Where all beautiful things belong

2010-02-13T15:34:00.000+08:00

moved to http://michellechiang.livejournal.com

see ya there!

closed

2010-02-10T17:20:00.001+08:00

this blog is closed. wef NOW

no time, no time

2010-01-31T08:53:00.002+08:00

the two week job at suntec has ended
i will miss working there
great team members to make work more bearable
audit will never be my cup of tea

time is passing faster and faster
no time to pause, no time to think
weekddays are practically burned
the weekend is so short
i need more time to catch up with friends

what's the point of working hard?
what are you trying to achieve?
do you actually have a life?

Random thoughts

2010-01-22T23:58:00.003+08:00

work, as usual, isn't wad i like
thank god for the nice team members
citibank staff are lousy
no reply for audit confirmations
are they paid to transfer calls?
if they are, any idiot can do the same job

singapore fashion is getting worse
crowds are everywhere
girls going for the ugly clothes
c'mon people, where's ur fashion sense
make a stand, stick to it

life's getting aimless
i need some motivation
something to spur me on
the going just gets tougher
without any encouragement

who are your true frens?
those who leave you to fend alone?
those who nv leave you alone?
those who only seek u when they are helpless?
those who nv respond?

things to ponder over
emails to send
shopping to do
style to be created
articles to write

Holidays

2010-01-06T20:25:00.009+08:00

pics of my bkk trip (3rd to 6th dec)
let the pictures speak for themselves

pics from my taipei trip (27th dec to 3rd jan)

brand new year

2010-01-05T21:50:00.002+08:00

happy new year to all
my new year resolution?
healthy, safe, happy
just back from 8d7n taipei trip

awful and rude hotel staff
friendly branded boutiques staff
unlike sg's rude staff here
just coz you work in a branded boutique
doesn't put you in a higher status than me
if you are that good, dun work there

sg's quality of service staff is fast deterioriating
poor english (or singlish?)
bad posture and attitude
snobs, all of them
improve or you will be out of job

winter in taipei sucks
basically i hate winter
nothing to buy, always raining
fussy people everywhere

learn to love and cherish

Take things slow..

2009-12-25T16:29:00.003+08:00

Merry xmas to all
Survived 3 weeks out of the 5 month secondment
Still got quite some time to go
Will perservere and hang in there
Support is very important
Sadly, my family doesn't understand

Glad to have nice tax colleagues to keep ourselves going
Encouraging one another
Helping each other in times of difficulty
Must make an effort to stay together!

It's a lazy Christmas day, cool breezes and all
Not a single plan at all
I miss him...

2009-12-15T22:11:00.002+08:00

new template, new start!
i wanna take up photog classes
learn to take creative pics

xmas is here
i have been shopping for presents
i love to eat log cake!

i hate pretentious girls
they think they are cool and pretty
i think otherwise
they are just bitches

2009-10-18T11:50:00.002+08:00

I have so little pictures to upload. or shld i say, none at all?

all work and no play has made me a very very very BORING person. there's nothing to play in singapore, except watching movies and shopping and singing k and cycling at ecp (when i dunno how to cycle) and nothing else!!

Singapore is such a boring place. how i wish i m in some countryside, where i could drive along the highway, feeling the breeze in my face, stopping occassionally to take in the view. of course, the place must be dry (unlike humid singapore) and have lots of cool breezes!

someone, oh someone, pls give me some suggestions on what kind of activities there are in singapore. I hate and hot crowded places. Haha! that leaves me with very little activities to do eh?

sigh.. till the next time..

2009-09-27T17:27:00.002+08:00

been thinking a lot
gone through the pits
stood up tall and strong
made a confession
yet to confront my true self

i have been waiting
waiting for work to come
waiting for frens to stop by
waiting for happiness to visit
waiting for hugs

i like a hectic life
a really busy one
filled with lots of appt
meeting my loved ones
greeting all with smiles

some frens stay true
others are just passing by
i have identified who's who
time to move on to the truer ones

been trying to stay slim
all to no avail
ended up eating more
gotta curb myself
and curb him as well

2009-09-23T09:05:00.001+08:00

I made a discovery this morning. I realised humans of all races and genders are equally selfish and “kiasu”.

There is this Caucasian lady at my house’s bus stop that never fails to squeeze her way through to the entrance of the bus just so that she can be the first to get a seat. She won’t even say “excuse me”, simply using her hand and huge butt to slice through the crowd. After that came this petite Chinese lady who allowed her bag to hit others while she was getting her sweater out. On a side note, her make up is clearly not thick enough to cover the “potholes” on her face.

I happened to be standing on the bus. So when a guy sitting down wanted to alight, I had to make way for him. I moved to the side and as soon as I moved and the guy moved out, the petite lady just kept pushing her way through till she’s right beside the seat and asked me in Chinese, “Do you want to sit?” Hello? By your tone of asking, if I said yes, I would be asking for trouble right? But never mind, shan’t pick on people with disgusting makeup and complexion.

Then I saw an Indian guy in his mid 50s, consistently having his eyebrows knitted together. I wonder if he’s always like that because he’s deep in thought or because all the whole world owes him a living? Haha..

If you think that Caucasians are very gentlemen, then you are wrong big time. They are just as selfish and ungentlemanly as Asians, if not worse. They won’t give way when you want to alight; neither will they let a lady sit first. They don’t hold the doors for you and they won’t say thanks when you hold the door for them.

This is a very selfish world. Survival of the fittest. Not a smile or a word of thanks. Why can’t everyone be friendlier? Why do you have to squeeze your way out of a train when everyone’s alighting too, only to end up just slightly ahead of others? Why can’t you smile and say “thanks” when people give way to you?

If only everyone remembers the Golden Rule, “Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you”, the world will be a much better place.

2009-09-13T02:19:00.006+08:00

I finally managed to upload pics onto blogger! whoo! haha.. here are some pics from my bday celebration..

we spent a wonderful day/night at Fullerton Hotel, having chosen the "Time for Two" package.
It comes with dinner in the room, buffet breakfast, bubble baths, complimentary roses and bathrobes for u to bring home!

i m too lazy to narrate a lot.. so the pics will tell the story..

1. our room, bathroom.. (super big, cozy, nice view overseeing the IR, Flyer, NDP floating platform, Shenton Way, Marina Square, Esplanade...)

2. The hotel premises

3. Taking a stroll around Shenton Way before our dinner is due in our room..

4. Our dinner with the view and NDP Preview (Stan was the waiter for the day)

5. Best part of the dinner (NDP fireworks! see the "heart" shape fireworks at the bottom left hand corner?)
of coz, the best part of the night was Stan's cheesecake that he made himself.. =)

6. Buffet breakfast that cost $105 for two of us, luckily it's included in the package.. We took 2 hours to eat and still couldn't try finish everything there..

7. Went swimming before checking out.. Wanna go back there again sometime soon!!

That's all, folks!

Sorry been working already, no pics to take... haha..

2009-08-11T13:07:00.000+08:00

Sorry for the lack of updates for so long..

Been busy with work and everything.. Will be posting up pics of my birthday celebration, Fullerton Buffet (which i treated my family to with my first paycheck), and some philosophical thoughts of my own.

My cousins came over to my house to stay for 2 months since July 6 and there's still 2 more weeks to go. They are having school holidays in Shanghai so my uncle wants them to study in Singapore school for the time being. I did not agree to any of this at all, and now I have two monsters in my house and my bed is being taken over by them. since work has started, i have never been able to wake up on a weekday in my bed. sigh..

anyway, i promise to update again real soon! haha.. i dun even know who am i promising to.. who reads this space anyway..

2009-07-18T12:24:00.000+08:00

Having finished my second week of work, I feel less stressed now.
Tax computations are swimming around in my head.
Now is the weekends, time to play hard.

We have done the photoshoot for Stanfordgirls' new website last Sunday but the pics will not be revealed till the whole website is done. We all have a part to do and Stan & I are really grateful to Edwin (the grand photographer cum website designer) for all his hard work thus far!

We will be launching many new stuff along with the website, so pls keep your eyes peeled and keep watching this space! All latest updates will be posted here!

Pls show your support and help us to spread the word of Stanfordgirls all around! =)

Click here to view our current site

Hope to upload pics in time to come.. My blog is getting boring with just words all around..

2009-07-09T22:48:00.000+08:00

into the 4th day of my working life
revising tax concepts
stressed out
feet hurt
so much things to do
so little time to do

commitments to tend to
feelings to be sensitive to
forbearance is gold

2009-06-20T11:37:00.000+08:00

I hurt myself. I cry. I pick up the pieces. I take care of myself.

I will be independent. I will be strong.

In this world, I don't need anyone to live.

2009-06-06T00:31:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone! We are back from Taipei! I have arranged some pics for all!

We reached Changi Airport T3 at 9.45am, all ready to check in our luggage! My luggage weighs only 10kg before going Taipei. Because the flight is only at 12 plus, we had to grab a bite before boarding the plane.

At first, we did not really dare to wear masks on board the plane. But when we were still shopping around at the DFS area, stan's mom called to tell us that Singapore has its first case of H1N1. It was then we decided that we really had to take enough precautions. When we were on the plane, quite many people wore masks, so we wore it too.

The hotel we stayed at was quite good. The buffet breakfast changes menu everyday! For the 6 mornings we stayed there, the main dishes were different everyday! We had lobster salad, xiao long bao and much much more!!

The hotel was relatively simple with no gym or swimming pool, but they had a 24 hr computers for us to access the internet and email. But the room is amazing! Sony Bravia LCD Tv mounted on the wall!! I think the tv is 42 inches. There's a tv inside the toilet too!! That's why I can take up to 30 mins to shower!! Haha.. They have a microwave in the room, so we will buy some baked rice to microwave and enjoy as our supper!!

Day 2:
We went to Taipei Underground Mall. That's what I love about Taipei, even if it's raining outside, I can still enjoy my favourite activity, shopping with Stan!! My cute boy bought many One Piece figurines and he still can't get enough of it! We ate snacks along the way whenever we feel hungry.. We went for a proper dinner at the Shin Kong Shopping Centre opposite our hotel. The food court looks like a restaurant! We shared a huge hotpot of udon and it only costs SGD$8!

Day 3:
We went to Xi Men Ding as Stan has been intending to cut his hair in Taiwan. So as we were checking out a few salons' prices, we went into this shop called "Luan Jian" (Anyhow Cut). We bumped into the lady boss. The first price she quoted was TWD400 plus, so we said thanks, but we will look around. Then she lowered the price and finally to TWD240. It seems like we had no choice but to go in. Anyway it was only SGD$11.

The place was really cool. We were carrying quite some shopping buys, the lady boss served us personally by getting our stuff in the lockers, bringing us 2 iced lemon teas and even switching on the Tv for us!

There were TVs in between two haircut stations. So i sat at one watching Tv while the hairstylist work his magic on stan's hair. He's really good! Haha.. There were other customers playing PS2 while having their hair cut! How cool is that? After all these, I was so tempted to get my hair washed and do a treatment.. but sigh.. we had a small argument the next day and so i din get anything done..

Day 4:
Since the shops in Taipei will only open in the afternoon, we booked a KTV room in the morning to experience the difference in Karaokes between SG and Taiwan! They had buffet but it was nth to boast of, the food is very limited and not very nice. Haha.. But they had a very cool remote control which enables our voice to change to Donald Duck's, Robot's, from male to female, from female to male! Haha.. What's best is that they have a toilet en suite every karaoke room, so it saves the time and trouble of having to walk such a long distance to the toilet and trying to find your own room after that.. Haha..

But it was rather hard to find the songs you want. They don't really have new songs and they classify singers by their number of strokes on their surname! So i counted the strokes of the a surname and tried to find it, then I realised they used "fan ti"!! Argh.. haha.. Well, it's quite an experience..

We went to Shilin Night Market at night and ate lots of good food and bought lots of stuff! Really happy memories!! =) Thanks to my dearie!

Day 5:
We went to the shopping centres near Taipei 101 today. We didn't bother to go Taipei 101 as we have been there last year already. We saw this bus that was painted with Gundam pictures all over! Stan was high and he took the picture!

What was really amusing that there was this beauty pageant going on too. They were looking for Grape Princess (Bu Tao Gong Zhu) and it was a national annual event! I can't believe it! All the contestants looked like 30plus and they wore shiny dresses like those we seen in Singapore GeTai!! Lolx..

Day 6:
We went to Xin Bei Tou for a spring (wen quan). We have missed the bus up the hill so we decided to just walk to the hotel and enjoy the scenery on the way. It was an eye-opener. Even though it was tiring, it was really fun! We chatted, tried to find our way around, took in the beautiful scenery around us.

I have never felt so relaxed in such a long time le.. I feel really lucky to be able to go on this trip with Stanley Quek, he takes very good care of me! Well, I take care of him sometimes too.. When he's too tired, I will give him a massage, cover his blanket, cuddle him to sleep.. I hope he likes it!

We went to Dan Shui after that! Boy, were we lucky that day! It was a really great day, the clouds blocked out the sun and it was a really great place to just take a stroll, look at the vintage games and stuff that we will never be able to find in the modern Singapore! We ate Fermented Tofu (Smelly Tofu). I love it totally!! Good stuff!

We went Xi Men Ding for some last min shopping and ate dinner at TonKatsu. I had a set meal (comprising of miso soup, cabbage, pork katsu cutlet, rice, pickles, scallop trimmings, mochi with vanilla ice cream) which only costs SGD$7!! And they have free flow of rice, miso soup and cabbage! =)

Last Day:
We managed to squeeze all our buys onto the bed and into our luggages after hours of struggling. Haha.. We bought an extra bag to store the stuff that we can't put into our luggages. And we love the cup noodles there (even Stan loves it, he usually doesn't eat cup noodles) so we bought 9 cups back!! Haha.. I can't resist it! They have real meat inside and it's not even vacuumed packed!! it's really soft and juicy!! Yummy!

The bottom left corner pic consists of candies we bought at Xi Men Ding. Look carefully and you will see syringes, condoms, sanitary pads, viagra, french fries and plasters!! Don't worry, they are just candy! Haha..

I really had a great trip this time! I really enjoyed myself thoroughly with Stan. I dunno when's the next time I will be able to go overseas with Stan without any burdens or stress from work. I will be starting work soon and I will hold these memories close to my heart forever!

Most importantly, I want to tell you, Stan, that I love you and I want to be with you forever! Let's stay happy together k?

*o *i *i

2009-05-27T08:18:00.001+08:00

just one short entry before i leave for taiwan..

my dad is unable to send me to the airport today and i know he feels very upset about it. i have always been daddy's girl, maintaining a amicable relationship with him. I love him very much. I know he is worried, but don't worry daddy, I will be safe and take good care of myself.
*a lump forms in my throat*

i m glad that i met his expectations with my uni results, although i did not exceed it, i have put in my best efforts and i hope to give him and my mom the best life i can ever afford..

Please do not ever take your parents for granted. They won't be with you forever. Love them, tell them you love them, show them you love them!

I love you, mom and dad!

2009-05-26T15:38:00.000+08:00

bb bao is blogging today!!

Finally! At this time tmr, we will be thousands of miles up in the sky, on our way to Taipei! Its really time to get a break from boring Singapore!

Things we will be doing:
1) Catch something from the UFO machines --> Have been watching videos on youtube on that!
2) Go Wufenpu and bury ourself in our buys
3) Modern toilet restaurant and get disgusted at the food
4) Shopping
5) Shopping
6) And more shopping haha!

See you guys!

2009-05-16T20:44:00.000+08:00

We met yesterday at Vivo City's Shin Kushiya after 89 messages (thanks Deep for counting) on Facebook. Well, Facebook is a good place for 04S15! We used to communicate via sms or emails which took like forever to confirm on a place and sometimes it doesn't even work out in the end!!

After everyone's exams (except SMU ppl), someone finally started a thread in fb to organise a class outing! Whoo! We have also seized the chance to work out the rough idea for our next gathering, tentatively a gathering at Chris' place, complete with BBQ, gossip, mahjong, cards, wii and the fishing pond!! =)

Below are some pics of our dinner, filled with laughter and jokes! Here's one:
"What's the difference between a bowling ball and a pi sai (the dirty stuff inside your nose)?"
look for the answer at the end of this post

Before i forget, Lubin gets drunk after two cups of sake and the fun begins.... Details shall not be elaborated here, all present at the dinner should know what happened.. hahah..

Next up, we are launching our 12th Collection this coming Monday (18May)!

I am very proud of Stan, he was the one who made the cover for Collection 12! Pls support us!

Join our mailing list here to receive the latest updates and exclusive discounts!

were you waiting for the answer to the joke? here you go:
"For bowling ball, you throw first then roll.
For pi sai, you roll first then throw."

2009-05-04T21:17:00.000+08:00

We sent Stan's grandparents to a wedding dinner at Furama Hotel near Clarke Quay on Saturday.. While waiting for them to finish their dinner, we went to Liang Court for dinner and took a slow walk around Clarke Quay..

It's been a long time since we went out at night.. All thanks to me, I am just becoming a hermit crab, cooping up at home, reading my beloved novels.. Speaking of which, I have just read 3 novels in 2 weeks, cleaned up my room! I have never been prouder of my room! -beams-

The novels are seriously good stuff, you guys should check it out too!

"A Friend of the Family" by Lisa Jewell
"The Wedding" by Nicholas Sparks
"Lucy in the Sky" by Paige Toon

Back to our Saturday night, we went to the basement of Liang Court for Jap Curry Rice, it's really yummy! There are many other stalls, such as sushi, udon, bento! Then we spent a super long time at Meidi-Ya supermarket, the Jap stuff there are just overwhelming! Haha..

