Thursday, January 29, 2009
met the president. seriously, i'm not lying.
i'm really only blogging now because i'm waiting for the second episode of voice to finish loading so i can watch it. it was three-quarters of the way done, then i started fiddling around with the size of the video and ended up clicking on another link so now i have to wait for it to finish loading all over again. somehow i always end up doing things like that; i wonder why.
went out today with yimean and rach! i haven't seen them in a really long time because rach was working and yimean was... too engrossed in a certain dark-haired character whose name i cannot mention or else yimean will be slaughtered by a fellow fangirl. anyhow, met up at compass point in the morning and it is honestly quite the cool shopping mall. there was half a ship protruding out from the top level of the mall and the whole mall had this "ship" theme. plus it looks like it'd be a good place to walk around and shop randomly. anyhow, after that we walked over to yimean's house andsquealed and ogled over appreciated the many wonders of bleach cosplayers and the bleach manga.
after that i had to go off for jap class and i very cleverly told yimean and rach it was near takashimaya when it was really near tangs. so we got off at somerset instead of orchard and i had to walk all the way to delfi orchard in heels so it was very, very tiring. and i didn't get to eat shilin oyster mee sua! i've been looking forward to it all week, because i've got this sudden craving for oyster mee sua for some strange reason.
anyhow, jap class was fun as usual. i like taking jap, and because i like it, lessons just seem so much more fun. even doing homework is a pleasure. and i even do extra studying on my own. haha oh and i found out from rach today that max is taking lessons at the same language school as i am. we just take it on different days. and i know her teacher because my sister and i attended one of his replacement lessons before. and yes, i am in full agreement with the opinion that takahashi sounds like it would be the name of a young, good-looking male teacher but reality bites. okay that was mean. i suppose he is a competent teacher too. i just prefer my teachers because they're funny and nice.
first two days of cny have been hectic, as they've always been. pictures will be up later because my usb cable is missing and i have to wait for my sister to come home from school to borrow hers.
first day was paternal grandmother's house, then my maternal grandmother's sworn sister's house, then my uncle's house, then my aunt's house before everyone came over to my house in the night. i love the cny feast my paternal grandmother prepares every year for the first day -- she makes wonderful nonya chap chye, this really good sweet soup and criminally delicious lu dan. and my maternal grandmother's passed-down-through-the-generations method for cooking san chen rou is also extremely tasty. it's just sad that no one can cook it just like she can. somehow her san chen rou always tasted so much better. but my aunt cooks it pretty well anyway. at night everyone came over to my house and stayed till past 2am, so we were all pretty tired out by the time we all went to bed. and my relatives are honestly quite the wine drinkers, because we opened about three or four bottles of wine for the night. but it's good wine, because you don't really taste the alcohol and it's really dry and sweet at the same time. but the sweetness doesn't overpower you. okay what am i saying. i'm not that much of a wine connoisseur.
okay, then on the second day it was lunch at my uncle's house, and then over to my ex-neighbour's house, and then to shangri-la's the line for a buffet dinner. and president nathan was there as well, at the table we sat at last year! haha i really wanted to take a photo but i was afraid his bodyguards would come snap my phone into two. he left while we were halfway through our dinner so i never managed to get a photo after all, sigh. and everyone was laughing at me for being such a mountain tortoise. it's not everyday you get to see the president, okay. only my cousin of the same age (one of the very pretty ones, remember?) shared my excitement. no generation gap, you see. haha anyway, i love the food at shangri-la. and we went through about 6 plates of food each. there were scallops, and oysters, and sashimi, and lasagna, and crepes, and a chocolate fountain, and soba noodles, and so much more food.
... okay little wonder why i'm gaining back all the weight i managed to lose.
depressing stuff. anyhow there's still more good food to look forward to this weekend, because my aunt is treating on either saturday on sunday. i love cny and all the good food. and the angbaos are an added bonus, of course.
alright voice is done loading, so i am off to watch more ikuta toma.
music: ai uta; greeeen
tune out the world ; 10:25 PM
went out today with yimean and rach! i haven't seen them in a really long time because rach was working and yimean was... too engrossed in a certain dark-haired character whose name i cannot mention or else yimean will be slaughtered by a fellow fangirl. anyhow, met up at compass point in the morning and it is honestly quite the cool shopping mall. there was half a ship protruding out from the top level of the mall and the whole mall had this "ship" theme. plus it looks like it'd be a good place to walk around and shop randomly. anyhow, after that we walked over to yimean's house and
after that i had to go off for jap class and i very cleverly told yimean and rach it was near takashimaya when it was really near tangs. so we got off at somerset instead of orchard and i had to walk all the way to delfi orchard in heels so it was very, very tiring. and i didn't get to eat shilin oyster mee sua! i've been looking forward to it all week, because i've got this sudden craving for oyster mee sua for some strange reason.
anyhow, jap class was fun as usual. i like taking jap, and because i like it, lessons just seem so much more fun. even doing homework is a pleasure. and i even do extra studying on my own. haha oh and i found out from rach today that max is taking lessons at the same language school as i am. we just take it on different days. and i know her teacher because my sister and i attended one of his replacement lessons before. and yes, i am in full agreement with the opinion that takahashi sounds like it would be the name of a young, good-looking male teacher but reality bites. okay that was mean. i suppose he is a competent teacher too. i just prefer my teachers because they're funny and nice.
first two days of cny have been hectic, as they've always been. pictures will be up later because my usb cable is missing and i have to wait for my sister to come home from school to borrow hers.
first day was paternal grandmother's house, then my maternal grandmother's sworn sister's house, then my uncle's house, then my aunt's house before everyone came over to my house in the night. i love the cny feast my paternal grandmother prepares every year for the first day -- she makes wonderful nonya chap chye, this really good sweet soup and criminally delicious lu dan. and my maternal grandmother's passed-down-through-the-generations method for cooking san chen rou is also extremely tasty. it's just sad that no one can cook it just like she can. somehow her san chen rou always tasted so much better. but my aunt cooks it pretty well anyway. at night everyone came over to my house and stayed till past 2am, so we were all pretty tired out by the time we all went to bed. and my relatives are honestly quite the wine drinkers, because we opened about three or four bottles of wine for the night. but it's good wine, because you don't really taste the alcohol and it's really dry and sweet at the same time. but the sweetness doesn't overpower you. okay what am i saying. i'm not that much of a wine connoisseur.
okay, then on the second day it was lunch at my uncle's house, and then over to my ex-neighbour's house, and then to shangri-la's the line for a buffet dinner. and president nathan was there as well, at the table we sat at last year! haha i really wanted to take a photo but i was afraid his bodyguards would come snap my phone into two. he left while we were halfway through our dinner so i never managed to get a photo after all, sigh. and everyone was laughing at me for being such a mountain tortoise. it's not everyday you get to see the president, okay. only my cousin of the same age (one of the very pretty ones, remember?) shared my excitement. no generation gap, you see. haha anyway, i love the food at shangri-la. and we went through about 6 plates of food each. there were scallops, and oysters, and sashimi, and lasagna, and crepes, and a chocolate fountain, and soba noodles, and so much more food.
