Wednesday, 25 June 2008
"rock bottom became my solid foundation....."
-JKR
the commencement speech made by jk rowling at harvard is amazing. truly inspirational.
i feel like getting some work done now, but my mentor is not free to see me. have already figured out my project; i just need datcom nownownow.
when you've hit a roadblock
it's just life way of saying it's time to change course
♥ let that be enough
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popular time-wasters in the office:
1. Youtube
2. Facebook
3. Meebo (thanks to lockdown, there's no windows messenger)
4. Wimbledon news
5. Mail (one of the rare times when my inbox is actually cleared)
6. Counting down to the next break (bfast/lunch/tea) and jioing pple excitedly on meebo.
7. Wondering if my relief mentor is still at his desk, or has he left early - thereby rendering me a legitimate reason to zao as well.
out of the 3 days that i've been at work, i've left the office an hour earlier than expected twice. which in my opinion, is reasonable. because firstly, my actual mentor isn't around. why, because he is off somewhere watching the euro08. secondly, i have already read up the materials that i am supposed to and researched a pretty substantial amount by myself. thirdly, the program which im supposed to use for my project is NOT AVAILABLE. which leads me on to my fourth reason: because of security lockdown, i can't install any programs onto the laptop.
there are a lot of ah bengs along orchard road btw. and boy, do they annoy.
1. Youtube
2. Facebook
3. Meebo (thanks to lockdown, there's no windows messenger)
4. Wimbledon news
5. Mail (one of the rare times when my inbox is actually cleared)
6. Counting down to the next break (bfast/lunch/tea) and jioing pple excitedly on meebo.
7. Wondering if my relief mentor is still at his desk, or has he left early - thereby rendering me a legitimate reason to zao as well.
out of the 3 days that i've been at work, i've left the office an hour earlier than expected twice. which in my opinion, is reasonable. because firstly, my actual mentor isn't around. why, because he is off somewhere watching the euro08. secondly, i have already read up the materials that i am supposed to and researched a pretty substantial amount by myself. thirdly, the program which im supposed to use for my project is NOT AVAILABLE. which leads me on to my fourth reason: because of security lockdown, i can't install any programs onto the laptop.
there are a lot of ah bengs along orchard road btw. and boy, do they annoy.
♥ let that be enough
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Saturday, 21 June 2008
♥ home shweet home
quite a lot has happened since i touched down in singapore. not much of exciting events, but a ladeedum of good times slacking around with good company and awesome food. i shall try to recount the activities in chronological order, as best as i can :)
mon- met up with xinling weiting lilian. sat in mos and talked over lunch for 3 hours. who needs shopping when you've got such good friends around? can't remember what we talked about, but i vaguely remembered it was a whole bunch of topics mish-meshed about one another. with the exception of more construction work, no drastic change has happened to town... wasn't too annoyed at the weather cos i spent the whole day shunning the sun. tunnelled about in the underground passageways of orchard road, it was shiok to say the least :)
tue- met tj for more so-called retail therapy. visited the magic shop in meridian. never been to that part of town in ages, plus my impression of it was pretty dodge. but it turned out to be a major owning place. awesome i must say! the magician tending the shop was funny and entertaining - he had the amazing ability to crack jokes while keeping an extremely straight and stern face on. he showed me this cheek-to-cheek trick which blew me away, didn't get his whole narration on time travel though. haha tj simply couldn't resist the urge to spend and ended up buying himself a ghost deck. coolios.
wed - mango sale. not fantastic but decent. got myself a pair of 3-quarts in cherry (not pink!) shade. i wasn't really in the mood to spend, so we adjourned towards ps. having lived in london for the past 9 months made me highly receptive towards walking - something which i used to hate. taking a bus from far east to ps now seems ridiculous to me. hurhur
thurs - prata house with chris. my first experience of inflation when the mushroom prata and teh tarik i had cost $3.90 what expensive prata indeed! rollerblading at ecp with tj :) weather forecast was extremely inaccurate. heavy showers were predicted but we went ahead with it anyhow, and much to our delight it was hot hot hot!! never felt so sticky and grimy in 9 months, but the blading more than made up for the feeling of gross itchiness. totally shackled, we had dinner at the ecp hawker centre. had the heavenly beef soup noodles, sambal stingray and coconut juice!! nothing beats having that after a hot sweaty work out session. we had a running bet of who's going to lao sai first haha then went home to nurse my bruised shins.