Then we went to Canele Patisserie along a street of shops near UE Square. It is another branch of the shop where Stan got my 21st Bday cake. We ate Cafe Caramel, quite nice, but you have to share with another person, if not, it will be too sweet to eat on your own. There are many other cakes there, next time we have to go back to get a cheesecake for Stan's Mom. Haha.. Below are pics we took at the cafe:

The whole piece of cake is still there... (fyi: it costs $8.50 a piece, one of the most exp cakes i have eaten!)

The boy claims that he did not eat a single mouthful at all..

Look at the cake now! It's become smaller!

Ok, we both ate it together. Now it's in our stomachs!

A nice night view of the colourful bridge near Clarke Quay, all thanks to our wonderful camera!!

Do we look cute? =)

I like how tiny i look, in contrast to the big grills..

It was time to head back to the car and pick up Stan's grandparents. We saw this in the carpark and Stan couldn't resist taking a pic of it. Near Liang Court, we saw a Lamborghini showroom with the latest models. Stan says our dream will be to own a Lamborghini!!

Okay, that's the end of my long post.... tata!

2009-04-26T21:04:00.000+08:00

life sucks. really.

i try to put in a lot of effort. humans are imperfect. sometimes i get upset. instead of consoling me, trying to find out what exactly happened, you walk away. thanks a lot for that.

people in your life come and go, they make you upset, they make you laugh. is there really no one to stay in my life and walk through the obstacles in life with me? am i born to be a loner?

i m so upset, yet there's no one to talk to. no one reads my blog. no one cares.

2009-04-20T15:24:00.000+08:00

bloody hell..

my mind went into overdrive from the Audit paper i took this morning. it's my last paper and i m supposed to be enjoying, feeling happy that i can finally do the things i want to do. but my brain's spinning and spinning.. super dizzy..

don't ask me to lie down, it feels worse when i try to sit up straight after that.

when the invigilator said "time's up, pls stop writing", i put down my pen and looked up. everything around me started swaying. it seems like my mind is still unable to rest, it is still trying to work itself crazy. shake out of it!!! argh...

somebody save me.....

2009-04-16T08:36:00.000+08:00

ouch.. the moment i woke up today, my neck is just screaming "i am too tensed up, pain, pain!!"

yes, that's exactly how i felt. my neck is super tensed up, my shoulders are aching.. sigh.. i guess it's due to the 2 papers that i sat for yesterday, 4 hours of bending down and writing furiously.. sigh.. tough day..

then i had tuition in the night, after dinner.. my kid has geography exam today, and i was testing her on population, you know, factors for high birth rate, how to counter Singapore's ageing population, effects of low death rate..

i was prompting her to give "foreign talents", so

Me: "you can get foreigners to come here and work, so what do we call these people? Foreign..."
Her: "Ners"
(i thought she said "Nurse")
Me: "why would you want nurses? Yes you need nurses for old people in the elderly homes. But I am referring to all the foreigners who come here to work"
Her: "I am referring to foreign-Ners Hahahahahah"

Yes, and so we ended up laughing for the next 10 minutes.. haha.. big joke eh?

I can't help but feel nervous for her exam today.. She even mentioned that she wanna get A1, sigh... I hope that she remembers whatever I have tested her on for today's test.

Exactly 4 days left to my last paper. Damn it. Haven done a single past year paper. Haven even finish studying. What am I to do? Save me!!!

Let's try to cheer ourselves up with some post-exam plans:

Do hair treatment, trim my hair
Yoga
Read my fave novels
Sing K
Clean up my room
Play bejeweled on Facebook
Plan for my Taiwan trip (get travel insurance, plan out the itinerary)
Go shopping for office wear
Think of marketing strategies
Go East Coast Park!! (oh my, I am super deprived)
Ride the Luge at Sentosa
Attend my brother's school production (huang chen)

I haven post up a picture for ages. So here's one! =)

Good luck for everyone's exams!

2009-03-30T18:39:00.000+08:00

Love is...

1. sweet and tender when all goes well.
2. bitter and painful when you start arguing.
3. all about giving in the initial stages.
4. starts to turn sour when you do the wrong things.
5. never smooth-sailing.
6. about forgive and forget in the long run.
7. something that makes you sob and laugh at the same time.
8. like poison, giving you a slow and painful death.
9. so troublesome and tiring.
10. nothing unless you place a lot of emphasis on it.

2009-03-25T20:58:00.000+08:00

here's a preview of my latest collection (to be launched on 27th March)
please show your support, thanks! =)

http://stanfordgirls.livejournal.com

2009-03-17T11:07:00.000+08:00

i tried my best..
i put in a lot of efforts..
it may not be visible to you..
in the end, i gave up..

who's there for me..
no one, except my blanket and pillows..
i cry into them, hoping no one else would know..
i wipe away my tears painfully..

i try to find someone to talk to..
but no one is free..
i tried to study..
but my mind's not in it..

now i plaster a smile on my face..
in hope that my red eyes won't show..
i throw away the tissues..
and hopefully the pain too..

later i will go there for one last time..
recap all the happy and sad times..
and then..
leave the memories behind..

2009-03-07T12:55:00.000+08:00

the feeling is getting stronger.. the feeling of not having friends' support is very real and scary.. yihui and i have discussed this before. Our online shops are growing at a negligible rate and we have come to the conclusion that our so-called friends aren't supportive.. even if they didn't show their support by purchasing sth from us, they could have at least help us spread the word.. i m not sure how many frens are doing this for us.. it's really saddening..

the initial start-up of a business through friends' support and word of mouth is very important. yet these 2 factors are lacking. it dawned upon me that i may have many friends, but seriously, how many are the true friends when you need them? you may call yourself my close/good/best friends, but the feeling sucks when you have no one to turn to. is this karma? am i a very bad friend to begin with?

it's all a very cruel world out there, they talk to you when they need your help, they turn you away and brush you aside when you are of no use to them. survival of the fittest, how brutally true.. this thought sends a shiver down my spine, it's so cold suddenly..

the sun may be shining outside my window, but the atmosphere is so cold and selfish.. it's time for me to learn the ropes of surviving in this unfeeling world.. everyone does things for a reason, to their benefit, for their own good.. if you are not useful to me, you aren't my friend..

many have asked me this question, "why are your blog posts always so sad?" my answer will always be, "there's nothing to be happy about"

how many of you actually read my blog? ok, you may be reading, but do you ever leave a tag behind to show concern? do you ever sms or email me to ask how i am? i update once in a while, if i m gone one day, you guys will just think that i m not updating, not that sth happened to me.

studies have shown that bottling up too much bad emotions within yourself leads to cancer and other illnesses. i think i will get it someday. my stomach's in a constant state of misery, are the bad emotions coming together to stage a fight against me?

one day i will leave everything behind, all the tears and anger, hugs and kisses, pain and loneliness. i will go to somewhere where emotions dun exist.

2009-02-27T09:56:00.000+08:00

hi all! Call this an advertorial or whatever you like, Stanfordgirls' Collection 9 is launched after such a long time of inactivity!! Haha.. I have posted a few of my favourites here.. Pls take a look for more at http://stanfordgirls.livejournal.com or www.bring-it-home.blogspot.com!

From girly to playful to classic, we hope there's something for every girl! You know the rules, just email us at stanfordgirls@live.com.sg and we will get back to you asap!

Let me know what you think of the pictures k? If it's not good, we will try our best to improve it!

Ok, now to wait for stan to come over before we start his intensive accounting tuition today!

2009-02-24T12:09:00.000+08:00

i just feel like blogging, for no particular reason. it's boring Tuesday today. super boring and lonely, stuck at home, no motivation to do anything. sucks big time.

there's nth exciting about my life. i m not happy everyday. i eat to live, get past each day. i have nothing to look forward to, no one to talk to, no one to share my thoughts with, no one to lean on. i guess it's due to my over-dependence on stan. i must learn to find solutions to my own problems. i must learn to live on my own.

disagreements pull people apart, strain relationships. after the whole issue blows over, then you realise it's not worth it to be unhappy over such matters. in the heat of things, you just let your emotions and anger get ahead of you. this is precisely how i am. and i hate myself for this. so now i m trying to calm down before i act. dun wanna do anything on impulse.

yesterday i went to millenia walk with babeh on 171, when the bus went past orchard, i realised that i haven been there for ages, it all seems so distant, like i m seeing this place after ages. i don't have anyone to go shopping with me, that's my life, quite sad eh?

life this year hasn't been good for me, my unhappy times exceed my happy memories by so much.. seriously, it doesn't pay to be honest in this time and age. when you wanna tell someone something truthfully, everything will just backfire. people get angry, people shun away from you.

we all have different goals in life. differences in our beliefs have led us to quarrel, not see the matter from others' perspective. i wonder, is there any two people who can have exactly the same goals in life and stay happily together forever?

what is happiness? it's been so long since i have managed to stay happy for at least two days in a row. two days? is that too much to ask for?

from today on, i will try my best to be independent. dun give a damn about wad others think or say. frankly speaking, i see no future. nothing at all.

2009-02-17T18:04:00.000+08:00

This is my 100th post! Haha..

but i am here to bitch about someone.. really big fat bitch.. you ask her one question, she will nag on for 20 mins. bloody hell.. she seems to be able to link everything under the sun together to nag at you.. wad a bloody bitch..

i hope that i won't be like her in the future.. yucks! just the thot of it sends a shiver down my spine..aiyah! go study now! tata!

2009-02-16T12:56:00.000+08:00

The weather's been very awful recently.. Even when the sky is cloudy, you can still feel the heat in the air, it's hot air! I tried to switch on my fan to make the room cooler and the freaking fan ended up blowing hot air straight in my face! oh my, i m going crazy.. haha..

and because of the hot weather, everyone seems to be in a bad mood perpetually, i m no exception either.. haha.. i get annoyed and irritated at the slightest bit, not knowing why am i angry in the first place.

to make my mood better, i ended up staring at people's ugly clothes, fat thighs, whatever i could pick on. it makes me feel better that these people are simply pathetic and they serve as a warning to prevent myself from becoming the same as them.. muahahahaha...

let me share with you what i have seen today.

I saw a girl in shorts and crossing her legs on a seat in Canteen B. I could see her cellulite on her thigh, which spans 15cm by 4cm. Simply yucky! She doesn't look really fat, but her thighs are enough to make me abstain from oily food for a week!

Then there was this girl (dressed in white top and shorts) "sssshhhhh"-ing just behind me when she was about to sit down. When she opened her LARGE mouth to speak, out came a voice as squeaky as a mouse! It's simply disgusting! I can't stand it when girls have squeaky voices, you dunno whether it's their natural voice or they are simply trying to fake it. Stop it babe, your voice is gonna bring you down in work.

Lastly, there are many fashion victims around me. haha.. I saw a girl dressed in a dark grey tunic. what's disgusting is not her tunic, is wad's underneath that. She wear a bright pink shorts with black polka dots just beneath her top. I wouldn't even wear that shorts for sleeping, let alone to sch!! Gosh.. i have simply no idea what they were thinking, man..

Valentine's Day have zoomed past in a flash over the last weekend. Stan and I only went to a restaurant at Shenton Way, Ann Siang Hill for dinner on Friday night. The steak was not bad, but I do not like their service. All except the Indian waiter, were appearing to be cocky and arrogant. C'mon, if you have got what it takes, you will be sitting behind the till, not serving me. Worst of all, I found a strand of hair in my salad, the nice Indian waiter changed it immediately for me.

It was also a chance for us to see how the nightlife at Shenton Way could be. There were many pubs and restaurants near Amoy Street, and you could see all the posh cars lined up outside. There were people smoking too. I would not want to be like them when I start working. I simply don't think there's anything nice and cool about smoking and chatting at the top of my lungs to be heard above the music. Haha..

Stan and I have decided that we do not need to give each other anything for V day, it's the company that matters at the end of the day. Even if he brings me to the hawker centre for local delights as V day dinner, I won't complain (just tell me in advance, thanks). As long as we are happy and having fun, expensive food or not, don't matter to me.

Next occasion coming up would be Stan's bday. I have seriously no idea what to get for him. Haha.. Neither do I know where to go for dinner, what cake to get.. and it's coming in a month's time!! Dearest Stan, pls tell me what would you like. At least hint to me, ok?

that's all folks. Next time you spot a fashion victim, be sure to laugh out loud and your whole day's troubles will be gone! =)

2009-02-03T21:57:00.000+08:00

hi all!

sorry for the lack of updates. as usual, there hasn't been much going on in my life. except that my projects are due in the earlier part of this semester. which i m not very used to. that means no time to catch up on my readings. buck up!!!

sigh.. the most unfortunate thing happened to me on Friday when I went to Streets (some HK cafe at bukit panjang plaza) with stan. I ate some beef brisket noodles and milk tea while he only drank iced lemon tea. all was fine till i started studying at around 4 plus.

all of a sudden, the world was spinning, or was my head turning? I was extremely miserable. It was just dizzy spells at first. Then i tried to sleep it off, but nausea came shortly after. I had to induce vomitting. Only gastric juice, a little beef brisket came out.

I finally gave in to see the doctor at 9 plus. Stan drove me there. I got a jab on my butt to stop the nausea. I couldn't get to sleep at all!! I kept waking up in the middle of the night, not knowing what to do, trying to force myself to sleep.

The next day was supposed to be 04s15 cny house-hopping. but my diarrhoea prevented me from joining in the fun. my butt was pain for the whole day!! the same thing happened at night, can't get to slp, keep waking up.

Until yesterday, sleep is something that is very scary to me. I don't want to sleep. I can't get to slp.. the feeling sucks. in addition, all my work gets delayed. I had to hand in a 3000 word report on Tuesday, so I spent the whole of Monday trying to get myself to work. This is the toughest weekend in this year, yet.

some have commented to me about the use of foul language in my previous post. I am not the kind who would use vulgarity for no reason unless someone really pisses me off. so that bloody driver pissed me off and i m still not over it.

a blog is a space of free speech. i believe i can write whatever i want, cursing whoever i want.

2009-01-20T15:28:00.000+08:00

I have to use this post to vent out all my anger. I seriously have no idea why some lousy drivers are allowed to drive. sucks.

it all began this morning when my mom told me that my dad's car got rammed into by some lousy FUCKING driver in the carpark. my dad went for lunch and came back to car to find the front left wheel damaged. it's not the wheel. it's the top metal part protecting the wheel.

i m not afraid to scold vulgarities here to the FUCKING driver. my dad's car is a black suzuki grand vitara. if you are the FUCKING driver and you are reading this now, i hope this haunts you for the rest of your life. Of course, if your conscience is pricking at you and you wanna make amendments, feel free to email me huidaoguoqu87@hotmail.com. I will be more than glad to assist you in making apologies and monetary compensation to my dad.

the following content are directed strictly and solely at the FUCKING driver. my mom reckons that the driver was trying to park into the lot beside my dad's car and despite having the sensor on (when you are on Reverse gear, there will be a sensor to alert you of any obstruction), still cannot park properly and damage my dad's car quite badly.

my mom says that the FUCKING driver's car should be damaged quite badly too. Well, hear this, you FUCKING driver, well, maybe not, i guess you are deaf, that's why you can't hear the sensor for the Reverse gear. oops! my bad ;b

You are a very irresponsible driver, if you have rammed into someone's car, pls have the FUCKING decency to leave your namecard or contact number so that the innocent party (my dad, in this case) can contact you for compensation. My dad has not done anything to deserve your FUCKING poor drivng skills.

I wonder if you bribed your way into getting your license. Or are you too FUCKING stupid? The person who gave you your driving test is obviously sleeping. Or else why would you get your license?

If you are just a FUCKING P-plate driver, dun drive into multi-storey carparks or crowded carparks! Practice parking and ramming into your relatives' cars before you come out onto the main road to park and drive!

I have no idea who you FUCKING are. Not that I care. But i guess you are probably lying in the hospital, having rammed into yet another innocent car and got your private organs mashed up. You really need to be taught a big lesson. Oh my, don't tell me you are already inside the coffin, due to one of the Fatal accidents that we see on the road. Perhaps the police are putting up the board on the expressways, looking for eyewitnesses. Sorry, guess you won't be able to see my post. Especially dedicated to you, you FUCKER.

If you are still alive in this world, (which heaven forbids), pls oh pls my lord, let the FUCKER grow pimples all over his scalp. So that his head will be so painful that he can't even comb his hair. Let the pus of the pimples flow over his head and let him drink them, right back into his FUCKING oesophagus.

If you are FUCKING female driver, may you have menses coming out from your belly button. Pls allow the doc to remove the 20 plus tumours (each of 7 cm diammeter) from your FUCKING womb. Pls let all the tumours be malignant. May you suffer from diarrhoea for the whole of CNY, spending every single sec in the toilet.

You, FUCKING driver, will have no assets to your name. You will live in poverty forever, with fingers growing out from your p*nis, nipples in the place of your eyes. I will not curse your children. They are innocent.

Your FUCKING house will be on fire, while you are sleeping in your house. You will not be burned to death by the fire. Instead, you will suffer 50% burns on your body, leaving you with a face that even the devils will shun.

You will die of a slow and painful death, one where you will lie in the C class ward, struggling to even breathe. You will have no fingers to pick up a spoon, no asshole to shit, no stomach to eat anything. Oh, the doc would have to amputate your FUCKING leg to curb your diabetes. Whoo! Then you can no longer drive and harm any innocent cars!

