Wednesday, January 30
all i can say isYUM
(i had katong laksa for dinner, okay, so we cheated a little and got it from holland v)
but YUM
YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM
Monday, January 28
my contact lenses were killing me in the office today.. i think perhaps it's time to change to a new pair! which reminds me, i've been putting off getting a new pair of glasses too! procrastination is such a pain in the ass sometimes!! ahahaha.. i'll get round to it.. eventually!the train on the way home was soooo crowded today, there were even stations that people couldn't even get on.. and i don't think i've ever seen that happen before! and there i was thinking i was being pretty smart by leaving the office about 15 minutes early. i guess half of raffles place had the same idea! maybe next time i should leave half an hour earlier instead! ahahaha..
ooh why look, it's dinner time!
sometimes the train ride to work just seems to take forever.. it's only about 9 stops away, but it seems to be more like 90 stops sometimes!
*yawnz* or maybe it's just because i'm so sleepy in the morning that everything just seems to move a little slower..
i've got so many things i want to do, but it seems as if time is just running away faster than i can catch it!
Sunday, January 27
what a wonderful wonderful weekend!i think having that day off on friday was really a good idea, i think i'm quite prepared to go back to work now.. well, at least i think i am! *grins*
but hey, at least i'm alot more recharged now than i was before...
the only glitch the whole weekend is that i've been trying to find my new playstation games that chad bought for me last week... i know i saw them around after he bought them, but now for the life of me i can't remember where! *wails* if only i could do something about this memory of mine! or maybe i just need to start sticking post-it notes around the place a bit more! hee!
i hope the week coming up will be good to me.. i can't believe that the month of january is already coming to an end.. the time really just seems to fly away when you've got so much to do!
Saturday, January 26
today's actually friday, but the whole day i kept thinking it was saturday!i guess it's probably due to the fact that i didn't go into work today.. i figured that i deserved some well earned rest.. *grins* and well earned rest it was! i had a good time just spending the day with chad, hanging out and watching dvds, and at night i met up with sharin, ryan, sharon, and seok bin at starbucks in holland v, i just love the green tea frappucino! *yummm* i like days like this, where i can relax and unwind with friends, and just laugh the whole night away.. even if some of the conversations got a bit bizarre!! ahahaha, but i guess that's what happens when we get together most of the time :P
i think tomorrow, i'm going to do glass painting! i haven't done that for such a long time already, it feels like i'm going to get withdrawal symptoms some time soon!! *hand starts shaking*
Thursday, January 24
interesting person of the day:Florida's Patricia Agness, 55, who does not drive or use buses, wanted to see America. So she rang a taxi company and last week embarked on a cross- continent taxi ride. She's now in Texas.
i just hope she's got enough change for the whole ride!
Wednesday, January 23
i've just been going through the E! online special of the fasion at the golden globes.. and they said the most perfect thing that put a smile on my face..Nicole Kidman walks away with our best dressed award in this stunning black bustier-style dress by Tom Ford for YSL. It's made of knotted suede with a swell slit that shows off Nic's endless milky white gams. Nobody can wear clothes like this girl. Not even a certain Ralph Lauren spokesmodel/actress.
you go E! online!!!!
i've been doing CD reviews most of the afternoon, and i have to say, i think i quite like doing this!! what more could be better than having free cds sent to you, just for you to listen and give your comments on it?
okay, so i really like the free cds part, but hey, it does mean that i have to listen to ALL the cds, even if i don't like the band *points to the boyzone ultimate love collection album* maybe i should try looking for a job as a CD reviewer, and maybe extend it a little to doing movies and plays too! i'll be an entertainment reviewer! how great would that be!!
hmmmmm!!!!
what a bumper day though, i've received THREE packages at work! that's three more than i usually get!
i was kind of embarrassed last night when i had to attend an omega/hour glass event, and as the photographer was taking photos of people there, i had to go up to them afterwards and ask them for their names. there was this fairly pretty girl that had been taken, and so i did my usual thing of going up to her and asking what her name was, to which she very kindly and nicely replied 'kym ng!'
