来唱这首歌……”
在教我们做一些动作的时候，阿信又说：“今晚我要把你們的精力搾到乾乾，我才讓你們回家。”
可是，好像是他们先累耶。
阿信后来又说：“惨了，我看很难让你们用完体力，我看我们一整晚都会在这里，你们不用回家了……”

在感谢赞助商的时候，英文不太流利的它们似乎碰到了难题。五月天一边感谢赞助商，一边奏乐打鼓要我们尖叫，已表示对赞助商的感谢，可是开始大家的反应不太热烈，阿信说：“你们这样我们明年也许来不了了……”
到了念一些英文名字的时候，阿信把纸条递给玛莎，玛莎看了一眼，便把纸条交回给阿信，而阿信只好请石头帮忙念。只见石头用高调的声音念了一堆话，阿信就说：“还是把声音调高一点会比较好哦？”后来他们还是认真地念了一遍，原来他们是要讲"crocodile" & "unusual productions"的名字…… (-_-|||)

零零碎碎地就记得那么多，写得太细也会变得沉闷。我想我写得已经够详细也够沉闷了。哈哈！还是到此为止吧！ :P

在演唱会之前和凯琳在Bugis的Billy Bombers 吃的双人海鲜拼盘！不错哦！

离开了地球表面，high 到爽了，是时候回到地球表面继续面对现实，冲刺咯！加油！

Hello everyone, I'm back!!!

2008-04-26T12:36:00.003+08:00

Wah lao eh, finally a breather from the HELL WEEK...just handed in my 2nd last project/assignment of the sem! That goes to say, STILL GOT ONE MORE...bloody hell..

Sorry I'm a bit violent these days, lack of sleep and stress...haha..but..what the heck, it's exam period! Why that Zhu make us do soooo many assignments?!?! He really thinks we year 4s/3s are very eng...so much work to do, so little marks...and his exam sounded tedious...FULL OF COMPLAINTS...haha...I've tried my best to think the better side of him..probably he doesn't know our culture here well enough that's why he's like that...but..don't know den don't know how to ask ah?! buay tahan... haha..

The past few weeks have been really crazy...it's still a crazy period, but sort of slightly less tense le...so haven't been thinking about Taiwan trip much..but recently Caren said we should be able to watch I Guess live recording...I felt soooo excited! :D Really looking forward to the trip now man...haha...

It's Mayday concert tonight! Going with the twins..haha..we were doing assignment in school, then they received a msg from fen who has ticket lobang...after a while..we decided to get the most ex tix and rock the night away with Mayday! Ex ah, but...it's worth it! Really need a stress-relief rock session...haha...very long never go for concert le... *using excuses to get rid of the guiltiness* Hiaks..

Anyway, I've gotten back my ISM last week. A week after submission, my dear sup Dr Ong finished marking liao..I think another girl who's under him and I are the first persons to receive our results...damn fast la! Super 恐怖！

So now, I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to: Dr Ong of course, who encouraged me to do ISM, and then guided me patiently all the while, feeding me with his ideas and knowledge, and then mark my paper, and appreciates the effort that I've put in; 梁文福老師, who is kind enough to spare me some of his free time for an interview, without which, my arguments would not be so strongly supported; Loh Wei, who kindly lent me his Xin Yao CDs, without them, I cannot complete my work at all, cos it's based largely on the analysis of the lyrics of these songs, so, very very 感謝! ; Kai Wen and Kai Lin , who lent me the book written by 梁老師, without which I cannot complete my work as well, and for their encouragement which is much needed, and to Kai Wen who helped me vet my first draft and suggested points that I can discuss with Dr Ong, love you gals! :D ; Xiang Fu aka the 'zai' one for vetting my second draft before I handed in as well, without his comments and opinions, my essay would not be as coherent as it should be, kam sia zuay zuay ah! :P
And to my dear family and all my dear friends who have given me their opinions, encouragement and love...I really appreciate it!!! Thank You all!!!

Sorry for being so lor sor (long-winded), cos unlike thesis, we no need to have 感謝詞 in our ISM...so I can only express my thanks over here, and during face-to-face meetings with you guys... :P

A super long post again. Haha...anw good luck to all those who are having exams!! Jiayou and all the best!!! Ganbatte!! :D

One more month..

2008-04-11T14:03:00.002+08:00

Finally handed in my ISM. Cui. Wanted to hand in on Sunday night to my supervisor, but an "Out of Office Autoreply" bounced my work back to me. My supervisor went for an urgent trip to China!!! :S
Then the next day morning he sent me an email, saying: "I'm in China for an urgent meeting, so I would not be in time to read your paper before the deadline. But don't worry, just submit it..." Aiyo..scary sia...2nd draft, awaiting for his approval, now become final paper! What the heck...
And i exceed the word limit. Supposedly 7000-10000 words, I got 12000+ words! Heck liao la..actually they don't care about the no. of words you write, most importantly, your essay must be coherent and you must be clear in your expression...but I'm not sure if I achieved that too..wahaha..

Anyway, i don't really feel a sense of relief leh...still got 5 assignments to be completed in 2-3 weeks' time, before our one and only exam. But one month later, we'll be having fun, going overseas, slacking around, and also on our way to embark on a new journey in life...

Met many new friends this semester, and got to know some of them real well too.. :)
I won't forget the times we all complain, grumble, pia, gossip, 谈心, joke and laugh together..best memories of my uni years in NUS... :D

Take care and jiayou my dear friends! And others who are still schooling or working! :D

忙里偷闲

2008-04-05T18:47:00.002+08:00

I'm in the midst of doing my ISM now. It's the second draft already, but I still got introduction and conclusion to write. Easy and difficult task. Easy cos you can write in any way you want, in a way, difficult cos you must summarise all your main points into a few lines and make it clear, so that people will know what is your paper all about...sianz..

Anyway, a piece of news here. I think many friends should know. I got accepted for the job. So after I come back from Taiwan, I'll have to start training. On 26th May. I only know that the training lasts for 2.5 months, but I don't know other details already. Haha..so please do not ask me what's my pay like, where will I be flying to etc, cos I really DON'T KNOW...haha..I don't even know when am I going to sign the contract..until I receive my employment letter and email from them..so..that's about all so far.. :)

Anyway, to Hiannie and Irene, this is 《七仔》MV! Remind you of CJ7's scenes of 七仔！haha..Enjoy! :D

Slack slack slack!!!

2008-03-30T20:49:00.002+08:00

I'm supposed to be working on my ISM and yet here I am...slacking...LOL

Slacked the whole of Saturday...

Went to St Nicks to visit the old school before it closes for renovation, or rather, redevelopment...took some kind of fun fair ride and one ride cost $10!!! Damn ex rite? Luckily half of the coupons were free (we had $80 worth), and we spent the coupons in like less than 2hours or so...cos the things and food were SUPER ex..

From what I had heard, "The orange bowl", as we liked to call it, which is actually many SN girls' favourite Ba Chor Mee stall, costs $5 per bowl! Oh man, we can go back to school another day and eat at least 3 big bowls with that price...

Anyway, we went AMK Hub to eat lunch, cos Ms Teo Ailing needed to leave after lunch to rush out her reports and other work...poor girl...

So after lunch, all of us headed down to PS! For movie marathon! wahaha...2 movies in a day! And each tix only costs $7.50, due to HSBC's offer.. (check out GV website if you are interested, lazy to advertise too much for them here..haha!)

Watched "Vantage Point" and 《第一诫》...Vantage Point is not bad, haha I shall not describe the show since many of you haven't watched. But it's really not bad...some parts are quite funny also...
Same for 《第一诫》...aiyo, was damn scared at first and I tried to listen to Kee Lee's advice, to cover my ears to block out the super loud and scary sound effects if I'm scared, but after some time, my hands really got very tired...so I decided to let my hands down and watched, somehow after some time when you know what's going on, you won't feel so scared anymore...the ghosts appear in the same manner...haha..BOOM! But the plot is not bad...got storyline wan...Fiona Xie didn't 卖弄性感 in the show also, her performance is not bad lah..but she always appear in the same 场景，which is her house, never go anywhere else wan..quite poor thing..haha...

Ok la! Enough of slacking...back to my ISM... *sianz*

Ramblings..

2008-03-28T00:53:00.003+08:00

Went for The Body Shop Sale at Suntec today...wah kao...damn damn crowded!!!

It was the first day of sale, and in an hour's time the place would be closed...and the number of people just increase non-stop...I was telling June, Emelia and Yiing Yng that it looked like people are snatching for food rations during war time...and how blessed we are, snatching for wants instead of necessities when other people in the world don't even have necessities to snatch for!

叹为观止...I can only describe the scene this way...OVER...really OVER...lol...

It's quite dark...but u can see that there are really many people around...machiam CNY Chinatown that kinda squeezy scene...动弹不得!!!

4 of us shopping! Finally queuing to pay...queuing alone took us slightly more than 1.5hrs...scary??? If we had known the situation is lidat, we probably wont go for it liao... :S

我们的战利品! :D

My Chinese conversational class' students! Got pretty girls and cute boys! haha..don't think I will ever be a teacher..I don't know what to do when there's 冷场...haha...

Went to Chinese Heritage Museum at Chinatown ytd with the Overseas Chinese class...then went over to Teochew Huay Kuan...so cool...uni student liao still got excursion...we were very excited! even took pics with one another! :D
It's really a memorable honours year...especially this semester...very fun and happening... :)
Should have look out for qinghui in the bus on our way back to sch..aiya..sorry ah qinghui...made u sit alone, and me...hahaha...we noe la hor? haha! hope when I was sleeping he never do anything funny..不知道我身上有没有什么'异物'....wahaha!!! 我现在才想到!haha...so bad of me..haha...