With no money to buy cigarettes, you will need to resort to inhaling 2nd hand smoke to satisfy your FUCKING hunger and get lung cancer. Your lungs will be blacker than charcoal. Lung cancer appears to be too light a punishment for FUCKERS like you. Add on throat cancer (no ability to speak or even groan! poor thing.....) and prostate cancer (want to have children? in your afterlife then!)

My anger is still here, if not even more. I will stop here. Being benevolent and forgiving, the above curses and swears are enough to harm you for the rest of your life (which i reckon, another 5 years?)

FUCKING drivers, may i emphasise, should be kept away. Carparks should have CCTVs in place, when accidents happen, at least we know how the FUCKER looks like. Then we can trace him down and give him what he deserves.

2009-01-18T18:59:00.000+08:00

Hi all!

School has started and sadly, I am still slacking away! Haha.. Next week is CNY, not that it has any effect on me, but I am sure we will all take this few days to catch up on our studies right? =)

Sigh.. I am just about to blow up from the inside of my stomach.. Stan is driving me nuts, seriously.. with his 128MB memory.. and extremely short term memory.. anything i say, he HEARS, but not LISTEN.. then he will ask me, why are you irritated? *argh*

my latest collection is up already!

do take a look.. very limited pieces left, let me know if you like anything (if you are my fren, got discount! =D )

pls visit www.bring-it-home.blogspot.com or http://stanfordgirls.livejournal.com

Yvonne Wong, I dedicate this to you

2009-01-12T19:03:00.000+08:00

I want to thank someone. She is Yvonne Wong Ai Ting (aka Mimi Wong Mimi)

She is one of my closest friends and I know I can rely on her during my tough times. If you recall, I had a stall at the bazaar last sat and I wrote on my blog that I hope to see my friends there. She lives in Boon Lay, but she is willing to come all the way down to Bukit Panjang (fairly inaccessible for her) just to show me support!!

I am extremely touched.. She is my long standing customer and one of longest-standing friendships that I've had. Thank you Yvonne!! =)

Without you, my stall would not have the success! Help me thank your friend too! Let her know that she will enjoy a 15% off for her subsequent purchases! Thank you Lin Ling!

Sms me when you see this post k, Yvonne, I really must thank you properly! Let's meet up!! Whoo! =)

I love Yvonne Wong!

2009-01-06T22:53:00.000+08:00

tml's my first day of school after so long!! haha.. it really doesn't feel right.. i dun wanna go back to sch!!! sigh...

stan and i are having our very first stall at the bazaar this saturday, 10 Jan 2009!!

for those stayin in the west, pls come and support us! we will be selling clothes, figurines, crystal displays, so there's bound to be sth for everyone! whoo!

hope to see my frens there this saturday! good night!

2008-12-31T22:41:00.000+08:00

Year 2008 is coming to an end.. and how do I spend the last few hours of this dramatic & chaotic year?

I have just finished watching "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" with my family (a movie) in the living room while wearing our 3D glasses. Don't laugh, the movie's supposed to have 3D effects, so my dad bought the blu-ray dvd and it comes with the glasses.. I actually took a picture of my parents wearing the 3D glasses and posing for me! haha.. but too bad, i m not gonna pose it here, family joke..

Stan and I made fruit tarts for our families today. We bought everything on Monday, but only made it today to retain the freshness of the tarts! haha.. oops, forgot to take pic.. but it's really nice.. haha.. we had grapes, pineapples and bananas! it was a hectic day for his family.. we all became helpers, transporting the food to and fro, having our share of laughter throughout the journey.. it was fun..

The yishun family is probably having their own mj session as a form of party right now, I din join them today so as to spend time with my family.. haha.. My small family of 4 had steamboat.. With extra dishes from Ah Po, yummy! =)

School's gonna start next week.. another 14 weeks of grilling, mugging, stoning, slacking.. my last semester! time just zooms past when you are in uni..

before I forget, 04S15 had our first class gathering in months yesterday, 30th Dec 2008. all thanks to Rahul, our Star student! He just came back from the States for a holiday and he is gonna fly back on the 7th. We are all so proud of him, being the Top Student in his uni! And mind you, he's studying Actuarial Science! Wei Jun, our pilot-to-be, managed to join us too.. it was really fun catching up with all of them, hearing them talk about their experiences..

I am so glad I came to 04S15.. The one class that will stay together, always.. And I am so bloody proud of my classmates!! We are all leading different lives now, but I know that we will all have a bright future someday! Someday, we will gather again, all of us successful in our own careers! =)

Happy New Year, my friends! take care and i hope to see you guys soon! =)

2008-12-24T18:20:00.000+08:00

to quote someone, "if you dun care about that someone, you won't flare up at him"

in the drama serial, she deliberately do the wrong things to seek her husband's attention and then she would feel very guilty afterwards. that's exactly how i feel.

sigh.. we aren't happy.. anymore.. forever..

merry christmas to all

Saw V rocks, once again

2008-12-19T16:20:00.000+08:00

hi all!

first things first, just wanna promote my own blogshop and lj (haha!)

We are selling many pretty stuff that are hardly seen on other blogshops and lj, all of which are very good quality. well, i m sure you guys know me, i m such a perfectionist, if the quality isn't good, i won't get stock at all! haha..

so be sure to check out my new livejournal k?

http://stanfordgirls.livejournal.com

i designed the picture myself.. tell me what you guys think k?

these few days (or 7 days to be exact), i m simply too bored.. so i watch Saw V all alone in my room. haha.. the show's so short! i haven got enough of the gore and blood! haha.. i can't wait for Saw VI! whoo!

i know, you are thinking that i m so disgusting, some guys dun even watch Saw V! lolx.. is this the first time you are reading my blog? i m not the kind of girls that squeal at the main characters in Twilight (i still dun see the appeal of Twilight, sorry to say) or go gaga when they see Chihuahua.. i like bimbotic shows too, but cute dogs? oh my, dogs and cats are the least cute creatures in this world! -pukes-

back to Saw V, i dunno how many of you have watched it.. the storyline is kinda repetitive where ppl who do not know how to cherish their lives will be dealt with severely.. the last few movies of the sequel is always featuring people in a Game of Death and it's so real to see what people are willing to just to save their own lives..

as usual, the ending of Saw never fails to leave an impact on me. this time, it's so much more genius than before! the guy is so smart to mislead the other person.. haha.. watch it yourself to find out what i mean!

How far would you go in the name of love?

2008-12-16T10:30:00.000+08:00

For those attached, have you ever wondered about this question?
For the singles, have you imagined it?

"The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks has forced me to think about this question. A definite page-turner, i couldn't help but read through the last 80 pages in one sitting! haha...

It all started with these two neighbours and they spent a weekend together, riding a motorcycle down the streets, parasailing (parachuting pulled by a sailboat) and walking their dogs together. it only took them 3 days to fall deeply in love and realised they were destined to be soulmates for life.

This story spanned over eleven years, from 1996 to 2007. The female lead character, Gabby, was initially attached to a guy. The story in 1996 ended with the line "she knew what to do".

Part Two of the story started in June 2007: Gabby eventually married Travis (the male lead, aka her neighbour) and they had 2 daughters, in 1st and 3rd grade. Sparks had a way of making his readers guess what exactly happened to Gabby, with his misleading yet true words..

At first, I thought that Gabby had divorced Travis but all this seemed so impossible for they were so deeply in love and they complemented each other in every way. Only then did Sparks revealed, bit by bit, that Gabby is in a coma.

Travis and Gabby got into an accident when Travis was speeding on a rainy night, in a bid to rush home earlier so that they could sleep more and wake up fresh to prepare for work the next morning. But Gabby never woke up the next morning anymore.....

Travis woke up with a mangled arm in bandage and his wife was in a coma. Somehow, Gabby seemed to have known that she would go into a coma because she once told Travis that if she were in a coma, she wants Travis to remove the feeding tubes from her after 3 months. She didn't want Travis and the girls (her daughters) to suffer because of her. She stated this explicitly in her living will.

3 months came and went by. It was time for Travis to decide if he was going to show Gabby's living will to the doctors, allow them to remove the feeding tubes and see Gabby slowly starve to death. This was THE CHOICE. If you were Travis, what would you do?

At this time, i paused and thought in his shoes. If i was the one lying there, i would want to end my own life and shorten the misery for all. If i was Travis, I would not show the living will and hang on to the glimmer of hope that Gabby may wake up one day. I cannot imagine life without my loved ones. it's all too painful to take in.

Well, Travis made the same decision as I. Gabby had to be moved to a nursing home because the hospital's running out of space and coma patients who did not wake up by 3 months had to be shifted to a nursing home.

Months went by and Travis tried to lead a normal life, returning to his veterinarian job. Until one day, he received an urgent call from the nursing home. Sparks only mentioned the owner of the home said two words and asked Travis to rush down to the home.

Until here, you must be wondering what exactly are the "Two Words". Many words raced through my mind. If you really want to know, read the book! haha.. it will tell you the answer..

Sparks has a way of keeping you reading till the end. In every book, I seek a lesson to be learnt from the story. The book only gave me closure when I saw the two words. The climax of the story comes towards the end, bringing you much anticipation and excitement.

Lesson learnt: love is not to be taken for granted. It's only during the crucial times that you can see how strong your love for him/her is. Faced with the toughest decision, we simply have to follow our heart.

I hope you will enjoy this story as much I did.

To stan: I love you

2008-12-14T19:22:00.000+08:00

call me a bitch

call me an idiot

call me whatever you want, i dun care

it's up till now that i realised some friends aren't worth making at all.. you can lead a better life without them.. it's just irritating to try to keep up with their nonsense and bullshit.. some friends, you say they are your good friends, but both of you dun make an effort to meet up, are you still good friends?

some people think that they themselves are the best in the world and that everyone should follow in their footsteps, suck up to them, make them feel good. i have friends like these. i used to call them my friends, now they are just acquaintances, whom i rather not know exist.

it's disappointing, isn't it? after years of friendship, you thought you finally found someone whom you can call your close friend (he/she shall not be named here) and then the friendship just sours off. that's the end, fullstop.

but it's better this way. at least you realise it early and stop putting in effort into the friendship that is not worth your maintenance at all.

stan went to taiwan with his family of 16 yesterday. before he left, he told me some things which i have pondered over for the past 2 days. he's right. i ought to change. i will try.

putting this friends issue aside, my brother just came back from Shanghai Overseas CIP. haha.. he bought stuff for all of us, which was really nice of him.. my parents were so anxious, my dad stepped on the accelerator all the way to Changi!! haha..

we went Sakae Sushi for dinner at Parkway Parade and my brother ate like he has never eaten for 2 weeks! haha.. before we could tell the waitress our order of 3 chawanmushi and 3 green tea, 1 hot water, my brother has already laid out 6 plates in front of him!! haha..

if you are still concerned about my dilemma, it has been solved. haha.. i m officially joining PricewaterhouseCoopers' tax department. whoo! my own table~ =)

after joining Justina and Leonard for steamboat yesterday at Bugis, i finally knew that not all shortlisted candidates get the job! haha.. i thought everyone who gets shortlisted will get the job.. Nard says it's only a 60% acceptance rate.. ooh.. goes to show that i aren't that lousy after all..

lastly, just wanna share with the girls that my blogshop at www.bring-it-home.blogspot.com has officially updated with Collection 2: The Comfy & Smart!

Here's a preview:

2008-12-11T21:06:00.000+08:00

who says life is always smooth sailing?

just when you thought that life is getting perfect, some things just have to pop up and ruin your whole day.. sucks eh?

i m sure everyone comes across these kinda problems, the only solution to this is to find a solution to overcome your misunderstandings, hiccups and move back onto the perfect life.

i went for the PwC tea session today to collect my contract and drink two glasses of white wine. not too bad.. but i din get a chance to sit down at all.. my blazer's in my bag and it weighs a ton. my shoulder's aching badly now and the heels have just successfully created two blisters on my soles. thanks eh, my beloved white heels?

now i m feeling so miserable.. damn.. i din have dinner tonight (not that i m hungry). so it's probably the only silver lining in the dark clouds, i can slim down! haha..

tml i m supposed to go city plaza. god knows what will happen now. i will just go on my own i guess.

good night everyone

Quality of Service Matters....

2008-12-08T10:46:00.001+08:00

i am here to write about the service in Singapore.. really sucks, in my opinion

Stan and I went to Takashimaya's Pepper Lunch with my parents yesterday. I was already famished when I got there and the crowd was overwhelming. While my parents did the ordering, stan and i stood at one side. Then suddenly i heard "Mdm, excuse me, sorry" I was already standing so close to the edge and the waiter (named A) still had to squeeze past me with a granny tagging behind. I presume the granny is Japanese because she started ranting off Jap to her husband.

My point being, why does the waiter have to squeeze in between me and the edge when he could have just went behind me?? No manners at all. Then we were seated. I noticed that they are definitely overstaffed. Many of the waiters & waitresses were standing around, simply doing nothing! They just stood around the counter, take up much space, chat with each other in their broken Singlish and laugh! C'mon, I am sure Pepper Lunch didn't hire you guys to chit chat, share a joke and crack up at the slightest bit!

I am absolutely peeved and furious! When our food arrived, I was all ready to tuck in and start cooking my steak. To my horror, a waiter (named B) came by. The first thing that came out of his unshaven mouth was to my dad "You have to flip this meat over". Then he changed his attention to Stan and said the same thing too.

Lastly, B reached me and asked me to flip my steak over. I was staring at himthroughout and could no longer contain my anger. So I raised my hand, showed him my palm and said "Thank you" in a "thanks, but no thanks, i definitely don't need you to show me how to eat" manner.

He was stunned for a moment before he went away. My mom noticed that B went to tell another waiter (for your info, he talked to A) about me. My mom said that I was a tad too rude. In my opinion, I am paying for their wages (indirectly, through footing for the bill of the meal). Being in the service line, you have to understand that all customers (regardless of their nationality, gender, age) are equal. You dont' have to suck up to foreigners, expecting them to tip you in return. Most sales people do not bother to talk to locals because they know we won't tip them.

Hello!!! The tips are given in the manner of the 10% service charge k?? SERVICE CHARGE!! I am paying for it! I expect good service! I was so tempted to write a feedback form but stan says that we shouldn't waste our time getting angry over them.

Back to my horrifying experience, after we were done, a waitress came by to collect our trays. She didn't even ask Stan if he was done and if she could collect the tray. She simply took it away! I was glaring at her. I guess she noticed it and she asked me if she could collect my tray before taking it away.

If you want to be in the service line, you gotta brush up on your service. Waiter B could have asked us if he could help us with anything before plunging in straight to tell us what to do and what not to do!!

Anyone in the right state of mind will tell you that Customer Feedback is very important to improving a business. SERVICE means TO SERVE. The quality of Pepper Lunch staff are very low, in my opinion. They need to understand the meaning of high quality service. Send them for training! But may be it's not worth it after all. Almost 70% of the staff look so young, they look like they are just there to while away their holidays without having any aim in life. Poor them.... Aww....

Before I forget, it seems that the Boss of Pepper Lunch went to the restaurant yesterday for a meal too. When the manager shouted that the boss is here, everyone immediately perked up and starting shouting Jap to welcome and thank the customers. What kind of attitude of this? You shouldn't be saying these only when your boss is around! In addition, they were just shouting at the top of their lungs, not making any sense at all! This greatly dampened the customers' mood for enjoying a proper meal. This has clearly shown how superficial the staff of Ngee Ann City's Pepper Lunch are. Their service does not come from within.On the other hand, I would like to praise someone for her excellent service. We were at Celine at Ngee Ann City. Stan and I decided to try to act tai tai and went in. This lady, I am sure she knew that we weren't some rich brats, came to us and said hello in a very friendly way. When Stan asked her how much is the bag, she just politely replied us. I did not even sense any hint of resentment from her! Normally the sales staff in these high end shops won't even bother to talk to us. But this lady just followed us around, smiling and telling us about the prices when we enquired. She is very nice!! I will definitely come back to Celine in future!I am not trying to be superficial or materialistic.

But it is clearly evident that Pepper Lunch's service differs vastly from Celine's. Why is that so? Personally, high end shops spare no effort in ensuring that their customers have a wonderful shopping experience with them. Thus, they only choose staff that are of a certain standard. I always believe in this, high quality comes with high value.

To prove my point, my parents came from Hong Kong on SIA flight. They sat in a three-seater with a Singaporean lady. As the flight was very full, they had to wait for a long time before they were served their dinner. An air stewardess forgot to serve them drinks (too many things going on at a time, i presume). So the lady was pissed off and complained to a senior steward. The steward immediately went to investigate and got the air stewardess to apologise to the lady and my parents. She bent down and apologise to my mom, my dad and the lady individually! The steward told my parents that the stewardess is new and she has to apologise for her mistakes. He also told her to reflect on her own actions.

See my point? SIA flights are definitely more exp than other airlines, but the service they offer are of a higher standard than the other airlines! This is the kind of quality service that the local service industry should have. Good service goes a long way. It builds up good brand image and reputation over time and in the long run, your company stands to gain!

