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FOOD review!

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:04:53 GMT

time to revive this blog..and what better way to do so other than with FOOD?
a food review on an eatery that we stumbled upon recently!

StewHaus
Dw first heard about this place while watching some food show while exercising in his school gym. (haha, i have no idea how that works!) So i gamely agreed to try out the place. The ambience of the place was soothing and relaxing...nice old school music, rustic furniture, dim lightings. They are apparently famous for their pork knuckles but we decided not to try it as we were not feeling very skinny and fit that day. His IPPT coming somemore.

We tried their pan fried dory fillet and also their chicken and sausage stew. Both dishes were served with a side dish..you can choose either the garlic bread, potatoes, rice, pasta of the day or salad. We had the pasta of the day and the garlic bread. Dw kept gushing about the garlic bread, said that it was excellent. But on hindsight, i strongly suspect that's just cos the garlic bread was his choice!

The tomato base chicken and sausage stew ($15.90) was generously served with two big pieces of chicken thighs, huge chunks of tomatoes, sausages, garlics and some other unknown veg. It can easily feed two people if you order an additional side. Additional sides cost only $2 to $3, very worth it! The stew was aromatic, thick, rich and very tasty...but not gelat. The chicken was marinated very well too, no complains about this dish at all. The stew was served piping hot with a portable fire underneath the mini cauldron.

The garlic bread was toasted nicely, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. It went really well with the stew.

I loved the pan fried dory fish though. (my choice!) The fish was extremely fresh, juicy on the inside and simply crumbles in your mouth. No exaggeration! The sauce dribbled on the fish was done to perfection too, with a tangy tinge to it. Instead of the usual lemon slice served with fish dishes to mask the smell, it was topped with chopped vegetables in some sourish sauce which tasted something like achar. For $12.90, it was worth every single cent. My only grouse was that the portion was a tad small, haha, it leaves you craving for more!

The pasta of the day was aglio olio. I dunno why they serve it under the fish though...The pasta was quite disappointing. It wasn't very tasty and was really oily.

On the whole, stewhaus definitely gets e thumbs up! The service staff were polite and they knew the menu pretty well. They were attentive but not to the extent of being annoying and disturbing us every other minute. Our food wasnt served very quicky but all's forgiven after we had the first bite!

Food and Beverage - 8.5
Ambience - 8
Value - 7.5
Service - 8

Address: 695B East Coast Road S459059 (near The Cheesecake Cafe)
Opening Hours: Tues to Sundays, 11am to 3pm, 5pm to 11pm

Work work work.

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:34:23 GMT

It has been one crazy semester. Juggling modules with extremely intensive workload is no joke. I dunno if its just me losing motivation, but it has been really hard. I guess, the consolation is that I'm having a comparatively easier time this mugging session since I only have 3 exams.

Academic Highlights of the Semester:

#1. Retrieving a data collection of 160 000 words to analyse, from 50 Singaporean teen blogs and 50 American teen blogs, TWICE.

#2. Amazingly irresponsible group mates who so do not deserve their group marks. The worst thing is, they are year 3s.

#3. Staring blankly at my computer screen for HOURS, without having a single clue as to how to go about completing an assignment worth 10%. The helpless-ness felt was over-whelming. Even the sister's freshly-baked cookies did not help.

#4. Fieldtrip to Batam :) I really like this Bahasa cohort.

#5. Classes that only ended at 8pm. Ok fine, she usually ends slightly earlier but still.........

#6. Bringing my laptop to school even when i did not need it during the last 3 weeks of school just so that i can complete my essay on the bus journeys to and from school. 6 hours worth of work done per week on the bus, not bad but so very desperate.

#7. In total, for all 5 modules, 11 presentations were made (both group and individual), 5 group projects were completed (3 of which were written, 4000+ words), 2 individual projects (one of which was 4000+ words), 7 tests/quizzes were conducted. Wow.

Boy am i glad that its almost over. Just gotta get past these 3 exams and it would be lalala-land already. But looking at how the past years papers for tmr's exams appear to be written in Greek, i still have a long way to go. haha. Thankfully, I got the Europe trip to look forward to. Everything seems to be pretty much settled, all the logistics, accoms and schedules have all been worked out. Just 3 more weeks, I can't wait! (:

Leeds-Liverpool-Manchester-London with Julie and Dee.
London-Paris-Switzerland-Venice-Florence-Rome-Edinburgh with my family.

I wanna quit school and sell ice-cream.

Will it be fleeting?

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:46:37 GMT

Life has been treating me well lately. Everything has been happy and perfect and dandy and marshmellowy. But I’m not silly enough to believe that it will remain like this forever. As much as I want it to. I will just enjoy it while it lasts (:

So it is X'mas....

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:03:35 GMT

Liz's bdae, Christmas eve and Christmas day.
A simple home-cooked christmas feast with 2 of my favouritest people is all it takes to make Christmas so beautiful (:

And this sem's results made a really good present, pleasant surprise indeed.

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:38:03 GMT

i'm back from jakarta!
and also back to livejournal after a hiatus of a good 6 months or more...i'll be surprised if anyone still reads this.

anyway, jakarta was so good. Had a fabulous time bonding with my grandparents and all the aunts and uncles whom i have not met for ages. The downside was the after-effects of two weeks straight of good food! Grandma's excellent cooking and jakarta's famous sinfully rich food has done irreparable damage to my waistline. The bak mie ayam went straight to my tummy while the ikan gorent went straight to my thighs haha. Sigh, think i will hibernate and go into starvation mode for 3 days before i go meet anyone haha. Friends who see me before my 3 days hibernation, you are dis-allowed to comment on my figure or else you shall be blacklisted for eternity! ;)

And of cos, shopping there was amazing. The rupiah currency has dropped to 6500 Rp per S$1 and thus everything was insanely cheap after conversion. Bought quite a lot of clothes, bags, shoes, make-up and souveniers for friends...quite a fruitful haul! Thankfully my expenses were sponsored heh.

We even managed to squeeze in a road trip to Puncak. Drove up to some mountain to enjoy some cool fresh air, and partly to escape from jakarta's scarily congested roads and polluted air. It was really chilly though. I really love road trips...all snuggled in the backseat with my siblings...loads of pillows and tidbits, gossiping and digging out family history, making stops to hunt for food when we were feeling hungry. Brings back lots of childhood memories cos we used to make it a point to have a road trip every holiday =)

We were really pampered in Jakarta...went to the salons so many times for hair spa and cream-baths...Even had a super-shiok massage. And for the fun of it, I even experimented with a non-permament perm. The curls were nice but it made me look kinda old...heh, so looks like curling my hair won't be an option in the near future!

