I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE THIS NICE LONELY BLOG AN ONLINE SCHEDULER FOR MYSELF!

I BET NO ONE VISITS THIS BLOG LE so WHEEPEES!

Well, it doesnt really matter if anyone sees it anyway. i mean, its only my schedule. what is so fascinating abt it.

haha. :X

Ang Mo Kio...Mt. Alvernia Hospital...
currently am on a tragically long journey to SIM to meet Angela, with Gwen Stefani's "Hollerback Girl" blasting around me.
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Finally...the expressway. Have 20 minutes before i am officially late. Hope Angela will be later than me then. *snigger* haha. it will probably take an hour for me to crawl over that overhead bridge later, with my current energy level at an all time low. Can energy levels be negative? cos i only recall change in energy can be negative.

How i wish i was some virtual character on "restaurant city" - as and when my energy level hits 0%, i just collapse on the floor and raise a signboard saying "I NEED REST!"

Those spoilt things...

in any case, if my life ever should come to a halt whenever my energy level is 0%, I'd probably be mistaken for the road and get trampled or driven over. lol. so fortunately or unfortunately, life for me still goes on..

anw, after lunch with Angela, we will be gg to check out the CCA tee shirts..*checking again if i got the deposit ready*...$225...so expensive. after looking at the shirts, still need to go marketing with angela for tomorrow's steamboat...meaning more cash. haiz..

i think it is an absolute joke that the person who asked for the steamboat is not coming. haha. cos it is against his time policy to travel across singapore for a 4 hr event. Didnt bother telling him we arent in America and travelling from wherever he is, be it boon lay, is not Las Vegas to New York. It is Toa Payoh.

On the other hand, if you really wish to meet up, you would come no matter how far, isnt it? especiall since you requested it? out of courtesy? am i have a wrong mentality?

oh...Ngee Ann Poly...haha i managed to distract myself long enough. weets!

Time check : 1255pm. EARLY!

must climb overhead bridge faster...go!... Go!... GO!...

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1:24pm:
sitting in food court alone...Angela is LATE! lol.

I am soooo glad its 5 days away from my trip to Korea with grace. omg. i really am looking forward for this trip - to get outta here and keep my sanity.

just found out from my mum that our plane is scheduled to leave for Incheon at 830pm. yesh! i have time for last minute packing. and if i were to sleep late the previous nite and wake up at say, around noon, i will be able to keep awake the entire 6 hrs on the plane chionging movies. hahaha. will be sitting korean plane so hopefully its safe and the movies will have english or chinese ones.

have already planned my activities on the plane. hahha cos i am determined not to squeeze with everyone when the plane touch down for the airport toilets to wash up. so by 3am, i will wash up using the plane's toilet. and settle for touch down at 605am. although i do wonder if my eyes will burst if i put on my contacts after an entire night of movies chionging.

oh wells, i will have to put my contacts only in the air plane toilets cos THE PLANE WILL NOT ALLOW LIQUID WITH MORE THAN 100 ml ON BOARD. i wonder if anyone will actually think that the amount of liquid is useful for any purpose other than sufficient for your hamster to drink.

anw, hopefully i will be able to drag grace to wash up as well. but somehow i have sickening hunch that i will fall asleep this time on the plane. something that haven occurred to me yet. hmms..

have been researching for a complete set of places i wanna go whenever the tour lets me off its hook. am compiling it and am very excited for it. on top of that, i finally bought my Canon Ixus 100IS ... FINALLY! its the red one and thanks to my cousin's aid. i think his lifespan just shortened by explaining to me all those IT stuff to me. LOL. but THANKS GOR! love you! owe you one...hahha i think more than one actually.

grace is learning the basic korean language, and i am learning its culture and whereabouts. hopefully, together we will make a great team! hahaha

okies. turning in now. very tired. didnt do any research tonight cos someone spoilt my mood. =.=

nites!

i didnt know restaurant city can be so unbelievably addictive. turning on the applet just to watch cartoon characters walk in and out of my shop from 11pm - 219am in the morning indicates something quite disturbing about my intelligence level. and something else about my priority skills cos i have tuition at 10am the next morning.

