Gah. School barely started and I already got a feel of what is coming. The lack of sleep, the rush for time, the skipping of meals. =( Although I am majorly H-A-P-P-Y about getting all the modules I want! This is going to be an interesting semester.
Let's see. A singing course which helps me revisit my passion from years ago, a social trends and popular cultures module which reinforces my not-so-recent obssession about fashion and upcoming rads(kinda like wikinomics) and behavioral economics! Discussing the lesser stiff aspects of the major that I slogged through for the past 3.5 years. YUMS.
It's kinda weird to seek comfort and a peace of mind from the exact person causing the trauma. And even worse, when you can feel his concern and the mindless chatter that unconsciously gave me answers that I needed to know, giving me the realisation and eventual acceptance of the future. Maybe it wasn't me that he was referring to. But I felt it all the same.
You know, I dreamt of the whole thing. I just didn't think that that person will be you, or even that it will come true.
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Grey's anatomy is damn good! (Sorry for realising like 5 seasons late.) Adding it officially to the list, amongst GG and Privileged(oh my Brian Hallisay). McDreamy! Patrick Dempsey! Can you be less hot? teehee.
Labels: rants, school, shows
SCHOOL'S OUT!!
Time for me to update with allllll the photos. =)
One of those random days out for Hi-tea with Essy and Veron. I regret not having my usual Hazelnut Gauche(sic). The chocolate thingy I had instead was too rich, and the base is hard like cement? The macarons are good though.
Oktoberfest with the girls at Bong's! We gave Bong and Adrian a surprise too, and it was damn funny the way we were panicking when we heard the door's opening. Check out the smoke in the kitchen. That was how we fried the sausages *cough cough*.
Brewerks with da crew after my haircut, erm ages ago. Stupid Fabian curled my hair without my knowledge!! I ended up looking like a erm aunty/poodle/fashion disaster. All in good fun though. I hope I entertained you guys that night. -.-
Studying studying studying. One thing about it is that it makes me confine myself at home, and trains my culinery skills. The mushroom and cheese omelette I perfected is like my basic meal every other day. =)
Finally got a chance to meet up with en after my exams on Thursday! I gave her a surprise appearing outside her door and carrying her 6 mths late bday gift. Hope you liked it sweets! Headed over to PS for dinner and shopping around.
Festive ambience in the air! I smell Christmas right around the corner. Pretty lightings and decos are everywhere. Where shall we party on Christmas dears?
Tried Saybons after all the hype! Apple Cinnamon Crepe was what we had and I like it. Not too sweet, and with the crunch of almonds plus the fragrance of cinnamon. I would like it much better if there're some caramel in the apple filling though. =)
Staying at home on a weekend devoring my series is not bad. I can just laze on my bed all day. If only everyday's a holiday. I love Gossip Girl. And I really like how they protrayed the way supposed-adults handle stuff. Denial sucks. I hate it when people choose to fall into that mode just to protect themselves. Pushing the blame away doesn't mean it's not there. I don't get why some people would rather pretend nothing is happening, rather than face up to it and get it over and done with. Postponement of the crisis will sometimes make it so much worse. Courage is important, and I'd much rather it be used on crises, than impulses that do good to no one whatsoever.
Can't wait for the outings planned. Whoopee! ❤❤❤
P/S: Subject registration coming soon, and can someone please take Advanced Macro with me? Prof Tan's teaching! He's good!
Labels: food, me, rants, school
Blank out.
I freaking cannot forget the bags. ARGH.
I want the black one. Plus this other straw bag which I am already imagining the diff scarfs I can match it with.
Sian. Why am I spending time on these daydreamings when I should be looking at the textbook in front of me? Must be the mundane tariffs and quotas that screws up the demand and supply. BAH. I am not even concerned about it. =( Boo. Mugging blues.
Labels: rants, school, shopping
I think kit kat is not enough for me.
Celebrated Oktoberfest at Bong's on sat. The Erdinger package we bought are so worth it mans. And all get to bring one tall tall Erdinger glass home. =) neo you forgot yours!
It was like a Housewarming cum Oktoberfest cum Halloween cum Bong and Adrian's brithday party I guess. Had fun laughing and being stupid while watching Evan Almighty. Can I have a raccoon for a pet? Played MJ too! Exciting mans, although by the end of it i was like stoning and not really responding to anyone anymore.
Reached home at a scaringly late/early 7 am, when i promptly fell aslp. Woke up and frantically rushed my soci assignment. And now that i've finally handed it in, it's time to do my development and i trade assignment. I have another urban one which I have yet to start.
OMG.
I don;t remember being so busy last sem! What happened? =(
Labels: rants, school
Roar.
