3 August 2009
;15:08“Maneck studied Beggarmaster’s excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did humans do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else’s. A little annoyance they acted out like a gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle would do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.”
//Rohinton Mistry; A Fine Balance
it's the last stretch before school starts again haha, straining to put in all sorts of stuff we wanted to do into the last two weeks we've got. first time I ever saw zouk ytd at the zouk flea n easy and boy, I didn't think it was that small lah! it's like so muuuuch smaller than the zouk I had in my head lor, sad. I expected it to be much grander than that. so I was saying to rach, "wah it's so tiny leh how do all the clubbing people fit in here?" and rach said, "aiya, that's why boys like to come here what! otherwise go clubbing for what, might as well stay at home!" LOLduh. also it's super ulu cos instead of taking a bus, we walked all the way from tiong bahru mrt to jiak kim street. ohmy, the most strenous exercise I've had in months haha.
but zouk flea was nice, cos it wasn't so crowded but it was filled with hip, eyelinered people haha everytime I go to a flea event, I think gosh I haven't seen so much eyeliner together in one place before! lots of clothes but only fell in love with one dress, the rest too ex already la and rach managed to get her sandals at ten bucks only, pro!
this past week feels like we've been in two different places but all's good, I've learnt how to deal with it. nothing a hot cup of tea, an open window and an early morning sms can't solve.
22 July 2009
;21:05 “When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.”
//Henry Rollins
today, most definitely, wasn't the greatest. the sky was awfully grey and it was whipping cold wind and rain from the moment I woke up. luckily for lunch, we had an enormous bratwurst pizza and awesome chocolate cake at nydc. I checked and realised that we had this about a month ago also haha! no wonder vicks keeps insisting that my arms are fatter ugh. the consolation is that when the new school terms starts (in less than 3 scary weeks) can lose weight damn quickly also. pft, kind of pissed but don't know who to vent it all on. also super tired from lugging all that stuff around which I didn't get to use. happily though, we managed to get a pair of shoes each! yeah I know retail therapy is a cheap thrill, but it's better than nothing huh.
"Love will be an impulse which can inspire and ruin in equal measure." //Neil Gaiman
this has still been a crazy week but managed to spend some time at ikea on wednesday. had the always awesome poached salmon and soft ice-cream! and there was this very cute toy rat with a very realistic tail which I put in a display bathroom sink to see if people will get scared. wished we'd stay around to see if anyone screams hoho. in a week that has not been easy, I really appreciate the little time we have haha even though we spend it on arcade basketball, shooting games and roaming in furniture stores.
and everytime I go shopping with my mogu, I see something I absolutely adore. and she's very crafty one lor, she only encourage people to buy, she never ever buys stuff haha. then everytime I complain, she will say, where got lor, it's always you zhi gao fen yong say wah so nice so nice then zooom you go inside and try already cannn. haha, but we had a great time on thursday! and secret recipe has a most awesome tea time special now, everybody should go there and try the moist chocolate cake. I think after that, you cannot live without it.
right now, kinda waiting for news to see if he's reached safely. don't know if it's cos the reception there sucks or if my msgs haven't been received. zzz that's why I don't like hearing morbid stuff, I kept obsessing about it while walking home. but anyways, it would be better if the douhua shop at elias opens again. I just ordered my sister to go buy some douhua and apparently it's still closed. it's been closed for the past 3 days already la, the pasir ris people cannot take it anymore!
30 May 2009
;11:18Yes, I say mothers too, I say it mechanically, without thinking. But now I know they were the right words to say, I know why they're needed. It is from those who love us that we need to be protected, it is with them that we put down our arms and become vulnerable and defenseless." //Small Remedies; Shashi Deshpande it's not been an easy week but I'm glad to have met up with friends whom I haven't seen in a while :)
went shopping with my mogu on thursday at FEP! haven't been there in a while, so it was nice to go before the school holidays start and the crush begins. we had lunch at this place that I've been wanting to show her since last year, it's owned by her haha! the food is really not bad and it's a very cute place to just sit and chitchat.
and I realise that my mogu has good taste! she picked out two dresses that I really love alot alot, and she knows how to keep me from spending too much money. but her weakness is zips lah. she sees any dress with a zip and she is very excited bcos she thinks it's very unique haha!
then had training for diva la futbol on friday with the soccergirls at siglap cc. I think it's the heat haha, haven't been under such terrible heat for a very long time man. but it was good to just be out, get teased, laugh at others and just enjoy the company. after that, went to claud's house to chill and play mahjong! haha, we were abit rusty at first but I was really lucky ytd, shiyi says how come all the animals are going over to your place huh? but I think bek was the luckiest, she was losing all the way but she earned so much money in the last round that she became the big winner lor haha.
