Sunday, September 20, 2009
still
had one of the worst lead-ups to my birthday ever, but one of the nicest birthdays ever too. even though so many people weren't here with me this year but at least i spent it with people who mattered to me.
thanks for everything guys! i'm really happy i got to spend time with you all especially since we don't really get to meet up anymore.
okay i hope my birthday wishes come true. but i'm not telling what they are hehe.
i have this awful headache from drinking white wine with 13% alcohol i think because my sister chilled the wrong one and thinking it was the usual sweet one i gulped down loads of it before the bitterness spread. i am going to lie down for a while.
music: wae naman; wheesung
tune out the world ; 10:51 PM
thanks for everything guys! i'm really happy i got to spend time with you all especially since we don't really get to meet up anymore.
okay i hope my birthday wishes come true. but i'm not telling what they are hehe.
i have this awful headache from drinking white wine with 13% alcohol i think because my sister chilled the wrong one and thinking it was the usual sweet one i gulped down loads of it before the bitterness spread. i am going to lie down for a while.
music: wae naman; wheesung
tune out the world ; 10:51 PM
Saturday, March 28, 2009
i wonder what victory feels like.
because i think i will be busy with work the next few days, here's an early birthday (or birthay, if you're sam) message for rab.
happy birthday, you receiver-of-my-death-threats-and-hate-messages and love rival (for sam, not charles haha). hope you like the stuff we got for you, and take good care of charlespanzee and squeaky alright? have a very happy year ahead, and despite all i always say about hating you, i think you're an awesome friend actually. ahem. doesn't change the fact that i hate you though. really. (: thanks for being sweet and making birthday wishes for all of us even though you really didn't have to. here's wishing you a wonderful birthday and lots of presents that you'll love. happy 20th! do you feel old yet?? think of your mental age and i'm sure that'll be lots of comfort to you. haha okay, since it's your birthday i won't be so mean. happy birthday you.
and other random photos from today. we went to nyny for dinner and had candy floss!! i had one and a half sticks of cotton fluff because rab couldn't finish hers, so i was very very happy. and nyny has very good aglio olio, which i finished really fast. it felt nice catching up with the rest of them, and i think it always feels wonderful to be around them. hopefully we all get into nus, so there'll be more chances to meet up and all. speaking of which, wynne got into yst! we had double the reasons to celebrate today, haha. congratulations! when you called to tell me i wanted to scream but i couldn't because i was in the library and people were glaring at me. it's wonderful news anyway.
i can't say much about the cake because someone said i couldn't point something out. just stare really closely at the cake and the icing, okay? haha.
and other very random photos from other days. like when wynne won a game of freecell and i was so amazed, because you need to think so much for that game to solve it. so i took a picture of it. haha i feel so much like a mountain tortoise. oh oh, and speaking of tortoises, when we went to build-a-bear wynne and i saw fero turtlesoup's cousin all decked out in taekwando gear and he was adorable. really. like a mini teenage mutant ninja turtle or something, just with ten times the cuteness added in.
and this was taken when i was waiting for my sister to come fetch us with wynne one day when we were working together. it's the fountain of wealth at suntec. it was shooting up this blast of water so so high, and we'd both never seen that before so we both took a picture of it. can't really see it in the picture though. it's that cloudy mass in the centre.
okay what else. i haven't been blogging for quite a while, it seems. oh, i went to register for driving lessons! will be having my btt on 23rd april, and i am very confused over all the road signs. seriously, why are there so many to know?? then my practical lessons will start in may, so hopefully by august i'll be able to drive. haha. i hope.
i need to buy a couple of things, so i'm eagerly awaiting my pay on the 5th. need to get a laptop sleeve, and uhh... okay i know i had some things i wanted to get, but i can't remember them now. and i finally got my bag delivered! i like it a lot. haha. even though it's not exactly as i imagined it to be, i suppose it still looks nice. i'm just worried it'll snap because of all the stuff i put inside.
ah, and i went to trim my fringe today. felt so self-concious the whole day because i thought it looked very weird, but i think i'm sort of getting used to it already, because it doesn't look all that strange to me now. it took me so many days to decide to go trim it, and today i changed my mind about half a dozen times before i finally mustered up enough courage to just go ahead and cut it. i'm so so wishy-washy about stuff sometimes, and i hate that.
hmm, and i finally registered for the elementary 2 lessons of japanese too. seems like this is a week of doing things on my to-do list, haha. wanted to sign up for the same class as max at first, but the time slot i signed up for became full and max had to sign up for the later one. ): hopefully we both get nice teachers! i'm hoping i'll get yamamoto sensei again, because she's amusing and very nice. plus i think she explains stuff clearly too.
gosh this has been such a self-centred entry. if you count the number of "i"s and "me"s it'd probably be astonishing.
