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[Oct. 26th, 2007|11:42 pm] |
okay i dunno who still reads this anymore, but HI to anyone who does *waves*
for those who dont know (i really am not sure who reads this but whatever), im in LONDON. and i have been for the longest time, more than a month except i have been too lazy to update, and my livejournal layout couldnt be read on my computer so i gave up and used a preset one but i dont really care, as long as its readable and people can see pictures :]
generally london/lse/northumberlandhouse has been by far the most insane, eventful and fulfilling month of my life and its just been a month. eventful and insane for sure, fulfilling in the sense that i feel so much more independence than i ever did. the smell of fresh laundry and self-cooked food (which is not microwaved) is immensely satisfying, as is planning my own timetable and study schedule (well. or trying to,anyway) and going out whenever i want and generally doing whatever i wish. it is incredibly, incredibly liberating and i feel like i am already starting to mature which is a good thing.
i could not ask for a better roommate, for better friends, for better teachers (since everyone complains about the teaching standards at lse but so far ive loved all my classes, mostly anyway). i really have no idea why i was making such a big deal about everything, about leaving, about not going to america, etc.
my dorm is in the most amazing location EVER and the rooms are big enough and our room is nicer than most people's rooms :D people keep stealing our food from the kitchen though WHICH SUCKS sometimes people suck plus they steal the good stuff like ben and jerry's icecream (5pounds a pint omg) and our brownies :[
i also have not been sleeping enough, i feel like the excess sleep i have had for the past 9 months is not even going to make up for this. sleeping at 6am and waking up at 8am/9am for lectures and then going back and sleeping for a few hours and then the cycle repeats itself till its almost become routine. also i have been going out too much, student nights are getting boring and soon we will actually go to proper london clubs, like really nice places just when they are cheap :] and its strange that i go out more on weekdays and not on weekends, so ill be out on a tuesday night randomly and staying in on a friday night (like now.) which is strange.
its funny how i wrote a list of things that i have not done in my life before and in three weeks of being here most of it i had done for the first time hahaha ie getting drunk which is not fun after a certain point of drunkenness but yeah ANYWAY. i should really start reading more, and soon, because i have a TON of things to do but everytime i try to there will be a knock on the door or people would wanna go out or because my roommate is iso like me and we gossip so much we'll end up gossiping or talking to generally wasting the night away which is not good at all.
but for now ! i shall leave you with pictures because i dont have much else to say, or rather i have too much and i have no idea what to say
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[Aug. 31st, 2007|03:32 am] |
my blog smells of rotten cheese, stale and gross. i dont know what ive spend the past 7 weeks while dinika was here doing but now she's left so im bored and am watching oc marathons till 3am in the morning but its cool cuz oc warms my heart <3 im watching season2 which is decidedly the best season, ryan was funny not broody and season 3 was too full of drama and sadness and season4 was just. strange.
since its now friday im leaving in slightly less than 3 weeks, 20 days, i have no bank account and no medical check up yet and even when i have those things soon, early birthday and going away cards make me feel all strange and weird inside like im actually leaving, and leaving SOON, and while ive obviously known this and thought about this for the longest time i dont think im ready in any way to leave, though i am bored and vegetating here even though i have a million things to do. and i should learn to write in shorter sentences.
tomorrow! i am going to see HEROES stars on the heroes asia tour thing cuz joel got tickets and due to the show not showing on channel5, no one seems to be a big heroes fan (at least no one that joel knows) SO YAY I GET TO GO omg omg omg omg. too bad milo ventimiglia isnt coming to singapore though if he did i might just faint and die. but hiro and mohinder !! <3 <3 <3 SO EXCITED. should have bought heroes merchandise from newyork so they have something to sign on.
also i have begun planning my birthday party and now zan actually has a THEME haha which is going to be much fun. eventhough i cant celebrate my birthday properly since im leaving 4 days after and therefore when anyone is nice to me ill be reminded of how much im gonna miss everyone. oh well.