Anyway regarding my ISM, aka 'thesis'...hmm..I finally knew what my teacher wants...so will try my best to write what he wants...but need to rewrite some main parts lor..haiz...hope I can do a much better job this time...must focus liao!!! :D

I'm back...for a while...

2008-03-24T09:11:00.006+08:00

It's been more than 2 weeks since I last blog. Sorry for MIA-ing, was busy with school work and thesis stuff..

Time for some updates... :)

Grad Night Pics:

Before the event started...

The few of us..still got some of them don't know where they go...

The teachers were slacking around...we were busy taking photos all around the place..haha..

Time for some nice pose! :D

My fave teacher Dr Ong..my ISM is also under him...but..damn damn stressed..he can help me to slim down this sem...he controls my emotions for now..jialat..really don't know what he wants for the thesis..PLEASE DON'T TELL ME THAT I HAVE TO REWRITE AGAIN...NO TIME LIAO.. :(

Our gang...largest in Chinese dept..haha..love you all gals..you all rock my uni days! :D

The whole Chinese gang...with MANY people absent...

And the CH gang! Yeah! :) Sorry I got no CL gang pic..hehe..

That was last week. The most happening day. Remaining of the week is still study, teach, study and teach..and finally the teaching ended! Took pics with some of the kids, but I forgot to upload.. will post it sometime later when I need to take a break from school work..

I was damn sad last night..I've spent 2 weeks on the thesis..and it only took him 45min to sort of 否定 what I had written...挫败感挺大的...but thanks to some friends' encouragement...you all are right...guess I can only 化悲愤为力量，好好地重新将论文写过。但也希望不是真的要重头来啦，只有两个星期的时间剩了！！But I should be thankful that they have extended the deadline..if not I would really be dead before the line...

I CAN DO IT I CAN DO IT I CAN DO IT I CAN DO IT I CAN DO IT I CAN DO IT

Why lidat???

2008-03-07T18:19:00.002+08:00

这几天都在忙，上课、授课、打磕睡……eh 错了，是做研究……hehe...

现在本人正在国大图书馆搜查有关于“新谣”的资料。找越多，头越大。更“糟”（也不清楚是好是坏）的是，经过梁文福老师的介绍和提醒，我还找到了一位前南大生所写的“新谣”毕业论文。

昨晚终于“敢敢”地去找梁文福老师，并与他作了个正面的访谈……

非常感谢凯琳（不知道有没有打错 :P）陪了我一趟，要不然我想我会紧张个100000000倍，哈哈！

他的人很健谈，我想是因为他知道我要什么样的答案吧，哈哈！然后他对我说，前几年已有学生作过这方面的研究了，所以我和她的论文会有很多重叠的地方……

现在看到她的论文（还在阅读的过程），我真的是“闲”一半……除了措辞的不同外（她用的是“身份认同”，而我用的是“自我定位”），基本上我要讨论的东西，她好像都讨论过了。害我白高兴一场，还以为自己是这方面研究的“先锋”咧……失望咧……（肤浅）

不过说真的啦，的确是有失望的感觉，因为我们的论点实在是太相似了，现在我还得绞尽脑汁想不同的论点来推翻，或是建构在其论文之上，不然，这个论文作了也没有意义。完全相同的话，我干脆copy and paste她的论文再交上去，省时又省力。更何况，梁老师要我寄一份成品给他，这无形中造成了我必须把论文写好的压力啊。

*叹气*

New mattress and chair!!! :D

2008-03-04T19:56:00.002+08:00

Last week I was complaining to my parents about my back problem. Must be lack of exercise and the old mattress, which was quite soft and bouncy..

My Mum helped me pasted 2 pieces of 'goh yo por' (medicated patch) at my back and it was much better, but it still hurts sometimes...haiz, old liao ah...back ailments at this age...cui...

So I told my parents that I'm going to buy a new mattress once I get my pay after I start working, and the next day they were choosing a mattress for me! Plus a chair (I forgot what it's called, revolving chair? Sounds weird...) because it has been spoilt for quite some time. I adjusted it to the highest position and it can no longer be lowered...so imagine how much I have to bend my body when I'm using my laptop at my table.. :S

I felt quite bad cos my parents still have to pay the 2 items for me, and I felt super touched cos they actually took the initiative to buy it for me! Ok perhaps I should not sound so surprised, they are my parents afterall, so buying things for their children is very normal. But I'm 23 liao! By right, I should give them money and give them a good life, instead of them having to provide for me. Although I still can use the excuse that I'm schooling, I still feel very paiseh, and grateful..it's $300 leh..
So, I'm very happy now!!! :D

Aiyo, my youngest niece finally willing to call me gu gu (auntie), and she can call me like don't know how many times in 1 minute. :D

BUT, OMG...she calls me TU TU (baby language for pacifier) instead of GU GU...and she happily calls me TU TU as and when she likes it, by shouting somemore... -_-|||

GU GU, TU TU, 傻傻分不清楚……she really 傻傻分不清楚啊....LOL

Projects, papers, non-stop readings...

2008-02-24T15:05:00.002+08:00

Haiz, the time for the semester comes again...getting very very sick of it even though it's my last semester in NUS...

This semester, 5 modules as usual, 5 papers to write, 1 presentation, 1 project and 2 tests. Seems ok as compared to my last semester. But still, it's a lot of work, and the teachers' expectations are rather high. They expect us to read EVERY SINGLE reading they give and even pose questions to the people presenting in class... :S

Sometimes I really wish I could just graduate immediately. Haha..
Better stop harbouring such thought, if not those OL (Office Ladies) will kill me...wahaha..

L Change The World

2008-02-22T10:07:00.008+08:00

L Change the World - a spinoff from the Death Note series, yet it does not have anymore connection with Death Note than telling you that he has to outwit Kira,
which is to plan his own destiny before Kira does it for him...
Watari's death and the destruction the Death Notes are hints to the audience that this movie is not going to involve Death Note anymore, and L, will have to stand on his own feet to solve cases.
Thus, this movie managed to make L more humane and 'real'. Just a reminder - he's a human afterall! His fair skin and dark eye rings and wits made him too special to be a normal person, that's all... :P
As a result of portraying his 'humaneness', as well as being a big brother to the kids around him, unfortunately, he is not able to give a full play of his intelligence in the movie.
But this different side of L is really worth watching. You will find yourself laughing at him - for his unique personality and behaviour (that leads to his 'cuteness') - quite a lot throughout the show. :D

The actor - Kenichi Matsuyama 松山研一
Somehow I feel that he resembles Jay Chou in this pic, but he is better-looking of course! Sorry Jay fans! :P

Simple profile:
Name: you already know
Birthday: 5th March 1985 (He is my age! And ya, his birthday is approaching! Not my business though...haha)
Height: 180cm
Weight: 60kg (OMG he is damn light for his height la!)
Sports: Pole Vault (撑杆跳) and Wheelchair Basketball?!?! (轮椅篮球)

I like this pic. Got 'feel'.

Ever seen 'L' smile?? :D

His latest drama: Sexy Voice and Robo. He acts as a 'siao kia' (crazy guy) here..supposed to be an Otaku (御宅族) who loves robots..

A clip of the 1st episode of Sexy Voice and Robo. He looks damn different!!! I'm not trying to destroy L's image here. Just to show how different he can look. L's image stylist and makeup artiste - zai! :P

Ok, satisfied my curiosity of the actor Kenichi. I still like L, and the actor too. :P Good job!

A bit confused...

2008-02-13T23:30:00.003+08:00

Hmm...how ah? Just talked to a friend on the phone, and she suggested that while waiting for news from the airline company, I should go find another job.

I agree that I should look for one, but I also know that the company will also take their time to reply, since I won't graduate so early. From what I had heard, they could take weeks to reply me...

What if I'm admitted? Then I got another job liao..den how?
The job I'm considering is journalist at SPH. Of course it doesn't mean I'll get in but the chances are there. My senior has just left SPH for another company....she did not tell me anything but I can sense that she was not very happy when she worked there...even though she was in the entertainment news section..which was 'supposed' to be more 'interesting', especially for kpo people like me..
But apparently she did not really enjoy it and even told me the entertainment industry is not as fun as we think...I thought it's not as fun for the artistes...but I can see that it's not as fun for the journalists too...haha..but Joyce seemed to enjoy it a lot while working as one leh... hmm...
In the end it all boils down to personality le I guess...

Same for an air stewardess job...another friend has also asked me to be really careful and think really carefully about taking up the job...cos of my straightforward personality..I can be really straightforward or rather, blunt and quick-tempered that I could hurt people with my words without knowing, as you can see from my brother's case, I can't even remember what I've said to him...HAIZ..
So, if I really become one, I may just shoot my mouth off and offend some seniors there or what and I will have a hard life then..
But then again, no matter where I go, as long as I remain like that, I will offend people anywhere, anytime..so even if I go for another job, who knows who I will offend then? So in the end, what's the difference? That's what I thought.

Think from another perspective...I can be trained to be more courteous and tactful when I speak in this job. Because no matter how angry I get, I HAVE TO BEAR WITH IT. So somehow, I will be FORCED to learn to be good.. :)

Hmm, I know I'm straightforward la, but don't say until like I offend people wherever I go leh...machiam I always anyhow shoot my mouth off and suan and irritate everybody..maybe only when I talk to you then I will get this pek chek..wahaha.. :P
Or maybe I do irritate everyone just that nobody dares to tell me? Oh no, please, I hope that's not the case. If I'm really that irritating, please tape my mouth. And I will try my best not to talk in the future. I shall sing only...LOL
Ok now I'm really getting irritating...haha..