All in all, my trip to jakarta would have been perfect if not for the horrible traffic jams (eg, we were stuck in a traffic jam from the airport to our place for a good 2.5 hours! The journey would only have taken 20 mins only if the traffic was smooth. Gosh, we were so bored in the car that we resorted to playing country games haha) Good food, good shopping, good family time - the best of three worlds =))

PHOTOS!

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:01:39 GMT

Pauper Love

I had a good vibe
That tingled through me

Paupers could be princes too
Pumpkins could be horse carriages
And rags could be flowing gowns

The littlest things could mean the most
And the love I found made me richer
Than I'd ever known

I had an easy feeling
That sailed right through me

Paupers could be princes too
Crumbs could be a scrumptous feast
Candlelights were fireworks
And the love I found was the richest of all

I looked for castles and shiny armour
In the fields afar and beyond the sea
Little did I realise that over the rainbow
My pauper was waiting for me

A song co-writted be dee, julie and i during the stayover. haha, the song was born in the middle of a card session when i suddenly felt that i really WANTED a song titled "Pauper Love" to exist. I knew what song title i wanted, what kind of mood the song would be in, what kind of feelings it should convey...but i just did not have the ability to put it down in words. Lucky got dee! haha, ignore whatever disclaimer she stated on her blog about the song - she indeed had a HUGE part to play in the song-writing session!

now that i have the lyrics, all i need is someone to help me with the music =)

dee just left my house...she bed me and left me. haha, nono, don't think dirty. all we did was to play online pool on the bed. we were supposed to go down to vivo with julie but we cancelled that cos we thought that dee was gonna be held up at the hospital. next thing i know, she called me and said that she was coming over to my place in 5 mins! so sudden, and all i had on was a towel cos i just came out of the shower!

now that i am finally free and very awake, i shall upload pictures and blog a looong looong entry (:

Four very very very ravenous girls (one whom even stole ms yong's wasabi seaweed!) after kumon = egg prata, nasi briyani, pisang prata and...........................................................................THIS:

Mee Goreng SAMBAL!
we stared at the HUGE plate dumbfounded for a few seconds, not moving, just staring in shock at that dinosaur-sized plate of mee goreng.

Amelia, my favourite piggy oink.

hungry ghosts!

and i guess whats EVEN scarier is the fact that we managed to FINISH the entire plate despite feeling 80% full before the mee goreng came. sigh, we have surpassed our own boundaries! the plate is so clean that i don't think they even need to wash it!

Of cos we had to make full use of Gelare's 50% off on tues night offer! even though it was such a hassle to get to siglap from kembangan since there were no buses that goes there, it was all WORTH IT! (: OHOH! we even met esmond loon ri sheng and chua ming jie, our 2F class mates! heh. it can be said to be one of the more successful 2F gatherings considering past attendances. and the two boys look exactly the same as though 6 years had not past at all!

dear qilin bought more than $8 worth of gummies for us to eat, yum! (:

the new kumon teacher!

qilin!

i have no idea what amelia was doing. don't ask me, haha.

we wanted to tuck in so badly but qi lin kept taking pictures of us!! :(

Just look at that, enough said!

Met up with the zzxd girls again for lunch at Tampines. even though it was for a mere 2 hours plus only, we manages to squeeze in a daidee rematch! and it was HORRIBLE. i have never had such a worse hand of cards before. me, the legendary daidee queen leh!

qilin, the most GLEEFUL and my downfall, don't think i DUNNO ah! haha.

the three official planners of qi lin's 20th bdae (:

Qi lin's bdae was fraught with much obstacles! we had so many ambitious and exciting plans...ice-skating, singing KTV, sentosa, going to escape/wild wild wet, swimming at jurong east. however, it all failed to materialize due to last minute changes! for example, cm found out last minute that she had an urgent meeting to attend in the afternoon and could not join us! so ame and i settled on bowling and settlers. BUT, with our kind of luck, the bowling alley was under renovation! had to go straight to settler's for a longer session. haha, it all turned out fine in the end though...guess what matters most is the company =)

the brave planners!

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we played "game of life" which was damn fun! posing with the miniature us...we were the ones in pink while our respective spouses were the ones in blue, awwww.

honey-mooners!

i was so reproductive lar! i had so many children that my car was so packed!! and unlucky me had to land on the summer school box. i had to pay $5000 for EACH children! summer school PUI!

hahaha, my dramatic family tragedy! on route to meet my super costly cosmetic surgeon (which is SUCH an insult btw, haha), my car rolled over my daughter who fell out of the car! SQUASH, PIAK!

qilin, with her elmo-themed presents (: but for the sake of upholding her reputation and dignity on my blog, i shall not reveal the story behind the significane of ELMO, winks.

chaw mun who surprised qilin and joined us for dinner!

we ended up up mac cafe for some dessert, coffee, chit chat and daidee. back where we first reunited (:

birthday girl!

yea yea, loser of daidee AGAIN. haha, this was where the "anti-pauline and protection of asshole1 civil rights group" was born. meanos boo.

After four years of hard work and mugging, my sister finally graduated with honours. So proud of her! (:

the proud parents at their first convocation! one down, two more to go!

the bored siblings who were entertaining themselves with silly bets.

mother and sister!

this could be the only time i would be able to wear a mortarboard if i FAIL to graduate from NUS...choy!

siblings.

daniel and i. hey you, when are we having our mala date?? (:

Sleepover at my place with julie and dee after the convocation! those two sleep over at my place so often that dee has a bag full of her toiletries in my cupboard so that she can stay over anytime she wants. as usual, with the two of them, it was ferry ferry fun! we modelled clothes from my cupboard, took stupid pictures of julie and of cards, played many many card games. the card games ranged from the most ridiculous like "most likely" and "deal or no deal" (which is NOTHING similar to the TV show at all) to the most professional like casino-style poker. being the gambling addicts that we are, we played throughout the entire night and morning! regardless of the fact that we were up till so late, dee still refused to let me sleep more and woke me up and such at unearthly hour!!!