i should probably update with pictures sometime soon because from personal experience no one really likes words. and in the meanwhile i really should busy myself with all the many things i need to do and many people i want to meet and spend time with before i leave :( |
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[Jul. 8th, 2007|02:54 pm] |
as usual ive been way too lazy to update but i am back from america, have been for a week and IVE BEEN JETLAGGED ALL WEEK and now im finally back to semi-normal human hours. for a few days id stay up all night literally and go to sleep at 7am and wake up at 5pm, get ready to meet people for dinner. been spending the week meeting people for dinners because i have about two and a half months till i go/school starts (which is actually longer than most people because uk terms are slow) and ive missed people when i was in america so catching up is good :) too bad jon's still captured by the army in ocs i havent seen him for like a month plus tis terrible.
other than that ive been reading alot cuz there isnt much else to do and i have a ton of books. i finally discovered how good murakami novels are so ive been devouring them and norwegian wood is sooo good everyone must read it.
sister is back too, so the house has alot more noise than usual, in a good way. spent alot of time in america hanging out with her friends which was pretty cool cuz theyre extremeeely funny. and i shopped way too much, watched a mighty heart (about daniel pearl, starring angelina jolie) which was by far the hardest movie ive watched in a long time but soo good, and watched wicked which ranks up there with phantom because it was AMAZING and we had front row seats which was <3.
i am very lazy to upload many photos but i shall upload some, the rest are on facebook
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[Jun. 8th, 2007|10:38 pm] |
i am very, very tired, i feel like i havent seen far too many people in far too long, and i have been falling sick, recovering and falling sick again for about three weeks now :(
i am sad i missed the crab date with evelyn and maddy thanks to my sore throat, and i feel like i dont have enough time to do so many things before i leave for like 3 weeks. leaving for chicago and newyork on tuesday, sisters graduation :) exciting but im not quite mentally prepared i dont feel like im leaving soon with all the buskersfestival work and im gonna be away for so longgg. i wish i had more time for myself, more time to read and watch things and generally bum around the house.
i think i am schizophrenic, sometimes i think its going to be so easy and such a relief to leave in sept and at other times i wish i were staying. its always extremes.
okay am too tired to type coherently i just thought an update was mandatory since i havent updated in a reallyreally long time.
and please visit www.buskersfestival2007.com thankyou :D |
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[May. 19th, 2007|01:22 am] |
feeling like a withered leaf is not a fun feeling :(
today i went to some random arts house exhibition thing with chere for some meeting with a pretty weird/dubious guy, my first time to an art exhibition. never knew they were open to the public, and perhaps more importantly i never knew there was free wine and cheese. which is cool, cheese and free alcohol is always a good combination. and briefly attended a poetry reading by ng yisheng, tis not surprising at all why mrs perry loved him he seems like a male (and gay) version of her. but very very smart boy omgosh chere and i were in awe
wandered around boat quay before deciding to eat chillicrab because the whole place was lined with seafood restaurants and the crabs were tempting us. sadly i think we should have realised boat quay is a place which rips off tourists, and our crab was really expensive/really huge. if we didnt call abel to join us it would have been $101 between two people and half the crab unfinished, which is terrible. but crab is always <333. felt like a foreigner at boat quay, and international students really dont act their age, or rather dont act like average singaporean teens. which made us very worried about how different we'd be from our future classmates. rainy weather was nice, light drizzles make for the best sort of weather.
