Monday, September 27, 2010

#1224.

The boyf made English breakfast for me this morning! Grilled mushroom and tomatoes. And scrambled eggs the on-and-off-the-fire way!


Omg so loved (: thanks dear!


On another note, I lost my house keys today. So damn sad I think I cried 2l of tears. I wasn't sad sad, but more of scared sad. Cos bro and dad are both out of town, and I'm the only one at home ):

Saturday, September 25, 2010

#1223.

Went over to the boyf's place in the afternoon and his mummy brought me to see a Chinese doctor for my irregular period. Brought back a bottle of yucky, bitter mixture. Meanwhile boyf went to NTUC to buy ingredients cos we were making dinner!


Chicken Cordon Bleu! I know it's not the best, but hey it's our first time trying. Chicken breast, ham, cheese, herbs, chicken breast, ham, cheese, herbs. Roll up and into the oven! :D



Also cooked creamy potato soup with real chunks of potatoes, carrots, and mushrooms. Yums (:


Love experimental meals like this. More please? (:

Friday, September 24, 2010

#1222.

Celebrated Aimee's birthday at Teo Heng. Sha nearly got into an accident so she couldn't join us. Anyway, great food from the tze char stall downstairs. And drinks from Teo Heng only at $1 each! Awesome dinner.


KTV for a while before cake-cutting. The cake's delicious!! From Icing Room (:

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

#1221.

We had potluck party at Weili's poolside for Felina's 20th birthday. Check out all the food.


Anyway we wanted to surprise the birthday girl with sparklers so we hid behind a wall. And just when we heard her footsteps, we lighted up lots of sparklers. Little did we know we could die from that!! All the smoke just engulfed us and we were choking like crazy. What a surprise. Lol.


And Teresa and Cassandra came too. It was such a rare occasion with everyone present.


As usual, we had all the crazy games daring one another to do outrageous stuff. Like dancing with a coconut tree, kissing on the lips, running round the pool, trying to hit on guys at the gym, and singing at the top of our lungs.


Cake cutting at the end with a heart shaped strawberry cake. Love! Siewhoon, Sabrina, Veralyn, Cassandra, Yushu, Teresa, Felina, Weili, Kathy, and I (:

Monday, September 20, 2010

#1220.

Sisters met up at Marina Square to celebrate sis Noi's birthday. We had Hotpot Culture, which was super duper worth it!! We couldn't finish the food. Click on the link to go to my food review. After a satisfying meal, we (sis Meh and I) pretended that we need to go off, cos the next day was a working day.


But we intentionally walked to the other exit of Marina Square, to go to the Singapore Flyer! Dumb sis Noi would never have guessed. Lol. On the way there, we had to make plans to get the tickets (secretly), and tried to walk as close to the Flyer as possible.


At last when we reached the Flyer, we urged sis Noi to go in, then waved the tickets at her. As expected, she teared lor. Hahaha. So happy to see her cry everytime we surprise her :D


It's my first time at the Flyer too! We almost had the whole capsule to ourselves, if not for the Chinese lady who joined us. Anyway, it was lotsa fun snapping photos. And gift-giving and polaroids when we alighted.


Big love sisters! (:

Sunday, September 19, 2010

#1219.

A quick update on what's happened over the past few days.


I suffered from indigestion/ gastric (I couldn't tell which) on Wednesday & Thursday. It was so bad I couldn't eat anything without feeling like I wanna puke. It was horrible! Sometimes the gastric juices even came all the way to my throat. It hurts like crazy!


My dad still used the opportunity to nag at me, saying I talk on the phone too much and slept too late everyday. I had to skip school for both days.

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On Friday I was feeling much better. And Yushu treated me to Koi bubble tea. School was selling them for some charity event to raise money. It was my first time trying and I'd to admit I like it! Lots of people have been raving about Koi and I thought it was overrated. I never knew it was good!


Bumped into Kathy on the way home and she had that ECG (or is it EGC?) device on her. It must have been so terribly uncomfortable for her ): I just pray and wish that all my loved ones can be happy & healthy. All else does not really matter.