=.=

the weather is soooooo hot! i am gonna bathe after this entry.
anw, i decided not to write anything abt Yan Da's 21st bday celebration. hahah but i have added a new link amongst all my photo albums. it has all the pictures i snapped from his 21st Bday party! so if you guys are interested to just nose arnd (haha!), go check it out! :

its under the category: Shopping List :)

those who wants the photos, let me know on msn.

ta ta...off to hit the shower! weets

going for another eating gathering..haha. well, it means more pictures to be uploaded on Facebook and everything else. will prob upload tonight's photos along with the past two gatherings i had.
Anw, its Pot Luck Time. i realised i got so obsessed with cooking recently, i havent baked for a very very very long time. so i offered to bake cookies and brownies for this Pot Luck...and I FAILED BIG TIME IN THE KITCHEN! =(
my brownies turned out disastrous with burnt layers on top and UNCOOKED LAYERS at the bottom! omg. how is that even possible. i know the brownies' fragrance came out faster than usual although i set it to lower temp. and it smelled bitter after 3 mins more. but bimbotic me still went ahead to let it continue bake! why? cos i didnt see the brownie start to rise yet.
so when i finally tested my brownie with the toothpick and realised it is super cooked, i frantically took it out and saw 3/4 of it black on top. yucks.
feeling dismal, i laid the brownie on the table to cool first, as if hoping a miracle to happen. i thought, please let the brownie uncook a little by itself. and IT DID! in fact, it uncooked itself so much and so unevenly, that when i cut the brownie, the brownie was NOT EVEN HALF BAKED beneath the charcoaled layer! omg. ugh ugh
feeling upset, i went to my dad's room to complain and my dad looked at me and said "did you switch the oven such that the heat is heating up from both top and bottom and not top only? cos mummy switched the oven such that it only heats the top just the other day."

OMG.

So for the benefit of future bakers and myself, please take note that before you even start to bake, ensure the oven to set to the 3rd picture and NOT THE SECOND! whatever the first means...

Anw, my second batch of brownies is baking happily in the oven, set to the correct conditions now.

yes, feel happy for me.

as promised, i have been keeping the camera next to me, waiting for oppurtunities to snap. however, the past few outings seems to be mostly abt filling up the empty stomach and in plain terms - GORGING. oh food food, glorious food. hahaha so obviously i have been keeping the weighing machine away from me. after all, weight is nothing but a number..yes yes. *starts to chant* weight is nothing but a number...weight is nothing but a number...weight is nothing but a number...

anw, FIRST UP.

Outing with my JC clique. can you guess where we are? and who ordered the below 3 dishes? hint: only grace didnt come so you can match the names to the above 3 dishes.

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we were at.... MANHATTEN FISH MARKET at CLARKE QUAY. hahha tot that was a giveaway actually, esp. with that last picture.

i ate the first dish in the 1st pic...cheng en ate the 2nd one and adeline, xiuxuan, carine and cynthia ordered the seafood platter in the last picture. looks yummy rite? heh heh.

this is the first time i went to mahatten actually cos i always heard pple saying that it wasnt good. never believe anyone till you try it out yourself man...its awesome. grace was telling me perhaps people compared it to Fish & Co. and liked there better. my vote between these 2 restaurants is definitely Mahatten. =)

the rest of the photos werent very clear. i think my camera is lousy in dark places and xiu xuan insist we must smell the singapore river so we had to seat outside in the dark...with the river. hahaha.

NEXT UP!

DIM SUM Outing with my Secondary School mates at FARRER PARK.

i think for 7 pple, we ate quite a lot, considering this table is only filled with partially ordered food. haha. but the food was superb as well. not too saltish and more importantly, a great atmospher to bond with friends. almost all were wiped clean out from the plates so minimal food was wasted as well. good job! hahah *pats tummy*...i mean *pats stomach*

chua (left) and geok hian (right) stirring a bowl of "jia xiang mian" which came shortly after i took the picture of our table of dim sums.

