Thursday, August 10, 2006
yay, yesterday was a great day!
HAPPY (belated) BDAY SINGAPORE!
i do think singapore is an awesome place to live in. though it's so sheltered, small and in a way narrow minded, i love it. it's clean, safe, and u can just get anything u need. i do not understand why pple keep harping on singaporeans being 'kiasu'. ok, so we hate to lose out. but it is the same for everyone else around the world. for example, my sister, when she was at Harvard,went for an exam half an hour early thinking that she was being unnecesarily "typicalyl" singaporean kiasu. to her horror, she went there and realised that the hall was already more than half full with the so-called less kiasu and more sane ang mohs and other nationals. [erasing some potentially offensive statements] consider pple in other countries, u will realise that singaporeans are relatively well-mannered and considerate. of course it is not the case for every single person here and there's room for improvement, but kiasuism really is not such an issue here. at least we queue.
yes,
singapore's ok.
xinni, xiuru and shi hui were to come to my house for a video, picnic and swim.
in the morning i woke up to make teriyaki chicken and jap rice. i think that the chicken was quite a success, considering it was the 1st time i made it. haha. it got good reviews from xinni, xiuru and shi hui =) what a spread, we had [xinni brought] sushi, chicken, cream puffs (my fave!), [shi hui] tuna sandwich(which caused her finger to swell, ouch!), [xiuru] chips, and other sinful objects, [me] teriyaki chicken, jap rice, green tea ice-cream. yummy yummy. we watched the hot chick, i have no idea how many times i've watched it, but it never fails to crack me up! then we went to my sis house to swim. shee hwee had to leave 1st though. xinni and xiuru kept forcing me to swim, i almost died there and then. xiuru really scarred me with her, "two more, four more [laps]!" it was a small pool, but still. i really miss them to much. i miss the days when i could just walk down the corridor and scream them out of their class. good thing i treasured the time in those days. still, i wish i could see them every day! at least i get to be irritated by xinni in nj still.
night time was another nice time. i went back to my sister's house to eat a sumptious (i use sumptious becoz it was really luxury food) dinner and watch
the producers. though there are some bad reviews on it, i thoroughly enjoyed the musical turned film. really well arranged. i was particularly entertained by will ferrells' neo-nazi role. haha.
i went to thread eyebrows (finally!) today and cut hair. i really needed some grooming. haha. gonna watch broadway beng later!
& 5:02:00 PM
He calls you by name .
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
wow, solaris rocks! though it was a 'self-high' time, i think we all had fun. too bad solaris was slacking in the beginning part of the yr, if not we may have overtaken aqua in the NE cup. but nevermind, today, solaris owned! it was a nice 1/4 day, though i still left school at 1+. wasted some time here and there but at least i studied 3/4 of a bio chapter.
i promised to rant abt the horrible restaurant joyce and i went to near bugis junction. it was on __(something) seah street, it's called lai lai beef noodle restaurant serving taiwanese food. [it was such a pity because
real taiwanese food happens to be heavenly] 1stly, we had to wait what seemed like eons for our simple omelette thingie to come. and the people who came after us got their food 1st. then the 4.90 dish came, it was so small we felt like nothing went down our throats. also, we sat there waiting for our whatchamacallit pork rice, but it never came due to the simple fact that the waiter did not take out order though we clearly stated so.
oh well, i forgive them. we do make some mistakes, but i'm proclaiming that i will never step into that place again. then we went to ji de chi. mmmm... good good deserts (save for the cold double boiled plain egg, the hot ginger one tastes better). the almond paste and tang yuan was delectable. i tookaway the almond paste before. it still tasted good at home. i also recommend the mango grapefruit desert. (yes kevin says im 'well-fed')
anyway i had a great dinner. i went to the 4b outing for a short while... really missed all of them. but i left early to meet up with my family to eat at the house of hunan. the food was really good! and due to the opening promotion, it was really value for money. this meal really made up for the bad experience at the taiwanese place. basically almost everything we ordered tasted good. from the deep fried coriander balls to the braised pork... every mouthful was enjoyable =)
thank God He made food!
& 12:08:00 AM
He calls you by name .
Monday, August 07, 2006
ok after like a super long time of being a cheat and dling some nnice blogskin, i finally managed to get it done.
whoo. okie i'll try again to revive this blog, really.
today the most traumatic yet funny experience happened. at 6.30 after completing whatever nonwork i was doing in the artroom i decided to go home. (hindsight: the art pple were all kind of high on the turpentine we used in oil painting. spewing nonsensical words about the room. thoroughly entertaining though!) a few steps down the corridor was the (other) art room where i had habitually placed my bag and paper bag. horror of horrors, it was locked. so was the art office which was my last hope as there is a connecting door. locked too... joyce, in disbelief, checked it out and was, with reason, convinced that my situation was absolutely humourous. miss lu, miss chan and mr lee all left. hence i was in dire straits. after considering my situation for a while and thinking over all alternatives, the thought of going home to a mommy sitting on the couch asking me where my bag was set me off in LAUGHTER. it was a really funny thought. but after abt 5 min the truth set in. my hp was in there, so were all my hw, and the used thermoflask which would be fungal by tmr. the thought of a nice half day with no lessons ending with me having to lug all the baggage home was daunting. highly, and childishly, tear-inducing. furthermore, mommy wasn't home at the time, i was to be left to live or die on my own. then i found out mr lee was to come back. it was to my relief. but i had to wait for him. ugh. so abt 1 hr of my life wasted in school... when he finally came back, he lied that he had no key, oh-so convincingly. that was majorly potentially tear-inducing. oh well to make an already long story short, i got my bag back and left with joyce. everything is all right. i even got to talk to my semi-depressed friend xinni on the phone (credit goes to peiwen). I MISS XINNI!
on the way into the dark artroom to retrieve my bag, i asked God why such a trivial yet horrible thing should happen on a school night [ u have to understand i was rather desperate to leave the school]. then i felt Him say in life many times there will be delays or things will not go the way we want it to because of the little mistakes of others. so i have to be optimistic, tolerant (just as i want them to be towards me) and take it in my stride. so though i wasted a lot of time and emotions, thank God this lesson was to be learnt in such a way, not any more difficult.
i shall go salvage whatever time i have left of my night!
& 10:27:00 PM
He calls you by name .