所以说，做人真难。要做到如何不要得罪人，但又能把自己的想法给表达清楚，真的需要不少功力。更难的是，要变得和同事能够融洽地相处，却又要步步为营，回到家面对亲友时才能变回真正的自己……功力要更高才行。
再像我这种人，只要是自己觉得相处得舒服的人，就会对他/她掏心掏肺，以后在职场上要特别小心谨慎，我会很累……可能还会伤痕累累…… :S

Anyway, back to the topic...sld I go and look for another job while waiting??

Chee Guan Bak Kwa VS Fragrance Bak Kwa

2008-02-11T23:29:00.000+08:00

Chee Guan VS Xiang Ji! er I mean LIM Chee Guan Bak Kwa VS Xiang Wei Bak Kwa la...

Had these 2 kinds of bak kwa inside the bak kwa container used to treat the guests who visit us for CNY.

Fragrance Bak Kwa: Thinly sliced and sweet, looks redder and slightly more 'glossier' (aka oilier, or maybe it's the honey or sweet sauce) then LCG bak kwa. But be careful, it may tastes too sweet for some, and you may end up getting sick of it after eating a few cut pieces.

LCG Bak Kwa: Thicker and drier, the meat is brownish in colour and tastes harder then Fragrance. Although harder, the meat is not as sweet and it has a tint of charcoal taste, thus it may not be as 腻 as the former.

Verdict: Fragrance wins! :D
Ah Xiang Bak Kwa is the best! haha! No la, just that I still like the softer taste, and I quite like sweet stuff, although I get sick of sweet stuff fast too.. hee...

Haiz, recently, some not-so-good things happened..had a sms-quarrel with my brother on the second day of new year. Scared-ed my relatives...cos I was so angry that I cried and my hands were trembling. I never got so angry before. And I had to admit that I'm very irrational to behave like that...
For those of you who know the story, thanks for listening to me and even went as far as to analysing the situation for me..esp Mr Lim..thanks! Thanks to sq, yy my gf, kailin and others who have consoled me as well. I've tried very hard to stay happy when I'm out with my dear friends on Saturday and Sunday, hope I didn't show any obvious unhappiness or what to you all.. :)

And it's time to reflect again. More new year resolutions on the way. But am I being too harsh on myself? It seems like I am totally uncomfortable with who I am..as usual though..
There are so many things about myself that I want to change.

I have to stop being so insensitive and say things or behave in ways that will hurt or offend people.

I have to develop patience in myself so that I can calm down and think rationally during emergencies, and hopefully at ALL times.

I want to be humourous and yet avoid using suaning people as a way to make other people happy. It's bad to 把快乐建立在别人的痛苦上...

I need to consider others' feelings always, even before myself.

I must not be angry when other people criticise me. Negative things are actually the things that help one to learn and grow, and improve.

Which means I should stop trying so hard to defend myself when people critise me. No excuses please.

Last but not least, I am not a saint so please forgive me if I still make mistakes. I will always make mistakes. But I will try my best to reduce the numbers. :)

And one more thing, I am sorry to those whom I have offended or hurt, no matter if you get to read my blog or not. Please forgive me as I have no intention to harm.
Sorry...

Happy New Year Pull Your Ear!!!

2008-02-06T01:21:00.001+08:00

An advance Happy New Year greeting to everyone!!!!!!!!

WOOHOO!!!!

It's time to collect ang baos! And ROCK to the Chinese New Year songs!!! Wahaha!

Have been posting quite serious and boring stuff...so now...I shall post some interesting stuff! Or rather...slightly more interesting...hehe... *grinz*

My mum and aunt put these 'dominos' together at my aunt's house..
Quite nice hor??? hee...

Big sweet potato from Master Q (Lao Fu Zi) at AMK Hub! He's so cute...haha..

Deng deng deng deng...
My parents' wedding pic! My mum was really small-sized then! She kept boasting about her 22-inch waist...win liao lor...haha..
And I found the pic in my room...
I think my mum's very pretty when she was young... :)

What does this pic remind you of? Very colourful right? Got it?
That's right...the traffic light!!! and 王力宏(黄绿红) if they positioned themselves another way...haha...
In fact, I was wearing green on that day too...so imagine..traffic lights taking MRT home...and the green light alighted 1st...
oops..LAME...

Anyway, that's about all...it's 2.35am now! Tired! Tomorrow is New Yr Eve le...many movies on TV to watch! YAY!! :D

Happy New Year to all once again! 新年快乐万事大吉心想事成身体健康财源滚滚学业进步工作顺利!!!

SIAN-ed

2008-02-03T14:06:00.000+08:00

Finally I get to stay home this weekend...after don't know how many weeks! Been going out on both Sat and Sun during weekends...feel guilty and tired...haha.
But staying at home doesn't mean I'll do my work diligently as well...

I'm interested in every other things except studies...JIALAT

Suddenly felt really sian of school and studying..and I hope I can quickly graduate and earn money fast so that I can let my parents and myself lead a better life, 不用每次看到想买的东西却舍不得花钱，这种感觉很辛苦……

Yet again, I know that I will miss school after I graduate, as many people have lamented, they would rather study than to go out and work...haiz...the dilemma of life...ROARRRRRRRRRRR......

好闷啊！什么都不想做。虽然我的良心告诉我这样子不应该，但是我还是什么都不想做！
对自己也超不满意的。
Haiz..我的老毛病又犯了……

On a happier note, I went out for a small 'reunion dinner' with my parents at Causeway Point's Crystal Jade last night..haha...although we always eat together at home..we SELDOM eat outside together cos my mum prefers to cook, and we liked home-cooked food..so we rarely go out to eat..restaurant somemore leh...
We spent like $50+ on food and we were very happy, and my Dad got a new handphone for himself...but it's free since he continued another 2 years contract... :)

$50+ for a meal is a lot for us cos we are not very well-to-do..for some of you who eat out more often, this may seem cheapskate for u all..but we are just a simple family with my Dad being the only breadwinner as a taxi-driver...and business is quite bad and it only worsens with the current changes on ERP and the fare hike...haiz..and my brothers don't give a lot of money cos they have their own families to upkeep too, we can't expect too much can we?

So there are many times where I appear to be very ngiao (stingy) or gei gao with money...I have no choice. I'm being brought up this way, and there's no way I can be generous, although I try hard to be less stingy at times...
And I don't give tuition, but now I'm teaching already...but it's cos I'm in desperate need for more money for my grad trip...that's why I'm trying hard to 争取 a chance to stay in cheaper places in tw...cos I don't wish to spend the money on sleeping...
since 难得 go overseas, I feel that it's more important to look around the places more...and shop and eat the food there...for accomodation, as long as it's comfortable and clean enough for a night's rest I think it will suffice...but of course, different people have different definitions of "comfortable and clean"... :)

Anyway, my purpose is just to let my readers know..that I hope you all can understand my stinginess at times...I have my difficulties as well...my pocket money is effectively around $200 a month, and I have to pay for my handphone bill and sometimes even transport..so eventually, every month I have to 倒贴 with my own savings...
and being in such a situation, I actually spend a lot already, especially on food and also KTV..oops..and that's why when you all can shop happily and i just stand around happily, I don't get tempted to buy...cos I don't have the money to buy at all! haha..

《背影》·林宥嘉

2008-01-31T23:19:00.001+08:00

作曲：关大洲作词：蓝小邪

三公分阳光三公分空气
堵在眼前像一面玻璃
挡住了妳表情剩下只有脚印

一直向前走走不完距离
一直向后退不出回忆
很高兴有心事帮我困住自己

妳头发上淡淡青草香气
变成了风才能和我相遇
妳的目光蒸发成云
再下成雨我才能够靠近

感谢我不可以住进妳的眼睛
所以才能拥抱妳的背影
有再多的遗憾用来牢牢记住
不完美的所有美丽

感谢我不可以拥抱妳的背影
所以才能变成妳的背影
躲在安静角落不用妳回头看
不用珍惜

我怀里所有温暖的空气
变成风也不敢和妳相遇
我的心事蒸发成云
再下成雨却舍不得淋湿妳

感谢我不可以住进妳的眼睛
所以才能拥抱妳的背影
有再多的遗憾用来牢牢记住
不完美的所有美丽

感谢我不可以拥抱妳的背影
所以才能变成妳的背影
躲在安静角落不用妳回头看
不用珍惜

感谢我不可以拥抱妳的背影
所以才能变成妳的背影
躲在安静角落如果妳回头看
不用在意

就是这种默默付出的感情，让人觉得，越是应该被珍惜的东西，反而越是容易让人遗忘、忽略……
《背影》，由“星光帮”新人王林宥嘉所演唱，是本年度最值得收听的一首好情歌！

I got the job!

2008-01-29T23:25:00.000+08:00

Ok, I went to apply for air stewardess job with my friend on Sunday. And after spending 2 days of interviews, I got the job! I left one last round, which is the medical checkup, before I officially get the job (meaning sign contract).

Oh ya, and the company is SIA. I like the kebaya. It's pretty, but it's a pity that we were not allowed to take photos during the fitting round, nor was there a mirror for us to take a look at ourselves in it...but ultimately, I'll get a chance to wear it again. :)

But Caren asked me to think through carefully. I understand her concerns. She has a friend working for SIA and therefore had heard many stories inside. I'm worried too actually. I know it is definitely not going to be easy, plus the politics and stuff, it's going to be tough. But I hope I can endure for at least 2 years, explored around enough, before I leave and look for a more proper and stable ground job. Another thing that I will have to get used to will be the much-reduced pay after I switch jobs then. A lot of issues to think through before I pen my signature onto the contract...

