Tu Amour.

2010-02-14T01:59:00.003+08:00

i've been getting way too angsty these days.

and, i have so many things to write here, precious memories i want to remember, but i dont know where to start, so i just end up not writing at all.

Goodbye 2009.

2010-01-05T23:31:00.005+08:00

Goodbye 2009.

it's already been a few days into 2010 but somehow it doesn't really feel like the start of a new year.
stuff that has been happening recently:

Christmas day - met zh & yq @ Essential Brews, Holland V for dinner then Holiday Inn to buy 2 bottles of Chivas & crashed nh's & sg's hotel room @ Pan Pacific Hotel where almost everyone (especially jm) got damn high & woozy ALCOHOL IS BAD IT MAKES PEOPLE DO STUPID THINGS. i've said this before but i am swearing off alcohol. go mel :D

the chunk of edible sweet thing that zh plucked off the gingerbread house for me hahaha

he left a huge hole in the wall btw.

27th Dec - Mind's @ Purvis Street to celebrate zhihan's birthday belatedly. photos on facebook (when i upload them hahaha) we had an awesome time & no one shld play taboo with celest & me coz BFFs OWN. ♥

30th Dec - Alvin & the Chipmunks 2 with celest & the fat pig. THEODORE IS SO CUTE I FEEL LIKE HUGGING HIM & PINCHING HIS FAT CHEEKS EVERYTIME I SEE HIM :D

31st Dec - sakae buffet!! we were such pigs i think we had like 30 plates between the 2 of us hahahaha oops. counting down wasn't really exciting; i'm not excited for 2010. did you know that we can see a little of the fireworks from hall?

(i dont remember what happened in between oh no i am getting old.)

4th Dec - picnic @ Marina Barrage! though it was drizzling :( but i had fun woohoo ♥

school is starting. i am not excited at all.

Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart.

2009-12-25T10:37:00.004+08:00

Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart.

the hols are almost over but somehow i'm not even in holiday mood yet. i think?

the past month has been a blur of hongkong (shopping was disappointing but at least we had quality family time. photos on facebook),

skyping (& taking retarded photos), met up with ber @ Holland V one night (& made him shout 'kuku bird' in the middle of the road coz he lost a bet :D & chilled by the pool while i babbled on and on about nothing & everything til late THERE WERE SO MANY STARS IN THE SKY IT WAS LOVELY), commissioning parade (congrats to all who commissioned sucks to be you for those who haven't but YOUR TURN WILL COME DONT WORRY [: & zh was awesome he was the one leading the air force woohooo damn proud of you :DD)

sheares xmas party (pinata making was awesome fun & working with the block A people was nice. pinatas turned out successful & wc was suay enough to have the powder THAT HE BOUGHT exploding all over him hahahah oops), picnic @ sentosa (which was awesome & we were playing with sparkles until I BROKE THE LIGHTER dont ask me how i did it & then we couldnt play anymore hahaha oops) , release of results (karma bit me in the ass dont wanna talk about it, just that I DIED OKAY) & of course christmas (which used to be my favourite festival but this year i'm feeling super angsty & emo & moody & idk what. had an awesome christmas eve though [: [: )

merry christmas everyone [: hope your christmas was awesome.

up!

2009-12-09T18:16:00.001+08:00

THIS:

IS SUPER DUPER ADORABLE. :D

freedom

2009-12-04T01:29:00.001+08:00

F.R.E.E.D.O.M.

ITS PARTY TIME :D :D :D

Melanie Ng likes this.

2 down, 2 more to goooo.

2009-11-26T12:48:00.004+08:00

2 down, 2 more to goooo.

cant wait for this shit to end.
and i cant believe i didn't bring an eraser to psych finals (100 mcqs okay omg)

yeah and i had a mental block while doing the essay questions (which i didn't know existed until about 25 mins before the paper.) arghhh. screw school.

lots of things have been happening lately, some happy wonderful colourful fluffy (did i just type fluffy??!), some worrying & some which resulted in me being so very pissed, and then worried & guilty & upset & guilty & guilty. ah whatever.

cant wait for after finals. so many things i wanna do, so many people i need to catch up with whom i really really miss dearly :(((

ONE MORE WEEK TO FINALS OMG.

2009-11-13T21:00:00.002+08:00

ONE MORE WEEK TO FINALS OMG.

Today i put my laundry in the washing machine & went to do my stuff. One hour later, i happily went back to transfer my clothes to the dryer, only to open the machine cover to see that my clothes were dry and the washing powder was still on top of them.
I forgot to press the start button. somebody slap me. O:

the finals are comingggg i am freaking out.
all the undone tutorials, un-listened webcasts, unread readings, lectures & tutorials that i have skipped are coming back to bite me in the ass.
damn i shouldn't have slacked the whole of sem 1 away.
let's hope a miracle will happen yet again and save my ass. pleasepleasepleaseeee.
i SWEAR i'll study superfreakinghard next sem!
(even though hall activities are gonna be super hiong in sem 2)
no more slacking :(

on a happier note,
the holidays are coming woohoooo!!
looking forward to the hk trip with the Ng family :DD

and i'm really glad to have people who matter by my side [:
(especially a certain retarded dumbass called celestin chia & a certain stupid dumbdumb)

2009-11-08T13:09:00.002+08:00

got hit by a softball (which is not soft at all) below the eye during training,
now i officially look like a panda bear.

dont laugh at me pleaseee :(

french tests on mon AND tues. somebody kill me.

2009-11-04T21:41:00.002+08:00

i need some space. and time.
and i don't like my freedom to be restricted.

and they're right. when you need help, it's when you find out who your true friends are.
oh, and i ♥ celestin chia. [:
(& please make sure terrance brings the superawesomechocolatetart back for me :DDD)

someone help me get through finals aliveeee.

BOOMZSHINGZWHATEVERRR.

2009-10-29T21:54:00.002+08:00

BOOMZSHINGZWHATEVERRR.

1. sat night saw us at SoHo celebrating celest's 19th by partying the night awayyy which was (surprisingly) awesome, even though i always say i hate clubbing.
hahaha must be the company and the fact that we drank til we were damnfreaking high.
i've never gotten so high in my entire life before i coudn't even balance man.
it was only till i realised that i lost my phone that i became a bit more sober. lol
and thank god they found it coz my phone + IC was missing. scared the shit out of me haha.
never gonna drink so much ever again (i think.)

and thank you zhihan for taking care of me the whole night and even sending me all the way to my doorstep. awww so sweet right i know [:
hahaha love this bunch of people man, we can never run out of stupid retarded things to do/say, even if we haven't seen each other in ages. chiam's slutty photos amuse me to no end :D
here are some of the photos:

the rest shall not see the light of day omggg.

2. i need to pack/clean/sweep/mop my room i cant believe i can actually live in this pigsty. wait, actually i kinda can believe it.
3. motorbike rides are crazy fun WE MUST DO IT AGAIN SOOOOOON :D :D VRRROOOOM VRRROOOM (this time when there are no other cars on the road muahaha)
4. i like hanging out with you.
5. celestinchiaxinyu is damn gross somebody remind me why i'm her bestfriend.
6. i realise that i like making lists. (which explains the past 2 blog posts; & also coz i'm lazy to structure my posts haha)
7. i finally got my skype account PEOPLE ADD MEEEE: supercalifragilisticawesome (i wanted "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" but the name was too long hahaha)
8. my shoulder's been acting up again it sucks :(
9. night cycling's gonna be awesome but superduper tiring.

10. 2500 words Malay Studies research essay due on Monday = unable to hang out with my favourite people yet again, FML.

i just need more time.

Story of My Life.

2009-10-23T22:41:00.005+08:00

Story of My Life.

1. i dont understand half the things that come out of my french lecturer's mouth.
2. so many things are happening that i want/need to remember but i dont have the time/mood to blog.
3. stella, sarah, jon, renyang and unmac came down the other day (quite long ago actually haha) to visit my bunk (as unmac calls it) and went around terrorising my neighbours and other people staying in our block omg. was really great to see them :D
4. when i went home the other day, my mother told me she reads my blog to see what i've been up to. (proof that i haven't been home enough to chat with her :[ )
5. i now officially have 2 coms and 3 sports: block com + dinner&dance com, squash + softball + floorball (tell me i'm sporty hahaha joke of the century i know)
6. i need to catch up with my schoolwork. FOR REAL THIS TIME. i am gonna start mugging and stop skipping lectures & tutorials + not doing homework etc. (to date i've skipped at least 15 lectures & 4 tutorials. i really need to learn how to wake up when the alarm rings.)
7. the other day something goddamned embarrassing happened which provided entertainment for everyone around me (as usual). O: i need to blog bout it sooooon. (jap food + bus doors in case i eventually forget hahaha)
8. i need to learn to stop procrastinating.
9. i am going to die of diabetes i'm consuming sweets like nobody's business.
10. as for the previous post, thanks everyone who showed their concern in one way or another it really meant alot to me [:
thank you you for being there for me [:
11. i am a lousy friend/bestfriend/person/student/whatever.
12. met zh last friday night to catch up coz i really missed him loads. and he drove me home woohoo was super excited coz it was the first time i sat in his car (well technically it wasn't his car, but you get the point. haha)
13. woke up one morning to find out that the guys shifted all the furniture out of eve's room & into the kitchen HAHAHA crazy ideas they come up with. they were actually considering shifting the furniture to the rooftop.
14. i am gonna flunk my midterms and lose my scholarship.
15. i really love my parents they are awesome and i know i am really lucky.
16. i lost my atm card the other day :((
17. i hope things work out, i really do; despite our differences and all.
18. went shopping with BFF + watched My Sister's Keeper (and i cried like an idiot) + she stayed over last night and i realy enjoyed her company [:
19. haven't gone out with my favourite people for such a long time i really honestly miss them like crazy. :(( please still be my friends guysss :(
20. floorball training from 12-2AM later. such is hall life O: i am dying from the lack of sleeeeep.

2009-10-10T15:37:00.002+08:00

on the verge of breaking down.
i cant do this anymore. and it makes it even harder when no one understands.

FRENCH IS BEING A BITCH.

2009-09-22T00:19:00.003+08:00

FRENCH IS BEING A BITCH.

i am so gonna flunk it.
the other day i had a french test and i woke up early to study but i didn't finish + i overslept = i was late for the test + couldn't do almost every. single. question.
and as of now, 7.5 lectures + 2 tutorials missed.

ARGHHHHH. somebody slap me.

the past 2 weeks were crazy. had this event called Buaya Week which was outrageously fun and cute and energy-sapping.
might post photos soon if i'm not lazy. but probably not. heh.

also had this formal dinner (SNDC) where we dressed up to eat Uncle Vincent's western food at the comm hall. photos are here.

oh and the other day i wanted to walk out of the psych department and i flicked a switch thinking it was the door-release button and the lights went off. omg. chui ttm. hahahaha

and i need to announce this: I SUBMITTED MY SOCI PAPER ON TIME :D
whoopeedoo. haha but it was a damn close shave. i submitted it at 5pm onthedot! [:
have to stop falling asleep at the most inappropriate places and timings.

on a side note, daddy printed my ppt slides wrongly. i am so embarrassed to take them out because
(1) he printed ONE SLIDE PER PAGE.
(2) he printed them in COLOUR.
i now have multiple files of SINGLE-PAGE POWERPOINT SLIDES IN COLOURRRRR.

and on a sadder note,
I CANT BELIEVE I MISSED MAF :[ :[ :[
due to certain obligations and also coz i totally forgot that last sat was MAF. :[
however,

spent the weekend re-painting our lounge and re-decorating the rooftop. they look lovely now :D

oh and zh & yq came over to visit me and to chill and though we didn't do anything at least they made emo momo go away. heh. coz i was feeling like shit on sat night and yup you guys made my day/night. [:

and, i am so confused somebody tell me what to feeeeeeeel.
everytime something happens i choose to run away.

recess week FTW! MEL IN MUGGER MODE ACTIVATED NOWWWWW.
(and yes, my posts have become jumbled sentences of incoherent ramblings. hahaha sorry. too lazy to use my brain.)

Coz All We Have is Here and Now.

2009-09-04T00:02:00.001+08:00

Coz All We Have is Here and Now.

i need to get my act togetherrrrr!
so far i've skipped 5.5 lectures and all my tutorials and readings are snowballing like crazy.
hall life is sucking the life out of me help.
and i miss so many people but i dont have any time to meet up with them. :[

on a nicer note, my sociology tutor is awesome.
he's like this nice, cool, laid-back dude, and that day he made us go to the engin canteen and he said," okay, for the next 5 mins, i want you guys to deviate from social norms and see how people around you react."
which resulted in some of us plopping ourselves (uninvited) at some poor dude's table, standing on chairs in the canteen and waving, starting another queue @ the canteen stall, etc.
i think soci might not be that bad afterall. [:

and just the other day i was studying on my bed (with my pen uncapped) and i fell asleep AS USUAL.
and when i woke up the next day there were 3 small green blobs on my bedsheet & 2 huge green blobs on my white "WAS A MAC, NOW A PC" shirt (which i like alot btw) ARGH. FML.

anyway, we had our Gambate Supper on monday night which was GOOOOOD. [:
hopefully all our events will be this smooth-sailing.
ber came by in the evening and crashed our psych lecture :D
and it sucks to sit next to him coz everytime i fall asleep he'll either pinch me/draw on me/doodle on my notes/any other stupid things he can think of. hahahaha.
and i brought him back to hall to see my room & that idiot wrote on his fb status, "Bernard Lip is at a crime scene." O:
so untrue please. my room is super tidy and clean and well-organised and my things are definitely not strewn haphazardly everywhere. [:

and IBG will be officially over tmr woohoo!
though i think i'll actually miss all the late night sports trainings and stuff.
but one more huge wave of events are coming soon I NEED TO LEARN TIME MANAGEMENT SOMEBODY TEACH ME.
and i am gonna stop here though the post's so incomplete coz i dont feel like blogging anymoreeee au revoir! [:

I Am Just Gonna Type Whatever Comes Into My Mind.

2009-08-26T04:10:00.001+08:00

I Am Just Gonna Type Whatever Pops Into My Mind.

have been really busy these few days/weeks.

perks of staying in hall: woke up @ 11.55am the other day when my french lecture was at 12pm and rushed like a mad woman,
and i actually managed to get there @ 12.05pm! [:
speaking of french, le francais, c'est difficile!!! which means "the French language is very difficult!!!"
i always feel damn mentally drained after french lessons.
but still, i'm glad i decided to take french coz it's like the only subject that i actually will bother studying for.

and i have to declare this: rachel chew hui yi, i am so superduper thankful that i have you here with me!
seriously, she brings me EVERYWHERE. hahaha and reminds me what lessons i have/what time they start/where they are/what hw we have/etc.
i would be seriously lost without her coz i know nothing about all my uni stuff. hahaha i love you rachel chew!! :D

anyway, eileen & guansen came over to visit me the other day and to complain about the state of my room.
hahahaha EVERYONE complains about the state of my room, even the guys:
"WALAO! YOUR ROOM DAMN MESSY LA!!!"
"looking at da en's room, you shld be ashamed that you're a girl"
"is this a girl's room?"
and so on.
haha but i cant help it. it's called Organised Chaos okay.
and anyway, the 3 of us took lots of retarded photos with photobooth (seriously, the macbook induces major camwhoring) which i'll upload another day.
eileen oh please come and visit me often!!!

oh and i finally watched The Proposal the other day.
it's really good! the feel-good, sweet, funny, romantic-comedy kind of movie.
though there was this scene where the guy (who is very cute btw.) was hugging the girl and it was real sweet and all,
and i felt super emo and start tearing/crying like a retard. hahahah good job melanie ng.

and guess what, i've been playing a lot of sports recently.
ikr, surprise of the century. hahaha. we've been training for sheares' inter-block games!
and surprisingly, i actually quite enjoy all our (netball, floorball, vball, softball, touch rug, floorball, soccer) trainings.
i sleep @ 4am every night though. the lack of sleep is killing me!!!!

and the scandals and fb spams are killing me too. gosh. the people here are SCARY.
they take scandalous photos of everyone, upload them on fb, tag everyone else and SPAM us with comments.
and my block guys are like absolutely retarded. hahahahah
but i'm really glad i chose to stay in hall. i really love my awesome block mates woohoo :D
and i got into block com = even busier = even less time for everything else.
i really need to learn Time Management.

and mommy called just now and we chatted for awhile before my phone batt died and i started feeling damn emo and i started crying like a tard again because i miss everyone. (my family, celest, eileen, yq, zh, stella, 69, my favourite ppl, etc. )
hahahah relieves stress though. i feel much better now.
but i feel really guilty though. haven't been back home for awhile already.
especially with mommy not feeling well most of the time. and she seems to be getting worse.
SIGHHHHHHHHH I AM FREAKING WORRIED.
shall try to go home as often as i can!

okay gtg, there's netball ibg nowwww.