... okay little wonder why i'm gaining back all the weight i managed to lose.
depressing stuff. anyhow there's still more good food to look forward to this weekend, because my aunt is treating on either saturday on sunday. i love cny and all the good food. and the angbaos are an added bonus, of course.
alright voice is done loading, so i am off to watch more ikuta toma.
music: ai uta; greeeen
Labels: day-to-day
tune out the world ; 10:25 PM
Saturday, January 24, 2009
yes, i do have names for all 18 of my plush toys.
Edison Chen is said to be paving his road to return to the Hong Kong entertainment industry, when he was seen recently modeling new apparels for his fashion brand Clot Inc. According to sources, he will be releasing a new album in mid 2009 and is currently recording in the studio. Movie "Sniper", in which Chen is a male lead, will be screening in cinemas around Easter and his artiste management company will be arranging for him to be in Singapore for a series of promotional events.i am extremely happy. (:Chen announced his withdrawal from the Hong Kong entertainment industry early last year after his private and intimate photos with several female stars were illegally disseminated on the Internet. Since then, he had been residing in the States and has been to several Hollywood auditions. As the entertainment business was still unreceptive of Chen, he focused his fashion business, constantly sourcing for new partners and designing new products for Clot.
In conjunction with the inauguration of the new American president, Barack Obama, Clot has also launched a series of T-shirts with prints inspired by the US dollar notes. Fourth president of the United States, James Madison's portrait on the US$5,000 note was replaced by Obama's. The T-shirts which costs HKD$580 (approx. S$116) are endorsed by Chen.
In addition, according to reports, movie "Sniper" will begin screening during the Easter holiday in Hong Kong. Media Asia is currently arranging for Chen to go on a promotional tour to Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand. Spokesperson of Chen's artiste management agency, Rich and Famous Talent Management Group Limited, said, "Edison Chen has many opportunities to travel around Southeast Asia to promote the movie Sniper. The company is also making arrangements for some commercial events. Many Mainland advertisers are also looking for him to do promotions. We hope he can return to the China market, but details have yet to be confirmed and we cannot reveal too much."
The talent management company is also currently making arrangements for Chen to do commercial acts in Singapore soon.
i suppose people are going to start bashing him for lying about "leaving the Hong Kong entertainment industry indefinitely", but i seriously cannot care less. it wasn't exactly lying anyway, "indefinitely" simply means an undefined period of time. and what sweetens the deal is the fact that he's coming to singapore. i totally missed his last trip to singapore to promote initial d but i'm not going to miss it for the world this time round. okay i'm completely cheered up over this, which i know is a silly thing to be so overjoyed about, but i'm just a rabid fangirl at heart you see.
so, who's up for the movie sniper come easter time?
ming shuan posted this on facebook a while ago, and i think it's the cutest picture ever. haha i think it was taken on my birthday 2 years back when liyun and ming shuan randomly showed up at my house and i was so surprised! haha that's humphrey and kuma-san at the back, and in the front it's lion and neon the snail (mainly because he has neon green pants hidden inside the shell). i have wonderfully imaginative names for all my plush toys eheh.music: doushitte kimi wo suki ni natte shimattan darou; dbsk
Labels: amusements, photos, thoughts
tune out the world ; 12:21 AM
Friday, January 23, 2009
...that would be nice.
okay sorry, i know i was really pissy earlier. fact is, i don't see what's so hard about replying an sms, especially since a reply is required. i'm not pedantic and attention-craved to the extent that i insist you reply every single one of my smses, even the frivolous ones like "happy cny" or "merry xmas" (which i don't usually send out anyway) or random ones like "i am going to shoot you argh". it's just frustrating, and in this case even more so because the outing is planned for tomorrow, and it's the cny season and so there may not even be places available; hence the need to confirm the numbers going so i can place a reservation perhaps.
anyhow, it's probably cancelled. as it stands now, only chin, amos, ale, wynne, yimean, and max have replied, and wynne and yimean can't go anyway. km posted on facebook saying he can't make it either, so we have a grand total of 6 people, 7 if weiting is coming along as well. okay it's partly my fault because i forgot to inform rab and xuefang yesterday -- only thinking along the lines of pw groupings and so forgetting to sms them -- but i smsed them just now. and i suppose i should have just smsed everyone myself, huh.
aye forget it. next time round it'll just be pw group and their better halves outings, since they're just about the only people who reply. pfffffffft.
okay i'm still being pissy am i not.
music: sweet memories; olivia ong
tune out the world ; 12:27 PM
anyhow, it's probably cancelled. as it stands now, only chin, amos, ale, wynne, yimean, and max have replied, and wynne and yimean can't go anyway. km posted on facebook saying he can't make it either, so we have a grand total of 6 people, 7 if weiting is coming along as well. okay it's partly my fault because i forgot to inform rab and xuefang yesterday -- only thinking along the lines of pw groupings and so forgetting to sms them -- but i smsed them just now. and i suppose i should have just smsed everyone myself, huh.
aye forget it. next time round it'll just be pw group and their better halves outings, since they're just about the only people who reply. pfffffffft.
okay i'm still being pissy am i not.
music: sweet memories; olivia ong
tune out the world ; 12:27 PM
is it such a pain to move your fingers?
people who don't reply are PIGGGGGGGS.
seriously, it's very, very annoying trying to organise something and not having people reply especially when it's already on such short notice.
bloody hell.
music: lies; big bang
tune out the world ; 10:51 AM
seriously, it's very, very annoying trying to organise something and not having people reply especially when it's already on such short notice.
bloody hell.
music: lies; big bang
Labels: bad stuff
tune out the world ; 10:51 AM
Monday, January 19, 2009
i don't need to get a life. i'm a gamer, i have lots of them.
cny reunion dinner with my dad's side of the family was on saturday. wasn't really looking forward to it, but i suppose it pretty much ended without much happening. i think the restaurant's standards are dropping though; with every year we go there the food seems to taste less like food and more like food-like mush. but i shan't complain too much. i guess it's good to have these dinners once in a while. even with lousy food it's still a chance to see everyone.
i've got so much on my to-want list, i desperately want a job soon so i can get some money in and set about striking some things off it. maybe i should go sign up at more job agencies soon. or look in the classifieds directly. whatever it is, i hope i get a job soon...
so, being jobless and not wanting to spend too much money, i've taken to staying home whenever i can. and to stave off boredom i've been reading and reading and watching stuff. that's about 2 books in 3 days (they were thick books, mind you) and 16 episodes of deathnote in 2 days. i finally realise why there're so many fans of deathnote; it's really a very intriguing series. i'm glad i decided to try watching it. and there's still rainbow romance to finish, and bleach to continue (i feel like not watching it for a long long time and then watching it all at one go again because the waiting in between episodes is so torturous), and vampire knight guilty to start watching.
