Monday, July 29
i've got this off delwen's site ..the kabalarians say:
The name of Deborah has given you organizing ability as well as an expressive, positive, and self-confident nature. You are able to work well with people and can capably direct their activities. You enjoy music and art, and love to meet and mix with people. An appreciation for quality has prompted you to strive for the best standard in dress, material possessions, and choice of food. On occasion, you can be intolerant and critical of others, quick to argue and to dominate situations. Though the name offers a fair degree of balance, you would have to watch that strong appetites do not find an outlet through excessive eating, causing overweight and resultant problems, or through emotional experiences which could create unsettled conditions in your personal life. Weakness in the health could centre in the female functions, or skin conditions could be troublesome.
hmm.. excessive eating and overweight problems huh? *looks at the mountain of durians i ate earlier on*
i've just searched for chad's name too.. and boy is it quite accurate!
ehh.. i had something i wanted to write in here, which i was composing in my head a while ago, and it came out witty and funny, and smart even...
but now i can't even remember it! *doh!*
anyway, my mom and i had a ton of durians today.. yummmm!! i guess it's one of those things that you either love or hate. it's a good thing my sister or chad weren't around, otherwise they both would have probably thrown themselves out the window. or maybe they'd have thrown us out the window, and the durians after us!
needless to say, i'm soooo full now, i think i've had my durian fill for about the next 5 years.
*burps*
Sunday, July 28
was surfing some blogs, and came across one by a girl named Savannah, and she had this great little quiz thing, so i thought i'd do it here!THE BASICS
1. [Spell your name backwards]: harobeD
2. [Where do you live?]: Singapore
3. [Describe yourself in three words]: quirky, loyal, creative
4. [Who is your worst enemy?]: probably myself!
5. [If you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be?]: a polar bear! it'd be the one animal paler than i am!
6. [What is the latest you've ever stayed up?]: hmm.. 6pm the next night?
7. [Ever been to Belgium?]: no
8. [What's your favorite coin?]: coin?! no idea!
DESCRIBE YOUR:
9. [Wallet]: black JPG with embossed flowers
10. [Brush]: purple, plastic, from Body Shop
11. [Toothbrush]: electric, braun
12. [Jewelry worn daily]: my solitaire ring
13. [Pillow cover]: one dark blue, one light blue
14. [Blanket]: blue with white trim on the bottom
15. [Coffee cup]: i don't drink coffee
16. [Sunglasses]: i have a pair, but they've disappeared.. probably in one of my handbags!
17. [Underwear]: mainly marks and spencers or target stuff
18. [Shoes]: open-toed!
19. [Handbag]: waaay too many to describe
20. [Favorite top]: any one that makes me look skinny :P
21. [Favorite pants]: comfy, and can still make me look skinny!
22. [Cologne/Perfume]: anna sui
23. [CD in stereo right now]: sheryl crow, c'mon c'mon
24. [Tattoos]: one, lower back
25. [Piercings]: 5
26. [Wearing]: chad's old miami dolphins NFL shirt (i just got up)
27. [Hair]: straightened, and trying to get back to my natural hair colour!
28. [Makeup]: eyeshadow, a touch of blush and mascara, and lip gloss
WHAT/WHO (is/are)
29. [In my mouth]: tongue stud, tongue, and teeth
30. [In my head]: work, work and work, and chad, of course!
31. [Wishing]: that work goes smoothly!
32. [After this]: hmm, probably eat lunch
33. [Talking to]: no one at the moment..
34. [Eating]: echinacea, i don't want to get sick right now
35. [Do you like candles]: yeah
36. [Do you like hot wax]: not particularly
37. [Do you like incense]: yeah
38. [Do you like the taste of blood]: not really!
39. [Fetishes]: hmm, non-sexually: handbags and shoes. sexually: like i'm going to tell you!
40. [If you could get away with it and murder anyone, who and for what reason]: my grandma! she's a pain in the ass who's never nice to people unless she needs something
41. [Person you wish you could be with right now]: giselle
42. [What/Who is next to you]: sewing machine on my left, a movable cabinet of drawers with my clothes in it on my right, and a pretty messy computer table in front of me
43. [What do you want done with your body when you die]: cremated and thrown into the wind!
44. [Do you believe in love]: definitely
45. [Do you believe in soulmates]: yes
46. [Do you believe in love at first sight]: i believe in lust at first sight, not necessarily love
47. [Do you believe in Heaven]: sort of
48. [Do you believe in forgiveness]: yes
49. [Do you believe in God]: yes, but that doesn't mean i need to go to church for him to know i believe in him!