snuggly bed buddies (:

it all started very innocently. all we had planned for the day was to meet sarah for lunch at parkway, followed by mala dinner with the zzxd girls. AND THEN, THE FATEFUL SMS CAME!! -cue thunder- two pair of tickets to the gala premier of "HARRY POTTER", woohoo!! desperately, we replied the person "begging" for another ticket cos qi lin was with us and we wanted her to come with us too! she was so nicely dressed already in any case. we did not have our hopes up high but the person replied! and she (i presume that its a woman) was damn nice..said she will give us an extra tickets if there were extras! haha, it was ACTION from then on! the sms stated that we had to be at orchard LIDO at 7 pm and it was almost 5 when we received the sms!! ame and i were in extremely lok cok wear...we glanced down at each other and agreed unanimously that we HAD TO go home and change. it was such a horrible RUSH, only 45 mins to freshen up and dress up. thank goodness qi lin came home with me...she helped me choose what to wear and everything (: also thank goodness ame and i didn't have kumon that day too...can you imagine if we had received that sms in the middle of a kumon session..gosh, we would have been devastated!

lunch with sarah was great! have not met her for so long...and of cos, playing daidee with her was damn shiok cos she was so UNLUCKY! so unlucky that she had to attempt to distract us with personality tests! try harder next time rah!

beaming girls after the fateful sms came in (:

all dressed up 45 minutes later! stupid amelia totally embarrassed me at bedok platform but i'm too shy to talk about it here haha. she sucks. but she is forgiven cos of her sore eye.

qilin! my personal consultant and assistant for the day (:

the diva and the star-struck fan heh

qilin, meekly hiding behind e diva ;)

finally, a normal shot from ame who has been giving very weird expressions in e pics!

at the evil thought that we are going to the GALA Premier of HP while the rest of the poor souls on the train were not, lalala!

the beautiful invitation! a shiver of pure excitement tingled down our spine when we received it!

we were only given two tickets at first, so we had to ask them for an extra ticket so that qi lin could go in with us or else she would have to watch ch 8 videos on my laptop which she brought along outside while waiting for us. the Class 95 people were sooooo nice! they told us to wait until the ticketing booth was closed and check if there were people who did not claim their tickets! AND THERE WERE! they excitedly waved us over at 8pm and handed not ONE, but TWO tickets to us! =)) touched.

the venue was so nicely decorated with harry potter posters and cut out models...there were even people masquerading as hogwarts students and dementors! too bad we deposited our cameras and handphones already or else we could have taken pictures with them. AND of cos take pictures with the many celebrities that turned up. we saw jade seah, the two bryan wongs, andrea de cruz, pierre png, zhang yao dong, joakim gomez, chong qing...and many many more! OH! and of cos EDMUND (haha, we are on first name basis with him already) and his wife. edmund chen was so friendly! and contrary to what qi lin claims, i did NOT smile seductively at him while his wife watched on, hahaha.

bellatrix lestrange...the psycho who murdered sirius!!

with our free ticket! we had one extra ticket but cm was stuck in a meeting, camy was already at home and julie did not answer her phone! so the ticket was wasted, what a pity!

ron! so sad that he had so little screen time!!

gorgeous hermione...whatever happened to her BUSHY hair and buck teeth??

professional cam-whore, can still smile while on the phone!

dolores umbridge - the epitome of irritatingness!

BOOK 7...and i still have not ordered it yet, sigh.

amelia and her goddess.

out of place, i know. but we could not resist taking a pic with the simpsons family! (esp since it mirrors my own family so much haha) can't wait for this to show too....maybe, just MAYBE, we can get gala tickets too? -hopeful smile-

post movie excitement! the audience in our theatre were so spontaneous! it was so cool when everyone started applauding when the introductory music came on...can totally feel everyone's anticipation!

i like the effect of this shot (:

we were so high in the train that it took ALL our self-restraint and will power not to shout out gleefully, neh neh nee poo poo we watched harry potter already and you have not! ;)

i think ame looks geekishly cute here!

trying to act diva-like...haha, pardon us, we were high.

sleepy slut!!

pretending that we were at the star awards heh.

we watched harry potter!!! =D

After the movie, we were raveneous and wanted to head over to Bugis for some mala but sadly, the mala place was closed already. so we ended up at CAN Cafe instead. the first time i went there was with gun and liz and we had a bad experience cos it was so SMOKEY and they played horrible music. the experience this time around was so so so much better though. there weren't much customers already so we had the whole place to ourselves (: we even chatted with the owner who told us that CAN represents the names of his daughters, awww.

i would really love to have one of these retro phones!

the evil dai dee players. eeriely, qi lin took over my spot of being the resident dai dee bitch!

AND, i took her spot of being the asshole!!

my non alcoholic drink which STILL made me high!

drunk on coke float, birdnest and ginseng.

really drunk haha.

and one last picture to round it up =)

Mad about Harry!

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:48:34 GMT

its 2 30 am, i just reached home and i'm exhausted but i just wanna say that the GALA PREMIER OF HARRY POTTER 5 WAS AWESOME.

it was such a spectacular experience...hob-nobbing with many many many celebrities, red carpet, people-watching, excellent security, a wonderful appreciative and considerate audience...wow. And the feeling of being the FIRST to catch HP 5 in the entire Singapore before everyone else rocks. haha, i could get used to this kind of treatment man (:

and of cos, the movie. i think its the BEST of the five. what's breath-taking isn't the plot or the effects. Instead, it was the acting that totally blew me away.

Harry Potter more intense than ever. Hermoine, GORGEOUS! Severus Snape surpassed his own personal best in expressing those thickly-sarcastic lines of his. Dolores Umbridge, absolutely revolting and psychotic portrayal - excatly what i imagined her to be like. But of cos, the best was Bellatrix Lestrange! (Helena Carter) Even though her total sceen time was less than 5 minutes, her acting was so charged and electrifying that everyone else's just paled in comparison. I think she deserves an award for it!

ok, i'm off to sleep now. More details and lots of pictures from the gala premier up when i'm more awake. i'm a very very happy girl tonight =))

all about today

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:42:17 GMT

not say i wanna say, but denise lee jan yang is a ferry ferry ferry naughty girl!

and i am so exhausted!!
today, we walked from esplanade to see a half-fish-half-lion spewing out water to the war memorial to bugis village and ended up at MALA (my fave part of the explore-singapore adventure!)
and very smart me decided to wear heels today. bad idea, very bad idea.

and i have a huge blue-black on my left knee now cos i fell down while playing the handkerchief game with my little baby cousins on sunday. it was a day of "scissors paper stones, handkerchief games, riddles, catching, crocodile-crocodile-may-we-cross-your-golden-river-games". after an hour of "babysitting", i felt old haha =(

and my tummy is so huge today after the mala steamboat feast that when i look down, i can't see my toes! gosh. i think i have broken through new boundaries with my stomach capacity for mala!

and i just talked to dee for an entire half an hour in my bloated and hyper and semi-incoherent state! happily entertained her from buang kok right into her house. (where i talked to her mummy whom promised to cook beef kway teow for me me me!) i feel used. she refused to show any sympathy for my pain and unsightly blue-black on my left knee. mean.

and i think this post is totally incoherent (:

What was i up to?