A heavy balnket called Ass-ignments is covering me and pressing me so hard onto the ground that I can barely breathe. UGH. I need to rant!!
I have no life! I haven't been going out at all the whole of this week, and even if I do go out, usually with my uni pals, all we talk about is school work! I have the strongest urge to shop, but when I'm out there's nothing that catches my eye. I desperately need a new bag, but the ones I see are either out of my budget (like Gucci/Coach: wayyyyyy out of my bank account even), or too big/small/not the right color. I stopped taking photos, am either lazy to whip my camera out or I forget to bring a camera in the first place. I constantly think of skipping school, and yet I have alot of things to catch up with.
And I'm so going to start camping at Lib 2 again. Once I manage to finish all my assignments and projects. Which may never happen!
ARGH. Whoever says Uni life is going to be slack and smooth sailing? WHO!
Labels: rants, school
Da weekend.
Phoebe's birthday chalet at NSRCC last weekend! Was supposed to be down on firday night but working made me sorta sian, and it won't be long before the chance to have supper with Yumi will be totally gone. So i joined my colleagues for supper and only popped down on Sat afternoon. We all had a personalised door gift, which is a pretty badge with our name on it! So cute. Love it. =)
Crazily fun deco-ing the place, doing the pretty streamer curtain and prettifying ourselves before the guests arrived. Brought out our masks and our room was out-of-bounds for almost 45 minutes while we dolled ourselves up. Gene dearie blowed my hair sleeky straight for me! So happy.
All dressed up and of course, the usual camwhoring session.
Last piece Fimbles specially bought a tiara for the birthday girl! Small crowning ceremony in our room.
The guests arrived and we all scrambled off either chit chatting, kayteevee and MJ!
The birthday cake is delicious! Blackforest, which used to be my fav cake. We made her wear the tiara during the whole cake cutting session, and gotta love the cute happy birthday candles!
The customary photo taking session with all the guests:
Her parents,
Her hilarious boyfriend, Jeremy,
Her friends,
SIM peeps,
Us,
And Fimbles! Without Alwyn who has to sail on that day though. So sad.
We all entertained ourselves doing all sorts of stupid things, and Aaron acted gay, as usual. I laughed so much that night!
Major part of my laughter came from the super out of hand hide and seek! The seeker is to be blindfolded and try to search for the people in the dark. The thing is, the people hiding can run all round to avoid being caught, and the poor seeker have to keep running all over and handle the furniture being pushed by the players, and not falling over at the same time. But their loss of direction was really damn funny. Especially since they have to turn 10 rounds first. Poor guys will have to be whacked by balloons while turning before embarking on the search too! Wickedly hilarious.
We girls were dead beat by then and we left not long after the birthday girl opened the presents and whacked the star thingy. Thanks Leslie for the ride home! =)
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Was chatting on the phone as usual the other day, and I realised sth. Isn't it strange how we used to time our night activities by the teevee shows when we were kids, but now, we hardly have time to watch teevee? It used to be 6 - 7pm: cartoons, 7 - 8pm: Some tv serials, 8 - 9pm: some variety shows (most probably 搞笑行动), 9 - 10pm: another tv serial, and 10pm: news and therefore time for bed. Now, I don't even know what is showing on teevee. My variety shows and serials are all watched on youtube or crunchyroll, and sometimes I don't even step out to the living room for teevee even though I might have nothing on the whole day. HMM.
Starting to countdown to exams, and I still have so much ass-ignments. Boohoo to my social life!
Labels: birthday, food, rants, school
Sweeping some fallen leaves and dust off my blog.
500th entry and it's going to be such a random one. Oh wells.
Celebrated Essy's birthday at Zouk last friday with the usual people.
Had a great time downing drinks and here is my glory record: 4 apple shooters, 1 Heineken, 2 screwdrivers and 1 lychee martini. Am proud of it especially since i didn't end up flat on the floor drunk. Birthday girl surrendered after the flaming lamborghini and headed home like at 1 am. How early is that? Stayed on with Bobby, Alwyn and Veron and danced the night away with the two poles who arrived right after Essy left. 10 mins earlier and they would have caught her! Damn.
It was a magical night for me, and one that made me wonder about the true status of us. But magic is an illusion after all, and I shall keep that in mind.
Met up with Gene, Phoebe and Essy on sunday to chill at paisley and cream, our favorite chio chio place! Surprised Essy with a cupcake, which was kinda expected but still, happy!
Their cupcakes are still of the same dubious standard, but they make a rather good bread and butter pudding. It tastes like erm, bread in egg tart filling. haha.