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Yesterday I met up with sis Meh and sis Ting to hunt for sis Noi's birthday gift. We got her an Agnes B namecard holder (as on her wishlist). It was so pretty! Thank goodness we walked to Taka, instead of getting it as Wisma (limited variety).

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Today I went for weekly dinner at boyf's place. I really love the food his mum cooks. Super delicious! She always cooks my favourite chives dumplings. But it can get a little boring, so now she's cooking my next favourite - beansprouts! I'm so easy to feed because I like cheap food.


We were washing the dishes while the TV was showing some charity show. When the girl sang "世上只有妈妈好", I teared. So embarrassing because the boyf went to tell his family that I was crying. Then he saw that his mum was crying too. He said "Aiyo, women ah..."


But I really still miss my mum.


On another note, the boyf made me slightly mad today. Because I waited for him for almost an hour!!! So long can!!! But I've forgiven him already. Haha.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

#1218.

Happy 4th monthsary my dear! I bought him this iPhone cover from pasar malam last night. How thoughtful right?! Hahaha. Everywhere is just selling iPhone and Blackberry covers these days. Can't wait to get myself a cutesy cover when I get my BB too!




We popped by Swensen's after school for ice-cream. It rocks to be a student 'cause you get to eat 2 ice-creams for only $9.80! It's almost like a buy-1-get-1-free deal! :D We had Double Berry & Nutty Mighty. Yums (:


Monday, September 13, 2010

#1217.

Haven't been on talking terms with my dad ever since bro left. It's not like we're having a cold war or anything, but I just find it hard to communicate. Whenever he or I start a conversation, it will end up with me feeling very grumpy. Maybe it's just my problem.


So anyway, I've been asked, when us my breaking point. Since young, I've been very afraid of him. Everything he says, I wouldn't dare rebut. What's more I've been caned way too many times. Perhaps it's in my nature to be cowardly. I could probably list down a hundred and one things that scares me. While I know life's too short to be living in fear, I can't help but feel that way. It's just like how some people suffer from insomnia, depression, etc. It's not like they want it, but they can't help it.


But I've never once blamed anybody for who I am today. Sometimes I wished I was somebody else, but in that instant, I would learn to count my blessings. It really works!


Recently, I've been very frustrated over my dad. I don't think it's my fault because my PMS is just over. So it had to be him.


Just this morning, while I was preparing to go to school, he insisted to drive me to the train station. It's only like a 15-minute walk from my house, but I guess that's his way of showing love. To drive us to the station in the morning so we don't have to rush for the bus.


I appreciate his gesture, but I also understand that if he has something to attend to, I can always take the bus.


I was feeling a bit of the Monday blues today so I was taking my own sweet time showering, packing my bag, etc. He came into the room to hurry me and said "You're going to be late!"


I told him "No, I'm not rushing for time today. If you need to attend to something, just go ahead." He wouldn't listen! And even started to nag at me for sleeping late the night before, and always not packing my bag till the last minute.


So infuriating!


I could have ignored him or insisted to take the bus. But I'm not the sort to quarrel, especially with him.


Friends, boyfriend, brother, I will try to argue reason with them. But not my dad - age gap?


So I hurriedly packed my stuff so he could send me to the station and then went to settle his stuff. I absolutely do not see the point. Which brings me to another topic - I'm overprotected.


After the conversation with Yushu last night, it made me realise how unhappy I should be. Thankfully I'm happy by default, or I would have rebelled or left home or disown my dad. Err... kidding! Haha. So ya, what I'm gonna type is probably going to make you look at me from a different light. I hope you don't judge me. And I'm not in a very impartial state of mind right now, so my perspective may be skewed. Feel free to comment. I would be most happy to hear what you think.


Ok right, I have been brought up in a conservative Chinese family, which emphasizes a lot on moral, filial piety, respect, and all the old Chinese values and thinking. I would say we're not very open-minded.


Dad has been very strict with me since the day I was born. To the extend of being over-protective. Whatever it is, he just had to make sure nothing goes wrong for me. That makes me a crybaby. Because I know that if I cry, things will go my way.