2008-12-07T11:05:00.000+08:00

if i have all the time and money in the world, i would:

get my long-awaited Balenciaga bag
get stan a watch, a camera, Levi's jeans, sneakers
get myself a Volkswagen Beetle/BMW 7series
shop at Paragon instead of Far East
treat my dearest friends to karaoke and korean food
donate some to the needy (e.g. school for the handicapped and disabled)
get my dad to retire so that he can go tour around the world with my mom
send my bro to med school
sign up for cooking lessons with stan
buy Substance shoes without looking at the price
buy the condo unit beside my house and revamp it
empty out my wardrobe & get new stuff
shop at Loewe
donate money to doing research on treatment for terminal diseases
make companies fire people that i don't like
go for hair treatment!
i will add on more in the future...

gosh, it's a long list, isn't it? haha..next time i will post up a list of people whom i don't like.. =)

2008-12-07T00:00:00.000+08:00

hi all! yes, you are at Michelle's blog. haha..

i just decided to give myself a new start.. a new blogskin.. spend an hour trying to modify the template so that it looks more colourful and nicer.. the navigations are at the side! "Your Comments" are where you tag! boo, hardly anyone tags.. =(

my parents just came back from Hong Kong, they are unpacking their stuff as I am typing here. haha.. these few weeks i have been going to Changi Airport as if it's Orchard and yet everytime, I am not the one leaving Singapore.. sigh..

stan's going taiwan next sat.. i will miss him badly.. but no frets, i will spend this time to find him the best christmas present! haha..

home alone for 4 nights has been fun, but it's really a chore to take care of the whole house. it's so big, you have to mop the floor, clean the tables, wash the clothes, sun the clothes, water the plants.. oh gosh.. tiring.. haha

i went for PwC interview on 1st dec, saw nard nard there.. haha.. ain't i lucky! i only applied for PwC and i got the interview! haha.. i was interviewed by the Tax Partner, who was really nice.. he called me on thursday night but i missed the call, so i left a voice mail. the next morning, while i was having mac breakfast with stan, he called to congratulate me! haha.. that means i am in!

but that means DILEMMA.. i have no idea to go for kpmg or pwc!! sigh.. i still can't make up my mind.. stan says i will go pwc, my mom says look at the pay they are offering first.. haha.. how practical of my mom eh?

pwc has invited us for a tea session on thursday and kpmg has another one on fri.. hmmm.. i will see how..

well, for those who are interested in the outcome of my decision, perhaps you can ask me the next time you see me? haha..

hope you guys like my new blogskin.. signing off with a pic of stan and i (i think we look spastic)

to stan: i love you =)

2008-12-03T12:29:00.000+08:00

hello!!
i dunno if you guys know, but stan and i actually have a blogshop at the following blog add. www.bring-it-home.blogspot.com

we have recently found some really good stuff and we wanna share it with everyone! so pls do take a look if you are free? they are really made of high quality and perfect for christmas or work!

our stocks are very limited, so pls do email me at bring.it.home@hotmail.com for more details (e.g. measurements or sizes available)

p.s. i kept some for myself! hee hee..

i have post some of the stuff that i m selling below. take a look!

2008-11-28T08:51:00.000+08:00

whoo!

exams are finally over! but i can't go bangkok anymore.. and i m damn sad.. sigh.. why why why? what's the point of preventing ur government officials from meeting each other and affecting all other tourists? for your information, there is sth called video-conferencing, my dearest thai friends. so they dun have to see each other face to face to discuss political matters ok? now they are affecting everyone, including themselves (lesser incoming tourists equals less income!!) it's times at these that i don't feel sympathetic at all for these poor people, coz they do not think of the big picture and they cause themselves to be poor all their lives!!

enough of my ranting and complaining, no amount of ranting is gonna bring me to bangkok!! rarr... so i m doing some online shopping, but as you know ( i m sure babeh understands me), the dresses are like 30 inches long, which is perhaps perfect for 157cm girls, but we are 168 to 170cm!!! so you can imagine my misery!! i have to see the real dress to compare it against myself, in case it's too short. haha..

oh, and here's sth i am announcing to everyone!! i m so freaking free from 13th to 20th december!! so pls, ask me out ask me out ask me out!! haha.. there are so many people i wanna meet..

like my dearest handsome cousin, edwin kiew!!! you are so badly missed!! contact me!! shall we go bangkok sometime soon together?? whoo!

and yvonne, my dance fren since sec 1!! whoo! we look like twins and we just can talk for days on end, without even feelin tired!! i m gonna ask you out everyday! dun tell me you are not free!!

babeh!!! muacks! WE ARE PRETTY! we just simply love to gossip and talk about our girly problems over lunch at bp! our fave hangout place! oh my god.. haha.. can't wait for the mini gathering.. -slaps ur arm- oops!

soon hui!! when are you ever free to go out with me?? hmph! he always has sth on, so ever busy.. sigh.. poor me, having to think about my dearest cockroach fren everyday.. but i hardly see him.. oh my, has he turned into a lizard? my dad just killed one the other day! soon hui, pls dun let that be you!! muahahahaha...

shuyi, i miss you too!! sigh.. we must go out together often, let's go shopping with soonhui!! then we can go to the guys' shops and force him to wear a S sized tee! muahaha.. i m sure you can't wait to see it right? haha..

jamie tang! i know you are back!! my exams are over! let's go out together!! haha.. so much to tell you and i wanna hear everything from u! haha.. ask me out ask me out!!

darren! i know you are having ur exams soon, shan't disturb you for the time being. let's meet up after ur exams k! whoo! we can have a mini christmas party, ask pris and mar out! i miss you!

jasmine, we can go shopping again! woohoo! haha.. when are you free to go out? going overseas this hols? let's meet let's meet!

04s15 guys! where are you? when you are in army, you always ask our class girls out, now that you guys are in uni, you finally understand why we are ever so busy right? haha.. hope everyone's exams are over! class outing anyone?

i can't forget my ntu frens too, like chee ling, nard nard, justina.. miss having class with them! class's nv boring with them around! we hardly pay any attention in class! haha.. well, if you know wad i mean.. hah.. we spend time ogling at pretty girls and running down ugly girls! haha.. let's have class together next sem!

last but not least, STANLEY QUEK JIAHUI! we have to go christmas shopping for our family members! haha.. so many of them, and yet so little money.. i guess this is wad you call "limited resources with unlimited wants" in economic terms right? haha.. i m sorry for making you angry at times.. we are both hot-headed and we need time to cool down.. thank you for ever being so patient and you never give up on me, never once.. thank you dear!

i love to blog, all of a sudden.. makes my mood good! haha..

2008-11-12T19:06:00.001+08:00

people changed.. people moved on in life..

similarly, i have changed.. for better or worse.. i dunno.. i think it's worse.. i m getting stupider.. i dunno why.. i dun think i m become more short-tempered.. but some ppl do think that way..

things have changed.. i need to change to suit the new environment too.. my exams are seriously round the corner.. and look at me look at me! i m still stuck in the tutorials.. i think it's just my mental barrier.. i keep stressing myself up, not willing to loosen up and relax.. that's why my brain isn't absorbing much.. sigh..

how do ppl relax? they surf the net, watch tv, blog, go shopping.. but if i do that, it will be a waste of time and i will have lesser time left!! damn it.. i m stressing out again..

i need to keep myself happy to be able to study well..

my life sucks, you know? happiness is not mine to behold.. nowadays, i eat dinner for the sake of eating dinner.. if i dun eat dinner, my parents would scold me.. i suck at studies, i suck at being a good fren.. i suck at being a good girlfren.. i suck in everything i do!! damn it

2008-10-24T21:44:00.000+08:00

Michelle is f*cking stressed up now.

Don't tell her she is smart because she is not.

Don't say she is hardworking because she's the laziest bum around.

Don't let know her that she's gonna make it because she's not.

SCREWED UP

2008-10-20T18:07:00.000+08:00

those were the days..

i watched belinda lee's "come dance with me" on channel u and they were dancing indian dance. at the point where all the dancers were dressed in their pretty costumes and dancing happily, all the happy memories of my dance days in jc and sec sch came flooding back to me.. my days at nhss dance were the happiest times.. we would brave everything together, dance for 8 hours straight, get so shagged and yet still have the energy to crack jokes..

the months that we train so hard everyday just before SYF were really tiring.. but it was really fun.. back during the jc, babeh and i would practise together, talk about guys, share our opinions on life.. sigh... those were the days..

i was walking on the track at the stadium with justina and leonard.. the smell of the track just brings back all the memories of my jc days.. our PE teacher would tell us to run 2 rounds as warm-up.. being the slack class, we would walk and stroll when the teacher had her back facing us.. when she turned around, we would pretend to run.. in the end, we only covered one round and we would still act as if we were very tired!! muahahaha...

jc life was really very fun.. we would always go for sushi buffet, ice cream at island creamery, mahjong at jj's place.. haha.. our project work meetings were always spent on table soccer, playing pool and eating! then we end up chionging only on the night before our presentation! lolx..

i visited my grandma on sunday.. she was hospitalised with a swelling stomach.. they haven found out the cause yet.. she was very happy to see us! my dad bought her some muffins from prima deli.. thanks to my coaxing, she drank a lot of water.. that's a good thing you know.. and i got her to exercise her arms.. normally she would just cross her arms and not move them at all.. but that day, she was super high.. haha.. in the past, she would always dye her hair for big occasions.. now, she can't do them anymore.. sometimes i really wish that she would be able to tell me what would make her happy and i'd try my best to help her..

sometimes i feel like i m all alone in this world.. how i wish there can be someone to share all my thoughts with.. i keep all my emotions to myself.. sigh.. whenever i m unhappy, i would just watch some tv or play games to destress.. i guess that's a good thing.. but i would love to have someone to share my happiness or unhappiness with..

i m learning to be more independent nowadays.. i will do everything on my own.. i won't expect anything from anyone anymore.. no one's gonna be able to help you for ever.. only you can help yourself..

gone are the happy times.. forever?

2008-10-09T20:14:00.000+08:00

the following content has been graded M18. pls do not proceed if you are below 18. thank you.

my mood has been f*cking bad recently. dunno if it's coz i m on diet and due to the lack of nutrients, i start flaring up at every bloody little thing. i feel so pissed everyday. presentations, projects, quizzes, all piling on top of me and i just feel crushed!! damn it! &^#?@$*$#

life sucks seriously. i have no time for myself. every day i wake up, there's bound to be sth not done. why can't i just wake up to a morning where i can really slack and do my favourite things? i have been feeling a lot of pressure.. stress.. if you see me in school, you probably won't recognise me. even i dun recognise myself!!

i looked in the mirror only to find a super pale and sallow face looking back at me!! i almost wanna ask, who are you and what are you doing in the mirror?? see? i proved my point, i m going crazy.

tml i have 301 quiz and two presentations. i m not alone. mr nard nard has the same fate as me. but he's better, he is smart and knows how to make a good presentation. i suck at both. damn it *^%@#%&*!

sigh.. just when i need someone to talk to, to hug.. i have no one beside me.. how i wish someone will coax me to slp so that i can hug him every night.. but i know it's not possible..

just a side thot, do you know that with every day that has passed, you are one day closer to your death? therefore, we shld always try to live each day to the fullest.. that's wad i m tryin to do, but everyday i just feel so sian.. sigh...

2008-10-05T22:37:00.000+08:00

if you have noticed, my blog hardly has photos of me..

i know that it will be quite nice to have pictures.. as the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words.. but right now, i m just too bloody sian to take pictures.. in addition, no one takes pictures with me.. you can't expect to take pictures of myself and me alone right.. haha..

i have been having project meetings everyday.. i m going nuts.. super sian.. no mood to do anything.. i feel weak all over.. i dun even know wad's the feeling of hunger anymore.. nowadays, i eat two meals a day.. think my parents are worried.. haha.. their "fei mei" is no longer fei..

i feel tired.. drained.. weak.. tired.. so many things awaiting.. yet i m procrastinating.. someone pls slap me awake.. (hey, not in the literal sense k) oh no, my fingers are super weak now.. my groupmate mr nard nard says i m going anorexic and that i will faint on the streets if this goes on.. hmmm..

i dun think my 205 groupmates are reading this.. but we just play too much zhong ji mi ma.. haha.. according to stan, we are childish.. true, we must be more mature!! haha..

i m typing with my right hand now.. gotta stop, i m gonna black out liao..

to stan: i love you =)

2008-09-30T08:10:00.000+08:00

is it really healthier to say out my feelings?

well, i will try to do so.. recently, happy and unhappy stuff happened.. to some, it may seem insignificant.. i will say the bad things first..

reika, chris, stan and i want to go bangkok for dec holidays.. my parents say they wanna come along.. so 6 of us, me being the middleman, tough work.. (i may be rattling on, just ignore me) some wanna take budget airline, some wanna stay in cheaper hotel, others dun wanna stay in ulu place.. i m so tired of coordinating.. can everyone just be more sui bian and try to come to a consensus?

this few weeks are the crucial period of this semester for me.. time to start rushing out all the projects, catch up on ur studies, study for my two bloody tough quizzes.. (aa306 is no joke, seriously) it's my third year, final year, i just wanna do well.. but here i am, trying to spend unnecessary time to book a simple hotel and air ticket. seriously. i m so screwed up.

being tough mic, i won't just let all these external factors get to me. i must buck up. so i may stay uncontactable. if you really need to reach me, pls sms me. if it's urgent, i will reply. if not, i will just ignore. i just wanna stay focused and do everything well. why is it so hard?? damn..

well, on to some better things.. you may have noticed.. i m trying to slim down recently.. those who know me well, i m so critical of others' legs, dress sense, figure, arms, tummy, looks.. haha.. so i won't ever want the same to happen to me.. so i m tryin to cut down on my fats around my thighs, tummy and arms.. haha.. if you knew me from long ago, i can eat around 5 meals a day.. but nowadays, i only eat 3 meals or 2 even..

so congrats to me, i lost weight the last time i measured.. hmmm a week ago? i lost 2 kg.. still rem the term BMI? weight/(height x height). well mine dropped.. haha.. but still not acceptable.. i m gonna try harder!! go go go!

just a picture to express myself.. take care everyone.. dun fall sick.. exams are coming..

2008-09-27T10:46:00.001+08:00

Mic and I went for the F1 Practice Session on Fri! Here are the pictures!

2008-09-17T17:51:00.000+08:00

i am in fal right now.. so sian.. waiting to go to a jc class outing later..

i m so sian.. i think i will just study on my way there.. nth beats studying rite? haha..

exams are coming.. okok.. i know, it's only week 7 now. but i still feel like exams are next week and i know practically nothing at all! i better pull my socks up all the way to my chin and start mugging like a full-time nerd!! sigh..

i feel so damn sian-ed now.. someone save me!! i think i'd rather mug at my 306 than to go for a class outing where i know i won't be happy.. why is my willpower so bloody weak? someone ought to give me a tight slap and wake me up from my idea eh? damn it..

pls tell me to look on the brighter side of life..

2008-09-16T20:35:00.000+08:00

hiya all!!

haha.. just a random post of two pictures of stan and i.. using my new phone, E66!!

my damn samsung phone died on me when it is just 22 months old.. damn it right? and it take s $200-$250 to repair.. which i figure would be better to buy a new one.. now i can surf the net using the NTU wireless on my Nokia E66! whoo!

2008-09-11T10:53:00.000+08:00

my apologies for not blogging for so long..

haven been in a good mood recently.. so many things on my mind.. my studies are falling behind.. i just can't seem to absorb anything.. i am tryin so hard to make myself happy so that i can study better.. but i always fail..

i dunno what i am babbling about.. pls advise me on how to be happy.. i want to be able to learn to let go of things.. i want to learn to be independent.. i hate myself..

i am so tired of living you know? like there's no meaning in life..

2008-08-15T10:12:00.000+08:00

I finally had the time to post pictures of Mic's birthday photos on the blog! I had lunch with the birthday girl at Dozo, a restuarant which served fine-dining cuisine at inexpensive prices, and the service was superb! One of the waiter figured out that it was Mic's birthday (from our hyped actions of taking photos) and came up with a surprise for her!

Later in the evening, Mic's parents organised a BBQ party and invited their relatives! The birthday cake is totally awesome!

BBQ Pictures

Birthday Girl and Dad!

The 4 cousins!
Birthday Girl and Cake!

Family Photo!
Singing the birthday song!

Mic and Nic!

BBQing!
Feasting!

Pictures at DOZO!Course No. 1: AppetizerUs!Mic's Course No.2: Cheesy Creamy Snails!My Course No. 2: Soft Shell Crab
Course No. 3: Wild Mushroom SoupMic's Course No. 4: Beef!My Course No. 5: Sushi Set! Yummy!
Fruity Tea!My Dessert: Brownie with oozing chocolate!I am Popeye!
Mic's Dessert: Fried Yam Cake with Ice CreamSurprise from waiter: Cheescake with ice cream and wordings!Blowing candle!

2008-08-09T17:16:00.000+08:00

sigh.. i haven blogged for super long.. wonder if anyone is still reading my blog.. doesn't really matter

i have been really down on my luck lately.. been trying to change index number for AA306 for DAYS, not HOURS.. but DAYS.. but still no luck.. damn it.. anyone who wants 00103 and is in 00109 pls contact me!!! i m super desperate..

and was tryin to do the tutorial.. thanks to the failure of changin indexes, my mind's just not in the right place.. can't even think straight.. spent such a bloody long time to do.. still not done yet.. when will i ever wake up to my idea and get things done?!

been feeling frustrated.. you will come to realise that no one in the world will help you except you yourself.. therefore it is really impt to rely on your own.. no wonder there's a chinese saying that "if man is not selfish, the world will come to an end" how true!!

damn sian.. *&%@*%$&#$* dun talk to me

2008-07-31T22:31:00.000+08:00

Today Mic and I went to the Morton's Bar @ Oriental Hotel. There is a Martini Night from 5pm to 7pm every weekday and Martinis' are going for $11.95. I am not sure if that is considered cheap (the original price shown on the menu is $27) but the highlight of the deal is actually the free-flow of fillet mignon sandwiches! Haha Morton's is famous for their steaks so the fillets used in the sandwiches are supposed to be high quality. And they really turned out fantastically delicious!