... someone give me a job quick so i can get a life!
anyhow, the first trickle of cny gifts from all the relations have come in and there're pineapple tarts!! pineapple tarts are my all-time favourite cny treats. they're ranked up there alongside with the butter cookies my mum's friend makes every year. and the best part of it all is, i'm just about the only person at home who actually likes pineapple tarts. my mum detests them really. she says they're all sweet and sour at the same time and it's not normal. this basically means i get to finish most of the pineapple tarts. ehehehe.
okay, i will stop being a pig and stop talking about pineapple tarts and my love for them.
music: way for love; super junior
tune out the world ; 12:33 AM
i've got so much on my to-want list, i desperately want a job soon so i can get some money in and set about striking some things off it. maybe i should go sign up at more job agencies soon. or look in the classifieds directly. whatever it is, i hope i get a job soon...
so, being jobless and not wanting to spend too much money, i've taken to staying home whenever i can. and to stave off boredom i've been reading and reading and watching stuff. that's about 2 books in 3 days (they were thick books, mind you) and 16 episodes of deathnote in 2 days. i finally realise why there're so many fans of deathnote; it's really a very intriguing series. i'm glad i decided to try watching it. and there's still rainbow romance to finish, and bleach to continue (i feel like not watching it for a long long time and then watching it all at one go again because the waiting in between episodes is so torturous), and vampire knight guilty to start watching.
... someone give me a job quick so i can get a life!
anyhow, the first trickle of cny gifts from all the relations have come in and there're pineapple tarts!! pineapple tarts are my all-time favourite cny treats. they're ranked up there alongside with the butter cookies my mum's friend makes every year. and the best part of it all is, i'm just about the only person at home who actually likes pineapple tarts. my mum detests them really. she says they're all sweet and sour at the same time and it's not normal. this basically means i get to finish most of the pineapple tarts. ehehehe.
okay, i will stop being a pig and stop talking about pineapple tarts and my love for them.
music: way for love; super junior
Labels: day-to-day
tune out the world ; 12:33 AM
Friday, January 16, 2009
passing messages makes them warped.
PUHAHAH okay i had to post this even though i'm about to go to sleep already.
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
music: mirotic; dbsk
tune out the world ; 1:25 AM
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
music: mirotic; dbsk
Labels: amusements
tune out the world ; 1:25 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009
just keep swimming, just keep swimming.
today was really fairly interesting. had jap as usual in the afternoon, and we laughed a lot today because there were so many amusing happenings. i kind of like the class and the teachers, because they're a lot of fun so they make they two hours pass by very very quickly. and we learn a lot every lesson too. for some strange reason this "new patented method" of teaching japanese honestly seems to be working, because i'm picking up stuff really quickly even if they're not stuff i've learned before at moelc.
and job prospects seem to be looking rather optimistic at the moment too. sent in a resume to a contact of my sister's at a recruitment agency and she replied really quickly, so hopefully i'll have money coming in soon.
class outing at mind cafe next wednesday, and i need to inform the rest soon. those of you who read my blog, people who are going are chin, amos, wt, ale, wynne, sam, max, me, maybe km, maybe py, maybe ryan and maybe samchye? i figured if wynne's going sam might be going, but i'm not sure if he's free. shall have to ask wynne again. km never replied!! horrible. and py wasn't too keen according to sam, but maybe he'll decide to go in the end. yimean and rab should be able to join us for dinner. rach has work unfortunately...
and there's still the 2c outing to think about, which is tons harder to organise because nearly all the guys have enlisted and most of the girls seem to be working or something... maybe we can meet up for dinner some day?
anyhow, met up with sam, rab and wynne for dinner at the soup spoon today. dinner was good! rab had some five blessings soup, both wynne and sam had a creamy mushroom kind of soup while i had chicken stew. i like soups. the sandwiches there are awfully hard to cut though, so bring along a chainsaw. it'll make it so much easier. or be smart, and eat a salad like wynne! that way you don't suffer the embarrassment of having your sandwich fall apart while you're trying to cut it up into bite-sized pieces. *ahem* not that it happened to me, of course. seriously. i cut my sandwich up with poise. nothing flew out of the plate!
after that we kind of sat around and talked randomly, which was fun too. i think it's very fun talking to them haha. maybe when we're all thirty and old we'll still meet up for dinners like the one we had today, and talk about random stuff as well.
sam treated us to cupcakes, which were really nice but very sinful. i am going to learn how to bake, once my mum decides to renovate the kitchen and install an oven or something. and i will also learn how to cook, and how to knit... sigh. if i were to really accomplish all of that i would probably definitely have to be a rich tai-tai with time and money to spare.
and i got pretty new gray earphones today! which my sister helped me pick out and buy, because i was off learning jap. my ostentatious bright blue ones died on me, and i've been suffering from music withdrawal for the better half of the week already.
alright, lots of things to look forward to in the following weeks! i hope i get a nice job soon haha. at the moment (and i say "at the moment" because i'm awfully fickle-minded really), i think i really want to work in a cosy little bookstore.
okay, meme thing from amos. awfully similar to the one i already did! but i'm kind of bored...
rules: once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
1. like i mentioned earlier, i'm very fickle-minded with respect to things i want to do as a career or as a job. mostly i'm very influenced by tv shows. so far, i've wanted to be a chef, pilot, hotelier... yes i'm a very impressionable teen.
2. i've never seen snow in my life, unless you count the ice on the floor after it has snowed and then stopped for a while. and that's even though i have been to snowing countries. it just doesn't snow while i'm there, and then it starts again after i leave. like the year i went to china, my tour guide very confidently proclaimed that there wouldn't be snow in beijing because there hasn't been any for years. a week after we returned to singapore, they had a freak snowstorm the likes of which hasn't been seen in decades.
3. my obsessions over celebrities last a very long time. like with edison chen, i think it extends way back into primary school when his first album in singapore was released. the one with a song called angel or something. i still remember the advertisement playing while i was eating dinner one day. then it was love at first sight.
4. i make lists for everything you. it gives me this strange satisfaction every time i complete one of those lists.
5. when i come across a song i really like, i play it on repeat in my player for up to days at a time until i get a little tired of it. then i put it on shuffle again, but always on the same playlist of about 32 songs even though i have 200+ songs in my player.
6. i can play the guzheng, even though i don't really look like that sort of guzheng-playing person. i took it all the way from kindergarten to secondary 2, and then i stopped because my sister had o levels. i never went back to continue learning, but sometimes i wish i had. for some time i was the youngest in the guzheng troupe, and i was featured in the chinese papers holding up a fan of our self-produced CDs smiling retardedly at the camera. and i was nicknamed "xiao bu dian" by the papers. thank goodness that name never caught on.
7. speaking of being featured on the papers, another time i was in the papers was when my dad was awarded some medal or something, and reporters from the straits times came and took pictures of us. i was super young, and i think in the picture i was reaching out for the medal so some reporter randomly captioned it as something like "my father the hero, says young michelle". ahh the cheesiness of it all.
8. i won a baby competition when i was 3 years old. my mum still keeps a cd of the television broadcast of the competition, and apparently i couldn't understand chinese then because when the host asked me what my favourite food was and tried to prompt me with "shu tiao" which is chinese for french fries, i hid my face in my mum's hair and then mumbled "french fries" a while later.
9. i keep movie ticket stubs in my wallet, and most of them are from 2c outings because we never seem to do anything else.
10. i blush an awful lot, which is something i wish i could change. i go all red even when i'm just laughing or something.
11. i went through a twit phase in secondary 2. don't laugh. i got through it relatively unscathed, and look, here i am typing in complete sentences without much abbreviations and passably good grammar too.
12. i am a fan of dramas. especially korean, japanese and hong kong dramas. okay actually that's where all the good dramas are from, right. and i cannot stand taiwanese dramas, which you can stop watching for a week and then continue and you'd still be able to understand everything that's going on.