I did not wanted to say it out at first because I'm afraid that I won't get in, and it'll be quite malu...haha.. but I've managed to get it, so I can reveal what it is le. Ok I know it's stupid theory. Who ask me to mention it in my blog so stupidly in the previous post? haha.. so..luckily I got it... :D

Hmm..I have got to go back to my readings for the lesson tomorrow, and I have to look through the course materials for the Conversational Chinese lesson as well. Going to see the cheeky but cute Malay and Indian Sec 1 kids again. Haha..hope I can do better this time round.

(To be continued...)

Weekend gone...

2008-01-28T09:28:00.000+08:00

I'm going to start teaching Chinese to non-Chinese students @ Teck Whye Secondary School today! So exciting, I'm very curious about the kind of students that I am going to meet. Hee..

Will I be strict to them enough? Will I be too 'soft' and let them have a chance to climb over me? Scared. Not scared of the kids but scared that I would not be able to teach well. :S
Oh wells, shall give my best later, I just hope my voice would not be sacrificed. Haha!

Oh, if you think that your Chinese and Han Yu Pin Yin is not bad, and you are interested in teaching, let me know! $45 per 1.5hrs. Probably slightly higher if they assign you to other secondary schools. I was told that the school that I will be going to teach at is one of the poorest schools in Singapore, hence the rate is lower. Ok la, $45 is not bad liao, imagine working as admin or customer service, 1 hr is only $7, and $7 is considered the higher end of a temporary job pay already. Haha..

Anyway, Taiwan trip planning is more or less done. :D TAIWAN, wait for me!!!

Went for interview yesterday, on a Sunday, some of you would have known what interview is it. I shall not divulge it yet, because the time is not ripe, wahaha!
I've been through like 3 rounds, and left 1 final round, but too bad for me cos by the time I can go for the final round, we were told to go for it another day cos it was quite late (4plus pm) already and they are going to end the interview sessions soon. Haiz. Felt that I've wasted a lot of time, cos there are simply TOO MANY applicants and what we do most of the time is WAITING...WAITING...WAITING... :S
I feel nervous during every round, especially the first one. After that, I feel more or less numb, and tired...
But 1 of the rounds was quite fun, but I can't explain what is it yet. After the final round then I tell you...hehe..

But if I got it, I don't know if I'll feel really happy or not. It's not that Im not interested in the job. But it will take up a lot of my time, and I heard that politics is very common, haha...especially time for my family and friends, which is very important to me. I guess it's time I really grow up and get out of my comfort zone. Hmm...it will really be a good training for me..Provided I get the job of course.
I feel very paiseh towards my friend too, because I managed to get through the rounds and she didn't. And she is the one who is even more interested in getting the job than I do...I don't know how to face her. She is so disappointed, and I felt sad too. The thing is, I can't say anything, I can't even console her. Every word that I say to her will make me sound like 我在讽刺她。I'm not saying that she will definitely feel this way, but I am saying from my point of view. I just feel that the more I say anything, the more I will be hurting her...haiz.. :(

There were even moments that I thought I should fail the last round or forego the last round of interview, so that I will be on the same ground as her again. But the thought of spending half of my Sunday just for this interview, I felt that it would be stupid of me not to go for it. :S

Don't worry, I will go of course. If I told my friend that I'm not going, she will scold me for being stupid too. Haha.

So the interview will be held on Tuesday afternoon @ 1.45pm. Damn it, I got lesson from 2-5pm lor! Sorry my dear CL gang, don't think I will be able to go for 苏老师's lesson on Tuesday liao. Even if it ends early, and I cheong cab down, I think the earliest I could reach is 3plus, but I seriously don't think that it will be so fast..hmm..

I shall go and prepare to teach liao! Wish me good luck! :D

Slacking away

2008-01-23T23:08:00.000+08:00

Haha...CNY is coming!
恭喜呀恭喜，发呀发大财！

好丑的书法！不过是本人初次尝试动笔，所以即使丑也不稀奇啦，哈哈！小时候有被爸爸教过写书法，但也只维持了大概……5分钟吧？哈哈！可能也是自己没耐心学吧。

差别好大哦！下面那个“吉祥如意”是本人的作品啦，上面那些漂亮的字当然是我爸爸写的咯！

两个字：惭愧……

What Title Should I Put?

2008-01-20T00:51:00.000+08:00

>>想給自己冩一首歌
但是脑袋為何不知去向
只留下空壳

究竟要怎么开始写
我想也没差别
笔记本撕掉了一页又一页
环保意识反而越来越强烈

可是，无论如何
我一定要把它完成
因为它将承载着我的梦
不管这个梦实不实现、成不成真
至少在梦醒时分
那空壳还会多了些养分<<

哈哈！前晚在下线之后写了这堆‘废话’。

基本上，它可以被归类为‘网络文字垃圾’。
但它也是属于陈香吉独有的‘文字垃圾’。=)

当时实在是太闷了，而且自己一直很想尝试写些东西。
如果可以的话，能写一首有文学/流行价值的歌词也不错。
但是要有灵感也真不容易。再加上自己这种‘半桶水’的华文程度，我想要写一首好词，还真的很难……哈哈！

FRUSTRATED... just now

2008-01-18T21:40:00.000+08:00

Kids can really be devils...

When they scream and shout and stamp their feet crying for something that they WANT badly and you can't give it to them...

You'll just feel like dashing out of the house or scream, "SHUT UP!!!" at them...

But you'll also know, it's gonna be fruitless, cos they'll cry and scream even MORE... ROAR!!!!

Suddenly, I have this thought: If I'm gonna have kids, I'll think I won't be able to work, cos I'll have to look after them and TEACH them how to be good kids...
But that also means my husband has to be rich so that he can support a non-working wife and don't-know-how-many kids...wahaha!

Crap aside, I really wanna go nuts everytime I hear them cry or shout. It really can tear you apart...I need PEACE.

Sometimes, it's worse when the maid starts nagging at them...she'll nag non-stop, and it adds on to the noise... :S

And I have to help to look after them if the maid and my mum are not free...that means I can't do my work...last week my niece fell from the sofa and had a baluku on her head due to my negligence.

I cried together with her when I watched her cry in pain. My heart really hurts, and I felt SO GUILTY towards her...that I have been a BAD auntie..failing to look after a kid... :( And of course I kena scolded by my mum... :(

Ok, she's alright now of course, and she continues to climb high and low...and she just used her marker to draw on my readings.. S***, luckily it's for me to read only...haha..
Oh, and not forgetting she DREW on my bed too...dammit..
Oh, and not even forgetting she peed on my parents' bed this morning cos her diapers was OVERLOADED with PEE... hahahaha...

All the while I was referring to my youngest niece...the older one, as stubborn as usual, why are ARIES so stubborn?!?!?!?!
She was crying for her mummy and we all chose to ignore her, let her cry until she's tired and she'll stop, cos the more you talk to her, the more she'll cry and call out for her mother...
So I ignored her cries and silently stuffed a small piece of sugar-coated roti prata into her mouth...PEACE finally...

Conclusion: Sweet stuff STILL work on kids. ;)

New PSP!

2008-01-18T00:26:00.000+08:00

I won myself a PSP! yay! :D

Ok everyone will ask me how come I won it...I got it through a NETS Cashcard Monthly Lucky Draw thing...but the final draw will be held this month...and I am one of the Nov/Dec winners...

I never thought I'll be so heng...I always thought that my luck for lucky draws, 4D, toto not so good...so I seldom buy 4D and toto also la...haha..

Then, suddenly, I received an email saying that I won myself a Sony PSP!

It's silver in colour.

Ya, but now, there's problems...

I need a USB cable, a UMD (a game to play so that I can play downloaded games as well), a greater memory card (so far I only got 1 gb, my brother is kind enough to give it to me..hehe)...

And, I need to modify the machine...

~麻烦啊~

Aiyo...which means, I have to spend like about $50 without getting a memory card first...a 4gb memory card costs around $60 according to my brother...

hmm...I think I won't start playing anything till I have those with me...

I know NUTS about PSP...save me.. :S

School start liao!

2008-01-17T00:00:00.000+08:00

Ok, I haven't been blogging for a week...was busy doing my ISM proposal..paiseh...hee..

The weekend before my school starts was definitely well-spent. Met up with the juniors last Thursday to celebrate Hui Ting, Zheng Kai and Zhan Yong's SUPER BELATED birthday (their birthdays are in November) at AMK Hub's New York New York, and it was fun-filled and happening..they are really funny...
:D

Then Sat went for choir...practising for the AJ Choir Concert in May...hopefully our songs are allowed... :)
Although I won't be singing for that (most prob will be in Taiwan then.. :P), just go and sing so that my voice won't turn too rusty, and in case the song would be sung at other occasions..so it's better to learn.. :)

Then went to Kee Lee's house with Li Bing for steamboat and stayover!!
But I'm the only one who stayed cos Bing's parents don't allow.. :(
So I slept in the guestroom alone...for the first time...
Before that we watched youtube and talked on msn with some friends...
Don't know when we'll have a complete stayover session again..hmm..one year later perhaps.. Joyce Tan you better come back I tell you!! haha..