fri- incredible hulked with tj. great great greattt movie! highly recommended, but only if you have caught ironman as well! for those who havn't caught either, i shan't be a big fat wet blanket and spoil it for you. haha loved the way the movie actually depicted a more human side of the hulk, instead of showing him as a single-celled testosterone-filled green monster with purple pants.
sat- swam with bro at cousin's place. afternoon sun was blazing whilst we lapped in the pool. went home and napped. that's pretty much how my lazy saturday went.
mon- met up with xinling weiting lilian. sat in mos and talked over lunch for 3 hours. who needs shopping when you've got such good friends around? can't remember what we talked about, but i vaguely remembered it was a whole bunch of topics mish-meshed about one another. with the exception of more construction work, no drastic change has happened to town... wasn't too annoyed at the weather cos i spent the whole day shunning the sun. tunnelled about in the underground passageways of orchard road, it was shiok to say the least :)
tue- met tj for more so-called retail therapy. visited the magic shop in meridian. never been to that part of town in ages, plus my impression of it was pretty dodge. but it turned out to be a major owning place. awesome i must say! the magician tending the shop was funny and entertaining - he had the amazing ability to crack jokes while keeping an extremely straight and stern face on. he showed me this cheek-to-cheek trick which blew me away, didn't get his whole narration on time travel though. haha tj simply couldn't resist the urge to spend and ended up buying himself a ghost deck. coolios.
wed - mango sale. not fantastic but decent. got myself a pair of 3-quarts in cherry (not pink!) shade. i wasn't really in the mood to spend, so we adjourned towards ps. having lived in london for the past 9 months made me highly receptive towards walking - something which i used to hate. taking a bus from far east to ps now seems ridiculous to me. hurhur
thurs - prata house with chris. my first experience of inflation when the mushroom prata and teh tarik i had cost $3.90 what expensive prata indeed! rollerblading at ecp with tj :) weather forecast was extremely inaccurate. heavy showers were predicted but we went ahead with it anyhow, and much to our delight it was hot hot hot!! never felt so sticky and grimy in 9 months, but the blading more than made up for the feeling of gross itchiness. totally shackled, we had dinner at the ecp hawker centre. had the heavenly beef soup noodles, sambal stingray and coconut juice!! nothing beats having that after a hot sweaty work out session. we had a running bet of who's going to lao sai first haha then went home to nurse my bruised shins.
fri- incredible hulked with tj. great great greattt movie! highly recommended, but only if you have caught ironman as well! for those who havn't caught either, i shan't be a big fat wet blanket and spoil it for you. haha loved the way the movie actually depicted a more human side of the hulk, instead of showing him as a single-celled testosterone-filled green monster with purple pants.
sat- swam with bro at cousin's place. afternoon sun was blazing whilst we lapped in the pool. went home and napped. that's pretty much how my lazy saturday went.
♥ let that be enough
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
byebye london,
and hello singapore :)
♥ let that be enough
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Friday, 13 June 2008
i need new earphones! mine's so bad i can hear static in my ears.
♥ let that be enough
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"The mistakes that you make with your kids don't go away,
they just keep growing and growing and growing."
-dirty sexy money
they just keep growing and growing and growing."
-dirty sexy money
♥ let that be enough
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Thursday, 12 June 2008
i'll be your clown
when the world comes crashing down...
I thank Him for you.
woke up around noonish, lunched by myself. holed up in my room watching dirty sexy money while the rain pattered outside against my window. being in an empty room isn't all that bad... all you need is a hard drive filled with good shows :) if weather turns for the better tmrw, i might just drop by hyde park. made some errands to emirates and hsbc - what happened to summer time... it's getting too chilly again!
reign over me, a tale of shattered lives and broken hearts. it's pretty slow, but the story of a post-911 trauma victim is touching to say the least.
