i am a freak.

OMG!!! Like as expected, i've been absent from this blog for a while. I've attempts to blog previously but somewhat or another, i never got to completing the entries and they're currently left 1/2 written and published as private. I'll probably just publish them anyway...so as to prove that i've attempted to written.

So yeah...life's been quite monotonous since school started in Aug and i can literally feel my life slipping through my hands as tuition and school work piled up. Good thing though would be that the PSLE is over so 2 kids done with and my job at the tuition centre would be ending soon so i could have more time to myself and school.

Hosted a chalet slash bbq over the weekends. Was terribly disappointed and worried about it as there were little response regarding attendance and it would be such a killer if no one turns up. That would have totally defeated my purpose as i had wanted to spend some time catching up with people over the 2 nights of bbq.

Pei and Jo and Yan and Gary were extremely supportive and they all schemed and planned to come down with me to the chalet early to prepare and to stay over and nag at me about my unfinished essay. Haha....

So yeah...even though there weren't truckloads of people who turned up, i'm really glad for those who came and made time to really spend some time with me ^_^ Poly yr 1 classmates came along and we finally got down to updating each other about our lives and how things are going. Brian and Fm brought along a new friend Ken and we managed to chat about all the random-est things in the world. Churchmates that travalled down from various spots in Singapore to just makan and talk some. Random stand-alones that braved the awkwardness of being the only link and turned up simple believing that things will turn out well. I'm grateful for all of them!

And i was extremely touched on the 1st night. I had had an excitable day and was so happy amongst friends. Chased Pei around the BBQ area for God knows what reason and hours later, i noticed that my precious car key had dropped out from my oh so shallow pocket. I was frantic and got Pei to help me look. Parents noticed my worried face and questioned about it and they too committed themselves to the search. What was most amazing was that 3 mins into the search, practically ALL my friends present was searching the area for a black bulky suzuki car key attached to a wired-made rabbit keychain. I was worried and yet at the same time felt so warm for the concern my friends had shown. Finally it was Gary who retrieved the keys from the counter. *hugz* to all my friends who had helped. I felt so bad that i had them worried when they should just be relaxing and having a good time eating. Nevertheless, i felt thankful that they really do show concern. Friendships simply rox don't they!?

Now now...my class is about to end and i should probably stop blogging so i have time to log off and shut down my lappy before heading for another tuition session. Life in wonderful.

Yeah... Trying to see if i can update blog on my monsieur blanc!!

The past few days has really been fantastic!!! Happy things just keeps piling up even though the heavy and packed schedule was trying to weigh me down...

Thursday evening was Campus Crusade for Christ freshmen welcome tea. Although i'm not exactly a freshmen, i crashed it in hopes of meeting new people and attempting to fit in so i could have fellowship in school. I have sooooooo lost touch with praise and worship songs, much less English ones. Couldn't sing most of them, but i didn't feel too bad thanks to Yong An who couldn't sing much of them either. We were separated into groups to have a little interaction and short introduction. While representatives were presenting up front, i saw a familiar face. Called out in skepticism and turned out that it was truly her! Cynthia! She's this girl from PL guzheng tuan who looks totally different now. Turned out that she had joined CCFC as a full time staff! Praise the Lord! God can indeed use people in the most unexpected ways.

Yesterday (Friday), i had lecture with Shiks and Nurul and Diyana x 2 and many many other people. It was Dawson's seminar and our group unfortunately were not well prepared for the presentation. Nevertheless, we got over it and headed out to lunch. Macs was great! Especially for Diyana and Shiks as they started fasting today and won't be able to savour Mac lunch for a month.

After munching, we walked through and booths of the bazaar a little and just then, i spotted someone! Pui Shing! woah...that was surprising since we haven't really been in contact and i either didn't know or couldn't recall that he was studying in NTU. Turned out he's in 2nd year and hides out mostly at the NS while i hide out in SS. Had a small exchange and decided that we should probably find an opportunity to gather up.