somedays now it feels like i'm just drifting along, going to work when i have to and scrambling to finish up essays for university applications when i don't have to work. it's like i'm at a loss as to what to do with my life. and just the other day when i was working with elena we were talking about what we wanted to do in life, and i realised we pretty much shared the same ambition. which came as a relief, somehow, because i'd always thought i was the only person with so little drive and goals in life. haha we both just want to be happily married, really. i kind of understand what mrs loo meant when she said i was a simple girl with simple wants now, although i still don't quite agree with the simple part because i dream of impossible stuff so often.
but they're all just daydreams, really.
music: what do i do; jisun (boys over flowers ost)
tune out the world ; 12:19 AM
happy birthday, you receiver-of-my-death-threats-and-hate-messages and love rival (for sam, not charles haha). hope you like the stuff we got for you, and take good care of charlespanzee and squeaky alright? have a very happy year ahead, and despite all i always say about hating you, i think you're an awesome friend actually. ahem. doesn't change the fact that i hate you though. really. (: thanks for being sweet and making birthday wishes for all of us even though you really didn't have to. here's wishing you a wonderful birthday and lots of presents that you'll love. happy 20th! do you feel old yet?? think of your mental age and i'm sure that'll be lots of comfort to you. haha okay, since it's your birthday i won't be so mean. happy birthday you.
and other random photos from today. we went to nyny for dinner and had candy floss!! i had one and a half sticks of cotton fluff because rab couldn't finish hers, so i was very very happy. and nyny has very good aglio olio, which i finished really fast. it felt nice catching up with the rest of them, and i think it always feels wonderful to be around them. hopefully we all get into nus, so there'll be more chances to meet up and all. speaking of which, wynne got into yst! we had double the reasons to celebrate today, haha. congratulations! when you called to tell me i wanted to scream but i couldn't because i was in the library and people were glaring at me. it's wonderful news anyway.
i can't say much about the cake because someone said i couldn't point something out. just stare really closely at the cake and the icing, okay? haha.and other very random photos from other days. like when wynne won a game of freecell and i was so amazed, because you need to think so much for that game to solve it. so i took a picture of it. haha i feel so much like a mountain tortoise. oh oh, and speaking of tortoises, when we went to build-a-bear wynne and i saw fero turtlesoup's cousin all decked out in taekwando gear and he was adorable. really. like a mini teenage mutant ninja turtle or something, just with ten times the cuteness added in.
and this was taken when i was waiting for my sister to come fetch us with wynne one day when we were working together. it's the fountain of wealth at suntec. it was shooting up this blast of water so so high, and we'd both never seen that before so we both took a picture of it. can't really see it in the picture though. it's that cloudy mass in the centre.
okay what else. i haven't been blogging for quite a while, it seems. oh, i went to register for driving lessons! will be having my btt on 23rd april, and i am very confused over all the road signs. seriously, why are there so many to know?? then my practical lessons will start in may, so hopefully by august i'll be able to drive. haha. i hope.i need to buy a couple of things, so i'm eagerly awaiting my pay on the 5th. need to get a laptop sleeve, and uhh... okay i know i had some things i wanted to get, but i can't remember them now. and i finally got my bag delivered! i like it a lot. haha. even though it's not exactly as i imagined it to be, i suppose it still looks nice. i'm just worried it'll snap because of all the stuff i put inside.
ah, and i went to trim my fringe today. felt so self-concious the whole day because i thought it looked very weird, but i think i'm sort of getting used to it already, because it doesn't look all that strange to me now. it took me so many days to decide to go trim it, and today i changed my mind about half a dozen times before i finally mustered up enough courage to just go ahead and cut it. i'm so so wishy-washy about stuff sometimes, and i hate that.
hmm, and i finally registered for the elementary 2 lessons of japanese too. seems like this is a week of doing things on my to-do list, haha. wanted to sign up for the same class as max at first, but the time slot i signed up for became full and max had to sign up for the later one. ): hopefully we both get nice teachers! i'm hoping i'll get yamamoto sensei again, because she's amusing and very nice. plus i think she explains stuff clearly too.
gosh this has been such a self-centred entry. if you count the number of "i"s and "me"s it'd probably be astonishing.
somedays now it feels like i'm just drifting along, going to work when i have to and scrambling to finish up essays for university applications when i don't have to work. it's like i'm at a loss as to what to do with my life. and just the other day when i was working with elena we were talking about what we wanted to do in life, and i realised we pretty much shared the same ambition. which came as a relief, somehow, because i'd always thought i was the only person with so little drive and goals in life. haha we both just want to be happily married, really. i kind of understand what mrs loo meant when she said i was a simple girl with simple wants now, although i still don't quite agree with the simple part because i dream of impossible stuff so often.
but they're all just daydreams, really.
music: what do i do; jisun (boys over flowers ost)
Labels: occasions, photos, thoughts
tune out the world ; 12:19 AM
Saturday, February 14, 2009
my valentine.
sort of had a pre-valentine's day celebration with wynne, rab, sam and peiyen yesterday at bugis, and it really was quite fun. wynne and sam were both nice enough to prepare gifts for everyone, but being totally absent-minded and dense as usual i didn't get anything ready so i felt so awful accepting their gifts. sam gave each of us a rose, which was so much more expensive than usual since it was so close to the actual day itself so i felt even worse about not preparing anything. i don't have a picture of it because i really followed sam's instructions and i've been hanging the rose upside-down, so now it's a little brown and all and wouldn't look nice in a picture.