Mic and her lychee martini

(My Chocolate Martini - nope my face wasnt red after downing this)
View of the Hotel from the Bar

2008-07-31T09:08:00.000+08:00

Our chicken pies! Flavours - original and cheesy! Yummy!

2008-07-29T15:28:00.000+08:00

This is stan here with my first post after a long time. This week is a long-awaited break for me before uni starts next week. Been doing nothing much, just catching up with frens and spending quality time with mic ( i love lolipops!). basically mic and i just lazed ard at my house, watching tv, taking naps, gng groceries-shopping together. later we be making chicken pies and gundams haha!

During these few days, we have both come to a conclusion tat attaining happiness can be very cheap and easy. It's not necessary to dine at posh restaurants or spend big bucks at the theatres or ktvs in order to feel happy. Happiness does not need to be bought, it can be as simple as just watching tv and eating free home-cooked or couple-of-bucks hawker meals. It just boils down to the company and mentality that one has. Not spending extravagantly is especially impt for students like us with limited income and we really have to watch where our money goes..

Anyway, mic and i visited the national museum on last fri night. Entry was free after 6pm (if not it will cost $10 per pax). we decided that we should act as we were culturistic and artistic while appreciating pieces of art.. like those ppl who stare at the paintings for long hrs as if they were deep in thought haha.. There were a couple of contest-winning paintings, a gallery featuring vintage family photos and another gallery featuring olden days hawker food..

Night view of National Museum

The gigantic red naked man lol.. mic asks why his thing so puny..

Ice Kachang-making machine

Satay Store!

Moulds for making kueys!

I love u Darling! thank u for all that u have done for me!

2008-07-25T08:10:00.000+08:00

Hi~

Time now is 8.10am, according to the clock on my iMac. Sigh.. just felt like blogging, but for absolutely no purpose whatsoever..

This sunday I will be going to sing K with chee ling, justina and mayb hian yin.. can't wait to see them again! i have really been rotting this week.. like yesterday (thursday) i just rotted at home, used comp, watch tv, slack.. haha.. thinkin about it, how did i really get past yesterday?

I went jamie tang's house on tuesday to make fruit tarts.. haha.. quite pretty k.. but no chance to take pictures. dun worry, stan says he wants to make some this weekend, so i will try to take pictures this time round k?

School is gonna start in one week's time, and i want so much to clean up my room, but have no idea where to start.. everythin, dunno wanna throw anot.. speaking of studies, c'mon ppl!! let's mug hard this semester!! sigh.. my results really just suck big time, i better buck up or i will be so dead..

another thing, previously i mentioned that i m on diet, but having stayed home for a few days, i think i just fatten up.. AGAIN.. damn.. pls tell me if i am fat or slim when you see me k! how can some girls just stay so skinny while they binge day after day while i am tryin hard not to eat and yet still so swollen-looking?? life's unfair..

i always believe that there must be a redeeming feature in everyone.. some ppl may not be smart, but they are good-looking.. others may be slim, but they are ugly.. how come i have no redeeming feature in me?? oh gosh.. i m fat, stupid, mean and ugly!!! someone save me!! haha..

btw, pls pls go to www.bring-it-home.blogspot.com where stan and i are selling some stuff, may give you a special rate!!! just sms me and let me know ba..

take care everyone! ciao~

2008-07-22T09:46:00.000+08:00

there's been nothing going on in my life.. so boring..

stanley quek is still working till end of this week.. everyday i just rot.. life is so meaningless.. sigh.. i was watching tv and realisation dawned upon me that skinny girls look good in anything.. sigh.. and i dun belong to the skinny group..

who doesn't want to look good when she goes out? but somehow, i just look so swollen and fat.. no matter what i wear, i just look wrong.. sigh..

my wardrobe is bursting.. i think it's not my clothes.. it's just my fat and plump figure.. sigh.. i must slim down! but yesterday, i went to my grandma's place, she offered me some food to eat, but i declined coz i was on a diet.. then she say, "I always give you food, and you will eat everything, why recently everything also dun wanna eat leh?"

sigh.. i feel so guilty after that..

sigh.. how to become thin and yet eat everythin that i can.. and i m ever so bored..

2008-07-16T21:52:00.000+08:00

hiya all!!

tml will be my second last day of internship!! haha.. finally, 10 full weeks of internship is coming to an end.. but that means school is gonna start soon too.. and i ought to start thinking about where to work in the future..

hmmm.. my bday is coming.. not that i m expecting presents.. but if you do ask what is my wishlist, then i really took a long time to think about wad i want.. so here goes:

1) Volkswagen Beetle (Yellow or Red would be nice)
2) Zara Vouchers
3) FCUK skirt worth $119 (black and flair)
4) Black patent heels (i haven seen the ideal pair)
5) Substance or Novo shoes (vouchers would do too!)
6) Nice dresses from Topman/Miss Selfridge (dresses are subjective, so vouchers would do too)
7) Charles & Keith White Patent Bag (with a big buckle in front, short handle, rectangular, comes in 3 colours - black, blue, white)
sigh... i couldn't find the picture.. haha.. but pls bring me along when you are buyin it for me!
8) Substance (brand for shoes) slippers, yvonne knows which one, but no more size!!!
9) Short-sleeve blouses (those striped and smart enuf for office wear) from mango (vouchers would do too!)

i realised that you probably have no idea what i want.. so just get me vouchers!! from zara/mango/ms selfridge/charles & keith/substance/novo

and you will make me a very happy girl! haha..

just kidding.. it's great not to have any urgent wants for anything right now..

i go slp le! tml gotta work!

see ya and take care! pls tag leh.. haha..

2008-07-09T12:26:00.000+08:00

"Asian men are generally not gentlemen."

This is something that i have come across this few days. it has always been happening around us everyday, just that we din get a chance to slow down and think it through.

Let me illustrate my point.

I was waiting at the bus stop yesterday at Bukit Panjang for bus service 184. When it finally arrives, there were many people queueing to board the bus. I was waiting patiently for my turn and suddenly, this guy (beside me) just cut in and went to board the bus before i got a chance to. I think he's in his early twenties (obviously, with a very ugly face). Don't you think he's ungentlemanly? Couldn't he just wait for his turn patiently? He's not the only one. Many times, you may have seen uncles squeezing ahead to get on the bus first. Some of them think that they are old, therefore they have the right to board the bus first.

Well, if they are blind or handicapped, obviously i would let them go first. But some of them are even fitter than i am!! We all have equal rights to board the bus, i dun think you have any special right to board the bus before i do just because you are older than i am. Singaporean men are really ungentlemanly! it's just the kiasu spirit that lies within all of us.

If you noticed, my title says " Asian men" and not "Singaporean men". I have just been to Taipei in May and i dun think that the men are any more gentlemanly than Singaporean men. Similarly, they just squeeze their way through. I am a supporter of the motion "Men and women should enjoy equal status in today's society." But that doesn't mean that men do not have to be ungentlemanly. the same goes when the young should give way to the pregnant or handicapped.

On the other hand, i have seen some caucasians who are more gentlemanly. They always open the door for the ladies, give up their seats for others and allow people to go ahead of them when boarding the bus.

There are always exceptions. i am sure that there are asian men who open the door for the ladies and caucasian men who are more kiasu than us. But generally, asian men really ought to learn from the caucasians.

2008-06-30T08:03:00.000+08:00

"My parents are the greatest parents in the world!"

hey hey, i am speaking the truth k.. my parents and i are very closely knitted.. we can talk about anything under the sun, and i tell my parents about everything that happens to me at work or in school.. they are just like my friends (ok, minus the nagging part from my mom)..

yesterday (sunday), i just sent my dad off at the airport because he's going to perth for 5 days for work purposes.. he's going there alone and his colleagues will be joining him on monday.. my mom and i sent him to the airport and had breakfast together... sitting across the table from him, i realised how much he has aged since 10 years ago.. i know, 10 years le mah, of course will age.. although he still looks like he's 40, he's going to be 50 next year.. he has worked so hard to provide for everything that i have in the house right now.. my bed, computers, tvs, fridge, my bags.. if not for him, my brother and i won't ever lead such a luxurious life.. i realised that i am a very lucky girl.. to be born into this wonderful family.. i hope my brother realises it too..

my dad is ever jovial and happy.. he never brings back his work problems and vents his anger on us just coz of stress at work.. instead, he will always tell us about his funny anecdotes at work.. they are always so interesting and i am very happy to listen him talk on and on about it.. i love my daddy! he's the perfect man.. he's handsome, funny, gentlemanly, kind, innocent at times, ever ready to lend a listening ear.. after sending him off yesterday, i have come to realise that i must work very hard to give my parents the best quality of life.. they have given me everything i wished for and more.. i will not disappoint them and give them luxury.. i want my dad to be able to retire and enjoy life with my mom..

my mom may be naggy at times.. but she has insights on certain issues that ppl at my age may not be able to realise just yet.. so it's always interesting to see certain things from her point of view.. despite her short temper at times, she is a very loving mom... she slogs day in day out just for this family.. she makes sure that we have a sumptous dinner every evening and that everything is well-taken care of in the house..

i was so sad when my dad walked into the departure hall and checked in.. my mom and i just stood outside, silently.. watchin him going to the gate.. i'm not sure if my mom is sad.. but i am definitely very sad.. many may think that i m being very foolish, it's just a working trip!! to me, i dun like my loved ones to go overseas without me.. i get very worried.. it's just me, i guess.. how i wish i could go to perth with my dad to take care of him.. sigh.. i wonder how he is doing now.. i will cherish him even more when he comes back.. now all i can do is send him sms and keep my mom company..

i love you, daddy and mommy!!

2008-06-23T20:31:00.000+08:00

"Pretty girls get away with making mistakes." Do you agree?

First of all, allow me to define all the terms that i am using. "Pretty" is very subjective word (after all, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, eh?). "Mistakes" is defined as something that is done wrong in the eyes of the superior.

Yesterday and today, I went to help out at ISSOWV (11th International Conference on Work and Values) organised by NBS and my prof (Stewart Lloyd Arnold whom i call SLAcker) and some other delegates. It's a great conference whereby delegates from the various institutions and universities come together to discuss their findings on human behaviour..

I got to know this girl (year 1 going onto year 2) called Joyce (her name has been changed to protect myself, i dun want anyone who knows her to come and beat me up! lolx). Apparently, Joyce does some roadshows (wearing fairy costumes to give flyers and similar stuff like that) to earn some big money (like $70 an hr). well, you tink she's pretty. honestly, i do not deny that she's good looking, very tanned and curvy. she's very confident, knows how to speak and act very hardworking in front of the ppl.

she can get along very well with guys, i must say. she had all the waiters twisting around her finger. haha.. i m not the sort of person to mingle around with every single person on the team, it's just not me. haha.. but on a one-to-one, i can get friendly with you.. to an outsider, it will appear that she's very hardworking and doing all the right things at the right time. well, not to me. i dun really like to get too close to her. haha..

back to my topic for today, just coz she's "pretty" to many, they will like to talk to her and even if she omits sth or commits a mistake, i dun think anyone will notice. me, on the other hand, not all attractive, won't get many delegates/waiters talking to me. what works for me is that, if i help someone, i will go out and see that matter till the end. i tend to give ppl the feeling that i m very earnest to help you in any way possible, even though i may not look pretty and confident. haha..

seeing joyce for the past 2 days has made me realised that pretty girls really can land better jobs, won't get reprimanded if they do sth wrong, get things done in a shorter time, get their hands on everything they want. pretty girls are ever so lucky, everyone wants to talk to them, they are pretty (and that means looking good in all types of clothes)!!! they have good frens, ppl who won't shun them just coz they are pretty, good parents, high-paying jobs..

so, is it good to be pretty? or is it better to be sincere? do share your thots with me on the tag board as i would really like to know how you guys think of this.

2008-06-17T11:27:00.000+08:00

i just listened to a love story on the radio.

Husband and wife had an argument in the morning because Husband woke up 5 minutes later and did not prepare breakfast. It has always been the practice that Husband will prepare the breakfast while Wife will take care of the dinner. That morning, Wife chided Husband and even told him not to come back for dinner because she won't include his share. Husband left for work angrily. Alone at home, Wife thought over her words and knew that she shouldn't have chided Husband for such a small matter. To make up for it, she decided to prepare chicken soup for him when he comes back tonight.

Having a tough day at work and it was his friend's bday, Husband decided to have a drink at the pub and he had a little too much. On his way home on his scooter, he got into an accident. He reached out for his hp and pressed Wife's number. On the other hand, Wife was waiting for Husband at the living room, looking out for any sign of Husband's scooter. Then the phone rang. The police had called. They found her number through Husband's "Last Dialled" List. On seeing his body, Wife wanted to say so much to him but he would never be able to hear them ever again. She had lots of regrets.

A few years later, Wife remarried. This time round, Wife never scolded her new husband ever again.

the moral of the story teaches us to think before we say anything harsh. We should never say anything that we know we will come to regret in the future. Having heard this story, i reflected on my own words and actions for the past few days. for some, i knew the cause behind my childish acts.. for others, i still had no idea why i reacted that way and spoilt the whole day for him.

from this, i will always think before i act. i don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill and hurt the ones that love me most. for Wife, she never had a chance to make up for the mistakes she committed. for me, i still have time to make amendments. thus, i will try my best to change for the better and make amendments.

i love you

2008-06-14T21:03:00.000+08:00

hiya all!!

oh my goodness.. i don't even remember when was the last time i blogged.. well, in a blink of the eye, i am halfway through my internship!! 5 weeks has gone past! haha.. time flies..

i wouldn't say that i m being very stressed or happy with my job.. though i was given the opportunity to do some very simple reasonableness tests, there is some strong politics going on..

not to mention what the politics are, i have decided to keep my mouth shut to everything and just open my ears. office politics are inevitable everywhere and not everyone plays it. unfortunately someone i know plays it, and not very well, i would say. "It" shows different expressions for different classes of people (namely, the interns like me, "it"s peers and "it"s superiors). obviously, me being the lowest rank in the company, will get all the bad and sucky treatment. if "it" plays politics well, it wouldn't be where "it" is now. "it" would be somewhere higher up the corporate ladder and not doing the field work. so it goes to show that office politics without the real capability will get you nowhere.

frankly speaking, i feel quite sympathetic for "it". after struggling for so long in the corporate world, "it"s position is not any higher than mine. "it" is a very disgusting person, to say. well, i shan't elaborate further.

i can't wait for internship to be over. well, at least my time at this current job will be over soon and i will be able to move onto the next job. hopefully, my next team will be a better one.

work has taught me alot. i have learnt to cherish the joys of learning and studying. i have also learnt that people are never simple as you think they are. they have a lot of ideas up their sleeve. if you aren't careful enough, you might just receive a stab from the back! haha..

ok, that's all i have to say.. will blog again when i am free! stan said that my complexion has deterioriated. damn it.. i better do something to it..

2008-06-05T21:42:00.000+08:00

New Deity Figurines posted up for sale on www.bring-it-home.blogspot.com! Pls go and have a look ppl!

2008-05-31T16:31:00.000+08:00

23 May 08 marks a special milestone in our relationship! It is the 999th day since Mic and I are together! So on this special day, I decided to plan something special for Mic!

After work, we went to Ma Masion at Clarke Quay for dinner. Luckily we made reservations beforehand because the queue is unbelivable haha. The ambience of the restaurant is fab, its dimly lighted and decorated in a old western europe style. From our table we can even see Clarke Quay and the river =)

I got Mic a nicely-wrapped sunflower and a card with a sunflower on its cover! She just loves sunflowers haha. But she still cannot get over the fact that I actually bargained with the florist. For your info, the sunflower's original cost is $15 but I got it for $10 haha! Mic insists that no one bargains in Singapore but why would you pay $15 for the flower when u can get it for $10? My training in Bangkok has done me well this time.

Mic was weeping in tears after she had read the card. She didnt believe that I can come up with such poetic phrases lol. Our dinner: Hambuger steak and Omu Rice!

After dinner, we went to PS's Ice Monster for a Mango Ice Cream Dessert. Yummy!

Hopefully you will remember this day. I always will =) ~Stanley~

2008-05-18T23:40:00.000+08:00

i have nothing much going on in my life recently..

talking about internship, i have undergone a week of audit training with around 40 plus other interns from NTU, SMU and NUS. the training is quite ok, but next week will be the big test where we finally put what we learn to practical use..

i have only met the other members of my team once on friday.. not exactly sure if i would be able to blend in with them, but i will still try my best.. hope they are all very friendly and helpful ppl..

what did i do for this long weekend? haha.. i went to partyworld with yvonne on saturday, my closest fren from nan hua dance.. she is my twin.. haha.. i had a lot of fun with her.. we can just chat non-stop for hours..

today (sunday) i went to orchard with jasmine, my pri school fren.. =D we went through thick and thin together! that meaning that she has seen my thick and thin figure.. haha.. i have a few things to comment here.. on my way to orchard on the bus 171, there were lots of maids.. their off day i guess.. the bus's engine was exceptionally loud, sounded like it's gonna break down any minute.. to make sure that they are heard, the maids started yelling and screaming at the top of their lungs just behind.. ppl who know me, can you imagine how pissed i am? they are a bunch of crazy shorties with disgusting hair and tight-fitting tops.. the tops show off their tummies (or shld i say, pregnant lookalike stomachs?) rather than their non-existent boobs..

the maids are absolutely disgusting.. they don't realise that they are shouting.. nvm, i alight outside ck tangs only to find more maids loitering around the bus-stop, flooding the whole passageway.. one more point to add, their legs are so short that they take such a freaking long time to alight!! they have no sense of urgency nor consideration for others at all! eew...

i suggested going to paragon.. and going to paragon would mean that i would need to go pass lucky plaza to get there.. oh my god.. what a big mistake i have made!! the stench (i use this word because it describes exactly how the whole building full of maids smell!!) is disgusting.. and the maids together with their construction "boyfriends" are just strolling around, blocking my way! i dun like ppl to block my way. damn it

luckily i din have to take the bus home after that.. my parents came to pick me up and send jasmine home too.. haha.. she saw a top that she really liked at dorothy perkins.. she knew that she would get scolded for buying it but she still can't stop thinkin about it! so we went back to paragon for the second time after shopping at other places.. well, she din buy it in the end coz there was a defect on the last piece and it looks really visible to her.. haha..

stan is in bangkok right now.. i hope he is enjoying himself..