On Sunday, I went for a KTV session with the Star Dust group, Marvin, Jiahui and Kevin...it's been a few months since we last met..
Nice singing with them! And the guys are crazy, they managed to sing girls' songs quite well also..can't stand the fact that some guys have much greater range than we girls..haha :S
But singing with them was really fun, cos we tried out Japanese songs and Hokkien songs! haha! Jiahui made each of us sing a Hokkien song! The only song I know best is 《望春风》!! haha..and I purposely sing like Theresa Teng...so fun...haha..

Pics are up on facebook, wanna puke blood uploading here...keep having errors... :(

Anyway, my ISM proposal is finally up! I didn't know Dr Ong will be so 随便 with the proposal..made me felt so stressed about it...in the end he just tell me that it's just a formality...so it's ok to do differently in reality...no need to follow strictly...haha..

He is damn nice la! Last week when I looked for him to talk about ISM, he even stood up and sent me to the door before I leave! Touched man...although he didn't do that today..haha..cos I just went into the room to let him sign the document and rushed off, and he was busy with his work too...

And I saw his profile on the NUS website...he graduated from Harvard Uni with a Ph.D and I guessed he's about 37 years old at least now ba! But he looked damn young! 他很会保养..haha..I wonder if he has kids...cos he never mentioned about them before..and I'm not so close to him to the extent that I can KPO so much..although I'm curious..hehe..

Just realised teachers in the Chinese department are very nice...most of them looked very friendly and approachable to me today, don't know why...maybe except for the newcomers...haha...don't really like the new teachers...but well...im not taking their modules and I won't be taking them anymore...so, who cares? haha..

Ok, 发够花痴了...actually it's quite weird to 发花痴 about teachers too...cos teachers are meant to be respected, and the furthest extent is admiration...that's all...
:)

Lessons were ok, cos 1st week mah, only introduction...so the mood was a relaxed one too..Understanding the Universe seems interesting, the lecturer didn't speak very fluent English, but she is rather hunourous at times...she can say something out of a sudden and make us laugh...

Dr Ng: When you use the telescope to see Jupiter, you'll see the parallel bands made up of blah blah blah...when you use the telescope to see Saturn, you'll be able to see the famous Saturn ring...etc...
When you use the telescope to see the sun, you'll GET PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE....
Students: Bwahahahaha!!!

Ok, perhaps it's hard to demo here just by using words...but you can imagine a female lecturer talking normally and she pops out the last sentence, when you expect her to say, "you'll see...", but instead she says, "you'll get eye damage". It really lightened up the whole boring and quiet atmosphere...

Selected topics in the Chinese Verse is supposed to be damn boring too..luckily Dr Su from Taiwan is interesting and humourous...and with the occasional use of Hokkien in class, it really felt very 亲切...how come teachers nowadays like to use dialect in class so much? haha..but he only said a bit la...so not so bad...ok..that's about all..too many words liao...eyes tired hor? haha..

Alright, Chen Xiangji, jiayou for the last semester of your uni life ba! :D

The Last Week before My Last Semester in NUS...

2008-01-10T12:59:00.000+08:00

The past month has been a fruitful holiday for me! Gatherings, BBQs, KTV sessions, stayover, chalet, mahjong, new year countdown, etc...all except work and school...

One word to describe: SHIOKNESS!!!

Met up with the juniors and some members of the alumni choir, AGAIN..haha..getting closer and closer to the alumni people..which is good because hanging out with them = a lot of laughing/scandal/making fun of one another/talking rubbish sessions...
Basically the gathering is a farewell dinner for Jing Kang, who is going Tekong island tomorrow!!! :P

All of us!

Jing Kang (left) and Gerald (right)I realised it's the 2 of them again...haha..

Nad and I continue to act cute! Oops...we ARE cute...LOL

I think I should be doing ISM(Independent Study Module) which is almost like a thesis..
Dr Ong is SUPER nice...he offers me a lot of ideas and is very patient in explaining the ideas to me..before I left his office he even stood up and sent me off! Where else to find such a nice teacher now?!
Would feel very 对不起 him if I don't do it..but time is running out too! I'm supposed to come out with the reading list and introduction of the essay and the research methods etc by next week!! OMG OMG OMG...how???

Anyway, met the CL gang for KTV after meeting Dr Ong..sang for 5 hours and halfway through singing everyone felt sian already...haha..so funny..but I was quite 'voiceless' though..no energy to sing..can't support..and I kept using my 'real' voice to sing, even the high notes...going to sore throat liao lor..LOL

At the beginning, everyone was energetic...

After 2-3hrs, we all began to feel sian...haha...

Even the singers are sian...

At the end of everything, Diane saw her 'hubby' and was very happy cum paiseh to take a photo with 'him'...haha!

Then all of us took a photo with 'him'...

Before going home...took one 大头照... :)

SN Gang Chalet 30th Dec - 1 Jan 2008

2008-01-04T13:54:00.000+08:00

Ok, it's time to post pics of our chalet!

The gals LOVE mahjong so much that they can play it anywhere!

They were playing on a towel...

How are they going to shuffle the tiles?

Chiang chiang chiang chiang!!! The best way to shuffle the tiles man..but beware of flying tiles!!!

On the other hand...we were playing Settler...or isit called something else? I can't remember...

So this is how it looks when 2 groups are playing in a chalet room...
Machiam gambling den...

It's steamboat time!

We literally had a pail of vegetables...we are mad...LOL

While waiting for the food to be cooked, we deceided to pose for some pics...

I was too full...
And my gf said I looked like a dog here...laughed at me for quite some time... -_-|||

A more 'cool' pic to compensate the previous joke...I love to play pool! Not enough pool for me! Pool, anyone??? *Grinz*

On our way for dinner and countdown!!

We went to Esplanade there to wait for the fireworks...a whole 5-6hrs of waiting...aching butts and numbed legs...one experience is enough... LOL

We have our ways of entertaining ourselves..camwhoring plus dai dee, mahjong cards (yes, mahjong again...and we used poker cards to replace the dice cos we had forgotten to bring along the dice...

Nice night-scene...courtesy of yy... :)

Look at the people...this is not a very good reflection of the crowd but if you see carefully...there's actually quite a lot of people..it's night time so you may need to strain your eyes a little further... :P

The wishing balls (or what are they called?) floating on the river! And the colour changes with the spot lights...nice but also...kinda extra...haha...

Fireworks! Yay!
But some moments I thought I was going to be hit by the falling residue...thanks to yy's warning that some of these may get into our eyes and it can be quite painful for those who are wearing contact lenses if hit... LOL

School is starting soon for the NUS people but it is starting tomorrow for the NTU and SMU people! Jiayou friends! It's time to start getting busy liao! :)

Happy New Year to Everyone!!

2008-01-02T00:20:00.000+08:00

Hey! Happy New Year! Goodbye 2007! Goodbye to all the bad things that happened in the past!

Olympics is coming...
It's my graduation year...
It's the first year that I OFFICIALLY (HAVE TO) step into the working world...(welcome me..LOL)

etc...lazy to list...

What's my new year resolution? Hmm...

1. To be more patient and less impulsive.
2. To be more hardworking and less lazy.
3. To learn to learn myself more and stop putting myself down and keep comparing myself with others, i.e learn to accept myself for who I am and like myself more, including my weakpoints.
4. To be less hot-tempered.
5. To jiayou for my studies and find a suitable job.
6. To be more understanding and less selfish.
7. To be more humourous (not necessarily lame) and active so that I can make people around me happy. That also means to restrain myself from showing black face if I'm unhappy. 我要记住：别人没有必要看你的脸色...

Hmm...that's about all at the moment...hope I can at least improve a bit..haha...

Anyway, it has been a SUPER DUPER busy week!!!
Been out everyday and went for chalet and countdown!

AJ Alumni BBQ
Friday was BBQ with the choir people at Loh Wei's condo...
And as I had expected, we really sang together! Machiam our own concert..those people really don't know how to appreciate..不知好歹..we sing so nice still complain..
Knowing that we will CONFIRM sing, Chee Guan even prepared a pitch pipe...didi, good job man! haha..

AJ Alumni Choir...

Our dear SUPER SOP cum chio bu Yanting and I!

Thank you Seng Hong and Benjamin for cooking! I helped before they arrived, but not for long...hee...anw I didn't start the fire this time! :D

Liping, Nadiah and I acting cute...LOL

Dearie juniors and I..this time, I'm the Da Jie!!! WAHAHAHA! *Hiaks*

My les partner Wheegeok and I! wahaha...
P.S: YY my dear gf..this is my rendevouz partner...wahaha!

Me, JingKang, Christina and Whee Geok...juz found out that JingKang is my Ai Tong junior too! and he's from Cat High...so qiao..haha

This is my siao kia di di Chee guan with his super short shorts...sexy legs and 1.5L Coke...exclusively his...the whole bottle of coke was drunk by him...and he said he's going to stay away from Coke for 1 mth...jiayou...wahaha..

The choir singing...then kena complained... :S

Look at the mess!

AJC 21/02 Class Outing @ Bugis
A class outing with only around 9 people, but for a class of 20+ people, the turnout is considered optimistic...although we didn't feel very encouraged that night with the no of last minute pangseh...wahaha..
Nervertheless, we had our share of fun and laughter!!!

The 男女主角 of the night!!! Kenneth and his girlfriend! haha..lucky dude, got himself such a pretty and cute gf...muz treasure her ok!

People in Black...
The only guy is Rex..also from AJ Choir! And he's a bass, but sorry I failed to drag him to join Alumni Choir...he's too slack for that liao...LOL

All of us!