50. [What's something that you wish people would understand]: that i'm not here to be used by them
51. [What's something you wish you could understand better]: why some people are just so damn weird!!
52. [What's one thing you want to make happen for tomorrow?]: smaller boobs!!!!
Thursday, July 25
today was my first day of work with the singapore women's weekly, and i have to say, i walked out of that office at 6 30pm feeling immensely overwhelmed. the old editorial assistant, jasmine (who's such a sweetie!) was told by the big bosses that she had to leave TODAY, instead of the 31st, because she's leaving the company for a 'rival' magazine. so what jasmine had intended to teach me over the next 4 days, she had to teach me in two hours.boy was my brain tired by the end of it. it's probably not as bad as i think it is, because it's work that has to be done through the month, not all at the one shot. it'll take some time i'm sure, to get used to the system of everything, but i hope i can do it!
Tuesday, July 23
SUPERSTAR John Travolta had a bout of Wednesday flight fever when his ex-Qantas plane hit engine trouble leaving Melbourne last week.The Boeing 707 experienced a surge in one engine and take-off was aborted to allow safety checks to be made. It was not clear if Travolta, who is in the middle of a world tour promoting Qantas, was at the controls, however it's believed he wanted to fly every leg of his goodwill journey.
Qantas spokesman Simon Rushton said the incident occurred about 9.15pm on Wednesday as the 707 was preparing to take-off for Perth.
"There was a surge in one of the engines, caused by an air disturbance of some sort," he said.
Sunday Telegraph
ohboy
that can't be very good news for Qantas!
the rain just started pouring down from nowhere! it wasn't one of those long drawn out mornings, where it's cloudy from the moment you get up and gets progressively darker and darker through the afternoon (well, it's really still only late morning now). but the sky looked perfect when i got up about 9 30am, and i only got up that early because of my furry alarm clock that came scratching on my door. she seems to not like it very much when i sleep in!
at least the weather'll be a little cooler later on, so i'll just have to put up with the thunder and lightning for now! it's been stinking hot the past few days, and i always think i'm going to melt any second. *sigh* times like this makes me miss melbourne even more!
the good news is that i've got a job! i'm the new editorial assistant at the singapore women's weekly. i'm not earning that much.. well, not enough to qualify for a credit card just yet anyway! but it's better than nothing, and i've got to start somewhere. i'm a little nervous and excited about it, and i'll be starting work on thursday, so that the old editorial assistant and i overlap before she leaves for her new job. i think there are probably alot of things i've got to learn from her first!
if i save up enough money next time, and start earning mountains of money (yah right!) i'd like to start a collection of vintage/retro polaroid cameras. there's a site with the SX-70 polaroid camera and it looks so cool!! i just love the way polaroid pictures come out.. the colours always seem a little warmer than conventional film. or maybe it's just the instant gratification.. i'll normally be carrying around my joycam, or my digital camera!
i love the retro/vintage period, i just love the whole look of the era, the fashion and the style. but play me any retro music and i'll probably have to whip out a machine gun and shoot everyone. *shudders* for the life of me i can't see what the obessesion with retro music is. it's terrible!! it's almost as if singaporeans are stuck in a time warp, and all they know is bad 80s music.
it's already the 21st century, let's move on for cryin' out loud!!
Monday, July 22
thanks to a girl named emma for writing the daycount code that housemate c passed to me! it tells you how many days you've been blogging already, and i just realised it's been slightly over a year already. where does all the time go?don't you hate the times, when you have so many things running through your head, but you just can't seem to find the words or the energy to write them down? it's like i just want to find someone to sit down and pour my heart out to, even about the mundane things that have happened, just so i can share the news of what's going on with my life. i should just stop worrying about things, my friends are old enough to get by in their life, and i shouldn't have to worry about them, but i do! i just can't help it!!
i think i'm too attached to people, i trust them too much, and worry about them too much. i get confused when people act harshly towards me, or treat me in a way i'd never expect. i had a dream the other night about a close friend (or now, ex-close friend). we used to spend almost every day together, because we lived so nearby. and it was great, we had the same sort of interests, and liked doing the same sort of thing, so we hung out alot. but then she'd disappear, and i'd never hear from her, unless she needed something.
that's something i really hate. i hate it when people are only nice to me when they need something. if you're at least sheepish about not speaking to me very often, that's still not so bad, but i know people who blatantly don't really care for me, but turn on the 'best friend' vibe when they know i have/can do something for them. c'mon, who'd really want to be treated like that?
i'm starting to think that you'll never find that one 'best friend' to share everything about your life with, because they've always got their own thing to do, or just can't be bothered to listen to the mundane things that make up nonsensical conversations. there are some people that you can talk all day to, but it seems like they'll never really understand what you're saying, or worse, try and tell you whatever you think is wrong!
