pampered

This could be no big deal to others but it’s a little odd to me.

I’ve yet to take the public transport since Sunday. It is now Wednesday and I won’t be taking any today either.

And it’s not like I’ve been cooping up at home either!

On Sunday, bro pampered me by taking me to tea at Royal Copenhagen at taka. LOVE that place. It has THE BEST chocolate explosion. And it was voted best place for girls to get together by women’s weekly. (O.M.G.) lol.

So we took the public transport back, then took a cab to our uncle’s place for reunion dinner. He then lent my bro a spare car. So he drove us back, drove us visiting the next day, drove us back, drove me to Keith’s place, picked me up later, took me out for a spin (East Coast for twister fries LOL), then drove me back, next day drove us to uncle’s place, then home to rest, then picked Keith up, went over to mum’s side for visiting, drove me to hall straightafter and here I am!

AND, a dear friend Rachelle is picking me up from hall to class later cos she’s got the car, and cos I’m doing project with her after school and we’re popping over to another classmate’s house later than the rest, she’s driving me there too! And cos her hall’s relatively near mine, I think she’s driving me back too! HAHAHA.

Yes,  that above was a mouthful but my family doesn’t have a car so god only knows how I feel so incredibly pampered right now and have never felt more rich brattish. HAHA.

Okay I think this wonderful spell is gonna die off tomorrow. sian. :X LOL.

Alright the sian was more for school. Ah, back to class.

PS: 2 years back we called it cny. 1 year back we called it gxfc. this year we call it happy niu year. I do not like our generation’s trends!!

although i do use ‘cny’. HAHA.

disturbing news

So we were watching the news and there it was, another news on Virginia Tech.

I kind of missed it cos it was in Mandarin so I went to check it up.

Apparently, a Chinese guy decapitated a Chinese girl who just recently went to US to study accounting.

On January 7, he wrote on a Chinese-language blog he had been so frustrated over stock losses and other problems that he thought “only of killing someone or committing suicide”.

Okay that was harsh.

Miss Xin, 22, was believed to have been having coffee with Haiyang in the campus Au Bon Pain cafe.

OMG.

Seven witnesses from the cafe have said there was no argument or shouting prior to the killing on Wednesday at 7pm.

Let me get this straight. She had coffee with him, and then he killed her, DECAPITATED HER with a kitchen knife, there were seven witnesses and none could’ve stopped him? How quick does it take to cut off someone’s head exactly?!

The officer on the scene reported finding 25-year-old Haiyang holding her head in his hand, according to a police affidavit.

SERIOUSLY sick in the head!

It is understood the pair had recently made friends and PhD student Haiyang was listed as one of Miss Xin’s emergency contacts, according to university records.

Never thought ‘pick your friends properly’ was SUCH an drastic and crucial decision.

News source

HIGHLY disturbed. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!?

I mean to be pissed off is fine. To punch the wall, to put your fist to someone’s head in anger is somewhat understandable.

How can anybody find using a knife to cut someone’s head off and hold it in your hands even the slightest bit a good measure to release that anger?! How can there be witnesses and nobody realise that death was in the making?! AND I’m sure she screamed before he slit her throat!

Gah. Disturbing!

PS: This cannot be an issue of race. I hope nobody brings that up.

never been more happy when faced with a sold out concert

Was browsing sistic just to check up on how mraz was doing. (:

And this was the outcome.

HE IS SOLD OUT!!

HELLO A35 ROW 4. :D proud owner. proud, proud owner!

