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At twenty and one-point-six-three/four/two (can't remember) tall, I am a girl who loves many things, and detests a few. Not very fond of setting out a whole list of 'about me's, so... just read on. :)


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skin by: Jane
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 @ 10:04 AM
a special christmas

That He, the Creator of this universe, would care to know my name and would send his only son down to save us - it leaves me in awe every single day.


Have a very Merry Christmas everyone!


p.s. I feel terribly guilty after receiving quite a number of beautiful and thoughtful christmas cards. I've thus made a promise to myself to do something soon but it shall be a secret something. whee!



Saturday, December 23, 2006 @ 12:25 PM
Letter to Santa

Dear Santa,

I have been lazy this christmas, I admit it. I bought nice paper intending to make exquisite cards for my dear friends, but I ended up with average looking folded paper. And I forgot to ask for addresses so it means that I can't send them already because it's too late. *grimaces* But I still want to wish them merry christmas leh santa!! So how?!?!

Yours Sincerely,
a worried blur girl


Sent this to Santa yesterday. He replied!


Dear worried blur girl,

You have a blog, if I am not wrong, and a lot of people read it right? Even I read it lah you see! You can make use of it what. Don't bug me about these things, I have this one-million name list of naughty kids this year, and I might just put your name in. grrr.

With Love nonetheless,
Santa


I shall heed Santa's advice.


To the elits, to rapache, to the octos, to my cell group, to csschoircom0304, to njchoir, to circle of trust plus tangent, to everyone I love:

HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Thank you for leaving an imprint in my life this year. Big or small, it's still an imprint, and I am truly blessed to have known you. =) Truly.


To Santa (since you read this I shan't send a letter):

Don't be pissed at me leh. I read this in a magazine and I think you'll love it!


EIGHT REASONS WHY WOMEN WOULD LOVE BEING SANTA CLAUS

1. It's okay to be fat (YES!)

2. The sensible footwear

3. One big black belt is the only accessory you need

4. Everyone will be nice to you, even if it's that time of the month

5. Especially if that month is December

6. Colour coordination is a breeze

7. No more anxiety about kids because you know when they're sleeping, you kn0w when they're awake...

8. No need to shave armpits anymore (how great is that??!)


Please don't put me in that list please please? I'll treat you to katong laksa, heard they don't have that in the North Pole.



Monday, December 18, 2006 @ 11:44 AM
Patience

Easy to say, hard to do. Funny how this eight -letter word hangs at the tip of everyone's tongue, yet when it comes to having it and practising it, it becomes a mountain of a task.


My faith was battered, tossed over, pinched at, poked at and scorned at last night. Out of the heart the mouth speaks - my parents and an aunt persecuted what I believed, and they did it with the most lethal thing, their words. Don't spend too much time, don't go for cell, don't be brainwashed - don't believe.


What would He do? That question hung over my head, and amazingly I didn't cry or talk back rudely or keep silent. I had a small smile, and my voice was calm... but I felt pain. So the words ungrateful, unfillial came out from them and I never thought I'd pray for patience so much before. No tears, no shouting. Thank God.


But the floodgates opened when Nana called this morning. I feel a lot better now, having gotten all resentment out of my chest and oddly, I feel slightly stronger, spiritually.


Cut my entire allowance? It's okay, I'll get a job.
Scold and nag at me? Fine, I'll take it all in and dump them out.
Persecute my faith? It's alright, I'll be patient. Who knows? In 2, 5 or 10 years we might even attend church together.


I remember a line from King Lear: Patience, patience is all I need!


Yes, Lear, I totally know what you mean.



Saturday, December 16, 2006 @ 11:20 AM
Jiangnan

I'm back!

Ever since yesterday night I've arrived in Singapore feeling more... Chinese. It's always like that - a trip to China is the cloth that wipes the dirt and rust off my Chinese roots.

From Suzhou to Wuxi to Nanjing to Hangzhou to Shanghai, (they group these places as 'Jiangnan' and I only realised this on the second day!) it was quite hectic with schedules and long bus trips and morning calls, but an experience nonetheless.

I'm too lazy to type out a lengthy entry so I shall churn out lists!


Things I detested

1. the air in Shanghai.

2. the traffic in Shanghai at peak hours - so traumatic I was in shock for some time!

3. the manners of some of the people in Shanghai - they spit every 1m they walk, they honk like nobody's business on the roads, they smoke like it's the only thing worth doing, and they cut queue shamelessly. Goodness.

4. service in some of the restaurants and shops; you wouldn't complain about Singapore's service standards when you've experienced that in China. Once we asked for something at lunch I forgot what), the waitress diaoed us and retorted bitterly that there wasn't anymore of it, and she stormed off. See?!



Things I liked

1. shopping because the stuff there is so cheap!