More happy memories of those places:

Above is Charmaine (left) and Kai Ling (right)

Below is Jacynth (left) and Grace (right)

And this is Charmaine and Me =) hahah sorry for the dishevelled hair. it was a very very very very very long walk from the Farrer Park Mrt Station to the Dim Sum outlet...long and fun filled one. ahha..with paranoid Charmaine around. hahaha.

After dinner, we went to Marina Bay cos we heard that the Flyer was having a special promotion: student price @ $10/- weets...but we forgot if it was only for weekdays. haiz...in the end it was. so being the enthusiastic and hard-up-to-sit-the-flyer people, we met up the VERY NEXT DAY. hahahahah

This is us in the geok hian's car. hahha. all squashed up and happy. it was so funny. all the drivers were like giving us second glances as they drive past us cos our car was so packed! hahha and charmaine and i were idiots in crossing the road..being the gan chiong spiders we are. hahaahhahaha

This was taken when everyone was still in a dishevel . hahha geok hian looking pro.

haha ok ok..this one is much better cos we were at the red light junction. hahha and we decided to cam whore.

orite. i think i will end here for now. for the next two updates, i will leave it to next time ba. woo hoo!

haven really gotten a chance to use my camera of late...and my hands are terribly itching to do so now.
for my next few days, i will prob bring my camera arnd for opportunities to snap photos.

feeling really sleepy now but determined not to sleep for some queer reasons. hmmm...

ok. shall end off here. hahha how abrupt.

yays. my trip to Korea has been finalised. will be leaving on the 21st till 28th june with grace and her mummy, my mummy and my mummy's friend. yeap. a whole lot of aunties as you can see, which is good for grace and i for obvious reasons - FREEDOM! ahhaha apparently, we are still waiting for one more aunty to confirm from grace's side. not complaining if she wants to come - MORE FREEDOM. hahahah cos everyone will be too busy chatting away with their friends and let grace and i do more of what we want. hahahaha and we may even get to share a room too since obviously they will prolly choose their friends over us. hahaha. sounds sad but i dunno why i am laughing, delighted with the mere thought of it...ooo cos i would rather share a room with grace too!! oOpS! hahaha but i think chances of us sharing a room tgt is quite slim cos acc to grace, there is a low probability that the aunty on her side will not want to go.

oh wells. =.= that hasnt really gotten me worried as much as the swine flu issue. i really hope this trip doesnt get cancelled and Korea will take extra precautions that they dun shut down their airport or rather, ANY part of their country. What a spirit dampening thing it will be if our trip gets cancelled thanks to swine flu. :/

went to highlight my hair again. wanted to do the blue and green streaks today but the salon lady was saying abt requiring a darker hair base to do so - meaning i have to dye my hair darker cos my hair base is too light. so i went against the idea and went back to my original highlights - red and brown. boring i know but at least i dont look out of the norm.

gg for my first production meeting after exams. haven gone to one for like eons. everyone has been putting it off cos of exams and its time to get back on track...AND WE DUN HAVE TIME. was talking to my director the other day during NYJC's Drama Night 2009 and she was mentioning something abt "...highly advisable NOT to do a musical for non-professionals due to the high stakes and work involved".

*gulps*

we are doing musical....

ugh.

uh feeling so lazy to shift out of the chair to get ready for the meeting. sigh...k k. its only a matter of time i shift myself out of the armchair. will get ready then complain. at least i dun need to rush. lol.

gg to get ready now! cya.

Oh look, she thought silently to herself as she gazed into the suburb's clear blue mid-day sky.

It started with a speck at first, then a drop of white paint admist the vast ocean blue, gradually diffusing its way through unevenly till it was sufficiently visible from afar.