*slaps seige high five*

(ps: can’t wait for chinese new year!)

whisk away in the night

something overdue that i found. hahaha. christmas carolling.

anyway, today set me in awe and yet felt a little sad for my hall cheerleaders. not sure if i’m being biased but i thought their cheerleading was splendid and deserved at least the third spot. sadly their efforts didn’t get the recognition it deserved. bless all of them!

the weekends are near and i’m happy. (: (it’s near 2am and i’m still up…) although i must admit the past 2 weeks have been such a breeze, i don’t think i’m tuned back to school life yet. so behind all my readings! blah.

and squash is fun. (:

ps, signed up for exchange. results are out in early feb. hope i get it!!!

paranoia

I had about the craziest half an hour of my life. It involved me getting frantic, getting desperate, had the librarians watch me cry, had my amazing, trustworthy, reliable, incredible friends helping me as best they could, and then being filled with gratitude and amazement at how there are such kind, honest people around. ((((:

Basically I lost my laptop, couldn’t find it where I left it, everyone thought it got stolen, I panicked. Librarian said so far in his many years he has never seen anyone returned a laptop to the librarians. I walked all around the computer section hoping I saw it beneath the monitor or something but none. And then about half an hour later, my friends who stayed by the loan counter informed me that someone had returned it.

THANKKKKK YOUUUUU KIND SOUL!!!!! AND TO THE WONDERFUL AMAZING LOVELY INCREDIBLE RELIABLE FRIENDS, THANK YOUUUUUUU!!!

Because I brought my laptop to school purely to book Jason Mraz’s concert tickets, I half thought it was cursed and was nearly not interested to go anymore. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!

beam!

i have an extremely, extremely supportive boyfriend who encouraged me to go when i explained the idea of going on exchange next semester and roomie and i discussed it today, though he ‘might regret it later’. BLESS. (:

i’m just crazy excited for an experience. hope i get it, hope audrey gets it, hope she comes online soon so we can start searching for suitable host universities, hope i don’t come back a bankrupt, etc.

there’s gotta be a way to scrimp and save without eating bread and butter ):

and it’s great to have keith back from all the secret army missions yay! (:

2008

it was probably one of the most eventful year of my entire life because there were so much new things that i had to adapt over and over.

• Taiwan trip

started the year off by travelling with Bren & Bixia. (: although it was kind of a waste that we went with a tour, it was really interesting, i loved the cold, went in a hot spring and got out shivering, shopped and ate a lot. night markets were crazily packed, shoulder to shoulder. wish we didn’t spend so much of the time there on the bus travelling to and fro though! despite that, it was a whole lotta fun. (:

• Work @ SVC

worked at the singapore visitor centre. was there for 7 months and it made me feel like an absolute pro. never been at something for this long before. (: started off at the orchard branch and it wasn’t easy. you may think that you know orchard road inside out but when you’re asked, where the nearest atm is, you’re just like…what? or where the nearest singtel is. HMM. etc. and the city maps took a while to get used to too! where’s the backpacker’s inn? errr. slowwwlyyy search the map. hahahaa.

then i got transferred to the airport which was a nightmare in the beginning. there was a lot to remember, and sometimes i just couldn’t differentiate between t1, t2 and t3. where’s the left baggage? hmmm. skytrain? hmmm. and then i got transferred into the transit area. good god. there was a wholeeeee lot of shops. hahaha.

it didn’t help that while i was new, i was constantly rotated around. so i couldn’t really try to ’study’ my surroundings. i had to leech on the older ones around for quite some time. so whenever someone asked me a question, i had to check with the other staff. quite so embarrassing.

it’s amazing how a while later, everyone thinks the batch of us a level kids waiting for results were better than the old ones. in terms of courtesy and speed, i do so think that we’re better than at least SOME of them. lots of politics. lots and lots. but i still miss that place. it was fun meeting people, doing different shifts, taking cabs, signing body language to those who don’t understand english, being mistaken as a Chinese by Taiwanese, taking pictures with some absolutely adorable Japanese teens who spent about half an hour at the counter with me, etc. (:

• Tuition

i also began tutoring in 2008 and that underwent numerous hiccups as i didn’t realise how tough it was trying to give tuition to someone who couldn’t grasp the concepts. my patience level ran slightly low and i wasn’t really looking forward to each lesson. but it got better and i sure hope she did well!

