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Friday, December 31, 2004
Tagboard replies
(which are way way waaaaayy overdue sorry)
john: i didn't know arsenal's a bad word actually heh. but now that you mention it, it probably is due to the a-r-s-e embedded. anyway NO, i'm not supporting them. man utd for meeee now!
jo: hieeee jo!! of COURSE i remember you! where're you going next year? anyway, speaking of which, i met the other jo (wong) yesterday at wisma haha.
nartz: since i'm replying late, school's starting in just another 3 days. more reason to moan? heh. see you in a bit.
stella: what do you mean by that?! i have no sickly germs, and I can scratch pretty well! anyway have a happy happy new year too, and i've decided that i'm not gonna run away from mass pe anymore. i'll erm, just accept the fact that there's gonna be one more crappy year of that then i'll be scot-free!
and to khin: i doubt you'll read this on time, but i've sent you a long-overdue letter. i hope you get it! and if you don't, i think i'll need to get your address from you again soon.
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11:50 AM
Gosh, I never thought I'd be saying this. Other people maybe, but not ME! But I actually had trouble falling asleep last night. For the first time in don't know how long. Yes, me. Sleep-loving, sleep-craving me. I'll admit I had one cup of coffee in the afternoon but that isn't supposed to keep you up all night!! And maybe I was thinking about a million and one things last night before I slipped into bed. Like how I'm gonna DIE when school starts again. Like how I wanna throw out some of my older stuff in my cupboard 'cause my cupboards are both bursting. Like how I wanna re-arrange the bed in my room to make more space for other things. Like how much I hate mass pe. Like whether Saph's still alive after having to endure two straight days of the rain and the cold. (though she's sheltered, but still - I think I'd die.) All these random things just kept popping into my head just as I was drifting off to sleep.
Woke up at 1030 this morning but I felt pretty rested for some strange reason. Though I was still half-awake half-asleep by 630 this morning when mom and dad got up to go to work.
Spent yesterday walking around Orchard with Trina. As a general rule, I find going out with no money pretty boring. But yesterday was positively non-boring! We tried on dresses from Daniel Yam and Isetan just for the heck of it. We talked a lot about sucky school life in general and also about how being in a relationship of that kind changes some people. A lot of random girly stuff. And not so girly stuff as well. Had lunch at Cartel and dinner at Lido. Quite proud of myself 'cause I didn't spend so much on my meals for once! And Trina got trampled on by another woman who thought she was Miss Pixie Dust or whatever.
I think Ocean's Twelve is a good show, even though mom says it's the stupidest show she's ever watched. Well, but then again, mom thought that The Matrix was stupid too. Anyway. Watched that on Tuesday with the family 'cause mom and dad were both on leave. And I like the Chinese-Taiwanese food at Junction8! Went to a restaurant (I've forgotten the name) for dinner with Carol and Laoshi on Wednesday and the food was surprisingly good, considering the fact that I'm no fan of Chinese food. Managed to buy my Fila bag on the same day too. Yay!
Tri and I wanted to do a lot of things together this holidays. Though we didn't manage to do a lot of things on our list, we're finally fulfilling one of our many wants! I'm gonna sleep over at Tri's place after the Countdown Party at my grandma's place tonight. Ahhh, how exciting! :)
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11:28 AM
Monday, December 27, 2004
Christmas is overr. I'm suddenly saddened as I think of that 'cause Christmas is my favourite season of the year. But anyhow, Christmas this year was pretty good. As all Christmases are, in my opinion!
Let's start from Christmas eve. Went for midnight mass with the family plus Christian. Then headed to Clement's place for the party. I can't believe I walked there! I talked alot and ate alot. Oh, and Victor asked me if I'd heard of a Jed Elliot Ong in my school. I was like, I think so, why? Then he told me about some inter-jc pageant thing. Hmmm never knew such a thing existed before! Saw Melissa for the first time in the longest time ever too! :) Wish I had more time to catch up with her but the place was so crowded and noisy that I couldn't talk very much. Anyway. One of my New Year's resolutions will be to keep in touch with people who mean alot to me 'cause I seriously suck at keeping in touch with people. So I'll call more, talk more, and in the case of Khin who's overseas, I'll write more and I'll email more.