second photog photoshoot tmr at clarke quay/along the singapore river, probably my favourite place to take photos. little india was quite an experience, firstly all the bangladeshi workers thought i was interested in them and therefore wanted to take photos of them, so i stopped doing that after a while and stuck to photos of kids, random objects and buildings, etc. everytime i hear the photographer talking abt concepts behind photos and showing us works from famous photographers and philosophising (sort of) about photography i always feel like its one of those things i can do for the rest of my life, but probably will not because the only sort of photography i like is photojournalism, and i might stick to journalism as in just the writing bit of it because its easier to use that as a platform for other things
sleepy. but accomplished, so many bars confirmed in just two days yay :D
i also dreamt i was being scolded/adviced about my life decisions and told to be more practical, by the two people i think are the smartest among all my close-ish friends. which was really strange because both think what i plan to do and my future life plan is cool and respectable and blabla and that im not just following something that would be most practical, make the most money, etc. my only explanation is that its my subconscience telling me that perhaps i need to be a tad less idealistic and should start wondering how im going to feed my shopping habits in the future. but nahh i cant imagine myself being content with law or business and expect i wont be good at the other two more 'practical' courses (law=too technical, business=too much math and numbers, and im not emotionally strong enough or cut-throat enough to be successful at either) and cant imagine myself doing anything other than what i plan to do at uni. :]
i realise i have 3 months left here, exactly. im leaving in exactly four months but one will be spent in america, and till then ill be super busy, even busier than i am now, with buskersfestival, and then when i return ill be really busy with preparing to leave. a really sad but inevitable would be losing my place in all of my friend's lives, since almost everyone who is close to me will be here still. and then when i come back, class outings and random outings with friends would feel foreign and detached. also its really worrying because im not quite sure what the definition of friendships and relationships overseas is like, i fear that it wont be the same as what friendship means over here and then i cant replace the very important parts that my friends play in my life.
and also the huge burden of leaving my mummy here when i know she's going to miss me so very much :(((
AND i will really miss xiaolongbao and chillicrab i eat chinese food all the time now!! but four levels of topshop and people who seem like theyre really really nice (or on facebook,anyway) is reassuring.
mavis' birthday thing at oosh last week was fun, esp champagne and bakerzin cake. i need to stop indulging in bakerzin desserts after almost every meal with shiyun and expensive chinese restaurant food and champagne and things like that, and start living like a poor student which i will have to do in london :[
and because everyone always likes looking at pictures more than reading stuff,
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[May. 1st, 2007|12:13 am] |
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i went to school today, to get my o level cert certified. its strange to feel so familiar, so at home in the setting and so foreign looking around at the unfamiliar faces staring back. strange to see teachers who we were so used to seeing every day, and whose presence it is so easy to take for granted, for moments before they rush off to class etc. i really, really miss jc. and its so pointless to miss jc, at least if you miss people you could try to meet them again, try to catch up, and try to make things the way they were before. but for jc there isnt any trying, its impossible to replicate, even more so because we're all living such seperate lives.
sidenote, samjo i have missed you so! :)
and the 'another one!' comment from rolly was vaguely disturbing, who else is going to lse??? :(
very long day. i think i am sunburnt, though i dont know how in the world that happened.
LAST THURSDAY EVELYN AND I MADE DONUTS FROM SCRATCH. we are so KeWlzzZZ i cannot stand it.
the jam filled ones, with icing sugar :) i have tons more pics but im too lazy to edit them, the lighting was pretty bad. BUT THEY TASTED GOOD. now dinks is upset because she wants to be the best baker in the family. the weirdness thing runs in the blood, for sure.
also, Idol Gives Back was by far the best thing i've watched in a long time. the celine dion and elvis duet of if i can dream was truly amazing beyond words, i am fascinated at the wonders of technology. also i realised that i am too soft, hence the tons of tearing every 10 minutes, but it just stregthened my resolve to want to actually do something good, to do something that will make life better for some group of people on at least a small scale. i am excited to see what i can make of my life, what good i can do with it, and what i can achieve.. in real terms. beyond grades and similarly meaningless things like that, beyond pretty slips of paper and certs.
i miss my friends, which goes back to the missing school thing(again). it is rare to be perfectly listened too, perfectly understood and to perfectly understand what someone else is trying to say. thank you; strange that it took so freaking long to finally talk about things which i have been wondering about for maybe 4-5 months, and longer. i dont think i ever appreciated how much your presence and talking to you reminds me of me.
everyone around me defines me in various ways, keeps me grounded keeps me who i am and keeps me having the beliefs, perceptions, ambitions, etc. that i have. in a way this country, this whole place and everyone in it keeps me who i am. and i like who i am, weirdness and all, and i dont want to change, but i know i will. and then i dont know how much everything here will mean anymore. on one hand im all 'ohhh no singsoc! meet totally new people do totally different things change everything become assimilated into life there OHH SO EXCITING' on the other hand i dont want to loose this and i love all of this, everyone here, the person i am here, way too much. little miss contrary indeed
and i find it tragic that topshop is more exx in london than it is in singapore.
i need to read more so i can allow myself to buy 'dispatches from the edge' by anderson cooper because ive banned myself from buying anymore books until ive finished at least one more (i have 6-7 unread ones)
and i think people assume im damn free cuz im not working. but actually im not okay !! bmdp keeps me preoccupied. more than.