2. the rich history - though half the time I struggled to understand the logic behind what the tour guide was saying.




3. the scenery in Hangzhou, which is really beautiful!




4. the weather - though sometimes it gets so cold my teeth couldn't stop chattering.




5. the people in my tour group, who are so easy to get along with.



6. Time with my family!




Not to mention something I took back from the trip - that there is no place like home. I know it's cliched, but I don't think I really understood that until this trip, especially with the traumatic traffic in Shanghai, which made me appreciate the LTA here so much.


Granted, we may lack in history and resources, but honestly, I wouldn't exchange our cleaner, more civilised society for that.


So... if anything, this trip made me love and appreciate my country more. =)



Friday, December 08, 2006 @ 9:15 AM
Gate E4

Oh my. This is a pretty cool airport. Haha I'm in the waiting area after having my handcarry checked and beeped and blah blah, and it's quite obvious they have computers for our free and easy usage. wheee!!


I have 11 minutes remaining though.


Gosh I had this really, really strong sense of deja vu the moment I stepped into the airport. ITALY I MISS YOU!!! CHOIR I MISS YOU TOO!!!


Oh well. This being a flight to Shanghai, I already see lots of Shanghainese around me speaking in a kind of Chinese that has twings and twangs I don't quite comprehend. My tour group itself has about 28 people, and try as I might to look for fellow 'young adults', I don't seem to see many. There are kids, though! Somehow it is easier to make friends with them. You just offer a sweet and the rest follows naturally. =p


Gotta go! I can feel eyes on me, I think people are itching to go online. Haha have a happy week!



Thursday, December 07, 2006 @ 10:00 AM
中国,我又来了!

As from tomorrow, at 3pm, it will be the third time I have stepped into China. The country is my Dad's all time favourite - and it worries me because we seem to have been to all its major cities, and it is highly likely that he will consider the Mongolian desert as our next destination.

The first time I went to China, it was to Beijing. Let's see, I was... 14 that year. China, to me, was a strange country, full of people who spoke a kind of Chinese I couldn't understand, and with food that was quite unpalatable.



Got this picture from Google. The Great Wall was perhaps the most striking in my memory of Beijing, because despite hearing of its magnificence in school, seeing it for yourself was an entirely different experience. I don't think 'magnificient' can even describe it. The sheer length of the wall, the immense sturdiness of its structure - when we climbed the wall it seemed to devour us in its vastness! When I climbed it, I had a great phobia of rolling backwards and being trampled by the multitude of tourists behind me. It didn't help that my mum was holding on to me for dear life.

Another time we visited a street market, and I remembered feeling hungry. When you are hungry, the thought of food motivates you, so I practically ran towards the stalls. Then I saw fried cockroaches and ants and grasshoppers, and my hunger dissipated. Come to think of it, I kind of regret it now - maybe I should have given them a try.

Maybe.

The second time was to Yunnan. A province teeming with tribes and beautiful scenery, I felt the place was more appealing than the city of Beijing.



On a cable seat (it was unsheltered, so it wasn't really a cable car) that got my sis and I so excited because if we wanted we could really just jump off it.



From the cable seat we sat in Dali. This was breath-taking. See the person with an umbrella sitting on a cable seat? That's my mum, ever so afraid of the sun.



This statue of Mao Zedong got my Dad so excited he couldn't help but mimic it.



Beautiful scenery, but I couldn't help but feel indignant for the mountains and trees, because their beauty was eroding, thanks to us. The mountains behind me would have been more white than grey, if not for global warming, which got rid of the snow.

I don't know what to expect next, of Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou. After Beijing I got a bit wary of Chinese metropolitian cities, maybe because of the polluted roads and the hoards of tourists and people I will probably encounter. Nonetheless I hope I meet Janet or Rhoda, because they'll be there with their families too!

I can't help but feel excited, at the thought of stepping into foreign land. Not many people know this, but watching Discovery Travel and Living the past few months has got me dreaming of becoming a travel journalist, where I will get to travel around the world - free of charge, even! Wowee.

And I love Changi Airport! Even though it takes an hour to get there. I love planes, too! A pity the flight tomorrow will only take 5 hours - I wonder if there's in-flight entertainment? I miss super mario.

Anyway. Will be gone till the 15th! I will probably become rounder when I get back because I intend to eat 5 xiaolongbaos a day. =p

(title translation) China, here I come again!



Monday, December 04, 2006 @ 9:54 PM
of good cheer

This has got to be the entry with a record number of pictures. I have nothing against pictures - they're of entertainment value, they attract in a manner words cannot, and they are appealing - so here they are: pictures, pictures and more pictures!


Choir Camp 2006

Organised by my beloved juniors, the camp was amazing. Not because of its programme, but because I got to see how much the choir has grown since we left in May, and I have to say that it was the most heart-warming thing, seeing people dear to you mature and changing for the better.