*pulls out hair* i have friends that drive me crazy, but i have friends i know i can't do without! i guess they're just the people that you can't live with, but you can't live without! (abit like men, eh?)
i wish there was some way to figure out who's awake at 1am in the morning, so you can just call and have a chat.
Thursday, July 18
i've found myself in a rather jazzy mood while i was at borders earlier on in the evening. well, it really all started when i popped in to by the serendipity soundtrack for chad, and then i just kept browsing through the jazz section, and finally picked up the verve/unmixed album. it's actually one of two albums, the other being the verve/remixed album, where they've taken all these old classic jazz songs, and remixed them (the unmixed album contains all the original songs). i think they've done a pretty good job with the remixed album, although i haven't bought it yet, but i'm going to!and i discovered that borders has put in a new system in those listening stations that they have. you can now listen to ANY of the cds that they have there! all you have to do is bring the CD up to the listening station and scan the barcode in. the bad thing about it is that it doesn't play the whole song, and some cds have barcodes that aren't quite at the edge of the cd.. so it can't scan! that's a little silly i say!
but after my detour into borders, i met up with my gal pals for dinner, and it's always fun to meet up with gal pals for dinner, because we all just sit around and talk about the most nonsensical things! a big topic of the night was eyebrows, and if you ever think you can't have more than a 20 second conversation about eyebrows you're wrong! because not only did we talk about eyebrows, it was a topic that came back again after about an hour! ahahahah.. well, i guess that shows we really are girly girls after all! but it was great to just meet up and laugh the night away.. life just ain't the same if you haven't got your gal pals nearby!
*grins*
i just got this from housemate c's blog...
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i've had a record number of two interviews in one day! which is pretty amazing, considering since i've been jobless for the last 4 months, i've only had one other interview!
but i'd have to say that the interviews went pretty alright.. i'm not an expert at doing interviews, and i probably made some mistakes as i went along (the perennial question of: tell us a bit about yourself. argh!) but the general feeling i got was that it went fairly smoothly. the first interview was with her world, and it wasn't a total disaster, but i don't think it went fantastically well either. i felt a little intimidated, or maybe that was just psychological. i was applying for the position of writer, and well, i'm not even trained in writing! that's not to say i can't.. but i guess if i'd had that training i'd feel a little more confident.
the second interview was with singapore women's weekly, which is the same company that harper's bazaar works under! and i think that went alot better than the first one, and i know that at least i'm more familiar with the company, and it'd feel more at ease there. i was interviewed for the position of editorial assistant, which i think suits me fine, because it means that i can slowly gain the confidence, and then move on up to features writer next time. if that's what i want to do in the future anyway!
i guess i'm still young.. i've got lots of time to figure out what i want to do. afterall, this is supposed to be the start of a career that will follow me through a lifetime! gosh, how scary does that sound? i think it's harsh to make people decide when they're about to go to uni what they want to learn, so that they'll have the right skills to get through life (job wise that is). how do you know at age 18 what you want to be? *sighs*
a little at a time, i guess that's just the way i'll have to take it!
Monday, July 15
i'm sitting here at my desk, trying desperately to stretch my jeans. they're a great little pair, quite comfortable (when they're stretched and they do fit!), and they match with practically everything in my wardrobe! but i guess that's the point of jeans!! why don't they fit as well? not because i've put on weight (at least i better not have!) but it's just that my mom has an uncanny ability to wash my jeans, just at the point where they're at their most comfortable.*sigh* and everytime she does that i tell her not to wash them at all, because it means weeks and months of trying to stretch them out again! oh woe..
alright, so there could probably be worse things that could happen to me, but hey, when you're a lady of leisure with not much else to do, all the little things seem to become much bigger!!
the good news is that i've got a writing test tomorrow with a magazine, and *cross fingers* i hope that it's going to go off without a hitch. i'm only worried about having to be there at 9 am, which means i'll probably have to get up around 8 am.. i can't even remember when the last time i woke up at 8 am was...