2008-05-14T20:48:00.001+08:00

Hi all! We have created a new blog that sells cute items! Pls go and have a look! More items will be posted up for sale very soon. The address is www.bring-it-home.blogspot.com or you can click on the link on the right side of the blog. Have fun shopping and bring home all your likings!

2008-05-10T01:09:00.000+08:00

hi ppl!!

i am back from my taiwan trip! hahah.. it was a very fruitful and fun one! haha.. i went from 2nd to 8th may, on SIA flight.. before i forget, we were served a small tub of Haagen Daaz ice cream each when we were coming back from Taipei! when we were going there, i was pretty ill.. had a bad sore throat, blocked nose, and nausea.. damn it right? i almost couldn't board the plane due to my condition.. after seeing a doc at the airport (costs me $84!!) and got an injection for pressing down the nauseous feeling, i finally slept through the whole flight and arrived in taiwan at 5.50pm!!

haha.. we were supposed to sit this "Fei Gou" (Flying Dog) bus service which will send us directly to our hotel in Xi Men Ding.. it was rather okay, considering that i din get bus sick or anything.. we reached the hotel at around 8.15pm, after 100 mins of bus ride.. =D

the hotel only costs us $30+ per person per night.. cheap right? i wasn't really expecting anything fancy so the decor of the room was up to my standard for that kinda price i am paying.. it was quite nice, just a little small.. there is breakfast (which comprises of a sandwich and a packet of drink per person). of coz, you can choose to have a better breakfast (such as a buffet) at some other hotel which would cost $20 more per night i think.. haha..

i have uploaded lots of pictures for your viewing.. haha.. first up are our buys from the trip! fyi, the picture below covers almost the entire king size bed and it's only 85% of our stuff coz at the time we took this picture, we haven finish our shopping! haha..

as you can see, the bed is divided into two parts, the one on the right belongs to me, my total shopping list is as follows:

4 pairs of shoes (SGD$ 7.50 - $10 each)
1 pair of slippers (SGD$ 13)
1 bag (SGD$13)
5 tees (around SGD$11 each)
1 pair of jeans (SGD$8 only!!)
1 skirt (SGD$18)
2 belts (1 for SGD$2.50, 1 for SGD$5)
1 scarf (SGD$10)
5 comic books (less than SGD$5 each)
1 chinese teapot (SGD$8 - for my mom)
1 tee (SGD$10 - for my bro)
1 figurine (SGD$5 - for my dad)
2 umbrellas (the jap kind, portable, very cute!) (SGD$9 - $13)
some tidbits (fish crackers, winter melon pie)
cup noodles (heard they taste good, gotta try mah!)
some miscellaneous (e.g. hp chains, rings, etc)

the pictures aren't in chronological order.. but anyway, let me introduce the food first.. we tried to take pictures of all that we ate.. haha.. stan did a lot of research on where to go, what to buy/eat before we came.. so i must say, it's a really fab trip, thanks to my darling!! =D

this is the "xian1 yu4 xian1" shop where we ate the yam balls.. it's sth like our ice kachang with ice shavings.. but the condiments are absolutely better! perhaps it's coz i dun like ice kachang? there are many choices.. we ordered this (comprises of yam balls, sweet potato balls, pearls, big sweet nuts and sth like hashima) they are all very chewy and yummy! haha.. it costs only NT$45 (around SGD$2 plus) and it's such a big bowl!!

this is the boston cake we ate at the Taoyuan International Airport before we were about to board the plane.. i have always wanted to try the cakes coz they look absolutely scrumptious.. but the cakes at Xi Men Ding costs at least SGD$5 per slice! so i was berserk when i saw this cake going for only SGD$1.50 per slice! not bad at all.. =D

this picture was taken when we were on the plane back to singapore and stan was sitting next to the window, so he took this picture of sunset.. gorgeous isn't it? haha.. it's my desktop background now..

it took us a long time to find this, Xiao Lin Jian Bing! the first day we walked for almost 2 hours at Zhong Xiao DunHua station and the vicinity to find this, but to no avail.. we tried again another day, only to find out that it's only opposite the big shopping centre! damn! but well, it was great! at first i was afraid that it was going to be some fried pancake or sth.. boy was i wrong! (isn't the packaging cute? 1 portion - 3 pieces at NT$35!)

this is how it looks - very soft and it's full of custard inside! a bit too sweet though.. haha, i can finish it in 3 mouthfuls!

this is how the shop looks like, the staff only told us that we were not allowed to take a picture after stan took it. so well, we have this picture! hahah..

next up is ding tai fung!! we ate all this for breakfast.. not very exp, almost same price as singapore's one.. but the interior decor is disgusting! haha.. it's worse than the crystal jade in singapore, just like a normal HK cafe in HK, without the smoke.. the service's good though.. we ate the fried pork chop.. yummy!

the famous xiao long bao (10 in a one portion) it's absolutely good! unlike the ones we eat in singapore, these just won't burst! even if it sticks to the cloth underneath, it won't break! look at my second picture to see how much soup it has! haha.. we just slurped up the 5 bao each!

this is the red bean cake they have. a bit on the dry side, not exactly my fave eh.. haha

i have to eat something every morning before i set off for our proper breakfast, if not, i will feel very faint and weak.. haha.. guess it's coz we also stone around before setting off to get breakfast.. i have heard that the cup noodles are different from singapore's ones, so i decided to get one to try.. well, this isn't CUP noodles, more of BOWL noodles.. hahaha.. it wasn't bad at all, quite tasty and there are real pieces of chicken and pork in there!!

next up is Shih Lin night market! i know that everyone has been eating the Shihlin chicken chop in Singapore.. well, i won't ever eat the one in Singapore again, after having eaten the authentic one in taipei!! haha.. this is really huge.. and the queue is quite long.. thank god for their efficiency, we got our chicken in just minutes!! haha.. the length of the whole chicken slice is about 25cm! super big eh?

this is another famous snack there, called "Da Bing Bao Xiao Bing" (small biscuit wrapped in big biscuit). they have almost 10 different flavours, either sweet or salty ones.. some flavours include red bean, peanut, black pepper, curry, pork floss and many others! we chose pork floss.. we queued up for quite some time.. one thing good about taiwanese is that they are well-mannered and they queue up dutifully, just like us! haha.. so we were watching the lady wrapped the thing.. it's actually a deep fried biscuit (aka the xiao bing) being smashed into pieces, sprinkled with a generous portion of the filling you chose, lastly wrapped in the kebab skin (aka the da bing).. haha.. not too bad.. i like the kebab skin, very chewy!

this is the famous oyster jian1 that we all have been seeing on TV for so long! haha.. it's just scrambled egg with the oyster lor.. we din choose oyster coz if the oyster isn't fresh, we can get diarrhoea easily, so we opted for squid jian1! in case you haven noticed, the red sauce on the egg is just the "tian bu la" sauce which you will see later.. haha.. btw, our singapore Shihlin also sells the "tian bu la", you guys can try it!

next up at Shihlin night market, we ate the "Guan Cai Ban" (coffin board). it's actually the bread used for French Toast that they deep fried it, cut it open and put different stuffings in it.. hahah.. we chose black pepper beef and it tastes great! the bread is so crispy and warm, the auntie put in some coleslaw and sweet sauce with the black pepper beef, bagus! haha..

this is another famous stall at Shihlin. everyone were queuing up for it! as you can see, it's called "Da Chang Bao Xiao Chang" (small sausage wrapped in big sausage) haha.. don't the taiwanese just love to wrap things up? we saw the Da Chang which is white in colour, so i thot it would be the German Bratwurst Sausage or sth.. turned out that it's actually glutinous rice! haha.. and the small sausage is just the taiwanese sausage we eat in Singapore with little bits of "la4 chang2" (cured meat) we also drank bubble tea, but our hands were so full that we did not have a chance to take a picture of that.. the bubble tea is Taipei is cheap and good! they have two sizes of pearls and they are fantastically chewy!! haha.. they have 700cc sizes, drink till we are so bloated!

next, we went to Dan4 Shui3 to eat and view the scenery.. the Yu Ren Ma Tou that we always heard about artistes performing there is at Dan Shui too.. but thanks to the bad weather, we couldn't do much! and i got really frustrated too.. my shoes were soaked through and through! haha.. we ate this two things at Dan Shui.. the one on the left is the Fishball, sth like Fuzhou fishballs that we have here, there is meat inside..

the one on the right called "Ah Gei" (ah give). It's actually sotong paste on the top, with Tau Pok skin.. initially, i thought it was just a plain Tau Pok, but when i opened it up, it's actually lots of Dong1 Fen3 packed in it! very yummy! the red sauce tastes like tomato sauce, complements the whole dish really well!

we ate this jap meal at Tonkatsu restaurant at Xi Men Ding. they have free flow of rice, salad and miso soup for their guests! it only costs NT$150 (around SGD$7) per set and we were so full!!! add on another NT$15 (SGD$0.75) and you get free flow of soft drinks! haha.. why are Jap food so cheap in Taiwan and Bangkok but so exp in Singapore? according to Stan's theory, it's becoz the nearer the place is to Japan, the cheaper the Jap food gets.. wad do you guys think? hahah..

i would say that this is our most posh meal in Taipei and it only costs us SGD$18 for both the set and the dessert! haha.. not bad.. but this restaurant's service isn't fab.. so i rate it really low.. stan loves the meat though.. they dun display all their dishes in the menu and you have to look at the display (like Azabu Sabo at Marina Sq) to find out what exactly do they have..

the worst came when they told us that we have to order one portion each.. becoz we have already eaten some snacks and we just wanted to try out their food.. in order to make it up to two portions, we just have to order the dessert.. second picture below.. pretty as it looks, not very nice.. the white thing isn't vanilla ice cream, in case you are wondering, it's just FATTENING whipped cream..

another one of our breakfasts! look at how they use plastic bags to wrap their plates and place the food on the plastic! so when one cust is done, they just have to throw away the plastic bag covering the plate and slip on a new one! they dun have to wash the plates at all! haha.. smart eh? lolx.. there are three dishes, carrot cake on the right, Dan (egg) Bing with pork chop at the top and my Dan Bing with chicken at the bottom.. the Dan Bing tastes like scrambled on prata.. quite nice! the carrot cake was very crispy!

we went to buy takeaway one morning at this Gu Gu Gu Cafe.. haha.. they serve brilliant and aromatic coffee! haha.. even the packagin is so nice!

this is spaghetti with egg and pork chop.. taiwanese love pork chop..

this is another night market that we went to.. stan is holding the famous drink in his hand.. it's called "Ai4 Yu4 Bing1" (Love Jade Ice). tastes like sea coconut to me, but stan doesn't like it.. haha..

there was a long queue for this "Tian Bu La", it's really sweet and not spicy! a bit too sweet for my liking as it irritates my throat.. stan loves it, but not me.. haha.. it's like our yong tau foo..

this was our first meal at Taipei after we touched down on Friday night.. haha.. it's at one of the cheaper jap restaurants.. yes yes, jap again.. that's what they have there mostly.. hahah.. this is stan's Ten Don.. so much fish and veg and prawns that he almost couldn't finish it!

this is one of the stuff that you can find at Takashimaya basement One.. but it's more unique here, they actually add Mochi into the filling, so it's very chewy and not very sweet.. nice!

finally, the pictures for the food is over! now onto the sightseeing part.. we wanted to go to the Mao Kong Gondola on Saturday morning.. we took the mrt and reach the place at around 9.15am. but the whole place was jammed up! full of uncles and aunties, parents bringing their kids, elderly squeezing into the building, waiting to get into the building.. it's cable car ride.. haha.. but so many ppl, how to get onto it? haha.. so we just took pictures with this Zhao Cai Mao, hopefully it will get us some Cai.. haha..
ok, this is just a random picture we took in the hotel before setting off for the day.. haha.. happy happy!! =D

you have probably heard of this on the news, the Toilet restaurant! hah.. it's cute.. but we din go in to eat coz it's quite exp.. haha.. save money for shopping! we just took some pictures.. but we did see that all the food are served in Toilet Bowls! haha.. quite cute.. and the names of the food are associated with shit, diarrhoea..

this is the night scene at Xi Men Ding.. quite happening.. haha.. the crowds start streaming in at around 3pm.. dunno where they come from, don't they need to work or sth? haha..

this is a picture of Xi Men Ding in the day.. the streets are so quiet.. haha.. it costs around SGD$10 plus to watch a movie in taiwan.. that's the info we gathered from the sales people there.. they are all very friendly!!

next up we saw this Gundam shop.. or rather, stan wanted to come here.. there are three huge displays of Gundam and we took pictures happily! hee.. haha.. very fun.. they are all so cute!

outside the shopping centre, there was this Fish Leong publicity event about her concert in Taipei! haha.. i was so excited to see her in person! pretty! her singin is fab too!

taipei 101! haha.. we paid NT$350 each to get up there.. so better take more pictures! haha.. the view is spectacular.. and they have this pendulum in the middle of the building to stabilise the whole thing when the wind blows.. coz the building is simply too tall.. haha..

there is this adorable Hello Kitty shop in Taipei! haha.. they sell cakes, and the sofa, plates, everything is hello kitty! but they were too pricey, so we just give it a miss.. haha.. see see look look will be sufficient le.. the cakes are cute, aren't they? hahah..

finally, i would like to end off this entry with a little note to stan. everything in taipei has been like a dream.. we din argue, we were happy.. we were blessed, lucky to have found each other.. i dunno why things can change when we are back in singapore.. i wanna find back that lost happiness.. i know i did make you angry once when we were in dan shui.. when you are angry, you dun say a word.. you just sit there and stone.. perhaps it's due to our different perceptions..

hope things will change for the better..

2008-04-30T08:41:00.000+08:00

hi all!

exams are over!! whoohoo! hahah.. i feel so empty suddenly.. shan't talk about exams coz i just feel so bloody depressed.. anyway! i feel like i've got nth to do.. except tat i have to think about what to bring to taiwan.. i dun wanna miss anything out.. hmm..

i have no pictures to upload becoz i am too lazy.. and i din take any pictures recently.. must study mah.. can anyone give me any idea what to do today? i m so bored~~

ok, go play game le.. hee.. take care everyone! happy labour day!

2008-04-28T17:22:00.000+08:00

oh my oh my oh my!!!

time now is 5.22pm, 28th april. haha.. in less than 24 hours, i will be FREE! yes yes yes yes yes!!

oops, i think i am supposed to be studying for my LAST paper tml.. haha.. it's always like this for the last paper, no mood to study, keep thinking of post-exam activities.. haha.. shit..

tml i got a long day of fun! well, may be not.. after exam i will be meeting my babeh after so long!! haha.. lunch at jack's place.. then 1.30pm is the start of my first tuition for the day.. after that will see my dearest cousin!! whoo! take pictures pretty pls! haha.. i m going crazy.. dinner at home, then gotta run for 2nd tuition at 7.30 pm! haha..

then can rest on 30th may and pack for my taiwan trip! yesh yesh yesh! TAIWAN HERE I COME! i will be going to taiwan from 2nd may to 8th may on SIA flight (my fave!)haha..

i will buy back lots of bags, shoes, clothes, unique stuff before i start work on 12th may (darn it)

sigh.. shit lah, totally no mood to study.. may the force be with me! can someone (anyone with gpa higher than mine) give me some of your wisdom so that i can be smart for just that 2.5 hours? then i will return your brain to you! pls anyone! leave a tag k, if you wanna do some kind deed & share your knowledge & wisdom with me!

ok, will end here before i go crazy.. ciao

2008-04-21T14:03:00.000+08:00

hi guys

later i have an elective paper at 5. damn, reika's last paper is tomorrow and i still have to slog my guts out till 29th. nothing's fair in this world. i have come to learnt and accepted that.

right now, my mood sucks. i have to thank reika for giving me a lift to school later. but i will need to make my own way back after the paper. sometimes it's best to keep this blog a secret, so that i can write whatever i want.

now that i know ppl will be reading this, i have to know what to write and what not to write. my mood isn't bad because i have to take the bus home. it just sucks to know that there are people out there in this world partying away, relaxing and having fun like they dun give a damn about tomorrow while i have to keep worrying about my exam, my future, my life.

similarly, some ppl have all the luck in the world. things go smoothly for them, they are smart, funny, good-looking, confident, slim and troubles-free. no matter how much junk food they put into their mouths and how hard they try to get into trouble, they just remain so thin and lucky. unfortunately, i am not one of them

i get fat, i get stupid, i get into trouble, i get stressed, i get unhappy. is it because this is the way i am? or am i seeking too much trouble? i guess i just dun get wad i want, and that is sufficient to piss me off. bad life. bad michelle.

whenever i am upset, it starts to rain. just like now. it's pouring outside. i do feel better after saying things out. it's ok if you dun understand. it's not meant to be understood. that's how i am. never meant to be understood by people. i am me.

ciao~

2008-04-10T17:24:00.000+08:00

Hi its Stan here again!