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:42:39 GMT

had been feeling pretty adverse to technology for the past few days...just didn't feel like being available to the cyberworld for a while. so to whoever has been trying to contact me by sms, calling my hp, msn or emails, i'm still alive, don't worry! i just felt like reclusifying myself for a while heh =)

had a few good week though!

monday - the girls came over to my place to slack...just a lazy afternoon, with indignant outbursts from prudish dee who claimed that i was not wearing shorts. I WAS, I WAS!

tuesday - julie, dee and liz came over for an overnight mahjong session after my kumon session! we were up the entire night playing mahjong and of cos, snacking. soto indomie, har gao, siew mais, doritoes, arnotts choco cookies, ben and jerry's. AND, that was still not enough for us! we even ordered mac breakfast at 5 am. of cos, an overnighter is not the same without yakking. in the middle of a mahjong session, we just took an unanimous break and went into my room for some counselling. this time, e counselling victim was me! felt exposed and vulnerable on one hand cos i never told anyone whatever i told them last night before...and yet at the same time, it felt comfortable and fuzzy cos i knew this was a group of friends that i could really trust. and it feels real nice to have a safety net to depend on sometimes.

wednesday - my sister returned from Perth! and my bro returned from Cambodia! suddenly, my quiet house was bustling with noise of "ferry ferrys" and "pi pi pi pik!" again! haha, the two HUGE bags of chocolate cookies and timtams were just an incentive of cos ;) played daidee with them. friends who had played dai dee with me and were subjected to dai dee-BITCH version of porks should play daidee with my siblings to know what TRUE bitching really is haha.

thursday - mahjong AGAIN! this time with mama and puppy too. played from 1 pm to 11 pm, siao! as usual, i lost. BUT this time, my loss was not attributed solely to me. its also attributed to my lousy-henpecked-mahjong-partner-of-two-hours (denise lee jan yang. own up!) who squandered away our family fortune :( oh, and we found out that mahjong isn't really about SKILL, its more about which place you are seated at. the lucky seat of the day happened to be the seat in front of julie's door. and freakily, the power of the door was not to be doubted, tested and PROVEN. no matter who sits there, the person will definitely experience a change of luck and win! haha, and we cheated macdonald's. i hope no policeman reads this entry! for $ 5.60, we had 3 double cheeseburgers, 2 apple pies, one large coke and one large shaker fries. but i'm tired now so that's another story for another day! (: grr, and i believe that i have a feud with punggol. something would always be up with the transport system in punggol if i attempt to leave julie's house after 11pm. last time was stupid bus 67. now after i cleverly decided the take the train instead, it BETRAYED me too. all thanks to puppy's insistence that the last train departs from pasir ris at 12 45 am, we took our own sweet time and i ignored the nagging feeling in my head that suspected the train did not leave THAT late but still, i was convinced by her conviction. eg, "the train don't depart so early one lar! CONFIRM lor!" but when i was alighting bus number 3, she suddenly looked at me and said, "eh, maybe its the last train leh, i not sure!" wah lau!!!! haha, and so at 11 40 pm, i ran to the mrt station only to be greeted by the control station officer who said that the last train has departed. i was stranded. i never felt so lost before! luckily i called my bro and mehhed and he kindly told me to stay put wherever i was and that he would come and find me immediately. so touched. and that was coming from my brother who scares me at 2 am in the morning, making it DOUBLY touching heh.

friday - woke up ealy early in the morn to help me brother go choose flowers at the florist for TJ. amelia and i broke a whole new record! kumon for EIGHT hours straight, 12 noon till 8 20 pm. surprisingly, we were not as exhausted and brain dead as we thought we would be. i guess that's the magic of kumon kembangan. time really passes ferry ferry fast there! PLUS, we spend most of the time chatting and playing harry potter quiz games and sneaking sweets and eating snacks and those adorable fat kids. my theo, donavan and min je! amelia's saheb and pearlyn. listening to them talk between themselves would make even the sternest person laugh out loud. AWWW..! haha, think even ms yong our boss has given up on us and adopted the mantra, "if you can't beat them, join them!" now, she PROVIDES the food, takes biscuits for us and joins us in our mindless chatter heh. i think i have the best job in the world =)

saturday - kumon in the morning. we were so under-staffed that we had to enlist help from chaw mun! for some weird reason, i woke up damn early and could not go back to sleep. so i headed to kumon early and let myself in since ms yong gave me a set of keys to keep. the feeling of being alone in the room, marking books all by yourself (ie, singing and humming to myself as i marked heh) was quite an experience. very peaceful. met up with the rest of "zhu zhu xiao dui" at tampines mall for lunch and ended up talking crap and planning our potential KL via "hogwarts express" trip!

sunday - more bonding with the siblings! my sister cooked a great breakfast this morn...mushroom cheese omelette, chipolatas, bacon and toast with lots of butter and jam! she should be trained to do that every week! heh.

after updating, i just realised that that was four days STRAIGHT with julie and dee and yet, i feel like i have not seen them for ages. haha!

Mahjong marathon!

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:05:35 GMT

think we have officially broken a whole new record!
we played mahjong at mama's house for a whoooping non-stop TEN HOURS! it was madness! we started out at about 10 pm and played throughout the whole night till the next morn at about 8 am WITHOUT any breaks at all except to go to the toilet to pee. the amazing thing was that none of us was half-dead, we were still so awake!

munching on rocher road crazy aunty's tau huey, this HUGE bag of cuttle fish strips, gummies and mo fa guo...laughing at liz's very very silly goosey mahjong antics (eg, her claiming to have "HU!" when she had one extra tile)...stealing liz's hair luck...being subjected to puppy's pong pong hu arrogance (mahjong puppy is even worse than daidee-bitch version of porks!)...and alliancing with mama!!

very very very fun! we must do it again (: haha, i can't decide which is more fun, dai dee or mahjong, aiyo, i'm turning into such a gambler! on second thoughts, think i like dai dee more since i'm better at that considering the act that i lost $6 to puppy! we all lost to puppy..she won $23 in total, ka pui! :(

My rainbow

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:08:54 GMT

when i opened my gate and stepped out of my house today, this beautiful sight greeted me.

it was an almost-perfect rainbow,
i was completely blown away by the sheer beauty of it and i just stood there silently for a long long time, staring at it with a smile on my face. such a magical moment...and i knew that i was going to have a wonderful day ahead! it seemed as though someone had placed a precious surprise present at my doorstep, just for me (:

it was indeed a great night out tonight. went to meet gun and liz for mala, in "celebration" of gun's last day at work! yay, she is finally free! haha, we ended up at C.A.N cafe for some exorbitant-priced coke float without the "float" and chocolate cake which tasted exactly like sara lee's chocolate cake. oh well, it was the company that mattered!

poor liz was stuck with a scary cab driver on the way home though..haha, he only turned FREAKY towards her after me and gun alighted! when we were on board he seemed so nice and kindly, aiyo.

