Monday, December 31
this is one of the headlines in the online version of the age, a newspaper in melbourne..New Year's a quiet one in Canberra
New Year's Eve will be quiet in the national capital because the government forgot to organise any public celebration.
they forgot! i can't believe that they forgot!!!!
Sunday, December 30
ikea was madness!economic downturn indeed! half of singapore must have been there with us, and the other half was in a line outside the ikea parking lot trying to get in!
but i got the glass that i was after, and even some porcelain bowls.. i figured since i was there i might as well buy it, and try and expand my expertise later on! hee hee..
i can't believe that tomorrow is the last day of 2001!!! where has all the time gone?!
thought for the day courtesy of housemate c : Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to to have an "S" in it?
i think i might be addicted to glass painting!
sharon and i just cant' seem to get enough of it, and at the moment we toss around an average of about two projects at a time.. it's really fun though.. although the backache that we get from being hunched over my dining table under the light of one lamp does kind of take its toll! i've just downloaded this gorgeous stencil of van gogh's starry night, and i'm going to attempt to put it into stained glass... i just hope that i haven't gotten in over my head with it!!! but hey, i guess i just got to give it a shot eh?
tomorrow i think i might try and head down to ikea to buy more glass!!!
i met up with housemate c the other day, and she finally showed me all her photos from melbourne.. boy did it bring back alot of memories! all those photos of us with weird expressions on our faces.. heehee! what a joy to look at, and then laugh like crazy.. :P
i'm starting to feel a bit nonchalant about getting a job.. sometimes it just feels to me like i'm just back on holiday, and i'll have to head back to melbourne again soon in a few month's time.. but i guess that's not really how it's going to turn out.. *sigh* i'm not sure what's going to happen in the future, but i hope it's not anything that will give me a great big shock.. in a way, i don't really want to get a job.. i'm finally getting comfortable with the way life is now.. if only it didn't have to change!
can't we all just stay kids for the rest of our lives?
Saturday, December 29
i finally got to watch the lord of the rings yesterday and i thought it was brilliant! the fact that i'd never read the book made it a little hard to follow all the character's names (till now i still don't know what the dwarf was called!) but the cinematography, and the special effects are really one of the best i've seen..the bad news is that i think i'm coming down with the flu... chad and i had to search through the stores to find a sweater for me to wear in the cinema, coz i knew at three hours, it was going to get pretty cold! that and i'd have to concentrate pretty hard on not thinking about having to go to the toilet too!!
i found a good book on glass painting at kinokuniya, so sharon is on her way over now so we can start up the glass painting sweat shop again! hee!
Thursday, December 27
christmas seemed a little quieter this year, after changing plans from this to that, we ended up going to sharin's house for dinner, stuffing our faces silly (as we usually do at her place) and then heading over to embargo at fullerton hotel, which is a pretty funky place.. nice big cushions for us to sit on, and chill out music to groove to!while christmas wasn't without its dramas, it's certainly one i won't forget! i managed to meet up with my group of girlfriends (and partners) and we had such a good time just laughing like crazy at our usual hangout - coffee club at holland v.. it's hard to find us anywhere else actually, because it just seems to be the perfect place for all of us :)
sharon, sharin and i headed off to ikea the other day to buy lots of glass, because we've discovered a new hobby - glass painting!! sharon and i have been slaving away the last few days hunched over my dining table trying to design lots of glass paintings.. it's not as easy as it looks, because the problem we have is usually coming up with a design to paint in the first place!
alright, back to the sweat shop i go!
time to get more glass painted!
Monday, December 24
what a lunch we had yesterday!it was chad's grandfather's birthday lunch, and we headed down to excelsior hotel and ate ourselves silly.. then we hopped over to suntec city and shopped ourselves tired.. mainly because it was pretty crowded, lots of people doing last minute shopping i think. but it wasn't too bad, chad's grandmother came along to do her last minute shopping too, and chad's cousin charmaine and her boyfriend tang (that's his surname though) joined us too, and we all bravely fought the crowds together..
tonight will be another night of eating like crazy.. i've got to hop over to a friend's place before coming home again to have dinner with my folks, and on top of that chad's mother and grandmother both asked me to join them for dinner tonight as well! if only i had so many stomachs and more of me to go around eating all the food!