Left his house at about 330am then came back home to have a hot steaming cup of milo and ham with dad and Carol. By the time I went to bed, it was probably close to 5am, but I was to excited to fall asleep! Told you I love Christmas haha. Got up at 11am on Christmas Day then went up to my grandma's place for my Christmas lunch! Then went to the room for a nice long nap 'cause we were just waiting for the rest of the extended family to come along so we could all open our presents together. Then headed downstairs for the nice Christmas barbeque and to meet the extended extended family! Meaning my dad's cousins and their kids. Oh and my little cousin Ethan who's Chinese-American Eurasian just came back from America and he was so jet-lagged, the poor kid! He was rather grouchy. And I just found out that he's not even one yet. Gosh, all this while I was thinking he's bigger than that, 'cause he's so mature looking. (Can you even call a baby mature? Hmm.) Left the barbeque early to go to Ee-ee Bridget's place to say hello to my mother's folks and to open presents there too. Oh and Koko Jo's family left on the 26th for Vietnam. That means no more Darren and Tania 'til Chinese New Year. :( On one hand, that means I'm happily free from Barney and Bob the Builder, but on the other hand, I'll really miss them.
And so my Christmas's over. I was happy-sad 'cause I really enjoyed myself.. But I didn't wanna say goodbye to Christmas yet. Ohwell, there's next year's Christmas to look forward to.
Spent Boxing Day clearing up the mess on mom's table. The mess I'd made while making Koko Maggie's present and while writing my Christmas cards. Oh speaking of which, I really HAVE to draw up a list of people I wanna send my cards to next year. It was terrible this year! I missed out so many people. Then I started on one of the gp comprehensions and did a bit of the 1100 words book. Resolved to finish the compre yesterday but Trina called and I ended up talking to her for quuuitee a long time 'cause we hadn't spoken for a bit. Then Cheryl called while I was yakking away to Trina so I had to call Cheryl back again. So there went my resolve. And there went my afternoon nap. Cheryl's probably in Malaysia now.. Have a good trip dear! :) Went for mass at Novena Church then went down to Raffles City. Indulged in a major shopping spree and bought two tops and black skirt from Mango (they were having their end-of-season sale by the way) and a pair of jeans from Giordano. Okay, so that didn't look very major, but I wouldn't spend the amount I spent last night when I go out shopping alone. So it's pretty major to me, in financial terms.
Speaking of Raffles City last night. The most appalling thing happened. This woman crashed headfirst into me as I was walking and she scraped my foot. To my utter amazement, she didn't even look the least bit apologetic for nearly maiming me for life. You know what she did? She immediately turned to clutch tightly at her boyfriend as if I was about to scratch her face. And only when she was in the safety of his scrawny frame did she dare to turn to look at me hostilely. I was like what the HELL. I mean seriously. Two reasons why she clutched at him in vain. Okay, maybe three. Number one, he probably couldn't have protected her anyway if I'd really wanted to scratch her. Number two, it was her fault!! (I think.) Lady, you weren't exactly a fairy that floated with pretty fairy-lightness over my foot. Try an elephant maybe, seeing how badly you scraped my poor tortured appendage with your considerable weight. And number three, she looked utterly completely totally ridiculous. It's a personal conviction of mine that girls should never never clutch on to their boyfriends as if he's the only thing that's stopping her from tipping over. If I ever ever EVER have a boyfriend and I ever forget, I may just kill myself. Stomped into Mango feeling severely severely outraged then retail therapy kicked in and I felt better.
Homework now then gonna go down to town or something with mom before meeting Gillian and Koko Rosa. And I wanna sleep.
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1:45 PM
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Gotta get up at 515am tomorrow morning so I can leave by 6am. So I guess this is it. Fiveeeee days away from home! 'Til Monday comes round then, farewell! (Unless I can get my hands on a computer somewhere somehow haha.)
I'll miss my bed and my little pillow and my teddy and everyone at home though. I'll even miss Saph my bird, though she's given me nothing but trouble lately. But dad said I could try sneaking into the casino whooo!!
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10:53 PM
Daddy did take leave yesterday after all! Went down to Compass Point to pick up my Nokia 7260. It's just grrreeeaat! Except for the smallish memory space. But everything else's just fine. :) No more phone changes for the next 2 years I think.
Cheryl's coming over later to just bum around. We're gonna cook our own lunch! Aaaahh so fun! Hahah. Went to Cold Storage yesterday to buy garlic bread for today.
Finally, I've finally started my packing for tomorrow's trip to Malaysia. Spent the better half of last night throwing out clothes from my cupboard to the bed and folding them up in a bid to fit everything in my luggage. I remembered to dig around for my lip gloss (which has been missing for a week already) and I foouuunndd it!! Yay! It was in my denim tote, for some strange reason. Anyhow. Mom changed money for me yesterday too! Gosh I don't really wanna leave home. But I think I'll enjoy the rest I'll get when we go up to Genting. The adults are all either going to the casino or accompanying the younger kids to the theme park. The kids are all going to the theme park, duh. Which leaves me alone at the Starbucks downstairs to read eat drink daydream whatever alone. I'm underaged for the casino and I don't think I'll enjoy the theme park so... yeah. Tried persuading Koko Maggie to sneak me into the casino but she said she has trouble herself believing that I'm anything past 16.
I have to remember to pack the rest of my stuff tonight.
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10:55 AM
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Congrats to me - I'm finally learning a little Discipline in my life! Ran my 3 rounds again today and managed to do my 100 crunches, though I suspect I didn't do my crunches properly. I've decided to run my rounds every alternate day and do my crunches every day for the next 4 weeks till school starts again. Hopefullyhopefully I'll not die during sickening mass pe next year then.
The library at the Esplanade is an unfriendly one. Chels and I got kicked off a table 'cause we weren't allowed to do our own stuff at the library during weekends. Sheesh. Maybe that's why I like the school library. Maybe that's why the library at the Esplanade's so empty. Splurged on those kind of too-expensive chocolate today! Chels and I bought one piece each. 2dollars per piece! But it was quite yummy and so so so pretty! Took a photo of it but can't put it up now 'cause the infrared port isn't with me now so can't upload my photos.
Went to Orchard after that. Intended to study a bit before Dree came but we landed up stuck at Forever21 for a preeetty long time. Tried on a few things. I like the dark green off-shoulder top I tried. And the skirt I tried too! Sigh. So many things and so little money. Dree met us there and we stayed around for a bit more. Ooohh they had a pair of pretty starry earrings that I liked! We ended up at the Coffee Club at Kino and sat outside for a while before Dree had to dash off to report for the busking thing. The 3 of us shared an iced latte which must have appeared kind of strange 'cause the waitress was like that's all?? and we were like, yeah. Oh and Chels and I concluded that Coffee Club tries to earn more money by forcing us to order via waiters/waitresses. We walked to the counter to order our latte 'cause we were really getting quite impatient as noone seemed to be coming out to take any orders, and when we placed our order, the girl at the counter said "Sorry, we'll get someone to come over to your table to take your order shortly." I was thinking like hmmmm okay why don't you not bother 'cause we've already come all the way here? Anyway. It's terrible! The iced latte cost 6dollars but we ended up having to pay about 6 ninety something. The ninety something was all the service charge and gst. Tsktsk.
I met Christian at the Taka toy department to drop by to say hello as he was working and to ask about phones. I need a job quite desperately I think. But the holidays are already half gone and I've still got a ton of work to finish. Bad bad bad. Then hopped over to Wheelock 'cause I wanted to spend my 10dollar Borders book voucher today. Intended to pick up Geisha by Liza Dalby but there was only one copy left on the shelf and it was in such deplorable condition. Dog-earred with a badly creased spine and all. Then wanted to get another geisha book and even went to queue up but then I remembered to check the price before paying and I nearly tripped on the carpet. It was 27 something! And I was only prepared to pay 20bucks for my geisha book. So I ducked out of the queue in embarrassment and decided to wait for new stock of the Liza Dalby book to come in.
Oh, and watched Dree perform the shakalaka song outside Paragon with the drama people. That was the main reason why I'd gone out today and I can't believe I almost didn't get to watch it 'cause dad wanted to pick me up early! I'm glad I stayed though 'cause I got to feel a little-felt sense of satisfaction at a certain someone's inability to do anything except scowl at me fiercely in the hope that I'd just vanish in fright or something stupid like that. Heh it's great to be part of the public! And I think Chels's jaw kept aching the whole of today. Hahah.
I'm tired but quuuuitee quite happy today. Dad's gonna take leave tomorrow - maybe, I hope!! - to take me out to look at my phones! And hoooooraaay! The air-con's finally finally switched on. Welcome back air-con.
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10:47 PM
Saturday, December 04, 2004
I can't believe I paid 20cents to use the lousy dirty toilet at Pasir Ris!! Grr. Such a ripoff maaaann. 20cents!! Five trips to the toilet and I can buy a new pen already. Anyway. It didn't rain today thank goodness. I only got to the park at 6pm and it was such a joke lah, 'cause like Charis told us to get to carpark E and walk to pit F and we landed up walking all the way from carpark A. I remember - we walked through the whole park like a group of crazed tourists, crossed two bridges and I insulted Rayner the entire way there. And we even cabbed to Pasir Ris from the station! Rayner and Cheryl came by to pick me up. Sheesh.
Barbeque wasn't too bad I guess. Didn't get to eat very much. Distinctly remember munching on two sausages and a cob of corn and that's it. I suck at Wacko. Seriously! When someone yells my name, it takes me a million minutes to register that someone's gonna come running towards me to hit me then instead of yelling out a name, I stick out an arm and shout "wait wait!!" Duh I get smacked right. Twice it happened and twice I didn't learn my lesson.
Okay. Esplanade tomorrow to study with Chels before hitting Orchard to meet Dree! Gosh I love Esplanade. And I love my pals too! :)
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11:19 PM
Okay so it hasn't rained yet.
So looks like the barbeque will be all right! Hope so hope so.
Now that my blog looks overly decorated in the Christmassy fashion and I'm due to dash at 330pm. I think I'd better go change.
Sigh shit man I really need a digital camera. Gotta add that to my wish list. And the Nokia 7-something-something-0's going at quite a ridiculously low price this weekend. Grr really wanna go look at phones today. Or tomorrow.
And I'm seriously getting fat. I need new shorts 'cause I can't seem to fit into my old ones. Dammit. This is annoying. Exercise more! And my mother won't give me money today 'cause she firmly believes I shouldn't go anywhere tonight. Hmph. How? Cheryl and I were planning to buy the same shirt today to wear to the barbeque tonight and I don't have a single cent. This is pathetic man. Carol still owes me 38dollars but she's at camp. And I'm getting fat. :(
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3:14 PM
The computer died this morning. 'Cause like this old tub of a computer makes a hell lot of noise usually. Like some fighter jet whirring away non-stop or something. So this morning. I got to the Windows screen when suddenly the annoying noise just stops. I was like hey this is good! Then GRR this message pops up on screen telling me to reboot the system and the whole system just completely hangs on me. So I thought I could fix this myself, being the know-it-all I make myself out to be. Rebooted the system. Hit the escape button twice 'cause the words on screen told me to. And the stupid thing asks for a stupid boot record. That's when I was like OH SHIT. Dad help, I killed the computer!! Anyway. Dad managed to resuscitate the system in record time and here I am typing away furiously lest the computer commits suicide again.