FML.

2009-08-14T02:38:00.000+08:00

FML.

school has officially started. still not getting used to it.
first day of school - i dutifully went for my lecture and I WAS ON TIME.
second day of school - skipped soci lecture coz i had more important things to do hahaha
third day of school - fell asleep 5 minutes into the Malay Studies lecture (yes i'm taking MS omg i have no idea what i've gotten myself into), woke up, started playing Tap Tap Revenge, fell asleep again for a really long time and i was sleeping real soundly until the lecturer introduced the young lady sitting next to me as the head of the MS Society or something, and that was still fine until she added, "AND SHE WILL BE YOUR TUTOR DURING YOUR TUTORIALS."
and i was like OMFG SHIT. hahahaha die.

and today i spent an hour getting back to hall from FASS (which is actually just a 10 minute walk away) all because we took the wrong bus.
NUS is far too huge for my liking.

and it's 3.40am now and i am still awake.
hall life = no sleep omg.
had block initiation just now which involved blindfolds, nipple-licking/biting(for the guys), love bites, karmansutra(spelling?) positions and other stuff.
we're having level initiation tmr. i have a feeling it's gonna be damn crazy.

i miss you. and the other you.

i feel as though i'm gradually losing everyone important to me.

I should stop running away from things which scare me.

2009-08-08T00:42:00.000+08:00

I should stop running away from things which scare me.

and i should really stop making rash decisions before analysing them using that goddamn brain of mine.
i screwed up big time and i don't know how to fix it.

some random snapshots

2009-08-03T05:55:00.004+08:00

random photographs
because i've no time to blog = filler posts in R.Chew Style :D

--

"Are you the only daughter?"
"nope i have 2 brothers."

HAHAHAHAH ultimate bimbo moment. yushu laughed at me while we walked from KR all the way to Sheares.

camp's been real awesome so far. love the people i'll be staying with in hall. [:
but it's gonna be a terribly busy year ahead. which means less time for everything. and i really mean everything.

on a happier note, my underwater film camera has arrived in the mail :D
cant wait to start playing with it.
might update about the camps when i'm free + less lazy. [:

--

it's 8am in the morning and i've been trying to fall asleep since 3am but failing stupendously due to the many many thoughts running through my mind.
gonna try to sleep for awhile before a whole day of activities begin again.
thank god i'm ponning the Freshmen Inauguration Ceremony.

OKAY I AM GETTING LAZY TO BLOG.

2009-07-24T19:55:00.003+08:00

OKAY I AM GETTING LAZY TO BLOG.

Saturday, 18th July.

gave tuition. sean is so adorable he always makes me laugh.
was supposed to meet zh @ NLB @ 5.15pm but it was the first time i tried going to bugis without cabbing. in the end i took 2 buses and one train and i was an hour late. hahahaha oops SORRY ZH.
then met my favourite people for Harry Potter. it kinda sucked and involved lots of snogging --> ron and his freaky-looking girlfriend.

Sunday, 19th July.

met yq for ice-skating @ Kallang Leisure Park which was really really fun although i was a total NOOB.

on the mrt ride there yq told me he brought a jacket for me coz he thought that i might have forgotten to bring one. (i didn't forget btw. but it was a real sweet gesture nevertheless [: ) and right after that the mother messaged me,"Aren't you wearing a bit too little for ice-skating??" gosh. am i really that dumb/muddle-headed/forgetful??? don't answer please, it's rhetorical.

anyway, something terribly embarrassing happened on the way there.
i put my empty bubble tea cup on the bus seat and asked yq to remind me to take it when we were going to alight and he jokingly said,"just leave it there la."
and i was like," CANNOT. I'M VERY GONG GONG SHOU FA ONE."
him:"HUH?"
me: (i said it loudly,thinking he didn't hear me the first time)"I'M VERY GONG GONG SHOU FA ONE."
him:"huh? you're very WHAT??!!" (with a very cheeky look on his face)
and i thought it was coz i didn't enunciate the words properly so i said it again, real loudly: "GONG1 GONG4 SHOU2 FA3!!"
and i was still real smug that i actually remembered the chengyu until he started laughing like crazy and said,"i think you meant Feng Gong Shou Fa."
me:"OMG!! ya hor. SHIT. "
HAHAHAHAHA EPIC FAILURE. i almost died on the spot.

Monday, 20th July.

woke up supafreakingearly to attend some MOE Induction thingy which was actually not as boring as i thought it'll be + the food was really good :D the principal of NorthLight School(a school for kids who failed their PSLE twice or more) gave a talk and showed us videos which were so inspiring and touching that szu an & me actually teared.

and later that day, by some stroke of genius, i actually managed to get myself stuck in the shower. the door was jammed and no matter what i did i just couldn't get it open. had to holler for my parents to come and save me.

Tuesday, 21th July

went to keming to surprise miss kho coz it was her birthday.

photos are here.
sylvester is so adorable + he lost 2 of his front teeth = even adorable-ler hahaha

and this is my neighbour isn't she just adorable?

Wednesday, 22th July

met ade, celest & angie for lunch @ citylink's NYNY and we're all crazy people.
everyone wanted to touch ade due to her ________. HAHAHAHA

then olie came and we went shopping + sat at subway while she ate and marked celest's tutee's essay which was really, the highlight of the day.

Quotable Quotes:
"He wanted to go into Soon Long's house BUT NO. "
"he knock on the locker hardly. THERE GOES THE LOCKER."
"but one thing about that man is that he is a robber"
HAHAHAH okay stop laughing we shall not be mean.

photos.

Thursday, 23th July

went over to celest's to pig out + sew headbands (we are so domestic please)

selling @ $7 (which is WAY cheaper than if you get it outside. plus if we like you you might get it even cheaper ) if interested please email celestin.chia@gmail.com. while stocks last [:

Friday, 24th July

went for the electronics fair in the morning and then checked into my hall, and to my surprise my room is actually quite nice [:
requires some cleaning up though. and i still have a huge load of stuff to bring over.
and, I FINALLY BOUGHT MY IPOD TOUCH :D
oh, and RACHEL CHEW IS SO ADORABLE. she's so terrified of giving tuition that she actually had a nightmare last night. i was so amused when she told me about it.
just got off the phone with zh. him and his stupid ridiculous analogies which make no sense. hahaha everytime we talk on the phone i laugh so much/loudly that the mother will come into my room and tell me that i'm making too much noise.

i'm gonna be so darn busy this 2 weeks.
hall camp + Oweek + MOE Scholarship Presentation Ceremony + Social Night + tuition + sending yq off the day he sails. and EVERYTHING OVERLAPS.

Loch Ness Monster and Friends. (and Jane, of course.)

2009-07-16T13:05:00.005+08:00

Loch Ness Monster and Friends. (and Jane, of course.)

celest & ade came over to chill on monday + complain about the state of my room, and we had so much fun playing in the pool.

we look so candidly happy & carefree in the first 2 photos + i really like the third photo [:

jumpshots are crazy fun, camwhored, had an Aqua Race in the pool where celest can't reach the floor!, taught me how to tread water (yes i sort of can tread water already, albeit a little funnily is there such a word as funnily??), our BIATHLONS HAHA (celest this is how it's spelt!), synchronised swimming hahahah AND...

the LOCH NESS MONSTER ATTACKS!!!

went for an early dinner (i didn't have my lunch!) at Thai Express @ holland V and the food was 'shakingly orgasmic' :DD

photos are here.

was about to head home when i made a last-minute decision to not be lazy & headed instead, to town to meet rae & jm, which turned out to be a really good decision coz we had SO MUCH FUN being retarded as usual.
monkey sounds & unglam photos ensue, not forgetting our Hi-chew escapade, after which jm ended up with half a lychee Hi-chew stuck to the front of her braces & rachel and me laughing our asses off by the side. (i am still laughing as i type this) and, we have a new friend her name is Jane. hahahahahah funny shit. love those girls we are insane. love our HTHTs [:

here's them looking pretty + me looking retarded as usual + our good friend Nong Shim

we ended up having cup noodles outside FEP and continuing our conversation til around midnight where we left for home.

and here's an ugly photo of us to make your day :D
(jm aren't you touched i censored your photo for you. )
(there's an even uglier one which totally cracks me up but i'm not uploading it here :D)

went shopping with the mother on Wednesday, then headed to my cousin's new house to play with Tyler + celebrate my aunt's birthday.
he is seriously getting more and more adorable:

this photo is hilarious!
Tyler: Hi.
HAHAHAHAH

met the girls at night @ Clarke Quay & spent the whole night + early morning exploring the clubs there: Zirca, Rebel, Lunar(HAHAH), okay i forgot the names of the others.

photos:

seriously why am i always the only one who zhaogengs??!?!?

the rest are here.

and i'm addicted to this song.

We're Goin to the Zoo, zoo, zoo.

2009-07-13T03:53:00.003+08:00

We're Goin to the Zoo, zoo, zoo.
how about you, you, you?
(remember this song? it's stuck in my head hahaha)

I've been bumming around at home for the longest time ever I FEEL LIKE A LOSERRR.

slept really late on friday night.
talked non-stop on the phone for the longest time ever. hahaha okay not really. but i think it was like 3.5 hours or more in total. talked to celest, then zh called and i talked to him for real long, and then i called celest again. and after that i was so high and couldn't fall asleep til 3am or so.

and on Thurs i was cutting my nails, and halfway through i went to do something else and forgot all about my nails until i left the house and noticed that i had 3 fingers with short nails and 7 with long nails. i am Goddess of All Things Retarded.

tuitioned Sean on Saturday. he's so cute, i think i'm gonna enjoy teaching him alot though it might be quite challenging [:
signed 4 years of my youth away to MOE and saw rachel & qh who were doing temperature-taking @ MOE.
lunched @ Holland V with Uncle Ken, Auntie Jenny & Sherrylene (okay idk how to spell her name haha and she is one sweet cutiepie)
then met the boyfriend and we headed to the ZOO

i was so excited hahahahahaha. we walked around to look @ all the animals and yq is a horny piece of shit man. either that, or maybe he's just very interested in animals and their mating habits. HAHA

then it started raining elephants while we were in the middle of watching an animal show(!!!) and i was really happy coz i got to see the penguins which were extremely adorable ♥

waited for the rain to stop then continued looking at animals and finding our way to the Kids Fantasy Rainforest (or whatever it's called) which we found in the end but didn't get to explore because it was already closed by the time we reached :[
(ber and co. when we go to the zoo again let's please go to that place it's very colourful and happy-looking)

left the zoo coz bestfriend called to tell us that it was closing soon (and also that we were supposed to meet her & pangsai for dinner) but our bus took really long to arrive.
took the bus to cck interchange and waited really long for another bus to take us to cck swimming complex (where we paid $1 for the kids' tickets and snuck in to use the toilet to bathe :D),
and we couldn't meet celest & pangsai in the end coz it was already too late (I'M AWFULLY SORRY BESTFRIEND!!!)
and the time it took me to shower + change = time it took yq to shower + change + read 8 pages of his book.
which either says that i bathe really fast [: or that yq takes an inordinately long time to read.

headed to Lot1 for dinner (it's so different now. haven't been there in a really long while), then took 190 all the way to Dhoby Ghaut (falling asleep on the bus).
was supposed to meet jon & co. @ Acid Bar but just as i was about to head over it started pouring like crazy so i decided not to go in the end (ps-ed quite alot of people that night SORRY GUYSSS :( please still be my friendssss),
when the rain was less heavy we met zh, jm, ber, qh & marcus and squeezed with 93847598452 other people on the streets to watch a pyrotechnics show. (whatever happened to "Try to stay away from crowded places" coz of H1N1?!?! it was positively swarming with people)

anyway, the show sucked big time. jm and i were too short (jm is way shorter than me of course) we couldn't see most of the show. and the fireworks were minimal.
headed into the museum where we went to the History gallery and walked around exploring the gallery with our enormous iPod-esque thingamabobs hanging around our necks.

i was bored after awhile. honestly i would have been really interested if not for the fact that i was really tired already.
ended up just looking @ the exhibits without bothering to read/listen to the explanations and stories + taking photos (which are with ber whose camera is now a kickass new nikon. salivates.)
but i kinda really wanted to explore the art gallery but we ran out of time so oh well, next time i guess.

photos are here.

after the event we went to the foodcourt nearby to eat and entertained ourselves by looking @ ber's stash of jm's unglam photos (which are tremendously entertaining i assure you), then did other stuff and tried to find the famous rochor doujiang youtiao which we did not get to eat coz they open @ 11am.
reached home around 6.30am, showered and crashed from 7am to 4pm (woke up @ 10am coz my stomach was hurting like crazy) , skipped the xiaolongbao buffet with obs mates coz my stomach was still feeling kinda queasy, and it's now 4.51am and my body clock is really really screwed up. And celest's coming over to swim in approximately 7 hours time. :D

isn't this the Coolest Shit Ever? WATCH! it's mega cool.

And my bank account is depleting by itself!!!! okay not really, but i really do need to cut down on my expenses which means no more Uncle-adam-road-stop-just-before-the-petrol-kiosk-no-i-dont-know-how-to-get-there-okay-whichever-way-is-faster.
One good thing about staying in the hostel when school starts is that at least i won't be late for school. i think.
(well, even if i woke up late at least i wouldn't have to cab down to school = saves truckloads of $$$$)

OBS & zh's birthday

2009-07-06T21:31:00.011+08:00

OBS

you guys can skip the first half of this entry, i'm just gonna ramble on about obs which was pretty much amazing & awesome which is why i don't wanna forget what i went through, which is the reason i'm bothering to write this whole chunk of words down.

Day One.

my watch was Bo Seng!
we didn't really do much on the first day.
did high elements though. after climbing to the top, i was so petrified i didn't dare to take another step forward. i think i took a really really really long time to get across. hahaha :D

Day Two.

land expedition!
had to carry heavy backpacks & trek across the whole island looking for checkpoints.
trekked 10km plus singing Disney/NDP songs and looking for phebe's durian & rambutan trees, & halfway through, my back started acting up(as always) :(
hiked to the top of the quarry(highest point in pulau ubin) & boy the view was breathtakingly beautiful. the emotions i felt when we shouted,"BO SENG!!" and heard it echo back to us were indescribable.

when we finally reached the other end of the island, we had to trek halfway back to our campsite. in all, i think we must have trekked 16km or more aren't you guys proud of me??? :D
the guys pitched our tents(the guys in our group were awesome; they did all the saikang automatically & without any complaints. nice or what??!) & we did outdoor cooking(yes i cooked okayy); maggi mee & mushrooms have never tasted this good. :D
and pau's & si ying's 5 packets of maggi mee song is still stuck in my head!
took a powder bath for the first time in my life. hahaha pau's detol powder rocks!
drank Agent Red (hahaha code name for the illegal 100 plus leo smuggled for us when he was out doing his medical check up)
anyway, when it was time to sleep it was so hot in the tent that i couldn't fall asleep & when i finally was about to drift off to lalaland, it was time for sentry duty :( hahah

Day Three.

got into our triyaks & did the capsize drill.
i still can't tread water! (kev tried to teach me the last time but that pangsai kept laughing at me and in the end i gave up learning it heh)
love my kayaking buddiesss; szu an & zong jin : i couldn't remember his name at first & khai yu was saying just think "Jin Zong Bao Guo" (some chinese cheng yu which i dont understand) & reverse the first two syllabus, but i ended up calling him Jin Zong in the end oops. haha but i remember his name now! [:
we kayaked til the water level became too low and we were stuck in the swamp in waist deep mud, which was quicksand-esque.
the moment szu an & me got off the triyak we were stuck in the mud.
had to spend a really long time before we could pull ourselves out & the next step we took, we were stuck again!
after a few steps my shoes were stuck & i really had no more energy to pull myself up & zongjin had to come & save me haha
in the end szu an lost one of her shoes lol

we waited for everyone to struggle through the swamp & reach the river and continued kayaking and finally we reached the sea!
but just as we kayaked out to sea, it started raining & there was a storm(!!!)
it was really scary. there was rain and lightning & our triyaks were bobbing up and down in the sea due to the choppy waves.
so we had to go back to the river to wait out the storm, & when the storm finally ended, it was 8km back to land. our triyak was really fast! we were like always among the first few [:

anyway, we finally returned to Camp 1 in one piece & the instructors told us that we were the most suay batch to have experienced both the swamp & the storm within one expedition.
but i thought it made everything more memorable [:

washed up, ate dinner & took so long that we stayed in the canteen until supper haha
& stayed up late talking about various things until we finally couldn't take it & went to bed.

