Day 46

Despite of my resolution to stay away, I'm still blogging today. Feel the serious need to let out all my frustration. I slept at 5 last night. Was trying to create the project website . I'm really disappointed with their contribution, want to kick their a****. The original website created looks a mess!! How can they!! I originally thought that the guy who created it was a comp expert. They all claimed he was. So what went wrong? How can his final product be so shoddy, with tons of broken links, undownloadable images and......did not even include the most impt "definition" page O_o Yikes!! I did like 7 out of 9 pages of the research, excluding making changes to theirs. And the nerve!! They woke me up at 7.30 to ask me where's my template. Now my sleep's distrupted and I no longer feel the urge to sleep...

God give me strength today~ I need to finish my econs essay!

Day 45

WARNING: Viewing may cause immediate loss of stress, uncontrollable smiling, and a disobedient desire to wear shorts to work.
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Thought i'll share this interesting msg found on the invitation to watch "A good year".

Today's friday and i'm feeling an immediate loss of stress despite not having watched e movie yet.

Got to say a big TY to WHao for sending out the post on Yahoogrps abt our class gathering yest. I think many ppl wld be shocked to see e post in their inbox today. I mean he's such a quiet character in class, I hope most ppl will not be able to guess I bullied him into writing it=p But he owes me la, last time in class keep borrowing my notes....and then keep expecting me to "entertain" him with lame jokes else he'll complain I "not funny anymore".... But I really wanted someone to post something. Me being the moderator is so "pai seh" when the group is so quiet. Let's keep e group active man!! ~I dislike cheerleading~

Today I also have e feeling of "yuan qin bu ru jin lin". For the first time in 3 yrs of NUS I found someone to go to sch with and have lunch! "3 types of black hole", "event horizon", "Mass of Sun makes space warped", "the moon has many holes"...Wow. Trapped in the tiny world of FASS, I seem to be missing out on a lot of things, no? The cosmos is so big....I need to see more of the world. Why is it that we have to specialize in one major? Why can't we learn just everything? I miss taking 9 subjects!

This writer's taking "time-off" for the nx wk. My posts are getting a bit trivial nowadays, but it can't be helped since nothing much out-of-the-ordinary strikes me on during semester time. I don't want to embarrass myself and be accused of "losing my sense of humour". There r 2 kinds of blog, narrative and reflective. Maybe after the vacation I will come back as Gandhi or Carnegie.

~There's nothing wrong with grey shirts~

Day 44

It's wicked! My sore throat is back and in its full fledged furry, I was sent into a coughing fit during lecture today. Non-stop for 5min, I was practically choking. And since I was trying to suppress it in order not to disturb e class, it got so bad I was tearing!! Utterly embrarrassed tt I didn't dare look at the ppl sitting ard me. Hai*

Plus I felt a bit dumb and cheated as I bought a packet of Straples which were herbal-flavoured. The Chinese say "Liang yao ku kou"...but this yao is too ku... I offered to HEn to try and he refused my later offers (not even to help me finish the packet...). Hai* This is a perfect example of how attractive packaging can influence consumers' buying process. I was dupped.

Anw we went for lunch with the 02S43 ppl in NUS. Fun meeting them. By chance, even those who weren't invited joined us cos we "bumped into" each other. Fated.

Day 43

Today feels like a day out of a comic strip. I was about to leave e HOPE Bazaar at Sci when it started pouring. I couldn't bear getting stranded so I dashed across e road to e bus stop in the rain. Picture this: A girl dressed prettily, in a nice white top and flouncy gypsie skirt running in the rain across the road.

I don't know, but I felt it was quite a ditzy thing to do. I was all dressed up because I was initally supposed to go for piano but lessons were cancelled. Think it's all because when you feel happy, trival things like getting caught in the rain doesn't get you down. You know sometimes when ur day is bad, these little things can get at you easily. So the lesson is be optimistic =)

Health report: My throat's back to normal again, but my left arm aches fr e 3 jabs we had yest!!! 3!!!

Day 42

Having a sore throat today. The germs are having a field day at home since we have 3 men down.

However, I still persisted on at flag day today selling flags for the Children's Aid Society. Today's Deepavali btw and there were many Indians or maybe Pakistani at Jurong East. Many of these foreign workers were curious abt why there was a girl holding a tin can, standing at e foot of the escalator with a smile "perpetually plastered" on her face. But many were forthcoming with their donations, while others just looked a mixture puzzlement and bemusement. Coincidentally, the last time I sold flags was for the Pakistani earthquake in school. It was much more embarrassing standing along e arts walkway although the money collected was much better...(You can't really avoid donating to ur schoolmate can you?). Today however I realised that e really charitable ppl wld automatically come up to you if they see the tin can, you don't really need to ask them at all. Those who u actually nd to open ur mouth to ask them, chances are they'll decline. Flagselling is afterall not hardselling.