8 March 2009
;01:57//Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. Erma Bombeck
okay yes, so I went to macau over the recess week holiday. haha, it's called recess week what! so anyway, it's my second time in macau, I went there when I was about 4 years old. apparently, I was on a ferry from Hongkong and my only memory is that I puked all over the deck. so ya, haha, I had pleasanter memories this time :)and while it was supposed to be a study trip, I managed to get quite alot of shopping done haha, so it was really pretty fun!
haha, us in our formal wear for the hotel tour the next day! seriously, deming looks like a groom to be haha. we all look so grown-up :) but the hotel tour was pretty fun, notwithstanding the fact that they ducked all our questions about the hotel's performance in the economic downturn and they refused to show us their presidential suite.
camwhore deming! haha, he whips out his camera wherever he goes, even in the lift, he's taking photos of everybody haha.
and they have this cute place called QUBE, where the parents can dump their kids while they go to the casinos. pretty sad concept if you think about it but at least it's fun for the kids. they have playstations, tvs, playgrounds, balls and even free internet wireless access la, kids are having the good life here.
went to visit MGM Grand hotel the next day, so I was doing my best impression of a roaring lion haha.
then we went to Galaxy Starworld hotel which seriously had the best service. the people were all super nice and they showed us the high-roller's room where the toilets are seriously bigger than my bed room. that's the toilet in the second picture, it overlooks the whole cityline of macau haha. we didn't want to leave the toilet after that :)
then, we celebrated yanling's 20th birthday on the third night! it was nearly a failed celebration because the guys got lost in the hotel la, but luckily we managed to make it a few minutes after midnight so it wasn't so bad :)
then went to st paul's on the last day for some last minute camwhoring, shopping and sightseeing. haha, actually there's nothing much to see in the church since the back part's been demolished by a fire. but still, it was fun to go and absorb the touristy atmosphere. there were like tons of chinese tourists milling around the place when we were there.
all in all, macau was damn fun and i'm glad my BGS group pressured me into going. hey, school's stressful but we al need a break :)
"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut." //Channing Pollock
Said like a wise man indeed. So as usual in February, our family gathered for the annual gorging on seafood to celebrate our cousins' and grandmother's birthday. It was AWESOME, really. I had like a mountain of drunken prawns, two helpings of salted-egg crab, a plate full of scallops with kai lan (healthy okay), about five mantous, two guilty glasses of coke and a slice of vanilla ice-cream cake to wash down everything. It was terrible, our table was eating like there was no tomorrow.
And my cousins are so darn adorable la! Aww, just look at them haha :) It was also good to catch up with my older cousin KW who was going back to Australia and to reminisce with KY about the times when we were still young and we played stupid games together haha. KY was lamenting, "Oh noooo, we're hitting the BIG 20, we're officially ooooooldddd!"
The next day, went with Rachel for some cheap-thrill-retail-therapy at Fash Bash! It was really good because we went there pretty early before the place got crowded. Rachel managed to get some really good buys (Miss Selfridge shorts for $5! Pull & Bear dress for $12!) and I got a Zara top for $15! The people there were really nice and friendly also haha, quite willing to bargain with us :) All in all, it was fun because all the things we bought fit us pretty well haha, so we didn't waste any time or money! Then we walked around Vivo some more, haha trying to keep our shopping momentum going. But it was at pull & bear that I found my one true love!
Okayy, I'll admit it doesn't look as good in the picture, but in real life, it was like fast and furious love! THE CAMERA DOES'NT DO IT JUSTICE, IT'S REALLY DAMN BEAUTIFUL. Everyone should go to pull & bear to like get a glimpse and gently caress this beauty. Too bad, it's wayy too expensive for me, I would have willingly given up a month's lunch money for this jacket lah.
Then went to meet Chris for dinner (haha, like two times in one week already lah) at Bugis. Luckily he knows all the foodie places, otherwise we'll end up going to like aston's or some place which we've been to like a thousand times before. And the great thing is that, he always dispenses good advice with the good food. You know the lyrics to 'Stop and Stare' are actually very meaningful? It says "Stop and Stare, you think you're moving, but you go nowhere." Sometimes, we think that it's okay and we have moved on, but actually we're going no where. So if he's confused about what he wants, you have to be certain of what you want and need, and not let him affect you. How true.
Anyway, he brought us to like this whole back street at Bugis where there are rows and rows of good food. So we had duck rice at You Kee and dessert at Ah Chew's Dessert House, which is apparently his favourite dessert place haha. That's watermelon sago dessert by the way, and it's PINK. Haha, such a happy colour that I couldn't resist taking a photo! And to top off the let's-eat-alot-of-rich-good-food-week, I had an ice cream cone at Mac's!