Past few days have been hectic! Since production ended. Met Dree and Chels my pals for BK breakfast on Wednesday morning at ps. I was late 'cause I had a tummyache. Then came back home to sleep before going for the Singapore Idol show at the indoor stadium later that night. It was so stupid of me, 'cause actually we had one extra ticket and Koko Maggie asked me if I'd wanted to offer it to anyone and I was like no no it's okay noone's really interested in Idol anyway and Tri can't come 'cause she's flying off to Phuket on Thursday morning. She asked me a million times if I was sure and I said YEAH. So I assumed she'd given away the ticket or something. Then I tell my pals excitedly that I'm going for the show that night and Chels said really?? I remember about the extra ticket and I message Koko Maggie to see if it's still free but she took my word seriously and it was gone by the time I got back to her. Sorry Chels! :(
The show that night was great though! I liked it when all the other idols came back to perform. :) I think Christopher lost weight since the last time we spoke to him. I think Jerry still sounds quite... Jerryish. And I think Jessea is a damn good performer! Saw a few people from school there too I think. Geri was there! And hmm some other people, I can't really remember. But the atmosphere was just crazy. Much much better than in the Mediacorp studio. Or maybe it's just ten times louder? Hahah.
Stayed home the whole of Thursday to sleep and sleep and oh, played Sims on Kor's Xbox. Went to return the game at ps on Friday then headed down to Charis's place to surprise her for her birthday! Remembered to bring her present thank goodness. Got to her house at about 530pm 'cause I made several detours along the way. Watched Mean Girls and just stuffed myself with pizza and garlic bread! And I've been converted - I think Lindsay Lohan isn't so bad after all. I used to not be able to stand her but now I think she's a pretty okay actress. Better than Hilary Duff anywaaay. Who can't sing and can only act cute.
Charis and Cheryl persuaded me to go for the barbeque today at Pasir Ris and I came back home to try to persuade mom and dad. They just flipped, why I don't know! I had to convince mom that I was not gonna go skinny dipping in the moonlight in the sea and I'd leave the place by 745pm and she finally relented. Sheesh. I hate it, how parents always say "I don't know, ask your mom/dad, don't ask me." Hello?! Aren't you a parent too. Both mom and dad was doing it the whole damn night and I was getting extremely annoyed. Dad told me to ask mom and mom told me to ask dad, and I was like what the hell?? Someone tell me something or I'll make my own decision and go. So anyway. I had to tell mom about Sunday too and boy was she NOT happy.
I wonder. It looks like it's gonna rain later. How's the barbeque gonna happen? Anyway. Went for a run round the estate yesterday night after coming back. Ran 3rounds! Not bad right? Heh. 'Cause I'm putting on weight again and I'm getting flabby. This is what no mass pe does to you, when you eat and eat without exercising. But ohno, I'm not desperately wanting pe to start again when school starts again.
And. I used to have a fish. His name was Fish-Johnson. Was, 'cause he died. I thought he died in quite a stupid way actually. Carol always reminds me that he committed suicide. He had this bad habit of digging up the gravel in the tank and making huuuugee ugly holes just for the heck of it. Then one day, he uprooted the tube that supplied oxygen to the tank and guess what happened. That's right, there was no more oxygen in the water and Fish-Johnson sadly died overnight. Why am I spouting off my fish story now? Oh because. Charis told me her fish story yesterday too and I remembered about Fish-Johnson. Charis's fish died 'cause her dad thought fishes eat almost anything so he threw in a pufferfish that had died and the fish ate it and died too.
Fishes must lead a damn sad life.
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10:30 AM
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