She had been staring at it for hours, curious at its familiarity at first, which subsequently evolved into a sheer determination to see it arrive eventually.

Had there been wind... She halted her train of thoughts abruptly, subconsciously weighing the consequence of the wish. The introduction of another element would be too risky - her whole goal for the afternoon would have been thwart had the wind gone in the opposite direction. No, it's probably more worth it that way, she sighed, deciding against her wish.

The sun continued to blast its unfeeling rays mockingly at her, perhaps scoffing at her over-ly strong willpower to withstand against all odds to experience something which may not come her way at all...

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A little note:
hmmm, wrote this around two nights ago. i know i really shouldn't be spending time writing such stuff, with more important itineraries on the list but well, that feeling is hard to come by and perhaps, even more difficult to go away. so from 10pm to 1030pm, i penned those thoughts down.
anyway, i hope you (whoever you are) like this em...very-abstract abstract. hahha. i seldom transfer my written pieces, such as this one, onto my blog but i really like this one. hahah. sounds meaningful (which they rarely are). hope you were able to tell that this paragraph is not really just simply about a girl watching a patch of clouds to reach her. No....that would be over-simplifying what i spent time to think and write about. hahha.

vanessa.

life holds few distinctions but we can safely say that here sits one of the silliest girl, if not the silliest girl, in town.



this was one of the few quotes Mr. Bennet uttered for his two daughters in the show, Pride and Prejudice. of course, i made some changes for the girl in the case, blatantly enough, refers to me.



i believe that i have just encountered today's version of Mr. Wickham in my life. of course, that being that this person most probably differs in gender, size and skin colour.



a perfectly amiable friend turned ugly. perhaps she was ugly all along to begin with. perhaps now i am beginning to gradually understand the criticisms being casted towards that clan. thats how pple grow. they learn. for stubborn people, they learn the hard way - but they learn well.



BEAR IN MIND:

inferiority lies in the eyes of the beholder. no one will feel inferior to you, not unless you feel you are superior to them in the first place.

Let this be the last thing i ever teach you as a person, before this friendship ends.



but then again, for your current position, there isnt really much to feel superior to, is there?



HAHAHA. what a joke. you being the butt of it, as usual.

having a break in between your papers is like a breathe of switzerland's fresh air. however, it is quite detrimental under these following factors:

1. when the break is slot between your 4th paper and final (5th) paper.
2. when the break is as long as a week.

and both factors have coincidentally fallen under my current circumstance. but nonetheless, i am not complaining abt the break, i suppose.

came home last afternoon and slept like a log till 630pm. i think if my dad didnt wake me up, i would have slept past dinner as well. then i watched batman begin with my mum till 1230am and went to sleep till 830am in the morning.

yep. all in all, its just a longer version of saying: i slacked my day away.

toodles! cant wait to see my friends after prelims. celebrating chua's belated bday soon! whoo hoo! ahhaha

my eyes are close to being a single line and i am still not be able to get to sleep w/o getting a few words off my chest.

today was a frightfully eventful day for all the wrong reasons. had a miscommunication with my mum over my late grandma's dedication mass. During lunch, my mum mentioned to me that we had to leave the hse at 6pm SHARP for the mass which she has requested for by a catholic church for my grandma. as i had tuition from 4-530pm, i told my mum that i will end arnd 545pm at AMK and leave straight for the church via bus 159. and she said ok.

while i was travelling on the bus at 615pm, reaching the church, i received a call from my dad and he told me that i can go straight home already for the mass has ended. apparently it started at 6pm and my parents left the hse at 5 plus! omg.

naturally my mum was pissed that i missed the mass and assumed i missed it cos i was reluctant to go. and at home, when i asked my mum to clarify if she gave me the wrong instructions, she uttered in her usual prim and proper tone that she TOLD me that we had to REACH the church at SIX PM SHARP and that i was NOT TO BE LATE.