13. i once had a strange growth on my nose when i was young, and the doctors couldn't figure out what in the world was wrong with me. i had to be hospitalised while they ran all sorts of weird tests on me, and then the growth disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. maybe that's why i used to have so many nosebleeds when i was younger.
14. the very first pc game i played was starcraft. and i introduced my brother to gaming, not the other way round. although now he's way more well-versed than i am...
15. i really like eating spicy stuff. like tom yam noodles, or spicy hot pot...
16. i have about 18 plush toys on my bed, plus an extra pillow and a bolster. i have not much space to move about when i sleep, but it makes me feel safe sleeping in that mess.
17. i have a box full of all the letters, notes and cards i've ever received. the earliest dates back to primary school i think, when we had a strange group where i was the royal chef and there was a queen, and a lord...
18. i need things to be neat and tidy, or else i can't function well.
19. i once poured hydrogen peroxide in my left eye, burning my cornea and almost becoming blind. okay it wasn't exactly pouring, i accidently washed my lenses with the wrong solution and then i put it in my eye. i had to go to the a&e department after that.
20. i don't really like taking photos, because i always look even more retarded in photos than i already do in real life. which is mainly why i asked for a camera as a reward for o levels, so i could be the one taking pictures instead of being in them.
21. i don't really like using tote bags. i prefer sling bags or backpacks instead.
22. i can't wear earrings made of fake silver, because my ears swell up and become really itchy after that. it's either plastic or genuine silver for my earrings.
23. i cry a lot, mostly over senseless stuff. like watching a sad korean drama, or a movie, or anything even remotely tear-jerking.
24. i staunchly believe in the fact that i'm 159.99999999 cm and so i can really be counted as having reached 160 cm.
25. i like japanese food.
okay anyone who wants to do this is tagged.
music: miracle; super junior
tune out the world ; 11:59 PM
and job prospects seem to be looking rather optimistic at the moment too. sent in a resume to a contact of my sister's at a recruitment agency and she replied really quickly, so hopefully i'll have money coming in soon.
class outing at mind cafe next wednesday, and i need to inform the rest soon. those of you who read my blog, people who are going are chin, amos, wt, ale, wynne, sam, max, me, maybe km, maybe py, maybe ryan and maybe samchye? i figured if wynne's going sam might be going, but i'm not sure if he's free. shall have to ask wynne again. km never replied!! horrible. and py wasn't too keen according to sam, but maybe he'll decide to go in the end. yimean and rab should be able to join us for dinner. rach has work unfortunately...
and there's still the 2c outing to think about, which is tons harder to organise because nearly all the guys have enlisted and most of the girls seem to be working or something... maybe we can meet up for dinner some day?
anyhow, met up with sam, rab and wynne for dinner at the soup spoon today. dinner was good! rab had some five blessings soup, both wynne and sam had a creamy mushroom kind of soup while i had chicken stew. i like soups. the sandwiches there are awfully hard to cut though, so bring along a chainsaw. it'll make it so much easier. or be smart, and eat a salad like wynne! that way you don't suffer the embarrassment of having your sandwich fall apart while you're trying to cut it up into bite-sized pieces. *ahem* not that it happened to me, of course. seriously. i cut my sandwich up with poise. nothing flew out of the plate!
after that we kind of sat around and talked randomly, which was fun too. i think it's very fun talking to them haha. maybe when we're all thirty and old we'll still meet up for dinners like the one we had today, and talk about random stuff as well.
sam treated us to cupcakes, which were really nice but very sinful. i am going to learn how to bake, once my mum decides to renovate the kitchen and install an oven or something. and i will also learn how to cook, and how to knit... sigh. if i were to really accomplish all of that i would probably definitely have to be a rich tai-tai with time and money to spare.
and i got pretty new gray earphones today! which my sister helped me pick out and buy, because i was off learning jap. my ostentatious bright blue ones died on me, and i've been suffering from music withdrawal for the better half of the week already.
alright, lots of things to look forward to in the following weeks! i hope i get a nice job soon haha. at the moment (and i say "at the moment" because i'm awfully fickle-minded really), i think i really want to work in a cosy little bookstore.
okay, meme thing from amos. awfully similar to the one i already did! but i'm kind of bored...
rules: once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
1. like i mentioned earlier, i'm very fickle-minded with respect to things i want to do as a career or as a job. mostly i'm very influenced by tv shows. so far, i've wanted to be a chef, pilot, hotelier... yes i'm a very impressionable teen.
2. i've never seen snow in my life, unless you count the ice on the floor after it has snowed and then stopped for a while. and that's even though i have been to snowing countries. it just doesn't snow while i'm there, and then it starts again after i leave. like the year i went to china, my tour guide very confidently proclaimed that there wouldn't be snow in beijing because there hasn't been any for years. a week after we returned to singapore, they had a freak snowstorm the likes of which hasn't been seen in decades.
3. my obsessions over celebrities last a very long time. like with edison chen, i think it extends way back into primary school when his first album in singapore was released. the one with a song called angel or something. i still remember the advertisement playing while i was eating dinner one day. then it was love at first sight.
4. i make lists for everything you. it gives me this strange satisfaction every time i complete one of those lists.
5. when i come across a song i really like, i play it on repeat in my player for up to days at a time until i get a little tired of it. then i put it on shuffle again, but always on the same playlist of about 32 songs even though i have 200+ songs in my player.
6. i can play the guzheng, even though i don't really look like that sort of guzheng-playing person. i took it all the way from kindergarten to secondary 2, and then i stopped because my sister had o levels. i never went back to continue learning, but sometimes i wish i had. for some time i was the youngest in the guzheng troupe, and i was featured in the chinese papers holding up a fan of our self-produced CDs smiling retardedly at the camera. and i was nicknamed "xiao bu dian" by the papers. thank goodness that name never caught on.
7. speaking of being featured on the papers, another time i was in the papers was when my dad was awarded some medal or something, and reporters from the straits times came and took pictures of us. i was super young, and i think in the picture i was reaching out for the medal so some reporter randomly captioned it as something like "my father the hero, says young michelle". ahh the cheesiness of it all.
8. i won a baby competition when i was 3 years old. my mum still keeps a cd of the television broadcast of the competition, and apparently i couldn't understand chinese then because when the host asked me what my favourite food was and tried to prompt me with "shu tiao" which is chinese for french fries, i hid my face in my mum's hair and then mumbled "french fries" a while later.
9. i keep movie ticket stubs in my wallet, and most of them are from 2c outings because we never seem to do anything else.
10. i blush an awful lot, which is something i wish i could change. i go all red even when i'm just laughing or something.
11. i went through a twit phase in secondary 2. don't laugh. i got through it relatively unscathed, and look, here i am typing in complete sentences without much abbreviations and passably good grammar too.
12. i am a fan of dramas. especially korean, japanese and hong kong dramas. okay actually that's where all the good dramas are from, right. and i cannot stand taiwanese dramas, which you can stop watching for a week and then continue and you'd still be able to understand everything that's going on.
13. i once had a strange growth on my nose when i was young, and the doctors couldn't figure out what in the world was wrong with me. i had to be hospitalised while they ran all sorts of weird tests on me, and then the growth disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. maybe that's why i used to have so many nosebleeds when i was younger.