♥ let that be enough
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
♥ now she's back from soul vacation
i'm moving out :)
i can finally say that i'm almost packed. moving stuff to storage this friday, and then i'm off on saturday! met up with audrey this afternoon for tea at muffin man, scones were awesome and so was the company. did a bit of shopping along high street, might just pop by again before i leave to get some tea/coffee for mummy. london is greattt but home is always better.
i'm dreaming of prata char kway teow and sambal stingray tonight
lol.
i can finally say that i'm almost packed. moving stuff to storage this friday, and then i'm off on saturday! met up with audrey this afternoon for tea at muffin man, scones were awesome and so was the company. did a bit of shopping along high street, might just pop by again before i leave to get some tea/coffee for mummy. london is greattt but home is always better.
i'm dreaming of prata char kway teow and sambal stingray tonight
lol.
♥ let that be enough
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Sunday, 8 June 2008
my bright and cheery sunday morning mood was utterly destroyed by a sainsbury woman behind the customer service who didn't seem to get what a 'box' was. i had to repeat myself ten million times that no, i do not want a crate, i just want a box with a COVER. i figured it was too painful to get the message across in a docile manner, so i walked to the storage room myself hoping to find someone at least of some use. after hanging around for 10 minutes looking like a moron, i finally found a staff who understood was a box was. hallelujah.
i figured it might have been the language barrier.
it's mover's day! :)
was really happy to chuck all my notes and books into boxes, of which im not going to see for the next three months (hooray!), and packed my winter jackets into my luggage and another humungous box. i didn't realise i actually have THAT much clothes... i think by the end of year 4, i could hold a garage sale for the amount of stuff i have. further partitioned my wardrobe by stacking my clothes into piles of 1) clothes im definitely not bringing back 2) working/semi-formal tops that i may need for my internship 3) random clothes which im still undecided where they should go
finally down to moving! we walked to and fro along cromwell road lugging trolleys in the blazing sun. maybe sains trolley would have been a better idea. haha. it was pretty hardcore, tj sprained his toe and still had to move my stuff, which were tons heavier than his stuff. at least its over for now! i shall worry about my remaining stuff closer to saturday.
caught the french open finals at ethos in the afternoon as well. it was an utterly disappointing finals where the undisputed king of the clay court demolished his opponent like a small fry. federer played like shites, he literally fed nadal the ball everytime it was a perfect chance to go for a kill. nadal played him all over the court and made him look like a noob.
time for air crash investigation!
i figured it might have been the language barrier.
it's mover's day! :)
was really happy to chuck all my notes and books into boxes, of which im not going to see for the next three months (hooray!), and packed my winter jackets into my luggage and another humungous box. i didn't realise i actually have THAT much clothes... i think by the end of year 4, i could hold a garage sale for the amount of stuff i have. further partitioned my wardrobe by stacking my clothes into piles of 1) clothes im definitely not bringing back 2) working/semi-formal tops that i may need for my internship 3) random clothes which im still undecided where they should go
finally down to moving! we walked to and fro along cromwell road lugging trolleys in the blazing sun. maybe sains trolley would have been a better idea. haha. it was pretty hardcore, tj sprained his toe and still had to move my stuff, which were tons heavier than his stuff. at least its over for now! i shall worry about my remaining stuff closer to saturday.
caught the french open finals at ethos in the afternoon as well. it was an utterly disappointing finals where the undisputed king of the clay court demolished his opponent like a small fry. federer played like shites, he literally fed nadal the ball everytime it was a perfect chance to go for a kill. nadal played him all over the court and made him look like a noob.
time for air crash investigation!
♥ let that be enough
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Saturday, 7 June 2008
♥ post exams!