well, i didnt take it too well obviously cos its my grandma's mass firstly, and secondly, i had to re-schedule my entire tuition to another day just to attend the mass. if i had been so reluctant to go in the first place, would i have changed the tuition timing and then miss it on purpose? seriously, i am busy. i dont have time to play such foolish games with myself. and of course, that being said, i will not be so obnoxious to assume that i heard right immediately upon my mum's statement. i mean that wud have been unfair. but my maid told me laughing a while before they reached home that she heard what i heard over lunch today. THERE. i dun wanna argue with my mom cos seriously she is acting like she is the only person who loves my grandma.

to think that at least they cud have called when they realised i wasnt at church at 6pm?! instead of when the mass is over? i dont know. maybe i am trying to find excuses for myself. but of course, i am in a bias stand to comment. i am just irritated and depressed now but i dun show it cos i know it makes everyone's mood worse. like my mom's pissed off attitude is already affecting my mood to do basically anything - even sleep. i know i am sounding rude and nasty and all but this huge chunk of emotions is really steaming off from the fact that i really made time and effort to attend it.

tough week ahead.

good luck with it.

this is such upsetting news that i simply dunno how to begin, or rather where to begin. i suppose if you are a loyal fan of power 98, it will probably be because of Shareen Wong and Joe Augustin. and if you are a loyal fan of the morning jam duos, you would probably be mourning for the loss of 2 great DJs who got fired by the radio station due to unknown reasons.

i'm not trying to be bias k..but i know i will probably roll my eyes when the reason comes out anyway. so to save myself from the unneccessary trouble and hassle of complaining to everyone i meet, i will just not find out and think of the most reasonable excuse as to why they got fired.

first maggie... then hossan leong...then now...aye...

gross.

ultimatum.


ultimate gross.



wait, can this be on the guiness book of records for the most disgusting thing of 2009?

ugh.

how to wake up in the mornings now? hai....

okays...so for the first time, my mum understood how it felt to attend something you didnt really want to go for and on top of that, miss your show and get stuck in that place for more than 2hrs. eeps!
well, long story cut short, she went for a wedding dinner with my dad, reluctantly i may add. However, because she missed the first wedding dinner that this same family threw for the first daughter / son, and the dad (who is my dad's friend) wasnt pleased, she turned up for this one out of courtesy. haha
my plans of spending some time alone at home, of course, needless to say, was completely dashed by her continuous sms bombs to me, asking me to talk to her. haha. just thinking of the many times she told me to put my hp away when i was msging my friends during some dinner makes me wanna laugh. anw, so being the experienced person in this field, haha, i did a countdown of the no. of dishes left with her for the entire dinner. hahha never seen this side of my mum before..it was quite cute.
well, i have been to few weddings and might i add, even fewer interesting weddings. of course, some were hilarious and downright entertaining. but some, you just tell yourself to eat. I suppose no couple will ever wanna admit that their wedding had been boring or dull, and to a certain extent, its even true. cos that occassion is the most significant to them, more than anyone else in the room. and because you have been the one seeing to the nitty gritty details from day one, and rushing abt before and during the banquet, no way you will say it had been dull.
for me, after attending those few weddings, i realised that sitting with the right company is essential for having a happy wedding dinner. like for my mum's case, well, of course she didnt enjoy herself a variety of reasons. firstly, she is the ONLY lady at the entire table of 15. Secondly, all the men there happened to be my daddy's old friends. none knew my mom, except for acknowledging her as my dad's wife. wedding dinners are actually one of the ways for people to catch up old times with their loved ones and friends - though it is a pretty expensicve way. but its the truth cos you wun actually see the wedded couple for more than 15 mins of the entire dinner actually. so you are required to self entertain if there isnt a lively host during the wedding. if i have to sit with a group of people i never met before, of course i will simply be just eating dully for the next two hours of the evening, like my mum, who is naturally quiet.
but that being said, i still think planning for weddings are interesting though. although i only helped out for a small part for one of my ex. colleagues' wedding last year - with the wedding montage - it was interesting to learn to do new stuff, and of course, hearing pple asking arnd who did the montage for the couple and receive comments from your other colleagues things i can improve on next time, and that it was in general quite nice - for an IT noob. ahhaha nah...of cos they didnt add the last part. but for an IT noob like me, it was quite fun to do.
orite. i just felt like typing out some stuff on my blog.
still counting down the days to which i can receive my driving license! WHOOHOO!!!!
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would i find the right tune for these lyrics:

i wish i can see the path laid for me and see what happens to me till then.
but i know i cant, so i'll keep asking myself - if this feeling is right.
or is it just another wrong attempt to hide an unavoidable truth.
hints are as far as i can bring myself to go.
to tell it to you, point-blank in the face, is almost too much for me to bear.

i hope i find it soon...=(
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if life is a movie, i wished it was a musical
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yay...i passed my driving course le!! hahah i am officially a driver in singapore now so cars, please beware. ahaha. the morning didnt start out too great though when i was preparing to go for my test. i fainted in the toilet...low blood my parents were saying. thankfully i was in my parents' toilet when it happened and not alone in some public toilet. that wud have been worse i guess. almost couldnt make it for the test but oh wells...its worth the shot. haha.

i still cant believe i didnt hit/mount/strike kerb. haha for the past few lessons, i am mounting kerb like it was a requirement to pass the test. ugh. anw, my parents were sweet. they followed me to the driving centre, partly cos they were afraid i was gonna faint again and of cos to support me =) but then, afterwards, my mum told me that she was actually discussing with my dad if they can apply for the retake of driving test straightaway after i fail, even before i got into my car. >.<" well, cant expect them to have much hope after the "kerb" issue and the "low-blood" issue, can they? aye, anw i surprised them by passing 1st time!!! hahahaha

shud have seen me as i came out from the tester's room. haha. i was like one of those contestants on American Idol who got their ticket to Hollywood!! hahah. i tot i would fail actually cos out of paranoia, i felt i hit kerb or veer off course...anything that is under the immediate failure column..haha but i got 6 demerit points! hahah out of 20! yays! the instructor wasnt as bad as he looked too..haahaa.

went to apply for my driving license today. will be receiving in a month's time. can't wait. hahaha.

Hi everyone! Happy Chinese New Year Eve! hahha. reunion dinner is about to start soon. i suppose a new year marks a new beginning to everything and while love should spread, fists should also start to unclench into a helping hand.

This year would be a different year i suppose, for various reasons, mainly this is the first year my grandmother is no longer here to celebrate chinese new year with me, as well as this year, reunion is held at my place. well, being the lazy me, this should be good news i suppose. hahha, to have reunion dinner within the comfort of my home :P

well, anw, i hope you guys will flood your stomach with truckloads of goodies and food and have a festive holiday! OH! and check out my photos if you have the time. beware of unglam pics though. haha. requires great courage for me to put them up. so hahaha....

cheers!

I need love, love
To ease my mind
I need to find, find someone to call mine
But mama said

You cant hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love dont come easy
Its a game of give and take

You cant hurry love
No, you just have to wait
You got to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

But how many heartaches
Must I stand before I find a love
To let me live again
Right now the only thing
That keeps me hangin on
When I feel my strength, yeah
Its almost gone
I remember mama said:

You cant hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love dont come easy
Its a game of give and take

How long must I wait
How much more can I take
Before loneliness will cause my heart
Heart to break?

No I cant bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that i, I cant go on
These precious words keeps me hangin on
I remember mama said:

You cant hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love dont come easy
Its a game of give and take

You cant hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

No, love, love, dont come easy
But I keep on waiting
Anticipating for that soft voice
To talk to me at night
For some tender arms
To hold me tight
I keep waiting
I keep on waiting
But it aint easy
It aint easy
But mama said:

You cant hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

You cant hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love dont come easy
Its a game of give and take