14. the very first pc game i played was starcraft. and i introduced my brother to gaming, not the other way round. although now he's way more well-versed than i am...
15. i really like eating spicy stuff. like tom yam noodles, or spicy hot pot...
16. i have about 18 plush toys on my bed, plus an extra pillow and a bolster. i have not much space to move about when i sleep, but it makes me feel safe sleeping in that mess.
17. i have a box full of all the letters, notes and cards i've ever received. the earliest dates back to primary school i think, when we had a strange group where i was the royal chef and there was a queen, and a lord...
18. i need things to be neat and tidy, or else i can't function well.
19. i once poured hydrogen peroxide in my left eye, burning my cornea and almost becoming blind. okay it wasn't exactly pouring, i accidently washed my lenses with the wrong solution and then i put it in my eye. i had to go to the a&e department after that.
20. i don't really like taking photos, because i always look even more retarded in photos than i already do in real life. which is mainly why i asked for a camera as a reward for o levels, so i could be the one taking pictures instead of being in them.
21. i don't really like using tote bags. i prefer sling bags or backpacks instead.
22. i can't wear earrings made of fake silver, because my ears swell up and become really itchy after that. it's either plastic or genuine silver for my earrings.
23. i cry a lot, mostly over senseless stuff. like watching a sad korean drama, or a movie, or anything even remotely tear-jerking.
24. i staunchly believe in the fact that i'm 159.99999999 cm and so i can really be counted as having reached 160 cm.
25. i like japanese food.
okay anyone who wants to do this is tagged.
music: miracle; super junior
Labels: day-to-day, memes
tune out the world ; 11:59 PM
Saturday, January 10, 2009
memes are good torture devices, methinks.
because i'm awfully bored, you guys have to sit through another torturous meme muahahaha. or i guess you could just go somewhere else... or close the window... but that will make me sad. really. then i'll have to come after you with my sawed-off shotgun.
ahem. okay, here goes. i think this is my first meme of the year.
rules:
1. link the person's blog who tagged you. -- oh dear, nobody tagged me.
2. post these rules on your blog.
3. list seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
4. tag seven random people at the end of your post.
5. let each person know they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blogs.
seven random/weird facts about me:
1. when i drop something, my first instinct is not to catch it or prevent it from falling. i either close my eyes or clamp my hands over my ears, as if not seeing/hearing it drop makes it not happen.
2. i am very afraid of pipe noises, the kind you hear when the piping system is really old and turning the faucet starts off this whole ominous clanking noise that makes it seem as if the house is about to fall apart. this goes back to when i was a kid before my house was re-renovated, and the pipes were all old and clogged up and you always had to be extra careful switching on and off the water. the memory of the pipe noises still gives me goosebumps.
3. i find it hard to sleep in new surroundings. even though i may be really, really tired, sometimes i just can't get to sleep. like for the taiwan trip last month, i was wide awake the entire night the first night we checked in to the hotel, and only managed to fall asleep at 8am the next day. i suppose it might be because i'm so accustomed to sharing my bed with uhh, 18 plush toys and a bolster. seriously, it's so cluttered i hardly have space to move around, but it feels very safe sleeping in all that mess.
4. i order some kind of tea more often than not in starbucks, even though it's obviously way more well-known for its coffees. i like the iced tea lemonade with passion tea. it's really nice and sour.
5. i like wrapping things up. both in the literal sense and the figurative sense.
6. i don't like people on my bed. especially if the person in question has been out, or hasn't bathed. and for the strangest reasons my two sisters enjoy annoying the heck out of me by threatening to sit on my bed precisely because they know i hate it.
7. speaking of threatening, i like threatening people with my imaginary sawed-off shotgun.
okay, seven random/weird facts about me. and now i'm supposed to tag seven random people, but because i'm lazy you guys can tag yourselves.
music: kiseki; GReeeeN
tune out the world ; 11:14 PM
ahem. okay, here goes. i think this is my first meme of the year.
rules:
1. link the person's blog who tagged you. -- oh dear, nobody tagged me.
2. post these rules on your blog.
3. list seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
4. tag seven random people at the end of your post.
5. let each person know they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blogs.
seven random/weird facts about me:
1. when i drop something, my first instinct is not to catch it or prevent it from falling. i either close my eyes or clamp my hands over my ears, as if not seeing/hearing it drop makes it not happen.
2. i am very afraid of pipe noises, the kind you hear when the piping system is really old and turning the faucet starts off this whole ominous clanking noise that makes it seem as if the house is about to fall apart. this goes back to when i was a kid before my house was re-renovated, and the pipes were all old and clogged up and you always had to be extra careful switching on and off the water. the memory of the pipe noises still gives me goosebumps.
3. i find it hard to sleep in new surroundings. even though i may be really, really tired, sometimes i just can't get to sleep. like for the taiwan trip last month, i was wide awake the entire night the first night we checked in to the hotel, and only managed to fall asleep at 8am the next day. i suppose it might be because i'm so accustomed to sharing my bed with uhh, 18 plush toys and a bolster. seriously, it's so cluttered i hardly have space to move around, but it feels very safe sleeping in all that mess.
4. i order some kind of tea more often than not in starbucks, even though it's obviously way more well-known for its coffees. i like the iced tea lemonade with passion tea. it's really nice and sour.
5. i like wrapping things up. both in the literal sense and the figurative sense.
6. i don't like people on my bed. especially if the person in question has been out, or hasn't bathed. and for the strangest reasons my two sisters enjoy annoying the heck out of me by threatening to sit on my bed precisely because they know i hate it.
7. speaking of threatening, i like threatening people with my imaginary sawed-off shotgun.
okay, seven random/weird facts about me. and now i'm supposed to tag seven random people, but because i'm lazy you guys can tag yourselves.
music: kiseki; GReeeeN
Labels: memes
tune out the world ; 11:14 PM
little green men, give me something to do.
i got a pretty new phone, yay. it's black and shiny and sleek. and it's a clam-shell phone, which only makes it that much cooler. i've always wanted a clam-shell phone but somehow i always end up with the candy bar type of phones. so yes, i'm very satisfied with my phone now. just please, please don't die on me!
job hunt the past few days has been tiring, to say the least. i absolutely abhor talking on the phone, and the fact that it's with complete strangers who may be potential employers makes it so much worse. and i hate it when they say they'll call you back but then they never do.
part of me wants to go out and work and earn some money so i can pay for my japanese lessons, and the other part of me -- the spoilt brat part -- wants to just sit at home and waste away in front of the tv watching rainbow romance (which i finally found in kl! all 200+ episodes of it.) and doing nothing much else. went out with rabecca and sam today on a job hunt. didn't manage to go to any job agencies, but we did call up a few of the classified job ads. i think out of the 3 of us only rab was the most proactive in looking for jobs haha; sam and i were kind of complaining about every job because every one of them would have some sort of flaw for us to pick on. there was this one ad about selling flowers from 12th to 14th feb that i was quite keen on, but the guy hasn't smsed me yet even though he said he would. sigh.
i think it's pretty hard to get a job with my japanese lessons being so inconveniently scheduled right now, so maybe i should just wait till the elementary 1 course ends before i go sign up for the next and choose a course at night or something.