OH MY GOD, i had to ask a TCS actress what her name was! *hides face*
but hey, Kym, if you ever read this, it's not that i don't know any of your work, it's just that i've been out of the country for 6 years! and hey, thanks for being nice about it :P
Monday, January 21
i think i'm starting to lose a bit of my memory.. i can't seem to remember what i've done today, whether or not i've called so and so to arrange things. what's happening! maybe it's just a touch of lack of sleep that i seem to be having. but then again, when can you really be fully rested up and ready for the world to come and hit you?work's been going pretty alright today, i've been trying to chase up one of the co-owners of OD's backstage music bar, who's also co-owner of Oceana Mediterrean Restaurant except that he doesn't seem to want to be found. everytime i call him, he's either on the other line or in a meeting. well gee, if you don't want any publicity then alright then, i guess i can just write about the experience that i had when i went for the opening of the restaurants (which wasn't that great to begin with). some people are just really weird!! i had to attend a birthday party on saturday (on work business of course) and take down people's names after the photographer had snapped a photo of them.. of course there were the usual round of people who seem to have come into the world with no surname! *rolls eyes* c'mon, really, are you THAT big a hotshot that you don't need a surname?
people nowadays!
Sunday, January 20
what a busy busy week it has been!i feel like i've done more work in these past two weeks than i have in the past 10 years! but that's not to say i'm complaining, it's probably still a whole lot better than just sitting at home, staring at the tv and not doing anything at all!
i'm still using the phone that angel has so kindly lent me till i get a new one, but i've come to a stage of indecision where i don't know which phone to get! i was thinking maybe i should get the phone that i lost before.. on the other hand this is also a chance for me to try out new phones too! oh decisions decisions!!!
i haven't been doing my glass painting either, and i'm starting to feel some withdrawal symptoms! funnily enough on the other hand i feel like heading into town and doing a spot of shopping! hmm!
but i wonder what the next week of work is going to be like.. and what to wear?!
Wednesday, January 16
i've been running around attending all these launches for work.. i guess that's good in a way because it means i don't have to be stuck in the office from 9 to 5!it does mean however, that i usually get home after 11 pm, so i'm getting quite tired now.. *zzzz*
so many things to do and so little time!
Sunday, January 13
it's been a rather mixed up weekend.. saturday went pretty quietly at first, we all arranged to meet up for a movie, Amelie from Montmartre which is one of the sweetest and most lovely movies i've seen in a long long time! i know it's only january, but you can be sure that this is definately going to be in my list of most favourite movies for 2002.. in fact, it'll probably be one of my most favourite movies of all time!! we had to watch the midnight show, because the 9 30 pm one only had seats left in the first two rows, and somehow the thought of having to gain a neckache in order to enjoy a movie didn't quite appeal to me!!!but if you get the chance, go and watch amelie, coz it'll be the best decision you'd have made!
unfortunately for me though, about 2 hours before the movie started, chad and i went to the arcade at cineleisure and had a little fun there.. too bad that while we were having fun i lost my mobile phone :( at first when we tried calling my number (well the first five times anyway) it kept ringing until my voicemail picked up, but then after that the phone couldn't even connect, and it would just say 'user busy'. *sigh* and knowing the type of people at arcades, i don't think i'm ever going to see my phone again. :( it's a little heartbreaking i have to admit, because i'm not in the habit of writing down phone numbers anywhere else but in my phone, and sharon just gave me one half of a cute little trinket to hang on my phone (she's obviously got the other half) so that's gone forever too..
DAMN THOSE PEOPLE WITH NO MANNERS AND MORALES!
*sobs*
i guess it could have been worse though, at least i didn't lose my wallet!
*touch wood*
Friday, January 11
work has been getting a little busier, i've been running around picking up products and sitting in on interviews.. at least it makes for a more interesting day then just sitting in front of the computer all day long!*giggles* i think i'm starting to enjoy all this magazine industry.. i just wish i could sleep in a little longer!
there's been a new addition to my family.. chad bought a siamese fighting fish for me yesterday!! *grins* i think they're gorgeous creatures.. the one i have is pure red one, in a cute little tank, with yellow sand! his name (we think it's a he) is Izzy, mainly because we were saying 'is he male? or isn't he?' hee :)
Wednesday, January 9
i'm at the office at the moment, and today has been a fairly slow day.. i guess maybe i might have finished my work a little too fast yesterday! *giggles*but that just means that i'm efficient!
hee!
later i'm going to meet sharon for dinner.. i feel like i haven't talked to her for ages already!!!
Tuesday, January 8
the first day of work didn't go too badly i must admit..it's a rather small office, with about 6 people working there, and they're all really friendly!
i got a huge ass monitor to work with, so it made all the typing that i had to do a little easier.. i think i typed out about 5 articles today, which surprised my editor alot because she wasn't expecting me to get through all of them by today! ahahahaha..
it was a bit drama though, because there was a fire drill in the building that the office is located, so half way through the day we had to troop down 18 floors in heels! argh!
at least the day seemed to go by pretty quickly..