Sunday, December 23
Top Ten Reasons to Own a Rottie10. Unlimited black and mahogany "accessories," which attach themselves to your clothing automatically
9. You never have to sleep alone
8. No danger of suffocating your dog if you accidentally sit on him
7. Dog can wash the kids' faces for you (no need for Mom's spit and a kleenex)
6. Till your garden with Rott power, not horse power
5. Cleans floors better than a Hoover
4. Never throw away left overs again
3. More cost efficient than a space heater
2. You can sit in your dog's lap
1. Indoor wading pool next to the water dish
and i can tell you, most of those are true too! *giggles*
i've just come across some of the cutest sites about rottweilers! especially this one called rottie grrrrrl. there's a sentence in there that says 'This breed can be very vocal, and it is not unusual for a Rottweiler to communicate through the use of various growling noises.' and boy is that true! the number of growls, and howls and grumblings we've heard from pebbles is truly amazing! sometimes it takes us a little while to figure out what she wants, but it's usually not hard to tell one from the other..
friday night was spent at centro, this pretty new (and supposedly happening) nightclub at fullerton hotel.. i have to say that i had a pretty good time though, even though i wasn't quite in the mood for dancing that night. for the first time in my life, people were actually on the dance floor before midnight was anywhere near around! sometimes it's just so odd how people won't dance until it's midnight or later.. but yea, i can see why seok bin likes to go there so often, and i don't blame her.. i don't think i'd mind going back either!!
today was spent mainly at chad's house where i read through two dr suess books (and each of them read through twice) with his cutie little 6 year old sister.. and then we were off to have dinner with his parents.. and tomorrow it's his grandfather's birthday, so it looks like another day spent with his family!
i watched toy story 2 again this afternoon, i can't even remember how many times i've watched it already, but i just love the show! i feel like such a little kid when i'm watching it, completely captivated by the story line and the characters.. maybe i should watch toy story 1 now since there's nothing else to do.. hmmmmmm...
Friday, December 21
i've done it!i've actually completed the cover letter that i've been promising myself to finish!
wonders of wonders!
*grins*
i guess this is finally a step towards finally getting a job :)
i'm not going to mail it off till after christmas though, but at least now i've finally gotten it done.. and the rest of the cover letters should be slightly easier to write.. i hope!
it's such a wonderfully rainy day!
and that's not something that i'll say very often, because i'm more of a fan of sunny weather, but i guess when we're talking about singapore sunny weather, that's a little different..it's more the humidity that can kill anyone! after 5 minutes of stepping out of the shower, i usually feel like i have to step back in again!!
this rainy weather is so perfect just to curl up in bed and keep sleeping.. which was what i tried to keep doing, except the drilling upstairs started up again! it seems like they're taking a pretty long time just to finish one bathroom!
*yawn*
yesterday sharon spent the day at my place, and the two of us did lots of glass painting at my place! it's quite fun really, except for the part where you have to decide what you want to paint onto the glass.. just ask sharon, that's probably the one thing that i spend most of my time trying to decide. it's great though, because if you decide that you don't like the design that you've done, you can just wash it off again, and redo the whole thing! then when you've decided that you're finished and you like what you've done, just leave it overnight to dry, and then bake it in an oven the next day.. TADAH!
i'm just listening to some chill out music now, enjoying the weather.. if i had a glass of red wine now i think it'd be perfect! but also a great sin, because i've only woken up like an hour and a half ago, and i haven't even had anything to eat.. hehehe, but that would be just the utmost decadance! i've told myself that i'll try and get some work related stuff done today (meaning i'll do my cover letters and send out more resumes) but whether or not that really happens is another thing! i just figure that since it's only 3 more days to christmas, that most people aren't even going to bother about doing more interviews until at least late late late december.. and besides, i'm not that much of a rush to get a job.. if it's something that i'll have to do for the rest of my life, then i sure as hell aren't going to rush to start as soon as possible!