and everytime i think about what to do after getting my results i get more and more depressed, because everytime i do that a new problem seems to crop up. scrouging around for information on the net does absolutely nothing to help either, because with each page i look at the idea of actually studying in japan becomes so much more distant. it's not just the tuition fees (which, come to think of it, isn't so much of a problem since it's actually not very much more expensive than studying in a local university) but there's so much more to consider as well. the application procedures alone are enough to make you want to go bash your head against a wall. and because i was so dumb and decided to quit japanese in sec 2 it's so much harder now because now there's still an additional language barrier that i have to get over. and after that there's the EJU... and even then i have no idea what university to apply for.
maybe i should just stick it out here, huh. raaaaaaargh i feel like bashing something up.
i wish the sky would open up and drop a path down for me to follow. but this "shou zhu dai tu" kind of mentality wouldn't be of much good would it? (gee i guess my chinese isn't all that messed up after all.)
okay give me a job, somebody, if for nothing more than to take my mind off such matters.
music: ai uta; GReeeeN
tune out the world ; 10:43 PM
job hunt the past few days has been tiring, to say the least. i absolutely abhor talking on the phone, and the fact that it's with complete strangers who may be potential employers makes it so much worse. and i hate it when they say they'll call you back but then they never do.
part of me wants to go out and work and earn some money so i can pay for my japanese lessons, and the other part of me -- the spoilt brat part -- wants to just sit at home and waste away in front of the tv watching rainbow romance (which i finally found in kl! all 200+ episodes of it.) and doing nothing much else. went out with rabecca and sam today on a job hunt. didn't manage to go to any job agencies, but we did call up a few of the classified job ads. i think out of the 3 of us only rab was the most proactive in looking for jobs haha; sam and i were kind of complaining about every job because every one of them would have some sort of flaw for us to pick on. there was this one ad about selling flowers from 12th to 14th feb that i was quite keen on, but the guy hasn't smsed me yet even though he said he would. sigh.
i think it's pretty hard to get a job with my japanese lessons being so inconveniently scheduled right now, so maybe i should just wait till the elementary 1 course ends before i go sign up for the next and choose a course at night or something.
and everytime i think about what to do after getting my results i get more and more depressed, because everytime i do that a new problem seems to crop up. scrouging around for information on the net does absolutely nothing to help either, because with each page i look at the idea of actually studying in japan becomes so much more distant. it's not just the tuition fees (which, come to think of it, isn't so much of a problem since it's actually not very much more expensive than studying in a local university) but there's so much more to consider as well. the application procedures alone are enough to make you want to go bash your head against a wall. and because i was so dumb and decided to quit japanese in sec 2 it's so much harder now because now there's still an additional language barrier that i have to get over. and after that there's the EJU... and even then i have no idea what university to apply for.
maybe i should just stick it out here, huh. raaaaaaargh i feel like bashing something up.
i wish the sky would open up and drop a path down for me to follow. but this "shou zhu dai tu" kind of mentality wouldn't be of much good would it? (gee i guess my chinese isn't all that messed up after all.)
okay give me a job, somebody, if for nothing more than to take my mind off such matters.
music: ai uta; GReeeeN
Labels: thoughts
tune out the world ; 10:43 PM
Saturday, January 3, 2009
it's never too late to go home.
mmm i am eating ichigo-flavoured gum that rach the wonderful gave me. it's really good! the gum has this outer covering that kind of melts in your mouth when you take your first bite, then every other bite after that makes you feel like you're drinking strawberry juice. somehow, eating it makes you feel very happy. or maybe the happiness comes from staring at the ichigo card that came with the gum. thank you so much rach!
yesterday passed without many hitches, surprisingly. murphy must still be on his new year vacation. and there were so many photo opportunities too, but i didn't take any photos because i didn't bring my camera along for dhs homecoming and i was too lazy to hop upstairs to get my camera during the potluck.
homecoming was pretty good, and i saw many many people whom i haven't seen in ages. there were eds seniors like wai lumn (is that how you spell her name?) and yvonne, and there were all the eds juniors whose names i will remember if you let me stare at them for a while more. haha i know one of them is called joleen or jo-something. and there was an anthea somewhere as well? except i don't think anthea was amongst those i saw yesterday. ahh i felt so bad when i went over to say hi to audrey who was talking to a bunch of people, and that bunch of people suddenly screamed "michelle!!" at me and i was momentarily "oh no who are these people". but then they began to look very familiar after a while more. and i saw juniors from the orientation class i took when i was in sec 3 -- 1 bombwe right haha -- like shuting, and suvichak and junming's brother both of whom i saw from a distance but couldn't say hi to.
and i also met peiqi and liying and xumei who is the most horribleperson rectum on earth LOL. i can't believe the first word we exchanged after what, 4 years of not much talking to each other had to be v*****. and i can't believe she gave me such a name either. which totally reminds me of that time when i was walking along the 4th floor walkway linking the classroom block to the main school block, and rectum was on the 1st floor and proceeded to shout really loudly "OI V*****!" arghhhhhhh. and liying and peiqi who never go for class outings, sigh. but it was good seeing them again. and audrey and xinrong and dianne and chengyi were also there, and we took a photo with xinrong too haha. and ming shuan went too! with her 4b class people like kangqi and weiting. oh, and i saw suzanna as well, who i took a moment to recognise because she had a new hairstyle from when i last saw her.
then there were all the teachers, some of whom i really miss haha. like mr siva and his sarcastic wit lol! except he seems really changed now because ever since graduation i've met him twice i think and he's never sarcastic in the least anymore. didn't manage to talk much to him yesterday because we only saw each other in the corridor where he was walking with his class to the classroom, sigh. and i can't believe he remembers me hahaha. and we saw miss yap (except i think now it's mrs fong) and she remembers me too! she says my eyes look way bigger now with contacts. and there was mrs vora as well, who never seems to be around when we actually go back, but she was there yesterday and we talked for a little while.
eeek i just blew a gum bubble and it exploded and plastered itself all over my nose. okay, i don't think anyone needed to know that.
i really should have brought a camera along. sigh.
anyway, after that i went home to prepare for the potluck later on, and yimean came over at around 4 to help with the sushi which didn't turn out too bad! haha. okay now i know it's not the knife that can't cut properly, it's all in the rolling process. i shall make more sushi one of these days since there's so much left over sushi fillings and i have more japanese rice left. amos made very good onigiri for yesterday! haha. and we had lots of chicken yesterday; there was seaweed chicken, and meatballs, and popcorn chicken, and chicken nuggets, and chicken cutlet/fillet that rach brought i think... and there was beehoon, and lots of drinks, and chin's bottle of red wine that was surprisingly pretty good.
and after we were all stuffed with food we went on to play polar bear which was ridiculously amusing. charles wins the award for being the best at polar bear LOL he swayeed everyone into believing he was innocent when he was the last polar bear remaining. and he got everyone else to kill the last detective hahaha. charles should go join drama. after that we went inside where some of us watched get smart, some of us mahjong-ed and the rest played cards. all in all it was a very fun night. plus i managed to pass almost everyone their very much delayed class birthday presents! so... i guess potluck was quite a success. thanks for coming, you guys. ^^
might be going to kl for a short trip on monday, if i can switch dates for my japanese lessons. mmm and i still can't find a job. pfft. what with japanese lessons, and my wanting to take driving lessons, i don't suppose i can find a job with such flexible shifts.