Day 41

Finally, a reprieve from all the mid-term tests! It was nice playing badminton with Leng tonight. Nothing much to blog today, maybe I'll just share a beautiful story:
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一天, 小狗狗问妈妈 ： “ Mummy, mummy, 幸福在哪里？”
妈妈 wisely 回答：“幸福不就在尾巴上！”

不久, 妈妈看见小狗狗追着尾巴绕圈子... ...

Amused, 妈妈问道：“ 孩子，你在做什么？”
小狗狗傻气地回答：“ 怎么也追不到幸福！”

妈妈 knowingly 说：“傻孩子，只要你往前走，幸福就会跟着你走！”

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This story is pretty much about 生在福中不知福 ... ... but sounds less cliche =)

Week 17

Hmm...feeling pretty high now although exhausted. First, a friend was very nice and walked me back home right to my doorstep (usu my friends drive me home or drop me off a cab but this time we actually walked!! for one stop so it was a pleasant change). We were back from NVAC appreciation dinner onboard a boat!! Extremely novel and exciting. The boat was called "Fairwind" and our CCA booked the whole ship which took us out to sea to e nearby Sisters island. We had buffet dinner at the seas, had lots of interaction, took tons of photos, exchanged lots of pirate jargon, watched a consolidated photo video and got "wooden plank" momentos. It felt like graduation night!

Secondly, I'm happy to be blogging tonight marking the end of the week. A long eventful week. We washed cars for PS on Mon, Wed and Fri. On mon i reached sch at 7am, about the earliest I reached in all my 3 yrs in NUS, to wash cars and deliver my sweetest sales speech so as raise funds ok?!! And just last night after FinE mid-sem and 4.5hrs of car washing, I attended the NUSSU Appreciation Dinner. Wonderful night as we had a huge haul, biggest being the first best standing com!! NVAC reps toasted and toasted 3x in front of everyone. It was e few rare occassions tt our "unitedness" stood out. Just now on the boat, we also toasted with sparkling juice and gave a loud resounding "yam say". Funny. I think ppl at the pier were shocked to hear our "warring cries" and wondered if a pirate boat had arrived at the peaceful shores of Spore (Pirates of e Carribean 3 came a yr early??).

Both dinners turned out better than expected and I'm glad.

Thirdly, yest someone at e dinner recognised me fr KCPPS. I think he was my ex-classmate but I really couldn't put a name to his face. Asked ard at e end of e dinner but cldn't find him. Curious. I think i roughly know who he is now so hope to see him again so I can confirm my guess.

Fourthly, I met Shirley and gang at Sakae Sushi for lunch after PS meeting in school. It was to celebrate my belated birthday and Jac's birthday. Finally I got to satisfy my cravings for Jap food which had plagued me for quite some time already. We shopped and shopped so as to waste time before I headed off to Marina Bay for the dinner.

Fifth-ly, there was a joke just now which I can't get out off my mind at present. SMin was telling LYong n I that she used to go "chong" and LYong asked her what she usu. drinks. SMin said she'd carry a glass of Volka around. Think LYong misheard her and so he said "Mocha??" I couldn't stop laughing then. It was hilarious the puzzled look on his face, "I was wondering how come got ppl go pub and order coffee?" haha that guy is genuinely innocent 180 degrees from the party-animal-type! (Finally found an 'angel' just like me.....hahaha)

As i'm typing this, my head is still not clear.... the laptop seems to be bobbing up and down....serious. Think boat rides don't come often and as we spent 3hrs onboard tonight, i still feel a little like i'm out at sea. It's as though i live on ship and i'm typing my biography about my sea-faring days. Hee=) watch it mate~

Day 40

A nice girl was queuing at the ‘tau hway’ in the arts canteen the other day.
Ah girl: 豆花。
Auntie: ok.

(Background: Auntie scoops the tau huay) Meanwhile, Nice girl sees a sign that says Tau huay and ginko nuts.

Auntie: 七毛。
Ah Girl: 可以加白果吗?
Auntie: 你要啊？Ok.

Auntie goes back to scoop the ginko nuts. She returns.

Auntie: 一块钱。

Ah girl eyes widen. She is in disbelief but she quietly pays and leaves.

Later…
Ah girl counts the 白果. 1,2,3,4,5. Exactly 5. Not hard to count at all. They were small, shriveled, brownish, worst of all very hard. Totally not like the usual ginko nut Ah girl is used to eating. Most likely they were canned ginko nuts.

Five shriveled nuts for 30cents extra.

L : why you don’t ask her “Auntie, 为什么你的白果这样的？”

Y : No lah, the best way is next time it happens…..

Ah girl opens her doe-eyes wide and asks in her most innocent voice just audible so the others in the queue can hear her:

“Auntie….., 这个是什么？”

Day 39

Another meaningful day spent :D As part of NVAC MC, I went to IMH today for mooncake festival celebrations. They had a skit and I 'ke chuan' as e 'beautiful' Chang-e. Haha, haven't been involved in skits for a long long time and this was quite fun. Was quite 'on' for it since it's for a good cause. But a Chang-e with short hair, I wonder if the audience were disappointed. But I think not la the residents were just having a good time interacting, making loud noises, think nobody was watching intently...E main character was Hou Yi btw not chang-e and there wasn't a Jade Rabbit (somebody told me i had to carry a guy who was e rabbit!! I'll be squashed, when did rabbits come in XXXL sizes??)...