So happy i feel and got happier when Shiks and I went to JP for a short jalan session. 1st stop was Popular and both of us spent a little money there before we walked on. Everything looked soooooo cute! But we both held back and resisted the huge temptation of adorable post-its and stationery. I soon had to rush off for tuition so i bade Shiks goodbye >_<

After tuition, rushed home to meet my mum to head out for PEDICURE!!!!!! I really do need it as both my big toe's nails had broken and were chipped into the flesh a little. Picked dad up and sent him on a grocery trip to NTUC while mum and i sat in the nail parlour enjoying tea and nice music. The seats were big and comfy and the service was fantastic at The Lush Room! We love it so much that we actually took up the nail service package! haha

After pedicure, while we were frantically trying to get to the carpark, a familiar figure passed by me. Sudden realisation hit me and i turned around, and he too turned around at that moment. We greeted each other with a friendly smile and hi before moving on. He was Daniel, a guy from church whom i haven't seen for a while. He's still looking gorgeous (at least to me) despite being bigger in size. Later, i sent my parents home and got on my way to meet Pei and Yan and Ming for Daph's chalet cum bbq! Got there and felt a little awkward at first since we didn't know the relatives but we soon warmed up and got to BBQ-ing delicious food and even played WII!

Today (Saturday) was supposed to be a packed day until i overslept my blood test scheduled in the morning. Since missing it, i delayed the tuition by an hour so i could go visit my grandma at the market as well as have lunch with my mummy. Had the yummy roast duck rice and went back to the stall to chat with grandma. Didn't get to stay very long though since both my parents and i were rushing for time. I managed to steal time to help mum get some stuff from watsons as well as a CUPWALKER! muaHaha

Tuition was well today and didn't frustrate me too much. Sure hope the kids work hard for the upcoming PSLE prelims ^_^

Met up with poly yr 2 classmates!!!! WY played us out though but 11 of us managed to get together for dinner at Mad Jack. The portion seems to have shrunk but the food is still alright. Regret not buying cakes though. After dinner, we decided to head over to Minds Cafe at prinsep (just opposite) but it turned out to be fully booked. Only option left was the outlet at Book Quay. Decided to drive the girls while the boys take the BMW to Boat Quay. Was attempting to get Winston to sit in as i wasn't sure of the way but he chased after the boys and so i assumed that he wasn't going to join us. (Later we found out though that he was trying to tell them that he was gona sit in the car with us but we had happily abandoned him...haha). So we got to Minds Cafe (although us girls had a little difficulty with directions) earlier than the boys by approx. 3 mins... we all went to our table and sat down to play! 2 tables: Laihock, Winston, Yvonne, Lixiang, Jye Wei and I at one and Colin, Nicholas, Chuck Yint and Gavin at the other. We started earlier but in the end, we only managed to play 2 games (Saboteur and Jenga) while the other table played a long list of games. BUT WE HAD FUN!!!! hahahahahahaha....i feel sooooo happy that we managed to meet up. Although it's not the whole class, it was still a huge chunk of it and it makes me happy.

I'm a sucker for happy things especially festivals and gatherings. The whole series of bumping into people and spending weekends with long time friends and organising gatherings made me really happy and far too excited to go to bed. ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^

Hey peeps. I've created an account for those of you who reads my journal but doesn't actually have a livejournal account.

This is done as i have mentioned before that i'm shifting my entries into 'locked' mode so you'll have to log in to read some entries, not 100% of them though.

Do let me know that you're interested to access the account to read and i'll let u in on the username and password!

School days has resumed for me since yesterday (Tues). Our new HSS building looks fantastic! Only problem is that it's so new that i can't seem to find me way around. Good thing though, i found the seminar room for today's lesson.