My rock, my fortress says:

after he finally reached my place, he switched on the light, turn around and stared at me, and said its very very nice to meet you, have a good night see you again soon (i know it sounds very nice and polite, but it was said in a creepy voice and he was STARING at me)

My rock, my fortress says:

eee

My rock, my fortress says:

it was like in the "xiao mei mei" voice, i was so freaked out!!!!! so i urm okay night, and closed the door ):

pubbing tmr night, cycling on monday, shopping-cum-clubbing on wednesday...i am a happy girl.

i can't stop thinking of the rainbow! if only it appears everyday =))

ECP adventure!

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:59:55 GMT

the punggol girls travelled all the way down to opera estate today for our little cycling adventure.
it was of cos, a SUCCESS!

we cycled down the siglap linear park beside my street and after less than 15 mins, LO AND BEHOLD! we were greeted by the glorious sand, waves and water (:

i used to go to the beach quite often last time...it has a calming effect. and in my opinion, its a super romantic place! there's just a scent of love in the salty sea breezes, unexplainable but undeniable. now that i'm back in my cycling craze, i'm definitely going down to the beach more often since its SO near. futhermore dee's joining me once a week, right dee? heh.

e punggol girls are hazardous though! dee slaming the bike into the curb, julie cycling happily until she's face to face to a lamp-post are common occurrences! haha, but i think dee is worst! she banged her bike into me when i had to brake suddenly and almost killed me! i think my kidneys are bruised :(

Pre-adventure packing in my room!

a melancholic dee at the jetty

our mid-cycling treat. haha, unlike NORMAL ppl who buys new zealand natural ice cream by the scoop, we buy them by the TUB! and this is AFTER a pigging out session at the lagoon. total gluttons!

MY fellow CAFPF!

I think i look kinda sucidal here!

the beautiful beach!

Frollicking in the waters!

the three of us =)

P.S. dee has a fren who has a fren that is cute. aiyo, i still cannot keep his face out of my mind HAHA!ferry ferry ferry KUTE!

Cycling CRAZE!

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:45:14 GMT

with the exception of yoga, my body proudly proclaims that it did not engage in any form of exercise ever since the 2.4km run for our stupid napfa test in JC. that was almost TWO years ago!

and of cos, my body was in for a shock when it had to cycle THREE days in a row!! so watch out world! pauline chen is gonna be so unrecognizably fit! ;) in fact, i just came back from a good one hour worth of night cycling with my mummy and sister! the estate is so beautiful and peaceful and serene at night with light breezes carrassing your face, a real good way to unwind =)

it all started with a trip down to ECP with amelia, chaw mun and qi lin! ame and qi lin are my friends from waaaaaay back in secondary 1. i have known chaw mun for an even longer time, in fact, we would be "celebrating" our 10th year anniversary of friendship this year! (blessing or disguise, i still can't decide ;) heh) the four of us were inseparables last time, engaging in all sorts of disgusting and embarrassing activities that ALWAYS have to do with food. yup, that's why we share such a comfortable relationship now since we have already witnessed each other's ugliest moments! kinda lost contact and drifted apart after sec 2, but its heartwarming to know that nothing much has changed after so long. we got back together again and realised that we can still yak as much about everything under the sun and moon and stars and rainbows as last time without a single moment of awkward silence. well, as penpal koh once told me, secondary school friends are indeed precious =))

we went to ECP to cycle, went all the way to bedok jetty to look at people fish. (SHHHH, nsiws, but amelia had to ride tandem wif qi lin for reasons that most of you who read my blog will know, HAHA) and, of cos the food!!! after eating at lagoon, we had fifteen minutes to cycle back and return the bikes to the rental shop which is on the other side of the beach. dear ol' amelia suggested that we race back! my legs nearly died, but it was quite shiok to feel the adrenalin pumping!!

lazed around the beach after that, checked out the pubs and decided to go for a late movie, "zodiac" at tampines mall, upon strong persuasion by ame. and with our kind of luck, no prizes guessing if "zodiac" was showing or not. that movie was only showing at lido lar!!!! settled down at cartel to play card games till they closed at 1 am. dai dee is addictive, think we could have played the entire night if we did not have to leave!

PART I: Bedok jetty! where we took a short break there in between cycling.

Zhu zhu xiao dui reunites!

chaw mun, my 10th year fren!

qi lin, my fellow sweet valley supporter!

do not be taken in by this my frens. she still can't cycle haha. LOOK! the bicycle stand is still down!!

haha, act seh pose.

THE OLD MAIDS' CLUB (:

PART II: Dinner at lagoon.

dinner was shiok of cos...haha jus that we kena cheated by the stingray seller :(

GLUTTONS!

Just look at that satay...enough said.

PART III: Post-cycling cam-whore session

sweaty and tired after returing the bikes!

advertising for "POLAR" brand mineral water!

a real candid moment!

amelia ng's doing :(

ferry ferry unglam! i look like i was digging my nose. but i never i never!!

attempting to look blissful haha.!

i love the effect of this pic! qi lin's face detection camera really rocks, blurry background effect.

this pic too!

hahahahah! look at amelia!!

retarded, i know i know.

PART III: On route to Tampines Mall!

Our reckless driver who reversed accidentally and almost crashed into the car behind!

the brave front seat occupant!

backseat passengers!

our official in-car entertainer.

after the loooooong scary nerve-wrecking ardous journey to TM, we realised that "zodiac" was not playing and almost killed ame. ALMOST.this close.

PART IV: daidee championsip at CARTEL

Our sinful alternative to a movie (: i think secretly, qilin, cm and i were all wishing that the movie was not showing heh.

teh qi lin. she is really the most patient dai dee teacher...she had to coach AMELIA NG, the poker illiterate, how to play daidee. kudos to her!!

the super jian king and queen, muahahaha bahahaha!

toasting to our success!

