Thursday, June 24, 2010
today was a nerve-racking but ultimately, happy day ((((: am super proud of myself yayy hehe :D :D i'll miss mr wee though haha he is the cutest old man around ((: and haha i won't ever hear him sniggering at my mistakes or saying lame stuff or complaining that i'm not eating enough haha but well, it was all great fun yeah hahaha :D
heee andddd i reallyyyy love gongcha omg practically all their drinks are damn nice and interesting gosh (((;
i can't wait for the weekend!!! (((:
Saturday, June 19, 2010
hehe today was a real fun day yayy! :D i went to some catholic funfair with family and relatives hehe :D it was at some rehab home in geylang or sth haha, and well the area kinda sucks cos a lot of cheekopeks sighhh mel caught someone trying to peek under my skirt omg imagine that :O :O that guy is such an asshole and i hope he gets sore eyes by tmr ))))): and then there were guys perving at my cousins too omg suckers ))): so yeahh omg i don't like geylang omggg the guys there are so biantai :O ewwwz ): even if they say the food there rocks, i am so not going there unless i have like superb protection around me gosh :/
haha but thankfully, the grounds within the rehab home are pretty safe haha so we were quite safe once we were at the funfair :D and hehe so fun omg my mom and my aunt coordinated the timings such that my cousins and i were all on the same bus hahah :D then we reached there around like 10 plus and met my other 2 aunts then we went to look for food (: the queues for the food were all sooo long omg faints :/ so anw we bought soya milk with black beans first haha cos everyone was thirsty! D: hehe the black beans are quite cool hehe they are like sweet and salty at the same time hehe quite unique :D
then after that i went off with val and mel to play games hehe! :D quite fun hehe there were all sorts of games omg quite retarded but quite fun also :D hehe there was this game where we had to pass along some levitating plastic balls using cones that conduct a wind current haha ok i dunno how to describe it haha but it was quite fun :D like i think the cones have some fan underneath or sth, so when the plastic ball is placed at a certain point above it, it will seem to hover in mid-air! :D so there was this long line of such cones and we had to tilt the cones at the correct angle to pass the ball from cone to cone haha :D it wasn't easy but the 3 of us made a damn great team man haha and we succeeded! :D haha so pro eh ((: then after that we played some game where we had to throw hooks at a soccer goal post and try to hook them onto the net strings :D then we played some other game that involved throwing marbles into cups :D typical funfair type of game haha (:
then we went back to our table for a break haha and yayy our ever-so-patient aunties plus my mom had bought us loads of food hehehe xD they took turns queuing up at the food stalls apparently hahaha so cute omg xD i loved the hotdogs omg yum ((: i love sausages really ((: hehe and there was some dessert thingy that was super heavenly to eat on a hot day hehe (:
then after munching we went back to play games again! :D this time we tried some other new games hehe like throwing a ball at some bricks to topple the brick wall haha xD omg i was damn horrible at this haha i aimed wrongly and ended up hitting the face of the girl who was sitting behind the booth hahaha oops :p hehhh then ah i think we played some other game but i cant rmbr what it was anymore hehhh :/
ooh then after a while we got sian so we went to buy cotton candy :D hehe the queue was damn long as usual omg, plus it was moving so darn slowly omg i felt like i was melting under the sun alr gosh ): hehe then we noticed there were some swings nearby hahaha and val decided she wanted to go on the swings lol but there was alr a little girl sitting on it so val went up to the swing and hovered around trying to get the girl to move off hahahaa tsk right omg :p plus val was wearing sunglasses so she prob looked like some baddie who was gonna kidnap the poor little girl HAHA obviously she wouldnt wanna get off the swing right omgg hahahaha but val really quite funny hahaha yayy :p then after that my mom passed by the queue and realised val wanted to go swing hahaha so she went to stand by the swing and this time, woohoo the girl moved off leh!!! :D hahaha my mom's aura works la faints hahaha :D so yayy me and val went to sit on the swing hahahaha and we left mel to queue for the cotton candy :D hehehe imagine that omg, a nineteen year old and a twenty year old sitting on the swing and swinging happily like little girls, while the real small girl has no urge at all to go sit on the swing and continues queuing for her cotton candy hahahahha xD hehehe so anw me and val were like swinging happily like retards oops and then val pointed out that the swing's poles were like starting to shake hahaha so we decided we'd better get off before the swing gave way hehe :p good luck to the poor kid who sits on the swing after that hehhhh :p but yayy acting like kids once in a while is really fun kayy hahahaha xD reminds me totally of old times when me and val used to play together hehehe :D :D
then anw after that we went back to the cotton candy queue to find mel, only to realise that the cotton candy machine had broken down haha faints so screwed up right :O so we just went on to play more games hahahaa :D we went to play the marbles game cos we were pro-er at that hahaha xD then went to redeem some prizes before they all ran out :D then omg we spotted a booth manned by rj ppl haha :D the game involved picking up marbles from a bowl of water using a pair of chopsticks haha :D damn hard la but quite fun also hehe xD this game is quite good for training dexterity man omg i should totally do this at home when i'm bored teehee :D then we spotted the manicure booth! :D -gasp- :p haha so yeahh me and mel went to do our nails yayy hehe :D and val went to redeem more prizes hehe (: the 3 of us are seriously a very pro team haha we accumulated so many stickers we had so many prizes to redeem omg :D :D