Day Four

did area cleaning & we finished so early we still had time to go to the canteen for our self-arranged tea break :D
then was rock climbing which was fun though it was harder coz of our muscle ache.
and finally, it was time to go back to civilisation!!

the first thing we did was to go to kovan for bubble tea! :D
hahaha was super deprived of it during obs man.
talked for awhile & then siying, szu an & me went to do the kiddy painting thingy(idk what it's called), you know, the one you squirt coloured liquid to paint a picture & put it into the oven & it hardens? yeah that one. hahah it's super fun :D

ANYWAY, everyone said that I AM A VERY QUIET GIRL [: [: and that I SHOULD SPEAK UP MORE hahahah.
okay i guess i tend to be more reserved and quiet around people i dont really know at first. plus, i was quite shagged during the camp + not feeling very well + other people were much more vocal & noisier, so i sort of became quieter

anyway, i just felt really lucky that i had such nice & fun group mates (which i will still get to see during MOE events/around school; all of us are going to NUS [:)

photos: (yes i know i look like shit due to the lack of sleep + other external factors)

look @ my eyebagsssss O:
si ying & szu an [:
quoting szu an, "I learnt how thirteen totally different people can come together and overcome all obstacles."

Saturday, 4th July (oh gosh it's july already?!!)

slept til 4pm (>17 hours pro right i know [: )
boyfriend confined = prawn fishing date with celest + pangsai cancelled hahaha oops.
was supposed to meet the others @ Holland V but i wasn't feeling well so i didn't wanna go coz i didn't wanna drink + was kinda tired even after so much sleep haha
but in the end it was munkit's house for stayover + zh's birthday celebration (see how important you are zh i went even though i wasn't feeling well are you honored?? [: )
nh & sg bought a small little cake with a power ranger on top & we told zh, no candles so you have to blow the power ranger off the cake HAHAHA :D
anyway, it was a decoy & zh really had a proper cake in the end

photos:

LOL @ the first photo! click to enlarge. it's zh looking like the power ranger :D

here's the "scandalous" photo which nh wanted yq to see. says nh,"i must let yq see what you've been up to while he was confined." hahaha

guitar hero-ed and i was totally off-form. i must insist that i do not suck so badly usually. :D
played Winning 11 (is that what it's called? i realised it's not called FIFA haha.) and made alot of noise while playing. (omg which one am i?! where's the ball?? how to tackle?? press what to shoot?)
and after the game i told guansen, "song gee scored 4 and i scored zero."
and that idiot replied "which means you didn't score anything at all. don't make it sound like you scored something." hahaha
but on second thought, i did score a goal! i scored an own goal coz i was too excited when sg almost scored. hahaha FAIL.
played mahjong, and i teamed up with gs. they couldn't believe my luck haha not that i won alot, but just that i almost always got the tile that i wanted. [:

slept a little, then met yq for mac breakfast, checked movie timings while he was bathing,
& he headed for his driving lesson, while i went home to bathe,
then met him @ orchard & went to eat my favourite cheecheongfun (:DDD), & talked for a really long time then we walked around & someone almost dragged me into the guys toilet(!) that childish pangsai.
played with Transformer toys(those with buttons you can presssss it's damn fun) & then it was it was Ice Age 3 in 3D! [:
which was really funny hahaha i laughed alot during the movie.
initially my 3D goggles were spoilt so i was like, "is it supposed to be flickering like that??" hahah & the whole movie theatre was flooded with kids man.

went to Ajisen Ramen for our pseudo dinner then cabbed home to meet kev for our keyboard lesson (it was a session to teach us how to use the functions of the keyboard which we have at home, which i persuaded the parents to buy but rarely used in the end)

in the cab

gave kev a treat @ swenson's & headed home where i showered & slept another 15 hours away. my body clock is way screwed howww?

and here's a photo of my healthily-growing plant!

just before i left for obs, i realised that i had totally forgotten about its existence = it had not been watered for at least one week or so :P
so i passed it to my awesome mother to see if she could revive it, and when i came back from obs it had already grown so much!! :D
i think the plant had better stay under her care.
when it was with me in my room, i either forgot to water it or watered it excessively coz i was afraid it didn't have enough water :D

And then she carefully sealed her heart away.

2009-06-29T00:12:00.001+08:00

And then she carefully sealed her heart away.

Friday, 26th June.

went for the MOE briefing thingy which was alright i guess. though some parts were pretty boring. the guy sitting next to me (forgot his name haha) had a even shorter attention span than i did and we started talking bout random things and then i just HAD to do something retarded as usual. :( hahaha oh man but the refreshments were good :D

anyway, everyone was like, "OMG did you know that MJ passed away?!!"
i was kinda shocked and all, what with it being so sudden.
And a little sad too; i mean it really is a huge loss to the music industry. He is/was obviously really talented
and i'm sorry if this is a little insensitive, but i dont really understand why everyone is reacting so ______ to the news.
i mean, normally if you say something like,"wow i think michael jackson's a really talented singer!" people would be dissing him coz of his repeated plastic surgeries + accusations of paedophilia etc.
but now everyone's like, "omg i'm SO sad MJ died!!!!" , "MJ I LOVE YOU!!" etc.
i'm not saying it's wrong or that it's a bad thing or whatever. (it's just something that i was thinking about.)
dont you think it's kinda tragic that we only truly learn to treasure the things/people around us when they're gone?
i think it's rather sad that michael jackson would never be able to know all the nice things people are saying about him now.
it's like when Morrie (in Tuesdays with Morrie) organised a 'living' funeral coz he wanted to hear what people would say about him when he was dead.
when i think about things like these it makes me feel like running to the people i love and giving them a hug and telling them how much they mean to me.

anyway, back to my boring life.
met my favourite people @ Quiznos Subs(SPICY BEEF CHEDDAR rocks my socks),

check out the air crew! :D

zh's face hahahaha

chilling out like delinquents @ the CBD area where retrenched people like to go to emo + search for job ads in the newspapers (idk what's the place called),
and, i learnt 2 new phrases! LPPL and SUCK THUMB! hahah

photos taken by ber:

our tea parteee.

Saturday, 27th June.

ponned arts camp afterall coz i wasn't feeling well + didn't wanna be quarantined coz of H1N1 like the other NUS camp + celest's not going either + clashes with OBS + LAZY TO PACK HAHA.

got dragged out of bed by mommy @ 11 plus & went to see the doctor, and he gave me a hell lot of pills to swallow (H8 pills yucks) + cough med (hate it even more. actually i just hate taking any type of medicine in general. if not for the mother's nagging, i wont even visit the doctor.)

slacked around @ home & refused to pack my bag for OBS, ended up watching a 3.5 hour long Hindi movie (hahaha quite nice actually. dont ask me why, but my mom likes to watch Hindi movies for some reason.), and i finally watched Transformers!! (the first movie) love those movies where the good guys morph into some big/huge/powerful/badass thing and kick the bad guys' asses inside out upside down!!

Sunday, 28th June.

met yq @ WestMall to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and for the one hour that we had to wait for our movie to start, we walked around WM and played with the toys in the Toy Section of Tom&Stephanie and contemplated buying Transformer T-shirts hahaha ~~we are so cute please :D~~ sorry, kidding okay.
anyway, the movie was alright. some parts were quite hilarious. but i kinda like the first movie more though. oh and, BUMBLEBEE IS SO CUTE ♥

Monday, 29th June.

finally got down to packing for OBS which is tmr btw, and spent the rest of the day just idling away and i'm now watching the opening ceremony of AYG on tv coz kev & rachel are performing!!! so exciting! hahaha okay i think rachel's item was just over but i couldn't spot her! O:

and i'm not sure why but i've been having these random bouts of angst & emo-ness and just SIANNNN-ness actually. like i'd be alright but after awhile i'd be totally sian + angsty + anti-social. idk.
and last night i just felt so darn..overwhelmed. by what i have no idea.
i was just thinking, about so many things on the bus ride home. decisions i made(which may/may not turn out to be mistakes), people in my life, things which are going to happen, insecurities, etc.
and when i finally reached home i didn't feel like going up so i just sat by the pool alone.

and i just lay on the deck chairs, gazing at the few miserable stars in the sky, listening to the sound of water gushing into the pool from the jacuzzi, and i just stayed that way; for how long i have no idea. it could have been fifteen minutes, it could have been an hour, and i just lay there trying not to think of anything at all until i felt better.

on a happier note, calls with the bestfriend never fail to cheer me up [:
even if we're just talking bout random mundane stuff/laughing at each other's stupidity(my horrendous arithmetic skills & her "Dont take your _____ off!!" haha) aww i love you bestfriend.

AND, i need to visit tyler. he's such a clever baby he can sit by himself without any support now!
oh and have fun in Europe evelyn!! sorry i didn't get to send you off :[ take many many pictures please. [:

if there's anything in the world i can have right now, i want this elusive thing called Time.

What if one day, I accidentally break it?

2009-06-24T19:15:00.003+08:00

All stressed up and no one to choke,
AND, I WANT TO WATCH TRANSFORMERS!!

Friday, 19th June.

met rachel, qiao han & anna @ ikea for dinner.
i'm always buying useless stuff and dragging them home to hog up the little space left in my closet.

Saturday, 20th June.

read Salem Falls by Jodi Piccoult from 2-6am then finally fell asleep.
woke up @ 2.30pm & met yq to go to ECP to play :D

we sort of entered through the wrong entrance and had to walk a distance to the bike rental shop, and i decided to annoy him with "Are we there yet??"s every 2 minutes hahaha.
we rented a double bike because I have a phobia of cycling (when i was young, i was cycling with my brother and we were racing to see who was faster when i crashed into a guy and his bicycle fell on top of me. since then, i walk faster then i cycle. haha)
anyway, i thought a double bike would be safer but that dumbdumb proved me wrong!
he's reckless, scary and dangerous ttm.

him: " i think i can let go of the handlebars."
me: " OMG NOOOO! DONT DO IT PLEASE OMG SERIOUSLY."
and 2 seconds later he lets go of both handlebars while the bike veers dangerously towards one side and i start screaming.

or
me: "omg that baby is damn cute!" (it wasn't that i wanted him to look, it was just that i needed to comment hahaha)
him: "where??" (and turns his head back to look which means he's not even looking at where we're going!!!)
me: " OMG LOOK IN FRONT PLEASE!!"

hahaha i almost died man. imagine something like that happening every five minutes. (also partly coz i can't seem to keep my comments to myself hahaha)

it was a miracle that we didn't even crash once.
I SWEAR I'LL NEVER RIDE A DOUBLE BIKE WITH YOU EVER AGAIN YOU PANGSAI.
but i did have alot of fun though [:

we went to the cable-ski park to look around too and we are going to try that someday! :D
took a bus to suntec and managed to watch a lil bit of fireworks (NDP rehearsals i think, which explains the helicopters @ ECP), donut factory (spicy cheese!), cabbed to the sinseh (his back still hasn't recovered), where i fell asleep in a very glamorous fashion in the big blue armchair while waiting for him.

bought bubble tea from one of the pasar malam stalls coz one guy saw my I♥HC tee and shouted,"hello hwachong juniors!!" and we chatted with them for awhile, got lost on the way to munkit's house (NOT MT FAULT, really. haha), played TapTapRevenge on ber's iTouch, played FIFA!! (it was FIFA right?? anyway, it was quite fun though i kept screaming NOW PRESS WHAT PRESS WHAT?! and i even managed to score a goal :D) ,played 2 hours of spot-the-difference; reminded me of all those times we used to crowd around the the small screen to play Photohunt back in secondary school; nostalgia, kicked rachel off the bed in my sleep, i'm really sorry!!! and guilty hahaha.

Sunday, 21th June.

woke up early and went for mac breakfast.
haven't had that for so long coz everytime i wake up, it's the lunch menu already.
sat @ mac and talked for quite long; eve, rae, jm and me, almost boring zh to tears hahaha

oh and Bernard you suck!
rachel was saying that ber calls her Chew, then jm was like,"oh ya, bernard calls me Ngui." (their sirnames)
and then i shouted,"OMG DAMN UNFAIR!! bernard calls me DUMBDUMB!"

went to Giant to look for some jelly drink that the rv canteen used to sell, went to JP to look @ sneakers (OUR SNEAKERS HOW?? Converse? Everlast??), then i rushed home to bathe & met the 69 people @ PS (the guys are still as retarded as everrr) , went off to meet the family for our Fathers' Day dinner @ somejaprestaurantwithaverylongnamestartingwithH and the food was quite good. [:

Green Tea cake= YUMMM + healthy(??), then I stayed up to watch Freda though i only slept like 3 hours the previous night.

Monday and Tuesday were a blur, nothing much happened just that i realised that i forgot to do quite a number of important things!!(why are we not surprised??) and thereafter melted into a puddle of anxiety (thanks for your reassurances dumbdumb. not that it helped get anything done, it was just that i needed someone to rant to and to tell me DONT WORRY IT'LL BE OKAY. [:)
it's weird isn't it? BIGMAJOR things like being on the verge of getting retained or flunking the A LEVELS don't freak me out at all whereas silly things like making decisions and long To-Do lists and clashing events can get me all stressed up and emotional.

then came Wednesday i.e. today. I went for my medical check up and it lasted for like almost 5 freaking hours coz the queue was so damn @&!&@$@&*# long! and they gave me a tetanus jab which hurt like a bitch and i still have to go back tomorrow coz THEY FORGOT TO TELL US TO FAST THE NIGHT BEFORE. (not everyone needs to fast though, depends on which checkup you're there for.) ahhh, blood tests tomorrow = NEEDLES omfg. super freaked out by needles :(

AND, i have 2 back-to-back camps neither which i have packed for!! ARMY BOYS help me pack pleaseeee.

EDIT: RACHEL AND I ARE GOING TO LEARN FRENCH IN UNI WOOHOO! (i know LPP sounds crude but it really just stands for Language Prep Programme haha) LAND OF THE SEXY PEOPLE HERE WE COME.

Dirty Little Secret.

2009-06-19T08:59:00.001+08:00

Dirty Little Secret.

photos from monday's hot date:

The glowing phenomenon seen in some of the photos is not due to a new feature of my camera.
It is, however, due to someone's fat fingerprint on my camera lens! I highly suspect it's Png's.
the rest of the photos are here.
oh and I just remembered, celest: "The Thai food shagged me." hahahah :D

Tuesday, 16th June.

went to eileen's house to play :D
we cooked spaghetti & made mango sago (WE WILL MAKE SUCH GOOD HOUSEWIVES NOW WHO WANTS TO MARRY US???), looked @ the photoshopped photo of her & ____ HAHA, had fun changing her fb status: , watched cute videos of megacute korean guys, then eileen drove me to tuition [:
surprisingly, she is such a good driver! i feel quite safe in her car though she drives damn fast and the GPS keeps going "Please Slow Down" Lol.

here's eileen with our masterpieces:
our spaghetti wowww it was super nice be jealous.

no photos of the mango sago(i forgot to take!), but here's one of the sago when we were cooking it.
I had so much fun potato! Let's do this again soon :D

Wed, 17th June.

woke up @ 3.30pm wow half the day's over.
dinner(buffet) @ Melting Pot.
food was GREAT [: yes off day yet again but i ate alot of salad during the buffet okay. O:
we (Ivan & me that is, kev's @ his class chalet) had loads of fun mixing weird concoctions; there was one where we put weird stuff like raisins and corn and rainbow sprinkles into the bottom of mommy's kueh pie ti and giggled like crazy when she bit into it. made me feel like a little kid all over again.

headed home, cut the cake which no one ate coz we were too bloated from the buffet, camwhored(that retard kept trying to make my head look bigger than his MEAN OR WHAT MAN) , watched the telly (him: okay now she's gonna throw the oranges at her. me: yup! him: HAHAHAHAHA YOU IDIOT. YOU RETARDED IDIOT! [okay this is only funny if you watched the 9pm channel 8 show and know which scene we're talking about!]), walked to coro to do my atm transfer (online shopping; yes i've started to buy stuff online as well isn't this catastrophic?!!!) and did retarded stuff on the way like "OH LOOK CAR! OH A DOG! OLD MANSSS and TRANfer HAHAHAH damn funny.

and guess what the atm @ coro does not issue receipts(!), so we walked all the way to Crown Centre(no atm as well) and Cold Storage and guess what, still no atm!(ajdfhkajshdfj?!)
and we asked the cashier in Cold Storage where the nearest atm was and she said, "oh, you can walk to coro." hahaha not funny seriously.
gosh. so we bought instant noodles and strolled home drinking our blackcurrent vodka which we bought (tasted like gassy ribena.) and i almost stepped on a dead cat(!) on the way back.

reached home, showered, sat around drinking our cups of Baileys and it felt like things were back to the way they used to be before, it's almost as though all those shit didn't happen.
anyhow, i'm just glad to have my brother back [:
really missed those long chats and retarded stuff we used to do. hope all of this lasts though. crosses fingers.
photos:
(no photos of the buffet coz i charged my camera and forgot to bring it! yes, i've lost count of the number of times i do retarded stuff like that/charging my battery and forgetting to put it back into the camera, etc.)

Hahaha. and the rest are here. (there's one which is REALLY EPIC but I can't show you guys coz SOMEBODY is too vain and forbade me to upload it haha.)