ASSHOLE 1!

ASSHOLE 2! like teacher, like disciple heh.

with help from the MASTER, ame rose up to queen status! sadly, she became asshole again in the next round haha.

chawmun, the jian queen, tragically met her downfall. haha.

haha, think i disgress quite a bit! aloooot. it was supposed to be a post on my newfound cycling craze heh. ok, anyone up for some cycling let me know! we can cycle from my place all the way down to ECP via the linear park. gun and i attempted that before and it was a true-blue adventure man! we lived to tell the tale haha.

going to stayover at punggol tmr...going "trekking" (see, the all-new fit pauline chen!), picnic, watching dvd, dai dee and pick-up sticks championship, serangoon gardens supper..wah SHIOK! =))

P.S. my butt hurts like maaaad! why are bicycle seats built so HARD?!??!?!?!?!

I dunno

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:32:30 GMT

there's a reason why people don't stay who they are. a line from a song, but how true.

sometimes, they change, sometimes they do not do what they once promised to. sometimes, they do not stay true. sometimes, they it could simply have been all lies, an illusion, silly girl me.

but it affects me, even disgusts me and i have no idea why. i don't think i'm supposed to feel this way anymore.
its times like this when i feel like i need to hide in my little corner, till the moment passes.

And yet, at moments like this, the beauty in some other people shines through, like dee and wee meng...thanks (:

yes, i may have hurt you, but i did not desert you. maybe i just wanted to have it all.

its gonna be alright =)

PHOTOS!

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:09:47 GMT

my dear enkong returned to jakarta yesterday night with my father. he is all hale and healthy now, thanks for everyone's concern, especially dee and julie! (: ok, this may sound a tad silly goosey but apparently, the blood pressure machine that my grandparents have over there is faulty!!! haha, enkong's blood pressure is actually very normal but the blood pressure machine keeps registering dangerously low blood pressure results. stupid machine, SABO!!!!

but i'm so glad everything is ok now =)

oh yea, in the end, its ME who has low blood pressure! finefine, i know its unbelieveable since i look so radiant and strong and have such a HEALTHY appetite. my dad measured my BP for me and it was approximately 85/50. according to papa chen (the doctor wanna-be), thats way below the healthy range which is about 120 to 130. UH-OH! explains the dizzy spells that i sometimes get when i stand up after being in a lying or sitting down position for a long period.

BUT DO NOT WORRY FRIENDS! I'LL BE BRAVE!!!! I'LL BE STRONG!!!!! heh.

papa/doctor chen is the worse "doctor" in the world though! as he measured my BP, he kept shaking his head and kept saying vehemently " wah, wan dan le! MIN, NI ZHEN DE WAN DAN LE!!" so evil! and i could not even retort back cos not supposed to talk when he is measuring my BP if not it will be inaccurate. made me so scared lar! he is definitely the worst messenger of BAD news, not tactful at all! haha.

i'll miss sitting on the sofa in the living room, chatting with my grandpa about everything and anything under the sun though. it was afternoons well spent =)

haven't met up with my 24/7 friends for so long! julie, dee and gun! (although i just met julie and dee four days ago, it still felt like eons ago considering the fact that we meet ALL THE TIME!) and gun! my dear 229-truly-sucks friend turned workaholic, anda di mana??? feels quite weird without u guys..haha ok fine, miss you lar!

as a tribute to my dearest 24/7 friends, here are some pictures of them! taken during starbucks-games day, dimsum buffet day, JB trip day and vivo rooftop day! i spent a looooooooooooooooooooooong long long (long is an understatement) time trying to upload and resize the pics using html.....and i did it! -proud- there's a computer genius inside me, struggling to be let out!

Pictures from starbucks/games day with dee, julie and ame. we played old maid, happy family (vicious game!!) and snap! sadly, i was OLD MAID thrice!! sigh, ominous sense of foreboding :( happily attached julie was old maid ZERO times lor!

Old maid!

Old maid once!

Old maid twice!

Old maid once!

Old maid twice!

Old maid thrice = ULTIMATE OLD MAID! =(
self consolation: this is just a GAME, won't come true in reality!

the FIERCE battle.

the lucky one who was never old maid.

Pictures from dimsum buffet day! Cam whoring, attempting to mimic model shots. and as evident, we failed terribly! Tyra Banks would be extremely DISGUSTED with us :(

dimsum!!

ATTEMPTS TO MIMIC THIS PICTURE:
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Challenger one!

Challenger two! haha, we really coous not make it!

the "nigel barkers" behind this photoshoot!

Pictures from fun fun fun JB day! we really must go back to the land of glorious food soon!

CAFPF!

CAFPF!!! ;)

Chaperones!

yum yum slurp slurp....

Group shot!

Pictures from vivo rooftop day! attempting all sorts of "artistic" shots. result: potato head shots, resort-like shots, mr retarded daiso shots, planned candid (oxymoron i know, haha)and angsty dee shots!

BIG BROTHER RETURNS!

Mon, 28 May 2007 19:54:07 GMT

he is back, he really is back.

the reality of it sank in deep deep deep when he came to my room and played with my toy truck and irritated me. AND he came to my room again, asked me if there were any snacks. left my room door open when he left the room, resulting for me to shout after him to close my door. after 5 minutes of waiting, i gave up and got up from my comfy bed where i was all tucked and snuggled in to close the door. AND AT THAT MOMENT, he appeared again just to open my door!!!!! bet he was lurking in some corner, waiting for me to do so. so irritating! (he didn't even bring back any scrumptiously sinful viennese cookies this time round!) =(

thank goodness for technology! i immediately alerted my sister via MSN when my dear brother peered through my window to my sister's room and said gleefully, "huiqing is still awake. good, i'm gonna scare her now!"

we sisters must bond now in times of adversity ya???

even my friends are not spared. julie immediately fearfully told me online that we need passwords for MSN chats since my brother once impersonated me and chatted with julie online...about serbian crisis and some other history stuff that we were studying. think julie was scarred for life, haha.

went out to meet julie, dee and ly for lunch at tampines today..it has been AGES, EONS and lightyears since BKBM met up =) dee was on form today, think we almost killed each other ya? ferry ferry poor thing me.