Below is a slide show of some photos taken when Mic and I went for hair treatment and lunch@Thai express which we ate Tom Yam Steamboat! Pay attention to the captions in the slide show Dearie!

2008-04-08T20:07:00.000+08:00

hi all

haven been blogging for sometime.. sorry about that..

been busy with projects and last min revision.. my first paper will start next thursday! oh my!! haha.. so exciting eh..

today had lunch with shu shu (aka zhanyi).. haha.. we wanted to try out the new extension at canteen A.. oh my god.. the subway queue is insane! next to it was mac.. first time i see mac so empty during lunchtime! haha.. we went quad for laksa.. today the standard dropped.. too much milk.. not really to my liking.. shu shu and i just couldn't stop talking about our impending exams.. sigh.. stressing me out..

haha.. my AC213 project is still not over.. can you believe it? so long le.. sigh.. gonna be over soon.. luckily my groupmates are all very smart people.. haha.. i believe we will be able to produce great results!! jia you girls!

i can't wait for my exams to be over.. just in the midst of preparing for my own exams, i have to prepare my two tuition kids for theirs too.. and secondary kids have no realisation of how important their results are.. so they are forever not paying attention.. luckily the sec 2 one is getting to feel stressed.. good for her.. my sec 1 girl! still slacking.. putting her head on the table.. not paying attention.. sigh... die die die..

off to studying le ppl.. good luck for all taking exams! =D

~my 1st N last 21st bday party~

2008-04-01T22:07:00.000+08:00

This is Stan!! Finally have the time now to blog abt my 21st bday =) Been rather busy and lazy recently lol. Basically, its was a total BLAST for me haha! Mic organised a surprise party for me at CDANS chalet and she invited my CHS frens, 04s15 classmates and most astonishingly the SOA guys haha!

It all started when my Mum told me to send her to the chalet to collect an impt document from her colleague. It turned out to be a lie to lure me to the surprise party (Mum, u should get an Oscar's for this haha). Mic had earlier on told me that she be doing a "project" but she was in fact preparing for the party at the chalet.Therefore my jaws were like hanging when I saw the lar ge grp of ppl waiting for me at the chalet when i drove in. Even the earlier bumping into Vijay at the main CDANS building didnt make me suspect a thing at all lol.. The guys were all hugging me and wishing me happy birthday! I felt kinda weird to be the centre of attraction yet happiness overwhelmed me when i saw so many frens who remembered my bday and even showed up.

Thanks you so much guys! Thanks to Aidan, Leslie, Kevin who took time to meet up with Mic and Reika to make the board. I still cant believe that the guys actually came up with such a great piece of art & craft work haha. And a big thanks to Lim too for carrying it around haha! Thanks to Dan and Chris for contacting all the CHS guys! Thanks to Reika and Jie Yue who came to the chalet earlier to decorate the venue. But most importantly, I must thank my family! Esp to my dear, who spent so much effort on planning the surprise party and trying to keep everything under wraps haha! Muacks I love ya!

A really really big harvest of presents this year! Here's the list:

1) Money from parents and elders which will come in handy when I go for my 2 overseas trip.

2) Meng Jun created a very impressive and hilarious Flash file based on life in SOA haha. I couldnt stop laughing when I watched it.

3) A pair of boxing gloves from Samuel

4) Romance of 3 Kingdoms SD Gundam from Julian

5) Liverpool home ground jersey from the kids

6) Lost Cities from Darren

7) Maxtor 160GB Harddisk from Xuwei, Jun Jie, Lubin, Wei Jun and Marissa

8) Photo Book from Dear which contains our most memorable memories

9) Cuff links from Jie, Mei and Noliak

10) Ipod from the Chinese High Guys!

11) Mushroom Lamp from Jimmy

12) Green Water Bottle from Eric

13) Borders' Book Voucher from Jie Yue

14) Adidas Bag from Wei Kiat, Lim, Vijay and others!

15) Me-to-u-Bear card from Sihui, self-designed cards from Jie Yue, Ah Han, Ah Kiat (his is a wedding contract lol), Ah Rong + Ah Zhen + Xiong Xiong + Husky, Ah Ling!

According to Best Fren and Mic, I still have a gift coming in from overseas. Cant wait to see it asap ~~~

2008-03-28T21:44:00.000+08:00

i am very sian.. yet you are there..

you may keep quiet, but your actions are adding a lot of pressure onto me.. in your eyes i see disappointment, like why am i so busy with projects.. why aren't i keeping you company.. you dun seem to understand the need to spend so much time on projects.. sigh...

i dunno what to say.. maybe i brought you agony.. but right now, my heart is pierced through and through with millions of needles.. i m already so stressed with my exams just round the corner.. you need to know that i can't keep you company like i did during the start of the semester, where everything was still so slack..

the pressure keeps increasing every semester.. i tell you i am stressed, you say you understand.. but i dun see how you understand from your actions.. i need time to study.. i need time.. you say you will just stay in my room and do your own things.. little did you know that your presence makes me so stressed up.. when i see you, i feel so guilty that i am unable to keep you company and do fun things together..

i dunno if you ever notice, but i am so slack for this semester that i am very upset everyday.. perhaps i dun show.. but every night, before i sleep, i just have to think of all my undone and pressing chores and i will lie on the bed for hours before i doze off.. i am so stressed..

so tired.. i just need your concern.. like asking me if i want some water, like a massage.. or a good hug to make me forget my worries for a moment.. perhaps it's my fault.. i expect too much..

for everyday that i live, i am one day closer to death........................

2008-03-26T12:21:00.000+08:00

time: 12.21pm, 26th march 2008

i am in fal again! haha.. waiting for my groupmate (huiching) to finish her proj meeting before i can start our meeting.. so i din bring my notes and i got nothing better to do right.. haha.. blog lor!

i guess this will be a short entry, seems like her meeting is coming to an end soon.. finally, projects are about to come to an end, with the exception of AC213 whose deadline falls on 11th april.. so we are still struggling to implement our system into FACT.. damn hard lah.. haha.. adding onto that, i still haven do my indiv part.. i think i gotta finish all my readings and start asap.. like, tonight?

hmmm.. speakin of which, i haven done up a to-do list for a long time.. let's see, i will reach home around 4pm, pick stan up at 5.30. so i have an hour before dinner. what should i do ah? ah! finish readin the article for AA202 in 1 hr.. after dinner, finish up on my readings for seminar 11 for AC213 and do my tutorial for AC213 (even though the seminar was already over). Hmmm.. if i can finish all that by tonight, it will be great! then i can edit on the AA202 report too.. haha..

some wishful thinking i am doing lor.. duh..

oh ya! my specs which i bought on sunday is due for collection today!! but since i am not free, think i will only go down on friday to collect it.. hah.. can't wait to see my family and frens' response when i put my new glasses on.. whoo!

last night, stan told me he got a craving for tang yuan.. then i told him that i will give him the unique tang yuan by Michelle Chiang!! haha.. you know, normal tang yuan is white on the outside and the peanut filling is on the inside right.. so mine will be inverse! i will make him tang yuan that is brown (for peanut) or black (for dou sha) on the outside and the white skin will be on the inside! haha.. innovative right.. but it will take a long time to come up with the end product as i will need to eat the normal tang yuan first, then wait for my stomach to digest the food and then come out of you-know-where. alas! my innovative and inverse tang yuan will be done! muahahahaha..

let me let you in on sth really disgusting.. today i came to school at 8am. then i went to the toilet, leaving my bag and stuff in the car. when i came back for my stuff, i saw an uncle sitting on the curb between his car and mine, guess what he was doing?? CUTTING HIS TOENAILS FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!!! i feel so disgusted and almost wanna puke on the spot! i was so afraid that his nails would dirty or scratch the car (you know, when you cut it, the nail will fly off somewhere?) so i got into the car, and parked my car in another spot away from his car. when he saw that i got into the car, he began standing up and stared at me. eew!! then after i finished parking my car, he was still staring at me.. oh no, i pray hard that my car won't come to any harm when i see it at the end of the day.. yucks!!!

then right now, as i am typing this, a girl plopped down on the seat beside me and i could feel some water (i can't confirm if they are really JUST water droplets) onto my thigh! i dunno what the hell she was flicking, but it's still gross! and then she used her sleeve to wipe her forehead.. i know you do this when you are running and you are hot IN A PARK.. not when you are in school, FAL (computer lab) air-conditioned and under the scrutiny of so many pairs of eyes! i am extremely disgusted by her.. yucks...

then there is this bastard who was in a rush for time.. i will not hesitate to use such a crude word on him because only this word will be able to describe him.. i know he is in a rush for time, but for ****ing sake, pls watch where you are going mah.. he was holding onto a piece of paper and the paper just rubbed past my hand.. what's worse is that he knocked into a girl sitting in front of a computer and caused her to turn 360 degrees around! and her bag went THUD! onto the floor! he saw this but he din even offer to pick up her bag and just stood at the exit, looking at her and sayin sorry like he din mean it at all.. so, don't you agree with me that he deserves to be named "bastard"? i hate ungentlemanly guys.. they are the worse of the lot.. sucks!

ok, that's all folks! see you! and stan's been saying that he wants to blog about his birthday, but it's been so long and i still dun see his blog up here! haha.. slow.........................

2008-03-24T08:33:00.000+08:00

ok, monday morning, here i am at fal again.. shit, i think i ought to be looking at my slides and reading my notes instead of blogging again... haha..

last friday (21st mar) was the eventful day.. my most unglam day.. haha.. but i will leave it to stan to blog more about it.. after all, it's HIS day.. haha..

i shall blog about yesterday instead.. Sunday 23 march 2008..

stan and i went bugis to have my eyes tested, wanna see if my eyesight has deproved and get the appropriate readings for my eyes so that i can go buy a pair of new glasses! haha.. turns out that my left eye is 200 deg instead of 250 and my right eye is still perfect! wow.. amazing eh..my eyesight can actually improve.. so after visiting the optician, there was a roadshow selling specs.. i saw the pair that i wanted long ago (at Monsoon, Centrepoint) and they were only selling it at 120 nett (includes lens and multi-coat). haha.. but i wasn't certain if that was exactly the one that i wanted, so i went back to Monsoon to find Wendy (it's not the hair salon, it's a new specs shop at level 1, the new wing of Centrepoint and they sell really cool specs!)

when i went back, it's exactly the one that i saw at Bugis but the frame alone already costs $155! haha.. i told wendy that i saw the exact one selling for $120. so she called and confirmed. alas, i got my beloved specs at $120! muahahaha.. going back to collect it this weekend i guess. not much chance to go on other days leh.. hmmm.. maybe thurs.. too excited le, can't wait.. will post a pic of me and my specs when i get it! haha.. it's a totally attitude specs.. love it!

then reika called me when we were at kino.. guess she was too upset over some stuff (shan't elaborate here). so stan and i invited her to have Haagen Daaz ice cream with us at Holland Village at 8.15pm! haha.. stan got $10 voucher from his dad.. so might as well use it..

reika said that the sundaes there were really small.. and the fondue costs $39.90! so she suggested to order a pint instead. when we asked the waitress, she said that if we wanted the pint, we gotta sit outside (inside, with air-con, and drinks served, is for dine-in). Just a mere 1m away, it'll be OUTSIDE the shop and we can then eat the pint (TAKEAWAY). She added that the pint is DAMN hard and so even if we order it, we won't be able to eat it now. what kind of service is that? who says the word DAMN to her customers?? oh my gosh.. haha.. reika and i decided that we do not like the waitress at all.. one look at her sickening face and i feel like puking out all my expensive ice-cream.. haha..

anyway, i have managed to grab a picture of stan's 21st bday cake and post it here for all to admire.. it's after he has cut the cake, hence the two ugly lines.. but the cake weighs 4kg in total.. happy birthday my dear!=D

2008-03-17T08:26:00.000+08:00

hiya!

i dun have class today, but right now i am at fal at a bloody 8.30 am!! can u believe it? haha.. coz today got 3 proj meetings, spannin over 7 hours straight.. somebody save me!! shit, i m going bonkers, again.. no, i m not slacking during a meeting right now.. i m simply early.. the first meeting will start at 9.30, but i came early to grab a lot.. haha.. kiasu right? anyway, only one hour diff, dun wanna go home den come school again.. waste petrol..

yesterday, darren, mar, stan and i met at the "Manga Oasis" cafe at Suntec (the new extension, where they sell lots of new and young stuff). It was supposed to be a cafe for comic-lovers. And i thot it would be a big cafe with shelves and shelves of comics for us to sit around, read and relax. Boy! Was i totally wrong! not only were there no "Shelves and Shelves of Comics", there was only one RACK. one small rack. My house's collection of comics is even bigger than theirs! well, the place wasn't exactly comfy either. but i thot it would be nice to have a change of environment. so while waiting for mar and darren to arrive, stan ordered a "Affagato Meltdown". it is supposed to be hot espresso with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Another shock! not only was it minute compared to the one in the picture, it's extremely bitter and it's WHIPPED CREAM, not ICE CREAM!! haha..

ok, so mar and darren arrived. darren ordered a vanilla ice-blended and mar ordered a mix berry smoothie. I din try the vanilla drink but the mix berry wasn't fab. just ok.. tastes like ribena and no fibre of berries at all. Now you know why smoothies can cost up to $6.50 whereas this one only cost $3.50 (also not very cheap ok??). Others use real berries. I think that guy at Manga oasis only uses berry syrup.

I had previously asked darren to help me order this game called "Lost Cities" and mar bought "Saboteur". Darren is giving Lost Cities to Stan as his bday present. haha.. Thanks bro! We played Lost Cities yesterday. It's originally a game for two players. But if you have two sets of the same game (which is darren's and stan's new one), you can have four players. It's a tag team game with two sets. And players on the same team are not supposed to communicate, they can only pass two cards to each other in a turn! haha..

stan was on a 6-time winning streak till darren and i broke the record. We thrash stan and mar flat! woohoo!! haha.. we only used one row to beat them, and they had 5 rows! it's ok if you dun understand.. haha.. next time if you play the game, you will.. too bad my hp was low batt, if not i would have taken a shot of board and our victorious win! muahahaha.. this game is a test of telepathy between team players. haha.. stan said we (he and i) have the most telepathy! haha..

ok, let me backtrack abit. stan, seb (his bro) and i were supposed to go for thai food at yishun for lunch yesterday. but since we were all heading down to city hall after lunch, we decided to go suntec for lunch. We were at Surf N Turf, this restaurant (not exactly new) that serves western food like nydc and new york new york. I wasn't hungry so i just shared the soup and the starters. Their mushroom soup was not bad. =D we ate buffalo wings for starters and we love it! haha.. the two brothers are so cute, they are really alike!

because they couldn't eat beef, stan ordered a chicken meltdown and seb ordered a bacon cheeseburger. before ordering, seb even asked the waiter if the burger is beef. the answer that came back was pork, so he ordered it lor. when the burger came, it's beef! that really piss seb off.. but we managed to change it anyway.. if they dun allow, i will make a big hoo ha out of it.. it's their waiter's fault that caused the change in order, not ours! so i dun think that we shld be penalised for sth that we did not do wrongly.. we ended up having two chicken meltdown.. the cheese was fab, but stan says it's fattening.. haha..

so that's all for my day on sunday.. no pictures to show, sorry guys.. haha.. but hope my little stories have brought a smile on your face.. take care!

2008-03-15T23:55:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone!

i know i haven been bloggin for sometime.. projects are weighing me down and i dun even time to rest properly.. like so poor thing right? hahah.. i bet everyone is suffering the same fate as i am.. so no surprise..

i am still not over the exam stress.. like everyday project project project.. like no time to even read notes.. damn... very sian.. and sleepy.. gonna slp soon.. 12am le.. if i dun slp, my face will turn from bad to worse.. haha.. i am starting to sound like a bimbo eh?

i tink that i am a very stupid girl.. but that's not the point.. ok, i think i am at the point where i dun even know what i am babbling about.. that's really bad.. means i am really conking out le.. that's bad.. i will end off soon... just a short entry to let everyone know that i m still alive and kicking..

the only thing that's keepin me going is the taiwan trip on 2nd May! woohoo! stan's fren went with his wife, they brought 3 pieces of luggage there and came back with 8!! that means i must curb myself from spending so much in s'pore.. go taiwan shop and eat!

btw ppl, i have been rushing through school for the past few weeks, shuttling between home, sch and tuition.. so next time if you do see me in school, let me know if i have slimmed down k! haha.. i really wanna know.. and i m tryin to eat less for my meals..

i went for hair treatment on the 6th march at Centrepoint's Bonafide. It's not bad. But i won't go a second time. I will try out other shops, like the salon stan's mom frequent. only $65 for my hair length. haha.. i wanna intro a hair product to ppl who have frizzy hair like me.. Loreal Elseve Smooth Perfect Anti-Frizz Cream. It's a non-rinse white cream. It works great on damp hair. Everytime i put it on and after it dries, i look like i just had a treatment haha.. $15.90 for 200ml.. it's the orange cylindrical bottle.. great product! works better than the serum! haha.. never loved my hair so much!

hee.. good night ppl.. i promise to blog more, study harder, mop my house's floor more often, go swimming at least once a week, slp more, watch less tv and spend more time with stan.. =D ok, that looks like a freaking long list.. we will see if i manage to achieve everything.. blog again next time!

tata ppl!