Thurs, 18th June.

met yq in the evening coz he took shore leave to collect his passport, ate dinner together, talked, and walked around, etc. [:
then he had to book in and i was way too early to meet the others, and zhihan very nicely abandoned his army friends to meet me (and i was sort of lost, but we shall not talk about that),

we randomly took a bus which we thought might reach our destination and talked about stuff like clubbing, grinding, leeching off rich husbands and legal loopholes, and this b*****h tried to touch zh's leg hahaha
kidding, and we reached holland v fashionably late.

met the others @ Tapas Wine Bistro (i'm almost 100% positive this is the name of the pub. i remembered it correctly this time)
played shootshagmarry again, the silly game Ah Wei taught us last time, Truth or Dare [all the deepdarksecrets start to tumble out and we now know who the true horny person is (; ]

gossipgirl.com haha
retardedfaces.com
and i realised Png's face looks the same in ALL OUR PHOTOS. haha the rest are here.

and it's time to pack my room again!!
meeting rae and co. later for dinner :D

We Are A Public Nuisance.

2009-06-15T00:59:00.008+08:00

We Are A Public Nuisance.

met ber on friday for our impromptu dinner outing to Quiznos Subs.
ate, sat around, ("oh by the way, the thing you've been kicking is NOT the table leg." HAHAHA omg every single time we go out, something like this happens. i'm so retarded. sorry bernard :D) talked, and when it was time to go back, ber said, "bring me back to the mrt station. i'll just follow you and i wont say a word even if we're going in the wrong direction."
i sort of expected us to get hopelessly lost. but i managed to bring us back to the mrt station successfully. nyeh :D

watched Ghosts of Girlfriends' Past on Sat with yq.
i thought the movie was pretty awesome. touching and funny, plus Matthew McConaughey is so damn charismatic and manly :D

dinner @ Pastamania, then hung out with my favourite people hi do you want to join our PAF club membership is freeee. :D
oh and rachel bought a really ugly elephant stuffed toy [: hahaha yes i despise your elephant!!

no photos of rachel's ugly elephant but here's one of jm after we tied her halter around her neck.

and here's my (construction-in-progress) wall.

after printing all the photos (which i wanted to hang on a clothesline thingy across my wall), i realised that i will not get to see all of it anyway coz i most probably will be staying in the hostel for the first year. retarded or what.

Sunday was Mommy's birthday.
photos:

full attendance! was really happy [:

and the blogshop of someone i know: March Avenue. please support! They have quite some awesome clothes [:

went shopping today with celest, chiam and eng ngee.
i laughed SO MUCH i almost died. (chiam is DAMNFREAKINGHORNY and png is damnfreakingcute)
hahaha it's seriously awesome hanging out with them. can't wait for Thurs night we are going to go CRAZY. :D
and listen to this: I DIDN'T BUY ANYTHING AT ALL EVEN THOUGH WE SHOPPED FOR ALMOST ONE WHOLE DAY.
please tell me that you guys are proud of me. [:

had dinner after that at Purvis Street and man the food was darn good :D [off day again(!) oh man i should really stop doing that. diet plan FAIL TTM shit :( ]
will post photos soon!

I AM GOING TO MESS UP EILEEN'S HOUSE AND LAUGH @ HER GIANT PIMPLE TMR!
CANT WAIT!

Another summer day, has come and gone away.

2009-06-10T16:31:00.004+08:00

Another summer day,
has come and gone away.

EDIT: photos are up! [:

met zh on sat @ ikea to buy my bulletin board and stuff (YES I AM REDECORATING THE WALL YAY. was really sick of the stupid painting which used to be hanging on it.)
we were both late as usual hahaha.
went to anchorpoint after that to walk around while waiting for the others to arrive WHICH TOOK AGES. thank god there was a really cool store there which kept us occupied for a really long time. [:

after the photo was taken, zh commented, "wow the photo turned out quite well. it looks like there's a tree behind us." (turns around to look) "oh, it IS a tree.."
hahaha super retarded. then the others came and ate dinner and we bought the cake & headed to anna's to hang out.

was kinda tired that day. but i still enjoyed hanging out with all of them [:
and jm is the master of interrogation. might i also add that she has NO MORALS WHATSOEVER.
hahaha but we sure benefited from it :D :D
stayed til late then went home, and i was so dumb i forgot to take my bulletin board, so we had to walk back all the way from the bus stop to get it. (sorry dumbdumb! :D)

HAPPY 19th ANNA! [:

went to the National Library on sunday to READ BOOKS with yq coz we are such nerds. (haha okay i'm speaking for myself. that idiot takes forever to finish a book.)
chose our books(I chose 3, he chose 1, haha) and sat on the cushioned seats and someone kept disturbing me coz he was not happy with the fact that i was reading so much faster than him hahaha just admit you suck man :D

then, something happened very near us which involved security guards, librarians and the manager(? someone who looked like he was in charge) and 2 men wow drama mama.
hahaha i can re-enact the scene for you guys if you're interested :D ask me this weekend!

then my stomach started making silly noises, informing us it was time for dinner, so we tried to find Purvis Street for the awesome Thai food, and after a long time,
WE FINALLY FOUND IT! (thanks to my superb sense of direction) and we walked all the way down the street to the end to find out that the place had not opened for business yet.
gosh. so we just went back to bugis to eat hahah

on the way to Purvis Street.

in the cab on our way home

and i have to announce this: my plant thingy is not dead!!
i initially thought that it died even before it had a chance to grow, coz after waiting for so many days, it still did not show any signs of life.
but the day before, it finally grew 3 strands of hair!

went out with celest, brenda, joanne, chiam & zh today for shopping followed by high tea.
then went to Holland V (celest, brenda, eng ngee, joanne, me) to chill + play stupid retarded games which were crazy fun!
it's always lovely hanging out with them.

met in the morning for shopping.
bought another pair of heels which i might never wear(celest convinced me to buy it. EVIL OR WHAT.) and promptly left it in F21's fitting room and only realised it half an hour later. thank god it was still there when we went back [:

photos!

if you look at the photos, you'll realise that they absolutely enjoy bullying me.

Blooper of the ~~Day~~ Year:
celest:"Can I have a new cup please? omg are you gonna use the same cup??"
HAHAHAHA and we all stare at her, wide-eyed, open-mouthed and flabbergasted.

the rest of the photos are here.
can't wait to hang out again next week!

Diet officially starts TOMORROW!

2009-06-05T01:18:00.005+08:00

Diet officially starts TOMORROW!

The past few days have been spent lazing around, giving tuition, eating lollipops, sleeping my fill of 10 hours a day, swimming(yes why are you guys so surprised?)
and reading - The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult, and the whole Twilight saga (yes again.)
Life like that is kinda heavenly.

had lunch with the folks @ Essential Brew on wed and the food sucked.
i don't know why. but the baby potatoes were not bad. (look eileen, potatoes!)
gave tuition then went over to Celest's to chillll. [:

lunched with the mother @ Manhattan Fish Market today coz it was my free day. (FLAMING PRAWNS FTW)
then was shopping(GSS!) which was bad.
bad as in i bought A. MOTHER. LOAD. OF. THINGS.
oh dear. somebody stop me please!
then was dinner @ (icantrememberthenameoftheplace..some jap food eatery)

photos of Tyler the amazing baby:
(i say 'the amazing baby' because at 4 months, he has almost learnt how to crawl. which is insane considering the fact that babies usually start crawling at 8 months.
and he can stand with some support. AND when i hold him in the upright position with his feet touching the ground, he actually tries to walk!! right foot forward, left foot forward, repeat. stuff like that. say WOW AMAZING! )

here's a video of him whining coz he wants to be carried. (+ my aunt's, mother's & brother's voices in the background.) cute stuff.

(this was went celest came over the other day..)
celest's erm melodious voice. PLEASE WATCH :D

oh and,

oh(again), and this video's really cute! (anna, watch!)

Diet Starts Today!!

2009-06-01T00:24:00.009+08:00

Diet Starts Today!!

okay i have been really lazy to update this space. hahaha
the June holidays start today! yay perks of being a school teacher, but also = jobless this month = SUPER FREE (except for the days i give tuition)

anyway,

23rd May, Sat

met rae, ber & jm to watch eve perform during Hwachong Dance Night.
i thought eve's performance was one of the best that night.
the alumni dancers(both chinese dance & M.A.D) are way better than their juniors.
and eve was AWESOME as usual [: i just love watching her dance! throughout her whole item, she was the only one i was watching haha. it was simply beautiful.
she's like super graceful and rae & i were going, "omg she's damn pretty!" & "omg she dances SO WELL!" throughout her item HAHAHA :D

yes i managed to see sarah there too :D the stupid busy woman.

huihui! i miss her man. note-to-self: have to organise a get-together soon!
on the way to serene. just jm being her usual spastic self.

went for Island Creamery + supper @ serene mac and talked til late then went home [:

24th May, Sun

went to Escape with yq (coz i haven't been there before in my whole 19 years of existence DONT LAUGH @ ME THANK YOU)
and it was really fun! HAHAHA and i totally own @ Go-kart! (ask yq if you dont believe me! i'm a BORN DRIVER [:)
oh and their Haunted House wasn't scary at all la. though i didn't dare to look @ anything and throughout the walk i just buried my face in his shirt & screamed when i heard anything come near me. HAHA but yeah it wasn't really scary after all. :D

had dinner @ Manhattan Fish Market & yes celest the Seafood Platter for Two is SO DAMN GOOD :D the prawns especially!
and that dumbdumb was supposed to book in @ 2030 & at 7.30pm WE WERE STILL AT COMMONWEALTH!!
it was freaking scary man. had to call a cab & thank god the taxi driver was fast so he wasn't late! HAHAHA if not i'll be damn guilty :D
next time cannot like that already. not good for my heart. hahaha

on the mrt; yes i know right, late still got time to camwhore.

25th May, Mon

met zh(who was having his block leave) @ PS for Manhattan Fish Market (again) coz i wanted to eat the One-for-One Lobster Platter :D
["make me look stupid if they have nothing to clear" hahaha i laughed so hard man.]

shopped around and we went to look @ toys and i bought this wooden carousel thingy which i shall attempt to assemble during this june hols.
headed over to Anchorpoint to look @ shoes & zh spent an eternity in the G2000 fitting room haha okay kidding.

ANTM!

and i bought this really adorable pair of heels which i might never wear coz they're too high. and i showed it to mommy and she said,"How are you going to walk in them??? must scold zh." HAHAH coz he was the one who pointed them out to me.

27th May, Wed

celest came over to my house for the swim that didn't happen(:D) and we cooked instant noodles and crab sticks in the microwave oven.

went to WM's arcade where celest was being an embarrassing noisy pig as usual.

then was our spa which was really fun coz of the awesome company!
we were stark naked when we took this photo. (; hahaha i'm kidding, we were wrapped in towels.

seeeee?

went to her house to pig out(as usual)

then went to meet feng er & qiuyu for Sharon's Birthday Surprise which sort of wasn't really a surprise coz she saw us before we were ready hahaha but she was still quite surprised i think. :D
HAPPY NINETEENTH DARLING!

29th May, Fri

met zh for lunch @ WM's Pastamania.
headed to the Da Vinci Exhibition which was really really cool.
i never knew Leonardo Da Vinci was such a genius.
in one lifetime, he managed to achieve so much.
Art, Painting, Sculpting, Human Anatomy, Machinery, Architecture, Flight, Geography, Military Machines, Diving Equipment, Cars, etc. you name it, he's thought of it.
and the interactive machinery thingies were quite fun! hahaha zh was having a hard time making sure that i wasn't making too much noise(some of the stuff generated noise when you're playing with them) or spoiling the exhibits(which i did not) :D

oh and i bought a cool new toy (it's sort of a plant thingy)
crosses fingers and hopes that i dont kill it like i did to that last one.

went to IMM to accompany zh while he ate his dinner(and helped him eat part of it) and then met the family for dinner @ Holland V coz it was Eat With Your Family Day(the mother says so) and there was a missing member of the family as usual. tell me what's new.

30th May, Sat

watched Night At The Museum 2 with yq and i thought the movie was really funny :D
"why do you look at ME when you say SHORT?!" HAHAHAHA so cute.
and the Egyptian Emperor with the short tongue was quite funny too.
went to the arcade to play and we own at shooting hoops! hahaha okay not really. but we're not bad okay. :D

then zh, rae & nh joined us for dinner @ yq's and i helped him draw his chartwork thingy while the rest watched Boys Over Flowers (YI JUNG!! :D)

31st May, Sun

met the usual gang @ Iluma Mall to celebrate Ber's birthday. [:
HAPPY NINETEENTH YOU NICE TALL POTATO :D
watched them eat @ Empire State coz i accidentally already ate my lunch(!!!) and we saw jiawen & calvin there as well! super coincidental [:

went shopping after that and i bought quite some stuff = HAPPY!
then eve & nh left and rae & i had a long lovely conversation over dinner and continued talking after dinner til it was time to go home [:
we feel the same way about so many things it's amazing. hahaha
YAY CAN'T WAIT TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH YOU & CELEST!
we are going to have SO MUCH FUN.

anyway, i've been teaching the lower primary for the last few days of school and they are super duper adorable. especially when they do their mass dances. i just melt. hahaha and you know what?
my primary 2 kiddos have FACEBOOK. no shit. hahaha

went to play with Tyler today. shall post photos and vids soon! he's growing soooo quickly [:

M&Ms Madness.

2009-05-24T23:32:00.002+08:00

M&Ms Madness.

16th May, Sat

watched Star Trek in the evening with yq. The movie was surprising good!
the first ten minutes were so touching i actually teared :D

played Daytona where I won the first round and someone was a sore loser and called for a re-match which i lost terribly. :P

then met the others for a last-minute stayover @ munkit's. (which yq & i did not stay over. haha)

M&Ms + Guitar Hero + Camwhoring + Doing Silly Retarded Stuff = ♥♥♥

20th May, Wed

met Ber (he was having his block leave) for dinner @ a really cool place near Raffles Place (i forgot the name) and the food was AWESOME.
it's a much nicer version of Subway.
i'm going to go there during the june hols and try every single type of sandwich they have. :D :D

then we WALKED to Funan where we sat @ Anderson's eating ice-cream and having a long lovely conversation(about many many things which i shall not divulge here) and ber eats like a pig & still doesn't get fat which is bloody unfair.

after which we WALKED to Fort Canning Park which was really dark and ber freaked me out by telling me that the place was not very 'clean'.
then was Clarke Quay where we WALKED around somemore before WALKING to Esplanade where we explored the library & went to the rooftop & took some photos & ber spotted a middle-finger-esque logo on one of the buildings HAHAHA

shall find one day in the june hols to explore some places in singapore by myself so exciting :D
and i think we walked at least a few km that day please say that i am a healthy girl. [:

22th May, Fri

met ber, rachel, qh & zh @ Holland V for dinner.
(and something very stupid happened which resulted in zh & me eating @ BK & the rest eating @ Breko's. HAHA oops. "It's not WE, it's YOU." HAHAHAH)

then walked around Holland V before heading to Tapas Wine Bistro(??? okay i forgot the name again.) for drinks & amused the waiter dearly because we I am such a noobshit.

then went home and had a long conversation with the folks about studying in UK VS studying here and yes i have still decided to study in NUS. (i really hope i don't regret this decision.)

will update bout Dance Night + today soon [:
XOXO (HAHAHAHAH inside joke but i still find it damn funny!!)

PIGNIC, heart-to-heart talks and other random affairs.

2009-05-15T17:34:00.000+08:00

Our PIGNIC, heart-to-heart talks and other random affairs.

9th May, Sat

went to Anna's after tuition to celebrate marcus' & yq's birthdays. 5th May & 11th May respectively.

photos:

then headed over to Anchorpoint for dinner followed by shoe shopping(or was it the other way round? i cant remember), then Queensway where we walked around & played Daytona @ the arcade there, and i was genuinely fascinated by one little kid playing with the tokens machine thingy.

then was IKEA where we had SO MUCH FUN. hahaha one of my favourite places to go.
we found super cute finger puppets and jm was being her usual embarrassing spastic retarded self. then was marcus' reaction when he was trying to take a photo of us and my camera flash POPPED UP and he seriously jumped and yelped. HAHAHA THAT MADE OUR DAY :D

10th May, Sun

went for tuition in the morning as usual then met the family(minus ivan) @ Soup Restaurant for our Mothers' Day lunch.