Registered for all my modules without prior arrangements but as God's blessings had been with me through these 2 years...He did not forget me now. Checked out the class rosters of my Eng Lit modules and found at least 1 or 2 familiar faces in each mod. Glad that i have friends in class and at the same time am excited to get to know more people. ^_^

9.30 class today and i have only 5 hours left to sleep. *worried* oh pls pls pls let me wake up in time and stay awake in class. I want to truly enjoy and learn in this semester of studies. I also have to find time to speak with Prof Murphy about my academic progress.

Looking at my timetable is a little saddening though. 5 days of school...each day only 3 hours except Wed. Seems like there's not gona be any decent rest since 4 out of 5 nights are packed with tuition slots. Pray for my health and determination!

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Muahaha...now now...those thinking of another kind of first time, you'll be greatly disappointed!

Today's 1st times are:
1st time eating at Pariss International Buffet
1st time taking the Singapore Flyer
1st time visiting Marina Barrage

Had a date with KK to catch up since we havent met up despite the 3 months long holiday. We had previously agreed to meet at MS so we could try out the buffet. After meeting up, KK paid for the buffet and we went in for makan!!! KK walked through the food array while i headed straight for sushi and sashimi. Also took some salad and we soon settled down for our 1st round of food.

Turned out that the food weren't fantastic though >_< Was quite disappointed. The sushi was hard and pretty tasteless. Sashimi was still okay. Chawanmushi was horribly salty. Pearl milk tea tasted weird. Definitely there were still items that tasted okay. But they weren't good tasting enough to cover up the disappointment we faced from the other dishes. Kuishinbo soooooo beats them hands down i tell ya. *sighz*

Anyway, after a looooong dinner and looooooong chat, we spontaneously decided to go take the Singapore Flyer!!!! Seriously....i was both excited and skeptical about the ride. BUT BUT BUT...it turned out really well! the 30 mins ride passed much much faster than i had expected. Of course, i have to give KK credit for being such a fun and entertaining ride buddy ^_^

After the ride, we went to check out the photo taken before the ride. Couldn't quite decide which version to print and after much thoughts, i chose the jigsaw puzzle one. Upon collection, i was kinda sad. The pieces cut up KK's and my face and they were not actual jigsaw puzzle that i can mess up and piece together again. But nevermind, the optimistic me still likes it pretty much.

After the ride, we drove over to MARINA BARRAGE! I tell you, that guy is one of the most spontaneous fella i know. And if not for his flirtiness, he's really quite a fantastic catch! hahahahah....

anyway, we toured around the barrage but most of the facilities were closed by the time we got there. So we took the slope up and walked around to enjoy the view. It was pretty cool! Had a good view of the flyer and the waters and boats. We even spotted two boys who were flying kite, literally. The kite flew sooooo high!!! *jealous*

So we spent some time up there, walking, sitting and chatting. After about 45 mins, we took the lift down and explored the jetty-like thing. Nice ambiance and we walked all the way to the end before heading back home.

BTW, the dinner and Singapore Flyer ride was my birthday gift! haha
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Alright...for some of you might have known...i've been back from my tw trip for more than a week now. 1st few days back had been packed with unpacking luggages and distributing souvenirs and whatnots. Had promised KK that i'll be blogging within a couple of days and as usual...days turned to a week and if not for Rajesh...i'd probably still be pushing it off.

The 4 of us were extremely excited about our trip to TW! Especially since it's Pei's 1st flying experience and our 1st time out as a group (other than Bintan of course). We had all arrived at the airport for check-in reasonably early and headed off to Popeye's with Daph's parents, ray, ming and jo. My parents had happily chucked me off at the departure hall and drove off to enjoy their happy afternoon. *poutz*

So we were happily strolling around thinking we had tonnes of time on our hands when we realised that the plane we were taking was calling for boarding! We RAN like mad hoping that we would not miss it and luckily we didn't. The most frantic of all was that our plane was scheduled to fly at 1.50pm and my course registration starts at 1.30pm. Originally thinking that i would have time to access the system using Pei's lappy, i got Brian on standby but didn't quite think i'll have to depend on him entirely. However, that thought was diminished when we ran for the boarding and i called Brian numerous times as we ran but he didn't pick up. I totally panicked! Dropped him a sms and was feeling quite desperate when he rang back. Begged him to help me register for my modules and boarded the plane shortly. He called back and told me about the results and i was informed by the stewardess to turn off my phone. I have this bugging feeling that she thinks i'm some kind of noob that doesn't realise that mobile phones hafta be switched off for takeoffs. BIG SIGHZ...