i've got an allergy on my right forearm, and all these little red dots are driving me crazy! i've had to put a bandaid on one of them (a cute winnie the pooh one too!) because i keep scratching it, and i know if i keep scratching it, it'll just keep getting worse and worse! i'm not quite sure what i'm allergic to, but it's not much of a surprise.. as much as i love all my jewellry and accesories, i think i'm probably allergic to most of them because of the damn humidity in singapore.
tonight i'm off to catch a trial and orientation performance at the esplanade, where chad works! it shoud be quite fun, there's a whole bunch of us going together.. and of course it'll be brilliant anyway, because the whole thing was organised by chad :)
so yes, minority report i thought was pretty good, although it did confirm my theory about tom cruise - he seems to have realised that he's an action star.. can anyone remember the last time he did a dramatic role? i say this because he's got looks (a bit like how derek zoolander has looks too!). he's got the 'oh my god, you mean my most trusted friend/mentor/girlfriend/buddy is the bad guy?' and the 'okay, so my ex-most trusted mentor/friend/buddy knows that i know he's gone bad, what do i do now?!'
*grins* c'mon, you got to admit it, he's brilliant at those looks now!
i watched serendipity over the weekend too, not in the cinemas but on DVD at chad's place, and it's such a sweet movie! i love movies about fate and love (although only you stretched it a little far!) so if you're in need of a feel good movie, serendipity's definitely one to get!
Sunday, July 14
what a lovely day i had!it started out a little slow though, with me sitting around in chad's place when he had to go to work.. i wandered into town around 1pm to get some errands done, and just to.. well, wander while i was waiting for chad! (ooh, check out the almost alliteration on that sentence!)
so we had ourselves a little lunch, and wandered around somemore, with the intention of watching a movie today. we watched minority report which i have to admit, was pretty cool! i like the fact that the landscape and the surrounds in the movie don't look so far in the future that it's unrecognisable.. that even though there are cars travelling on set paths, and other cool gadgets like ads that talk right to you, there are still old fashion things like railways and plants, cottages and lakes!
okay, it's a little late now, so i'll continue on again tomorrow...
g'nite!
Saturday, July 13
i went to watch bend it like beckham yesterday with lorraine, kelvin and grace. it's one of the best movies i've seen!!! i kept laughing through the whole thing, and at the same time lorraine and i kept laughing at these girls that were sitting near the front. i think they were indian girls, and we guessed had either seen the movie before, or knew some famous people in the movie that we didn't have a clue about, because they kept laughing when people appeared on screen! it was bizarre!the coach in the movie is a real cutie! *slurps* plus he's got the most brilliant irish accent as well, and i just love brilliant irish accents!!! it's a pity that imdb doesn't have his photo though!
i just read this really funny article how to marry a celebrity, at E! online.. i love it when they do those nonsensical, but entertaining reads!
Which "Natural Wonder" are you?
Thursday, July 11
i just got this off an email that was sent to my sister from darren:One piece of chocolate contains just enough
energy to enable you to reach for one more piece
Tuesday, July 9
A sweaty Dutchman who caused a stink by removing his shoes in a university library has been fined $430 in court. The magistrate decided the man's "sweaty feet smelled so bad he was a public nuisance".i've been trying to keep my mom out of the house for the last few days, so we've been doing lots of shopping, and i managed to get some pretty nice tops from mango, GG>5 and miss selfridge! and i know my mom likes them too because she kept saying that they made me look much slimmer. god bless you ma!
but tomorrow we're going to stay at home, and clean up the house a bit.. my mom succumbed to one of those salesmen in tangs, and bought a mop type thing that's supposed to work like a vaccum (without the suction) so tomorrow we're going to test it out and see how much dog hair it can pick up!
i've got my new glasses, and i'm wearing them now, but like with all new glasses, it makes everything look kinda warped! apparently the astig in my left eye has gone up even more, so i've had to change to a new type of contact lens, so hopefully i can see alot better after that. i don't want to go blind! i'm only 22!! it's been really hot the last few days, especially last week during the wake.. whatever happened to those days of constant rain?? i guess monsoon season's gone again (not that i really knew when it was to begin with!)
sharon came over yesterday to show me all the photos of her US trip.. i'm so insanely jealous because it looks like she had so much fun there! plus she brought back a bag for my mom and three tops for me! yipee!! so this week, i've got a grand total of 7 tops!! that's like one new top a day! so i guess i don't have much excuse to go shopping over the next few weeks..