Tuesday, December 18
another venture into town today, and it looks like i might be doing that again tomorrow!i met up with leanne, who's just come back for holidays from the US, and sharon too.. it was a rather short outing actually, because the service at the restaurant that we went to just took so long.. don't these people realise that they're cutting into our precious shopping time?!?!
dark angel is on tonight... although i think i'm still ahead from the double episodes that australian tv kept showing..
i'm in a rather melancholic mood today.. could be because i didn't sleep that well last night. for some reason i woke up about 6 am and then just tossed in bed for about an hour. and lying in bed just thinking isn't very good for your mind either.. it feels like i've gone through almost every aspect of my life in my mind, and i'm not sure if what i came across is what i would have liked to have seen!
but i guess alot of life is what we can't control and what we just don't know how to deal with, maybe it's all part of the learning process, to make us better people in the future, even though it always feels like crap in the present. sometimes i just wish these lessons would be alot easier to understand, alot simpler to take in.
i miss melbourne.. i miss the idea of melbourne, where i had my own place, and i could do things on my own time, with just myself to consider. there was no having to discuss with other people what they were doing and when they were going out to decide what i could do for the day. all i had to do was look after myself and that would be enough to get me through the day. it may sound selfish to some people, but to me it made life alot simpler to lead. and somehow complexities are not what i need from life right now. and dammit, i miss the weather in melbourne, i feel like i'm about to melt every single minute of the day in this oven called singapore.
i hope life shows me what it wants from me soon. otherwise i'm going to start drifting off, and i might like being lost a little too much to want to come back!
Monday, December 17
i've had a pretty good long weekend i'd say.. even though we had to brave alot of the christmas season crowd.. looks like there are lot of people out there that haven't done their christmas shopping yet! eheheh, makes me feel kinda good about getting all my christmas shopping done before i got back home from melbourne! *grins*tomorrow looks like another day braving the crowds.. i'm accompanying leanne and sharon to get their christmas shopping done!
chad and i ventured into town again today, to meet up with one of this ex-housemates who lives in JB.. it was pretty good to catch up with her again.. it seems that it's getting harder and harder to meet up with people sometimes, with everyone starting to go out into the workforce and carve our their careers.. and with so many people in different countries, that makes it kinda hard too! i hope that i'll be able to keep in contact with all my friends, even ten years from now.. might be hard, but i think it's probably worth the effort in the end..
oh! i went to watch yamakasi the other day, this french film produced by luc besson, and it was pretty good! the plot was a little predictable (but then again, where can you find a really great film nowadays with a completely unpredictable plot?) but the action was great, and it had some pretty witty one liners too, which is something i always like in a movie! it seems that tom cruise and penelope cruz are in town at the moment, because they've flown allllll this way to promote vanilla sky and according to the review i've just read, it looks like they really do need to go around the world to promote the movie! ok ok, so i'm kinda biased because i really don't like penelope cruz.. in fact i think i've said that the only time i'm ever going to watch the movie is if someone gets a pirated version of it, so that none of the money i spend on watching it will go anywhere near her! ahahaha, sounds a bit dramatic i know, but it's just one of those things i guess! i have a feeling that most people are only going to be watching the movie to see the chemistry between tom and penelope (cruise and cruz, can you get any cheesier??) i mean, he gave up NICOLE KIDMAN!!!!!!
hmm.. think i better stop now before i keep going on and on too much about it!
Saturday, December 15
orchard road today was just crowded crowded crowded!but i guess i should have expected that since it's christmas shopping season, and school holidays, and a weekend day! but i still didn't expect the hordes of people that were in town.. it seemed as though everywhere i went i had to squeeze my way through..
chad and i went to have dinner at clementi central today, smelling those traditional chinese herbs mixed in with durians is certainly an interesting combination! i think it must be durian season again, much to chad's dismay.. but come to think of it, i haven't had durians in such a long time! *yummm*
it's a public holiday on monday, because of hari raya.. which is the malay equivalent of our chinese new year, which also means that lots of malays out there will be stuffing their faces silly with lots of good food, something we always do during chinese new year!
*rubs tummy*
it's 10 more days to christmas!
boy does the time fly...
Friday, December 14
i've just discovered a video ezy near my place, so chad and i hopped over there earlier in the evening and borrowed legally blonde and the animal! which probably means that we'll be having a comedy night! *giggles* he's still got a ton of DVDs that i've yet to watch, so i don't think i have to worry about running out of things to watch in the near future :)time to order in the pizza and climb into bed!