So we got to TW safely and had 8 days of tremendous fun mixed with annoyance and frustrations and amusements. Come on, everyone knows that there's no perfectness in practically anything and so was our trip. We did have some communication problems here and there but very very luckily, things worked out and our trip came to a happy ending. We visited many places and ate LOADS of chou toufu! Well...actually only Yan and i did while the other 2 was suffering very much from the smell that we exuded from our mouth, hair, body, clothes and everything else. Haha....

There were much fun times as well! Like the hotpot we had on the 1st night totally caught us offguard with its fantastic soup base and fresh ingredients. Bad side of it was that it caused Pei to suffer from heartburn and me from a queasy stomach. Either way...it was still GOOD and we went back a second time where i ended up 'flirting' with the waiter guy. Oh come on...i wasn't really flirting...just being very very friendly ok! He was a nice little boy...

We also went to the 24hrs bookstore! Wasn't as fantastic as i had hoped it will be but yeah..i lugged back 4 or 5 kg worth of books anyway. Haha...Yan termed the jimmy collection as "The Brick" as it's this 5 mini book collection that weighed a kg on its own. Haha... But then...it wasn't only me who got books. Pei got a mountain of it for Wei and Daph bought some stuff as well. It's just that mine was a little over the hill. haha

OMG!!! The 3 of them experienced EARTHQUAKE! Now...why i said the 3 and not me? You see...at that moment, i was in the toilet washing my face when i heard a creak. Didn't think much of it except that i heard them screaming outside. When i came out, they told me that they had just experienced an earthquake as the bed was shaking and guess what? Pei and Daph had originally thought it was some 'dirty' being scaring them. Turned out that Hualien experienced a 6degree and Taipei a 3rd degree earthquake that night. I forgot who but some guy made fun of me when i told them about this incident and said that my centre of gravity was probably what saved me from experiencing the earthquake >_<

I guess that's about the few major things i can recall right now to blog about. French gathering will come about later tonight after tuition ok? LAZY!!!! hahahahahah

Ok....i apologise. Lost the will to blog since i came back from TW as i was lazy and have been falling in and out of ill. hahahahaha....

Decided to blog today coz RAJESH suddenly complained!
Rajesh says:
*you havent updated your blog in 3 weeks :@

My goodness...such a rare visitor and how cld i possibly refuse to update? so yeah..an entry will be coming in soon to update about my trip and the french class gathering that didn't quite work out.

Wow... Was lying on my bed trying fruitlessly to slp so i decided to give this a shot. Wonder if i can successfully blog this. If i can, i'll definitely lyk c905 a lil more but n97 is still gona prove better since it uses keyboard instead of keypads which is causing aches in my arms now as i type away at this entry.
And if this works, i might be able to blog even when i'm in tw! Provided of coz that i can access wifi! Woot. So exciting!

Today is very very OMG! hahahahhaha

1st off...i had a health check scheduled at 12pm but i woke up at 11.30 feeling reluctant to get out of bed. Decided to call up the clinic to inform them that i'll be late only to find out that they close at 12.30pm so i had no choice but to rush out of the hse without makeup and dressing up >_<

Got them and got along with the checkup but was faced with 1 huge problem. There was an urinal test and having just woke up and gone to the toilet...i had nothing left to be tested on. Ended up feeling SUPER malu about having to keep them waiting for me to get the 'feel'.