*sigh* i can't believe it's only tuesday.. it feels more like it should be thursday or something..
Sunday, July 7
[my grandma]i don't really know where to start with the story of my grandma.. she was my mother's mom, which i guess makes her my maternal grandmother. her birthdate was 15th august, 1921, which meant that she would have been 81 next month. she died peacefully on the 3rd of july, 2002.
she's a mother of 5 children - 4 sons and 1 daughter (my mom!), 11 grandchildren - 3 boys, 9 girls, and a great grandmother to two cutie kiddies - one girl and one boy. i'd say that my grandmother had a pretty full life, and from the photo albums that we all poured over the last few days, it seems that she had a great time travelling around with her friends. we found a really old photo album of her on her wedding day, and i really love seeing all these photos of my family history. i have to admit, she looked pretty glamourous too! i'm going to try and get a hold of the pictures so that i can scan them in, and put them up on my website.
my grandmother suffered a stroke about 4 years ago, which left the left side of her body relatively paralysed and her speech rather slurred, at times, she would forget who we were and mix us up with one another but that certainly didn't stop her from always telling us those wonderful stories of her childhood!! she suffered another stroke shortly after that, and was bedridden ever since then. i think our family was expecting that someday she'd have to pass away.. and we were comforted by the fact that she'd had a great life before she had to leave, and her death wasn't sudden, or tragic, and that gave us the time to prepare for that moment to come. it doesn't really make it any easier to accept, but i guess at least it makes it easier to embrace.
they suspect that she might have died from a stroke-related epsiode, if not from another stroke itself. on the day that she passed away, my mom and i managed to make it to her bedside before she died. i think the only regret i have is that i never got to know her better, since i was always away overseas...
the wake was a very tiring time for our whole family. not so much emotionally, but in a phsyical sense. i was there everyday for 4 days from 10 am to 12 midnight or 1 am in the morning, as was my whole family. through the whole day we'd entertain the people that came to pay their respects to my grandma, and oddly enough i was appointed the accountant for the whole event, collecting money from people who came to visit (don't worry, i wasn't extorting money from them, it's a chinese tradition that you give money to the family of the person who died, so that it can be used to pay for the funeral). i guess only someone like my grandma could have made an accountant out of me!
the whole family went out for a big dinner after the funeral, and although it was a time of sadness, i think alot of us were actually quite happy to be able to spend so much time with one another.. we usually get to meet one another about twice a year if we're lucky, and this is one of the rare times that we've actually managed to get every single uncle, aunty and cousin there, without anyone missing. so of course i took the opportunity to take lots of photos at the dinner, just so we could all have updated photos of the family!
so thank you mama, for being the one to bring us all back together, making sure that we spent time getting to know each other again. i'm sure that you're smiling down upon us, taking care of us from heaven, just as you took care of us when you were still here.
mama, we'll miss you.
Thursday, July 4
quite a bit's happened, my grandmother just passed away last night... i'll give a bit more details later on, when i've got a bit more energy..
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Tuesday, July 2
i have to admit, i don't think i've ever seen my house this clean!! the whole house has been vaccuumed (by me of course), and then mopped by my mom. i even ventured to the back area where the washing machine is, and got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed like there was no tomorrow!alright, so i didn't quite get down on my hands and knees, but i did at least squat till there was no feeling in my legs, scrubbing the floor like there was no tomorrow! i even did the front section of the house where the main door is! i never realise how filthy it is! ergh!!
i tried to vaccuum pebbles a couple of times while she was trying to escape the vaccuum cleaner. i managed to do a bit of her back near her tail, so hopefully there might be *slightly* less fur dropping around in the next few days!! i kept telling her to stay put and not move, so there'd be less fur around.. ehehehehe.
but i'm so proud! i've never had this much floor space in my room before, let alone CLEAN floor space! woohooo!!
Monday, July 1
i woke up a bit out of sorts, not feeling rather good about anything at all (most of all myself) .. usually i'll just come online, talk to some people and feel much better.. but i think it's one of those days that that's not going to happen..i'm cleaning up my room at the moment.. apparently someone's coming to have a look at the house on wednesday, so it looks as if the moving house bug has hit my parents yet again! (we've moved 6 times already!) but at least my room's looking a bit more decent at the moment..
i've also just put on my ministry of sound chillout album 2, which reminds me of housemate c and melbourne times. since i left youuuu
*sigh* those certainly were the days, weren't they, housemate?
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