and yayy all the long waiting at the manicure booth payed off cos the girl doing our nails was really pro hehe :D i now have pretty purple nails, french manicure style! :D hehe yippee (((((: love having pretty nails omg (: one of these when i'm free i shall start experimenting with new french manicure styles yayy :D quite easy to do hehe i realise yayy haha soon i'll master the art of doing french manicures yayyz (: sharon tan! :D if you see this, forget about all the manicures outside alr k, next time you just come to my house, i'll do it for you foc hehehe xD though we still have to go get manicures together too k haha can chitchat along the way yippee :D
hehe and yupp that pretty much wrapped up the funfair :D and there's the pic of my nails! :D yayy hehe nice right zomg (:
last nite i finally sent the withdrawal email to caltech ): well i srsly feel bad abt it ): esp since they had to chase me for math placement exams cos i was partly too bo chap to care abt differentiation and integration WITHOUT the gc anymore, and partly cos i didn't know how to tell them abt how there wouldn't be a need for the placement exam anymore ): but well haha i finally did it la haha (: it's over and settled alr and i won't look back anymore (:
Thursday, June 17, 2010
yayy today is a bright sunny day again ((: finally omg after 2 long rainy days sheesh :/ i have never appreciated the sun so much before hahahah srsly omg ((: i was totally freezing my ass off the last two days cos it was so freaking cold haha the weather felt like natural aircon omggg it's the kind of temperature that reminds me of our classroom every time chiak adjusts the aircon temp hahaha DAMN COLD ))): hehe but yayy hehe today i am nice and warm again omg whew ((: and i hope it doesn't rain next week omg or i'll be a sad sad girl cos i'm damnnnnn scared of driving in the rain haha ))): like really haha omg ): especially in the heavy downpours )): if it's good weather i can be perfectly garang when driving haha but in the rain omg cmi alr ))): can't even see anything for nuts omg i always have this feeling i'm gonna crash into the vehicle in front )): trust me it is a veryyyy scary feeling ))): and that's why driving lessons have been nightmarish the last 2 days zzz cos of the freaking weather )): plus it doesn't help when my instructor pushes me to drive faster omgggg faints hahah i was at the end of my nerves for the whole lesson )):
and i ran over a dead cat (it was an already dead cat mind you, just that i didn't see it cos of the rain so i ran over it another time sighhh )))): ) and my instructor was like, "boom!" and i was like "huh" and he was like "did you feel that? you just ran over a dead cat! but don't worry it was alr dead la, i saw the carcass" OMG so morbid right ))): next catastrophe: i beat the red light without knowing :O again, cos i couldn't see past the rain drops omg like srsly they were falling too quickly for my wiper to remove ))): luckily it turned green just as i passed it haha but still omg, nightmare la D: haha but after that my instructor tried to be nice haha he stopped telling me to go faster and even decided to crack jokes along the way hehe :D like there was this dog sleeping on the road divider even though it was raining heavily, and he was like, "woah look at that dog, it's waterproof! " hahhaha faints omg so funny :D i'm pretty amazed by the dog though haha i mean like, who sleeps out there in the rain right gosh :O or maybe the dog doesn't have anywhere to go omg which is kinda sad ):
haha but yes that pretty much says why i hope very very hard that it will not rain on my very important day next week ): omg or i will like, despair and all ): omg ): haha but nvm yes i shall be optimistic haha xD maybe it will rain the night before and so the next day will be bright and sunny haha just nice for me :D
hehe in the meantime, don't panic yayy cos i'm nicole thio and i know i can do this right (:
and yayy now i have to blog about meetups with friends yayy ((: met joyce and xuyan last tues for lunch! (: gosh haha we haven't seen each other/chatted for so long hehe so yayy last tues was really great cos we spent hours just talking haha xD talking about the future and the past (: gosh and all the fond memories came rushing back haha (: like the time in sec 2 when we all sat together in the same group and we were always total retards during lessons haha oops :p lit lessons especially omg haha it was the cue to start laughing abt stupid things that somehow always always happen during lit hahahhaa xD like the time when xintian drew this caricature of our lit teacher who somehow ended up looking uncannily like ET and wrote the damnnnn funny caption "E.C. phone home" HAHAH and i died laughing i still rmbr hahahaha :D and you know me haha when i laugh too hard i end up crying hehehehe :D which is precisely what i did that lesson hahaha i laughed till i cried haha right in the middle of lit lesson omg cos really buay tahan alr hehehe :p then after that my nose started running haha it was a disaster through and through hahaaha :p so anw i started blowing my nose and then omg out of the worst possible things that could happen: our teacher herself came up to our group and looked at me in a damn concerned way cos she thot i was sick hahaha nose dripping and all oops :p when actually yeahh i was just sick from laughing too much hahahahaahah xD OOPS (: and haha well that was just epic oops :p
and then we reminisced about the other rainbow connection moments also hahhaha gosh i miss all of youuuu ))): hehe and we talked about our wonderful piece of installation art hahahaha :D arrangements of water hyacinths in the sch eco-pond, to form artistic patterns, courtesy of the rainbow connection heheheh xD but hey we were super creative kayys haha :D :D hehehe i still rmbr how our whole group trooped into the gardener's shed to kope all his pitchfork thingies so we could move the water hyacinths around hahahaha omg retarded moments srsly hahah xD and we had a lot more retarded moments hahaha but i shall be nice and not put them down here haha lest some of our fellow rainbow connection members get malu-ed :p oh and i remember our funny names also omgggg we all had silly names that started with the same alpha as our first name/surname haha so xintian was yamaha and zhihui was simbaba and i was nebula!! :D hahah which is supposed to be related to some star/galaxy thingy haha (: evidently joyce sees me as the bright shining star in her life :D :D :D heee :p although last tues joyce and xuyan decided that nutella would suit me better hahahh xD i can't agree more with that actually omg haha ((: cos i loveeee nutella!!! :D and maybe one day i will become the star(nebula) to endorse nutella HAHAHAHA xD (:
hahaha that meetup really made me miss rg a lot haha )))): i miss being with this bunch of quirkily cute and funny and smart friends hahaha :D we were all like damn smart actually (oops ego :p ) but we hardly acted the least bit smart hahahaha i have no idea why also hahaha i think we just enjoyed goofing around and doing stupid things hahahaha :D :D then after awhile it sorta stuck, so we ended up being retarded even without meaning to hahahaha oops :p haha and we manage to get our homework done and questions solved together super quickly hahaha amazing right :D totally the kinda friends i love hehehe :D :D gosh i really miss those fun times )))):
and hehe we talked about a lot of things also haha, uni, vacations and other random stuff haha ((: oh and haha i have to blog abt the wonderful food we ate that day haha! :D we went to watami at ion for lunch haha and we had their set meal which was pretty worth it haha :D and quite yummy too (: their food seems like a fusion between korean and jap food (: pretty interesting haha (: i had some seafood thingy in a hot stone bowl and miso soup and salad and pomelo soda (: yumz :D hehe and then after lunch we walked around ion to show joyce around haha (: and we dropped by the takopachi shop at the basement to get the famous takopachi :D not bad hehe (: and then after that we went to gusttissimo (i can't rmbr the spelling haha but it looks sth like this (: ) and had gelato :D yumz omg their gelato is not bad really (((: they have cool flavours like white wine omg (: and black rice and cheese (: yumz :D so anw we shared 3 scoops of gelato haha, berry sorbet, white wine and dark choc (: i am definitely coming back again cos their gelato is quite nice and the place is quite nice to sit around in (: plus they have the kind of chopchop card that i like to collect hehe (: the kind where you have to accumulate chops to redeem sth omg yums (:
hehe and joyce gave me an italian coffeemaker and some italian coffee powder for my bday present haha cool right omg!! :D yayy thanks k joyce dearie ((: your gifts are always the most unique and creative hehe special friend yayyyy :D :D i haven't figured out how to use it yet though hahaha must give me the instruction manual before i damage this coffeemaker while trying to figure out how to use it k hahah :D
and hehe after gelato we all went our separate ways! till next time folks! :D when we have our rainbow connection outing :D :D must must omg (: must have colour code again too k :D then together the eight of us shall be the rainbow plus one cloud just like last time hehe yayyy :D (: i volunteer to wear red again haha i have a lot of red clothes (: if no one wants to wear orange i can wear orange too hehehe i now have orange stuff :D teehee :D
yayy so anw, after that i went to borders for a while cos i still had some time left before going home for dinner (: so i continued reading mercy from where i stopped the last time hehe (: sat there for about 45 min before making my way home haha (: then whilst walking home, my dad called to say we'd be eating out haha, in like 1 hr's time! faints haha so i walked back to velocity and went to mph to read mercy again hahaha i am quite a pro cheapo :p hehe stood there for one hour until my ankles ached zzz though i didn't realise until i was getting ready to go off haha ): guess i was too engrossed in the book to shift my standing position every once in a while sigh ): now my ankles still feel funny but oh wells ):
dinner was at jack's place! :D yum haha i finally got my steak hehe (: so yayy steak craving satisfied woots :D :D i loveeee steak haha yummmmmmm (((((: i love jack's place also haha i like their steak and their dessert yayy :D i was like omg so full after dinner though haha and then i instantly felt guilty for eating too much throughout the whole day haha ): but then again, who cares right haha it's the holidays and i should totally pig out while i can haha xD cos when sch starts i doubt i have time to pig out omg an hour of lunch break is all the break that i will get in between lessons everyday ): sad me omg D:
haha then ytd after driving i was stuck at velocity again and couldn't walk home cos of the stupid rain D: but then (: the silver lining in that horrid dark cloud is that: woots i managed to finish mercy! :D hehe went to mph again and stood in the corner to read haha (: i have great stamina, no? (: i like the book quite a lot haha (: though it's pretty similar to the pact, in the sense that both have the part about the guy helping to kill the girl so she won't suffer any more pain on earth, but the rest of the story is slightly different haha this one has an extramarital affair in it also, and of course a damn exciting court case as usual haha so yeah (: it makes for nice reading too yippee :D
then at night i met mich for dinner! :D yayy haha gosh i haven't seen that girl for super long omg it has been months since we last had a proper chat! D: so anw haha we went to brotzeit at city hall for dinner :D cos like, german friends so must eat german food right! ((: yayy i think brotzeit is a very nice place to go for meals haha (: i like the ambience haha, it's like a very cosy german bar (: and the food rocks too yayy (: quite ex but quite worth it la (: yumz :D we both had bratwurst yayy haha mich had nuernmerger bratwurst and i had knoblauchwurst (that's garlic sausage la ) (: yayy yumz i loveeee bratwurst haha i love german food and all things german yayy (((: and then for dessert she had apple strudel and i had weissbier tiramisu (white beer tiramisu) (: hehe yum again :D i shall try to make this variation of tiramisu at home too hehe i can alr make the traditional tiramisu thanks to rgs cooking lessons haha (: but i shall experiment yayy maybe try macha tiramisu and other types of tiramisu too yayy :D :D haha ok i just sidetracked again (: so anw haha we had loads of fun catching up as usual haha xD talked about random stuff and uni (again) and fangirled abt all things german hehehe xD yayy (:
so yupp that was my two fun days of catching up yippee :D kayy now i am off to slack somemore haha (: till next time friends! :D
Monday, June 14, 2010
yayy shall blog about my weekend! (: met sharon on sat for lunch at tao yayy hehe it was great! (: hehe we had the 6 course set lunch yayy omg it was super filling haha and super yummy too! (: sharon's bday treat for me haha thanks sharon dear!! (((: i loved the gratin omgggg haha i felt like a super happy pig eating it omgg :D :D hehe xD omg if only i knew how to whip up such fabulous dishes hehe yumz :D i loved the pumpkin soup too!! (((: hehe loved everything on the menu la basically haha ((: and omg coolios they actually have a vegetarian set menu :O like wow omg i've never seen any other restaurants with a set menu just for vegetarians haha :D
and yayy it was super nice just catching up with sharon dearest yayy (((: it feels like so long since the last time we had such a long long chat haha :D of course our record-breaking one was the 3 hr lunch at urban pantry hehehe i still rmbr that :D :D but yayy what i love about talking to sharon is that she always makes a lot of sense omgggg super mature girl haha ((: totally one of my favourite friends to rant and whine to (((((: as i have prob mentioned many many times before hahaha xD well some things don't change hehe :D and she's very straightforward and direct hehe just the kind of person i like talking with omg (((: and so cool haha we both agreed that guys are more direct when communicating hehe not like girls who can be omg ever-so bitchy haha :/ yayy same pov omg (: and yayy haha i love hearing about all her exciting army experiences haha (: it's really special to be listening about all the stuff that goes on in ns, and even more special to hear all these coming from a girl haha :D i have a veryyyyy special friend yayyy (((: and a very smart and lovable one too hehe ((((((((: anyway sharon dearest if you ever see this, stay strong yeahhhh!! (((: 3 weeks more only yayy (((: love you loads you super cute girl!! :D
after lunch we went to look for a manicurist! (: hehe cos sharon wanted to clean the camou cream out of her nails hehe (: plus i haven't gone for a mani before so i was totally thinking of shunbian going to get one haha xD there's always a first time for everything right hahah xD but then! all the mani shops we found were either unreasonably ex, or they had long waiting times zzz )): well nvm next time k we can go get our first-time manicures together yayy ((: and hehe while walking around plaza sing, we dropped by marks and spencers to get snacks hehe xD and we walked around to look for sharon's presents too hehe (: omgg and then plaza sing was having some dunnowhat street festival thing hehe and there were loads of kids performing hee and there was this super cute little boy singing annie's song! (: the one by john denver hehe omg it's totally one of my favourite songs haha i hardly ever get tired of it ((: and omg that little boy had a very nice voice omg he sounded so angelic gosh ((:
and after that we went home hehhh so that was the end of our outing! )): gosh sharon tan i'm gonna miss you when you go overseas ))): hope i can go see you off at the airport!! (: i'll miss all our heart-to-heart chats and everything sighhh ))): must skype and write and email kayyy! (: love you loaddddddds ((((:
hehe oh oh and omg i have to blog about the mph sale hehe (: citylink mph is having this moving out sale until the end of the month!! (: yayy so anw i went to check it out while waiting to meet sharon for lunch (: omgggg the place itself is a nightmare cos the books were just tossed around on the shelves and all, in no particular order at all omggg imagine that!! :O it's practically impossible to look for a particular book title zzz the only way you actually manage to find good books is like through sheer luck only! like when you happen to be combing that particular shelf and spot that great find! kinda sucks in a way right ): at first i was damn confused cos i didn't realise it was gonna be so messy gosh )): then i asked this shop attendant if the books were arranged in alphabetical order and he gave me this damn sympathetic smile and was like, "uh no it's random" OMG i could have died on the spot )))): haha actually i was looking for more of jodi picoult's books but i didn't manage to find any omg duh right given the state of the bookshop right ): hehe BUT the good thing that came out of this, was that i managed to get 2 really nice books yayy for a super cheap price! (: wuthering heights and the afghan!! :D wow (: i didn't really intend to find them, but i just happened to stumble across them while searching for jodi picoult (: haha xD i realise that i always find good stuff when i'm not particularly looking for them, but when i'm really deadset on finding something i can never find it gosh :O the retardness of life sometimes haha :p but well (: i'm not complaining hehehe cos like omg, one book for 6 bucks and the other for 12 bucks? (: haha wells let's just say i was a super overjoyed girl that day hahahaha xD i am still gonna keep checking back for other great deals though haha this isn't the end man (: since they have the sale till the end of the month right haha i might as well seize the opportunity to find more great books :D :D :D
speaking of sales, i haven't gone clothes shopping yet haha omg need more formal clothes for school :/ but oh wells (: gss is still gonna be on for some time anw so hehe no hurry there :D plus, i'm going to hk again yayy :D excited hehe more shopping omg (((:
and omggg germany owned australia upside down at last nite's match hahaha i am quite a happy girl :D and ok shing if you see this, yayy set hehe watch germany one day at macs kayy? (: i hope i can haha xD
oh oh and i found out sth interesting last week hehe xD based on horoscope compatibilities, my life partner is gonna be a sagittarius, libra or leo! :D haha yayy hehe well it looks like something's going right in my life at this point of time hehe xD
ooh and i tried sth new today hehe (: subway snack bar :D it's not bad i think hehe the brownie (: dunno if it's supposed to be healthy or what, but well haha i feel better eating a subway brownie than any other brownie hehe xD think i've tasted yummier ones elsewhere though haha but wells (: time to be healthy yayy (:
hehe okay i think i'm done here hee (: shall blog when i have more things to blog about yayy (:
Friday, June 11, 2010
i love weekends! (: hehe which technically (in my case at least) starts from the time i finish bathing on fri evenings yayy (: and after that i have a whole weekend plus fri night to look forward to yayy (: if my weekdays are slack, then weekends are MEGA SLACK hehehe xD
i had a very enjoyable time rediscovering the joy of re-reading old novels hehe! (: i say "rediscovering" instead of "discovering" because i have always liked re-reading my old novels since i was young hehe but then for a period of time (i think it was in jc) i hardly read any new novels at all cos no time hehe, much less re-read the old stuff :/ so like i totally forgot how freaking therapeutic it feels to do so haha xD but anyway, YAYY the feeling totally rocks hehe ((: makes me super duper happy just doing so (:
hee so anyway, yupp back to the point (: i've been re-reading all these stuff during like breakfasts and lunches over the past week (: a wrinkle in time, the pact and my sister's keeper! (: hee and well it's amazing that the thoughts running through my head as i read all these again are pretty different from those i had the last time i read these books heh (: guess it's a way of showing how much one has changed in terms of the way one thinks? (:
hehe i shall be intellectual and blog about my reading experience (: not cause i have nth else better to blog about but cos i think it's sth worth remembering haha (: and also cos i realise that there are a great many other novels i've read over all these years but i can't rmbr what each and every one of them were about, which is pretty sad actually haha so i have decided that i will start blogging about books i have read hee (: then i'll be able to recall the content from the title of the book (: smart huh (: omg it sounds like i am doing a book review here hehehe but i am not kayy! (: book reviews are the stuff that your teachers make you do in school cos they wanna grade you blahblahblah but this, i'm doing out of my own free will hehehe so there (: although i did really enjoy doing book reviews in school last time hehe cos it gave me an excuse to get more novels to read heh (: stuff like, oh this book not suitable, i think i need to find another one that's nicer to write about :p and hehe it gave me an excuse to be reading when i ought to have been doing homework/sleeping too :D
anyway (: kayy shall blog about a wrinkle in time first (: hehe this was actually my P5 literature book whee (: so it was really quite fun reading this again, cos all my handwritten annotations at the side of the book were so funny gosh :p funny cos i have no idea why i wrote all those lolll they don't seem to be of critical importance to the plot analysis or character analysis whatsoever haha omg so either i heard the teacher wrongly and took down rubbish, or i was dreaming and anyhow wrote stuff hahahaha oops :p looking at those annotations also made me wonder how come i disliked lit so much in sec 1 and 2 haha :/ i mean like, from where i am now, i think lit is pretty fun actually haha, taking apart bits of the story and analyzing it haha (: but ah wells, something must have gone horribly wrong in sec sch anyway haha i don't rmbr why anymore haha or maybe it was just a particular phase i was going through :/ or maybe i just hated it cos i was total rubbish at it and i know i hated being lousy at subjects in school hahahaha okay i really have no idea ): come to think of it, i loved lit lessons in pri sch though! (: i still rmbr hehe we did charlotte's web in P4, a wrinkle in time in P5 and friedrich in P6 (: and i rmbr friedrich was the first holocaust book i read haha and it got me super crazy about reading other holocaust books after that hahahahah xD and and we fried potato pancakes in class because friedrich's mom also fried potato pancakes in the book hehehe gosh so fun please (((:
ah but i am sidetracking again gosh ): ok so anyway haha i found the concepts in the book superbly intriguing (: stuff about squaring time and space (: the tesseract (: wowwww haha :D i remember i was damn amazed by this concept back then too but then i forgot about it over the years haha and now, 8 years later i'm looking at this again with very much the same level of fascination as before lol (: it's interesting la really (: i wonder if i will live to see the discovery of an actual tesseract before i die haha (: and wow it'd be so cool if people actually find out how to wrinkle across time and space omg (: the implications of this are seriously gonna be damn cool (: i'm so impressed by the author though! (: i mean like, seriously a nice piece of fiction is hard enough to write already la you need really fresh ideas and a great imagination (: sci-fi for kids is even harder i think haha, you have to take the scientific concepts and drop them to a level that is easily comprehensible to kids (: wow it takes a lot a lot of skill i think (: hee and i love the characters in the book too hehe meg and calvin are so cute please omg ((: they are like so totally pei even though they are so young and all hehe (: and awwww especially the part where calvin told meg not to take off her specs cos he didn't want other people to see what lovely eyes she had hahaha AWWWW (((: selfishly sweet ahahaa :p