@ Goodwood Park

I LOVE YOU MY AWESOME MOTHER [: (if you're reading this) just wanna let you know that you're the best mom i could ever ask for.

then met yq @ orchard supposedly to treat him to dinner(birthday treat) but he ended up paying coz I DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH MONEY OUT AGAIN and they didn't accept NETS. hahaha i suck i know :(

headed to Clarke Quay after that and sat by the Singapore River talking till it was quite late & cabbed to coro to buy daddy's breakfast + carnations for our mothers (such sweet filial kids we are hahaha)

hope you like your present :D

11th May, Mon

SCHOOL HOLIDAY coz of Vesak Day. haha isn't it just awesome to be a school teacher? :D
slacked around at home doing..nothing. oh dear i cant remember what i did. haha oh i gave tuition! then continued watching my korean drama [:

12th May, Tues

met the girls for our Girl's Day Out. and as usual NO ONE CAME ON TIME. hahaha oh dear we should stop this habit of adding at least half-an-hour to our stipulated meeting time.

went to Haji Lane to seeseelooklook and jm i shall not buy anything next time even if we go when all the shops are open.
then was grocery shopping @ cold storage which was really fun and excitinggg coz we got to choose the stuff we liked & put them in the trolley [:

headed over to anna's after that to prepare the stuff for the picnic!
thank god for eileen & anna or we probably wouldn't have gotten anything done. hahaha.
and honestly i feel damn bad coz we keep going over to anna's and messing up her house and she has to clean up afterwards AND she always does so without any complaints AND the next time we ask her if it's alright to go over SHE STILL SAYS YES.
hahaha anna if you're reading this WE LOVE YOU YOU ARE THE NICEST GIRL IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD [:

anyway, we are such lazy & greedy pigs that we started eating the food while preparing it and we were even too lazy to bring the food to Marina Barrage so we just had our picnic in anna's house instead! HAHAHA how expected. :D

and honestly the food was damn good. haha we were eating and commenting on how good everything tasted and i announced, "I THINK WE ARE DAMN GOOD COOKS." and everyone turned to stare at me and asked, "What did YOU cook?" HAHAHA anyway I HAVE DECIDED TO LEARN HOW TO COOK DURING THE JUNE HOLIDAYS. (this time i shall actually succeed okay)

and we almost abandoned our plans of going to marina barrage but luckily jm was so insistent about it coz WE HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME ARE YOU JEALOUS EILEEN OH HAHAHA. (kidding okay it would have been more fun with you there [:)

camwhored & talked for ages.
when we finally left the place, we were stranded at the bus stop and no one wanted to help us :( but eventually we managed to get on the bus + we ran for the last train home and made it (super exciting leh damn fun :D)

oh and i had the worst gastric pain i had ever experienced in my entire life! (drama mama but it's trueee.) haha coz we didn't have any food with us and i was hungry since 8 plus and by 11 plus the pain was so bad i didn't even feel like talking(a very rare occurrence i know) so after i took the train + cabbed home, i ate a whole plate of rice + food but the pain got even worse!

and i was so stupid i sat slouched over the dining table for one hour coz i was a stubborn pig who refused to take the antacid tablet(i hate swallowing tablets) and until the pain got so bad i couldn't take it anymore & i finally decided to take the tablet & guess what, i realised that i didn't even need to swallow the pill coz you're like supposed to CHEW the stupid thing. and i felt like the stupidest person on earth. hahaha

but anyway the pain STILL didn't go away & i couldn't fall asleep with my stomach hurting like crap so i went to watch Boys Before Flowers till 4 AM. steady or what? :D

photos from tues are on facebook (TAG YOURSELVES PLEASE! :D) but i didn't upload every single one of them because i would have died doing so. haha so if you girls want them, pass me a thumbdrive and i'll transfer the photos to you [:

oh and just wanted to say,
i'm really really happy that i have you girls.
you all are irreplaceable in my life and i love you all to bits! :D

14th May, Fri

had to do invigilation today. stared @ the kids doing their exam papers for 1 hour and 45 mins! i almost died.
kept (almost) falling asleep in the last half-an-hour and the kids were like very amused by me trying to stay awake.

and i was teaching a P4 class today & i was going through a science worksheet when one of the naughty boys (alex) said," Miss Ng, can you talk softer please?"
me: " NO. coz you all are so noisy and i have to speak loudly so everyone can hear me."
alex: "but miss ng, i can hear you from the toilet." (he went to the toilet before that. and fyi, the toilet's like one or two classrooms away. hahahaha.)

and celest had relief today as well & it was so fun with her around; we spent our free periods exploiting ms kho's cubicle, eating ice-cream and playing & gossiping with mdm tan etc. :D then went to westmall after school to talk and WE ARE GOING FOR A SPA. hahaha love you very much let's go to NUS okay set! :D

Lucky.

2009-05-13T18:38:00.003+08:00

Lucky Potato.

so many things have been happening lately i've been feeling so confused and overwhelmed.

2 days ago i received a call from SMU offering me the SMU Scholarship.
without that call, i would have accepted NUS' offer already. but with the SMU scholarship dangling in front of me, i was so tempted to just go to SMU instead.

and today, i went for the MOE Teaching Scholarship interview.
it was super scary.
thank god qh was working in the same room that i was waiting for my turn in. :D
when i went in i was so nervous coz there were 5 or 6 people in the room! (didn't count properly haha)
and they took turns asking me questions and i answered them, and when the interview ended, i asked them how long it would take to know the results and they said TWO TO FOUR WEEKS and i was like OMG.
haha so i told them bout the SMU offer and how i had to reply SMU by this friday, and they said that they would see if it was possible to let me know the results earlier.
i honestly thought that i wouldn't get it. so i was hoping that if they wanted to reject me, they'd let me know earlier so that at least i wouldn't hold on to false hope.

but i just received the call awhile ago and i've been awarded the MOE Overseas Scholarship!!! :D
but i wont be going overseas coz applications for UK universities are already closed and i dont want to study in australia. so i'll most probably be getting the local MOE scholarship! [:
(if they allow me to switch from overseas to local that is. which they most probably will right?)
which solves my dilemma after all!!

and i just want to say that i feel very very very blessed and more often than not, i just feel like i dont deserve everything that i have.
sometimes, i'm so afraid that everything will just vanish someday, and i'll be left with nothing.
so i am going to learn to treasure everything that i have more [:

will update about the events of the past few days sooooon. :D

Baking Cupcakes.

2009-05-07T14:33:00.006+08:00

Baking Cupcakes.

spastic convo on fb:

had sore throat + cough the past 2 days so i went on mc. 140 dollars fly away omg.
spent tues shopping (bought 4 pairs of shoes within an hour!! many many dollars fly away.)

wed was spent baking with my awesome mother [:
went to Holland V for lunch then to the Cold Storage there for our grocery shopping.
baking muffins/cupcakes (what's the difference actually?) is super fun!
though the first batch we put into the oven became brownies coz we didn't read the part which said ADD 1.5 CUPS OF WATER. hahaha
we had so much fun mixing the frosting and using it to decorate our cupcakes. :D
it was like an edible art lesson for little kids.

the cupcakes turned out super sweet though, just like me. (i'm gagging as i type HAHAHA.)
but i didn't really care coz i had no intention to eat them in the first place!
i just wanted to bake & decorate them.
initially mommy was like, "What's so fun about decorating the cupcakes? i don't see what you're so excited about blah blah blah"
but when she started decorating them, she was like a little kid i tell you! super cute.
kev had to wait for us to finish our art pieces before mommy prepared his dinner coz we were too busy decorating the cupcakes. sucks to be him hahaha.

photos:

at first i thought that the photo was blurry/misty coz of the sunlight but then i realised it was my dirty camera lens!

the preparation,
look @ the cupcakes baking [:
peeping into the oven
the end product :D
some of the cupcakes.

the retarded/spastic-looking ones :D

i was teaching social studies today and the kids were supposed to draw a plan for their classroom (like a town plan of sorts) and i said," okay you may add other things into your classroom as long as it is reasonable and conducive to learning."
and i walked around the classroom & some of the girls added Chemistry Corners, Reading Corners & Science Corners, etc and i was like VERY GOOD! GREAT IDEA and i looked at the boys' drawings and almost died.
they added Gaming Corners (with Xbox, PS, etc etc), Annihilation Chambers(!!!!!), Canteens(as if the classroom's big enough), and one boy even added a Macdonald's!!
and they asked silly questions like, "miss ng may I add a basketball court?", "Can our class pet be a lion??", "Do you think an elephant can fit in the classroom??" etc.
oh and almost every single one of their drawings had multiple air-conditioners in the classrooms. hahaha :D

Hot then I'm Cold.

2009-05-03T16:19:00.001+08:00

Hot then I'm Cold.

so many things have been happening lately, i have loads of overdue photos to upload which i shall spam in this entry [:

Tues, 28th April

went to celest's after school to eat, hang out and gossip (:D)
had alot of fun as usual [:
i always have an unlimited supply of food when i'm @ celest's. i love Dolly :D

then met the girls(including EILEEN gasp :D) @ Minds Cafe for Eve's 2nd birthday surprise(since jm screwed the first one up. KIDDING we still love you. or NOT. :D)
played a few games and the last one was some spastic one in which we had to make each other say certain words or do certain actions. haha quite hilarious and retarded.

guess who?? HAHAHA

i like taking photos of rachel she is so cute and pretty and photogenic. (okay that makes me sound stalkerish hahaha)
OH FAT PIG [:

Thurs, 30th April

went to Double O with celest, pangsai, zw & ah wei and had a great time playing stupid retarded drinking games which celest sucked at. oh and it was my first time in a club leh dont laugh at me please HAHAHA [:

let's play Spot the Retard.

i have no idea what i was doing. haha it looks as though i'm worshipping the jug.
Beeeeeeeeeeer.

Fri, 1st May

woke up @ around 2.45pm haha. haven't had such a good night's sleep for so long.
went to meet zh and the rest @ Gelare (HAHAHA just remembered the way zh pronounces Gelare :D)
watched Wolverine which i really enjoyed (i love the X-Men) then headed to cheena-town for our overnight K [:
ber spoilt the couch so it kinda became our bed.

had a great time as usual. i really love these guys leh how? hahaha muacks.

Sat, 2nd May

tuition in the morn then slacking at home until 7 plus.
went to meet jon, sarah, weeyong & kimby in hwachong for The Oddball which was an epic failure. hahaha. but we ate the food(which was not bad), koped the goodie bags, took some photos and refused to pay the 6 bucks (yes we cheapo haha)
went to serene mac for ice-cream and stayed there awhile to chat.

junior class went as goths.

i zhao-genged HAHA
"EH jon help us take a photo please!" :D

all other photos (from events of the past few days) here

the other day i brought the kids to the music room for their music lesson & we listened to songs on youtube and the kids wanted Hot & Cold so i turned it on and they were singing along and they came to this part where it went "you~ PMS~ like a BITCH! " and they totally hollered the word out loud and i was like, "WHAT?!!" and then we all started laughing like crazy.

After the initial spark of attraction, I realise, there's actually nothing beneath it all.

This is gonna be one incoherent jumbled mass of words.

2009-04-27T18:46:00.010+08:00

This is gonna be one incoherent jumbled mass of words.

Life's been pretty interesting this week.

RVELDDS got GWH!! like for the first time in RV history(i think?) and i'm just so proud of them though i regret not being able to watch the skit, and also, i realised i that i miss el alot. i miss hanging out with anabel & huihui & the whole group of us. need to organise some get-together soon.

also, went for my HPB scholarship interview which i ~~most probably~~ definitely will not be getting because i screwed up my essay + a few of the other candidates are imba shit. but it was quite fun tho. especially since huiping & a few other people i know were also there. plus they gave us this cute animal magnet which made me damn happy :D

and then thurs came, and eileen called me while i was in the middle of a lesson (i normally dont answer calls unless it's celest or eileen) and she asked what time i ended school and i said 1pm why, do you want to meet me and she said I GOT INTO A CAR ACCIDENT and i was so stunned and i think i freaked out inside and thank god the kids were doing a mock paper so i had time to talk to eileen and stuff. she came to school to find me coz she was in the area & we had lunch together and she was saying that it's kinda sad that the only time she could take time off work was when she had an accident, and all i could think of was that she could have been injured really badly when the taxi drove into the side of her car but thank god she was perfectly alright(not even a scratch) and sitting in front of me nonchalantly eating takopachi. (yes my punctuation marks disappear when i'm excited/worked up/lazy)
and i just really thank God that she's okay.
and anyway i really enjoyed talking to you eileen oh. [:

had lunch @ Billy Bombers (at clarke quay) with yq then met jm, rachel, cat & zh @ IMM to make eve's calender which turned out very nice thanks to my artistic talent OK SORRY I WAS KIDDING. haha i did all the brainless stuff like cutting & pasting which required no artistic talent whatsover but i have to say that i contributed greatly by styling jm's & ber's hair til it was epic (as in i was cutting out the photo outlines & i cut their heads into weird shapes :D) oh and eve, the yellow sun on one of the pages which looks horribly disfigured & elongated was NOT cut out by me.

(except for photo of my hand + the thingy zh drew on it, the other photos credits to rachel [:)
jm i helped to censor your photo + look @ zh's retarded expression :D
met on sun to surprise eve @ clarke quay & we were thinking of ways to carry out our surprise and jm was calling eve's mom and her sis and all of us were so excited and happy and high coz we were gonna SURPRISE her and then after the surprise we found out that EVE KNEW ALL ALONG BECAUSE WHEN JM SENT THE MSG TO US SHE FORWARDED IT TO EVE AS WELL.
we almost murdered jm on the spot.

jm trying to rape eve as usual.

@ Waraku

but we still had alot of fun and i think jm's effing retarded blunder made the surprise more memorable haha :D (jm i'm just saying this to make you feel less stupid) and i think i must have put on 5 kg over the weekend coz i ate so much junk not coz i was hungry but just because i felt like eating. but Waraku's really good! i love the pizza thingy with potato & prawn roe or sth (forgot the name) and i love green tea ice cream now (influenced by rachel)
and after that we sent eve to work, sat around talking, went to look @ titbits & cute sushi-making machines in the jap supermrkt and (the rest left and we) ended up sitting along the Singapore River talking (jm, rachel & me).

and we talked til the sun set and the sky turned dark and people slowly started leaving the place & until we realised(or should i say grudgingly acknowledged) that it was really getting late and we should be going home. and we talked for around 6 hours and it was lovely.
yes i still cant believe we talked for so long. i think we sat there from about 6 plus to 12.30AM (yes we are cool like that) haha we talked bout all sorts of things just like the other night. just that this time there were more juicy details (HAHAHA OMG.) and there were random bouts of crying, (many) shrieks of "OMG!!!", crazy laughter etc, and i think we were being a public nuisance oops.
i am so looking forward to our full day of activities next week [:

i know i'm slow but i just watched Susan Boyle's audition and i thought it was really touching and those who judged her and looked down on her (coz of her looks) before she sang should be ashamed of themselves. though, more often than not, most of us are like that too. (some people to a larger extent than others.)

and jon tried to prank call me just now saying he's calling from Harvard School of Business and what-not.

jon: "Hello may i speak to Melanie?"
me: "yes speaking." (haha coz i thought he might be calling from one of the unis or scholarship boards.)
jon: "I'm calling from Harvard School of Business."
me: "oh erm okay."
jon: "you sent in an application last week right?"
me: "erm no i didn't"
jon: "yes you did."
me: "i'm very sure i didn't"
jon: "yes you sent us an application last week." (and here i thought it was some phone scam)
me: "NO I'M VERY SURE I DIDN'T." (i was getting kinda irritated already)
jon: "oh too bad then." (HAHAHA i was thinking "WHAT?? what kind of conversation is this?)
me: "yup. bye." (and i was about to hang up when he said,)
jon: "you're from rv right?"
me: "ya." (and i was like omg how did he know?!!)
jon: "that's a lousy school."
me: "WHAT? no it isn't."
jon: "yes rv's a lousy school."
me: "NO IT IS NOT!" (haha i was getting really cross here and in my mind i was thinking "WTF DOES THIS PERSON WANT?! He's such an asshole." LOL)
and jon was like, " AIYA GO AND DIE LA!!!! I'M JON LA WAHLAO blah blah blah..."

HAHAHA HE SUCKS @ PRANK CALLS.
i can't believe i couldn't recognise his voice though.

anyway i brought the kids to the com lab today to do E-learning.
and i allowed them to play some educational games after they finished their e-learning.
and there's this game called Virtual Knee Surgery
which is awfully sadistic and gross & THE KIDS LOVE IT.
they were gleefully slicing open the skin, sawing parts of the bone, etc. and giggling like the silly kids they are. so cute.

The Earth Is Burning Up We Are All Going to DIE.