Of course, the programme wasn't that bad. =) I had my share of fun!




GROUP SIX OEI! Mav, myself, jiahao and zijiang - we love bardolino, and always will.



This game was new. Jiahao thought of it, and a lot of people disagree but I thought the game was quite fun, albeit tiring. We were tied to each other and had to walk the entire nj compound to find the committee members who were hiding. We found all or them first! (I refuse to admit the losing part, so shhh.)


Thankfully at that point in time no one smelt funny. Yet.



I always loved the way the school field looked from the canteen, with the vast sky overhead and the clock tower and the trees.



Retards (me inclusive) playing the egg/chick/chicken/man/ultraman/superman scissors paper stone game. I think my stomach ached from the laughing.

The night concert at the amphitheatre, hosted by the infamous duo Zhirui and Jiahao, was wonderful. Imagine my surprise when they told us most of it was impromptu. The initial plan to have a campfire was cancelled, so guess what the organising people did?



This. Then we sat around this candle formation, gazing at the flickering flames and reflecting on our time in njchoir. I had so many things to say, to the point where I said nothing because spoken words were not enough. Then I thought about these things... and realised they revolved around two types of feelings: Respect, and feeling blessed.


Respect for my juniors, who have shown their utmost passion and spirit for singing, and who have managed to overcome obstacles, becoming closer as a result. Respect for my fellow year twos, because each of us have grown and emerged from njchoir as stronger people.


Feeling blessed too, because of the friends I've made, and the things I've learnt.


To the junior batch: I have absolute faith in you. =)


Prom 2006

It's supposed to be 'Graduation Night 2006' but that sounds ulu so I shall stick to prom. =p As expected, it was full of picture taking, but I had fun walking in monster heels, clicking away, eating prawns ( I thought the prawns were the best part of the dinner), watching certain people malu themselves on stage, seeing the people I love again, and feeling good.


Before all that fun, however, there was first the Grand Room the octos stayed in for the night.






I know the first word is 'long'. I have no idea about the rest.



That's me busy with nia's hair. I did her curls! She liked it, and so I am considering hairstyling a career if my A level results cannot make it.



It was mayhem in the room before setting off for the ballroom. At least for the few of us it was. While all these octos where changed and pretty I think I was still applying eyeshadow!




The rolls were nice, but the prawns were nicer. Haha there's jojo looking hungry and excited!



Us and my sweetest couple, mel and rizki. (I gasped for a moment looking at this cos my other leg was missing. Then I realised I raised it up in an attempt to look cute. It failed, sigh.)



Myself and mav with apri!



I liked Negativ's (njchoir's current accappella group) rendition of Superman by Five for Fighting.



My all time favourite accappella group - TTBB!




The elits in our unglamourest.



I keep telling roy I like this picture a lot haha! I still can hardly believe this is the only picture we took of three of us. How can it be??!!



Octoguys! They look like they just signed a free trade agreement.



My long-time girlfriends.=)



YAHHHHH!!!!!
NJC!
WE DO OUR BEST WE ALWAYS WILL
TO SERVE TO STRIVE AND NOT TO YIELD!
NJC, ALL THE WAY
ALL THE WAY, NJC!!!!!

Man. I haven't done that yah cheer for a long time. I'm so glad we did it again that night, albeit in formal attire!



We look like a tree! Rhoda is one hot girl in brown.




Octomaniacs!



Choir!



Yam seng-ed. It was a good end to junior college life.


Headed to coco latte for the post prom party with some of the octos. My first time clubbing, and you bet it was an experience. An experience that taught me something too.

Nonetheless I did have fun! And while some of us were away these octos stayed in a room and took this really nice photo - can anyone photoshop me inside like the other octo photo too? Haha and kw named this photo 'Goong', after the korean drama. With the wine glasses and what they wore, I'd be fooled!





The night view from our room. Love it!



Us playing heart attack. I almost had a heart attack playing it too.



After effects of heart attack.



The morning after! Blur mav only saw the esplanade from the balcony then.



Breakfast at mac! We were like zombies eating. Maybe I'm the exception since I slept for two hours. They didn't sleep at all! If I didn't I'll not just be a zombie, I'll start foaming. heh.


After prom my love for the octos increased ten fold. =)


If I could post all the photos I took without suffering from eye trauma I would. But yeah, prom went well and good. To all who were in a photo with me, thank you for being part of my life in njc. I probably love you a lot, so take care and all the best alright?


For now I'll have to get busy packing for a family trip to Shanghai this Friday. Dad said it'll be below ten degrees - I think I am just going to be a shivering loser there. But I'm looking forward to the xiaolongbaos and the cheongsams!


Three cheers to njc.=D