OKAY MORE DONUT PHOTOS SOON. tomorrow: CHEEESECAKE. <3 |
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[Apr. 18th, 2007|12:35 am] |
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i feel tremendously liberated not having a job and waking up whatever time i like because thats this is the only time ill ever be able to do this before university starts. and working at sph was getting terribly repititive and boring.
been busy from time to time, had a three day law job, i was supposed to help the lawyer type stuff in court but the case was settled before it went on trial how unexciting. i realise that being a lawyer might be interesting from time to time, and going to court was quite a thrilling experience, seeing a huge range of human emotions all-round the court. but its not something i can imagine myself doing in the future, not something i particularly want to study, and not something i think i have the emotional strength or hardness to pursue. and drafting legal documents and letters are very technical and dry in my opinion. and its too..i dont know, safe? like its a ricebowl profession. which is good but im too idealistic and i want something which will allow me to travel and work at different places like journalism :)) so yup. i guess that sod rta reaffirmed my decision in life. though the lawyers client, a CEO of some company, was telling me i should put more consideration into my future prospects etc etc etc. prospects being $$. singapore is far too practical really.
i cant remember what ive been doing and where ive been going recently hm. met zan shiyun cheryl and tong for dinner, at mirchi (indian restaurant) after walking around and getting semi lost on the way to boat quay from cheryl/shiyun's office building. so we decided to just eat at far east square. as usualy i was a failure indian and couldnt really order food properly. we ordered 10 naans without realising theyre not the size of prata (how could i not know that o_o) and the guy told us to order less lol how embarrassing. food was pretty good though but i still prefer chinese food (ie: xiaolongbaos and noodles etc). had fun laughing at zan's retardedness, i miss sch and it sucks that everyones in army !! boo. i miss the guys' nonsense and the tons of fun we had just sitting in the canteen and talking and talking. somehow nowhere is as conducive for talking as rj canteen, we realised collectively.
IN OTHER NEWS! i can bake now :D hot chocolate & marshmallow cupcakes were a success followed by the stuff i learnt how to make at the baking class i attended with colleen, yay :D
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mmm cupcakes :) shall attempt making more random things tmr. had lots of fun baking with shiyun mavis and jon the day before jon went to army, and playing arnd with my macbook too. pop art effect is v cool.
last french lesson this thurs, then photography classes start next week. i have tons of books to read and ive just finished shantaram, one of the richest and most amazing books ive read in my life. no book covers that much ground, that much about human nature, about love and life and religion and family and everything else. and! ive bought a few of my preliminary readings for my government course. i feel gainfully occupied (despite the waking up late) and liberated from the mundaneity of my previous life working. and with tons of stuff to do for the buskers feste tis all good.
america in (less than) two months !! can hardly wait. :)
i will be in london in around 5 months and i still cant pick my predominant sentiment about leaving. hm.
i hope there is good chinese food and xiaolongbaos in london. i really much prefer chinese food to indian food i am so confused ethnically. and i also hope i get my first choice hall!! garh. |
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[Apr. 4th, 2007|05:29 pm] |
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so, since my only other option isnt quite the best option, i am going to go to LSE in around 6months, probably shortly after my birthday. its nice that its finally decided (more because there arent any other viable options :| ) and now i can get on with life and be excited about my future once again.
i have such a wonderful amazing family and i am extremely, extremely blessed :]
and! i love america too much to not study/work there. so i shall aim for postgrad(columbia journalism sch!). and enjoy london and europe in the meanwhile. its painful yes but its also really not that bad and its so easy to focus on the positives, so i shall, and stop worrying my family/friends cuz life really isnt that bad at all. and perhaps this really is for the best :)
and i also have amazing friends <333. who make things alot better. thankyou, really! stef esp <3
TMR IS MY LAST DAY OF WORK! i am looking forward to a life of bumming. but i will also read alot alot alot and watch tons of dvds and improve my photography skills and learn to cook and do laundry and basically prepare myself for uni in case i burn the entire hall down or have all pink clothes because i dont know how to do anything.