Thursday, December 13
i've finally watched harry potter!it wasn't too bad from what i'd heard from everyone, and maybe i'll think differently once i read the book (if and when i get round to reading the book) but i was pretty impressed with the movie, and i think the sequels should be pretty interesting too...
my sister has bought the moulin rouge DVD.. so you can guess what i'll be doing tonight!!
i met up with elizabeth tonight too! one of my old friends from seconday school days.. it seems like years and years ago that we last met up, even though it was really only 5 months ago.. hee :) i'm glad i stayed in touch with her though, and i think the internet has certainly helped us alot! i remember the days when we used to still write letters to each other.. but then again i think the days of letter writing have come and gone.. the only thing i get in the mail now adays (and i don't mean email) are flyers telling me about sales and bills.... oh well... no christmas cards in sight yet!!
not that i'm really praying for any to come, i haven't even sent out any myself this year.. i find i just end up writing the same thing in each card and it doesn't really mean very much in the end, more of a formality of the christmas season then anything else...
i'm sure everyone who matters knows how much i care about them anyway.. they don't need a card from me to know that!
but in anycase, HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A MERRY NEW YEAR in advance :)
Wednesday, December 12
arghi think the one thing i'll never forgive my parents for is for buying the apartment that we're living in now.. sure it's on top of a hill and it's quiet, but it's also bloody in the middle of nowhere! it takes me 20 minutes just to get to a MAIN ROAD, we live on the fourth floor, and there's no ELEVATOR..
i sometimes really wonder what the hell they were thinking when they came to see this place and said 'we'll take it!' and i guess it didn't help that i had to spend my last two weeks in singapore before they shipped me off to boarding school moving things into this godforsaken place!
isit too much to ask to be near some public transport?! if not, at least get me my own car or something, so i don't have to worry about the weather and how to get out of the house! *pulls out hair*
this day just seems to be going from bad to worse!
and i just remembered that i only have 40 cents left in my transitlink card
*wails*
maybe i should just curl up in bed and watch more dvds!
shut the rest of the world out, coz if i can't see it, then it's not really there!!!
Tuesday, December 11
the grasscutters have started up their symphony of blades, and it's been playing pretty much all morning..it's not that bad though, i couldn't really hear them till i got up and opened the windows.. but the only thing was that they were competing with the renovators upstairs doing my neighbour's toilet! but i have to say, the music from the grasscutters is probably a whole lot better than the drilling that sounds like it's right in my room with me!
it looks like a pretty mundane day, weatherwise that is.
Monday, December 10
i've just discovered today, REDUCED FAT OREO COOKIES! oh my god what a heaven sent idea! i think all those years in australia with no oreo cookies must have really made me deprived.. i might even turn into an oreo cookie soon! i've tried the mini oreos, the white fudge covered oreos, the double stuf oreos, and the new reduced fat ones.. in fact, i have ALL of those in the house now!i went out to stadium cove yesterday to have a look see at the arts market that's going on there.. well, alright, i went mainly because my friend angel has a store there, and she told me i had to come down one of these days to have a look!
i've always liked arts markets though, and i think yesterday's one would have been a whole lot better if it hadn't been for the sweltering heat that just seemed intent on baking us all! there were quite a few things there that caught my eye.. i ended up buying some leather roses from angel's store sanduo (that's three stalks in chinese) and this pair of wooden sandals with handpainted flowers and hand embroidered flowers on it.. supposedly from vietnam! silly me thought the only thing great in vietnam was the beef noodles! ahahah :)
Saturday, December 8
the concert was the BEST in the world!i guess i would say that though, because i'm a huge fatboy slim fan anyway.. but i danced and i danced, and i danced like there was no tomorrow! even when my feet were aching, my knees were about to give way, my toes were in agony (we were dancing on a slope) and i was suffocating from all that smoke the smoke machine was belching out, i still couldn't stop dancing!
fort canning green was a great place to hold the gig, there was enough space for people to just sit and relax without getting too much smoke machine blowing at them, but there was enough of a dance floor for it to still have that 'clubby' feel! and all that fresh air! no need to breathe in second hand smoke! the only bad thing was that the land is pretty uneven, and dancing on a slope is amazingly hard on the feet!
fatboy slim aka norman cook always looks like he's having such a great time when he's up there at the console spinning away.. at one point during the night he even wrote a note and flashed it to the camera that said 'I LOVE THIS JOB!' ahahaha.. when other people are enjoying themselves, you can't help but enjoy yourself too!
i did have a minor scare (or rather major at the time) during the night - i dropped my wallet and didn't have a clue where i'd dropped it. luckily the wonderful sharon backtracked with me and managed to find it still lying on the ground! *phew* i've never lost my wallet before, and i didn't intend to start on that night!