*insert picture of a pretty rose here*
take spongebob's advice again! just know that the rose was really very pretty yesterday. thanks so much sam. (:
wynne got me floppy from action city. and since floppy hasn't become brown because i haven't been hanging him upside-down, here's a picture.
he's really cute, isn't he? now he joins my mound of plush toys on my bed. thanks wynne! (:
we had dinner at this japanese restaurant in bugis junction, and the food was pretty good. i had omelette soba, wynne had kakiage soba, rab had cold ramen which kind of looked a little like salad, peiyen had charsiew ramen and sam had yakiniku bento. wynne has got pictures on her blog, so if you're really interested in how the food looked like for some strange reason or another (although i'd suggest you not look at it if you're hungry) you can go and look at it there.
after dinner sam, wynne and rab turned into insanse teenage girls and literally dragged peiyen and i to pretty in tokyo for neoprints. i always seem to end up doing insanely embarassing things around sam haha. like the last time, when we went to do rab's thing (for which i'm really sorry that i forgot to bring) and we had to sit in chairs already almost too small for us because they were meant for small kids, sigh. and it wasn't my first time really, haha, because i have other insanse friends in the form of mingshuan and liyun who also have this obsession with neoprints although in recent years i think that obsession has died down. but i suppose it was pretty... memorable.
after all that we went off home, and rab and i decided to get famous amos cookies for the rest for vday gifts since neither of us had prepared any. so we got a big message cookie for each of them! i'm so sorry again for not having gotten anything else for you guys okay. i wasn't even thinking the gathering was a pre-valentine's day thing. anyhow, i'm glad we had the outing because it was really fun.
so, valentine's day is today and everyone is out celebrating except my brother and i. my brother's just home because his date happens to be his computer and i'm at home because i got 4 nice, thick books from the library yesterday so i can be a hermit and stay at home for the week, waiting for phone calls from potential employers. therefore, CALL ME, POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS! haha talk about being shameless and desperate, huh.
and ahhhh huiyi will strangle me and if she doesn't i will strangle myself i totally forgot to email the sponsors after i typed out the letters. okay i will go do it now, instead of wasting my time being here blogging.
music: l-o-v-e; olivia ong
tune out the world ; 1:38 PM
*insert picture of a pretty rose here*
take spongebob's advice again! just know that the rose was really very pretty yesterday. thanks so much sam. (:
wynne got me floppy from action city. and since floppy hasn't become brown because i haven't been hanging him upside-down, here's a picture.
he's really cute, isn't he? now he joins my mound of plush toys on my bed. thanks wynne! (:we had dinner at this japanese restaurant in bugis junction, and the food was pretty good. i had omelette soba, wynne had kakiage soba, rab had cold ramen which kind of looked a little like salad, peiyen had charsiew ramen and sam had yakiniku bento. wynne has got pictures on her blog, so if you're really interested in how the food looked like for some strange reason or another (although i'd suggest you not look at it if you're hungry) you can go and look at it there.
after dinner sam, wynne and rab turned into insanse teenage girls and literally dragged peiyen and i to pretty in tokyo for neoprints. i always seem to end up doing insanely embarassing things around sam haha. like the last time, when we went to do rab's thing (for which i'm really sorry that i forgot to bring) and we had to sit in chairs already almost too small for us because they were meant for small kids, sigh. and it wasn't my first time really, haha, because i have other insanse friends in the form of mingshuan and liyun who also have this obsession with neoprints although in recent years i think that obsession has died down. but i suppose it was pretty... memorable.
after all that we went off home, and rab and i decided to get famous amos cookies for the rest for vday gifts since neither of us had prepared any. so we got a big message cookie for each of them! i'm so sorry again for not having gotten anything else for you guys okay. i wasn't even thinking the gathering was a pre-valentine's day thing. anyhow, i'm glad we had the outing because it was really fun.so, valentine's day is today and everyone is out celebrating except my brother and i. my brother's just home because his date happens to be his computer and i'm at home because i got 4 nice, thick books from the library yesterday so i can be a hermit and stay at home for the week, waiting for phone calls from potential employers. therefore, CALL ME, POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS! haha talk about being shameless and desperate, huh.
and ahhhh huiyi will strangle me and if she doesn't i will strangle myself i totally forgot to email the sponsors after i typed out the letters. okay i will go do it now, instead of wasting my time being here blogging.
music: l-o-v-e; olivia ong
Labels: day-to-day, occasions, photos
tune out the world ; 1:38 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