but i shall miss the colleagues, colleen esp <3 and steph (who is already gone) and geri and ben and brend stef etc who are always nearby, though not quite colleagues.
america in juneee for dinika's graduation! two weeks in nyc is lovee. i cant wait. life is very exciting and promising, really. :) |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2007|12:20 am] |
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i dont think ive ever felt more alone in my life.
and it truly feels like these 12 years in the singapore education system, and 12 years(or longer) only wanting one thing, has amounted to nothing. |
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[Mar. 28th, 2007|08:10 pm] |
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i am slowly dying/disintegrating waiting for university results. the obsession with colleges has reached new heights, with collegeconfidential forums opened every second im online, even at work, and constantly surfing brownstanfordcolumbianorthwesterngeorgetown sites (because i dont care abt nyu) and dreaming abt colleges almost every single night for two weeks.
its quite scary, i know. ugh 48 more painful hours(or less).
on a different note, i cant wait to end work next week so i can spend my life bumming around. since bumming is what i do best. and learning to bake, completing basic french and taking up photography (canon 400d is loveee), otherwise known as shibani's self improvement plans.
and tickets to go for dinika's grad in june have been booked. :] three weeks in america omg :)
also! twas very very nice seeing eddy roland shiyun abel and zan the birthday girl on sat. hongkong/nigger taboo was v entertaining and eddy should seriously consider being a stand up comedian. have missed the class v v v much. class (the real class) lunch in the aft was good too and i met weiqi who i havent seen in agess <33
and the week before this was packed with going out every night till sat and now im sick (yes, again) and slowly disintegrating till tmr/fri.
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[Mar. 10th, 2007|11:51 pm] |
been a while since ive updated. a level results were okay, incase anyone still wants to know. much MUCH more anxious about next month, us uni results are freaky :( so ill choose btwn them or lse
and this is super long overdue, but pictures from monaco/nice/paris below! :D
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[Feb. 28th, 2007|04:00 pm] |
i realise i frequently get things i dont ask for/reallyreally want(sometimes really dont want at all) and never get the things i ask for/reallyreallywant. hm.
hello friends who might have thought i dropped off the face of the earth since i have not been updating. was in monaco, nice and paris last week, which was pureee love. absolutely amazing cities, all of them. monaco was so glamorous and fabulous omg eventhough i am not a lv bag-carrying, cartier jewellery and dior dress-wearing and montecarlo casino gambling person, just being there makes you feel damn glamorous and fabulous like the place. food was amazing, hotel was too thanks to CAAS my mothers lovely company. they sent her on business and i decided to kpo along since some of the hotels were paid for and etc etc. the hotel had the loveliest view of the city and the meditteranean sea in the morn with the sun just rising and clear blue skies. and the best breakfast ever (dinika: BREAD) which was 25 euros(50sing. for breakfast) perhead so it better have been good. and the tv said WELCOME MRS MAHTANI when we enterd, so fun can feel special haha. we explored the old city with the kings palace and little lanes with quaint shops and sidewalk cafes and beautiful views because of the lookout points. and we went to a couple of shopping places and i actually could find stuff to buy. in monaco! nice clothes. ahh but it was so quaint and pretty to just walk around. though everything is hilly and you have to walk uphill alot and unfit lardy shibani doesnt like that haha. but it just means more rewarding views :]
spent a day in nice when my mum had her conference for the whole day. nice was <33, so vibrant and fun particularly cuz there was mardi gras later in the evening. interestingly the beach was a pebble beach though haha new experience. pebbles instead of sand. saw roman ruins, pretty cathedrals, rose gardens, killer views (again) and seas with water so clear you really can look right to the seabed. damn damn pretty.