In primary school, all my classmates know I'm a crybaby. Whenever anyone bullies me, I'll cry. Whenever I can't finish my homework, I'll cry. Whenever a teacher scolded me, I'll cry. So weak, I know.


When I got to secondary school, the tears lessened, But I was still a coward. So thankful for Guides! It kinda made me more vocal, courageous, confident. No doubt they might all be a facade, I might still be a coward with low self-esteem at heart. But on the surface I can easily fool people to think otherwise. Haha.


I probably never passed through that rebellious teenage stage because my mum got cancer when I was 14. Family, studies, Guides, were all I could think about.


True, I may be envious of my peers sometimes, but I don't have time to dwell upon it. I think I'm quite anti-social in secondary school.


Maybe because I'm such a goody two shoes, my dad formed a mental image of a very obedient me. I used to think that was who I am. Clearly it is not.


Because being the obedient me makes me unhappy sometimes. Oh wait, the term 'obedient' is very subjective. Let me list down the stuff my dad 'disallow' me to do.


I cannot go overseas with my friends, unless there's an adult. Fyi, my dad don't classify me as an adult. WTF. I'm legally responsible to myself so I don't see what's the point of worrying about me. All parents need to realise that their children will grow up one day. I'm sure many of your parents have come to terms with that, Clearly not mine. Back to the point. He's perpetually worried about my safety. He keeps thinking that something will go wrong. Why so pessimistic? I totally have no idea how to convince / assure him.

I've tried to reason with ihm, to persuade him, to reassure him, but to no avail. It seems like his mind is wired to think in a certain fashion. I'm helpless at times like this so I tell myself this is probably fate. Others have told me that fate is in my hands, and I have the ability to control my destiny if I do something about it.

I did try.

But through conditioning, I know nothing's gonna work. It's like given path A and path B, 10 out of 10 times that you choose path A, something terrible happens. At the 11th try, would you still choose path A?

Most likely not.

Secondly, I'm not allowed to stay out overnight. That translates to no midnight movies, no midnight KTV, no tonning at the airport, no countdown parties, no night cycling, etc. Unless I lie.

As much as possible, I try to present the truth, but when forced to circumstances, I'm left with no choice but to tell a white lie. Like that overnight cycling event that I facilitated. I had to lie that I'm staying over in school. It's not like my dad will say 'No I forbid you to go' but more of like 'I'll be very worried if you go, but I don't want you to be upset. But I'll really be very worried. And you can't blame me for worrying you know, wait till you're a parent yourself'.

Like WTF.

What do you expect me to do?

I really hate it when people worry for me. So I twist the situation a bit to assure him that 'oh I'll be in school. School is safe. There will be lots of people around. There will be adult supervision. We'll have proper place to rest. We'l have food to eat'.

Basically he's ok if I'm at a camp, chalet, friend's (female) house.

(to be continued...)

Saturday, September 11, 2010

#1216.

I shall do weekly updates from now on. Too busy with school ):


Repacked my buttons collection. Previously I kept them in small plastic pockets. It was so troublesome to carry around. So I bought some boxes from Daiso and decided to keep them this way instead.


I went on a crazy blogging spree (or whatever you call it) today. Edited crazy loads of photos and blogged like I've never blogged before. Haha. So here you go, 13 entries in all. Happy reading!

17th July: Belated 2nd Monthsary ♥

31st July: Instant Pasta & Blueberry Pie

1st August: Smoothies

5th August: School Modules

22nd August: Animals at Barrage & Roger's Bday Dinner

23rd August: Welcome Session!

24th August: U're Adorable

25th August: L's Farewell Dinner

4th September: Wanteng's Farewell Dinner

6th September: My Favourite Drink in School

7th September: *sad face*

9th September: FC in School

10th September: Happy Friday

p/s. Still have 7 more backdated entries. That is, if I don't accumulate more. I can't wait to finish updating every single entry such that I do not have any more drafts in my dashboard. Ok time to sleep.

Friday, September 10, 2010

#1215.

I love days like this (: It seems like every Friday is my happy day!