After the checkup, i left and headed out for lunch with fren. Not very happy one.

Got home...slacked around a little and got really lazy. Was supposed to meet pei at Tampines One at 7.30pm but my lazy bum only managed to get out at abt 7.10pm. heehee...adding on the fact that i was almost lost and the carpark was full...i walked into Kim Gary at 8.10pm, keeping poor pei waiting for an hr >_<

She collected her CDs from the seller, we ate and chatted, before heading off to IKEA for shopping and to meet up with ming and her parents. Had wanted to have meatballs but was feeling full and so thought that will have it after shopping instead. Walked around IKEA looking at tables, trying out chairs and sofas, ended up back at the cafe. Pei kept chasing me to go makan but i thought it'd be nice to walk around a bit more. Just as i decided to walk around more, i spotted the KAWAII night lights! They're in little ghostie shapes and light up in red/blue/green. Couldn't decide what to get so we headed off to the toilet first. Went back again and decided to get both green n blue. 1 for home, 1 for car. Wanted to check out the cafe before paying only to realise that the last order was at 10pm and i past it at 10.10pm >_< NVM!

Went down, walked a whole big round before finally getting to the checkout stations. We passed by the table pei had wanted but realised that it was too big for my tiny car and pei couldnt quite decide on it yet. Paid up, headed off and drove pei and family home. Just when we were turning into the carpark, wei called and i was curious about what she had to bring down for pei. As we turned into the cp and the headlights shone at wei, i saw what she was carrying and i was elated!!!!

It's the special edition carebear!! The white one with sterling silver thread and swarovski crystal eyes! I had been eyeing it but couldnt quite set my mind on buying it. Pei has saved me the trouble! She bought it for me as BIRTHDAY present!!! muahaha....pei, ming, wei and i spent about 15-20 mins opening the package and tearing things apart to try and figure out if it was authentic. In the process, poor bear got tortured and molested by all 4 of us. Haha... man...i feel sooooo happy can? Even though we still don't know if it truly authentic and it does shed alot of fur, i'm really really thankful that pei had gotten it for me!! so sweet rite??????

Yep...so i got to blogging cause i received my 1st birthday prezzie from one of my OLDEST friends. HAPPY HAPPY

Nah...not being emotional nor am i being frustrated. Just feeling really upset about the technical failures i'm facing these days.

Last month, my N95 died on me and i ended up losing all my contacts and was greatly inconvenienced. On top of that, i had to buy a new hp that turned out to be pathetic and problematic. Now that N97 has been released and IDOU (renamed as Satio) is going to be released soon, it just keep piling up on my grief.

As if it wasn't enough, my laptop decided to faint on me! Last night, even this morning, it was working PERFECTLY fine. Shut it down and reluctantly headed out for tuition. When i finally got back from tuition, settling down into my comfy seat to access the net. My laptop produced some weird beeping and i knew immediately i was down on my luck. After spending much time online (using my old lappy, currently mum's), i finally found out that it was a video card problem and my only option is to bring it down to the service centre at Funan.

This is very upsetting simply because it so happens that ALL my electronic items are dying after a mere 2 years of usage. What a disappointment. Now, let's just hope that the laptop will work out fine after bringing down to the centre, preferably at as low a price as possible. If not, i'll start looking around for a new lappy. Recommend me good ones if you have any in mind!

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Update:

Brought the lappy down to Funan today. Good thing is that it's still warranty covered! So i'm getting it repaired for FREE!

Sylvia went for pedi-mani with her mummy! hahahaha...after many many months or persuasion, mummy decided to give Charme a try.