2009-04-25T19:15:00.002+08:00

The Earth Is Burning Up We Are All Going to DIE.

during tuition today, i told the kids about global warming(coz we were talking bout the insanely hot weather) & how if the Earth heated up too much, we would all die.
[at this point, the boy interrupted to ask, "EVEN MY BABY SISTER??!" haha crazily adorable]
i told them about the melting polar ice caps, the rivers drying up, the dying plants
and animals, and so on.

and one of the girls looked at me with the most serious look i had ever seen on her face and asked earnestly, "Does everyone know about this??"
i.e. "If everyone knew about this, then why isn't anyone doing anything about it?!"

and it reminded me that once upon a time, we were so young, so naive, innocent, and so full of hope. it's like what yq said, when we grow older, we become more apathetic and less concerned about things which do not affect us directly. It's almost as if something in us dies. And as we grow even older, a larger part of us dies and fades away. and we become more and more jaded, and just...not bothered by anything that isn't really our concern.
and that's probably one of the reasons i like hanging out with kids i guess. [:

will update about these few days and eileen's car accident(COLLECTIVE GASP!) when i'm less lazy.

just finished watching Les Choristes on Okto. it's EPIC. (with CAPITAL LETTERS and bolded to show just how EPIC it is.)

(wanna be)17 Again.

2009-04-21T22:40:00.005+08:00

(wanna be)17 Again.

have been feeling so unwell lately.
loss of appetite, stomachaches, flu, other shit.
dinner has been my only proper meal this whole week.
:( think it's probably due to stress due to the HPB interview(h8 stuff like that), lack of sleep, dusty books in the library, and fretting over other..matters.

anyway, now for happier stuff!
met up with eileen-oh-the-busy-woman-and-crazy-woman ytd :D
(no photos coz i forgot to take!)
it's such an embarrassment to go out with her okay.
hahaha it's like bringing my p3 kids out or sth. (not that i've brought them out but i can imagine)

she has this crazy infatuation over Yan Ya Lun(yes don't ask me why hahaha) & we were @ Popular and she very nearly dragged down the top shelf of CDs just cause she wanted to show me how cute he was.

and don't even get me started on what it's like sitting next to her in the movie theatre. hahaha omg i almost pretended that i didn't know her.
she laughs uncontrollably at the smallest things, and at the worst possible timing(like maybe when the WHOLE cinema is quiet), and asks me questions and gives comments until i say(very sweetly), "eileen, SHUDDUP." HAHA like a little kid right?!

but i love hanging out with her. it's been ages since we've hung out coz she's always MIA due to her truckload of commitments & i really honestly missed her a lot.
but i know she'll always be the same crazy girl she is, and us hanging out less often won't make her any less important in my life [:
I LOVE YOU EILEEN OH YOU STUPID FAT PIG
and yes i'll always love you for who you are [:
i was really happy when i read this on her blog:
"And today, I feel loved. She did not want to meet me because she wanted to catch a movie badly, or simply needed someone to accompany her to dinner (for God's sake, she was in her air-conditioned condo, nuaing with her uber cool mummy), she just wanted to meet, because she missed me. (: AND i laughed it off, but well, i guess we all need someone to tell us that at some point in time. especially, when you feel tired and unappreciated. "
[:

and a paragraph from her blog which really jumped out at me:
However, children, who have yet faced the disappointments and valleys of life, have hope to overcome the challenges with a simple faith in their own untested potential. And perhaps, that is also why we are so drawn to little children. Maybe there is this little part of us that want so much for this positivity to rub off us, to give us the strength and power to see the world with so much joy and belief again.
really true isn't it? most of the time, the things eileen say or the way she thinks and analyses stuff amazes me.

anyway, we watched 17 Again.
haha yes although eve's friend said it was a trashy movie but i'm a hopeless sucker for chick flicks and eileen just wants to see Zac Efron.
and honestly, i thought the movie was not bad :D
haha it was silly and funny. and touching towards the end(yes i teared twice) and shoot me but i actually thought that Zac Efron was darn hot in the movie HAHAHA
i never used to fawn over Zac Efron. it was like rolls-eyes-so-gay-not-cute kinda thing with HSM123 and all, but he was really sweet and cute in this movie [:

anyway(again), my primary school has a Mac Lab like wtf(reak)?!
hwachong doesn't even have that.
the kids were doing their music project today and we had alot of fun!
them recording their voices(& mine) and silly noises, and me watching them fool around and laughing at the silliness of it all.

oh and celest had relief teaching today too & we stayed in the library during her free periods to talk bout him, the other him, and her him hahaha. (don't you think words start to look funny when you type them too many times?? like him him him him him. RIGHT?! ok whatever.)
"Tentatively Ten-Thirty" & "Too Lanky for my Liking" HAHAHA TRY SAYING THEM QUICKLY TEN TIMES IN A ROW :D

i bought a new sketchbook to doodle in. happy [:

i like things the way they are now. my little safe haven called The Grey Area.
and zucchini is officially my new favourite vegetable.

We're Gonna Be Okay. I Promise.

2009-04-19T01:50:00.014+08:00

We're Gonna Be Okay. I Promise.

met the usual gang at the Shokudo @ Heeren to celebrate mk's birthday & hang out.

"EH POINT TO MK. IF NOT OTHER PEOPLE WILL THINK IT'S JM'S BIRTHDAY." HAHA
other photos on fb.

headed over to Far East WHERE I DIDN'T BUY A SINGLE THING EXCEPT FOR BUBBLE TEA SAY YOU'RE PROUD OF ME.
then zh & yq came & we went to Cine to watch Revolutionary Road.

i kinda liked the movie. but i thought some parts were a tad bit slow-moving.
but overall it was really intriguing.
the whole idea of not buying into society's idea of perfection, & doing something bold and seemingly crazy just to be able to live the life you always wanted. I LIKE. [:

plus, the acting was mind-blowing insane :D
Kate Winslet & Leonardo DiCaprio are amazing together; the chemistry, their emotions: love, passion, fury, despair,etc. i loved watching them. :D
and i kinda liked the insane-mentally-retarded guy. he made the most sense in the whole movie.
"Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness."
"You want to play house you got to have a job. You want to play nice house, very sweet house, you got to have a job you don't like."

and my favourite:

“No one forgets the truth, they just get better at lying.”
-April Wheeler, Revolutionary Road

was supposed to meet celest today to go to Flea @ Jazz @ Southbridge, but i lost track of the days and dates & only realised ytd that today was the deadline to send the supporting docs to MOE so yup, procrastination at work yet again. and i thought i'd already learnt my lesson. this horrid habit is gonna get me into shit someday.

anyway, time has been passing really quickly. it's been almost 6 months after the end of As didyouguysrealisethat??? i need my life to slow down, & i need to do the things i said i'd do after the As.
a few weeks before the start of As, i typed this whole loooong list of things i'd do after As & saved it in my drafts. i need to dig that out & start doing them one by one!

my to-do list to get things started:

and this is easily one of the nicest videos i've watched recently:

don't you just love The Sound Of Music? i need to re-watch that. as well as The Lake House & One Litre Of Tears. [:

When i first met you, there was nothing in the world you couldn't do or be.
-April Wheeler

Confessions of A Shopaholic.

2009-04-14T20:34:00.000+08:00

Confessions of A Shopaholic.

very apt title considering how much ~~we've~~ i've spent the past few days.
i swear i'll try to spend as little as possible in the next 2 weeks or so. PINKY SWEAR.

school today was exhausting. the guys in my class are SO. VERY. NOISY.
and i'm taking their class for another 2 more days omgarghdiehelp.

a summary of the past week:

Tues, 7th April-
met celest, chiam, zhihan & eng ngee @ vivo for dinner, shopping & a movie before the guys enlist/Marche for dinner(ROSTI YUM)/shopping with the tard(til we were almost late for the movie) while the guys went to do stupid metrosexual stuff HAHAHA./watched Race To Witch Mountain(dwayne johnson's damn charismatic haha)/snuck in another theatre/saw Julius(we were initially sitting on his seat! coincidental or what?)/realised the movie was Confessions of A Shopaholic and high-fived zh & celest while eng ngee was damn sad/etc.
gonna miss hanging out with them. the guys are freaking retarded. :D

zh: "everyone's gonna think that you're retarded for getting so high over a salt shaker."
hahaha but it was seriously damn funny! he was pretending to pour pepper on me and i started pouring salt on his arm for real & by the time the camera took that photo, his arm was SUPER SALTY HAHAHA

Thurs, 9th April-
was my off day coz it was the school's sports day.
was kinda looking forward to it but they said i didn't have to go :(
slacked around/gave tuition/met mommy & kev @ Holland V for dinner/went to play with Tyler again:
HE IS SO DAMN ADORABLE PLEASE. he looks like a hamster now coz his cheeks are so chubby :D

Good Friday, 10th April- (no cable-skiing trip coz the guys cldn't go overseas oh man)
met the usual gang @ PS for lunch then headed to Marina Square to meet up with feng er, weeyong, unmac, renyang & jon (haven't seen them in too long; i miss hanging out with them! esp stella whom i still wont see for quite long! :[ )/ watched The Fast and the Furious 4 which was awesome i still cant believe feng er slept throughout the movie that PIG

oh and jon said something damn retarded! the trailer for Angels & Demons was playing & he was asking,"eh this one anti-christian movie again arh?"
me: "not sure if it's considered anti-christian but it's sth to do with the Church."
him: "walao that Da Vinci damn nonsense one!"
me: "HAHAHAHA it's Dan Brown you idiot! not Da Vinci! Da Vinci's the book title not the author!" and proceeded to repeat the story to feng er :D

haha they're damn retarded. all the dumb jokes and spastic shit but I AM NOT 9/8 _____ OKAY. stupid jon & unmac(who wont see this coz he's probably in tekong scrubbing toilet floors already muahaha)

anyway, met the 2a ppl after that again to talk & just hang out & we didn't go to clarke quay in the end so i couldn't meet feng er & gang + rachael + kimby + damien (all 3 whom i haven't seen for the longest time!)

Sat, 11th April-
met rachel, jm, eve & cat to SHOP :D bought alot of stuff & so did jm & especially rachel hahaha
met ng ah pek for dinner @ Lucky Prata & we took damn long to find the place coz i cldn't remember which storey it was at. we practically had to search the whole building :D quoting him:"don't worry we'll definitely find the place in the end; it's a matter of time." that idiot hahaha

ordered too much food & we cldn't finish but the food was great.
and very sinful(!) especially for yq whose IPPT was the following day :D
and my hand cramped while i was cutting the prata! damn spastic hahaha
then was the bus ride home; me back home & him to zhikai's for booze + the remaining half of the Man U match

Sun, 12th April-
met nh, jm & rachel to shop AGAIN! :D (jm & rachel insist that i'm the cause of their excessive spending & they dont ever wanna shop with me again!) haha went for Flea Titan @ Mount Sophia which was kinda fun [: then nh left & we WALKED ALL THE WAY TO FAR EAST to shop somemore haha. and i still think that jm's "OMG SOMEONE STOLE MY SHOE!!! ...THAT BASTARD" incident is damnfreakingFUNNY HAHAHA OMG remind me to repeat this story please.
then was dinner & Girl Talk til we almost got locked in by the security guard!

love talking to them [: super therapeutic hahaha. we were talking bout anything & everything from boys to tummy fats to inferiorities & insecurities.
i never really used to open up & talk about my feelings & all these other stuff but with them it just seems so easy & natural [:
and i'm just so thankful for all the 2a girls coz back in secondary school, i didn't really use to hang out as much with them (as in i didn't belong in a "girl-clique" or whatever you call it) & i'm really glad that hanging out with them now feels lovely as ever [:
yay love you guys looking forward to this friday :D

and i am the Queen Of Procrastination.

sometime around 1st April, i decided to apply for the HPB scholarship. and i was thinking that i still had a WHOLE LOT OF TIME since the deadline was 15th April.

i honestly wanted to finish the essay by yesterday but i fell asleep in front of the com even before i started on the essay hahaha okay FAIL.
and then last night on the phone @ 12 something (okay more like this morning),
yq: "go and do your essay after this okay?"
me: "dont want la. i'm gonna sleep after this haha. i'll do it tmr!"

and today,@ 4 plus,
yq: "hand in your scholarship application already or not? dont be lazy hor."
me: "HAHAHA i still haven't started on my essay yet!"

and the time now is 9pm and guess what? i still haven't started on that piece of shit. hahaha omg die.

OCS Family Visiting Day.

2009-04-06T15:48:00.001+08:00

To Lead, To Excel, To Overcome.

Fri, 3rd April

went for the SMU interview in the afternoon & headed over to play with Tyler after that. that little monster is so chubby now! hahaha his mommy calls him 小胖胖 :D

mommy was helping me take a photo,
"Just keep smiling & looking @ the camera. i'll take the photo when Tyler is looking." in the end Tyler is looking at the camera & i'm the one that's not.

don't i look so MOTHERLY?? :D

Sun, 5th April
OCS Family Visiting Day

went to OCS to visit the guys, pass them photos to put up on their noticeboard & look @ the place (our main motive actually hahaha kidding kidding dont tell them :D)
but seriously the place is really nice & their bunks are so comfortable & cosy!

saw a video of the stuff they did there and jm & i were saying that we felt like enlisting too! hahaha looks damn fun la! (but i know all the guys [esp. ber] will say that it only LOOKS fun.)
took quite alot of photos of the place but i'm not allowed to post them so i'll only post those of us:

kept asking yq's brother to be our photographer. "yq 弟弟! can you help us take a photo please??" hahaha he's like a small yq. they're so alike it's super funny & cute.

SAFTI Tower; it has 265 steps to represent the no. of days the guys spend in OCS.

at the top of the tower!
louis! (took this pic for you celest [:)

the guys were exposed to tear gas & some of the suay ones had their photo taken right after that(& displayed on the big screen during the video presentation) and guess what zh was one of them! :D

HAHAHA. the day before their tear gas experiment, i was telling zh that this was probably the only chance you get to see muscular & manly guys cry like little boys :D

saw gavin, weiguo & song gee marching when we were on our way to the SAFTI Tower.
i couldn't recognise weiguo hahaha he was standing right in front of me & jm was pointing,"THERE!!! THIS ONE IS WEIGUO!" and i was like,"WHERE??? WHICH ONE??" and weiguo was trying to keep a straight face while he stood at attention.
also saw junjie, louis, & few other ppl i cant really recall atm. & i finally got to see guansen after god knows how long!

Tri-Service! HAHAHA :D
JM SUCKS CAN. THAT CHEATERBUG TIPTOED IN ALMOST ALL THE PHOTOS MAKING ME SEEM SHORT IN COMPARISON.

she's doing it again!

HAHAHA watermelon head.

oh ya zh got into Air Force & yq got into Navy!
super proud of them & happy for them [:
no more field camps/road marches/ugly green uniform/LBVs/fieldpacks/etc.
plus their uniforms are gonna be so nice! hahaha

after that went to JP to eat our lunch (ran like crazy idiots in the pouring rain sharing one small umbrella. damn fun actually.) & talked for ~~awhile~~ quite long because we took super long to finish our food. haha it's so fun hanging out with her coz she's like damn retarded

My Life In Technicolour: CME, Caning & Essential Brew.

2009-04-02T19:12:00.001+08:00

My Life In Technicolour.

Tues, 31th March

had 2 CME (Civics & Moral Ed/Hao Gong Ming) classes today.
decided against teaching the P4 class coz their book didn't have hanyupinyin & the chinese words looked quite intimidating haha.

went into the P3 class and told them that i was gonna teach them Hao Gong Ming & they were like, "miss ng you can teach chinese MEH??"
Me: " OF COURSE! why cant i teach chinese?"
and i started reading the title of the lesson (in chinese) & some of them started laughing.
and then i read out the first sentence of the text & they laughed even louder.

me: " ARE YOU GUYS LAUGHING AT ME??"
them: " YES!! HAHAHAHHA"
me: " WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME?!"
them: " miss ng your chinese VERY FUNNY!"

walao funny their head la. and i realised that i couldn't teach entirely in chinese haha so it was something like:

"林先生 blah blah blah 卖鸡饭 blah blah 手套..
okay so Mr Lim wears gloves when he is selling chicken rice right? would you buy chicken rice from him?? blah blah blah.."

and they started complaining that i was confusing them by switching from chinese to english and back again and wanted me to teach everything in chinese, and i very pathetically said that i couldn't because my chinese sucks.
haha i really did try! but i honestly couldn't. i cant seem to speak more than 2 sentences of chinese simultaneously.

so i finally finished teaching (in half eng/half chinese) & asked them to do their workbook & one of the boys asked me how to write 干净 and i was thinking OMG DIE I DONT KNOW HOW TO WRITE!!
hahaha so i wrote 干 on the board and paused for a very long while before finally admitting to the class "erm I DONT KNOW HOW TO WRITE 净!!" hahaha and they started laughing like crazy & saying that i was lousy :(

but i wrote 净 on the board in the end (which was correct! :D but at that point in time i didn't know) & i checked their text book to see what the word looked like and i was so excited that i was correct and i shouted,"MISS NG IS CORRECT!! [: [:" and they still insisted that i was lousy coz i needed to check the text book. hmph whatever.
and the cheeky boys kept asking me how to write chinese words & after a few words i asked them, "are you testing me?!!" and they said " YES WE WANT TO SEE WHAT OTHER WORDS YOU DONT KNOW!" GOD. kids are so mean can.

and when the lesson ended, they shouted "MISS NG 再见!" and some of them said, "miss ng next time come and teach us chinese again okay? HAHAHAHAH!!" damn mean those stupid dumb dumbs. but very cute right?? hahaha [:

and that wasn't the end of my exciting day in school!
i witnessed a boy being CANED in class! super scary. but i was quite lucky that i was supposed to teach that class. if not i wouldn't have been able to see it. he was caned for hitting the girls in his class. (and other stuff) and the male teachers were discussing and saying things like, "AIYO. hit girls must cane double!" and "AIYO HOW CAN HIT GIRLS? GIRLS ARE FOR GUYS TO LOVE LEH!" HAHAHAHAHA i laughed out damn loudly when i heard that and they were like "TRUE RIGHT?" and i nodded my head vigorously & gave them a thumbs-up :D

after that met celest to go to NUS to submit my scholarship application (yes i couldn't mail it coz i procrastinated til it was too late to send by mail) and walked around my/our future school (CELEST PLEASE GO TO NUS TOO).

headed to Essential Brew @ Holland V after that for good food [:
haven't eaten there in quite a long while but the food was still as good as i remembered :D

stayed there & talked for a soopdoopz long time. i just love talking to her. [:
thank god there weren't many people there coz we were laughing like 2 crazy idiots hahaha.
went to walk around Holland & i bought more clothes for Tyler! [:
i've decided not to walk into any more baby clothing stores coz i cant resist the urge to buy every single cute outfit that i see. heh.