and then paris! which is the most beautiful city ive ever been to in my life. even though i prefer newyork(paris is a VERY close 2nd), but paris is the most beautiful. the view from the eiffel tower was <3, i was too cold though and inappropriately dressed (i kinda thought it would be spring-ish weather..and i was very wrong :[ 6degrees is not spring) the louvre was amazing, the only thing that annoyed me were american teens ('theyre just stupid pictures' said in bimbo american accent) who similarly annoyed me at the eiffel tower cuz they sounded like they were straight out of laguna beach. and we all know i want to stone the people on laguna beach. many times over.
touching down was a sadsad thing, esp with results on fri. my mothers birthday! which i hope i do not destroy with my disgusting results whcih i dont really care about but i think my mum does. i am honestly very zen about results and unfortunately not many people are i feel left out haha.
work is a very strange place but thankgoodness for colleen&steph and people like evie and brend who i see around often cuz theyre so near. life is always a mess of weirdness really.
i think dreamgirls was a bit overrated. the only movie i enjoyed with that much singing was phantom of the opera haha
PRISONBREAK IS TERRIBLE ITS ALL GOING WRONG. and ONETREEHILL, the return of peyton's stalker! mann tv shows make me upset :[ i clearly have no life la i know haha.
sunflowers+colleen+portson+moomoo&chickchick+biscuits from france at my desk now makes it so much better being here :]
ill update with pics soon because my stupid computer at home seems to have crashed, or smth and i feel weird uploading pics to the work computer so byebye :] |
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[Feb. 11th, 2007|01:47 am] |
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lionel lewis, chinatown, katong and a scrarily accurate chinese fortune teller, a ton of gossip, HP party which was boring but good company.. all in a week.
so tired. too tired for a proper update, meant to do one yesterday but unforseen circumstancs and BMDP proposal distracted me. life is so much more exciting now with Gossip with a capital G, a great sense of purpose, and tons and tons of fun at work :))
met stef for dinner on monday, she's working at sph now as is almost half of my class (literally.) and many other rj people. before that met lionel lewis ! and the lions at the airport. i am not much of a soccer fan, at all, what more singapore soccer, but it was still exciting! because everyone else was excited. glad that i think my true calling is really journalism, as i thought when i was in primary school, since interviewing people and taking tons of photos and looking for news is really very fun. after all, i am kpo and shameless which is a good combination if one wants to be a journalist haha
met cheryl on tuesday after touring chinatown because we were bored so we were let off to go and find things to do haha v funny. german sausage guy is hilarious! cheryl & i ate at giraffe, overpriced nachos which i only ate half of, waste foodandmoney as usual.
also sometime this week, realised that colleen was the same colleen lim i used to play with in primary sch cuz her brother used to date my aunt ! (who are around the same age incase you were thinking otherwise) veryvery cool. haha
THURS was scary fortuneteller day!! :O first thing he said. 'you like to drink right?'. ooops. second thing, 'you always get stressed and depressed, you must not think so much!!' double oops. the dude could describe rooms and stuff too, v scary. scarily accurate for all the other colleagues as well. was quite freaked out by the whole thing, probably learnt more about amybencolleengeri than i would have in manymany months which is probably a good thing. then meet evelyn, twinstomach :D we should honestly meet more often evelyn! talking to you makes me very happy eventhough you bully me haha. and yes, you are not a monster :)) haha
mos later cuz of free tickets, which wasnt very exciting but geri was loopy and amy drinks alot and waterfall afterwards with shiyun and jon was <3. and ben gave me all his drink coupons which was (y)
friday i met keying after ages! gossip gossip haha and shopping around was fun. and there was drama at night which was terribly amusing. i think my life in general is pretty amusing now :]
i bought an ugly doll today!
work tmr :( sunday duty! i hope its slack and i get paid more. france next week! seems unreal still. and all the hotels are so OMGOD-ish. must remember to attach camera to my fingers or something to i can take photos everywhere. AND SHOP LESS, yes, shop less.
i am also addicted to heroes ! been watching it at work. i have progressed from hurriedly minimising msn convo windows on the first day at work when people walk past to watching heroes blatantly and not caring when the big/important people walk past after their meetings upstairs. hahaha.
mm i miss alot of people now currently. asdf :[
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[Feb. 3rd, 2007|12:41 am] |
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:)
i am actually terribly pleased with life and that is rare.
before i talk about work, last night i was bored and decided to check the ucas tracking thing. and discovered i had an lse offer! kept reading it ten times over to check if it was the correct school and correct offer, cuz abb for government and history seems so..strange. since manchester which is significantly worse gave me an aab offer. but! i am not complaining and im actually terribly happy cuz i THINK i can get abb for a levels (okay if i have to take back this statement i will honestly be suicidal) so yes :DDD
bmdp buskersfest sounds like its going great :D happyhappy. must do proposal though :[
life actually has a much greater sense of purpose. work !! has been tremendously fun. which is a pleasant semi-surprise. first day was kinda boring with admin work BUT after that listening to singaporeans complain about a million things and send in stupid things and looking at pics from vday contests and calling people is terribly amusing. really. and techgirl and the soccer club girls which i find terribly amusing. singaporeans can truly be hilarious. also, my colleagues have been the nicest things in the whole world. the fellow interns + steph are honestly <333 i feel SO appreciative that theyve made my first week terribly fun. so fun that i felt sad taking mc (BECAUSE MY STUPID EYE IS INFECTED. AGAIN.) on thursday. there is always an abundance of food and snacks in the office and snacks + shibani = (Y) work is actually pretty slack, and pretty fun cuz hopefully soon i get to go for events like how geri went for hoobastank (which turned into a huge scandal so exciting) but thats not the point. the point is !! i am happy at work which is wonderful really it is :D i am also becoming stingy (omg anyone who knows me is going to 0_0) and i dont want to take taxi anymore cuz i think that its quite a big fraction of my day's pay. OMG ME NOT TAKING TAXI. haha. today was amy's last day, abundance of food! so much foood. island creamery and ben and jerrys and pizza and kfc and durian puffs omg so many calories :( and im sad that amy's leaving! hardly got to know her. oh yes and jenn (aka my boss) is an exact replica of my mum, its scary but quite comforting in a strange way at times. :]
met shiyun and mavis after work, i think we were making alot of noise so people kept giving us weird looks. and we were being weird and realised that we are going to be 19 this year but its okay we can always be weird in each others presence :] have photos of work that geri sent but im basically a lazy sloth so im not going to upload them now.
but im so content with life, this is rare, and surprising, and in a really good way, too :] |
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[Jan. 28th, 2007|01:02 am] |
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good week :] my last free week before i start work, so i decided to do a little less bumming around at home and more meeting up with people since alot of army boys book out after what has seemed like ten thousand years over friday and saturday
met stef for pepperlunch on monday before finding out that my future boss/supervisor/whatever at sph next happened to be my mothers really close friend in jc which was really funny. pepperlunch is <3 btw and so is stef yay. wednesday was spent meeting stef at cafe iguana for fajitas and magaritas and then we were joined by joel waileong (who i hadnt seen in ages with growing back tufty hair) chere ting and janice. very nice night with alot of complaining about jobs from the girls and stef and i feeling bad cuz we were still bums. and the waitress who is very bad with trays. and hot guys with ugly girlfriends which is quite rare in singapore.
yesterday met roland eddy shiyun mavis cheryl zan and jon, nice 1e thing. roland's stories about army were terribly amusing and his favourite phrase 'wahh my balls really shrank la' haha. manhattan fish market with alot of laughter and random gossip, very typical of 1e thingums, and dirty jokes and everything else. then we went to the arcade which i hadnt been to for freaking AGES, played daytona! and watched roland and zan play parapara, lol. and jon's braces and roland's insecurity about being bald is all terribly funny. and then zan accidentally swung her plastic bag at roland in areas where it would hurt most haha poorpoor roland.
and met abel today after tooo long. good food and we went to top of the m cuz both of us were in a spending money mood. talked and talked; best friend time is always wonderful :] realised ive missed so many people for so long, abel, zul!, the 1e people, 1b people. started on my jc scrapbook which started with pics of orientation and the first 3 months, it feels like so long ago but such pleasant memories, i really do miss school alot :[ sad that things are kinda different with friends since we meet less and there isnt school and a common factor anymore, and we dont see each other everyday, and different jobs and army and all :[
and im very hesitant to start work RARR i hope its fun. :[ and somehow i just want to hurry up and get my alevel results and uni decisions so at least i can stop worrying and know whats gonna happen in like 6/7 months.