other eventful things were like:

• keith was bald (LOL)
• seige graduated
• cousin got solemnized
• another cousin gave birth to baby marcus
• caught colbie caillat



• caught contender asia



• NBS FOC

NBS freshmen orientation camp was quite amazing. I dreaded it for ages but had fun while i was there and had amazing support and encouragement to go. Didn’t regret going because of the people I know, always great having people to say hi to while walking from north to south, and having people to ask, having seniors to seek info from, esp since we’re just freshies. (:

and always looking back, it’s like i achieved many things in the camp. like sleeping 10 hours an entire week (AND NOT GETTING A HEADACHE!), sliding down a freakish slope blindfolded, running around NTU, going through fright night (and never going through it EVER AGAIN), walking around katong with six forks in my hair, gazillion photo formations, etc.

• bro graduated

• ate at equinox

I swear this requires a point on itself because it was the most expensive menu i’ve ever seen and it was the first fois gras i had, and everything was just SO SO PRICEY. hahahaa. love it.

• caught singfest

I swear this required stamina. 10 freaking hours of camping at fort canning, watching these bands performing before my eyes was such a thrilling experience that i am so excited about this year’s and definitely would go if the line-up is good.

• Hall FOC

i wasn’t that excited for hall camp, to be honest. i constantly whined about it and compared it to nbs foc. but looking back it wasn’t too bad. and ultimately, it’s the people you see everyday when you walk in and out of your room that you need to get along with and i think i got along just fine with them. (: these camps also made me the darkest i’ve ever gotten. LOL.

• hall life

I also had to adapt to hall life in 2008. communal living was such a foreign idea that in my first week, i broke down and wanted to go home in the middle of the week. -.- but now i’m just hoping i get to stay next year. the convenience is AMAZING. and well, it’s fun not to be nagged at, and to be able to shout out to a friend or ask if anyone wants to grab lunch together. (: PLUS i have an amaaaazing roomie.

• university life

this was another thing that took forever to get used to. for eg, it was odd to be typing out tutorial answers, and not writing them. bringing laptops to class was just a strange concept. haha. and being in formal for presentations, etc. quite strange to grasp. an amazing thing was that the girl i first made friends with in my class is also my very very good friend now, my dear sweet aileen! yay! just sad she’s not in the same class anymore but we can still go to lectures together

• keith commissioned

also this deserved a mention as he suffered a lot physically and i was kept away from him for quite a lot, if you compare 2008 with 2007. hahaha. while it got me nothing out of that time apart, at least it got him something! hahaha just kidding. :p but proud of him nonetheless (:

other things like how everyone my age started driving and i got to sit in their rides on the last day of the year. HAHAHA.

alright that’s about all. amazing year it was! i am actually adaptable!!

breathe in the positive, and out the negative

such a rollercoaster ride it’s been. the holidays were, well, alright until towards the end it was so friggin awesome. with keith, with hall, with everybody i wanted to meet up with. and countdown. and new year. and voila, here i am, back in my own little space, happy to be away from the nagging but dreading school like crap, which is about to start in eight hours.

although the comfort is really there, knowing there’re only lectures this week. whew (:

every year, before school begins, i sink into this emo, angsty mood, where i get frustrated with everything when i do them last minute, and getting ready for school just purely sucks. hahaha. i’m still the little kid inside, though by year, my age already begins with a ‘2′.

simply by having a lot of things to trudge to hall with, it already dampened my mood to an all-time low this entire month. but it’s okay, i’m determined to wake up with a fresh start and meet some familiar faces with smiles. although things are gonna be severely different from last semester, i constantly have to have the idea that it’s a bloody short 3 year course at the back of my head. 5 more semesters to go, i jolly well enjoy this.

ack. let there be light. (:

also, things i do want to accomplish in 2009: 1) learn driving 2) collect my ‘a’ level cert.

genius.