Wed, 1st April

last lesson with Diksha so i brought my camera along:

am gonna miss her so darn much! (her and her "IDEA!"s and paintings & drawings which she always draws for me) hahaha she's really adorable. jm can attest to that :D

p.s. The parents are blackmailing me. they said that if i wanted to drill holes in my wall, i'd have to pack my room and MADE SURE THAT IT STAYED THAT WAY FOR ONE FULL MONTH. omg any idea how hard that is?! normally i'd only pack my room when i cant see my table top, ledge top, chair and a huge part of the floor. and it'll stay spick & span for a grand total of 3 days max and then it'll be back to square one. and i was negotiating the terms & conditions with daddy & mommy was like, "daddy dont worry she wont be able to do it anyway. dont waste your time." asjdfhdkjhgajds! shall show em! gonna pack my room RIGHT NOW!!

TGIF.

2009-03-29T17:23:00.002+08:00

TGIF.

Friday, 27th March

went to Sentosa to meet celest, zhihan & chiam after school. (feels weird saying school haha)
played Frisbee(chiam & i suck! hahaha whenever i throw the frisbee it ends up veering to the right) & camwhored.

photos:
FLY!

(self-proclaimed)FASHIONISTA :D
She had to redo this numerous times because we kept destroying it before she could take a photo [:

HAT HAIR! muahaha

HAHAHAHAHA x 9837452834 CENTRE-PARTING. :D

was soopdoopz(:D) fun hanging out with them :D
meet up again before chiam & zhihan have to shave their heads, bid their freedom goodbye & go into Tekong-the-hell-hole!

after that, went home to shower & change, and cabbed to clarke quay to meet the girls @ Fashion Bar for (cheap) booze hahahaha :D
it's a great place to hang out. really cosy & POSH. :D
started taking silly photos & playing Shoot Shag Marry (our answers were WOAHHHH. hahaha especially anna's heh.)

then the DJ played YMCA & jm started dancing to it and we were dared by the angmoh waitress to get on the dance floor and dance. (but we didn't coz we were chicken hahaha the bar was still quite quiet & the dance floor was EMPTY that's why.)

anyway after a while, this huge group of angmohs came in & started dancing & they were really cool & funky & HIGH and that made us all high as well. and we ended up on the dance floor dancing too & 2 angmoh guys came & danced with us (one of them was called Justin(??) haha the music was so loud i couldn't hear him) AND IT WAS SUPER INSANE :D
hahaha so yeah it ended up being sorta like a club instead of a bar. and we had a lot of fun shaking our booty(hahaha) on the dance floor

look @ zee traumatized expression on my face.

the other photos are on fb in a private album coz there are too many unglam/not-for-public-viewing photos hahahaha (especially of jm :D)
YAY WE SHOULD DO THIS AGAIN SOON [:

Saturday, 28th March

tried doing my scholarship apps essay & ended up sleeping in a very weird(& uncomfortable) position in front of the laptop. gave up & asked mommy if we could go & play with Tyler instead & we went to his house YAY HE IS SO CUTE :D

and because ytd was Earth Day, i waited til kev went into the shower & started bathing before flicking the light switch while gleefully shouting: "EARTH HOURRR!" :D
"OEI SWITCH ON THE LIGHTS!!!"
"it's Earth Day. Save the Earth honey!!"

17 more days argh.

2009-03-26T17:13:00.001+08:00

17 more days argh.

OCS is so hiong, the guys have so little admin time! :[
SAD. miss them like shit.
at least i'll get to meet up with the girls tmr, and ber & mk etc during the weekend [:

and this cheered me up. that retarded girl.

HAHAHA :D

p.s. LET'S GO CABLE-SKIING ON THE GOOD FRIDAY WEEKEND AS PLANNED OKAY? :D
(hope the guys can take leave! & eve + rae etc go persuade your parents!)

You Spin My Head Right Round.

2009-03-25T17:03:00.009+08:00

You Spin My Head Right Round.

yesterday was Best Friends' Day Out. :D
shopping and loads of shopping before heading to a Thai eating place to eat. (cant remember the name of the place but THE FOOD WAS DAMN GOOD. LIKE SERIOUSLY DAMN GOOD.)

photos:

FOOD!

VERY GLAM. the both of us.

shopping with celest is crazily fun. though we've known each other for (soon-to-be) ten years, this was the first time we went out shopping together. yes, i can't believe it either! hahaha she's like so retarded she pulled a neck muscle while taking off a dress :D
and shopping with her (or jm) makes the money in my bank account deplete at an alarming rate. hahaha DIE.

the other photos are here

YAY i really enjoyed hanging out with that dumbass [:
am looking forward to friday: sentosa in the aftn (with celest, zh & qy) + Girls' Night Out @ night(with the girls) :D

and i am reminded of all my unwritten scholarship apps essays ohnooo procrastinator ttm i am.
and me in specs = INTELLECTUAL yes i know [: hahahaha

Stop and Stare.

2009-03-23T21:35:00.001+08:00

Stop and Stare.

I WONT BE ABLE TO SEE YQ & ZH FOR 3 WHOLE FREAKING LONG WEEKS THAT'S LIKE ALMOST ONE WHOLE FREAKING MONTH AM GONNA MISS THEM LIKE CRAZY AND DIEEEE. (HUGE SADFACE)

sat- anna's house to celebrate cat's birthday then anchor point with zh & jm to hang out and stuff.
went to IKEA alone and looked @ all the cute awesome colourful funky nice pretty things which ikea has (dont you just love going to ikea?? i do for some weird reason. it makes me feel oddly happy)
gonna wait til daddy comes back to singapore & allows me to drill more than 10 holes in my wall. then i'll buy the stuff i had my eye on that day. muahaha

sun- went to jp library for old times' sake haha. kinda missed the place. all the times we spent there doing random retarded things instead of mugging as we should. those were the days. as much as i'm glad that the Monster As are over, i really do miss jc life SIGH.

on a sidenote, jurong point is so different now. it's HUMONGOUSLYENORMOUSLYHUGE with the new extension and far too crowded for my liking. i hate crowds; all the elbowing your way around, excuse me's, oops, sorry's, long looong queues in the ladies, slow-moving people blocking your way and breathing in your oxygen..no thank you.

the double rainbow on sat:

i was on the overhead bridge and i looked up at the sky (i like looking at the sky), and i saw the rainbows and did a double take. they stretched across the whole sky and were stupendously beautiful. hahaha and i just stood there for ages staring at the sky & admiring the rainbows AND NO ONE ELSE AROUND ME NOTICED UNTIL I TOOK OUT MY CAMERA AND STARTED SNAPPING AWAY. i mean what is wrong with all of us? it's like we're so busy and forever hurrying off to somewhere, that we never bother actually looking at the things around us anymore. quite sad no?

anyway, i ponned school today coz i lost my voice (i can't teach/keep the kiddos quiet without a voice). bottom line is, i got really bored coz i had nothing to do (actually not really, i still have a few essays to write BUT i procrastinate so...) SO i started playing with make up like a little kid hahaha:

looking forward to tmr coz i'll be hanging out with my bestest friend in the whole wide world! :D

p.s. MISS OUYANG & MRS LIM WERE IN TODAY'S PAPERS. not that i actually read the papers haha. my mom showed the article to me.

Frolicking Amongst The Waves Part II

2009-03-21T14:37:00.003+08:00

Frolicking Amongst The Waves Part II

random photos taken by mk; jm & nh being porno + i wasn't pointing my middle fingers if you look carefully. zh raping anna. hahaha kidding. but the photos explain themselves. :D

buggy ride + jm & me greeting everyone we saw in jap. we had a buggy to ourselves t/o our stay there & I WAS AN AWESOME DRIVER THANKYOUVERYMUCH :D

the beautiful scenery + the-not-beautiful-jm (kidding) butting in & out of the lenses.

picturesque much?

jet-skiing! those people in the photos aren't us but we did manage to jet-ski there.
it was super awesome! despite all the minor accidents which happened like:
(1) i very nearly flew off the jet-ski (tsk you reckless driver ng yq)
(2) knocked my head on yq's head when he was driving heh :P
(3) knocked my mouth on the front of the jet-ski when i was driving

BUT IT WAS EXHILARATING! the breakneck speed we were traveling at & the sharp turns, the vast expanse of sea & the wind in your hair, the little droplets of ocean spray against your face and adrenaline coursing through your veins. WOAH :D

jm the camwhore haha. but her photos turned out pretty good [:
credit goes to the photographer and not the subject of course :D
yq looks pregnant here HAHAHA
spot the kite!

top of the world! I ♥ U [:

The Retarded Girl; a must-watch [:

yup didn't really take that many photos coz i forgot to charge my camera & it died on me but these were the other stuff we did that weren't captured in megapixels:

buffets(breakfast & dinner)+ cup noodles(when we were feeling poor)
oh ya & we saw songyuan, chong ling & tommy there too super coincidental
our super spacious & awesome villa with cable teevee & a kitchen which we didn't use in the end
the MIGHTYFREAKINGHUGE waves! it was so fun to be engulfed by them. they literally sweep you off your feet!
nutella + bread!
the mudball fights
squashed beetles the size of your big toe + huge bees!
the hundreds of beautiful twinkling stars in the night sky [:
drinking cocktails @ the pub + zh making me accompany him drink rum & tequila shots til i was NOT DRUNK. just a little woozy.
nh prancing around the house wanting to dance for us and us ignoring her (except sg of course [:)
stripping jm hahaha
mk & sg playing blackjack, with mk always on the losing end & having to do hundreds of push ups & what-nots.
jm getting way too excited on the 2nd night coz she thought she saw ___ and me sleeping together -.-
anna & mk's scandalous rendezvous's :D
guitar hero & pool (where jm & me pwned yq's & zh's asses hahaha)
yq & sg's reckless driving
zh yelling, "WOAH! WATCH THE ROAD!!" while i was driving
$4 mineral water daylight robbery okay.
javanese massage!
The Omelet Fryer & Yi Zhi Mei hahahaha :D
the sunburnt people [hahaha bet you guys are peeling like crazy]
Professor Utonium + "camera phone charger" + Betty BOOB haha + loads of other retarded things i cant recall at the moment

YAY LOVE YOU GUYS LOADS [:

Frolicking Amongst The Waves Part I

2009-03-20T09:39:00.006+08:00

Frolicking Amongst The Waves Part I

was gonna update earlier BUT the night we arrived in Singapore i had a really bad case of
sore throat + fever + headache + cough + blocked nose + body ache =
spent the next whole day in bed trying to fall asleep while my head pounded as though someone was hammering on it from the inside.

BTW, was supposed to spend today rushing through my scholarship apps essay but i realised that i stupidly screwed up & missed the submission deadline, so i dont have to write it after all YAY.

anyway, it was nice going on a trip with the 7 of them & it would have been a lot more fun if the stuff there wasn't so bloody ex but oh well. it was still a very enjoyable trip. like what we always say, it's the companeeee :D

photos:
[right-click open in new tab to enlarge]

on the ferry.

look @ their horny faces.
LASER QUEST! [which i sucked at. i got like 21 points omg FAIL x 10000 hahaha]

all smelly & sweaty after the game :D

our forfeits!
the reason you see only the same few of us in the vids: we suck @ games which require fast reflexes. yeah i know, i find it very shocking that jm didn't lose any of the games too. [:

anna blowing in yq's ear

yq kissing the sole of my foot

"WE LOVE BINTAN!!"

nh picking sg's nose

sg biting my ear :O

anna, yq & nh erm rubbing their feet on each other's faces.

will post the rest of the photos and vids soon :D

My Last M18 Show for a Very Long Time.

2009-03-13T18:00:00.000+08:00

My Last M18 Show for a Very Long Time.

met yq ytd to collect our ferry tickets to bintan & then ber to watch My Bloody Valentine in 3D.
i covered my eyes t/o almost the whole show haha i cant take gore!
but the 3D effects were quite cool, just that i didn't see most of it coz i was too darn scared.

the beautiful evening sky

A wrestler asks the audience to throw him a folding chair and just about everyone there decided to throw him one. :D

I CANT WAIT FOR OUR BINTAN TRIP I AM SO EXCITED! [:
nh & sg can share the master bedroom & jm you shall sleep on the couch since no one will want to share a room with you. sounds like a plan? :D

The One About Resilience.

2009-03-11T16:13:00.004+08:00

The One About Resilience.

there was a cockroach on the canteen floor today and i totally knelt on the bench and refused to come down until one the boys murdered it hahaha :D
very un-teacherish but whatever.

had to teach the kids (a p6 class) bout resilience today for pastoral care.
i had them tell me their stories, which somehow included gate-climbing (which i discouraged although i am very guity of it too..),
and i asked them if they've decided which secondary school they wanted to go to.
most of them had already decided and some had even decided on their jcs as well!

being the nice and responsible teacher i am(:D), i decided to motivate them since they're having their PSLE this year.
so i told them a story:

[this is the gist of it]
"once upon a time, there was a girl called Miss Ng, who went to Keming Pri Sch and worked REALLY hard for her PSLE and she managed to get into the secondary school of her choice which was RV. In RV, she worked REALLY hard for her O levels as well and she managed to get into HwaChong Institution. However, in HCI, Miss Ng became a very naughty girl who did not listen in class/do her homework/study for tests/etc. and her results slip looked like this:"

and i wrote this on the board:
and they started asking,
"miss ng, S stands for Suck is it??"
"does U stand for U Fail?!"
"ORH! U stands for U Suck! HAHAHA"
damn funny haha. so i explained what S and U stood for and they were like "WAH..you very lousy leh." :(

and then i continued with my story:
"so miss ng did very badly and in J2, she told herself that she had to study harder or she would not be able to get into any universities. so miss ng worked REALLY REALLY hard for her A levels (okay this is bullshit and i exaggerated shamelessly here. but it was necessary for the story to be educational :D) and this was what she finally got."

and they were like, "WOAHHH!" and started applauding.
so i pointed to the board and said," So what does this show??"

and most of them said things like, "We should have resilience/ never give up/ work hard towards our goals/ etc." which was exactly what i wanted them to learn.

and one cheeky boy pointed to my results on the board and said, "Miss Ng, this shows that you're still bad at chemistry!"

ARGH KIDS!! HAHAHAHA :D

It's a Love Story.

2009-03-09T19:07:00.002+08:00

It's a Love Story.

my mind has been so confused of late.
all the decision-making about uni apps, scholarships, career options, etc is mind-boggling. i have sorta decided on the blueprints of my life but yet i am so unsure whether or not everything will work out.
argh i hate decision-making. IT MAKES ME FEEL SO OLD AND GROWN UP WHICH IS A BAD THING BTW.

anyway, here's a video i came across on Youtube.
VERY inspiring & OMGWOWAWESOME-ish

The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes.

We go through the present blindfolded...
Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and understand what it means.

- Milan Kundera

i can't agree more. [:

helluva rollercoaster ride.