hee and then i went on a jodi picoult craze all over again hehehe xD shall blog about my sister's keeper first! (: this brought back a lot of memories haha (: maybe cos i'm especially damn proud of myself everytime i think of this book cos i wrote a book review on this that got published in the straits times! :D that playbox column or whatever it's called haha :D hehehe ego-boosting session again oops but yayy i am still keeping that article yayy i just can't remember where i last left it zzz ): it has been a long time man omg haha i wrote that review in sec 2 and after that i don't think i ever picked up the book to read again hehe until recently la :D hehe but yayy i really love this book ((: i just really love the way it's written haha it's really pretty and everything (: the way all the little random tidbits of information are all interspersed with the storyline and everything just blends nicely (: very artistic (: and i love how the ethical issues are brought out in the book haha (: and wowww omg the way jodi picoult writes really makes me fall in love with all the characters in the book hahahaha xD and the amazing thing i learnt from this round of reading the book, is that people somehow always have good reasons for doing what they do, just that you can't really see it very clearly unless you put yourself in their shoes! (: things may seem very unethical and unfair from one end but really justifiable from another end (: wow haha xD i didn't manage to pick this out from the previous reading haha oh wells (: i think the prob with me is that everytime i read sth the first time i don't read it like completely cos i'm speed reading and rushing to get to the end so i'll know the whole story oops (: bad habit cos i tend to miss out on the little interesting snippets of things in between! (: like how i missed all the stuff about stars and constellations and omg they are really really very prettily linked in with the rest of the story haha it's so cool i wonder why i never noticed all these before! (: and i think it's really cool that anna was named after a star omg (: there's apparently a constellation andromeda haha (: quite a nice way to choose names for your kids right (: the ending was super sad though omg i totally forgot that the story had such a sad ending cos all i remembered was that they won the lawsuit and all omg so i was totally unprepared for the ending when it came my way ): sadddddd omg )): it's so bad of me haha but i keep wishing that kate had died instead of anna zzzz )): wth it's like so unfair and so ironic haha you win the rights to your own body but you still die in some stupid car crash that's out of your control anw ): omg so sad right sighhh D:
i realise something omg, i wanted to watch my sister's keeper but i still haven't got round to watching it yet! :O as in the movie la omg -whines- ): i wanna watch i wanna watch!!! (: one day i shall go download hehe (: cameron diaz is in the movie omg i love cameron diaz :D :D apparently julia is not featured in the movie sighhh what kinda rubbish is that omgggg how can they not have julia omg i am angry haha ): was looking forward to julia and campbell scenes hehe sighhhh but nvm i'm sure the whole thing rocked overall la ahhh omg must watch! (:
haha ok nvm (: on to the pact now! :D i feel sad everytime i read this haha it's just damn freaking tragic cos chris and emily together are just too good to be true omg i can't believe there was all that unhappiness there sigh and the whole story is just so sad omg ))): i think this is the 3rd time i'm reading it haha but i never seem to get sick of the whole thing haha i am such a soppy tragedy-story lover haha oops :p hey but then they say it's common for ppl to enjoy reading tragic stories cos of the sense of catharsis you get after that hehe well i dunno if that's true for me haha i know i like happy endings but i like reading about tragic stories haha ok oops does that make sense haha i dunno oops maybe it doesn't ): anw! from this round of reading, i picked out a lot more things to chew on as compared to the last round! (: amazing huh haha, but well, this just proves that experiences you draw on during different phases of your life can greatly alter the way you perceive things around you (:
anyway omg the first time i read it i rmbr thinking that chris was such a jerk and emily was so poorthing omg being forced to do things that she doesn't wanna do :/ but this time round i totally adore chris man omg he's like omg so darn sweet srsly :O like, where on earth would you find someone like that gosh he's willing to endure jail and all the heartbreak of losing someone and all the emotional trauma blahblah, all for emily's sake omg! i am starting to think emily sucks also omg just because she is depressed she has to beg chris to kill her goshhhh ): the worst thing is: he really shot her cos he only wanted her to be happy! :O and like he ended up being locked in jail for months after that while awaiting trial omg what kinda guy would do that for a girl right omg amazing omg simply too good to be true omgggggggg it's damn sweet in a bittersweet way haha (: ok my short rambling here doesn't do chris justice haha you have to read the whole book to find out just how wonderful he is hahahha but yeahh (: uh this is it in summarised form haha xD which is why one of the taglines for the book is "how far would you go for someone you love" omgggg it's a very tough question to answer especially if you're talking abt killing that very same loved one to make them happy )): a totally atypical sort of mercy killing gosh ):
also omg, i only just realised that emily had always only loved chris like a brother and not like the romantic sort of way! ): omg wth and they have been dating for so long omggggg i feel like slapping her for letting this thing drag on for so long omg zzzz stupid girl :O it's like, so stupid cos they both end up wanting different things from the relationship oh goshh it's killing me to read about them ): and it's so ironic cos they are supposed to know everything abt each other and they are the kind of couple who have like conjoined minds and souls kinda thing, yet they can't tell that they have a different kinda love for each other oh goshhhhhh faints )))):