Then it was a frantic week in school and time zoomed to the weekends again. Saturday night was spent out in Butter at first, and then we moved on to Gotham Penthouse, where hot caucasian guys were performing with their boy band-ish dance moves. Ended up in MOS and I left after a while. No mood and i hate this heavy feeling I have in my heart. I wish I don't think so much.
Another frantic school week coming up. But keeping myself busy might be the best way to lead my life now. Birthday chalet next week, I should look forward to that! =)
Labels: clubbing, food, me, pestie, rants, school
Zzz.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VERON DEAR!
Whirlwind of events, and I'm dead beat this week. I was lying on the table in the LT with my hood up and falling asleep while Shubrashree yakked away, and friends behind were wondering what was the pink heap near the front of the theatre. haha.
Celebrated Veron's birthday at Zouk ytd. Screamed and shouted on the dancefloor once the clock hit midnight. Hugs dear. Lucky girl gets to go to Batam for another R&R while celebrating her bday!
Finalised my party at downtown east on Tuesday. Paid and that's it, no changes can be made. Hope on that day everything goes well and all of my friends can make it. =) Had lunch at the XinWang subsidiary sorta place, "新旺食馆" in White Sands. The food is good! The place looks pretty decent as well. Ordered too much as usual, but we took our time and finally finished all the food.
Eager to compile collages so that I can develop them out and finally deco my room a little. Therefore, tada! Pictures painstakingly taken with the camera shy rose in the Quad.
Mugging is sorta zen and yet, tiring. Yawns.
Labels: food, rants, school
Back to school yo.
The last weekend of the holidays was pretty well spent, imo. Spent the whole week working and I could finally do some things unrelated to the japanese, serving and cleaning up.
Friday was spent working for the whole day and then heading down to Breko to meet des and bassy. Was too tired even just visualizing squeezing past crowds in zouk, not to mention the possibility of dancing. Sorry zac! Beers at breko are amazingly cheap; crapping and just sitting there browsing magazines was alr good enough for me.
Simpsons on saturday with Essy, Gene and Aaron! Spent some time camwhoring at the deserted forth floor or Cathay and the pictures turned out so nice! They are definitely going into my "to-develop" pile.
Minimal editting done! Love the one that Essy took of me on the lighted pillar. Pretty pretty.
Timbre after the hilarious movie(boob lady LOL). The Goodfellas is one good band. The lead can really sing and they sang all of our fav songs during the short 1 hour we caught them. Maybe we shall make it our regular chilling spot eh?
I think my fatique can be gauged by the amount of alcohol I drank that is enough to make me high: 2 bottles of Stella on friday and 1 pint of Heineken draught on Saturday. Atrociously low alcohol tolerance = damn tired!
Mahjong on Sunday with the angels at Bong's! Love da game, and it would remain as my fav and only form of gambling I'd make do with. =)
The lectures so far are pretty alright, though this week is full of early mornings and 2-hour lessons. Won't be staying in school more than 3 hours each day. I'm alr sian at the thought of travelling for such pathetically short lessons. Can't wait for all the lessons to officially start!
Labels: movies, pestie, rants, school
Last paper ahead!
So I shall give myself sometime off and finally post e photos that I should have posted a long long time ago.
Lunch with Veron at Miss Clarity! We had set meals that day, with an overwhelming array of desserts! The staff kept thinking that we wanted e bill when we gestured to them, only to find out that we're going to order some more food, again.
Orgasmic chocolate lava with vanilla ice cream and e ultimate valrhona chocloate bar! Woohoo. Shiok. Haha. Kinda regretted ordering main course. Should have gone straight for the dessert instead. Yummilicious! *drools*
My loot from Diva that day. I really must stop buying earrings before I run out of space to keep them! I love the ring. It makes me happy. heh.
The emotional rollercoaster ended e night after that. And dearest bong coaxed me out to have some fun with tango, when I wasted alot of money on bishi bashi, something I will probably be forever hopeless at. We nearly spolit the KOF machine trying to kill each other within the time allocated, while scratching out heads when we glanced over at mr tango, who is dishing out ferocious moves and pressing lightly on his machine. HMM. Had supper at Swenson's, pigged out on delicious black pepper seafood pasta, apple crumble pan and tang yuan. =)
Headed to TCC to chill out with veron e weekend before and updated her on e stuff happening. A listening ear is so hard to find nowadays, yet I have 4! =) A pair on miss bong and a pair on miss veron.
Veron insisted on sitting at the swinging chairs, so we changed seats, and spent the rest of the time making an obvious effort to reach our drinks, cause the stupid chair keep swinging, and it's so far away from the table! Aiyo. But it'll really be rather comfy if people dont actually have to eat, just swinging with the drinks on their hand.