music: hana; orange range
tune out the world ; 2:30 PM
yesterday passed without many hitches, surprisingly. murphy must still be on his new year vacation. and there were so many photo opportunities too, but i didn't take any photos because i didn't bring my camera along for dhs homecoming and i was too lazy to hop upstairs to get my camera during the potluck.
homecoming was pretty good, and i saw many many people whom i haven't seen in ages. there were eds seniors like wai lumn (is that how you spell her name?) and yvonne, and there were all the eds juniors whose names i will remember if you let me stare at them for a while more. haha i know one of them is called joleen or jo-something. and there was an anthea somewhere as well? except i don't think anthea was amongst those i saw yesterday. ahh i felt so bad when i went over to say hi to audrey who was talking to a bunch of people, and that bunch of people suddenly screamed "michelle!!" at me and i was momentarily "oh no who are these people". but then they began to look very familiar after a while more. and i saw juniors from the orientation class i took when i was in sec 3 -- 1 bombwe right haha -- like shuting, and suvichak and junming's brother both of whom i saw from a distance but couldn't say hi to.
and i also met peiqi and liying and xumei who is the most horrible
then there were all the teachers, some of whom i really miss haha. like mr siva and his sarcastic wit lol! except he seems really changed now because ever since graduation i've met him twice i think and he's never sarcastic in the least anymore. didn't manage to talk much to him yesterday because we only saw each other in the corridor where he was walking with his class to the classroom, sigh. and i can't believe he remembers me hahaha. and we saw miss yap (except i think now it's mrs fong) and she remembers me too! she says my eyes look way bigger now with contacts. and there was mrs vora as well, who never seems to be around when we actually go back, but she was there yesterday and we talked for a little while.
eeek i just blew a gum bubble and it exploded and plastered itself all over my nose. okay, i don't think anyone needed to know that.
i really should have brought a camera along. sigh.
anyway, after that i went home to prepare for the potluck later on, and yimean came over at around 4 to help with the sushi which didn't turn out too bad! haha. okay now i know it's not the knife that can't cut properly, it's all in the rolling process. i shall make more sushi one of these days since there's so much left over sushi fillings and i have more japanese rice left. amos made very good onigiri for yesterday! haha. and we had lots of chicken yesterday; there was seaweed chicken, and meatballs, and popcorn chicken, and chicken nuggets, and chicken cutlet/fillet that rach brought i think... and there was beehoon, and lots of drinks, and chin's bottle of red wine that was surprisingly pretty good.
and after we were all stuffed with food we went on to play polar bear which was ridiculously amusing. charles wins the award for being the best at polar bear LOL he swayeed everyone into believing he was innocent when he was the last polar bear remaining. and he got everyone else to kill the last detective hahaha. charles should go join drama. after that we went inside where some of us watched get smart, some of us mahjong-ed and the rest played cards. all in all it was a very fun night. plus i managed to pass almost everyone their very much delayed class birthday presents! so... i guess potluck was quite a success. thanks for coming, you guys. ^^
might be going to kl for a short trip on monday, if i can switch dates for my japanese lessons. mmm and i still can't find a job. pfft. what with japanese lessons, and my wanting to take driving lessons, i don't suppose i can find a job with such flexible shifts.
music: hana; orange range
Labels: occasions
tune out the world ; 2:30 PM
Thursday, January 1, 2009
put on your mask and never let it drop.
for some reason, i've always thought that the way you spend your first day of the new year will have an effect on what you do for the rest of the days of the year. which is why i always make an effort to be on my best behavior for that day, even though it's probably just some silly illogical way of thinking. therefore, i must not be selfish or self-centred or whiny as i usually am.
met up with the pooks earlier in the day, but only for a short while. maybe this means we'll be seeing a lot more of each other in the coming year? anyhow, even if all we did was play cards and talk about random things, i had fun and it was nice seeing them all again. and i'll see them again (except dawn) tomorrow when we return to dhs for homecoming. it's a good start to the year i guess.
with homecoming and potluck and all, tomorrow is going to be an awfully tiring day. shall have to wake up really early and then get ready the things for sushi-making and wait for yimean to come over and then sam to come over and then hopefully my house doesn't get too trashed during the potluck dinner. and i'm not looking forward to the mighty clean-up after that, sigh. here i go again, complaining as usual.
okay, if i think about it positively, then things will turn out good right? positive thinking, i've heard it works wonders. haha. alright i should go sleep early in preparation for the nerve-wracking day tomorrow.
music: kiseki; GReeeeN
tune out the world ; 11:18 PM
met up with the pooks earlier in the day, but only for a short while. maybe this means we'll be seeing a lot more of each other in the coming year? anyhow, even if all we did was play cards and talk about random things, i had fun and it was nice seeing them all again. and i'll see them again (except dawn) tomorrow when we return to dhs for homecoming. it's a good start to the year i guess.
with homecoming and potluck and all, tomorrow is going to be an awfully tiring day. shall have to wake up really early and then get ready the things for sushi-making and wait for yimean to come over and then sam to come over and then hopefully my house doesn't get too trashed during the potluck dinner. and i'm not looking forward to the mighty clean-up after that, sigh. here i go again, complaining as usual.
okay, if i think about it positively, then things will turn out good right? positive thinking, i've heard it works wonders. haha. alright i should go sleep early in preparation for the nerve-wracking day tomorrow.
music: kiseki; GReeeeN
Labels: thoughts
tune out the world ; 11:18 PM
tomorrow, i will smile more than i did today.
if i strain my ears, i can hear the fireworks going off over at marina bay. then if i close my eyes and imagine, i think of multi-coloured fireballs exploding into stars high up in the sky. plastered against the blackness of the night sky i suppose it would be a pretty sight. and all the faces illuminated under the light of the fireworks must add to the whole atmosphere.
and here i am, holed up away at home, being a total hermit. i'm not even watching the fireworks on tv even though my entire family (minus my brother who is as usual glued to his computer) is. sigh.
honey and clover has this really interesting bit about fireworks. i think it was something about their being so short-lived; they shoot up, explode, and then fade away into nothingness such that it becomes hard for us to remember what colour or what shape they were. but even if we forget how they looked like, we'll always remember the face of the person next to us at that moment -- that is why you can't watch fireworks alone. or something like that.
okay, 2008 hasn't been a wonderful year for me, but i survived, and there are parts of it i wouldn't ever want to forget. and i'm still supposed to do up a to-shoot list aren't i! okay, just for the fun of it, here goes.