Brought her down to far east where we ate at the pontian wonton mee (where B's mum works) before heading up for pedi-mani. I had called in earlier to make a booking as well as to request for Lyda but was told that she wasn't available at my time of visit. Yet when i arrived, she ended up being free and tended to me!!! I love her! She's this really cute petite looking girl who turned out to be my age! She seriously looks only 18 or 20. Her nail art skill is fantastic as well and it made me very happy~~~

Mum was quite excited about her first pedi-mani as well! She enjoyed it, loved the service and most definitely the nails she left Charme with. We both love the colours we had on our nails and wanted to buy a bottle of it. After much searching, they only managed to find the colour my mum wanted and not the lovely purple i had on my fingers. *cRy* Since there was a promo for 2 bottles, i ended up buying a shade that's really near to my mum's but slightly brighter and pinker. VERY sweet and cute colour!!! haha...

So yeah, the pedi-mani successfully made Sylvia feel very happy and blissful and thus will make it a regular monthly visit!!

Okay peeps!! I've got like this whole list of activities that i wana do in July. Start dating me pls!!!

1) Cycling
2) Swimming
3) Badminton
4) Shopping
5) Watch movies
6) Try out new food
7) Wait till i think of more...

My goodness....i knew i was hung up on TJH and i knew i was quite crazy over him and i remember liking him for like the longest time ever...

But evidence has shown that it was even more than what i had thought i remembered.

Been slacking at home and decided to read old entries of this blog and realised that since the beginning of this blog, i've been blogging about various matters, emotions and what nots and 80% of them were abt TJH. Among them, there were several locked entries concerning him as well!

I won't really say that i've outgrown all these but i'm truly amazed at how i was emotionally attached to him and how every word/action/behaviour of his affected my mood and thoughts.

1yr 2mths after losing contact, i look back and realised that despite missing him and thinking about him, it's quite obvious that i've been so hung up with the feeling of being hung up on him.

*shRugz* I feel glad that i've managed to look at the entries without being too emotional about it. However, isn't it weird how i'm blogging about someone that i feel i'm too hung up on? Is it proof that i'm still hung up? OMG. Kill me.

You Are the Bedroom

You are an indulgent person. You enjoy rest, relaxation, and pampering. You know how to find peace in a crazy life. You are good at unplugging. You tend to be very private. You don't let just anyone in. You are also a romantic. When you have someone, you tend to be very couple oriented.

OMG!!! I totally forgot to blog about this...

Remember how i mentioned in an old blog entry that i went into an open book Chinese exam without book!? My goodness..i was so worried that i'll fail that paper and when the results were returned...i was totally shocked!

I passed the paper! Not only so, I got a C+ for it...which was a result better than another Chinese paper i had. How pathetic can i possibly get?

And it is precisely because of this that i made an important decision!!! I'M NEVER TAKING A NON-LIT CHINESE MODULE EVER AGAIN! waHahahahahahahahhahahaha

My parents are back! Muahaha...i never knew i could be sooooo happy about them being around. Yesh...i know that some days some time later i'd blog about how unhappy i am with them or complain about how irritating my mum or dad gets, but deep down i know well enough that we all love each other deep deep.

The day of their return happens to be my dad's birthday as well! haha...treated him to a nice dinner and came home to a simple but delicious macha cake from breadtalk. It is really nice, much beyond my expectations. Let's hope the happiness and bliss we feel now last long long long, and that it serves as a reminder for us as to how blest we are in God's family.

Idiotic Kee kiat! Lost the link to my blog. Read already appear blur. AND THEN HAPPILY TOLD ME THAT I SHOULD EMO MORE SO I COULD WRITE MORE INTERESTING STUFF FOR HIM TO READ!!!!

*kick**punch**chew*

My goodness....this is the last day of my loneliness and a sudden realisation hit me. I've still got a whole list of to-dos that i should have done and must do before my parent'a return >_<

Sitting here in front of the computer with the tv running...i'm losing the momentum and i simply refuse to move my butt to do any more work tonight. I've only ironed 1/2 the stack of clothes. I have yet to mop the floor. I've not done up the invoices. I've yet to wash up the socks and floor mats. My target for tonight is to at least do the washing and 1/2 of the invoices. Let's hope i'll stick to it.