*bops head*
i think last night was definately one of the highlights of the year :)
Friday, December 7
fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slim fatboy slimi woke up with this slightly odd feeling today, and then realised it was because i was sore from yesterday's swimming. SORE! from swimming!! i really must be a whole lot weaker than i think i am! no matter though, i'm sure that by tomorrow morning i'll be even sorer, from my six hours of dancing to fatboy slim. i'm really really looking forward to this gig, the last fatboy slim gig i went to in melbourne was terrific! i hope the rumours of him retiring are untrue! i want to bring my little joycam along tonight, but i don't think photography is allowed, and at the same time it might be hard to try and dance holding a joycam too!
and there's always the eternal question of what to wear, what to wear?
am bopping to fatboy slim's halfway between the gutter and the stars..
Thursday, December 6
i've finally got more colour to my skin than just PALE!ahahaha, i've got the rosiest cheeks at the moment, like i've gone a little crazy with the blusher..
i realised it's been almost a year since i went swimming.. a whole YEAR! how anyone can go that long without swimming i don't know!!!
i went with housemate c and my mom to a shisedo sale, which include etussais and 5s brands too, and we managed to get a whole load of bargains.. i just love sales!
i'm getting quite excited by the fatboy slim concert.. i can't believe that this time tomorrow i'll be standing at fort canning green, waiting in anticipation of the most wonderful music in the world! *swoons*
that's just soooo typical of the weather
morning after morning the sun's been blazing like crazy.. and on the one day i've decided i want to go swimming in the morning, the sky is completely overcast, and the sun's not anywhere in sight..
i think it really must be a conspiracy out there to try and keep me from ever being tanned!!!!
FATBOY SLIM countdown - ONE MORE DAY!!!!!!
Wednesday, December 5
i've spent the morning working on cover letters and resumes, which really can tire you out quite a bit.. i'm even getting sick of hearing about myself! hopefully i can just get them sent out and then the rejections can start rolling in like they always do, and then eventually someone will say that i'm peeeeerfect for the job and that they want me! YAY! and then my working life can begin :)pebbles had to go to the vet today to get some awful looking warts removed.. they were pretty nasty, and she had about 4 - 5 of them on her..
now the poor girl's struggling to stay awake, looking slightly odd with these bald spots on her neck and shoulder (if you can imagine where a dog's shoulder would be) because of the warts that they removed from there.. she couldn't really walk straight when we went to pick her up, and i think she almost fell asleep in the car (which has never ever happened, and which would have been a record because we live like 2 minutes' drive from the vet)
now she's just lounging around, waiting for the rest of the family to come home and shower more attention on her.. but i think she deserves it!
speaking of pets, housemate c has had her first three casualties in fish rearing.. fortunately her dad came to the rescue and brought home 5 more! ahh.. the wonderful world of rearing guppies! you just never know what's going to happen! which reminds me.. i better go feed my fish!!
countdown to fatboy slim - TWO MORE DAYS!
Tuesday, December 4
boy am i full of crabs now!i've just come back from dinner with sharon and her family (which consists of her parents, her brother and his girlfriend!) plus my mom as well, and if anyone ever asks, the best chilli and black pepper crab is at a place in still road! i ate and ate to my heart's content! i haven't had crab in almost a year, and all those crabs that they served certainly satisfied it! *rubs tummy*
i've finally gotten the dvd player to work properly, before it wasn't a multizone player, and ironically it was only the pirated dvds that managed to work on sunday night! but now it plays all the dvds that i have so YAY! i can finally catch up on all my movie watching.. hee :)
seok bin was over earlier doing her cross stitch, which brings me back to the days of long ago where i used to do tons and tons of cross stitch...
still no difference though, it still makes me cross eyed and blind!
Sunday, December 2
*pant pant*today started out as a day where i was supposed to stay home and work on my resume, try to get some cover letters done, and then send them all out tomorrow
which of course never happened!
my sister has decided that she wants to learn how to play all my playstation games.. which i ended up playing myself in the end anyway :P
and we've just come home from harvey norman, where my sister has splashed out on a sony (who are but the world's geniuses in technology) home theatre dvd system and since i've made chad lend me a bulk of his dvds, it means that i can finally finish watching all those movies i've been saying 'hey, i want to watch that!' for ages!
sharon and seok bin have said that they'll join me for the inaugrual (is that how it's spelt?) session of all night dvd watching, but rest assured, they'll definately be more to come!
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