wokay i leave you with a few pictures :]
mavis me and shiyun, cheryl grumpy roland and smiley eddy,zan and para para, roland doesnt like being bald :(
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[Jan. 18th, 2007|01:47 pm] |
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been trying to fix the layout since the newyears eve cut doesnt seem to go away from entries, but it doesnt seem to work :( perhaps ill have to change the layout which is sad cuz i really like this one. anyone who knows any freelayout sites besides the freelayout community please comment here thanks :]
i have been living the life of a sloth, with occassional meetings mostly for food or movies (since there isnt much else to do in singapore). i LOVE being lazy but sadly i think work starts next week, so, boo. and there's still so many dvds to watch and books to read! on tuesday i watched 3 movies in a day, dead poets on dvd, the queen in the cinema and babel on the computer. babel is amazingly good, i just wish it would come out in singapore NOW because i want to watch it on the big screen too.
on to more exciting news, i am going to monaco and france in a month!! which is superrrr exciting, since ive never travelled in february randomly like this and well its MONACO and FRANCE. the hotels are lovely and i get to go to the louvre and disneyland paris and monte carlo (casino!! <3) and AHH i am just very excited. :] yay
apparently a level results come out in the 2nd week of feb? hoho. how exciting. :[
new episode of prisonbreak in 4days!! :D |
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[Jan. 10th, 2007|09:13 pm] |
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its strange that a year ago, i would never in a million years have imagined to spend today like i did, but going back to school with stef mark shang was :))
just sitting around doing nothing and talking to teachers again, esp perry and rolly and even kwok was wonderful, i miss my teachers so much and i do miss school, not work not studying but company, teachers, some lessons to a certain extent. sitting around doing nothing with the right people is the nicest way to spend your day, sometimes. i truly miss rj tremendously, which kinda surprises me.
but talking about the future scares me still.
yesterday was by far the weirdest day ive had in a while, usually i try to spread out the weirdness over a few days so my brain has time to process it hm.
and! because of jon asking me to bid for stuff for him on ebay, i have discovered the immense wonders of ebay for myself. death cab silkscreen concert posters are <333 and so are autographed pics of wentworth miller.
and i hope i get the job at sph because if not i will have nothing exciting to do when everyone goes into army. well, not like a job is EXCITING but its still better than waking up at 1pm (except for today) or later and living a life of sloth and laziness.
okay i am off to finish watchmen and start on my scrapbook :)
someone please buy this for me ! |
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[Jan. 6th, 2007|11:52 pm] |
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humans party was nice, comfortable company and friends i havent seen for too long, catching up and laughing and playing in chere's playground and gossiping and generally catching up. talking to stef mark shang (cambridge and oxford boys sigh my incompetence!) reminded me of a year ago, or slightly more, or actually just a year ago with christmas exchanges and hopeful budding group friendships. realised i really miss it, miss last year and the us trip and how carefree and happy we all were.
i hope all the trip planning will materialise, there's so much i miss, probably gonna be so different in a few months. last year, despite everything, had a number of incredibly priceless moments and friendships with all the hurdles definitely grew stronger. its so nice that everythings so comfortable and nice :) man what a lack of descriptive words.
this year is so promising, it really is. spanish driving photography! haha :) and tons of books, smallville, prison break, and hopefully internship at sph. and then in a couple of months, NON-HUMID COLD AIR. :)
i am going to watch smallville since my days of being lazy are NUMBERED. :(
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[Jan. 6th, 2007|01:58 am] |
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thank you samjo, because somehow talking to you and talking about stuff with you did me more good than talking to anyone else about similar stuff has done for me since mid december last year. :) i dont know why though haha but thank you, you are loved :]
I THINK I MUST START WORKING SOON. days of being a sloth are numbered. boo :(
samjo i really dooo love you
humans party tmr :) |
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