Hokkaido Food Fair- Shiok!

2008-03-10T14:34:00.000+08:00

HAIL ALL FOOD LOVERS! Pls make your way down to the Japanese Supermarket at the basement of Lido in Orchard for food-tasting of the freshest seafood from Hokkaido!

On Sat, my beloved Mic and I (nope, she didnt force me to type that =p) made our way down to Orchard for a window-shopping trip after a belly-bursting dim sum breakfast at Red Star Restaurant with her parents. K-boxing was at the top of our itinerary but we decided to give it a miss since we must save some money for the Taiwan trip in May.

Mic was complaining that Reika had destroyed her black glittering Mlphosis slippers and she was experiencing some discomfort in wearing them. So we went ard searching for a decent pair of slippers at Charles & Keith. The pair of slippers Mic set her sight on did not have her size unfortunately, or rather, fortunately, because she got herself an even better pair for $26.00 at Pacific Plaza. She was contemplating between an orange with fireworks designs pair, a green with white poka dots pair, a pink comfy Reef pair and lastly, a similar Reef pair but white in colour. The white slippers emerged as winner.

The highlight on Sat turned out to be an unintentional food-tasting trip at the supermarket at Lido's Basement! We were heading back for the car when a spur of the moment made us wander into the supermarket. Just as we were exploring and drooling at the limitless types of Japanese frozen food, we saw a food fair situated right in the middle of the supermarket. Hordes of aunties were crowding around the stalls where Japanese chefs were dishing out cooked seafood as samples. The seafood were like GIGANTIC! We had to battle with the experienced aunties for the surprisely large portions of deep-fried scallops, soft shell, squid etc. (These are sold at $5 for 100grams). We also walked past the tako yaki stall and oh my god, the piece of squid they chunked inside the tako yaki was at least 4 times bigger than that of those we have in Singapore. Much to our amusement, the chef fed me a tako yaki ball. Ooishi!

The food ends on the 17th. We will be gng down again this weekend =)

2008-03-03T10:04:00.000+08:00

i m very sian recently.. have lost all motivation to study.. just wanna get the quizzes over and done with.. tml will be the long-awaited aa2o1 quiz that takes up 20% of our final grade.. it has been postponed since pre-CNY period due to some stupid admin clerk not knowin how to allocate the LTs properly..

now i have to study for it all over again.. and it seems that i am having very serious PMS and nothing seems to bring down the fire in me.. i m like super super super pissed now.. dunno why too.. i can't seem to study at all.. yet i cant let the stupid quiz put me down...

sigh.. no money recently.. got money also cannot spend lah.. must save up to go taiwan... i have booked tickets to go to Taipei after my exams.. SIA tix at $684 (inclusive of tax), quite cheap right.. that's the only thing to look forward to..

i can't blog for long. gotta go study all the balance sheets, income statement and statements of changes in equity.

btw, stan, you dun have to take leave for me. i am fine just rotting at home.

2008-02-24T14:16:00.000+08:00

life isn't fair.. sucks.. i m too f***ing sian to blog more..

i aruged with someone.. when i tried to call to explain, that person says "dun feel like talking" and so never pick up my call.. when that person calls, i pick up and that person suddenly sounds cheery like nothing happened. and insisted on meeting for dinner to clear things up. I am like, wasn't that i wanted to do? I wanna clear things up by calling you, but u refused to answer. Now i m like forced to clear things up.

No one will ever admit that it's their fault. That's just human instinct. Life is never fair. you ruined my life. i m so FUCKED-up. and i have a feeling that i m gonna flunk everything this semester.

i dun wanna say who is that someone. dun probe or you will be sorry.

2008-02-24T13:39:00.000+08:00

There was once this guy who is very much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his future didn't seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never comeback. She also told him that she cannot visualize any future for both of them, so they went their own ways there and then...Heartbroken, the guy agreed.

But when he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of himself.Finally with all the hard work and the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company ..You never fail until you stop trying. One rainy day, while this guywas driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rainwalking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realize they were his girl'sparents.With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same any more; he had his own company, car,condo, etc. He made it!

What he saw next confused him, the couple was walking towards a cemetery, and so he got out of his car andfollowed...and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly asever at him from her tombstone and he saw his paper cranes right beside her...Her parents saw him. He asked them why this had happened. They explained, she did not leave for France at all.

She was ill with cancer. She had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle... therefore she had chosen to leave him. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again... he can take some of thoseback with him...Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever. The guy just wept...

The worst way to miss someone is to be sittingright beside her knowing you can't have her, see her or be with her ever again.........hope you understand. Find time to realize that there is one person who means so much toyou, for you might wake up one morning losing that person who youthought meant nothing to you.

I love you.. Hope you will love me forever too.. if there comes a day that one of us has to die first, i want you to die first.. because i dun want you to suffer the agony of being alone in this world..

2008-02-21T21:21:00.000+08:00

hiya all!

i said to blog about the class outing right? haha.. this great event happened on 16th Feb 2008, our first small gathering for the year! (am i right?) we were supposed to meet at sushi tei paragon at 6pm. But being S15, some of us are bound to be late. stan and i reached on time. but we thot that no one will be there yet, so we went to centrepoint to repair his bro's glasses. His bro made the glasses at a shop called Monsoon eyewear, on the first floor, at the new extension area there.. it's really small, but they have everything you need.. haha.. the shop belongs to his fren's mom.. and i saw a pair of cool shades that i have always wanted to buy, somemore this one comes with UV-400!! it's a new arrival, the usual price was $38 and they are having a promotion at $18. the mom say will give me a special price of $15 (fyi, i din ask for any discount k, she said it of her own accord ah) haaha.. so the first pic is me and my new shades! if you ever see such a dao face with this shades in sch, it's ME!!!

haha.. back to my gathering.. so we were eating and chattin away.. haha.. reliving the good old days.. there was one last sushi left, the raw squid (white and shiny one).. then my stupid mouth shooted off to suggest playing "zhong ji mi ma" (the number-guessing game) then it was down to last 3 numbers.. haah.. lingyi got away with it, then i am so LUCKY to kanna the number.. haha.. stan tried to help by saying that it's just a warm-up round.. haha.. of coz, everyone protested.. so i had to push it down my throat.. eew... not as bad as the first one i ate at sakae sushi loooonnnngggg time ago.. but still, yuck!

then we head down to Billy Bombers at Heeren after going to Cine only to find out that the cafe beside the escalator shut down.. haha.. we all had milkshakes.. and chun how ordered a Chocolate Malt, haha.. it tastes like Chocolate-flavour Paddle Pop ice-cream.. haha.. the shakes were good though, esp Cookies and Cream!! the mocha flavour one was so-so.. haha.. Junjie's one.. luckily he din ordered the Orange flavour one.. muahaha.. we also had brownies.. yummy!

after that, ard 10pm, junjie suggested mahjong, so lingyi, stan, junjie and i went his house to play.. my luck has never been so bad before.. i actually lost all rounds before winning the last fateful round! haha.. at least i won one round right? i lost like $4 plus, ok la.. haha..

ok, that's all.. pictures coming up next.. haha.. enjoy!

my shades! (i dun care if you tink i dun look good)

04s15! Hmmm.. 7 of us only!?

from left: junjie, choonyan, lingyi, me

junjie attempting to kiss choonyan

Pretty lingyi, skeptical chunhow, cheery me!

2008-02-17T11:23:00.000+08:00

HiHi!!

Chunhow has been complaining that i never reply to his tags and that i must blog more. so here i am! yesterday (16Feb) we had a mini gathering of S15 ppl at sushi tei paragon.. haha.. but i dun have the pics yet so i will blog about it another time. Promise! dun hound me for it chunhow! =D

This year's Vday falls on a thursday and it's my free day! so i din go to school to bask in the romantic atmosphere all around.. i have no idea how many guys gave flowers to how many girls.. but i tink it would be really sweet for the guy to bring the flower all the way to sch for his gf.. Awwwww....

I spent my vday at home, catching up on work.. stan took leave to service his car and see a doctor (not to celebrate vday with me!!! boohoohoo..) but we did meet in yishun after everything was done to go his house.. haha.. guess how we celebrate this romantic day? play Street Puzzle Fighter on his laptop! muahahaha.. how nice.. haha.. i have played this game in Pri 6 but this is after so long and i have lost touch with it! haha.. it's street fighter players like Chun Li and Ryu, except this time we have to break gems to kill each other.. hahah

now, 15 Feb was our actual celebration of Vday. Stan actually made a reservation at Friends @ Jelita (near Holland V, where there is Cold storage below it and Pizza Hut beside it). Due to many screw-ups, stan decided not to go there eventually.. Much as i dislike Holland V, stan likes it and there are many restaurants around, we decided to try our luck there.. We went to Hog's Breath! wow, amazing food, amazing service and great ambience! there are pics below for all to view.. haha.. if you have UOB debit/credit card, you are in for it! there's a One-for-One promotion for all main courses (except grill fillet and premium steak), but still, excellent!

There was this old toy shop beside Hog's Breath and i saw that they actually sell helium balloons! so stan got one for me, a mickey and minnie mouse one! so adorable, for your info, it's still floating high in my room.. haha.. only $7.. and there were many toys from the past, toys that i used to play with... lovely place!

The decor on the wall

Our food!! Tex Mex Combo, New York Grill, BlueBerry Soda and Sour Apple Iced Tea

His Tex Mex Combo, the big round thing at the top of the plate is supposed to be a spring roll, tastes like curry puff with beef fillings

Another picture of our yummy food!!

This contest was held in 1995, 13 years ago!!

Aha! Showing off my proud and cute balloon!

Isn't the serviette just adorable?

My New York Grill, so much healthier compared to stan's one

Ta-da! Michelle and Stan!!! (fyi, the dress i m wearing was stan's gift for Vday, i only got him a card as i m saving up for his bday pressie)

Stan was so suave with that shirt (Xmas present from his bro from Topman)

My balloon!!! wahahahha..

Me and the balloon, must take pic for memory's sake

Before i forget, my dad bought my mom a cake on Vday! so sweet right? haha..

2008-02-13T12:43:00.000+08:00

ok, right now i m stuck in FAL with nth better to do, so here i am blogging away. I haven had anything since breakfast at 8am and time now is 12.53pm. Super hungry! but reika is having a last min proj meeting, which i will expect to hear lotsa rouses from her later, and i can't stand having lunch alone. so i m in FAL, lookin for some urgent information,

Really stressed out recently, i m at my wits' end regarding an issue, which is not to be divulged here and i haven been spending time on my studies. I really dun wanna slacken off this semester. So this sunday, while stan is having his guard duty, it's time for me to catch up on my work. Must list down the things that i wanna accomplish. for today: Going through illustrations on AA201 seminar 9, read finish my FRS Framework for Seminar 8 (okok, dun scold me, no time mah) and fill in relevant notes for my Seminar 8 ppt. yup, i only have one night. and i intend to slp early

i will be praising the lords if i can ever finish what i set out to finish for tonight. hahaha...

tata folks, that's all for now! happy v day in advance!!

2008-02-09T00:25:00.000+08:00

happy chinese new year to all! haven been taking pics lately.. think i m getting uglier, so dun dare to cam-whore.. haha..

finally! a chance to wear my new shoes, pants, tees and dresses! haha.. and i think i m getting slightly richer.. this year's ang bao takings boast a hefty sum of $722!! woohoo!! the highest record i have for the past 20years of my life.. haha.. but i think i may give some to my bro, in case he gets jealous..

that's all folks.. not in the mood to blog too much.. tired.. good night! happy cny

2008-02-05T12:13:00.000+08:00

ok, now i m fuming mad..

there was supposed to be a aa201 in class assignment that takes up 20% of our final grade for this module. but due to some admin problems, two lecturers have booked for the LT on the same day at the same time.. sigh.. so postponed lor!!

*&^$^&$$#@!# waste my time studying.. and killed all the mood of cny.. if i wasn't studyin for the test, i would have been able to spend more time playin sudoku on my gameboy ds.. (erps.. i dun think i m supposed to be slacking) haha.. i put in quite a lot of effort for the test, only to be postponed now.. so sian lah.. haha..

now i have no mood to go for AC213 seminar which lasts for 4 hours.. but i m not gonna let myself slacken.. i m gonna go for it!! woohoo!! pardon me, i have gone crazy..

tml's the cny eve, and i still haven clean up my room.. tat is a bad thing.. i have tuition tonight, which leaves me with the wee hours to clean up and lose my beauty slp! (bimbotic me) i think later i better go adjust my car in the parking lot. scared some fat idiot open door and scratch my car.. haha.. i have no mood to study now.. nor to do anythin else..

ok, tata ppl! bye bye! happy chinese new year eve's eve!!

2008-02-02T22:49:00.000+08:00

aloha!!

before i forgot, let me help my pretty babeh to promote her new cake shop!! pls visit DDbakery.blogspot.com to get some pretty awesome cakes! i have only eaten her oreo cheesecake, but it's yummy!! i even fought with stan over it! haha.. so if you wanna eat good cakes, find her!!

i have been burying myself in books, ok, some of u are thinking, haven you always been burying urself in books? haha.. but stan has guard duty and i have a test next week, so i have no choice but force myself to study.. nothing else to do mah..

i will try to blog more often.. sometimes with stories of my own.. so that chun how has sth to read about right? i m truly touched that someone is reading my blog.. hee! btw ah, no one has mentioned anything for class outing leh.. doesn't really sound possible to go to ppl's house this year eh? mayb we can just meet for a meal.. reunion dinner mah.. haha..

cny is just round the corner, yet i have no festive mood in me at all.. everything swirling around in my smooth and empty brain is just the readings that i m supposed to do.. i m not catchin up on work.. that's no good.. i need to push harder.. go faster.. just thinking about last semester's results are enuf to make me depressed.. oh man, dun mention it le..

this semester, i haven been able to make any new and close frens.. it's quite hard.. it doesn't bother me, since i just run off after class.. there isn't any need to make much frens.. if u think i m not enjoyin my uni life, then perhaps you dun understand my definition of enjoyment.. i dun see a need to join cca or have a whole big gang of frens in uni to enjoy myself.. i like to busy myself with watching tv at home, chatting with my mom, reading novels, doing my work, giving tuition, spending time with stan.. my life right now is enjoyment to me.. i may sound psycho, but i like to give myself stress.. coz that's wad pushes me.. without stress, i will just be passing each day by.. haha..

so i guess now you guys know sth more about me le ba.. haha.. good night ppl! take care!! =D

2008-01-31T15:53:00.000+08:00

hi hi!!

i know you guys are complaining that i ain't blogging.. haha.. truth is, i m just simply too busy to even browse the web, let alone blog!! pai seh ah.. so here i am, to take a quick break to blog before studying again..

sch has been really xiong for me.. can't imagine wad will life be if i take more than 4 modules this sem.. it's not easy just to keep up with the many readings, tutorials, quiz next week that takes up 20% of my final grade, and 5 disgusting system flowcharts to draw for IT.. drawing one takes me 1hour! and i m totally exhausted after that.. sigh.. guess i m just too stupid.. haha

yesterday i was supposed to go for "physics of sports" elective lecture with reika.. she say lunch at can B was satisfying, so we went to the vendor machine outside the NBS office to buy pocky, her fave.. the pocky dropped and got stuck at the latch there.. amazingly, another packet dropped out.. so being greedy ppl, we tried to knock the second pack out, so that we can get two packets of Pocky for the price of one! haha.. there was one uncle sitting on the bench behind us and i think he saw us knocking on the machine.. i told reika, if the uncle happens to be a director from pwc, i think we have just killed all our chances of getting in there.. haha..

back to the lecture, like i said, we were SUPPOSED to be there.. but at 2.30, we left for jp.. reika say wanna buy shoes and bags.. did you know what did we end up doing? we went for a manicure that costs us $12 when another shop is offering for $5!! the reason we din go to the $5 was that it was full and there were two batches of waiting lists.. sigh..

then we only finished the manicure at 4.20, only having to rush back to ntu as reika has a lecture.. haha.. the manicurist says that it takes one hour for our nails to get fully dry.. so our fingers were pretty stiff.. dun laugh, its our first time doing a manicure! we both wanted to remove it but thinkin of the $12 that we spent, we just left the polish on our nails.. haha.. funny right? we say next time we will just go into misha and get $2 per bottle of polish and experiment on each other.. haha.. told u it was an impulse thing.. now we are full of regret..

i dunno about solomon, but stan said that the colour doesn't suit me.. sigh.. and my mom exclaimed "why u choose this INDIAN colour?" gosh, i had no idea that pink is indian.. haha.. my dad say i vain.. my bro din see it.. haha..

yea, so that's all about our exciting and impulsive adventure at JP.. the adventures of Garfield and Snoopy will continue! haha..

sigh... back to reality.. study time.. =(

2008-01-19T22:52:00.000+08:00

haven been blogging for almost a week le.. nothing much has been happening..

went chalet on mon, tues and wed.. invited reika and solomon, yihui and ivan over for a bbq.. hope they all had a great time.. well, i did, at least..

there are always benefits and costs to everything.. at the expense of my studies, i went ahead for the chalet.. although it was great and we had many fun memories there, i ended up missing many lessons.. so now must mug mug mug!!

ok, that's all folks! tata!!

2008-01-14T10:15:00.000+08:00

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