Then we rushed down to MWH. Tight schedule. And it's another mooncake festival celebrations! This time we brought the residents out to the nearby coffeeshop and they had a chance to carry lanterns, play with sparklers, eat mooncake and "shang yue"....what "yue"? The moon was not out yet since we ended at 7pm and I doubt we'll see it throught the haze with a PSI of 140 even if it's after 7.

Anyway, went with the MWH gang for dinner. We went to the newly opened VivoCity and funnily, we got lost in the place. So much for the 'biggest shopping centre in Spore'. We wanted to go to e foodcourt but after walking the whole sprawling big complex, we found out that it was not opened yet. Then we had to find a way out of e maze to get to HarbourFront to eat. So in the end, it was only SMin, Gary, YChong and I left. It was a tiring but fun day where I got to know a few new friends fr imh and mwh. Another round? Not so soon....my legs are crying out loud already!!

Day 38

This is one HAZY mooncake festival. I'm actually wearing a mask now in my living room, windows all closed to block the acrid smell. This is all because I have a nose of a dog. Super powerful. The hazy is really bad this week cos of all the irresponsible slash & burn-ers in Indonesia. Damn them. Don't they love this world? I'm wearing a mask now because of them. Ppl are suffering from respiratory problems because of them. I'm sounding so critical of things today because the haze has got into me. I was at Sangkhem mtg in sch till 8.30pm today and the campus was like blanketed in the haze when I stepped out. To boot, I had to sit a non-air con 151 all 4/5 of my journey home. I breathed in too much of the pollutants that i'm feeling sick now.

Last night I was down pretty bad. My body just gave way, probably cos I only slept 5 hrs in total for the last 2 days. I could do anything right, I couldn't even read the piano score properly as I tried to play my favourite tunes. I was breaking out in cold sweat and the haze only made things worse. In the end I lost the battle, took 1 flu tablet and was out cold.

Day 37

A : I'm not looking.
B : That's ridiculous, everyone's looking. You just haven't met the right one yet.
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This is a line from Stories of Love on e blackbox. When i heard it, i thought of the girl's answer and thought how I might probably have said that if someone were to ask me. But then the guy's honest reply struck me as quite true. Some of us may be in denial? or just looking for an excuse to cover up for our singlehood. But that was my initial feelings.

On further thought, I thought that it might not be so true. Something closer to the truth would be: Some of us are really not looking. But if that one right guy comes along, he/she might just sweep you off your feet and make you forget all your other priorities. Forget the fact that you were putting it off. Forget everything and just take the pluge.... But that is only if the right person comes along else we're happy with status quo. And that one right person must be really "powerful" to do just that.

Birthday Post

13 new messages. It's my 21st birthday today. All r wishes from friends.

My feelings today, 4 words: "Xin ru zhi shui". I feel TOTALLY at peace with myself today. I don't know why, I walked around in school feeling super calm. Think it must be because I had only 4 hrs of sleep. But I'm not tired, have to push myself further.... Lessons fr 8-8 as usual plus a Malay test!! Today wasn't a good day to celebrate. But I was pretty glad many ppl remembered my birthday.

We had an advance celebration yesterday. Steamboat, fruit cake plus lanterns! Ah yi, san yi and family we invited too! Ah yi bought me a whitegold pendant too fr SK. I feel quite like a 'rich' lady cos it adds to my collection of 3 jewellery haha, including e one fr mum & dad and e one I won at the company's D&D last yr. 'Rich' in the sense that I've got many ppl around me this yr too.

Reaching 21 is a milestone. Last yr I was feeling a bit sad that I hit the big '2' and was "old". But this yr, supposedly 'older', I don't hv last year's uneasiness. Maybe it's the first sign of my passing into adulthood? You come to acccept everything in life gracefully, including your age?

Day 36

Today we celebrated Grandma's birthday. Surprisingly this year we did not eat out but ordered buffet at her house! It was such a wonderful change cos after that we had time to play majong! Leng played for the first time and won 3 games. We only played 6 rounds la. Beginner's luck! It was my 2nd time at majong and I didn't have much luck however I managed to reprise gd ole' memories of the 1st time I played... Had to tear myself away from the table to go home and start on my financial project proposal but it seems the stars are not on my side today. I feel really distracted and I don't know how to go about doing it. (reason i'm blogging)

My Ah ma suddenly appears very funky to me. Yest, she told me "Bang har-ze-lian, kar buay wu pim-ple" This comes as a surprise cos Ah ma only speaks Hokkien! But her sentence has 2 English words! And she observes my (super bad) complexion! Not only that, during her birthday she gladly posed for photos, 1 which Ah gong held her hand. And a few of her daughters n grandchildren kissing her!! Ah ma, you really make our heads turn today =D


I decided to wear sth funky too. A Blue tie! Everybody.