Sunday to Tuesday: Chalet @ Downtown East with SN Gang
But due to some technical probs in uploading the pics..i'll upload them later..hee

I'm SUPER DUPER UPER BROKE!!!

How to keep a conversation going?

2007-12-30T01:42:00.000+08:00

It takes 2 hands to clap...this is so true..

Sometimes, I really feel like an idiot trying to maintain a conversation...(I'm not pointing finger at one person, cos A FEW people are like that...haha..so I mean..GENERALLY..)

One way to maintain a conversation: Keep asking the other party questions.
Then it turns out to become 我问，你答...and slowly I become a paparazzi...poking my nose into other people's lives...(while no one cares about mine...haha)

Another way to handle the situation: End the conversation...
Of course, the person would keep quiet in the first place, so, the person who needs to shut up, is me... :)

I know that some people are more introverted, so they are naturally quiet...that I don't blame them of course...

But sometimes, somehow I just feel that some people just can't be bothered...just can't be bothered to talk to me or what...or may even find that I'm irritating or being a bother cos I keep asking them questions? haha..(pardon me for my sensitivity...i admit that i am a sensitive person...)

Some are even better..they never talk to you..unless you go and talk to them or when they have something to ask u..well done..
Maybe they are very busy with whatever they are doing etc..oh come on, if you are so busy that you can't even TRY or BOTHER to just show some little simple concern to your friend, even just a simple HI and HOW HAVE YOU BEEN DOING etc, then please don't claim that you are my good friend or even close friend..

It's not that I wanna 'gei gao' how many times I say 'HI' to you and how many times you say 'HI' to me...but a simple gesture to show your friend that you care about this friend, or that you did not forget about this friend is not even made...it's really disappointing..

Ok, people may retort that "no common topics to talk about mah.." or "nothing much to say to u"...ok lor..haha...even though I don't really believe that it is the case la...but if people really think that way, I guess I have nothing to say too..

Heng ah....

2007-12-26T16:58:00.000+08:00

I love you, you love me, we all really hate Barney, with a bang here bang there Barney on the floor, no more purple dinosaur...

This song is stuck in my head...and I CANT SING THIS to my nieces, they may just HATE me for life! LOL...ya they watch Barney everyday, and Hi-Five...

Oh wells, back to the main topic..
Got back my results at 1400 today...NUS is always like that..it's Christmas period for goodness sake!!!
But I can only say that they are kind enough, to let us enjoy Christmas Day itself before we go and D-I-E... wahaha...

I'm surprised by my results though..sorry 我是个胸无大志的女人 (both literally and figuratively..if you understand what I mean..LOL)
No As for me, as usual la..got A- I happy liao lor..but also don't have...haha..
But I'm glad I don't have B- or worse! So my results are basically Bs and B+...
Which is good enough for me cos this sem was quite screwed up.. Not only that I have no mood to study, I'm getting lazier (or more lazy?)... many things happened and my mood was terrible...first time crying in class, after being in uni for like 3 years..

Mood swings swing here and there as and when they like..
Happy means not-very-happy, and sad means very sad, troubled, frustrated, stressed, nervous, panicky, disappointed, worried...basically all kinds of negative emotions just spring up within a short span of 3-4 months...

HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE, INCORRIGIBLE.....

And..YAY! All over liao! And I am satisfied with my results liao.. :)
Ok one more sem to go I know...hopefully I can better cope with my emotions, studies and time this time round...
But I can foresee more stress..as I'm going to take level 5000 modules meant for graduates...which means I have to go for night classes from 7-10pm some days and I have to sit in class and compete with masters and PhD students...OMG...

Whatever, bo bian, no choice, 没有别的选择...just try to do my best ba..

TEE GONG BO BI! HUAT AH! :D

接受你的公开道歉 :D

2007-12-25T16:00:00.001+08:00

哈哈，听起来好像很严重哦。

Diane，我看到了你在你部落格上的公开道歉启事了，哈哈。你很可爱！

这位可爱的小姐在她的部落格上把我的名字写成“湘吉”了，但应该是“香吉”才对……
所以在被我纠正了以后，她觉得不好意思，因而发了一则道歉启事。就连 Caren 也纠正她，使她觉得这个小错误似乎引起了‘公愤’……哈哈，没有这么夸张吧？

另外，更有趣的是，她还分析了“湘吉”和“香吉”这两个名字……
她说：“"湘吉"感覺像是瓊瑤小說裡面可能出現的人物名字..而"香吉"就很像是古代傳統的大家閨秀的小姐或丫環的名字..很極端的對比hor? 哈哈哈...”

欸，小姐，请问一下，这是哪门子的道歉啊？:P 哈哈！

不过到挺有趣的，第一次‘听过’或是看过有人这样分析我的名字。还记得另外一次是吴耀宗老师在上“新马文学”课时忽然问我，我的名字有什么意义或意思。我说我不清楚。他就问我是不是我多上香就会更吉利…… -_-|||

如果我有在课室里吃饭的话，我肯定当场立刻在他面前喷饭……

还记得当时全班笑得很开心，我虽然是‘受害者’，但我自己也笑得很乐……哈哈

没想到我的手指竟然会引起你们那么多的同情和感激，我在这里郑重地替它感谢你们，感谢你们在自己的部落格上对它表示那么多的关心和感激……可见，它的壮烈牺牲是绝对值得的！:D

它还想让你们知道，水泡已经自动破了，皮也被它的主人拔掉了，现在还在康复中。:)

Diane，没想到平时放学和你一起回家竟然会让你有些感触…… :)
和你一起回家也是让我感到很开心的一件事。说真的，一个巴掌拍不响，要不是你也是一个很健谈的人的话，我想我们在回家的路上也不会那么有意思……
所以我也很感激，我们两个能够有机会在念大学的最后一年里认识，成为好朋友。
年纪越大，就越难交到知心的朋友，难得你是我认识的其中一个。

希望我们的友谊能够长存！:)

Meanwhile, take care and cya around soon for our next outing! :D

那个乌龟王八蛋、臭鸡蛋、死混蛋、糖醋鱼、章鱼烧 etc，他的手迟早会发霉臭掉烂掉的！他会得到报应的，所以你不要再生气了ok?

Caroling caroling through the rain....

2007-12-25T13:18:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas everyone! :D

Met up with Liping and Willy yesterday, gathering cum Christmas celebration...
Forgot to take pics with you guys.. :(
Thank you Willy for the present and treat! Nice meeting up with you and Liping! Thank you gal for the long chat too! I enjoyed it very much.. :)
And luckily we went to Dhoby Ghaut instead of Orchard...haha...but heard that many people met many people coincidentally @ Orchard/Somerset, like Jiechao saw Wheegeok, Irene saw Zhengxin..so happening and interesting..haha!

Caroling was officially over!!! I felt very grateful to those who came to help us, especially the current batch juniors who had just graduated...and a few others whom I have mentioned in the ajalumnichoir blog le...shall not repeat here.. :)
Without them we would be in deep shit..haha..not enough people plus not enough voices plus no conductor! I can't imagine that happening to us...heng we got Nadiah and Jing Kang who came to conduct us for the 4 days...thanks guys! :D

Some pics during and before/after caroling!

Liping and I...bo sia (no more voices) liao...sing till voice become screechy...yucks..

From left to right --> Jingkang, Qing wen and Gerald Paul Tan! Jingkang is our cute little junior cum conductor! And my SN pals, Gerald on the right is our History teacher Mrs Lily Tan's son! He told me that Mrs Tan saw my pic and told him that she taught me before! SO QIAO rite? OMG, she looks so young lor..没想到儿子已经长那么大了!我们真的老了啊! haha...更巧的是他还是我的JC cum choir junior..super super qiao...

Taken on the first day of caroling..everytime we'll sing till we perspire, machiam just ran for 3 rounds on the track lidat..haha..conductors were worst..especially Jing Kang..he will 'rain' everytime he conducts...same as Jiechao..wahaha!

Nadiah our conductor is on the right..with Sze Mun in the middle and the gal in turqoise top on the left...dear SN gang..she's Long Ziling's sister Zinuan! :D
I seem to have the affinity with people's sons or sisters etc..haha..

Us singing!

Jing Kang and Gerald Paul again! Do you think he looks like Mrs Tan?

Peiying Da Jie and I! She's our president and she has done MANY things for the choir..big and small..seriously, we can't survive without her...佩服她的冲劲和对合唱团的热情..

Liping and my les partner Wheegeok! They are both my close friends in choir cum fellow sops! Love them very much! :D

Huiting is my sop junior too, too bad she can only join us for the first 2 nights..a very cute and bubbly gal, missed her too...

On the second last day of performance!

Geok, I, Jiemin and Christina..an alto junior of ours.. :)

Us again..haha..this time Jiemin helping us take pic...

Py: TMD! Lao niang say 'two' who dare to say 'one'?!
Geok: Py 又再耍狠了，还是静静不要动比较好……
Me: Geok, 小心在你旁边的‘黄金手臂’……

Geok: take photo, must show some signs of joy..hee..yay...
Me: Cheh, your expression salah la..lidat where got happy?? Must smile from your heart.. like this: :D

The juniors are helping Jing Kang to wrap his sweets as Christmas presents..haha..

Loh Wei and Jiechao! The 2 intellectuals in our choir..always talking about finance and accounting and even...Lao Zi...(Jiechao is the one studying Laozi)..haha

Rare guest singers: medical doctor-to-be Shawn (in the middle) and phD doctor-to-be cum super sop Yanting! Plus Chee Guan at the side and 3 of them were caroling (with harmonisation) in chipmunk voice...厉害! Very cute! haha..