I was rudely awaken by the burning sun on my face at 615am in the morning. ?!?! the annoyance slowly ebbed away as i grew to the realisation that I DON'T HAVE TO STUDY!! instead, i am going to borough market today :)
the long smoky queue we were in pfft
an impluse purchase it was, but the garlic butter and mozzarella mushrooms were worth it!they were the fattest and juiciest thingies i've tasted. i'm inspired to make one of these stuffed delicacies before i fly home :)
We headed off to oxford street and covent garden next, where we were treated to an eyeful of coolios street magic performed by this magician from australia. he was great with his pattering and i enjoyed his cups and balls performance very much. TJ knew how it worked so he saw through the trick immediately, while i looked on like an idiot, was completely misdirected and played like a fool.
Tell me, did you fall for a shooting starOne without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking at yourself out there
It felt good to be breathing some fresh air finally :)
♥ let that be enough
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the silly other half of me :)HAPPY BIRTHDAY goofy! shmuacks*
We celebrated tj's birthday at As Greek As It Gets yesterday evening. I knew tj doesn't like humumgous parties so i invited only the closer friends, hoping for a dinner with good company. It turned out to be a pretty huge crowd eventually. We were treated to a platter full of greek meatfest and red wine. The dinner culminated with a pinkly-frosted cake that resembled more like a mother's day cake, but kudos muchos to abiel for scooting off halfway during dinner to get the cake! Albeit all our efforts, it seemed that we weren't stealth enough as tj anticipated the surprise.
The night didn’t end just yet. We adjourned to The House of Teck, a pub along earls court road for some intoxication fun. Rounds of oh my gosh, mambuca and some form of curdled-baileys-shot were exchanged in the process of getting tj drunk. As a last resort, the idea of downing beer shots in intensive intervals of 15 seconds was proposed and approved, much to the resounding glee of a morbid plan to “turn tj’s liver into patty” that night. Although tj survived, he did look a bit oozy and uneasy from the shots. We had to give it to him for standing up to the challenge like a man! Happy birthday boy :) I’m veryveryvery glad you had a good one this year! Remember that even though you are old (haha!), you can still have fun like old times, because you have a wrecked-bunch of crazy friends to remind you that it doesn’t mean you have to be young to be goofing around :D
Love,
your other sillyhalf.
♥ let that be enough
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♥ finally
I'M DONE
♥ let that be enough
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Thursday, 5 June 2008
♥ almost there!
it's finally coming, the end of the dark days :)
and i'm flying back next sat, much sooner than i expected!! elated about going home and having REAL food. no more cooking for myself the next three months. i smell bliss coming my way. hahaha
happy birthday tj!! im so so so glad you enjoyed your 23rd. all the momentum building up to this day paid off very well :) loved your reaction especially when you saw the belt, classic reaction!
take good care of your new baby! i have faith that we will go a long way.
I CAN DO IT. after this, no more waking up thinking of what formulae to remember... walking to sains to get my pre-exam dosage of relentless! (all that stuff is really badddd for health tsk tsk me) but i must say i will miss my coursemates a lot come summer time when everyone leaves.
:(
and i'm flying back next sat, much sooner than i expected!! elated about going home and having REAL food. no more cooking for myself the next three months. i smell bliss coming my way. hahaha
happy birthday tj!! im so so so glad you enjoyed your 23rd. all the momentum building up to this day paid off very well :) loved your reaction especially when you saw the belt, classic reaction!
take good care of your new baby! i have faith that we will go a long way.
I CAN DO IT. after this, no more waking up thinking of what formulae to remember... walking to sains to get my pre-exam dosage of relentless! (all that stuff is really badddd for health tsk tsk me) but i must say i will miss my coursemates a lot come summer time when everyone leaves.
:(
♥ let that be enough
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Monday, 2 June 2008
♥ PHEW.
major sigh of relief! flight mech today was greattttt. had a good feeling after the paper
if my interpretation of the last qn is right, that is.
flight mech is easy peasy :)
three more to go! and im already in celebratory mood yay
listening to: don't wait by dashboard confessional
it's an awesome song.
if my interpretation of the last qn is right, that is.
flight mech is easy peasy :)
three more to go! and im already in celebratory mood yay
listening to: don't wait by dashboard confessional
it's an awesome song.
♥ let that be enough
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