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Happy 2012!!!

2012-01-01T16:26:00.001+08:00

I have a goal and this is the year to make it happen!

Stay

2011-11-07T01:13:00.000+08:00

I've been buying apps and dressing up my iphone. It's one of the best things that has happened to me this year. <3 BB bye..i don't think I even miss you.

Twitter: valerietan_
Instagram: valeriechen (dl the app)

See you over at the other side?
Valerie out.

Home

2011-09-10T20:37:00.000+08:00

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

2011-08-28T22:17:00.000+08:00

I have about 8 months' worth of photos not neatly arranged and posted here.. Will get down to it before xmas comes.
Work is (still) sucking life out of me.
I just removed whitening strips off my teeth and it tastes bitter everytime I swallow.
Did I mention Aztec indian healing clay with ACV is the cherry on top of the pie?
Morning jogs.. I will do morning jogs from September onwards. Please have some faith in me.

x
V

“Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It’s fine for buildings, but if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impression that it ought to be beautiful, but in fact you find it cold. The human heart likes some disorder in it’s geometry, Kyria Pelagia. Look at your face in a mirror, Signoria, and you will see that one eyebrow is a little higher than the other, that the set of the lid of your left eye is such that the eye is a fraction more open than the other. It is these things that make you both attractive and beautiful… otherwise you would be a statue. Symmetry is for God, not for us.”

2011-08-28T22:08:00.001+08:00

— Antonio Corelli, Captain Corelli’s Mandoli

UOL Convocation 2011

2011-07-03T02:25:00.003+08:00

Had the very last paper of our lives in May 2010 but we didn't have our convocation until April! Which means we donned our regalia only one year later?? Our academia journey has ended but of course, the quest for knowledge should never stop. Honestly I didn't see it coming - that I was going to meet such wonderful people in all the different schools I have been to.. Total strangers who eventually become friends whom laugh and cry with me. These cherrypies are for keeps always. ♡

Shandy's 21st birthday, Jan 2011

2011-04-24T00:22:00.141+08:00

Marina Bay Sands Hotel, 2011.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LIL SIS!

My infamous flex..Inside joke from last christmas.

Jan 2011

2011-04-24T00:05:00.001+08:00

Pea-day, Jan 2011 <3

Lou hei!

Back from Melbourne for hols!

Matched.

Jan 2011

2011-04-14T23:45:00.007+08:00

St. Jerome's Laneway Festival

Check out the awesome line-up! Starting from bottom up.

LADYHAWKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Delirium" was when I started going crazy.

It was an 8-hour perennial rain. Light afternoon drizzle to a midnight cold shower, naked feet in mire, creased skin, icky pits, beer booth, smiling people and happy sounds...we were all soaked and soaking in. Couldn't be any happier!

After hours of lather and crazy scrubbing when I got home, I finally threw my clean self on my clean bed. But had to stare bead-eyed at the ceiling for a whole hour before I could fall asleep because the 8-hour rain had somewhat conditioned a stimulus so lasting that I actually felt that raindrops were still hitting my skin. I swear I even opened my eyes a few times to make sure that it wasn't true. Unconditioned stimulus and conditioned response...hmm I actually remembered what I was taught in psychology.

It was unanimously agreed among all the girls I'm sure - he was just indescribably SEXY that night. The butt and the attitude.

And I'm currently working at shenton way. So if anybody works in the vicinity, CALL ME UP FOR LUNCH!

Carpe diem

2011-03-27T23:02:00.002+08:00

Have been undergoing much stress due to work. And according to what I know about myself, my complexion responds really violently to mood or tension changes, like when mugging for exams. Which is why I now have MANY unsightly bumps and blemishes on my face but thank god since they are slowly clearing up.. I like my Fancl powder wash, lotion, and hydrating masks. It's really hard for me to "like" something because I have ultra sensitive skin, as told by all my skin doctors. So far, I'm loving the fact that I have been prescribed relaxants that might cause drowsiness. Chillpills, geddit?

No, I don't hate my job. Still, it sucks to know that it's going to be Monday tomorrow because I can only breathe proper on weekends.

I even have to work for my dad today, which is a SUNDAY booo. Shall enjoy my moscato next week then.

2011-02-26T01:35:00.005+08:00

May I humbly ask everyone to read the post below?? Ok pretty pleaseee? As shared by Sarah and Pearly on Facebook! Such an intelligent read; it reminds me a lot of Anton Chekhov's The Bet - the kind of short stories that command people to take an active stand on their very beliefs. Lovely! So lovely that I actually took some time out to blog... I have been SO friggin' busy that all I ever do right now is Work and Sleep.

The funny thing is I'm liking it.

P.S. I also need to remember to write about my fan-super-tastic experience at Laneway Fest.

Have a good skyblue day,
Valerie

To date or not to date?

2011-02-26T01:22:00.000+08:00

"Don't Date A Girl Who Reads" by Charles Warnke

Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Take her outside when the night overstays its welcome. Ignore the palpable weight of fatigue. Kiss her in the rain under the weak glow of a streetlamp because you’ve seen it in film. Remark at its lack of significance. Take her to your apartment. Dispatch with making love. Fuck her.

Let the anxious contract you’ve unwittingly written evolve slowly and uncomfortably into a relationship. Find shared interests and common ground like sushi, and folk music. Build an impenetrable bastion upon that ground. Make it sacred. Retreat into it every time the air gets stale, or the evenings get long. Talk about nothing of significance. Do little thinking. Let the months pass unnoticed. Ask her to move in. Let her decorate. Get into fights about inconsequential things like how the fucking shower curtain needs to be closed so that it doesn’t fucking collect mold. Let a year pass unnoticed. Begin to notice.

Figure that you should probably get married because you will have wasted a lot of time otherwise. Take her to dinner on the forty-fifth floor at a restaurant far beyond your means. Make sure there is a beautiful view of the city. Sheepishly ask a waiter to bring her a glass of champagne with a modest ring in it. When she notices, propose to her with all of the enthusiasm and sincerity you can muster. Do not be overly concerned if you feel your heart leap through a pane of sheet glass. For that matter, do not be overly concerned if you cannot feel it at all. If there is applause, let it stagnate. If she cries, smile as if you’ve never been happier. If she doesn’t, smile all the same.

Let the years pass unnoticed. Get a career, not a job. Buy a house. Have two striking children. Try to raise them well. Fail, frequently. Lapse into a bored indifference. Lapse into an indifferent sadness. Have a mid-life crisis. Grow old. Wonder at your lack of achievement. Feel sometimes contented, but mostly vacant and ethereal. Feel, during walks, as if you might never return, or as if you might blow away on the wind. Contract a terminal illness. Die, but only after you observe that the girl who didn’t read never made your heart oscillate with any significant passion, that no one will write the story of your lives, and that she will die, too, with only a mild and tempered regret that nothing ever came of her capacity to love.

Do those things, god damnit, because nothing sucks worse than a girl who reads. Do it, I say, because a life in purgatory is better than a life in hell. Do it, because a girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an accessible necessity instead of an alien wonder. A girl who reads lays claim to a vocabulary that distinguishes between the specious and soulless rhetoric of someone who cannot love her, and the inarticulate desperation of someone who loves her too much. A vocabulary, god damnit, that makes my vacuous sophistry a cheap trick.

Do it, because a girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment. A girl who has read up on her syntax senses the irregular pauses—the hesitation of breath—endemic to a lie. A girl who reads perceives the difference between a parenthetical moment of anger and the entrenched habits of someone whose bitter cynicism will run on, run on well past any point of reason, or purpose, run on far after she has packed a suitcase and said a reluctant goodbye and she has decided that I am an ellipsis and not a period and run on and run on. Syntax that knows the rhythm and cadence of a life well lived.

Date a girl who doesn’t read because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp ridges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, the girl who reads knows most the ineluctable significance of an end. She is comfortable with them. She has bid farewell to a thousand heroes with only a twinge of sadness.

You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with meaning. She insists that her narratives are rich, her supporting cast colorful, and her typeface bold. You, the girl who reads, make me want to be everything that I am not. But I am weak and I will fail you, because you have dreamed, properly, of someone who is better than I am. You will not accept the life that I told of at the beginning of this piece. You will accept nothing less than passion, and perfection, and a life worthy of being storied. So out with you, girl who reads. Take the next southbound train and take your Hemingway with you. I hate you. I really, really, really hate you.

[VERSUS]

"Date A Girl Who Reads" by Rosemarie Urquico

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

Boys of Milan and Paris: Fall/Winter 2011/12 by Justin Wu

2011-02-07T21:45:00.004+08:00

O good lord, too many good things in a video I just bled a bucket from my nose! I like ALL the guys but 01:40 first guy from the left is my favourite-st vibe.

P.S. January has been crazy!

Marshmallow gooey caramel

2011-01-09T01:25:00.006+08:00

2010's photos.

Will edit this post with the xmas stuff next time. (DONE..albeit half-assed zz) Currently moping over some undignified loss of money.. And someone should also dump my IB device so that impulses wouldn't escalate by folds, as such, neither would this blunder even exist. Wah, I really don't know what was going through my mind when I did it. Was it air? Was it?

Anyway hope everyone is having a good start.
Can't wait to be in a vessel in a cloud. xx

A 98 year old woman in the UK wrote this to her bank

2011-01-08T11:42:00.006+08:00

Superbly smart letter written by a 98-year old lady. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the Times. Isn't she such a dear?? :)

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my Pension, an arrangement, which, I admit, has been in place for only thirty eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, but when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become. From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person. My mortgage and loan payments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank by cheque, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate. Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope.

Please find attached an Application Contact Status which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Solicitor, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof. In due course, I will issue your employee with PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press buttons as follows:

1. To make an appointment to see me.
2. To query a missing payment.
3. To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
4. To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
5. To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6. To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
7. To leave a message on my computer (a password to access my computer is required.
A password will be communicated to you at a later date to the Authorized Contact.)
8. To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through to 8.
9. To make a general complaint or inquiry, the contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.

May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous, New Year.

Your Humble Client

(From: here)

Greatest epiphany

2010-12-31T18:11:00.004+08:00

It's fair to say this on the last day of the year: 2010 has been the worst and the best year I've been through so far. Lost.. Learned.. Found.. and then Loved. Because I have not allowed myself to look back for the longest time, it's hard to remember what Sadness looked like. Sadness could be the lingering ghost specks of pain that fade in and out of the dark just before you sleep.
I knew back then the surest way was to look forward. It's impossible to still be scared when you have already looked Sadness in the eyes a thousand times, at least not on the 1001th time right? Ghost specks they die too; And the best thing you could ever do is to not run, you just live.

Like something underneath my skin I can't write out when I asked myself what's the good part.. You know it's there but you don't know what it is. Maybe it's the feeling of getting back things you lost, maybe it's knowing you found them only because you've lost things in the first place.. Either way, good things happen too. Suddenly at this point of typing I feel like talkING IN CAPS BECAUSE I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE NEW YEARR!!!!

Right now I'm ill with a sore throat, blocked nasal passage and a fever that might choose to visit. Evil cookies. Anyway, I'll be spending the first second of 2011 with my ♡family♡!! Here's something for all my friends, anyone and everyone:

New Year Resolutions 2011

2010-12-29T02:16:00.002+08:00

#1 Gain 3kgs (carried fwd from last yr's list)
#2 Learn how to rollerblade, cycle, fly a kite and bake a cake.
#3 Read the remaining books in mini library.
#4 Discover what I really like and do it for a living.
#5 Work on business proposal.
#6 Board a plane alone.

P.S. I have stuck to my words and fulfilled 4 out of 5 new year resolutions for Year 2010. WHUT UP!

The above list for 2011 is pretty hard if you ask.. Especially #4 and #6.

Xmas

2010-12-20T17:59:00.004+08:00

From tumblr.

Hi, merry christmas in advance to all!! December is a month of hopes...great great hopes, isn't it? Anyway I shall leave my lengthy thoughts and new year resolutions to the next post. So broke $$$ but so happy this month. Can't wait for the 2011 countdown!! Xx

Lightyears and hopes

2010-12-14T03:00:00.003+08:00

1. We did something really meaningful this x'mas. Here's wishing them a merry merry one!
2. Quite in love with avocado milkshake. Try ok!

3. Dad passed us our 2011 organisers already.

4. Need to snailmail a friend in Paris this year..rue buissonniere. Seeing how slow postal services get during festive seasons, I told him to not be surprised if the christmas card arrives in 2011 instead hoho.

5. Rebellious hair circa year 2000.

Oh dear, it's 3AM! :O Good night people.

Plane ride away

2010-12-10T03:31:00.003+08:00

I did spring cleaning for my room today! Already did it 3 times this year because I absolutely hate to see junk pile up. I guess the most enjoyable part is finding things you thought you have lost and things you never really knew you had. :) I also have this huge brown box which I use to keep little things people have given me over the years and enjoy spending hours going through them once in awhile. It's true you can touch happiness. While throwing stuff in, I caught sight of this old magic ball one of my friends gave me 5 years back. It didn't take very long before a question popped in my mind.. I gave it a shake and paused. Waited for the answer to float up..
It turned out the answer made my day. I smiled.. like a lot. What kind of reliable probabilities could little pyramids in the magic ball possibly give? But I was especially drawn to believing instead.

Bits of January - November

2010-12-07T00:04:00.003+08:00

Woke up one morning to Pirate Hog.

Boston Legal in Thailand.

<3<3<3

It's ok to play with food.

Remember when I said my parents like to sleep on my cute hedgehog? Poor roti prata..

I don't "party like a rockstar" anymore.. Not anymore. After all these years, I realize there are many other things I love more.

BEST WAFFLE & MAPLESYRUP HEREEEE.

Best milktea but the shop has closed down.

So satanic.

How I eat muffins.

3 cartons full of pens..

They played "Iron Man" for me after the traumatising operation..

What my mom wrote on my fairly long shopping list..oops.

And doodled this reallyyy creepy smiley inside my organiser where I wrote "My Birthday".. Hahaha at the bow!

Remind me

2010-12-02T02:59:00.009+08:00

This guy just can't admit I'm a girl who is really not bad at L4D2! 3 vs 3 the other time, I was the only girl and I didn't drag my team down we won k! I was also a zombie who liked hiding at high secluded spots to "smoke" humans.

The day I learnt Texas Holdem.. :>

After a haircut. No difference I know haha. But haircuts make me feel good. And I'm going back again next week to do other tweaks. :>

Happy December!

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel as if I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."

2010-11-28T02:22:00.004+08:00

— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

Didn't go for Asobi Seksu @ Zouk tonight... Anyway it's not something new. This year I already missed out on MANYY performances due to busy schedules and stuff. :< And for missing out on PLACEBO in March (above all), I could really use a razor blade.... :'''( Not that it IS my favourite, but Placebo was what I used to listen a lot to when I was 17-18 ? The concert could have teleported me back to good old teenhood days. That's really priceless right.. And the fact that "stuff like that" has happened about 12-15 times over the past 2 years.. Welllllll that really speaks a lot about what I'm feeling now. TT.TT

Bois de rose

2010-11-23T21:35:00.001+08:00

Pics above grabbed from Mercy.

Some of my BMW-M colleagues! :) I had fun talking to car cleaner, security guards, toilet auntie, chef, bmw asia managing directors, chatty kids, agents, photographers, friends I bumped into, different types of customers, and etc etc..that whole week! Thanks Mer <3

Dragged by my friend halfway during work to go inside chanel vip room and watched her change. HAHA nolah. There's a nice couch and TV as well.

Birthday babies.

dentist's visit with mommy. big bag of laura mercier izu essentials. tiny seasonal number. ct scan. udon. new passport. air tickets. canele. rainy rainy day.

2010-11-22T02:02:00.002+08:00

I'm on the bed typing this with my blackberry because I can't think of a better place for all these bad stuff on my mind to go. Absolutely down tonight with thoughts of putting braces all over again. Not mentioning the op I have in 2 days' time which is most likely considered as invasive with all the cutting and bleeding.. (I'm nt sick) but surprisingly, it doesn't sound daunting at all. Braces, yes. Yes.

Travel south until your skin turns warmer

2010-11-17T00:39:00.026+08:00

Morning news

2010-11-15T11:17:00.001+08:00

ok HIIII I miss you guys!!! I have been so indescribably busy lately! Because of all the screwed up waking hours, my biological clock is now fixed I supposed; I woke at 9.30am today instead of the usual 1pm...... Or was it just my tight bladder? No idea! Anyway I'm thankful to learn so much and still get paid for it.

By the way, this photoblog is here because I h8 uploading photos to facebook (unless I get requests). I've been hearing from my sis that all I ever write here is JUNK. Haha this girl knows me. Feelings have feet you know, if you talk tooo much about them, they run away.

And can I tell people I used to be from a SAP school next time?? Nah jk ;p Cos my alma mater, Nan Chiau High School, is going to be classified as a SAP school from Year 2012 onwards! This is a joyous thing right!! Thinking about it, I do miss school a lot.

Fox in the snow, where do you go to find something you could eat

2010-11-07T04:06:00.001+08:00

Pea offered to help me put on the necklace but the clasp came off instead. Haha most memorable gift!! Like! <3

Many H&M goodies from Spain!! :D

My pics are piling up again and I don't like it one bit. That's why I'm still up at this hour trying to clear half of my stash. Doesn't help when I'm already having a sleep deficit.. Ok goodnighttt got shopping to do tmr :>

Surrendering

2010-11-01T00:55:00.001+08:00

From HH's Yashica toybox camera

October ended 1 hr ago and to conclude it has been one kind of an awesomeee. I got to blow so many birthday candles and made so many greedy wishes this year (1 last one on coming wed)! :> Besides, the people I love are all so HAPPY and WELL-FED which is primarily why I've been using the word "happy" so often lately!! A giddy kind of happiness that makes one retch fireworks... And I've got the word "tired" around my eyes only because I'm having too much fun.

X,
Val

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'"

2010-10-21T23:58:00.006+08:00

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is of rare occurrence that I sleep without hugging my hedgehog. My parents also love resting their heads on it so it got kinda distorted sadly-speaking. I really want to go Japan again and get one more.. No I think two.

At Joreen's crib for mahjong again! I officially know how to play mahjong.. The FIRST winning tai of my life!! :> Also, the ONLY instance of "beginner's luck" I could provide with that night.

Didi decided to facetime me because his gf went for a toiletbreak halfway during a phonecall.. For that record, he was so lazy to find me in the next room. (My itouch's name is Bollywood.)

I've finally found another place that serves runny yolks with runny whites!!! The fried chicken with dried chilli and colourful xiaolongbaos were goood too. We ordered 9 dishes in total!! :>

Big bang theory

2010-10-19T01:31:00.009+08:00

Look, I got a pre-birthday haircut the other day for good luck! Short hair is more me right?? Right I think so too. Actually I became sulky after cutting because it didn't turn out quite the way I wanted. Haha oh well.

Hmm and lately, I'm kind of uncomfortable with people I don't know asking me about my personal life at tumblr.. don't ask already aye? I don't plan to annoy people with my beat-around-the-bush answers. On contrary, I'll be so much happier to discuss about food, cartoons, films, literature, music! I'm guessing those are pretty much what I do like? :>
Btw check out my tumblr! I do post annoying shit there!

I talked too much didn't I
X,
val

Pink dinosaur

2010-10-15T16:20:00.006+08:00

I had a pretty owl cake from my family last year which I absolutely loved. This year, it's a DINO-FREAKING-SAUR! Most beautiful cake I've had so far. ♥

When you find that the ones you love are more often than not chirpy, sushis found almost everywhere, and your presents that just keep getting better, consider yourself a lucky girl!

But at this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sadness.

2010-10-15T01:19:00.004+08:00

I remember I was part of CPF working in the callcentre years back, and was newly transferred to handle the LIFE hotline which barely anyone heard of back then - which also explained the low call traffic - got so bored of doodling one day that I decided to surf government bodies' website plainly because many other pages were blocked. It was probably reach.gov.sg I think, where I first learnt news of her stroke and thus wrote a small note of my well wishes for her speedy recovery in a forum. Time flies as always. That was a few years back already. The best or only thing I remember about her as I was more attuned to MM Lee's political news in particular. But after reading the eulogy and watching those tv clips last week, I was inspired not mentioning how deeply amused and touched by her loving gesture of wiping MM Lee's forehead with a piece of paper, and wished we knew her a bit earlier. I'm keeping the eulogy by MM Lee for Mrs Lee undercut for personal reference. Beautifully written indeed.

Eulogy by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the funeral service of his wife, Mrs Lee Kuan Yew, Mandai Crematorium, October 6, 2010

Ancient peoples developed and ritualised mourning practices to express the shared grief of family and friends, and together show not fear or distaste for death, but respect for the dead one; and to give comfort to the living who will miss the deceased.
I recall the ritual mourning when my maternal grandmother died some 75 years ago.
For five nights the family would gather to sing her praises and wail and mourn at her departure, led by a practised professional mourner.
Such rituals are no longer observed. My family's sorrow is to be expressed in personal tributes to the matriarch of our family.
In October 2003 when she had her first stroke, we had a strong intimation of our mortality.
My wife and I have been together since 1947 for more than three quarters of our lives. My grief at her passing cannot be expressed in words. But today, when recounting our lives together, I would like to celebrate her life.
In our quiet moments, we would revisit our lives and times together. We had been most fortunate. At critical turning points in our lives, fortune favoured us.
As a young man with an interrupted education at Raffles College, and no steady job or profession, her parents did not look upon me as a desirable son-in-law.
But she had faith in me. We had committed ourselves to each other. I decided to leave for England in September 1946 to read law, leaving her to return to Raffles College to try to win one of the two Queen's Scholarships awarded yearly.
We knew that only one Singaporean would be awarded. I had the resources, and sailed for England, and hoped that she would join me after winning the Queen's Scholarship. If she did not win it, she would have to wait for me for three years.
In June the next year, 1947, she did win it. But the British colonial office could not get her a place in Cambridge.
Through Chief Clerk of Fitzwilliam, I discovered that my Censor at Fitzwilliam, W S Thatcher, was a good friend of the Mistress of Girton, Miss Butler.
He gave me a letter of introduction to the Mistress. She received me and I assured her that Choo would most likely take a "First", because she was the better student when we both were at Raffles College.
I had come up late by one term to Cambridge, yet passed my first year qualifying examination with a class 1. She studied Choo's academic record and decided to admit her in October that same year, 1947.
We have kept each other company ever since. We married privately in December 1947 at Stratford-upon-Avon. At Cambridge, we both put in our best efforts.
She took a first in two years in Law Tripos II. I took a double first, and a starred first for the finals, but in three years. We did not disappoint our tutors.
Our Cambridge Firsts gave us a good start in life. Returning to Singapore, we both were taken on as legal assistants in Laycock & Ong, a thriving law firm in Malacca Street.
Then we married officially a second time that September 1950 to please our parents and friends. She practised conveyancing and draftsmanship, I did litigation.
In February 1952, our first son Hsien Loong was born. She took maternity leave for a year.
That February, I was asked by John Laycock, the Senior Partner, to take up the case of the Postal and Telecommunications Uniformed Staff Union, the postmen's union.
They were negotiating with the government for better terms and conditions of service. Negotiations were deadlocked and they decided to go on strike.

It was a battle for public support. I was able to put across the reasonableness of their case through the press and radio. After a fortnight, they won concessions from the government.
Choo, who was at home on maternity leave, pencilled through my draft statements, making them simple and clear.
Over the years, she influenced my writing style. Now I write in short sentences, in the active voice. We gradually influenced each other's ways and habits as we adjusted and accommodated each other.
We knew that we could not stay starry-eyed lovers all our lives; that life was an on-going challenge with new problems to resolve and manage.
We had two more children, Wei Ling in 1955 and Hsien Yang in 1957. She brought them up to be well-behaved, polite, considerate and never to throw their weight as the prime minister's children.
As a lawyer, she earned enough, to free me from worries about the future of our children.
She saw the price I paid for not having mastered Mandarin when I was young. We decided to send all three children to Chinese kindergarten and schools.
She made sure they learned English and Malay well at home. Her nurturing has equipped them for life in a multi-lingual region.
We never argued over the upbringing of our children, nor over financial matters. Our earnings and assets were jointly held. We were each other's confidant. She had simple pleasures. We would walk around the Istana gardens in the evening, and I hit golf balls to relax.
Later, when we had grandchildren, she would take them to feed the fish and the swans in the Istana ponds.
Then we would swim. She was interested in her surroundings, for instance, that many bird varieties were pushed out by mynahs and crows eating up the insects and vegetation.
She discovered the curator of the gardens had cleared wild grasses and swing fogged for mosquitoes, killing off insects they fed on.
She stopped this and the bird varieties returned. She surrounded the swimming pool with free flowering scented flowers and derived great pleasure smelling them as she swam.
She knew each flower by its popular and botanical names. She had an enormous capacity for words.
She had majored in English literature at Raffles College and was a voracious reader, from Jane Austen to JRR Tolkien, from Thucydides' "The Peloponnesian Wars" to Virgil's "Aeneid", to "The Oxford Companion to Food, and Seafood of Southeast Asia", to "Roadside Trees of Malaya", and Birds of Singapore".

She helped me draft the Constitution of the PAP. For the inaugural meeting at Victoria Memorial Hall on 4 November 1954, she gathered the wives of the founder members to sew rosettes for those who were going on stage.
In my first election for Tanjong Pagar, our home in Oxley Road, became the HQ to assign cars provided by my supporters to ferry voters to the polling booth.
She warned me that I could not trust my new found associates, the left-wing trade unionists led by Lim Chin Siong.

She was furious that he never sent their high school student helpers to canvass for me in Tanjong Pagar, yet demanded the use of cars provided by my supporters to ferry my Tanjong Pagar voters.
She had an uncanny ability to read the character of a person. She would sometimes warn me to be careful of certain persons; often, she turned out to be right.
When we were about to join Malaysia, she told me that we would not succeed because the UMNO Malay leaders had such different lifestyles and because their politics were communally-based, on race and religion.
I replied that we had to make it work as there was no better choice. But she was right. We were asked to leave Malaysia before two years.
When separation was imminent, Eddie Barker, as Law Minister, drew up the draft legislation for the separation.
But he did not include an undertaking by the Federation Government to guarantee the observance of the two water agreements between the PUB and the Johor state government.
I asked Choo to include this. She drafted the undertaking as part of the constitutional amendment of the Federation of Malaysia Constitution itself. She was precise and meticulous in her choice of words.
The amendment statute was annexed to the Separation Agreement, which we then registered with the United Nations.
The then Commonwealth Secretary Arthur Bottomley said that if other federations were to separate, he hoped they would do it as professionally as Singapore and Malaysia.
It was a compliment to Eddie's and Choo's professional skills. Each time Malaysian Malay leaders threatened to cut off our water supply, I was reassured that this clear and solemn international undertaking by the Malaysian government in its Constitution will get us a ruling by the UNSC (United Nations Security Council).

After her first stroke, she lost her left field of vision. This slowed down her reading. She learned to cope, reading with the help of a ruler. She swam every evening and kept fit. She continued to travel with me, and stayed active despite the stroke.
She stayed in touch with her family and old friends. She listened to her collection of CDs, mostly classical, plus some golden oldies. She jocularly divided her life into "before stroke" and "after stroke", like BC and AD.
She was friendly and considerate to all associated with her. She would banter with her WSOs (woman security officers) and correct their English grammar and pronunciation in a friendly and cheerful way.

Her former WSOs visited her when she was at NNI. I thank them all.
Her second stroke on 12 May 2008 was more disabling. I encouraged and cheered her on, helped by a magnificent team of doctors, surgeons, therapists and nurses.
Her nurses, WSOs and maids all grew fond of her because she was warm and considerate. When she coughed, she would take her small pillow to cover her mouth because she worried for them and did not want to infect them.
Her mind remained clear but her voice became weaker. When I kissed her on her cheek, she told me not to come too close to her in case I caught her pneumonia.
I assured her that the doctors did not think that was likely because I was active. When given some peaches in hospital, she asked the maid to take one home for my lunch. I was at the centre of her life.
On June 24, 2008, a CT scan revealed another bleed again on the right side of her brain. There was not much more that medicine or surgery could do except to keep her comfortable.
I brought her home on July 3, 2008. The doctors expected her to last a few weeks. She lived till October 2, 2 years and 3 months.
She remained lucid. They gave time for me and my children to come to terms with the inevitable.
In the final few months, her faculties declined. She could not speak but her cognition remained. She looked forward to have me talk to her every evening.
Her last wish she shared with me was to enjoin our children to have our ashes placed together, as we were in life.
The last two years of her life were the most difficult. She was bed-ridden after small successive strokes; she could not speak but she was still cognisant.
Every night she would wait for me to sit by her to tell her of my day's activities and to read her favourite poems.
Then she would sleep.
I have precious memories of our 63 years together. Without her, I would be a different man, with a different life. She devoted herself to me and our children. She was always there when I needed her. She has lived a life full of warmth and meaning.
I should find solace at her 89 years of her life well lived. But at this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sadness.

You are the lucky one

2010-10-12T15:15:00.004+08:00

I know I have to do this before those pics pile up up up... And wait, I'm not even half done here!

The day before this I had a BBQ as well..

Mascarpone cheese!

Ang mo kio is a nice neighbourhood don't mind shifting there.

Lights will lead you home.

October skies are city lights

2010-10-04T03:48:00.007+08:00

This pic does not belong to me. So cute, I was like awwwww. Then 10 seconds later, it got kind of freaky...

Is that one line between 'appreciating your friend' and 'bullying your friend' so outrageously negligible? Niceness doesn't equate a free pass entry to piss anywhere you like countless of times ok? Some clearly need to find out where that line lies. I've never met someone such a fat ego and the worst EQ ever imagined, ever ever.

Moving on.. October is going to be perfect!! I'm a Libran and this is my month! Everything is a plain kind of good. And November will be life-changing, for those who know about my secret..
The months ending with -ber are more often than not the best. :) Did I mention Yoga is fun? I have difficulty memorising Suryanamaskar tho.

Have a good day!
X, val

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

2010-09-27T02:07:00.000+08:00

— Chuck Palahniuk

I just want to say.. I like Hatha Yoga.

Asobi seksu

2010-09-24T15:12:00.011+08:00

Do you know? The name on both my IC and driving license has 7 words, a comma and 2 brackets. I'm thinking since I have 2, I'm now "chen" on BBM (and bbm only). For a change. Well just because, I've nothing better to do.

I'm back on Twitter after deleting it twice. The skies are grey and gloomy now but I've always find that really comfortable! :) painting nails in just abit.. Have a good weekend!

Cosmos

2010-09-21T04:13:00.008+08:00

Quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

After three quarters of a year and a strong gut feel, I can safely say that 2010 is indeed one of the most rewarding years I've had thus far. Yes, I said that despite the unbearable times I've been through! Despite not having the courage to look at the girl in the mirror for days on end. Despite despite.. And eventually, thankful for all that has actually happened and whom I have become. Remember things get worse before they get better ok? And most importantly, treasure the people who feel like warm coffee. It has all been good, now let's just wait for 2011. Many many plans! Gunna be legendary! ♥

Believe it, those who matter do not mind

2010-09-17T03:43:00.000+08:00

First bowling experience. Grumpy because on all my first 12 tries, it was always the gutter!

Not planned. Presenting navyblues.

Happy birthday Mercy!

Go rest now

2010-09-15T01:26:00.004+08:00

Months ago from all over the place.

Now and then

2010-09-10T04:13:00.000+08:00

Mintgreen nails fleeting across the keys of my Macbook Pro. And waiting (not very patiently) for the newly released iTouch and Lumix5 to rest on my hands.. September is techmonth I like!

Felt bad lately that I'm going to miss out on Avalon at Large Presents Go! with my friends. Because of all the fun I could have duh! Think Steve Aoki, Santigold, Above & Beyond and more... But a girl gotta do what a girl gotta do. Still realllyyyy thankful to Daphy for the attractive offer!! :>

Malacca, 2010

2010-09-08T03:04:00.009+08:00

4 hours to and 4 hours fro.

Nonya laska, strawberry cheesecake, oneh oneh, grapes coated with hard candy, kwayteow soup, A&W, KFC, McDonald's, fruit juice, nitpicking ants in ice tea, martell + ice cream soda = combo hit, peanuts, cendol, dandyrandy donut........ That's all I can remember for now!

He really looks like Woody himself! Even without all that jazz!

"It is pathetic how Shandy costs only 3 dollars. And 3 dollars nevermind.. Still Ringgit!!"

Pictures copped from Yingjie & Peiyong.

"I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe."

2010-09-07T00:18:00.002+08:00

— Shana Ab

Irreplaceable

2010-08-31T02:07:00.017+08:00

I'm in love with black again, say, after 5 years.
Meet my new pet, Snakie! A name I came up with just a few seconds ago. :D I do like the convenience of calling a dog Doggie and voldemort Voldy. Well I'm glad I found something to replace the old one (same but fatter-looking snakering) I have had for years. Don't even know where I lost it. Pffft I should have searched more, things could be different. Almost always think so.

Bye university of london

2010-08-27T02:25:00.010+08:00

Got my results and it's safe to say that I'm a graduate now!! (convocation at SIM next year)

I thought I'd do badly this year but I proved myself wrong! :D Could have done better..but if there's anything I have learnt and believe, it is "never regret anything that has happened in your life!"

Because I have grown so much as a person this year, I do like whom I have become. :) And my friends, all of you are angels.

Ok 'nuff said. Here's a few pictures of my uni days! Now I feel abit emonemo haha.

Miss Tan

2010-08-24T02:38:00.004+08:00

I'm Chen Lao Shi today! Since I'm not entering the workforce so soon, I got myself a part-time tutoring job! My tutee is docile and attentive and I thank god for that, because hyperactive kids make people short of breath. And I know I can get short of breath easily since I haven't been following up on my swimming regime. Who wants to go swimming with me??

Oh, and my friends are very very kind people - they worry that my kiddo will end up failing his subjects now that he is under my care. -_- They just don't know xiang dang nian, my PSLE score was A A A A*. Impressive much?? Hahaha.. Ok actually I do worry that he will end up in EM3 because of me. Bless this kid.

Edit to add: I just found out that the streaming system has been abolished! Talk about stale news and how up-dated I am..

Better pictures when I have a new cam.... Can't wait!

If I were a boy

2010-08-22T01:58:00.002+08:00

I would be many boys.

Berry miscellaneous

2010-08-19T02:24:00.004+08:00

Not very recent pics except for a few.
All my packages from the States have arrived. I'm Cinderella's stepsis because the shoes doesn't quite fit.
Well I sure am going to make sure they do. :) With ways yet known..

"The middle one."
"Which one?"
"The middle one."
"Huh? Which one??"
This is how I always order my favourite dessert because I have no idea what it is called, and the aunties don't quite understand me. Waiiii.
It has barley in it; it's sweet; and has funny things that look like taukee, but definitely not taukee I am sure.

We’re just warming up

2010-08-15T23:11:00.011+08:00

Hi. Today I had really terrible menses cramps that made me break out in cold sweat. I think I need to go to a chinese physician to see if anything helps. Maybe they will prescribe me some powdered chinese herbs and I like the smell and taste of it. I hate the smell of antibiotics syrup since young and I have no idea why some sweets or drinks taste like it.

Anyway got nice bedding collections from kingkoil and cannon, and since I'm pretty particular about threadcount number, colour and design, it was hard to choose. THEN I saw one quilt which made me fall in love instantly - it's champagne-coloured with a silk touch - I think it can wrap people up nicely and make them sleep like a baby. But mommy rejected me because it was too pricey. Yea so I was a sad girl but I know that the quilt knows I'll be back.

Got the 1st curler in my life! And a haircut taking 2 inches off the ends and an imperfectly straight fringe. I was sporting my fresh haircut then this well-fed kid walked past, looked at me and said in an almost sneering manner, "Another one. BANGS!" Then his fellas looked so happy and gave the check-out-that-loser (who-happened-to-be-me) look. o.o

I was thinking busybody is it?? But kids going around spotting girls with bangs when their moms are shopping.. That made me smiled.

Edit to add: Omg I posted this at 11:11pm. Time to make a wish? Nope because I don't believe in it. Haha

Funny

2010-08-11T01:01:00.003+08:00

Because I actually have a folder where I keep funny collectibles. :>

生日快乐

2010-08-09T22:53:00.002+08:00

Can spot our flag? B&S even played a birthday song for our motherland.

To summarise: a hilarious band and a wayyy perfect setlist. Also have zilch idea why I ended up having 140 snaps of pretty much the same thing.. o.o

And last but not least...

45岁生日快乐, Singapore!

(Haha I know I've cheated. They are pics from 2009.)

(And I wanna go again next year!)

Another sunny day

2010-08-05T21:06:00.000+08:00

1. Survivor's funniest line: "At the makeup mirror of the woman I work for, I put her mascara up inside each nostril until my nose hair looks thick and full." Branson so coool.
Also, my sissy went to collect the tickets already! Setlist might be something like 2 new songs, 1 cover and the rest from all over. "Tigermilk" is their debut album. My url is not something related to any tigress's breastmilk... nothing like the literal sense. :D Or maybe it could be.

2. Some movies to watch before August ends. I've to do this to remind myself. According to the list in my handybook, I have 25 other titles to watch/re-watch. Will do something about it before it gets too overwhelming with several other lists biding my time too.

My weekend will be good. Have a good one too. :)
X

Fastest fingers shall lose

2010-08-04T00:31:00.000+08:00

Today I feel like shooting myself. Tuck a pistol under my chin and just pull the trigger.. NOT. (Haha I love myself.) IF I WASN'T such a kiasu worrywart, I could have saved $50 shipping fees by combining my order with a spree to have it shipped free. It's like placing my 50-dollar bill at the tip of a lighter flame, and watch it burn helplessly... @#%!#^%
WHY WAS I SO KIASU?? (I shall answer myself: Because on a few accounts, that shoemodel got sold out just hours after release. I didn't know they brought in more stocks this time round.)

As said, the doctor wants me to stay at home for 2 weeks, and I'm so glad it's ending in a couple of days! I have not left my house for freaking 2 weeks, which I strangely kind of enjoy. And because of that I did online shopping - which translates into a damage of approximately $500. Whoever said you can save by not going out, probably lied.

I'm still mad at myself, as it's not the first time I do things like these.. 50 bucks = 20 Beardpapa creampuffs. AND I LOVE CREAMPUFFS BY THE WAY??? ;''(

This is the new url

2010-08-02T23:52:00.000+08:00

My sissy's the fatty who willed me to change to a new url.. Does the old url really sound juvenile? o.O
Ok maybe so.. I was just 17 when I had it.

Currently: ~~talkisfreee~~ tgrmlk :)

The funny little frog in my throat

2010-07-31T09:34:00.000+08:00

I have been missing these badly: beef (and raw beef), salmon (and raw salmon), sushi, crab, escargots, prawns, grouper cod seabass, grilled scallops, kwaychap with pork belly...... etc etc.
When this ends, I plan to stuff all of them in my mouth.. one by one. They are like the first few things that come to my mind when I wake up in the morning, as well as the last few things I ever think of before I sleep.
This will end pretty soon, right? :<

Dream a little dream

2010-07-29T00:38:00.000+08:00

Googled "how to make a towel sheep" after a bath one day and.. Voila! Lamegirl88 during holidays whut haha..
Also posting this so that my friends won't miss me so much!
Thanks for the calls and texts - I'm feeling fine really. :>

I was trembling so hard in the room all the nurses would have known.. Rather embarrassing, if you'd ask.

The guy who administered me the sedatives (not my doctor) poked needles on me 2 rounds before he managed to find my vein. ~.~

He lied, "Don't worry, I've not given you anything. Do you drink often?"

"No. But I can hold my liquor pretty well," I replied.

"Really? So what do you drink?"

.......... I can only remember my last words to him were "with mixer", before everything slipped off into darkness.
When I woke up, I saw the clock on the wall and my mom.
My first words to her: "Ma I dreamt that I went to shop for bags."
And my Dad thought that was pretty impressive.

The day we saw octo-paul and didn't win toto

2010-07-25T20:51:00.000+08:00

EPIC MOMENT IN MY LIFE! I managed to cycle for 10metres on my own before "falling"!!! Still, verrrryyyyy happy as I believe I will be able to cycle on my own one day?? :D

Doudou! <3

ECP cycling with Uni math class peepur. :)
And so, had to miss out on a CCA gathering.. Wanna catch up with them qt badly tho :<
Also the day I bumped into quite a few Nanchiau schoolmates at say 3 different places!

Oak

2010-07-24T02:53:00.000+08:00

Some pictures I like.. Copped from friends.

"I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, 'What truly is logic? Who decides reason?' My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional -- and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you (his wife, Alicia). You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons."

2010-07-23T03:04:00.002+08:00

— John Nash, A Beautiful Mind

If chocolates were choices..

2010-07-23T02:54:00.000+08:00

"Should I keep my long hair OR go short?"
When I had short hair, I blamed myself for snipping the tresses off. Had waited a year for it to grow to what it is now.
Now that I have long hair, I miss my easy breezy short hair. I've always believed that short hair is very me, but I like the versatility of long hair too ~.~

"Should I go ahead with wakeboarding, swimming and canoeing OR protect the skin?"
I'm really dying to do some outdoor sports.
Although soooo many of my friends will think that it's so unbelievable, because they think I either "melt under the sun" or get really whiny haha. I don't want to look burnt but I wanna canoe again.

The discordant voices in my head that are constantly speaking to me. Vanish purrlease.

Pen vs S90

2010-07-21T02:49:00.000+08:00

Don't have the habit of writing about buys/dilemmas BUT this one really really got me.
I'm not someone into photography - I honestly know nut-thing about it.
(Have owned 2 Sony digicams.. They were brilliant when they were new, but as years passed, the lens deteriorated on its own! And suck, basically.)
I kinda want Pen more because black is so boring. But Canon has better specs?

IDK something to ponder on till next IT fair!

Burn brightly, explode and turn to dust

2010-07-18T02:50:00.000+08:00

I lost my ring!! Again! It's just 2 days old... A sad premature death.

I'm also kinda upset that Your Hand In Mine has officially come to an end. Don't judge that show if you have not watch it! It made me learn, cry and laugh a lot the past few months. :>

I've also been catching up on How I Met Your Mother and Full House (mommy bought it recently).

Only interested in funny stuff what.

Something killjoy.. My doc wants me to stay caged at home for 2 weeks some time soon.
If you think 2 is 2, you're sOoOo wrong. 2 is half a month = 336 hours = 20160 bloody minutes of my life.
I'm not exactly afraid of the surgical knives. But I sure am scared of entering a sedated state!
Anyway I plan to buy lots of chips to camp in front of TV those 2 wks. :)

I was so addicted I had to use mommy's mobiletv app in the car.

My sissy.

When night becomes the morn

2010-07-12T01:24:00.000+08:00

Picked out a few pics for a quick one!

HH brought me to a hawker to have famous ice kachang some wks ago. I always share ice kachang yknow, not this time.. And HH thinks I eat too slow. They melt before I could even finish.

Simon & Garfunkel... Like music right.

Di Gua!!!! I like it a lot. From Ding Tai Fung. Yum.

Hehhehe my sis thinks I shouldn't laugh at people's names but... THIS SO CUTE. I want her to be my friend so I can ring her up and ask, "Hey Bee Hoon, wanna meet for beehoon??"

This is a GIGANTIC BABY my aunt's carrying (not his mother). 6 months old and he is bigger than his brother. So heavy you will shit bricks. I like his round shiny head!

Sundays.

God's gift

2010-07-09T01:42:00.000+08:00

I'm standing under the keekass rainbow. Spot me! That is the biggest rainbow I have ever seen.. Right in my face!
We have stepped as far back (stupid glass) as we possibly could, just couldn't fit the whole rainbow in one pic.
One perfect arc of a semi-circle!!! and Huge!

Photobooth

2010-07-05T01:41:00.000+08:00

I haven't spam in a loooong time :p allow me. And KOI... hmm I like it that the pearls are tinier but it's way too sweet..
Always ask for 50%. For me at least. Not a favourite drink, not a fan.
Because Imma forever fan of SMOKED SALMON, RAW SALMON, GRILLED SALMON, HOT CRABS, COLD CRABS, ESCARGOTS, PRAWNS
Hungry already. Never talk too much about out-of-reach food at midnight. It's sad.

Bye :)

Polka baby

2010-07-04T01:35:00.000+08:00

At Kaylene's 1st birthday party! 2 wks ago.

She's a real quiet girl but if you play her Wonder Girls' Nobody, she starts her own boogiewoogie!

Sucha sweetie. :) That day, my aunt asked if I wanted a second serving of cake. I said Yes.

Then the relatives around laughed... like it's funny to have a second serving? ~.~ Wut even, they don't understand cakes.

She then asked me to choose an icing color. I replied, Haha anything will do actually.

So she gave me one with the blue icing.

Then I spent the rest of the night with purplish lips and tongue. I didn't even want to take pictures.. That was the closest ever I got to the Goth side. I horrified myself.

So I have learnt, say no to cakes with blue icing!

Ready for the world

2010-06-30T00:41:00.000+08:00

Hiiiiii! I'm in an especially good mood today because I completed my resume! Finally! I had one but lost it when I reformatted my com a month back. Ughhh compiling a resume is hard stuff. I had to think of how to promote myself as someone who has the qualities of "employee of the year" when in actual fact, if I could write it honestly, I would include "possess good ability to skive whenever possible" =9 You know like COAST CLEAR! QUICK, SKIVE! Used to do a lot of that while working at CPF. Like sneak-reading under the desk... Once, the supervisor caught me and said, 'I didn't hire you to read.' Got stumped. So I doodled alot and noone knew because there's nothing wrong with holding a pen.

I'm in a good mood also because I'm guilt-free now - because I actually AM looking for a job. Just sent 1 to a banking firm? Yep just 1 for tonight. Will send 1 more a month later..

Edit to add: The firm isn't going to call me up. I just realised I forgot to attach my resume 1 hour after emailing 'Hi attached is my resume'. Nobody gna hire a squid like that.

Happy birthday!

2010-06-28T00:46:00.000+08:00

I'm the one with a hat! My sister is so extra. LOL at her volleyball face.

Photo from 2007: Haha we not emo we were cutting cake

Many many many x's and o's and love to my only papa in the whole wide world!! :)

Papa and mama when added up together gives A CENTURY!! Like century-century you know... Not century like century egg! (What's wrong with me!?)

And it's warm woolly feeling to see them folks in love. You really need discernible eyes to tell that they are in love when they look like they are not in love. I have those discernible eyes, me think. Haha.

/ I have soooo many photos I wanna share with my friends. They were taken on days I actually bothered to bring the camera out! And some in the bb. And some with some other people. Alright imma just going to chill..

2010-06-26T01:36:00.000+08:00

Really? It has been a year since Michael Jackson passed away. Time flies..

Guilt-tripping

2010-06-25T01:25:00.000+08:00

My holidays have been nothing but a guilty pleasure. Almost every friend popped me the million dollar question already, "When are you getting a job??" It feels like I should stop playing everyday.. But would it still be considered badly-utilised time if one actually enjoyed all moments? Just a food for thought.

Most days I'm out to roll...but there's also 1 or 2 days I stayed in to spend the entire evening watching "How I Met Your Mother". Hehe they make my jaws hurt in a cute kind of way. I sure love Ted and Marshall!! *steaksauce*

And I need new glasses to watch TV with. I sat on my specs the other time and the lens actually came off the frame. I fixed them but they might die on me any moment.

Tried Soup Soon for the first time and I'm in love with Simon & Garfunkel Chicken and Mushroom Ragout. SO good.

And then I

2010-06-23T17:05:00.000+08:00

Hmm guess what? I couldn't wait I bought the CAT2 tickets $120 each. Concession tickets are $40 each... Mine is like triple, plus I'm going to sit quite far away... plus their faces will be tiny like jellybeans...
Oh well, it will be worth it. They will be performing their newest album...it will be good!

Great morning news

2010-06-23T01:55:00.000+08:00

Belle & Sebastian HELLYEAH! The day I’ve waited for is finally here. Have always told people HOW MUCH I wanted to hear them LIVE. And they are finally coming Singapore! I just kept going “oh my god” x3 after reading it on last.fm. IM A HAPPYCAMPER TODAY :) :) :)

That was what I wrote at tumblr the other day. I didn't buy it at the 1st day it was released because I was supposed to go Bangkok with my dad that day SO I didn't get them. Now my dad seems a little undecided due to workload and I think I shouldn't wait for him to pull out on me... so I REALLY WANT SOMEONE TO SELL ME 2 BELLE&SEB TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (CAT1-2 are standing ones and $$$crazilyhiked$$ I don't want!)
I don't mind paying a little extra for CAT3-6. Anybody? shimmyshoe@hotmail.com

Legos

2010-06-23T00:29:00.000+08:00

Hahahaha what can I say at the above picture, WORD. My siblings and I used to have heaps of legobricks. I liked building houses and some other crap, liked to "manhandle" the legopeople around, pretend I were them and talked to myself in a funny voice. Not ventriloquist-type. I HATE ventriloquists x 5.

Legos must have been my favourite childhood toy. Barbie unlikely... she was a total nightmare - someone snipped off her hair. Not PollyPocket either.. not very fun. Maybe Pound Puppies and Cabbage Patch Kids too.. Ok can't think already. My head hurts from the weird avocado milkshake with gulamelaka. Brb healing......

Toy Story 3

2010-06-21T02:29:00.000+08:00

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE BUZZ ON HOT SPANISH MODE?? WOOODY FTW TOO.
I'm a happycamper after watching TS3. Apart from peppering everyone with laughs throughout the whole movie, I must say there were 2 scenes that were sobfests for me and my sis, and everybody?? I mean I knew the script couldn't have want them to be incinerated to death but man, the moment they started clutching each other’s hands when words became superfluous.. That was phoaaaa. The other scene was when Andy gave them away.
Toy Story taught me how to love my toys. I promise I’ll be good to Barley! I mean who knows, maybe Barley plays at night too... (He looks like Mr Pricklepants)
Anyway we went Pixar Exhibition 2 weeks ago... If you ask me, it's like shredding our 50 bucks if there isn't a Toy Story Zoetrope, which was pretty much the coolest thing ever.

I look pretty here.

I was really petrified. It was supposed to churn out electric shocks..but it turned out mild. Oh, and about 10-15 pairs of eyes were staring at me when I played this stupid $1 game.

Pictures below were taken on stealth mode (risked our lives) - we weren't supposed to take pictures. Might post a videoclip of the zoetrope some day too!

To sir with love

2010-06-20T16:57:00.000+08:00

I was told.. When I was an infant, I had a really really high fever that if it was any hotter, I would have died. (I also think I burnt a brainnerve, that's why my friends call me 笨笨.) Mama and Papa teared as nurses poured icy cold water on me. He imagined it must have been great pain if a tiny body could scream so loud. I was just 2months old; my dad barely knew me back then but I believe his love has always been selfless. The undivided attention for the firstborn split when my Mama said another two more times, “Honey I think I’m preggers!”

He is someone who waltzes with me to some random music, pinched my chin just to ask me if I know I’m his baobei, and hugs me when I’m down. Always inculcate the belief that the BEST things in life AREN’T things. (I still love my clothes and shoes tho) Scold us when he sees our cramped wardrobe. Amuse us with his quirky dance moves. I couldn’t have listed all how they had always been there for us each time. The language is perhaps inadequate to cover the breadth of our gratitude and love. Yes sometimes we express it by talking back and fakesleeping... but boy, we do regret it as soon as we did it.
Couldn't have exist if the romantic honeymoon night in Japan didn’t. That’s why I can safely say, without them I WILL be nothing. ♥

Chinese new year 2010, Bangkok

2010-06-19T12:22:00.000+08:00

Way overdue pictures I know!

Funny mathematics

2010-06-19T01:27:00.000+08:00

I went through my bookmarks and found this again! Math is cOoOolness.

Dead hearts

2010-06-17T15:58:00.000+08:00

Today my watch stopped working after 4years! It kinda freaked me out for a second when it reads 7pm in the noon, "Gawd why is the sun still there!!!??? ....Oh my watch died."
I'm going to wear it out today anyway, not because it's the only watch..but for matching the outfit.
I have to remember to 'resurrect' the dead watch too!

One

2010-06-12T16:54:00.000+08:00

Found an old pic!

Hi I'm back to Blogspot! Tumblr's too weird to be personal, Livejournal's lovely but so 2005 for me. Not exactly a detailed account of my life here, tho I figured I'd like to junkwrite and post 1 or 2 pictures of my furry squeeshie, sashimi 刺し, my pretty shoes..from time to time. X