Us caroling! You can never spot me..cos I'm not even in the pic! wahaha..

Our 2 little cute sop juniors Meirong and Jiahui! She's the 4th Jiahui I knew already..LOL
Sorry to other Jiahuis..hee

Us on the 4th day! And the last day too... :(

At first I really felt tired to carol over and over again for 4 consecutive days. Imagine sing the same songs over and over again, at outdoors with cigarette smoke entering our nostrils and mouth and throat and then we sing...it really sucks..together with the sweat, and the worsening screeching voices we get over the days of singing..plus the high heel shoes hurting my bunion, making it red and swollen and painful..plus changing in and out of the costume plus putting on makeup everyday...
There are lots to complain, but I can overlook all these, all because of the joy and fun and love I get from the members..singing was actually fun too, bringing joy to the shoppers..especially when you see people stopping and listening to us, clapping for us, and even cheering for us...or even STALKING us! Yes we encountered a female stalker who listened to us twice on the same day and almost followed us back to our resting area..LOL..minus the disgusting smoke, the hot weather, the lousy sound system (but the uncles who helped us were nice and friendly)..etc..
It's really a great experience.. :)

三个字，很感动。

Singing rocks my life, but singing with the choir...rocks it even more..a lot more..haha..hopefully in the years ahead, we can still be as bonded and our passion for singing will never die...

YOU GUYS ROCK!
Cya on 28th at Loh Wei's house! :D
After that, 就后会有期了... :)

Some videos of us caroling..enjoy the carols! :D

Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer

Jingle Bell Rock

Silver Bells

Jingle Bells -- we 'hey' till machiam we wanna go on strike..haha!

Fun fun fun!

2007-12-22T00:41:00.000+08:00

Ho ho ho! Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat...please put a penny in the old man's hat...

Have been caroling for 2 days and these carols are stuck in my head, together with Jay Chou's 彩虹..haha..a bit no link hor?

Met up with the SN gang yesterday for movie and Korean food..Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium...hmm..the show is ok but perhaps I'm too tired and I yawned a few times..and I was shocked when I saw my dear gf YY cried beside me! wahaha..I still think Alvin and the Chipmunks is nicer...haha...this show is ok but the ending is quite abrupt..we were like, "Huh? End liao ah?" And the Indian boy behind us (can tell from his accent) was saying, "finished already?" haha..

Oh and the Korean food is nice! It's at Chinatown. And we had a xmas present-exchange session!!!

Our gifts from each other to each other! haha...

Food!!!

We spent quite some time discussing what to do for our chalet at the end of the year..haha..so funny...seems so 痛苦 to even plan playing!haha...
Qiu, ailing, lia and June went to play mahjong, while yy and I left for our own appointments...so I went to North Point for the second caroling session!

The place was damn smoky and that makes our throats super dry! Nevermind..I've learnt the tactic of breathing through my nose fast while singing instead of through the mouth...so my throat won't get SO dry..hee...
Anyway, we've got good conductors! Nadiah and Jingkang aka kachua (cockroach)! haha..
The juniors were very supportive and they came to sing with us, I felt so glad! And they are definitely not the shy type who are afraid of seniors or siam from us..the first meeting and we all get high liao! Hope they will continue to sing with us.. :)
I will definitely miss them once caroling is over..
Caroling is definitely shag but singing with the choir is really enjoyable and satisfying..really love all my friends..

So happy that we are going to have a gathering soon!
BBQ with the choir, class outing with AJ 21/02 class, chalet with the SN gang, meet-ups with Libing and Keelee, gathering with the NUS Chinese people..etc...

How I wish the hols wont end so fast.......

舍不得舍不得舍不得...

Don't know what I will do without friends... :P

Presents and sweets that I had received on Thursday! From Ailing, Nadiah, Emelia, Zinuan, and a little pic of qiu, yy and I which is not inside..hee...thx gals! Love you all! :D

The stupid blister on my index finger..feels so tempting...maybe I should just get a needle and poke it soon...haha...忍无可忍了!

看偶像剧的心情转变

2007-12-21T00:25:00.000+08:00

最近在看由杨丞琳、贺军翔和王传一主演的《换换爱》。我知道我很慢啦，很多人早就看完了。哈哈！
不过这部戏对我来说还真的挺好看的！

一个穷女生遇上两位有钱公子，在巧遇之后而展开的爱情故事虽然是有点老掉牙，但还是能让我穷追不舍……也许是这种偶像剧式的爱情故事很吸引我吧。

我承认，我一直都很向往这样‘好死’的爱情故事能发生在我身上，身为普通女生，谁不想啊？！我又不是超级无敌单身派主义者……哈哈！
“年轻”的我（也就是十几岁的我）边看会不自觉地边向往偶像剧式的爱情，哈哈！（我必须承认我并不是很成熟、独立自主的女生。）
可是咧，现在越看，越觉得可笑。偶像剧式，aka 梦幻式的爱情，根本不会发生在现实生活里，也因为如此，所以他们才要制作这样的片子吸引观众，不是吗？

在我一个朋友的部落格上面看到这样的quote:
‘It’s easy to have happy moments with someone,
but it is finding someone who would work out the not so happy moments that is the most crucial thing in a relationship.’
虽然没有经历过爱情，但是看到身边的朋友所经历的，我想，这句话应该很对。不是每个人都有危机意识，或是冷静处理危机的能力。处理不当，往往会给对方，甚至是双方带来很大的伤害……
当然偶像剧一定会发生一些问题，然后男女主角逐渐会有办法解决问题，之后又开开心心地在一起，可是现实生活中有多少爱情是顺利的？

看偶像剧的时候，再想到这些，就再也不会对爱情有什么憧憬了。哈哈。听起来有点悲观。可是我就是这样，看戏的时候可以联想到很多东西。:P 也许，一个人长大了想法真的可以变很多……

我的食指上的水泡越来越大！超想用针刺破它的！没关系，我忍！

BBQ time!

2007-12-19T12:24:00.001+08:00

Had a great BBQ with the CL(aka Chinese Lang) gang yesterday...
I just realised I'm the only Chinese Studies major around...please correct me if I'm wrong...haha!

Caren organised the BBQ, and it was held at Pasir Ris park...
We arrived at 4 to wait for the BBQ wholesaler to bring us the food, and it was drizzling, so some of us sat under the shelter and chit chat...
And some other group of kids were playing music from their handphones, yes kids, I think we were the oldest group of YOUTHS there...wahaha!
EVERYONE was shocked to see my new hairstyle...and they all thought something happened to me..haha..
我失恋了!受了沉重的打击，所以我决定剪头发……但那已经是半年前的事了好不好……哈哈！
Nah, no special reason for wanting to cut hair...felt like cutting eons ago, just that I'm waiting for my perm to last longer..haha..extend its worth mah..haha!

Anyway, I started the fire! :D With the help of the only male --> Raymond and the girls of course..who were constantly looking at me working seriously to get the damn fire started, haha..and trying to help to fan, get starters etc..and of course, 苦口婆心地 warn me to be careful with my hands...
and stupid me really got burnt..by a harmless-looking black charcoal which I thought was a new piece (the tongs sucks so I would prefer to use my hands as much as possible). So I ended up with a sore index finger on my right hand...起了大水泡！
*sob sob*

Sorry for taking so long to start the fire people! :P
And thank you heaven for stopping the rain in time for all of us who were BBQ-ing there! :D

More pics

Caren and Raymond serious at work...eh..dun act serious lor..haha!

Look at the sizzling smoke!
The first fire we had was basically hot red amber..not much fire at all..but food was great, cos it wont 'chao-ta', (turned charcoal)..haha...(trying to find excuse for lousy and small fire...

I took super long to start the 2nd fire..but patience is rewarding...the fire was just nice..great for cooking satay! :D

Me and my burnt finger and charcoal-plated hands.. yay.. :)

Stingrays and sotongs! Yum!!

After 4 years...

2007-12-17T16:20:00.000+08:00

Before:

After:

I CUT MY HAIR!
Ok, I may look nicer with long hair..but I really felt quite refreshed and happy after cutting my long but super cui (cannot make it, damn dry and crispy) hair... :D
And, I felt more like myself..perhaps permed hair still doesn't suit me, too sophisticated and gentle..haha..I still prefer to be a tomboy.. :)

Haro Tanpoon has officially evolved! :D

Anyway, some pictures taken over the weekend..

Went to Little India to gai gai with my mummy on Friday...My FIRST time to Little India..Am I a Singaporean?!

Performance at SICC (Singapore Island Country Club) on Saturday night...
goodbye to my long hair...

End of the performance! :D

Busy gai-gai week

2007-12-14T00:34:00.000+08:00

Wah, I didn't realised that I did not blog for a week...oops..
Was out since Saturday...almost every day...
I went for choir pracitce, went to Arab St, went to Chinatown Ten Dollar KTV, went to watch 3 movies, went to do a bit of shopping, and most importantly, met up with friends... :D

Let's talk about the movies..