“Maneck studied Beggarmaster’s excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did humans do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else’s. A little annoyance they acted out like a gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle would do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.”
//Rohinton Mistry; A Fine Balance
it's the last stretch before school starts again haha, straining to put in all sorts of stuff we wanted to do into the last two weeks we've got. first time I ever saw zouk ytd at the zouk flea n easy and boy, I didn't think it was that small lah! it's like so muuuuch smaller than the zouk I had in my head lor, sad. I expected it to be much grander than that. so I was saying to rach, "wah it's so tiny leh how do all the clubbing people fit in here?" and rach said, "aiya, that's why boys like to come here what! otherwise go clubbing for what, might as well stay at home!" LOLduh. also it's super ulu cos instead of taking a bus, we walked all the way from tiong bahru mrt to jiak kim street. ohmy, the most strenous exercise I've had in months haha.
but zouk flea was nice, cos it wasn't so crowded but it was filled with hip, eyelinered people haha everytime I go to a flea event, I think gosh I haven't seen so much eyeliner together in one place before! lots of clothes but only fell in love with one dress, the rest too ex already la and rach managed to get her sandals at ten bucks only, pro!
this past week feels like we've been in two different places but all's good, I've learnt how to deal with it. nothing a hot cup of tea, an open window and an early morning sms can't solve.
“When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.”
//Henry Rollins
today, most definitely, wasn't the greatest. the sky was awfully grey and it was whipping cold wind and rain from the moment I woke up. luckily for lunch, we had an enormous bratwurst pizza and awesome chocolate cake at nydc. I checked and realised that we had this about a month ago also haha! no wonder vicks keeps insisting that my arms are fatter ugh. the consolation is that when the new school terms starts (in less than 3 scary weeks) can lose weight damn quickly also. pft, kind of pissed but don't know who to vent it all on. also super tired from lugging all that stuff around which I didn't get to use. happily though, we managed to get a pair of shoes each! yeah I know retail therapy is a cheap thrill, but it's better than nothing huh.
"Love will be an impulse which can inspire and ruin in equal measure." //Neil Gaiman
this has still been a crazy week but managed to spend some time at ikea on wednesday. had the always awesome poached salmon and soft ice-cream! and there was this very cute toy rat with a very realistic tail which I put in a display bathroom sink to see if people will get scared. wished we'd stay around to see if anyone screams hoho. in a week that has not been easy, I really appreciate the little time we have haha even though we spend it on arcade basketball, shooting games and roaming in furniture stores.
and everytime I go shopping with my mogu, I see something I absolutely adore. and she's very crafty one lor, she only encourage people to buy, she never ever buys stuff haha. then everytime I complain, she will say, where got lor, it's always you zhi gao fen yong say wah so nice so nice then zooom you go inside and try already cannn. haha, but we had a great time on thursday! and secret recipe has a most awesome tea time special now, everybody should go there and try the moist chocolate cake. I think after that, you cannot live without it.
right now, kinda waiting for news to see if he's reached safely. don't know if it's cos the reception there sucks or if my msgs haven't been received. zzz that's why I don't like hearing morbid stuff, I kept obsessing about it while walking home. but anyways, it would be better if the douhua shop at elias opens again. I just ordered my sister to go buy some douhua and apparently it's still closed. it's been closed for the past 3 days already la, the pasir ris people cannot take it anymore!
Yes, I say mothers too, I say it mechanically, without thinking. But now I know they were the right words to say, I know why they're needed. It is from those who love us that we need to be protected, it is with them that we put down our arms and become vulnerable and defenseless." //Small Remedies; Shashi Deshpande it's not been an easy week but I'm glad to have met up with friends whom I haven't seen in a while :)
went shopping with my mogu on thursday at FEP! haven't been there in a while, so it was nice to go before the school holidays start and the crush begins. we had lunch at this place that I've been wanting to show her since last year, it's owned by her haha! the food is really not bad and it's a very cute place to just sit and chitchat.
and I realise that my mogu has good taste! she picked out two dresses that I really love alot alot, and she knows how to keep me from spending too much money. but her weakness is zips lah. she sees any dress with a zip and she is very excited bcos she thinks it's very unique haha!
then had training for diva la futbol on friday with the soccergirls at siglap cc. I think it's the heat haha, haven't been under such terrible heat for a very long time man. but it was good to just be out, get teased, laugh at others and just enjoy the company. after that, went to claud's house to chill and play mahjong! haha, we were abit rusty at first but I was really lucky ytd, shiyi says how come all the animals are going over to your place huh? but I think bek was the luckiest, she was losing all the way but she earned so much money in the last round that she became the big winner lor haha.
//Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. Erma Bombeck
okay yes, so I went to macau over the recess week holiday. haha, it's called recess week what! so anyway, it's my second time in macau, I went there when I was about 4 years old. apparently, I was on a ferry from Hongkong and my only memory is that I puked all over the deck. so ya, haha, I had pleasanter memories this time :)and while it was supposed to be a study trip, I managed to get quite alot of shopping done haha, so it was really pretty fun!
haha, us in our formal wear for the hotel tour the next day! seriously, deming looks like a groom to be haha. we all look so grown-up :) but the hotel tour was pretty fun, notwithstanding the fact that they ducked all our questions about the hotel's performance in the economic downturn and they refused to show us their presidential suite.
camwhore deming! haha, he whips out his camera wherever he goes, even in the lift, he's taking photos of everybody haha.
and they have this cute place called QUBE, where the parents can dump their kids while they go to the casinos. pretty sad concept if you think about it but at least it's fun for the kids. they have playstations, tvs, playgrounds, balls and even free internet wireless access la, kids are having the good life here.
went to visit MGM Grand hotel the next day, so I was doing my best impression of a roaring lion haha.
then we went to Galaxy Starworld hotel which seriously had the best service. the people were all super nice and they showed us the high-roller's room where the toilets are seriously bigger than my bed room. that's the toilet in the second picture, it overlooks the whole cityline of macau haha. we didn't want to leave the toilet after that :)
then, we celebrated yanling's 20th birthday on the third night! it was nearly a failed celebration because the guys got lost in the hotel la, but luckily we managed to make it a few minutes after midnight so it wasn't so bad :)
then went to st paul's on the last day for some last minute camwhoring, shopping and sightseeing. haha, actually there's nothing much to see in the church since the back part's been demolished by a fire. but still, it was fun to go and absorb the touristy atmosphere. there were like tons of chinese tourists milling around the place when we were there.
all in all, macau was damn fun and i'm glad my BGS group pressured me into going. hey, school's stressful but we al need a break :)
"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut." //Channing Pollock
Said like a wise man indeed. So as usual in February, our family gathered for the annual gorging on seafood to celebrate our cousins' and grandmother's birthday. It was AWESOME, really. I had like a mountain of drunken prawns, two helpings of salted-egg crab, a plate full of scallops with kai lan (healthy okay), about five mantous, two guilty glasses of coke and a slice of vanilla ice-cream cake to wash down everything. It was terrible, our table was eating like there was no tomorrow.
And my cousins are so darn adorable la! Aww, just look at them haha :) It was also good to catch up with my older cousin KW who was going back to Australia and to reminisce with KY about the times when we were still young and we played stupid games together haha. KY was lamenting, "Oh noooo, we're hitting the BIG 20, we're officially ooooooldddd!"
The next day, went with Rachel for some cheap-thrill-retail-therapy at Fash Bash! It was really good because we went there pretty early before the place got crowded. Rachel managed to get some really good buys (Miss Selfridge shorts for $5! Pull & Bear dress for $12!) and I got a Zara top for $15! The people there were really nice and friendly also haha, quite willing to bargain with us :) All in all, it was fun because all the things we bought fit us pretty well haha, so we didn't waste any time or money! Then we walked around Vivo some more, haha trying to keep our shopping momentum going. But it was at pull & bear that I found my one true love!
Okayy, I'll admit it doesn't look as good in the picture, but in real life, it was like fast and furious love! THE CAMERA DOES'NT DO IT JUSTICE, IT'S REALLY DAMN BEAUTIFUL. Everyone should go to pull & bear to like get a glimpse and gently caress this beauty. Too bad, it's wayy too expensive for me, I would have willingly given up a month's lunch money for this jacket lah.
Then went to meet Chris for dinner (haha, like two times in one week already lah) at Bugis. Luckily he knows all the foodie places, otherwise we'll end up going to like aston's or some place which we've been to like a thousand times before. And the great thing is that, he always dispenses good advice with the good food. You know the lyrics to 'Stop and Stare' are actually very meaningful? It says "Stop and Stare, you think you're moving, but you go nowhere." Sometimes, we think that it's okay and we have moved on, but actually we're going no where. So if he's confused about what he wants, you have to be certain of what you want and need, and not let him affect you. How true.
Anyway, he brought us to like this whole back street at Bugis where there are rows and rows of good food. So we had duck rice at You Kee and dessert at Ah Chew's Dessert House, which is apparently his favourite dessert place haha. That's watermelon sago dessert by the way, and it's PINK. Haha, such a happy colour that I couldn't resist taking a photo! And to top off the let's-eat-alot-of-rich-good-food-week, I had an ice cream cone at Mac's!
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