Met sis Meh & Max for brunch at Tampines Mall's Din Tai Fung. It was sort of like his farewell meal before he leaves for UK on Sunday!


I'm just documenting the prices down because I'm going to need it when I update my food blog later. Lazy to keep the receipts. Speaking of my food blog, it's about 70% done! I'm super excited to publish it when it's done!


Din Tai Fung @ Tampines Mall


Hot & Sour Soup ($6.80)


Xiao Long Bao ($8.80)


Prawn Dumplings ($7.00)


Prawn Pancake ($8.50)

Total bill: $34.10 +10% + 7% = $40.10


Walked around the mooncake bazaar 'cause I was looking for a good box of mooncake for boyf's family. Decided to buy Marriott's because the salesperson gave us a whooping 25% discount. Max & I bought 3 boxes in total.


Honestly, I can't really tell the difference between the different brands of mooncake. I guess it's just the name and logo. Haha.


We walked around in search of or-nee (yes, I have been craving for that since last Saturday!) but couldn't find any ): Yam is not in season now is it??!


Randomly decided to head to Max's place to look at his new Yashica camera (bought from Mustafa at only $99!) Max was craving for some mooncake after sampling the different kinds at the bazaar, so he bought 2 pieces from Da Zhong Guo. Apparently it's like a good brand or something. But once again, I can't tell...


He made us some Chinese tea (BOH's darjeeling tea - really goooood!) and we had mooncake for tea-time. Haha. I can't believe it; we're so oriental/traditional! :D




Took random pictures for fun. And the last one's sis Meh's BB Curve. Can't wait to get my hands on it next month. Even though I'm a cheapo who uses free phones. Hehe.


We left his place at around dinner time. I wasn't on good terms with my dad so I didn't want to go home. Decided to pop by sis Meh's place instead, while waiting for the boyf to come meet us for dinner.


Anyway, just to sidetrack, why does everybody love Saba fish from Korean food stall?? Ewww. It's disgusting can?


Shopped around Daiso. Tried Cup Walker's Caramel Chocolate (not nice). Took the bus home.

Thursday, September 09, 2010

#1214.

I have been enjoying school more these few days. Because Yushu the pig is soooo cute & funny. She brightens up my everyday. Like how we laugh at stupid things, funny things, everything. Like how we study together in the library, study room, everywhere. Oh and today, she told me she finally saw Felicia Chin in school. I didn't quite believe her because of all the times I hang out at Biz, not once did I get to see her. But Yushu went to Biz only today, and she saw her?! Somemore she was sitting right outside her tutorial room.


Guess what I did??


I left my lecture early just to camp outside the tutorial room with Yushu :D Hahaha! And yes, I finally got to see the celebrity too! Good thing is, she's just like any other student. Celebrities are human too (:


Yushu and I had make-up tutorial at 6pm because of the PH tmr. She's totally idolizing our tutor just because he's good. As in he explains the questions very clearly and is very patient with us. Guess what Yushu asked him!!!


"So which module will you be taking next semester?"


HAHAHA. She wants to take whichever module my tutor will be tutoring -.-


Anyway, I feel kinda guilty for being fierce to my boyf today ): Because I left my bag at Biz (he asked me to!!) while I went to tutorial at Arts. And the boyf texted me that he'll be meeting me at Arts straight. I replied, "wtf I left my bag at Biz".


He was so sweet to go back all the way to Biz to take my bag and then come back to Arts to wait for me. Awww.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

#1213.

Today is a sad day. Period.


[edit/] I'm not emo lah! I'm just sad for somebody because somebody didn't manage to pass it, again. Oh well, nevermind. I guess it's all fated, somehow. And anyway, there's always next time.

Monday, September 06, 2010

#1212.

I'm here to announce that Nescafe Frappe from Techno Edge (Engin Canteen), has officially taken over Strawberry Soursop from The Deck (Arts Canteen), as my favourite drink in school!! :D


Ok that was totally random (:

Saturday, September 04, 2010

#1211.

We had a farewell dinner for Wanteng at Imperial Treasures, before she flies off to UK for her final year. It's becoming quite a norm for people to study overseas now. So fortunate (:


We ordered ala carte dishes, and the best is definitely the beancurd! :D The rest are so-so, usual Chinese restaurant standard.