and i think the epilogue is sooooooooo freaking sad omg omg omg ))): chris found this note in the can-and-pulley system that he and emily used to use for passing messages to each other when they were young, and he unfolds the note only to find that it's a blank piece of paper ): goshhhhhh heartbreaking ): it would have been so nice if it had emily's writing on it or sth sigh then he could keep it for memory ): the creepy thing abt this though, is that it's prob meant to represent life coming full circle haha i dunno gosh i had never really understood what "coming full circle" meant, until now haha! cos the opening sentence of the book was "there was nothing left to say" and shortly after that, emily gets shot ): so omg maybe that blank piece of paper signifies that there was nth more to be said between chris and emily ): ah so sad so sad gosh ): though omg in the process of being such a total literary freak (i can't believe i have been subconsciously dissecting all these symbolic things in the story) i have discovered the beauty of literary devices! (: woww (: it is pretty smart actually, and like, really impactful haha (: makes me keep thinking of the story goshhhh even though i'm done with this round of reading alr hahah faints! obsessive me haha :p but well that's the thing abt jodi picoult aha her characters are so real you feel like you've actually known them personally for a long time or what omg (: such magical writing right gosh :O but it also makes me super sad at the end of each book haha it's as if i'll miss the people in the book omg it sounds darn stupid i know hahhahaa but well go read it and experience for yourself man haha (:
i wanna read the rest of her books too! ahhh i'm into the craze all over again hehe (: plus i love courtroom novels and all her books have legal dramas in them haha rocks (: and just nice omg borders is having clearance sale and mph is having some sale too omg i need to check them out omg i wanna get some more books to read omg yayy (((: the kind that are worth re-reading yayy (:
hehe omg so late alr haha i can't believe i spent this long obsessing over people who don't actually even exist in real life hahahhaa madness omg :p but yayy anw, back to the point, this is why i love re-reading books haha (: you see things you didn't see the first time (: haha i think maybe i'm the kinda person who likes to keep thinking back on things and reviewing things and all omg (: sentimental old sod hahaha :p
anyway yayy besides this great literary experience i had, i also tried some cool stuff over the past few days yayy (: like kfc cheesy bbq meltz haha! :D i love it omggggg (((: crap i'm so unhealthy hahha but it's really yummy gosh ((: and i tried xinwang taiwanese food ytd haha (: their service is darn slow omg :O but the food is interesting la haha one day must go back again and try the rest haha (: oh i ate oyster meesua haha it's not as nice as shihlin one though ): i wanna go taiwan one day omg! (: and maybe when i'm brave enough i'll try smelly tofu :D
i can't wait for next week omg joyce and xuyan lunch ((: happiness omg i haven't talked to both of you for so long haha this is gonna be exciting man (:
ducky says yoshi is selling smiley-faced fries omg omg i'm so excited omg i wanna try tooooooooooooo :D :D so cute please ((((((((((((:
Monday, June 07, 2010
oh boy do i feel sick again :/ THAT smell just makes me feel damn sick and queasy omg haha sighh )): today is a sian day haha i was supposed to go swimming with val and mel in the morning and then go val's house to play wii in the afternoon haha but in the end i couldn't!! ): zzzzz the upstairs just loves toying with me omg -.- everytime i make plans i have to change them suddenly -.- thanks ah upstairs, you rock srsly ):
first thing that happened when i woke up: some catastrophic incident which i shall refrain from describing here cos it is gross and gory haha :/
haha but ok i shall cut the whining hehe (: shall blog about ytd! (: ytd was quite fun hehe went to saint joseph's in the morning for mass with my parents and aunties and cousins and grandfather hehe family mass omg :p it was quite a funny sight btw haha it's like omg we occupied one whole pew in the church :p anw haha i like saint joseph's! (: as in, the building itself haha it has beautiful architecture (: haha can't rmbr if i have blogged abt this before haha but it's quite pretty really (: and hehe my patron saint resides there leh!! :p hehe no la not really haha, there's just this stainglass mural of saint agnes in the side chapel of the church haha xD i have decided i don't mind the name agnes so much anymore cos i realise hehe saint agnes is quite chio and sweet-looking hehehe (((: oops superficial bimbotic reason but yeahh haha :D and she carries a lamb under her arm haha so cute please ahaha xD mass at this church is dead boring though :O or maybe it's cos i'm not used to sitting down for mass anymore haha i'm used to standing up and walking around behind and all that haha xD also my retarded bunch of friends are not there for me to fool around with so yeahh haha :/
after mass we went to bugis for lunch! (: wanted to eat at nandos actually hee oh oh i forgot to mention, we were going to celebrate my aunt's bday haha! :D so yeahh we went there but the queue killed us haha it was so long omg :O so in the end we went to wongkok for lunch haha i had beef and sze chuan veg noodle yayy cos i suddenly had a beef craving ( i need to blog more about my cravings for the week hehe, but it can come later! :D hee ) and omg i think their cheesebaked rice is quite cool haha it comes in a dimsum box! :D then anw, cos it was my aunt's bday, we ordered a big big birthday drink hehe! :D it's this humongous pot of milk tea omg so cool pls and so yummy hehe :D here's the pic! (:
it is humongous right!!! :D :D
mel, val and me!! :D
then after lunch we went to walk around bugis junction hehe (: various shops and stuff hehe :D oohx then we split ways cos my mom and i needed to go toilet hehe and everyone wanted to go look at diff things anyway haha :D then after going toilet we decided to go eat jcool yoghurt hehe :D then just nice haha val mel they all were still in area lols so we ended up back together at jco haha (: though by the time i called val to ask if they wanted to go jco, mel had alr bought yami yoghurt!! so my mom and i shared jcool yoghurt hehe yayy it rocks :D yupp then we all went home from there haha! :D