Monday, January 7
a new chapters begins..well, it seems that tonight is the night where a chapter in my life closes, and a new one starts tomorrow at around 9 am...
i'm starting work tomorrow as an intern at harper's bazaar.. not a flash bang start to a career, but i guess even the most successful people had to start somewhere! i don't know how i feel about this new chapter starting.. part of me knows that i should feel really lucky that i've been back slightly more than a month and already i have a job (semi-job, since it doesn't pay) when some people out there have been looking for months and months and still can't find anything..
but on the other hand i guess it means that i'll be leaving behind a life that i know so well and love so much (well, it IS my life, i have to love it!) or maybe it's just that i'm a little scared of stepping ouside my comfort zone.. of the things i know and depend on..
somehow things just seem to have come together a *little* too easy for me to feel comfortable.. like there's a catch somewhere that someone hasn't mentioned yet...
i know i know, i should just look on the bright side of things, new chapters begin all the time, old ones end all the time too.. i guess it's the turning the page that's a little harder to do than i thought..
let's just see how tomorrow goes..
the first day of my career life..
Sunday, January 6
{the waiting game}i think i'm fated to have one of those lives spent just waiting for things to happen.. waiting for the bus to come, waiting for stock to come in, waiting for the rain to stop, waiting for the economy to get better, waiting for people to show up, waiting for people to wake up, waiting for people to learn some manners in a cinema when a movie is showing (i still get clenched fists everytime i think of those 5 CHIJ girls watching the others in the same cinema as us, i have half a mind to write into the school to tell them what a fool their girls are making of themselves) but generally, i think i spend most of my life sitting around waiting for things to take their course.
mind you, it's not that i just sit and stare at the walls and watch the time fly by.. it's more like things just seem to happen, where i end up in situations where i wait. and i wait. and i wait. *sigh* if only i had the heart, to just tell the people who waste my time to go away and never bother me again. i guess life can't be all rosy..
i met up with chad today, and finally managed to go and check out the store that my mom has been telling me about. it's called creative hands, and it sells alllllllll the glass paints i could ever want (or need) and outliners too. thank goodness, because we were starting to run out of them! and then we had dinner at this cute little jap restaurant, although eating jap food made me terribly homesick for melbourne :(
we hopped over to gramaphone, where i bumped into housemate c and her bf cheeks, which was a surprise really because that's the first time i've ever been to gramaphone!! but after some misadventures (why do coffee places close so early?!) we finally managed to find a nice place to just sit down and have a drink..... even if it did mean that we had only 20 minutes to finish our drinks!
even having a drink, i'm waiting for someone to kick me out of the place!
Saturday, January 5
i seem to be living on less and less sleep the last few days.. not by choice of course.. kind of just seems to happen!*rubs eyes* but i'm sure it's probably more PMS related than anything else.. *rolls eyes*
it seems that temporarily my search for a job has ended! i've been accepted as an intern at harper's bazaar singapore! it means i won't get paid, but hey, i'm hoping that there'll be lots of freebies that come with the job, and at least my resume will be beefed up a little by work experience.. and *cross fingers* hopefully they'll even offer me a proper job at the end of it! YAY!!
i went to see spirited away last night in a tiny little cinema in front row seats (neck ache alert!) it's not a bad movie, not the best i've seen, but also not the worst.. the storyline was quite unique, as most japanese anime movies are.. and of course, the animation was top notch!
Thursday, January 3
i've found my hobbit name!ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce myself, i am Peony Bramble of Willowbottom!
*curtsies*
my sister is Iris Bramble of Willowbottom, and chad is Grigory Chubb-Baggins of Pincup! housemate c is Azaelia Danderfluff!! and pebbles is Bougainvillea Bramble of Willowbottom!!!
Wednesday, January 2
what fun fun fun we had!my friends all trooped into my house for a lunch yesterday, which was served (and eaten) with much gusto.. it was mainly spicy food, lots of curry, and things like that, which mean that at least everyone had a rather spicy afternoon!
i brought out my playstation after that, and everyone took turns challenging each other to puzzle fighter, especially ryan, who seemed to like to challenge all the losers! ahahaha :)
after that we started up our 'sweatshop' of glass painting again, and i think i may have gotten housemate c hooked on it!
i hope everyone had a really good time, because i know i'm sure i did :)
happy new year everyone :)
Tuesday, January 1
oh my god, i can't believe that time has passed by so quicklyfor goodness sakes' it's already 2002!!!!!!!
where has all the time gone?
it just seems to have flown past while i wasn't looking...
*shakes head*
i still remember when it was just turning into 2000, and everyone was convinced that the whole world was going to collapse, and look where we are now.. two years on, and still nowhere like the jetsons!
and on top of that, it's my parent's 30th wedding anniversary!
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