So jaded from studying that one look at my text just generates a yawn from me. Losing all my concentration. Cant wait for the hols!!
Labels: food, me, new, rants, school, shopping
Exam Fever. Almost.
I think I have what you call a squeaky voice. When I speak, at least one word in each sentence slide up to a weird tone. Funny? Of course. Fun? Not really. Especially when it is coupled with almost-there-but-not-quite sneezes, never-ending coughs and heat that is trapped in the body and refuse to be dispelled by perspiration.
Bah. =( I hate being sick.
One paper down. Looks okay, probably in the B range. Sigh. Will I get my second A this sem?
And I think I got the idea. Moving right along.
Labels: me, rants, school
BLEAH.
Eeyer!! I'm so bloody sick of studying but there're still so much stuff before i can finish!! :( I've been in the library since 11 and it's already 7.20. And I'm still in the bloody library trying to get my stuffs done. Sigh.
Part of my delay in speed in studying is really due to me spacing out I guess. Which happens every hour or so. I just kept thinking, and thinking, and thinking... i believe in numbing myself. I think. The more I think of him, and all the stuff we've done, the less I'll feel any pain about them sooner or later.
I guess.
ARGH. Cannot think so much already!! I hate game theory! Maximin strategy, zero sum, prisoner's dilemma. AIYA. Just do what you feel is right can already what. Think so much and calculate so much abt e probability for what! *pulls out my hair*
Labels: me, rants, school
=(
Damn this is so embarrassing. I went to the the computers in the library after dinner to listen to one of the online lectures. Must be the holing up in the corner of the study area that is making me muddle-headed. I inserted my earphones and on the volume, without checking whether it worked! Some girl had to tap me and tell me that the volume of my computer (which was very loud) was on, while I was typing happily away.
BAH. So embarrassing. :(
Labels: rants, school
Matters of the head and brain.
Having headaches is an usual fare for me. I get them whenever I dont get enough slp, am hungry, sat in a vehicle for too long, faced the com for too long, read on the train/bus... Pretty much whenever I get uncomfy. But not full blown migraines like what I suffered ytd. It was so bad that my teeth felt like it's hurting along with my throbbing head. My eye too. Bah. Had to go to bed early though I was planning to catch up with my stats. :(
Reconsidering whether I should go to the docs and get some med for it. Finally contemplating Mr. Mashimaro's advice. BUT! I am lazy and I always only bother address a problem when it happens, and not in the meantime. Aiya. When I get my butt down to it then.
I just learnt a new term during stats today.
Heteroskedasticity. BAH. I guess I'm lucky that there's only 8 lectures, and unlucky that I still have to take a test 2 weeks before the actual exams commence. SIGH.
Labels: rants, school
Laments.
I think I'm addicted to blogging. haha. I officially have 1 more test and 1 more assignment before the end of the sem. Tried to salvage my test ytd and I think the prof was doing nothing but plain humoring me. sigh. I just have to make myself get over it and start on what is to come.
This sem is crazy. The final few weeks were filled with mugging and more mugging. An occasional break after a test or project, and then mugging again. :( If this is year 2, I shudder to think of year 3.
Who said uni would be the final stage of education where you can relax and party?
I crave for kayteevee and movies. Haven done those for ages. The other time when the cine kbox screwed up on me and veron doesnt count.
sigh. Exactly one more month before the holidays. May these all end soon. Amen.
Labels: rants, school
Can someone help me?
Am struggling with the toughest stupid chem test in history. Ugh. I need to pass!!
Doesnt help when I'm having the mother of all cramps. :(
Whoever suggested that a uni student have to complete science electives even if she's in Arts?!
Labels: rants, school
I wish I'm a cat.
My room is so bloody messy but I am just too lazy to do anything about it. In one of my lazing-around-dont-wanna-do-anything-constructive moods. Just plopping down on my bed, stoning or thinking about stuffs.
Feel like going out and roaming around. An excuse to wear my new clothes, really. BUT. All my friends have to be either occupied with their respective other halves, or worse, working OT.
Bah. What happened to the spontaneous "Let's go out!" times we used to always have?
I have one more test and one more assignment before it marks the end of this sem and the avalanche of exams. :(
where fore art thou, studying mood?
Labels: rants, school
school woes.
After demolishing around 1 million of my already limited braincells, I still failed my test. :( am discouraged and ultra sad now. I really hope the consultation will help.
The effort seems more like an obligation. I wonder what will happen in the end.
Hiatus from blogging! Will rant about the happenings during CNY, holidays, clubbing and emotional rollercoaster soon. Hectic week ahead. Probably about time for me to start camping in the FAL's reading room again.
One photo to brighten up the space in the meantime.
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