《色·戒》was...slow...like me..haha..it's really like a 艺术片...the feel...hmm...knowing about the author, aka Eileen Chang Ai Ling, and the historical background and the relationship between Shanghai and Hong Kong during the Second World War period helped me to understand the show a little better, but most importantly, it made my imagination of the Old Shanghai became true! I've always imagined how Shanghai looked at that time, or rather, earlier in the 1930s during the modern Chinese Lit lessons..the pictures that the teachers showed us weren't enough. But through this show, I got the chance to look at a proper, operating 电车 (bus), and a cafeteria (although I wasn't sure if that was the kind that the authors then loved to go), and beautiful cheong sums worn by the actresses...Ok I think only Chinese people will understand what I mean..no fun wan...
Wang Lee Hom seems quite extra in the show actually, I feel, it's like, the male version of a 花瓶 (vase)...
Ya, talking about the ahem, sex scenes (Yes I went to watch the R21 version, and it's my 1st R21 show since I turned 21), they actually made me felt quite disgusted...I think the way they shot it, it's supposed to be 唯美, but I think because Tony Leong was supposed to be violent and a little psycho, they didn't turn out to be that 美 afterall...haha...ya, and it's meant to be not a good experience for the 'couple' in the show, cos of his psychopathic mindset...i.e., to torture the girl...And I really really admire the girl's (Tang Wei) guts to be the female lead...really...

Enchanted!

Nice and sweet show, and Nad and Peiying are right, the theme song just stays in your head...
-True Love's Kiss-
"I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss
And a prince I'm hoping comes with this
That's what brings everaftering so happy
And that's the reason we need lips so much
For lips are the only things that touch
So to spend a life of endless bliss
Just find who you love through true love's kiss

Usually girls like fairytales..I am a girl... :P

Alvin and the Chipmunks!

They are super cute! Especially the shortest and the fattest one, who's called Theodore! My favourite show out of the 3...Enchanted is nice but it is very typical..
At first I was still wondering what kinda story can the chipmunks have, and it turned out to be nice! I love their singing! Didn't know they are an accapella group...
"Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me"...wahaha..in chipmunk voice ok..
Spongebob squarepants!
Ok, I'm talking nonsense here already, you gotta catch the show before you understand what I'm saying... :D

And I finally bought my black, closed-toe heels for choir performance! Hope they don't kill my legs... :S

And Jiahui, Bon Voyage! Have fun in US and Canada! Hope to see you in a month's time! Take care!

I wanna go overseas!!!!

To my dear friend tlp

2007-12-07T12:32:00.000+08:00

Hey gal, this song is dedicated to you, if you ever come and read my blog.. :)
And to those friends who finds comfort in this song..

《让自己有快乐》by 陈毓芸
别再哭把泪擦干
不要让自己再忧伤
听我说你要勇敢
这世界不会停止转
人生不会常常如你所愿
总会有挫折
只要你能放开心中的灰
一切会更美

让自己有快乐
别让伤心将你围绕
生活有太多的苦恼无处可逃
你一定要坚强面对才好

让自己有快乐
你的忧伤我都明了
如果你想找人分担让我知道
我这有肩膀让你依靠

Cheer up friends, life is full of ups and downs, but these are what constitute life too, right? 经一事，长一智...Thanks to whatever we have faced, they make us grow up eventually..willingly or unwillingly.. :)

Random Rantings

2007-12-07T11:50:00.000+08:00

Being stuck at home for 3 days without stepping out of my house, isn't really boring, cos I know how to self-entertain! I really know how to WASTE TIME..till now, I haven't even started watching 《换换爱》lor...I got the show just before the exams already..hiaks..

Being stuck at home for 3 days without stepping out of my house made me know how to differentiate The Powerpuff Girls! Now I finally know who is Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup..cos I watch it everyday! Every weekday from 12.30pm on Kids Central.. :D
And the episode I watched yesterday was damn hilarious..Blossom tried to speak Cantonese! "This is a boy"; "Char Siew Bao" etc...but I don't understand, they called it "conversational Chinese"..but it's actually Canto..I guess the Chinese there mostly speak Canto...but can we called a dialect "conversational Chinese"? （中文系学生的职业病，只要是跟中文有关的事情都要问个清楚，尤其是definition，这也是arts students的毛病...i.e, to define something properly.. :S)
I think maybe the Chinese Language majors can answer..Caren, please explain if you know..thanks..haha..

Oh anyway I was talking to a friend I made when I interned for Wanbao, she's from my batch, currently in NUS Biz Yr 4, and she's married! I mean, she ROMed this year! OMG..super kua zhang for me, to think I don't even have a bf before..strictly speaking..
Ya I know some girls my age who are not studying are already married with kids..so there's nothing much to 大惊小怪的...but still...cos we are still students mah, so I'm still a bit stunned la..haha..
I can foresee that I will receive letters from SDU next time after I graduate, but I guess I would rather remain single than to attend their functions..wahaha..

Oh, and does anyone know how much does an air ticket cost if I wanna travel from Taiwan to Shanghai? (via HK or elsewhere of course) :)
Planning for grad trip! I want to go Taiwan and Shanghai! (provided I haven't 倾家荡产..haha)

Events during the term..

2007-12-06T23:46:00.000+08:00

Haha..couldn't think of a proper title for this post..usually I can't think of a proper one anyway...

I went to attend my cousin's 21st birthday party on Sat 24th Nov, AFTER MY FIRST PAPER...haha
And I stayed on at the chalet till Sun night..haha..
And I went to ARCADE and BOWLING too...played the stupid machine where you're supposed to insert a token strategically in order for the gadget to push the existing tokens inside the machine out so that you can get more tokens..understand what I mean? Sorry if you don't, cos my English sux..let alone describe.. (that's why in sec sch I prefer to do expository essays than descriptive or narrative essays, cos I can't write an essay beautifully, haha)
Ya anyway, the cute thing is, even my grandma was interested to try! She threw in a token and ONE token came out! That's fantastic for an 80+ yr-old woman already ok..haha

My grandma playing!

My baby niece! The youngest one..so hard to take pics with babies.. :S

Emelia's birthday on 12th November!
Some pics:

The birthday girl and her cakes and present!

Us! :)

And I saw this video on Facebook today...I feel painful and embarrassed for them..OUCH!

Finally I see freedom!!!

2007-12-05T14:53:00.000+08:00

YAY! EXAMS ARE OVER! Still got one more sem though...

Haha..and the moment I typed "Exams are over"...many things pop into my head...

I need to start thinking about what modules to take next semester...

Should I do ISM?

If I wanna do, I need to look for a teacher to supervise me and most important of all, I need to think of a topic to write my thesis...

I need to consider what kinda job do I wanna do...

Do I wanna be a teacher? If so I need to start applying liao...for the 1-year contract in teaching...

Or...should I try the media sector? It's been my little wish to be a DJ...haha...

Haiz...time's running out...

But anyway, exams are over! But I don't have much confidence this semester actually, and especially.. As a girl with rather low self-esteem, this semester had been very very dreadful...
I've faced super heavy workloads (as usual I can't get them all done), I've faced 2 deaths within 2 weeks, I've faced 5 presentations..(it's a lot for me!)...etc...don't know cry how many times liao..haha..but, it's all over...
This semester is over and I really hope next semester will be a better one...
Jia You!!

Will try to post some pics up soon... :D

2 more days to the start of my 1st paper...

2007-11-21T23:46:00.000+08:00

Hmm..what shall I talk about?
Haha...blogging for the sake of blogging...and sian-ness..

Tired...eyes tired, brain tired, body tired...
just 2 more weeks, and I will be free! But only temporarily la...
Oh, and there are pics..some birthday pics with my sec sch frens..and pics of my niece and myself! haha..I look like auntie..but..they will be posted....sometime later I think...now..lazy to upload to my com and blogger la...

I'm supposed to be pia-ing like nobody's business! My progress is darn slow and I only left 2 days to my 1st paper!!! And still got 1 paper to hand in on Friday! But only left editing so should be alright..heh..

Although I should be busy studying, I managed to watch 1 hr of TV a day..haha..watching the 《楚汉相争》 nowadays..and I realised...the army spies in the past, were even more efficient and effective than the 狗仔队s that we we have now lor..应该反省一下..

Now know why I can't do well for exams already? My brain is full of lame thoughts, can't even settle down and concentrate on my studies...how to do well?! I feel like those naughty kids on TV, always kena scoldings cos they just wanna play and can't focus on their studies...just that I don't get scoldings..haha...the 'angel' in me is scolding me though... oops... =P

虚惊一场

2007-11-14T19:21:00.000+08:00

Aiyo..when I logged in to Blogger I got a bit of shock..the whole page was in Chinese..
I know I'm a Chinese major so I should be used to reading Chinese la..but hor..don't do that to me mah..I'm still used to using English in terms of computer interface mah..
Worse, my NUS email uses Chinese interface too! Hello! Chinese major means everything must be in Chinese meh? But my other friends' email is also in English leh..why mine so unique?
Anyway..it's been 4 years..so I shall stop complaining about it...

Today I don't know if I'm heng or suay...studying in Woodlands library with Irene now..and I almost lost my laptop when we went for lunch!!! :S
We went to eat Pasta Mania and I left my laptop on the seat beside me..and I happily walked away without noticing that my hands were so empty..till we went back to the library, when I saw the wire den I realised...BLUR ME RIGHT? Bo bian lor..I RAN (Yes I ran) back to Pasta Mania and asked the waiter there..heng ah..they kept it for me... PHEW...
The thing is..a few Tuesdays back in school, I left my hp in NUS lib before going for lunch with Hiannie and Irene at Munchie Monkey..I realised my hp was gone and I RAN (Yes I ran too) back to Central Library...(it's quite far lor..and there's like N flights of stairs!) heng ah..it was still at the same spot where I left it..the gal at the computer was quite honest..she just left it there..maybe waiting for me to go back and take...

OK, and conclusion...today is Wednesday right? Irene and I bought 4D for the dates that I ALMOST lost my hp and laptop... WAHAHA!
Pray hard that we will dio 4D! HUAT AH!!

PS: Chee guan di di, I blog liao hor..dun say I never update k...LOL