Beancurd with Mushrooms


Frog Leg Soup (?!)


Spinach with Garlic


Ee Fu Noodles


Roasted Meat Platter

Sweet and Sour Fish


Chicken

I was craving for some or-nee (some yam paste dessert), but the restaurant didn't sell them. How could that be! It's a teochew restaurant leh!


Sis Meh gotta leave early to meet Kenny, sis Noi gotta leave early to meet NUTS, so I left early too. Haha. I cannot live without my sisters! The rest of the gang went on to ktv. Anyhow, here's wishing Wanteng, all the very best! (:


Group picture! So rare nowadays (:

Friday, September 03, 2010

#1210.

My boyf; my happy pill (:


Today's an amazingly special and happy day, for many reasons.


Firstly, it's boyf's bestf's birthday! So happy birthday Keeguan!


Secondly, bro departed Singapore early this morning. I didn't manage to send him off 'cause I only slept at 2am, and cannot survive on just an hour sleep! But I did gave him a sleepy goodbye wave while he was in the room. After dad and bro left the house, I couldn't fall back asleep. I guess I was kind of excited for him. But eventually I did and went to school only at 11am. Bro touched down at Guangzhou airport at 2pm and immediately sent me an email. I was elated!! The boyf says bro and I are like a couple -.-


Thirdly, I had happy food for lunch and dinner! Lunch was fried pork buns (really yummy!), dinner was macs apple pie.


Fourthly, boyf and I mugged for a couple of hours. And he helped me solve Maths! :D He's damn amazing, he should have just majored in Economics. I feel really happy when we're studying productively together, because most of the time, he's too pre-occupied with random activities that he's neglecting his studies.


Fifthly, boyf sent me home from school! :D No words can describe the amount of joy brought about by this simple gesture. I know this is a norm for many girls but it means a lot to me. It isn't practical for him to send me home every time we go out, because we live at opposite ends of the island. Once in a blue moon, when he decides to send me home, it's like the best thing ever (:


Lastly, bro called just after midnight to say he's ok! Apparently lots of administration stuff still not settled yet, so even showering is like pretty troublesome. I was damn happy to hear his voice!! :D


But it's not like today's completely smooth-sailing as well. This morning I had to skip a lecture just to finish up my essay due at 5pm. And then I ran around the school like a crazy woman because the boyf keeps going to different places, and texting me different places to meet. If this happened last week (pms!), I would have lashed out at him. And complained, and whined, and kicked a big fuss, and throw tantrum. But not today (:


I guess running around is a form of exercise and it releases endorphin, which made me feel good. Haha. I still whined abit, but wasn't exactly upset. Even though the weather today was so terrible. I perspired 10 litres and must have stank!


p/s. WTH I feel like I'm writing an essay haha.


updated:

8th July: Sha's Bday Prep

16th July: Happy Bday Sha

17th August: The Truth

21st August: Happy 100th ♥

31st August: Magnum Madness

2nd September: Updates on Sch & Bro

Thursday, September 02, 2010

#1209.

I'm not sure why I don't have the motivation to start on my essay. It's due tomorrow and I only know too well that I have to start working on it days before. Maybe I'm just plain lazy - loves to procrastinate. Don't we all?


Bro is fast asleep now 'cause he has to wake up in a few hours' time to catch his flight to China. Yup, he's leaving! I cannot believe how fast September came. I always thought to myself, when September comes, I'm gonna blah, blah, blah. But omg, it's here already!


Seeing him pack his luggage for the past few days make me realize that I'm really gonna miss him quite a bit. After all, he's my closest kin! I love him a lot! And by the time he's back, it'll be 2011 (next year). I'm making it sound like a long time, but he's only going to be away for 4 months. It isn't too long or short. Good time for him to learn to be independent.


I feel sad for bro's girlf because I can just imagine how much she's going to miss him. I can't even bear the thought of Dennis going away for a month! Needless to say 4 months.


Alright, back to my essay or I won't be able to submit it on time. Good night!