anyway, anti-67 club has been officially formed, I WAGE WAR!!! i was innocently queueing up for 67 at tampines bus interchange...after 10 minutes, my mind drifted off and i started stoning about highly mind-stimulating intellectual issues like char siew baos, roasted marshmellows and which kumon kid i like best..

so many people in front of me while i stoned in the opposite direction.
when i suddenly snapped out of my stupor, i turned my head and to MY UTMOST HORROR........this greeted me.

the bus came and everybody had happily boarded the bus already!!! those grinning faces at the windows! all i could do was stare speechlessly at the retreating beackside of dear ol' bus number 67. the ppl in the other bus queues were sniggering, i have a ferry ferry ferry bad feeling that they were sniggering at me. AND SO, my acting skills were put to the test. i had to ACT as though the above scene was going as planned! like i wanted and expected the bus to zoom off without me and that i had absolutely NO intention to board the bus. with my head high up, shrouded in an air of dignity, i marched up to e head of the queue seemingly nonchalently...at the same time, frantically punching in dee's number on my hp to meeeeeh to her. =(((

ferry ferry poor thing.
how come such things only happen to meeeee.........?????
in dee's words, "how come you always get yourself into these kind of circumstances, haha"

on a brighter note, many nice things to look forward to...like my kumon paycheck coming in this week, food trail part II with zhu zhu xiao dui, punggol trek-cum-sleepover-cum-mama dee's food, big reunion with the girls including ash and mama (whom i have not seen for ages!)

PS. hellohello selena! i updated according to your orders! happy? (:

PPS. bon voyage mr tan zhimian! have a good time training in brunei!

PPPS. my drawings not bad ya? -proud-

JB adventure!

Wed, 23 May 2007 16:57:44 GMT

hello!

i forgot about the existence of this LJ until julie reminded me! sigh she is such a big FAN of my blog that she can't function properly without listening to some of my wise sage words =) poor her. ok then, this entry is dedicated to you julie! ENJOY, please calm down and don't get too overwhelmed and excited ok? heh.

back from JB with julie, dee, selena and my sister! one week ago, the three of us were planning this trip together and while we smsed our friends to get them to join us, someone (cant remember if it was me or dee or julie) said, "i have a feeling that its gonna be just the three of us again!" haha, how prophetic of that person. the others all could not make it, leaving us to venture by ourselves over to THE OTHER SIDE.

it was super duper fun nonetheless! one word can be used to sum up our JB adventure: FOOD! glorious food! between five of us ONLY, we shared one irish lamb stew, one cordon chicken blu, one tom yam pasta, one meatballs pasta, one vietnamese beef noodles, one chocolate brownie, two yami yogurts, two auntie anne's pretzels and one UPSIZED macdonald's fried chicken meal in the short span of 5 hours. shiok! the prices are the same as that of singapore's just that its in ringgit..so everything is like on 50% discount!

oh yar, and during lunch, we discovered that selena really FAIL at judging character! she thinks that JULIE was valedictorian, dee is attached, dee is shy.....beat this, this is the ultimate: and that all three of us were in SPORTS CCA!!!!! -stunned- hahahah. how far from the truth is that?? i always cheat during 2.4 runs with my fellow accomplice gun and julie is on PERMAMENT MC and exempted from PE one leh! haha!

shopping was disappointing though..nohing much. the clothes there were very ah-lian/far-east plaza style haha. julie and dee bought identical bags though! very pretty bags! i was so tempted to get the one in mustard too but though its very pretty, think it is quite impractical cos cannot match with alot of clothes =( nvm, no bags but still CAFPF right?

yuup, so today was of scary custom officers who INSIST that me and my sister change our passport photos asap (you will understand why if u you ever have the chance to see my passport photo HAHA. everybody looks bad at THAT age ok????), harry potter trivia (thestrals!!), shopping, PICK UP (haha!) sticks, selena's evil act of uncapping julie and dee's waterbottles, HOT HOT HOT JB sun, chewing gum smuggling, mini skirtsssss (note the plural!) and of cos, good company =)

more adventures like this please! (:
meeting julie and dee (AGAIN!!) tmr for some vivo-ing. come to think of it, out of the 5 weekdays this week, i am gonna meet dee 3 out of days and julie 4 out of 5 days! heh, we are gonna be so sick of each other man!

AND, my grandpa from Indonesia is coming to Singapore this Sunday with my dad (who i have not seen for about a month due to his business trip!) AND, my brother is coming back from Edinburgh on Monday! =)) yay!

Enkong

Sun, 06 May 2007 13:48:51 GMT

i miss my enkong.

Freedom!

Thu, 03 May 2007 04:18:26 GMT

the exams are officially over!!! yay!
haha, although it seemed like it was already over on friday cos the next paper was 5 days later, on wednesday.
but now, i can guiltlessly enjoy the 3 months holidays, shiok! AND, i am gonna be a year 2 soon! Cliche as it sounds, time really flies. i think i am still as clueless around in NUS as i was in August 2006. well, can't blame me, i am only in school twice/thice a week! ;)

anyway, holidays means more malas, more desperate housewives, more books reading (not all bimbo books leh, i bought an intellectual dan brown book too!), more sleepovers, more dvd marathons, more sleeping, more shopping, more meeting up with friends and most importantly, i can finally go to Jakarta to visit my grandparents very soon!

shopping in Jakarta is secondary of cos, haha. i should be off end of may till early June. Not going to be a long trip, just about 2 weeks cos my sister has her Redang and Perth trip lined up, lucky her!

yesterday mala was great. it was quite a weird group cos we asked chu hui and lizzy along. ended up with just gun, chu hui, lizzy and me. haha, but chu hui and lizzy clicked off very well! mean lizzy even began to tease chu hui, nsiws!! poor julie had horrible cramps and had to go home to rest. but that brave girl came to school to take the paper even though her cramps were so bad that she couldn't even move and get out of bed. ame joined us later and i dunno how and why, we ended up at bugis cafe, chatting and PLAYING PICK UP STICKS until the cafe closed at 10pm. ok, i think i know why we playd it for so long...cos lizzy is the most tortoise pick up stick player ever. She would take more then 5 minutes to inch out a stick one mm by one mm, no exaggeration here. and she would get super stressed and commit suicide just when the stick is almost out already by lifting the stick up (for reasons none of us can comprehend) and hitting the rest of the surrounding sticks. really WASTE OUR TIME haha. aiyo, love that nonsense girl man!

ok, the girls are coming over to my place to bake cookies in a while, hope it turns out well! gonna bake cookies for our very very sweet bahasa teacher who invited us to her house for lunch this saturday =))

Elizabeth Lee

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:35:10 GMT

i miss Elizabeth Lee Pei Shan (correct right?) aka Lizzy Fizzy Bizzy!

happy dear? =))
haha, meet up soon k! i end on 2nd may, but by this friday i m super free already! UNLIKE ditzy ding dong girl who only ends on the 3rd! OPPPPS! haha.
we shall go for malas, picnis, dimsums, desperate housewives and many many more. SHIOK!

A samaritan

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:26:52 GMT

i just met a really nice lady the other day (:

i was on my way to the CC to meet julie-judas-jay, boarding bus number 24.
and when i tapped my Ez-link a humougous blaring "TEH TEH TEH" resounding throughout the bus.
my card no value!!

my sister was with me but i was throwing a tantrum (another long story for another day haha) so i could not ask her for coins.
she was right at the back of the bus already in any case.
when i was fumbling for coins, hoping that some would miraculously turn up despite of my logical state of mind telling me that i used it to buy chendol flavour mr softee the day before, someone gently taped me.

it was a kindly looking middle-aged Malay woman.
"girl, how much coins you need? i have i have" and then she pressed a bunch of coins into my hands.
i tried to pay her back with a $2 note that i had but she rejected me profusely.

haha, i know it was only $0.90 but i was so touched.
i did not even open my mouth to ask and she was readily offering her help to me, a total stranger.
how many people would do that?
a typical Singaporean would just brush past me blindly, and fight past the crowd just to grab a seat which is so so so precious during peak hours.
bless her, that kind Malay woman,
If you happen to know kind Malay ladies who takes bus number 24 from bedok at 10 30 am in the mornings, please let her know that i am very very grateful to her!

samaritans still exist in Singapore =)

ok got to go now!
dee (my intimate friend) should be reaching in about 15 mins!
she staying over tonight haha.
Just me, my sister and her........wooohooo, lucky dee! ;)

Paradox

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:07:29 GMT

yesterday night was wonderful. we organized a BBQ at gun's house to celebrate her 20th (or 8th? i cant remember haha) birthday. though the turnout wasn't great, only about 10 people, it was still great fun! of mini fridges, scary delivery man,yummy chicken wings, otah, charades, presents, pass-the-parcel and card games. haha, the highlight of the night was of cos when we huddled in the guest room, in total darkness lest for a eerie flickering torch, sharing our deep dark secrets.

good ol' fun =))

the only downside was of cos the absence of kenneth lim, HAHAHA.

exams coming up in a little more than a weeks' time.
one SU subject (which is open book), one MCQ, 2 other open-books and one bahasa paper.
theoretically, it SOUNDS easy peasy chicken feat lalala BUT alas! due to a severe bout of laziness, skipping lectures, lack of motivation and distractions, things are not looking up :(

WISH ME LUCK!

Do you trust her?

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:40:22 GMT

Because I’m kind, I shall share this with everybody just like Sharity Elephant. My instructor has a “tested-and-proven” track record. I am often left in awe. In fact, she is so good that if I am a guy, I will be totally head over heels over her! =)

HOW TO SNAG A GUY IN TEN DAYS

(Teachings by *e**** L**, Edited by Pauline Chen)

Do not touch them on their legs. In fact do not touch them AT ALL.
Be new. Be refreshing. Be different. Make that new-ness last. And ensure that by the time the new-ness has faded, you mean enough to them already.
Get to know what they like and what they don’t like. Then play the game of interaction with them, according to their likes and dislikes.
Make them talk and you listen.
Laugh. Make him feel damn good. Like “Wow, I made her laugh, wow, she understands me!” Of course, you REALLY must find it funny and you REALLY must understand it. Cannot be fake!

(And finally, the last 4 are the ones I find most meaningful…)

Love when it hits you - like when it walks past you.
Hate when it makes you.
Stay because you have to, need to, want to.
Go because you can.

Haha, I will let you guys know if it works! =)

*Disclaimer: We will NOT be held responsible in any way for any unforeseen circumstances which leaves one in a less-than-satisfactory situation. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

as the biological clock ticks...

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:12:20 GMT

it just dawned upon me while i was watching ANTM (noelle was talking about her baby son - noelle is 20) that i am going to turn 20 this year!
WOW WOW WOW

that's old.
its funny how you fantasize about being an adult when you were younger (in my case, playing with my mother's heels, pretending that my dirty mouldy pink bear was my baby, putting my "baby" into a chair, dragging it along like a pram, cooking "coloured paper" dinner for my make-believe family...etc) AND YET, when you become an adult (haha maybe contrary to friends' popular belief) you would do absolutely aything to be a little kid again, sleeping peacefully in the embrace of mummy, lying on her chest. (i would squash her if i even attempt to do so NOW haha, she is so small)

can you imagine getting engaged in 3 years time?
going out to work, as in, REALLY REALLY work and not mere relief "teaching", in 5 years time?
getting married in 4 years time?
giving birth, becoming A MUMMY in 5 years time - juggling both career, family and housework? (tthis is sadly the result of studying too much soci of family heh)

oh, that is scary.
yup, moral of story: treasure the little things in life now.
time spent with family, even if its just sitting together round the dining table, eating dinner and watching ch 8 dramas together.
time spent with friends, even if its just meeting for a quick one hour lunch in the funeral parlour between lectures.
time = priceless.

cos cliche as it may sound, time does not wait and life changes drastically with time =))

on a completely random note, me and my sister asked my mummy if she liked it better when we were kids or now...guess what she said?

guess guess guess!

she said "of cos NOW lar! haha, i was totally expecting her to say when we were kids cos the three of us were fat and fair and chubby and obedient and FERRY FERRY KUTE leh. we had char siew baos for cheeks lar. (ok fine, i still HAVE some of that left)
haha, i know there's no point to this comment but i just think that its a very interesting qn to ask your mother (:

i wonder how papa is, on his business trip to jakarta. apparently he is in the outskirts of indonesia, in some village.
and i hope he manages to find the time to go visit my grandparents too!
for the first time in 20 (almost) years, i am able to write a WHOLE letter to my Emak and Enkong in true blue, good ol' bahasa indonesia!! it was with a lot of reference to the coursebook i admit, but I DID IT!
-accomplished smile-

i think they, especially my Emak, will like that =))

I have a funny friend (:

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:43:32 GMT

j u l i e says:

bahahaha

j u l i e says:

i think your mind's in total mess

j u l i e says:

if i draw a diagram of your brain right now, it'll be divided into 3: andi, dress and charsiew bao