1. chin
haha i've always told chin he's no.1 on my to-shoot list. and there are many, many reasons for his claiming the top spot. first, he teased me endlessly about flamingoes back when sam first gave me that name. then, he shot down all my zombie plans A to E! except zombie plan C, because that happens to include him. and, he bullies everyone on dota because no one except maybe peiyen is really his match. so that means i get killed a lot, and then he laughs about it. plus there was that time he stole my ezlink card which had my super embarassing primary 5 photo on it that i will not show anyone and TOOK A PICTURE OF IT. i hope you deleted it already chin, or i will come look for you with a chainsaw. if i think of any more reasons why chin's no.1 on my to-shoot list i think i will go shoot him right this instant, so i shall stop here.
okay, so actually the rest of the to-shoot list just consists of names that aren't ranked, because i've only ever classified chin as no.1 to shoot because he was so mean. anyway, moving on...
sam
okay, sam's on the list because she totally came up with the name flamingo! and because she tricked me into thinking she wanted to study with me, only to surprise me with like 1/3 of the class gathered at the food centre near my house. and because she's a pochama but refuses to admit it. and she also randomly matches me up with people and tells me they are good catches! *puts on a very serious tone* sam, i am loyal to ikuta toma, edison chen, kim ki bum, lee donghae, lee joon ki, josh hartnett...
rab
what more can i say. rab's my enemy. she's my love rival (for sam, not charles lol), and we have this whole mutual hate thing going on. honestly. we hate each other's guts. we even write each other hate notes! i still have them as proof. we're true, honest-to-goodness foes okay. therefore she must definitely be on my to-shoot list. it's just a question of what gun to use really... hehe.
yimean
because she's constantly laughing at my height and making jokes like shortguns and all. pfft. i will grow mushrooms on your head yimean!! and also because she's the lamest person you'll ever meet, super random and always ready with a very lame thing to say that makes everyone groan because it's so so lame. haha. and she also keeps trying to steal ichigo from me!! not that she's ever going to succeed. hehe.
okay i'm too bored to carry on. and technically my to-shoot list doesn't even exist, because i can't shoot any of them. if i shoot chin, there goes my zombie plan C, which according to chin is my only viable one anyway. if i shoot sam, i lose my partner for all my zombie plans, and no more class outings would get planned. if i shoot rab, charles would totally kill me. and then i'd have no one to annoy and get entertained by anyway. and if i shoot yimean, there will only be rach and i left in the go-gaga-over-bleach-characters-club and it wouldn't be as fun. therefore, the way i see it, my to-shoot list cannot exist.
i am rambling so much today, and for no good reason too. it's probably because i finally finished reading grotesque, which was really nothing more than a rambling whine. so much for having to good read with which to usher in the new year, sigh.
sam tells me that the potluck dinner will probably be at my house. thank you for organising everything sam, it's been really hard on you! but i'm sure everything will be fun for the dinner. i promise i will be a good hostess and not cram everyone into the tiny room and make you guys watch the rest play xbox like i usually (and selfishly) do. haha i will go rummage around for my twister mat or maybe my ddr mats as well so everyone can do stuff instead of sitting around being bored.
but maybe... hopefully... chris will suddenly miraculously reply sam telling her that he can book a function room or something. okay i'm just being downright lazy here, haha. it's just that you guys must all be bored of my place already anyway, having been here any number of times...
alright i think i should go off and sleep. first resolution for the new year involves sleeping more but not excessively. the second is this -- tomorrow, i will smile more than i did today.
happy new year people. ^^
music: happiness; super junior
tune out the world ; 12:02 AM
and here i am, holed up away at home, being a total hermit. i'm not even watching the fireworks on tv even though my entire family (minus my brother who is as usual glued to his computer) is. sigh.
honey and clover has this really interesting bit about fireworks. i think it was something about their being so short-lived; they shoot up, explode, and then fade away into nothingness such that it becomes hard for us to remember what colour or what shape they were. but even if we forget how they looked like, we'll always remember the face of the person next to us at that moment -- that is why you can't watch fireworks alone. or something like that.
okay, 2008 hasn't been a wonderful year for me, but i survived, and there are parts of it i wouldn't ever want to forget. and i'm still supposed to do up a to-shoot list aren't i! okay, just for the fun of it, here goes.
1. chin
haha i've always told chin he's no.1 on my to-shoot list. and there are many, many reasons for his claiming the top spot. first, he teased me endlessly about flamingoes back when sam first gave me that name. then, he shot down all my zombie plans A to E! except zombie plan C, because that happens to include him. and, he bullies everyone on dota because no one except maybe peiyen is really his match. so that means i get killed a lot, and then he laughs about it. plus there was that time he stole my ezlink card which had my super embarassing primary 5 photo on it that i will not show anyone and TOOK A PICTURE OF IT. i hope you deleted it already chin, or i will come look for you with a chainsaw. if i think of any more reasons why chin's no.1 on my to-shoot list i think i will go shoot him right this instant, so i shall stop here.
okay, so actually the rest of the to-shoot list just consists of names that aren't ranked, because i've only ever classified chin as no.1 to shoot because he was so mean. anyway, moving on...
sam
okay, sam's on the list because she totally came up with the name flamingo! and because she tricked me into thinking she wanted to study with me, only to surprise me with like 1/3 of the class gathered at the food centre near my house. and because she's a pochama but refuses to admit it. and she also randomly matches me up with people and tells me they are good catches! *puts on a very serious tone* sam, i am loyal to ikuta toma, edison chen, kim ki bum, lee donghae, lee joon ki, josh hartnett...
rab
what more can i say. rab's my enemy. she's my love rival (for sam, not charles lol), and we have this whole mutual hate thing going on. honestly. we hate each other's guts. we even write each other hate notes! i still have them as proof. we're true, honest-to-goodness foes okay. therefore she must definitely be on my to-shoot list. it's just a question of what gun to use really... hehe.
yimean
because she's constantly laughing at my height and making jokes like shortguns and all. pfft. i will grow mushrooms on your head yimean!! and also because she's the lamest person you'll ever meet, super random and always ready with a very lame thing to say that makes everyone groan because it's so so lame. haha. and she also keeps trying to steal ichigo from me!! not that she's ever going to succeed. hehe.
okay i'm too bored to carry on. and technically my to-shoot list doesn't even exist, because i can't shoot any of them. if i shoot chin, there goes my zombie plan C, which according to chin is my only viable one anyway. if i shoot sam, i lose my partner for all my zombie plans, and no more class outings would get planned. if i shoot rab, charles would totally kill me. and then i'd have no one to annoy and get entertained by anyway. and if i shoot yimean, there will only be rach and i left in the go-gaga-over-bleach-characters-club and it wouldn't be as fun. therefore, the way i see it, my to-shoot list cannot exist.
i am rambling so much today, and for no good reason too. it's probably because i finally finished reading grotesque, which was really nothing more than a rambling whine. so much for having to good read with which to usher in the new year, sigh.
sam tells me that the potluck dinner will probably be at my house. thank you for organising everything sam, it's been really hard on you! but i'm sure everything will be fun for the dinner. i promise i will be a good hostess and not cram everyone into the tiny room and make you guys watch the rest play xbox like i usually (and selfishly) do. haha i will go rummage around for my twister mat or maybe my ddr mats as well so everyone can do stuff instead of sitting around being bored.
but maybe... hopefully... chris will suddenly miraculously reply sam telling her that he can book a function room or something. okay i'm just being downright lazy here, haha. it's just that you guys must all be bored of my place already anyway, having been here any number of times...
alright i think i should go off and sleep. first resolution for the new year involves sleeping more but not excessively. the second is this -- tomorrow, i will smile more than i did today.
happy new year people. ^^
music: happiness; super junior
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tune out the world ; 12:02 AM