ah and omg omg i must blog about the new bubble tea shop at my house! (: hehe it's called gongcha and it's very nice!! :D hehe the first time i tried it was when my mom bought the lemon with roasted melon tea the other day hehe it's super nice and refreshing! (: then the next day my mom bought back the signature drink hehe it's super yummy too omg it's like milk tea with a later of frothy milky cream on top and pearls below haha (: the taste is really unique haha omg i have to say that it wins koi!! :D super sinful to drink though omg so fattening haha :O yayy yum haha so yupp i think gongcha is very nice yayy! (:
and now i must blog about my cravings for the week! (:
1) beef beef and more beef hahhaha omg i think there's sth wrong with me haha but i feel like going on a steak rampage haha first stop is aston's (i heard they are really good! ((: ), second stop is jack's place (feel like trying fire steak haha though i think i might scream when the waiter does that fiery flourish thing in front of me oops :p ) third stop is vines! (: i miss that place haha it has a very warm and cozy feeling to it haha and i love the lighting haha it's nicely dim and all haha ok that sounds wrong oops but hey i like dim places hehe too bright places makes all my features very visible sigh ): and ah i shall think of 4 more nice steak places and then we can have a "steak-for-a-week" menu :D :D :D then just need to find eating partners and omg haha it'll be steak galore!!! :D :D ok omg i feel like such a pig hehehe :p
2) bratwurst (: need i say more haha! (: and it'll be great to sample all the various flavours of bratwurst in the world hahaha! (: i wanna eat currywurst too haha i haven't tried it before hehe! :D hahaha i'm a sucker for german food! (: BTW when is world cup starting la omg i wanna watch world cup omg i must go watch all the germany matches!!!! AHHHHHH ((((((: shing says all the macs outlets are screening it hehehe omg exciting hehe i can like so imagine watching soccer and munching on macs all the way ahhhhh hahaha it's like heaven hehehe macsssssss omg :D btw, sidetrack haha, why of all places, is world cup held in africa this year!!! how do they make the soccer field omg i thot africa was like acres and acres of desert?! ok but nvm haha yes so erm i must go macs and watch world cup! (: just nice haha there's a branch near my house omg food galore! :D 13 june ok!!! :D
3) and yupp that's why this craving has to be dedicated to macs haha xD i wanna eat macs macs macs!! ((: any burger except fish and chicken (quarter pounder is a MUST (: )and erm hmmmm i want macgriddles! (: and shaker fries (: mcnuggets ahhhh! (((:
4) yam paste (: cos i didn't get to eat it that day when i wanted to ))): stupid shop haiz ):
5) cheese bites (: the kind that is like, fried outside with mozzarella cheese inside!! (: yummmm :D
6) cheese fries (: yupp again! (:
7) soup spoon (: i miss it haha xD this is like omg possibly the only healthy thing out of all my cravings (: boston clam chowder soupppppp!!! ahhhhh!!! (((((:
hehehe ok i should stop haha the more i blog the hungrier i get :p
omg it's 3:30 alr haha it's past my piano time alr zzz nvm can play tmr :D hehe i have started playing piano on a daily basis again! (: 1.5 hrs each day haha it's a great way to relieve boredom man (: hehe and i think it like trains concentration or sth haha i dunno? (: or at least it's the only thing i can ever concentrate fully on haha like i dunno haha its very hard to think of anything else when you're playing piano (: even if i'm reading sth i don't concentrate 100% haha it's just impossible gosh, same goes for when i'm doing other things haha i'll be thinking of other stuff at the same time haha but piano is diff! (: dunno when i discovered it haha but well i like that feeling haha (: knowing that my brain is not so useless haha given that i'm not completely unable to concentrate 100% on specific tasks hehe :D and i have to say this haha i'm so glad for flesh memories woohoo haha cos it keeps your fingers in shape and allows you to still rmbr how to play certain things even if you havent done so for super long! (: yayy! :D i have also uh rediscovered the joy of learning new pieces just like last time haha :D it's a very exciting feeling haha xD new goal for myself: well see haha i have always been a very mozart and chopin kinda girl haha but i will start building some chemistry with the other composers also yeahh haha must be more versatile kayy! ((: also! i need more scores! (: for nice songs! (: like, pop kind! :D but it's so hard to find sighh haha )): i want the scores for taylor swift songs haha whines ):
ooh and i have to find other healthy activities to do man omg i am reallyyyy unhealthy omggg fave activities are those that involve sitting down a lot hahah crap! :p
hehe ah what else was i supposed to blog about! (: oh oh oh i rmbr haha, i have the cutest physics teacher in the world hahaaha! :D the other day i got this random sms from mr sze hahaha he said he went for root canal treatment for 950 bucks or sth like that haha then he was like, "i think you will be rich next time" HAHAHAH so cute please omg hahahaha! :D
and omg sth happy: my hair is starting to look better! (: yippee haha xD other than the colour haha the highlights are growing out and their colour is like, i dunno what haha i think the red faded into yellow or sth and it's terrible cos it's hanging midway across my head and not starting from the roots of the hair haha ahhhh i am so tempted to highlight again but it will spoil my hair and dry it up haha ): roarr ): haha haiz nvm shall see how la maybe if my hair condition gets better i'll highlight again (: lala :D
OMG SOMETHING ELSE HAPPY HAHA how could i forget this ahhhh hahaha!!! :D :D I PASSED MY GERMAN TEST WOOHOO (: i am so proud of myself cos i did it all on my own, no lessons, no refresher course, no A level/JC foundation to back me up haha, all i had was erm 4 years of moelc experience haha! :D and despite the disastrous oral, everything went well hehe so YAYY YAYY haha :D :D smart meeeee omggggggg (((((((: hohoho now i am armed with TestDAF too hahaha it shows i am well equipped to study/work in germany ok don't playplay heheheheheehe oh happy happy meeeeee! :D
it is humongous right!!! :D :D
mel, val and me!! :D