2009-03-07T12:01:00.002+08:00

helluva rollercoaster ride.

went to the airport to send stella off to australia in the wee hours of the morning.
haha okay it wasn't that early actually. gonna miss that silly girl loads :(
stella ling please make yourself contactable on FB/Hotmail/~~msn(which i dont use haha)~~

met zh for breakfast, which turned into brunch, which turned into lunch and in the end we didn't eat anything coz we didn't have any appetite. most of us skipped lunch i think. haha who could have eaten with the release of results being only one hour later?

went back to hwachong to wait for the others to arrive and needless to say, our class was late AGAIN. hahaha it's so typical 69. late for school, lectures, tutorials and even the release of results. 69 ftw :D

after the talk, we finally received our results. it was freaking scary man i was waiting in line for my turn and i almost started crying coz i was damn scared. (like O levels when i cried even before i saw my results) qiuyu was imba. she cried like a super duper number of times HAHAHA :D and she actually started bawling when she saw her results and people in our vicinity all turned to gape at her. hilarious :D

anyway when i finally had the results slip in my hand, i refused to look at it. haha and everyone was like, "what did you get?!"
me:" i haven't looked at it yet!"
*half an hour later*
"so what did you get?"
me:"i still haven't looked at it!!"
haha and i got the slip @ 2.30pm and at 4 something i still didn't know my results!!!
i was just holding the darn slip in my hand and telling myself that i'd look at it at home.

then jon and unmac were so kaypoh they told me that they'd get my results from mdm ching and tell me! and i freaked out and left the hall and walked all the way to the bus stop and almost got on my bus when zh called me and told me that i should look at my results coz i'd be very happy.

and when i finally saw my results, i was like "OMG I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!!!"
and i think no one could believe it either. hahahaha especially my mom who was prepared for the worst. and these few days she kept saying things like,"whatever happens, it's okay we'll think of a way." and "no matter what, you have to come home kay?" haha. my folks and i were expecting so much less that i think i was more relieved than overjoyed when i saw my results.

i cant fully put my feelings into words. in my whole 19 years of life, i've never truly regretted anything that i've done. ever. even the mistakes which i've made. i embraced the experience as part of growing up. but these few days have been awful. i kept thinking bout what'd happen if i really screwed up. i thought of the alternatives i had. and for the first time in my entire life, i felt a deep sense of regret.

but thankfully it's all over now [: i told myself that if by some stoke of luck i managed to do okay for As, i'll give my best in whatever i have to do in future. i prayed for a miracle and i got it, and for that i'm extremely grateful to Him [: [:

scaredshitless

2009-03-04T20:26:00.006+08:00

friday omg.

i am scared shitless of what's gonna happen on fri.
the end result of 1.5 years of undone assignments, naps in lectures, gossiping during tutorials and last-minute mugging(or not) is going to come up and bite me in the ass. :O

i've decided to look at my results somewhere else that is not hwachong so that i wont end up bursting into tears in front of everyone else (who will probably get 3 or 4As omfg.)

i should indulge myself while i'm still in the mood to :D

potato wedges with loads of cheeeeezzzz. [:

durian pastries from Goodwood Park Hotel :D

sigh friday here i come.

Baby Tyler.

2009-02-25T19:02:00.001+08:00

Baby Tyler.

more photos [:

night of vday!

hanging out @ anna's; the stupid things we made jm do & just chilling & talking [: [:
suprising miss ouyang on her birthday [:

the night they scammed me into watching SlumDog Millionaire with them;
and i did something outrageously stupid (kinda long to write here. ask me if you wanna know.) and the $4 prize money hahaha inside joke.

(jon's first photo in which he is botak btw. he says i shld be honored.)

and and and...
introducing my super duper adorably adorable nephew Tyler!!

right-click & open in new tab to enlarge [:
CRYBABY!

frowning Tyler; super cute :D

SO MELTS-INTO-A-PUDDLE-SWEET RIGHT??

one of my favourite photos. haha

aww my darling.

doesn't he make you feel like having a baby RIGHT NOW?

on a sidenote, i know i'm retarded and easily amused,
but i just ordered pizza yesterday and the "HOT" thermal sticker amazed me to no end :D

it changes from

to:

i shall keep it and erm stick it on my brother's forehead when he's sick
and if "HOT" appears, it means he's having a fever :D
awesome sister right. i know

shut up simon, stop talking already.

2009-02-23T18:31:00.009+08:00

shut up simon, stop talking already.

today was fun!
played Simon Says with the kids during the last period and made them do ridiculously funny actions. they were SO CUTE. :D

one boy asked me if i could be his sister!

and here's a funny conversation with one of the little girls:

little girl: " Miss Ng! i like you SO MUCH! How i wish you were my mother!"
Miss Ng i.e. me: "erm i like you too but i cant be your mother."
little girl: " Miss Ng can i call you Mummy?!!"
Miss Ng i.e. me: "omg NO YOU CANNOT. i will not answer you if you call me Mummy!"
little girl: "i dont care i want to call you Mummy! Hi mummy!! HELLO MUMMY!!! [:"
Miss Ng i.e. me: " OHMYGOD."

after which was tuition and i played Simon Says (again) with my tuttee.
i think i had enough of Simon Says for a very long while.
who the hell is Simon anyway?
it's like me inventing a game called Melanie Says and the rules are that you have to do whatever Melanie says or you lose. that's like darn ego can! (very random, i know. but i just realised [:)

and photos from EONS ago:

CNY eve @ Concord Hotel's Spices Restaurant (food sucked ttm btw.)

CNY Day One.

CNY Day Two.
Baking Session @ Celest's :D

ellie's Ferris Wheel [:

shakingly orgasmic!!
Daddy's birthday @ Melting Pot.

Steamboat [:

photos of the hardworking people & the slacker.

he refused to take a 'spastic face' photo, thus explaining the photo on the right :D

more photos to be uploaded when i'm less lazy :D

Cultural Cow Nuances

2009-02-19T22:50:00.003+08:00

NIU.

been so busy lately!
will update when less busy [:
vday was awesome, hanging out @ anna's house was awesome, ouyang's surprise was awesome, lunch with zh & yq was awesome, the 2 day seminar i attended was awesome, we are all awesome people YAY.

from an email celest sent me: (hilarious if you understand it :D)

Cultural Cow Nuances ( ~~NU!~~ NIU!)

TRADITIONAL CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow
and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create clever cow cartoon images called 'Cowkimon'
and market them World-Wide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month,
and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION

You have two cows.
Both are mad.

A SWISS CORPORATION

You have 5,000 cows and none of which belong to you.
You charge others for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You add water and melamine to increase the milk.
You claim full employment and high bovine productivity.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You worship them.

A MALAYSIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You signed a 40-year contract to supply milk at RM0.06 per litre.
Then midway through, you raised the price to RM0..60 or you cut the supply.

When the buyer agrees to the new price, you change your mind again and now want RM1.20.
The buyer decided you can keep the milk and they go look for milk that comes from recycled cows or the cow urine instead.

Your two cows retire together with the Prime Minister.

And last but not least,

A SINGAPOREAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
One cow-peh and one cow-bu.

Total Defence

2009-02-09T18:08:00.001+08:00

Total Defence.

we commemorated Total Defence Day today coz it falls on a Sunday this year.
so the kids were listening to a talk in the hall & at the end of the talk, the teacher said, "The canteen will be selling wartime food today like plain porridge, plain noodles, plain bread, biscuits, & rice with vegetables.."
and there was a chorus of HUH?!s and OMG!!s from the kids. haha how typical.
(i hurriedly had my break before their recess. yup teachers get non-wartime food if the kids dont see us eating [:)

anyway, when we went back to class, they had to do a worksheet and one of the questions went like this:

What do you need in your home in times of emergency?
(a) a portable radio (which is the answer)
(b) video games
(c) a massage chair

10% of the kids chose (a), 10% chose (c) (a massage chair? REALLY?), AND 80% chose (b). seriously, if Singapore ever goes to war, WE WILL ALL DIE.

side note: can someone nice and kind please tell me the lyrics for the mandarin version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star??

coz i taught my k2 tuttee the Lao Hu song (you know, the one bout one of them not having eyes & another not having a nose?) , and i started teaching her Twinkle Twinkle coz it was the only other one i could remember.
and i realised i only know "yi shan yi shan liang jing jing"
yup. so i told her that the next line is quite difficult so i'll teach her next week. haha

so HELP ME PLEASE I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER. [:

kids and puberty.

2009-02-03T17:05:00.008+08:00

kids and puberty.

had lunch with celest the tard just now. we waited ONE HOUR for the bus and then decided that we didn't want to take the bus after all. very smart. [:

taught Health Ed today.
it was about puberty. ohmygod. haha the kids were super ticklish & squeamish man.
any mention of the words "breasts", "pubic" or "penis" would send them into fits of giggles & shrieks.
they'd go, "Eeeeeee!!!! so disgusting!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!"
haha it was very amusing. and extremely difficult to teach.
i had to say things like," stop screaming. it's very normal. your parents & elder siblings go through it too!" & they'd go, "EEEEWWW. YUCKS!" or something along that line. haha. time to grow up kiddos.

anyway, one of the PE teachers were absent the other day & i had to take over his PE classes.
since i was neither certified nor dressed to teach PE, i told the kids to take out a piece of paper and on the board i drew:

and told them to draw Mr Teng (the PE teacher)/ write him a Get Well Soon card, and to write down their name & class (3 Pearl) on the bottom of their drawing.
the kids had fun drawing so i thought i'd repeat it for the next class i was teaching which was 3 Opal.

so i went into the classroom beside 3 Pearl (coz the map of the school showed that 3 Opal was beside 3 Pearl) & just before i stepped in, i glanced briefly at the sign above the door & it said, " 3 O-something" so i thought, "okay this must be the right class."

and i repeated my instructions & told them to draw Mr Teng and they asked, "Who's Mr Teng??"
haha and i was like, "YOUR PE TEACHER LA!" and they said their PE teacher was Mr Tan.
then i thought that i was supposed to take over Mr Tan's lessons as well so i said," okay then draw Mr Tan! And at the bottom of your drawing, write your name, & write 3 Opal."
AND THEN THEY SAID," HUH? BUT WE ARE NOT 3 OPAL!"
hahaha omg then it was like:

me: "HUH?? OMG THEN WHO ARE YOU??"
them: "WE ARE 3 ONYX!"
me: "HUH THEN WHERE IS 3 OPAL??!"
them: "THE OTHER SIDE!"
me: "OH MY GOD!!!"
*runs out to see the sign above the door* (yes it said extremely clearly, 3 Onyx)
me: "oh no omg i'm so sorry kids i'm in the wrong class!"
them: *burst into laughter* very. very. loud. laughter :(

then one of them said, " anyway, now isn't even PE.."
and i was like, "GEE THANKS MAN. NOW THEN YOU TELL ME -.-"
and i hurriedly said, "okay okay i need to go to 3 Opal now. bye bye."
and they started laughing again. so mean okay. :(

anyway, i told the kids that they could also draw anything else they wanted to draw & some of the kids drew me! haha here are some of the drawings:

done by the girls [:

and these were done by the boys. so cute right. :D

initially Ivan drew me as a stick woman & i asked him, " Ivan, where are my clothes??"
and he giggled & drew me a triangle for a skirt.
nevermind that my skirt's kinda transparent. at least i have a skirt now.

you're like a really tall, really sexy...smurf.

2009-02-01T20:00:00.004+08:00

you're like a really tall, really sexy...smurf.

look. at. what. i. did. in. half. a. day.

more than $1k = more than half of my monthly salary = omg i die.

sigh consumerism/materialism/label-whorism (no such word actually)
not all are for me tho.
only the shades, bracelet & top are mine. the rest are for my bro/folks. [:

say hello to baby Tyler :D

isn't he so darn adorable??
he's only a day old & he can already make baby noises & he actually looks at you when you're talking/coo-ing at him. and he keeps sticking his tongue in & out of his mouth.
i want a baby too! like now please.

perks of being a teacher.

2009-01-30T22:13:00.004+08:00

perks of being a teacher.

being a teacher kinda makes you an instant mini-celebrity.
when you walk along the corridor, or sit in the canteen, kids come up to you & go, "MISS NG!!! HELLO!!"
(some of whom i do not recall teaching at all :P haha come on there are so many kids okay.)
sometimes when i walk pass classrooms (with teachers inside) the kids spot me & shout "hi miss ng!!!" to the chagrin of their teacher.
it's super cute.

so today, i walked into a lift (2 students & a teacher were already inside), & one of the students excitedly shouted, "HELLO MISS NG!" & i smiled and said hello back.
and the teacher scolded the student & said, " HELLO WHAT HELLO?! MISS NG YOUR BEST FRIEND ARH?? IT'S GOOD AFTERNOON! NOT HELLO!"
and i was trying so hard not to laugh coz i found it so ticklish. :D

anyway, the taiwan photos are up on facebook. (did not post all though. there were 500plus?)
you guys can view them here, here & here. [:
cant blog in detail coz:
(1) i've no time
(2) i dont remember the names of half the places i've been to because ALL THE NAMES ARE IN CHINESE.
(3) i dont remember the order in which the places were visited either. haha

despite the obvious language barrier, i had truckloads of fun during the trip. the scenery was awesome. the food was awesome. & the company was awesomely awesome <3

unforgettable experience with unforgettable people; stella, sarah soo, qiuyu, sharon, feng er, unmac, jon, renyang & weeyong [:

birthdays.

2009-01-25T22:27:00.004+08:00

birthdays.

i finally (and unwillingly) turned 19 last wed.
God i'm so freaking OLD.
just wanna thank everyone who, in one way or another, made it special for me [:

to the 9 of you who went on the taiwan trip & insisted on taking an '18 yr olds' photo just seconds after i turneed 19 :
i love you guys loads [: thanks for making the trip such a fun & memorable experience which i will always remember. & thanks (to jas as well) for the presents. i will use them :D
and i will blog about tw after cny i promise :P

to celestin chia & chiam QY:
thanks for planning the surprise picnic (which was no surprise at all coz i'm so clever :D) really appreciate all the things you guys did & i had loads of fun with you crazy people :D i love you celest & qy! (celest more of course [:)

to my family who never fails to make me feel special:
thanks for all the things you guys did. be it coming specially to the airport to fetch me & to wish me happy birthday, or celebrating my birthday with me even though all of you are so busy, buying that bloody ex cake for me (despite me vehemently insisting that i don't need a cake), buying me presents (yes, even The Brother haha :D)

went to Corriander Leaf again & the food was as good! ('shakingly orgasmic' as qy puts it. haha). we were like the only non-angmohs in the whole restaurant -.- felt super weird.

to the 2a/4a ppl:
thanks for the board i am so very touched [: (albeit the choice of photos haha )
thanks for sparing time from all your busy schedules to do sth special for me. thanks for the cake (& mk for smearing cream on my nose) & the embarrassing BUS GUIDE which i am supposed to bring everywhere i go. i lubzxzx all of you very muchly [:

(rest of the photos are with ber whom i shall not bug to send them to me because he's a busy, freedom-deprived tekong guy & shld be allowed to spend what few days of freedom he has in peace :D)

to everyone else who wished me happy birthday by smsing/calling(especially those who called from tekong)/blog shoutouts/facebook/face-to-face/blahblahblah:
i love you thank you for making me feel loved :D

and here are the photos from the picnic:
(right-click open in new tab please. [:)

she was trying to pinch our tummy fats.

p.s. my tutees were so cute ytd. they gave me a stuffed toy pig (which is now our class pet & is called Fatty Piggy), & a few flowers which i cant remember the name but according to them they'll bring me good luck. say AWW [:

p.p.s. i am going to pack my room now because it is a messy jungle of clothes, unpacked tw stuff, bags, books & other random shizz, & because i will be doomed if anyone visits my house & sees the state my room is in. alternatively, i might just lock up the pig sty & not let anyone in. (no prizes if you managed to guess which alternative i'll choose)

and i am such a good, fillial daughter i am gonna stay up late tonight to Shou Sui! (i only found out bout this tradition last year can you believe it -.-)

Entertainment For Suckerz like me. and you :D

2009-01-15T10:18:00.003+08:00

Entertainment For Suckerz like me. and you :D
(and specially for you ngui jm :D)

yesterday i was teaching this really adorable bunch of kids.
we were talking bout pigs squealing & one of the boys said, "Teacher, not only pigs squeal! Girls also squeal! SO DISGUSTING!!!"
LOL so i was like, "Oei i'm a girl too leh!"
and another boy said, "Ms Ng, you are not a girl! you are a WOMAN!"
hahaha so cute right.
kids say the funniest things. which is why i love my job [:

YAY TAIWAN TMR! :D
SUPER EXCITED. really really X 10000000 grateful to those who took pains to organise the trip & settle everything.
you guys are the nicest people in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD.
and i'm super sorry for being MIA all the time but work is killing me you know i dont think i've ever worked so hard in my entire life before i only sleep like 6 hours a day which is VERY LITTLE AND INSUFFICIENT whoa long sentence.
(granted it's not really a sentence haha okay long string of words then.)

ANYWAY, when i touch down on the 20th it'll be 20mins to my 19th birthday & i will be damn sad because i'm so damn OLD omg but i will be happy too because i will get to see the tekong guys in 2 days :D

okay imma go finish packing now TATA & DONT MISS ME [: