Went shopping with PeiShan and Sam today at Orchard. Hmmm... had actually wanted to shop for university clothes, but I think it wasn't so fruitful... Bought 2 tops from Zara at Liat Towers and that's about all the clothing articles I bought. Actually wanted to buy this really cute miniskirt from Urban and Co, but didn't because it was err.. too short :) and another skirt at Zara which was pretty cute, but didn't like the material; think it feels quite rough and too thin.

Oh, on a spur of moment thing, bought the Lip Remedy from Origins. Hmmm you know how Origins always have cute names for their products? Like the blush is called 'Pinch your Cheeks'. Quite disappointed to find that the lip remedy had no funky name. It's just called lip remedy. Bleah. I like it very much though :) Menthol. 23 bucks. Hope it works.

Erm... and also bought a cosmetic bra. I had actually took a smaller size (as in the body size, not the cup size) and the lady took one look at me, and felt my back, and told me that I have a pretty normal body size. This is so weird! I had always though I had an underdeveloped upperbody, ie my ribcage is pretty small. And here she tells me that I have a normal sized ribcage? Then why do I not fit 'M' sizes? Why do I have to buy tops in 'XS'? Given my height and frame, I should have a size 'M' ribcage, not 'XS'. PS says that it's because I have a normal frame, but it's a thin frame. That does not make sense. See, it's like a 3 dimensional rectangle. I have a normal length and width, but a meagre height. Ok... that doesn't really make sense as well.

Oh... saw Aaron and Kenneth (I think). It took me 3 seconds to recognise Aaron... hahah.. I was thinking, who's this guy who's waving in my face? HAhaha.

Hmmm... had wanted to buy a Braun Buffel (sp) wallet as well, as Metro is having 20% off and I'm so in love with the BB wallet. I was so tempted to buy it, but I didn't. REGRET!!! I mean, how often do you get Braun Buffel wallets with 20% off? Like, once in I-don't-know-when? Errr.... after discount it's 60+ bucks. A pretty decent price actually. Grahhh.... I like the wallet so much!!! Ok. I'm going back tomorrow to buy it. It's the last day.

Oh well, had a pretty nice day. Hmmm.... oh yeah. Someone smsed me today and told me 'My number is ********' Like how weird is that.

Hahaha... off to do a scrub, come back to the come, download my Amazing Race Theme mp3 and surf around in my forum. Byyyeee!

Ok so continuing on my whole NUS/NTU/SMU fiasco, Ming and I called up both NUS and SMU today. Yes. Ming got to call NUS and I got to call SMU. So here’s how it went.

Ming ‘When can we know the results of the enrolment?’
NUS ‘In early June’
Ming ‘Is it possible that it be revealed any earlier?’
NUS ‘I’m sorry that’s not possible’

Hmmm… early June, that means it HAS to be either the first or second week of June. Most likely the first; 2nd and 3rd weeks will be mid-June right? Ok.

Then I got to call SMU.

Me ‘ Does 14 working days mean 2 weeks or 14 *working* days, which will mean 2 ½ weeks?’
SMU ‘You have to hand in your application on the 6th of May’
Me ‘I got the enrolment notice for SMU and because I have another application pending over at NUS/NTU. Because I want to know all my options before making an informed decision’
SMU ‘Oh you don’t have to worry about that because NUS would be releasing their results on Monday, the 2nd of June. So you have time to make a decision. However, to be honest, it is quite disappointing to know that SMU is but a second choice to you’
Me ‘Oh no, I’m sorry if I made it sound that way but I just want to make an informed decision based on all the options that I have before me.’
SMU ‘Yes I understand that, but it’d been months already, haven’t you decided what you really want?’
Me ‘Yes, in fact SMU is my top choice’
SMU ‘ Then why are you hesitating?’
Me ‘It’s not that SMU is not good or anything. It’s just that I want to know which paths I have. I want to make an informed decision I… realize that I’m not making much sense’
SMU *laugh* ‘I’m sure you have a backup plan of sorts already, but if you really need to, you can talk to me regarding the admissions. If you need someone to talk to to make a decision’
Me ‘It’s just that I’m interested in Marketing, and I do not know if Business or Mass Communications is the way to go, so I want to get both results first and make a decision’
SMU ‘Oh! Then you’ll be glad to know that many of the top NTU Mass Comm lecturers are currently in SMU teaching, they are under Marketing’
ME ‘Wow really? That’s really good news! :)’


So it’s an excerpt of the conversation. The lady was really nice, as she offered to link me up with one of the Marketing professors for me to talk to and ask any questions. That means results are out probably next wed or Thursday! OMG!

ok I'm gonna use this template until the one i was preparing doesn't screw up.

Seven random incoherent thoughts

1. Have to put this down at number one or I’d totally forget. Guess who won American Idol…Ruben. Now if the winner had been Clay, I’d but it in large font, bold and underlined, because that’s who I’m rooting for, because…. I’m a Claymate That’s so corny right? Claymate! Hahahah. There is this huge ruckus, because Clay was the one favored to win, even the Ruben fans thought so. So there were speculations about a conspiracy theory that Simon Cowell, Fox Networks and 19 Entertainment cooked up, that they are using underhand methods to make Ruben win. Like rigging the phone lines. Like brainwashing America. I say, Whatever. I mean, the contest is already over and the chances of Fox changing it’s American Idol upon protests is so impossible. Just live with it. And what’s an American Idol anyway? It’s just a title. Nothing else. And Ruben is a nice guy, a talented guy. I don’t mind if he won. It’s better for Clay to be runner up to Ruben or Kim Locke rather than people like errr. Edgar. Hahaha.

2. Been a little stressed these few days over the SMU/NUS/NTU thingy. Here’s the deal. I’ve been accepted into SMU Yay! And they told me I’ve to reply in 14 working days to confirm my enrolment. Ok. And the shitty thing is that I’ve not gotten my application results from NUS/NTU yet! What if I get a course that I want more? And the results from NUS/NTU ain’t coming out so soon, according to Pei Shan. Ok, so maybe I can enroll at SMU first and then jump ship to another course if another better one came along. But SMU (that sly school!) wants a deposit of 300 bucks! 300 bucks! Non refundable! That sly school! Afgh! Rduvb;astivyb;aervyta;reovyb ;rtyvba elrtvyb. I’m so irritated.

3. I’ve not been handling stress very well. Just yesterday, I think I was pretty rude to Ming about some of the job we have to do. Think it’s not a nice thing to tell people Whatever when they are explaining something to you. Hmmm… think was pretty stressed about the enrolment thing (ie. Above entry no.2) It’s very important not to let your personal problems get in the way of interacting with people, because when you are in a shitty mood, you tend to do any say things in the heat of the moment that you can never take back. Think I really have to learn how to control and handle stress.

4. Remember in the days of secondary school where you will have 2.4 km run practices? Yeah? Doesn’t it just irk you when you see the usual group of girls who always complain that they cannot run and then they walk really slowly for the entire course of the 2.4km practice. It irritates the hell out of me. I’ve always been the one that is running. Although I’ve never been known for running the 2.4km really fast or anything (always beaten by Ming!!! :D), I’ve always been the few girls who ran alone, not like those who run, no walk, in a group and chat all the way through. It really irritates the heck out of me when they then complain when they can’t pass their 2.4km run, then they complain again. If you haven’t been practicing, how on earth can you pass when you do the real run? Right? It’s as simple as that. You brought this upon yourself, you pick up the mess.

And on my way to work today, I saw students from my previous secondary school doing the 2.4 practice run. As usual, there is this group of girls at the back walking really slowly and talking and laughing. And of course, complaining. I can’t help but laugh and think of how they will react when they do fail the 2.4km run. One particularly funny one. This girl jogging a little turns back and look at her friend. ‘You aren’t running?’. Then she stops jogging too, and walks with her friend. If you want to run, then run! Who cares whether your friends want to run or not! This is precisely the kind of lemming attitude that bothers me.

5. The saddest and most heart wrenching show in the world has got to be this Mediacorp 8 TV show ‘Hai You Ming Tian’ every weekday nights at 9 pm. Roughly translated, it means, ‘There is still tomorrow’, with a play on the word ‘Hai’ which is also the hanyupinyin for child. The series is about kids with life threatening illnesses. I swear, if you can get through one episode without tearing a little, you are Good. Especially episodes which feature this kid called ‘WeiLiang’ who has kidney failure. Man… his story must be on of the saddest.

His father (played by Wang Yiliang has diabetes, poor eyesight (due to the diabetes) and is confined to a wheelchair, while his mother (Huang Biren) is a cleaner and dishwasher. And he has a severe case of kidney failure. And since his father can’t work, his mother is the sole breadwinner of the family. And to raise money for Weiliang to get a kidney transplant, they sold their one room flat. They were persuaded by this cousin to use the money and bring Weiliang to an overseas hospital, and this cousin would help them do the paperwork and finance thingy. And of course, they were cheated by this cousin, and now, they have no money, no roof over their heads and if you watched the acting of the 3 of them, I swear it’ll break your heart. Then Weiliang is in the hospital, while his parents stay under a highway shelter kind of place. And they were robbed of their last belongings, and the father was beat up by the robbers. And then last night’s episode left us hanging whether Weiliang would die.

Man this is too sad.

6. TAR is coming! Tomorrow! I can’t wait! I’ve gotten the cheat sheet from the FoRT and am all geared up for the race tomorrow. TAR I love you!

7. More movies please! Woo hoo! Made plans with Sam to watch Bruce Almighty and Finding Nemo (featuring the cutest clownfish in the world! :D) Yay! I can’t wait!!!

8. I made a new layout but it isn’t loading!!! :(:( Grrr…

Reloaded!

Went to watch The Matrix Reloaded yesterday with Sam, Kok and Mike at GV Plaza Singapura.

Did I mention that Keanu Reeves is a total hottie?

No?

Ok, he's a total hottie :)

Hmmm... I don't know why the movie got not-that-great reviews. I thought it was pretty entertaining, the fight scenes are really cool, thought it was much better than the first's. But it was a little too much, they had like, 8 fight scenes? It's cool, but it's too much. I prefer the first, where they had less fight scenes; kind of left me wanting more. :D Mmmm... what else? Oh oh, remember the movie posters for Matrix? I thought Trinity looks so much like Neo! It's like they were twins man... scary. But in the movie she looks much better. I say, lose the gelled hair and sun-glasses; Carrie Ann Moss is so pretty, yet they make her look like Neo's twin. God. And what's-her-name Monica Bellochi (sp) is so gorgeous! Totally oozes sex appeal.

I can't wait for Matrix Revolution. :D I hate movies that leave you hanging. I can't wait for LOTR Return of the King too. I can't wait for X Men 3 too.

:)

I'm soooo impatient!!!

Ok... before watching the movie, Sam and I were at Bishan Junction 8. Heard it was totally revamped or something, so was pretty interested. And they had MUJI! *Yaaaayyyy. Couldn’t wait to see it. Actually I had more reasons I wanted to go to Bishan for… but… errr… oh well :) Bought a pretty tie up sphagetti strap top thingy (which I’m wearing now! :D) for a ridiculous price. Hahah… ridiculously cheap. Lalala… What else? Hmmm… wanted to buy this pink M)phosis like top, but ummm decided against it. Also wanted to look around for short flippy skirts, but had no time :(

Oh and bought an Agatha Christie book! *Yaaayyyy!!!! So…. Happy. And it’s really cheap also. (Anymore cheap stuff and I’m going to come across as a real cheapo :)) I had wanted to buy it at Kinokuniya, but saw it at MPH for really cheap, so decided to buy it. I’m gonna go back and buy more! But first have to make up a list of Christie books I have read, so I don’t buy something I’ve already read like 5 times. (Which applies to most of her books :p) *Loves Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot and MPH!!!!

Also was looking for a nice copy of Pride and Prejudice but they only had this one with a pretty ugly cover. Maybe I’ll go to Kino for that… hmmm.

*hugs Sam. Sam bought me this cute Pooh cellphone stand that I’ve been eyeing for the longggest time! It’s just too precious and too cute!!! So adorable!!! Anymore and I’ll come across sounding like a bimbo!!! Errr… ok :) ThankssomuchyouarethebestestpersonintheworldSam!

Then went to PS to meet Kok and Mike. Had dinner at PastaMania. Yummmmm. You know what I really dig? It’s the lasagna. It’s so cheesy and hot and melt-y, I can’t resist. Remember the times where SL and I would go to PastaMania after school and eat our hearts out. Lol… Do you know that students have 30% off? Hahaha… delicious and 30% off. How can you resist? Tell me! And blackcurrent iced tea. Delish.

Yeah. Then met the guys for the movie. We had 3rd row seats! :(:( I had never sat so front in my entire life! Hahahah… blame us for buying the tix 1 hr before showtime. With a movie like Matrix Reloaded, a place like PS and a night like Saturday, you’d have thought we’ll know better. But still. Hmmm… 3rd row isn’t bad actually, it’s none too straining. Hah! People in the first row MUST have it worse than us right? Right?

Hahaha… self consolation.

Anyway got to get back to work soon! Meeting with the profs in a couple of hours and still have stuff not done! Must thank Ming for helping me cover up some of the work. I owe you one!

This entry was dated 23 Feb. Didn’t get posted b/c Blogger was down.

Christine develops psychic powers!

*peep

Hi guys :) Am back.

Yesterday was a happy day :D For some reason, I was really really happy... Lol. Possibly because I saw this cute guy on the bus yesterday. Possibly because I was wearing contacts that day, and could see things clearly. Possibly I was wearing my favourite M)phosis white tube and was feeling pretty. Possibly it's a combination of these three. :) I was feeling really perky and happy.

More about the cute guy. Can you say coincidence? I saw him on the bus. Err... checking him out a little. Nice body overall, kind of lean and nicely toned and tanned. Hmmm wearing glasses, but looked intelligent (god I totally dig intelligent guys!). Fitting Tshirt and jeans. Hmmm... really pretty cute. And was standing right in front of me, and since I had nothing better to do, I looked, naturally :D. Anyway, I got off my stop and walked to the main building and into the elevator, and then who should come in but him! Okkk... I really didn't see him so it was a plesant surprise. Even more so when he stood next to me. Lol... maybe because the only plaec left was beside me. Hahaha...

Then I went to office. I was thinking, by some fluke, I could probably see him for lunch, after all, if he studies in the same faculty that I was working in, the chances are that he'd eat at the faculty canteen right? And I told Ming about him. Then I thought about it, even if he'd eat at the same canteen, my lunch hour is pretty late, about 1.15, so it's kind of unlikely.

Guess who I saw.

I give you 3 guesses.

You didn't need that did you? Lol

I was so surprised, b/c I wanted to eat at that store, and there he was. Of course I didn't eat from that store. Would be too weird.

And then when I thought it won't get more coincidental, I saw him after work, at the bus stop.By this time, I was thinking maybe I was subconsciously stalking him or something. And maybe I should get myself to stop, stalkerism is so... psyco.

Then today, I saw him AGAIN. At the store I planned to eat (which is a different one from yesterday). Just how weird is that? Somehow, even though he was there first, he ended up behind me in the queue. Ming bought food from another stall, and finished before me, and she headed off to find a seat. I got my food, and went off in search of her, and was telling her about it. Then I stopped short. There were a girl sitting on the table beside us, and I got this crazy notion that she's his girlfriend. So I told Ming to hush.

What do you know. I was right.

WTF!!!!!!!!

Christine develops psychic powers

He came and sat beside her. Not before looking at me and Ming curiously, like you know. The same what-a-freaking-coincidence look. What's happening? The whole thing is like one big coincidence being played out in the shortest time span ever. :)

This is too weird.

No more Michelle Chia hair? Hohoh

I am thinking of doing something to my hair. Cut it all off perhaps. Getting a little tired of long hair.

:) My godmum and LH always said I had Michelle Chia hair. Which is a huuuge compliment because Michelle Chia has gorgeous hair, all tousled and sexy. Mine is just messy. Don't get me wrong, I love my hair, I love the way it's long, full and slightly wavy and stuff. But I want something different!!!

I know! Maybe will go buy the Panasonic Geometricks hairstylist thingy! Play around with my hair. Hurrah!

You are Pyrokinetic!


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Congratulations! You have been offered a place at SMU. This is subject to confirmation by SMU to you in the form of an official SMU offer letter.

This isn't real.

Is it?

It can't be.

I didn't get any letter.

OMG. I need to sit down.

Updating from home! At long last! And I look like Fann?

|| Bohemian like you . Dandy Warhols ||

Can you believe it took me so long to find out this really groovy song that I've been listening yet not knowing the artiste and song title. Really perky and happy song, puts me in a good mood! :D *bounces around. Man, I'm so uncool. Lol

Wore the Nike tennis skirt to work today. Funny... I looked at the tag and it says 'Dancing skirt'. Ehh? Nike does dancing skirts? What are dancing skirts? Isn't that a tennis skirt? Mmmm? Anyhoo. I think I'm not so suited to wear that skirt. Too self conscious about my untoned thighs! Hahaha. You didn't need that visual, did you? Hahah. And when I was going home, some guys were like err... whistling and stuff. So yeah. Argh. Who gives a damn about those losers anyway! I'm gonna wear the skirt as and when I want it!!! Ok... when I have more toned thighs.

Anyhow, I wrote an entry just now that got wiped out. :( Was talking about this really cute gym instructor in the club who was errr... standing beside me. :) He had such a cute smile! I should know... haha ;). And that body! Mmmm... did I say he was a gym instructor? Hoho... Alex says he's kind of short. Umm... yeah, he's about my height. Anyway, guess who's going to join the gym very soon and would require a gym instructor? ;)

I'm going to swim more as well, build up my shoulders. Yup yup.

Oh yeah, Mike! I borrowed Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. Remember that book? Hoho... Am going to continue to read it as soon as I finish Pride and Prejudice. Hmmm...seems like I'm progressing very slowly. Seems like I'm changing my preference in books. Don't get me wrong, I still love my Agatha Christie and her Hercule Poirot... just that, errr... I've almost finished reading every Christie book, so I might explore another genre. Classics seem like a good way to start. Sam! If you want to start Wilde, you might want to try An Ideal Husband, that's very good. :)

|| Stuck . Stacie Orrico ||

Don't you just love that song! 'I hate you, but I love you, I can't stop thinking about you'. Hahhaha... cheesy lyrics huh... but it's kind of true... I think. Ah well, I'm a teeny bopper :) Love my pop songs.

And my GooGoo Dolls. :)

Hmmm... I downloaded a bunch of Aaron Stanford pictures today!!! :D *Haaapppyyy....! Think he's really delicious as Pyro. I CAN'T WAIT FOR X MEN 3! Hope they would develop Pyro's role. I can't believe I have to wait 2 more years for X3!!! It's slated for 2005... such a long time away...

I look like Fann Wong.... Right

Ahahahah! Alex says I remind him of Fann Wong. *Laughs out loud. Riiiight. I asked him which feature reminds him of Fann, and he says hair and face. Hahahah! Riiiight. Okok... I'm really really flattered.

*spots GTA Vice City on the table. Runs off to play.

Way too early for an entry :P

Hmmm. Think I'll change my blog layout. Tired of it already... hahah. Fickle eh? But think I'll still do a pink and white thingy. Just a little bolder. Yup.

I think I am going to gain some weight. That can be a good or bad thing depending on how you see it. If I gain in on my upper body, (esp shoulders!!!) then yay!!! If it’s on the lower body, then I’m screwed. :( Just finished my half a gallon ice cream from Green’s. Had the Black Raspberry Blast … yum. Realised that they don’t really sell Green’s icecream here in Singapore, but I found it in this little shop near my house. Yaaay… going to try all of them, think I’m hooked.. hahah. Also bought some granola bars for breakfast this week and PopTarts! Sweeet.

Hmmm. Nick just smsed. Again. After I ignored his last errr… 5 messages. This is getting so irritating and makes me feel horrible. Grrr… hope he stops messaging soon. Or else I’m going to send him a very explicit sms stating that he should stop smsing me. Hmmph.

Update more later.

Hmmm

Daaang. I still have not completed Pride and Prejudice. But from what I've read so far... man I really really like Mr. Darcy. I like the way he's so... English, so full of pride, and the way he appraises Elizabeth Bennet. Love it. You gotta love a man who's so stiff and proud, he feels complied to hide his interest (in Eliza Bennet). But also partially because he feels she's not up to status socially. I don't know, I have not read the novel fully yet. Hmmm. Maybe I should get my hands on the video. Hear Colin Firth is playing Mr. Darcy.

Anyway, went swimming the last two days at the club. Hmmm... I'm gonna join the gym!!! Lol. Maybe, maybe. Why so? Because I saw this really really cute gym instructor :D Damn, I swear he's really cute. Actually, I couldn't really tell b/c I'm not wearing my contacts, but Alex says he's quite goodlooking. :) Yay... But he's kind of short. Erm... about the same height as me? Yup, he was standing beside me... Hoho...See, I'm sooo shallow. One cute guy and I'm rushing off to gym.

And I saw Wonderwoman. Heh heh, it's a nick I gave to this woman who was there swimming as well. She swam like, 20 laps without even stopping for breath! And if you are wondering what the heck am I doing, observing people rather than swimming, well, let's just say I salck a lot. :) My god... I want to be like her. Swim 20 laps without stopping. So how? Think I'm going to do some swimming training. Yeah that'll be good.

Argh!!! Nick smsed me again!! And called twice!! I left my phone home when I went swimming and went home to find some smses, and some from him! God... how on earth am I gonna tell him that I do not want him to sms or call anymore? I tried replying after half a day, ignoring his smses and now even when I do really avoid his calls and smses, he continues to sms! Woke up this morning to find a msg from him. :( I feel so bad ignoring his messages, but if I answer it, it'll never stop. Bleah. So how???

Hee... Mike asked if I would like to go watch The White Room. Errr I don't know really. Hate horror films.

GRRR

I had the mp3 player with me today and I took out the battery to check. What do I see? Shitty no-brand batteries!! Which prob have enough err...energy to last for 2 hours. :( My brother is such a sneaky person. I bet he hogs all the energiser batteries to himself and when I want to use it, slips in no-brand batteries. *Grrr

Arrrg, but I love my bro. In spite of that. Hee.

Playing - Thinking it over - Liberty X
Honey I'm feeling so confused
Don't wanna play a game I know I'm gonna lose
I need some time so I can think things through
But not tonight, not with you

So why the wait
I ain't mad with you baby
Yeah but why the wait
I'm just telling you maybe
Oh so why the wait
I ain't mad at you baby
I'm thinking it over

Munching

On a Breadtalk bacon and cheese bread that I bought yesterday. Hmmm… will this make me sick? I am thinking of buying a Breadtalk bread everyday after work and eating it for breakfast the next morning, as BT doesn’t open that early anyway. But I don’t know if that would become spoilt or anything. Hmm. Anyway, go buy the Applewerm bread, everybody! It’s deeelicious!

Pyro.Is.Flaming

Hahah… yeah for 2 reasons. 1)He can control fire and 2)He’s hot. Hoho… Hmm.. that was pretty lame. :) Went to watch XMen2 with Sam yesterday at Cineleisure. Surprisingly it was pretty full even X2 started about 2 weeks ago, must be the public holiday maybe? Anyhow. Think Pyro is extremely hot, especially when he starts uh… throwing fire at the police vehicles and stuff. It’s like this desire to let loose and do anything he wishes and the dark intentions to fully utilize his powers to destroy. Totally a turn on. Mmmm… Wolverine is pretty hot too, but don’t really dig his facial hair. Waaay too much of it. And Cyclops! James Marsden is pretty goodlooking, and they had to cover up his nice eyes! I wonder how Jean Grey can fall in love with him. I mean, the eyes are like the most intense and beautiful part of the entire human body (imo, anyway) and I don’t think I can fall in love with someone who can’t even return a gaze at me.

Don’t think I put that across very well. Oh well, it’s 9 in the morn, still not fully awake. *Yawn

Oh yeah!! Bought the new Evian Normad bottle thingy in red. It’s pretty cool, as they have graphic design on it. I got the ones with cartoon girls on it :D They also have one of automobiles and another of… err.. something. Jazz orchestra, I think. Go check the pics! :)

Hahah… and I bought a Snickers bar for Sam. Because I think err.. she likes Snickers? Hahaha.. random act lah… no reason at all. She then bought a hazelnut waffle thingy for me. Thanks :) Oh, and we saw Yan. Happy to see her… haven’t seen her in a looong time! Actually I think she’ll be a great hang out pal or something, after all, on the trip, we had fun. Heh heh…

Funny… Nick just smsed me. Did I watch Enemy of the State? *shrug.

And Spencer(!) just smsed too! Poor thing, he’s all the way in Shanghai training for the SEA games. Apparently the training he gets over there is about triple of what he gets in Singapore? Wow. Errr… overseas sms costs 15 cents each right?! *oh no. Anyway, he’ll be back in about 4 months time. Yup.

And yay! My computer is repaired. Will be online more often already! Yay!

Have been looking at some handhelds. I particularly like this one by Palm, the Zire71 which has a digicam attached to it. (Thanks Ming!) Actually the digicam isn't really great or anything. It is low resolution 640x480 maximum resolution. 0.3 megapixels? Talk about low resolution indeed! Lol :P. The highest resolution for a digicam now is about 8 megapixels? (The sony NZ90 has a 2 megapixels one) Hmmm, guess I don't really need a great digicam or anything, but the photos taken on the zire71 would be kind of hazy. What else? It doesn't have bluetooth also. But do I really need Bluetooth? Don't know... internet connection isn't that important to me, I just need something to take down dates and stuff. Hmmm... shall think more about it. What about connection to the PC? Sure they have USB or sth right? Mmm..

What else? It has a really sute screen, the outer casing is really cool, and apparently the color screen is pretty good. It has a high-resolution, 320 by 320-pixel, transflective 65,536-colour display. That should be pretty good, and from pictures, the coloring of the screen is very clear. Hmmm... another consideration is the measly 16 mb (13mb actual storage). How pitiful is that... :\ My mp3 player could probably store more songs. Ehh... this means I would have to get the 64mb memory card. Which means I have to spend. Also, it can play mp3 (which is great; I can give the Creative mp3 player to bro), but I have to buy the RealPlayer card thingy. And the headphones. Mmm...

Must add up all the costs to see if it overshots my budget.

SiewLee is coming back. Yaaayyy! Tag-board came back and all is good. Yaaayyy!!!! *Happy! I love you, world!!!! I am smart! I am genius! I am the smartest person in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!!!!!!! I got tagboard in it's proper place!! Yay!! *dance dance dance

Sometimes I think I have a giant mirror behind me and everyone can see what I’m doing on the computer and they’d know I’m slacking but they just pretend that they don’t see it and in fact they gossip behind my back saying that I’m the slackest person in the office.

Whew. That was a long sentence. Hmm. No squiggly green line, meaning that it’s grammatically correct? Hahaha.

Damn blogger. It’s down and I have no way of posting my previous entry, and possibly this one. I usually type out my entries on MS word then transfer it over to blogger, because sometimes when I type on blogger itself, it eats up my entry. So… I’m smart eh? Haha.

Yup, back to my giant mirror theory. Do you know when people walk pass my cubicle, in and turn to smile at me, I get the feeling that they know I’m not working? And then I’ll think, hey, how could they know, the computer’s not facing them anyway, for all they know, I’m working. And then I’d have this crazy idea that they know I’m not working because they can see my computer screen, because there is a giant mirror behind me that reflects my computer screen. And my computer screen would usually show that I’m surfing the net 24/7, or 8/5 to be precise (8 hours a day, 5 days a week :p). Then the stupidest thing I would do is to turn behind to check if there’s a mirror on the wall behind.

Hahahha :D

How silly is that?

Oohh. I smell food. Very very hungry. Will go eat. Speak short sentence. Vocab dead. Because am hungry.

Back from lunch! OMG!!! I just ate 2 plates of food!!! A plate of macaroni and omelette with mushroom and cheese *yum. I can’t believe I ate 2 plates of food for lunch.

And I’m still hungry!!!

New day has come! :D

Yup, it’s me sporadically updating again. Bleeeah. Promise not to do that again, it’s just that my PC was down yesterday. Yeah, apparently they could not find windows or something? Wtf is that? I have no idea. Alex popped this recovery CD in and in about 15 minutes, everything was ok. I think me and machines have disagreements. They hate me and wouldn’t work whenever I’m near them. Like yesterday, when I was doing some printing at work, and the stupid printer suddenly decided to make groaning, death moaning noises, like I’m torturing it or whatever. :\ Such that everyone who walks past would look at me amusedly and ask me why the hell the printer is making such a loud noise. Like I know!!!! So how? I went over to Ming’s desk to do the printing and I’ve printed about 2 sheets when her printer spluttered and died.

See how machines dislike me? :(

Then Ming walks over to ask how’s it going, and lo and behold! The machine choked back to life! It’s so disgusting the way machines die on you and revive when someone else walks over, I tell you.

Anyhow. Some new young staff came over on Monday. Think they are from poly or something. One Malay girl and a Chinese guy. I’d have thought this means finally some form of interaction and stuff, BUT. They are not friendly at all!!! :( And they are not very interesting people as well. Thought the Malay girl was kind of ok looking in an unfriendly way, and the Chinese guy, ummm. I won’t give a second look to him. Not that I’m very snobbish or something. It’s just that his face isn’t very interesting or nice looking for that matter. Aaaii… I’ll just come out and say it, I dislike him. So both of them are a big disappointment. Bleeeah. Boring Chinese guy just walked past looking kind of dead. Maybe I should throw something at him. Bleeeah.

Maybe there would be more temp staff coming later as the work load is getting a little heavier. Yaayy. :) Am eating soon kuey now, will start on the tomato flavoured chips later. Yum. You know they say that the computer table is one of the most unhygienic places to eat? Errr..*scurries off to wash hands.

Arrggh. The grossest thing happened today. I was walking pass this old guy and I turned my head in his direction because I was looking for the bus, and he let out this whistle. Ewwwwwww! So disgusting, I tell you. I can’t stand people who are foul looking. I’m normally a very happy, I-forgive-and-love-everybody-I-treat-you-nice-if-you-treat-me-nice person. But I cannot stand foul people. *shrug

Oh oh… just messaged. Jac is going off in September to England to study! Law in Cambridge! See, another overachiever… hahah. Maybe will have dinner with her, Sha and Alex soon, before she heads off. Gonna miss her, she’s a sweet girl.

And my cell is now is permanently on the record function. Heh. I’m gonna record Dr. M’s voice. I love his accent! It’s so elegant! Think he’s Turkish…Heh heh, I feel like a stalker. Ooh. Guy with nice side view (thanks for telling me, Ming!), just turned and looked at me. And he smiled at me :) But…errr, I did not smile back, cause it took me by surprise. Heh.

And also, gonna work on my template a little to see if I can chuck tagboard in. Toodles!

Mmm. I like dancing. Even if I don’t do it that well. :)

Here I am again. Yeah, I know I haven’t been blogging for 2 days. I’m a lazy girl, yesh I am.

So…let’s start from Saturday. Saturday was a fun day! Kind of busy. Went to Woodlands in the mid morning-afternoon time to the library and to buy some Triumph stuff. Yeah, I think I’m going crazy buying Triumph stuff. Just spent about 60 bucks last week, and another 20 this week. Oh well. Anyway, I want the SeaCell bra!!! So sexy, what with the ribbon-y straps and all. 65 bucks. Actually I don’t mind. Hmmm. Ok, enough undergarment talk.

So I went to the library in the morn, borrowed Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which I may add, is really really good. I love Mr. Bennet’s sense of humour, and I really like the way the way they speak. Think it’s really elegant, and the dry sarcasm. Really fantastic.

So later went to meet SiewLee to shop for the BBQ stuff with her. I wasn’t going to the BBQ but I promised her that I’d go and I felt really bad for canceling on her the last minute, so… yeah, I went and shopped with her. It was okay, I guess. SL’s mum shops a lot too. I was mentioning that Mad (this shoe store) has a buy-one-get-one sale, and immediately she was like ‘Do you want to get shoes?’ Hahaha. After that I didn’t plan to stay long, since I had dinner with the extended family and stuff, so I went home halfway. Oh, on the way went to get some lovely flowers for Mum and godmum. Bought them at this market, so it’s really cheap. 28 bucks for 2 bouquets! Can you believe it? And it’s pretty nice looking too. Got Mum roses (20bucks) and godmum daisies (8bucks). It’s too cheap to be true.

Then met Ying at Suntec to get some clothes. Yup, bought a halter neck top at bodynits which I really like. In fact I would not have tried it, but Ying picked it out and I just thought I’ll try it on just to see. I like it. :) And a skirt. Yay, new clothes.

And then rushed off to this uh, popular hawker centre at Holland V to eat dinner with the extended family. I don’t get it really. Why can’t we have dinner in a restaurant like normally, but come to this place instead? Aunt absolutely insisted on it. Think 2nd Aunt and Uncle always consider themselves connoisseurs of good food or whatever, but the food here really sucks. So salty! Eeee. Don’t really like them. Oh, in case you were wondering, they are also the parents of overachiever cousin. That explains everything, doesn’t it? Hahaha.

Then went clubbing with Ying, Pearly, JoBeth, Yifang and Liyi. :) Think they are really cool girls, but I rarely hang out with them. In fact, it’s the first time I’m going out with them. Come to think of it, it’s the first time I’m going clubbing. The parentals were cool with it, kind of took me by surprise. So. Heh. We went to Centro, and had 2 drinks. Pretty ok, wasn’t terribly alcoholic; vodka orange, I meant. Then later we ordered 2 more jugs, but was 2for1 so we got 4 jugs. Yeah. Vodka Lime and Burbon Coke. And I swear I’m never ever gonna drink Burbon coke. Foul tasting. The others were ok. Hmm. I’m so uncool, aren’t I? HAhaha. Anyhow.

Then went to dance, and we danced quite a bit. Ok I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really do dancing well, but I love it. It’s such an outlet. It’s like I don’t have to give a damn to what the people are thinking, it’s just the music and me. Yeah. It sounds corny and cliché huh? I don’t really mind even if nobody asks me to dance with them. Dancing alone is fine with me. The only other time I feel like that is when I play the organ, it’s me and the music. But the organ is so rigid; one wrong note and the entire feeling is gone. I digress.

So, dancing was pretty ok. Think a weird thing would be this guy coming up to me and shaking my hand. Like, huh? And he’s not cute also. Actually, can’t really see his face cause am quite disorientated. Maybe can’t take the drink that well, or maybe it’s my freakingly dry contacts which was seriously disturbing for my eyes. I think it’s the latter. These are old contacts; I’m still waiting for my new ones and my stupid optician has not got them ready. It’s been so long! And I’ve called him several times already. So pissed off. If it’s still not ready by this week, I’m gonna bring it up to CASE. Asshole. I digress again.

Crowd wasn’t so cute, at least from what I can see with the lenses. I don’t know. There was this guy who came over and put his hand on my back. And I was wearing this halter, so… yeah. Doesn’t take a hint. Asked me if he could buy me a drink and I’m like ‘No’ (Hahah. Straightforward huh) and moves away. And he pretends not to hear and asked again, and put his hand on my back again. Ewww.

So… yeah. Do you think it’s uncool to tell someone ’Thanks I prefer to dance alone’ Hahaha.

Had to leave earlier b/c I had organ lesson at 10 the next day, yup. Had supper with Mum :)

So… heh. Very fun night out :)

Anyway, got to get back to work. Have been procrastinating for far too long, and professors are looking in. So, yup yup, have a great day!

this does it

The return of Christine!

I love the way it sounds like a horror film hoho… But then again, it’ll indicate that I’m a scary person? Uh….



Hey dearies!!! Haven’t been blogging for a looooong time. Okay, maybe it’s about 3 days? Having non blog withdrawals now…the post about CHS and Maurice was written about 4 days ago actually, didn’t get published.



So, Yay! I’m back! ;)



Being punctual is difficult. Torturous, even



Have been implementing my ‘Be-punctual-even-if-it-kills-me’ plan. Yup…after that awful fiasco with the NTU interview, I made a promise that I would change this bad habit of being late. But it’s really really hard to change this bad habit that I’ve um… ‘cultivated’ over the years. (Hahaha… cultivated is such a weird word yah? But I do really cultivate it. It’s like I practice to be nicely late. Like about 10 -15 minutes?) Yup, but am changing now, to be punctual! I realized that I actually have to step on a few feet to do that… being punctual is difficult.



Started my punctuality campaign on Wednesday, went pretty disastrously. Wanted to be early, but ended up being late for work as usual. As usual.



*Digress. Listening to Anticipating by Britney Spears on my mp3 now. Loooooove that song! :D So danceable and am now bobbing my head to the music. Feels like dancing. Haha… Gotta really let me know if you want me, you gotta turn me on and make me feel sexy, gotta show me you got everything that I need *Happy.



Oh so I was saying… was late. Grrr… after all I’ve done to avoid being late. Got up, er…5 minutes earlier and walked a little faster. But yesterday takes the prize. Promised Ming I’ll be earlier and would meet her at Clementi at 8.10. And I got there at 8.15!!! Not bad huh, only 5 minutes late. But felt really bad as in the end we were both late, when Ming could have got to work on time. So… yeah.



Buy me new shoes? Please?



So I was talking about stepping on people’s feet right? I think people are ready to kill me. Hahah… Missed the feeder 947 yesterday that takes me to the Bukit Batok station and so how? I speed-walked all the way to Bukit Gombak station. Hahaha. It took about 10 minutes. Yay…and I was crossing the road to the Gombak station, when I saw that the train was approaching the station. So what did I do? I dashed across the road (without looking. Drivers were cussing) and all the way up the stairs and made it on time juuust before the train doors close! Yay! I swear, my VNC strappy sandals are going to break any day now. And I’ve just worn them 4 times! :( Yeah… so, anybody wants to buy me new shoes? Hahahah… I’m cool with any sort of sandals or heels, really. :P



*Digress - Kasuyvbferlaylbiuvla! The batteries in my mp3 died!!!!! Grrrr!!! I want to bite somebody.



And today (today I was early! Same train as Ming! Hurrah!!!!!) was reaching the turnstile thingy where you have to tap your card and I saw this woman approaching it before me. Actually I could have let her gone first. Wasn’t in a hurry, it was 8 on the dot. But I wanted my record to be so perfect that I cannot be even 1 minute late! Hahaha. So how? I slipped in front of the woman and went through the turnstile first. Hahah! *evil laughter. She was so… close to the turnstile, and somehow I managed to slip in and go through.



And a million other mean things I did. Just to make sure I get to work on time. See how I value punctuality? See? I even gave up being a nice and polite person. Gee. Am compromising on courtesy for punctuality. Somehow that seems like a paradox.



Hmmm… must work, work, work! Haha…Every time I see Prof K or Dr. M, I get an urge to laugh uncontrollably. They look so funny. Hee.

K work work.

Oh, forgot. Paul, a friend of Maurice’s called me on Sunday. Said that Maurice gave him my number, and asked if I could go to CHS to relief for a couple of days. Arrr! I told him that I was already working at NUS, so I cannot help him. Much as I appreciate my job at NUS, and love Ming to bits for getting me this job, I can’t help but regret that I cannot go back to CHS. I miss the guys there, and if I relief Paul, I get to sit next to Maurice! And I can see Maurice! Arrr… Hahaha…maybe Maurice would ask me to eat lunch with him. Hoho…am being fanciful.

*sigh…

All Mixed Up

Am in a blue mood now. *sigh. Was late for the NTU Communications Studies interview today, and that would cost me a lot. I think when I’m dead, engraved on my headstone should be –

Christine the late.

or

Now she won’t ever be late.

*Huge sigh.

I thought 40 minutes was plenty of time to get to NTU, after all, it’s in Boon Lay and I’m staying in Bukit Batok, normally about 20-30 minutes away. What I hadn’t counted on was the VERY kind and safety conscious feeder bus driver who decides to stop at every bus stop even though there is no people, wait for people running 400 km away from the bus stop, and give way to every vehicle on the road. Then the MRT, which decides that stopping for 5 minutes before Boon Lay MRT station is essential. Thank goodness that 179 has a fast driver. :) I suppose I was really happy to note that the 179 bus driver drove really fast. Haha…

So I got there late, and was waiting outside the interview place thingy. Oh, on the bus talked to this girl, who’s heading for her exam. Really, really nice person. I love it how sometimes you meet nice strangers you can talk to. Like the guy from SMU (still can’t remember it’s Lionel or Lenny or Leonard). Yup, so…was on the bus when I called a number on the NTU letter, and told the person in charge that I’ll be a little late as I took the wrong bus. Ok, that’s lying, but if I told them the truth (ie, sluggish public transport operators), it’ll take a long time. When I finally got to the interview room, the first thing the interviewers told me – ‘You are very late!’

Tell me about it.

While the interview went ok, there was an underlying tension that I was late. At the end, one of the interviewers said that they’d wanted to talk to me more, but since I was late, and that they had a schedule, my interview would be a little shorter. *angry at myself. What they say is perfectly reasonable, and if I’m angry at anybody, it’s myself, for not expecting contingencies. Now, not only will they have a bad impression of me, they’ll not get to know me better as the interview time was shorter.

I really have to change. I cannot go on being late all the time.

Anyway, no use crying over spilled milk right? Such a cliché, but so true.

Headed back to work after that. Stopped by Clementi’s Coffee Bean to buy myself a Ultimate Mocha Ice Blended to cheer myself up. Yup, that’s my favourite-est coffee drink. Delicious :D. Was waiting for the bus when these 2 guys approached me, doing some charity thingy. And when the first guy approached me, he was like ‘You are from NUS Business right?’ Hahaha…funny eh… it’s my first course choice. So it went like this.

Him ’Hi! You are from NUS Business right?’
Me Stares at him with a puzzled frown
Him ’Oh, no no… you’re from Arts and Social Science!’
Me ’I’m waiting for my University entry (which I’ve just might have screwed up)
Him ’Oh! I’m sorry, it’s just that you look really like one of my friends’ girlfriend, Shirley.’
Me ’Really.’ (Yeah right. Couldn’t you have something better to say? Like, something more honest? *rolls eyes)
Him ’Yeah, you look exactly like her!’
Me ’Oooook’ (Yes, I said it like that. Oooook.)
Him ’So, Shirley, I’m from blah blah blah…’
Me ’I’m not Shirley’

If he wanted to do some charity stuff, he can just ask me straight out right? Don’t have to say all this ‘You look like my friend’s girlfriend’ thing, because I know it’s not true. Hahaha…

Anyway, was on the bus to meet Ming when I saw this hottie coming up the bus, and he sat behind me. I got off 1 stop later, and was telling Ming about this cute guy. Hahhaha…Ming told me that he was looking at me as I got off the bus. :) Err… Ming says I attract older guys! Hahaha… So why can’t I seem to attract Maurice? *Hmmmph. Oh, saw another cute guy the day before, when I was still sitting at the reception area. As usual, he thought I was the reception person and spoke to me. Arrgghh, why was I wearing my glasses, no makeup and ugly clothes that day!

Ok.

Anyway, got to make sure will not be late for work tomorrow.

Arrhh! The mass comm interview is tomorrow! Must. Stay. Calm. Ying!!! It's tomorrow! Arrhhh! Shall post something about the interview tomorrow provided I don't end up in hospital with heart attack. Heh.

Funny how you always hear about life-changing decisions and actions and now you are living it. How I perform in this interview will guide the course of THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!! Gahhh! Like Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken', in a different sense, perhaps, but you get the idea.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference.

Funny how this poem has stuck with me since secondary school; since Mr. Jason Lim handed it to us during our first Pure Lit lesson. Everytime I have to make a decision, I think about that poem. Yup. ok, shall go and uh, I don't know... relax or something. Aromatheraphy perhaps? Yeah, think should go burn the peach incense that I bought. :)

These are special people :)

Kym
Ying
Amir
Shu Hui
Tash
Unexplained
Nhr
Erwin

Eh, pink is not that easy to read eh? and still so many kinks! The <$blogdateheaderdate$> thingy and have not set up the links as well. Hahaha.. will modify when I'm free :)

Yup, this is a happy new blog template. It's better than gloomy black, no? What you feel, you attract. Don't want to attract gloom. Heh.. Anyway, made this template myself! *yay. But couldn't figure how to put tag board in without the whole thing going screwy-upy. So...installed a commenting system for the moment until I can work out the kinks and put tagboard back in. In the meantime have to reply to these tagboard messages.

amir: h e l l is banned? s h i t.
amir: hey, it's no big deal being an officer, it's largely due to your academic performance. you'd see some really screwed up officers in SAF. **damn**, they made me one.
Is it? Then you must be one of those overachievers as well! Hahaha.
Sydney: Hey I think Jewel covered the song too... Quite good
I don't really like Jewel's singing, don't know why... Heh. I'll download it to listen though :)
sam: argh bbmak had a version of that too, with the this is the final boarding call as well. think it's part of the song?
Don't think so. John Denver's the original version. His version doesn't have the corny final boarding call part.

Went out with friends

Yup, was a full day yesterday, was out since morning until not-very-late. Was Ming’s bday yesterday! Happy Birthday! We got her what she wanted, a 5566 VCD thingy and a Bloom lip gloss in Babycake. Yay! We can both wear the Bloom lip glosses to work; I’m using PinkPink. Very sweet colour. Yup.. hope Ming’s Babycake suits her; the color wasn’t chosen by me, but by the counter person, so it should be pretty good. :) *loves Bloom and it’s gorgeous lip colors. Oh, oh… I am the new Bloom spokesperson for PinkPink lip gloss :), will show you guys the photo later. :)

So… went out Shopping again in the morning with Sam. Yes, Shopping has a capital ‘S’. It’s that important. Hee. Uh…went to VNC first thing to buy some new shoes. Liked this butterfly strappy sandal, think that it was featured in Cleo mag a couple of months ago? Yup, tried it and bought it. Actually wanted to buy the Charles and Keith sandals, but it didn’t look too nice; besides, I love butterflies, so this pair of sandals are great. Went home to check Cleo mag though, but realised that the pair I bought wasn’t the one featured in the mag, though they both have butterfly motifs. *Shrug. Saw many other shoes I would love to buy, but think if I went home with more than one pair of shoes, the parentals will be displeased. Especially since I bought a pair of black sandals a couple of months ago… so, yeah.

Oh I saw Jeremy! Hahha… don’t think he recognises me, though he was looking at me as if, uh, he recognises me. Hee. Or maybe that wasn’t Jeremy? Hmmm.

Hmmm. What then? Oh yeah, went to Mango at Raffles City. Think they have a whole new range of clothes which was not featured in last season’s catalogue. Anyway, I LOVE FLIPPY UP SKIRTS! Tried on this blue tube (that doesn’t make me look skinny. Yay!) and a white and blue thin stripes cheerleader style skirt. I love the skirt! And the way it flips around everytime I walk around. But it’s a whooping 73 bucks… am too poor to afford it. Maybe will wait till sale? *Happy. Also tried on this ankle length skirt which also has a flippy bottom. Nice… but, uh, will have to wear a special sort of undergarment. Yup.

Then went to Orchard as needed to go to Triumph. But in the end, ended up at Mango at Wisma Isetan. Tried on a lot of clothes! :) You know you have days where you don’t feel like trying on clothes, but days where you go crazy and try every single piece of clothing you set your eyes on? Yup, it was try everything on day. Tried mostly flippy skirts in different designs. Found that some of these skirts and dresses are torn. *angry. Does not like irresponsible people who can’t wear these sizes and tore it, and not inform the counter person! If you can’t wear a smaller size, don’t wear it. If you misjudged, and tore the clothes, please tell the sales person! What imbeciles. Ah well, enough ranting. I realised that my style is very school teacher-ish, or sweet-ish. I cannot carry off anything sexy or daring. I have to stick to nice skirts and cute little tops. Arrrgghh. Am forever stuck in a kid’s upper body!

Food time! Am hungry as didn’t eat much of a breakfast. Went to Yoshinoya. Guess who I saw!!! WeiYuan! *Happy. Haven’t seen him in a looonng time! Yeah. It’s so funny how we met. I was walking to the other aisle of Yoshinoya to see if there were more seats and I walked past Yuan without noticing him. Yeah, Christine the oblivious. Heard someone calling me and I looked around and saw him, uh, beside me! Hahaha… He thought I forgot his name…Lol. How could I forget? Talked a little then went back to Sam, who went to order. Yuan then came over to our table and we talked. He’s going for an interview for the Law faculty later! Another overachiever! Hahah.. Then Sam came back with the food. Yup. And Yuan was like, we should exchange our numbers. And he’s so evil!!! I was typing my number to his cell (and a very nice one at that :)) and he’s like ‘Hope people don’t think I’m trying to get your number or hit on you or anything. Like I’m blind’ *Hmmpphh! Lol.

Then walked around a little, Zara. I’ve decided for this season that I like Mango more than Zara. Zara is in this colourful clothes mood, much like Gwen Stefani’s street punk style. Saw this absolutely gross and dreadful looking pair of faded multi coloured shorts. It’s damn gross, I tell you. Looks like what those homeless people might wear…dirty, faded, garish, and looks as though it might smell bad. And guess how much it is? 48 bucks! I’m not kidding you. It’s really horrid. Wonder who would pay 48 bucks for a disgusting piece of clothing like that. You could go to Pasar Malams and get better clothing than that. Ewww…

Walked around more…and went to Forum to buy the Elderflower Eye Gel!! The person at Scotts was nice enough to call up and check for us. And Forum was the closest one with the eye gel still. Sam was nice enough to buy another bottle so that we could get 10% off. Heh, cheapo Christine :)

Then went to meet the guys for dinner at Nooch. Had to go back to CityLink. Stopped by VNC again so Sam can get a pair of shoes. And I saw a really pretty tribal style necklace at Six so bought it! :) So nice… can wear it to work on Monday. *Pleased.

Um…Nooch. Quite a number of us were there. Me, Ben, Aaron, YanMei, Sam, Ming, SL, Lucas, Mike, Sandra, Kingsley, Kok. Ate the prawn Ramen which wasn’t very nice, eh…b/c SL decided to play chef and put a large amount of chili oil in my soup. But I could take it… I love chili. :) And shared the Mango sticky rice desert with SL. Hmmm. Yeah, then all of us bummed around, walking. Wanted to watch XMen2 but it’s too late for some of them so didn’t in the end. Oh… saw Peifang as well! Haven’t seen her in a long time too! :)

**I make no apologies as to what I’m about to write**

I was a little disturbed throughout the entire dinner. It always seem that way when I’m with the clique. I never feel that way when I go out with the class alone; it’s like I’ll always have fun and will always be part of the conversation when I go out with the rest of the class alone. But when there’s class gatherings or dinners, and my clique is going as well, I’ll feel an obligation to stick to my clique. Firstly, when this happens, our clique gets isolated from the rest of the class, and it’s like we are out of all the on going conversation. And I do not like that, I feel that when we are out with the class, we should talk to the rest of the class, and not within the clique itself.

Don’t get me wrong. I love my friends and love to talk to them. But this is a class gathering, we should hang out with the rest of the class, not within ourselves, right? Secondly, one thing I like about hanging out with the rest of the class compared to the clique is the fact that I get included in all the conversation that is going on. They do not have secret conversations on the side or anything. It makes the whole gathering fun, as everyone is talking, and everyone is included in the conversation. Like the last time I was out with Lucas, Aaron, Pea, Joce and Kenneth. I do not know a couple of them very well, but I had a good time, b/c I was included in all that they are talking about.

But when I’m with the clique, I feel isolated. They’ll be at the side having secret conversations, and when I go up to them and ask what’s up, they’ll burst to giggles and not tell me anything. Then continue on the conversation. I’m ok with that, but not when it happens so many times. I went to talk to Ben; he’s a pal, but think YanMei wasn’t too happy when I talked to Ben. *shrug. Could have talked to the rest of the guys, but some of them went home, so only a few of us were there.

Which was why decided to go home early and not go to the Esplanade with them. When the 2 of them walked away and thought it was funny to leave me alone there, I just snapped, and decided I had enough of it.

Maybe it’s a sign that I wasn’t so suited to the clique, but with the rest of the class instead?

Whatever.

Downloaded Justin Timberlake's rendition of 'Leaving on a jet plane'. Pretty nice, actually. But it's more on a positive uplifting note than a sad, melancholic one. Kind of jazzy-pop-ish feel. Feels good to listen to it, although I thought the start of the song was quite cheesy. 'This is the final boarding call...'. Like, ugh, it's lame.

Annnyway, Kok smsed to say he's taking his SATs now... ugh. Am reminded of the last time I did the SATs. Don't even know why I did it the second time; got worse results than the first. Suppose it's just how competitive I am... heh.. cause I heard Lucas got 1400, and I got 1350. Haha... and the SATs was just one uh...subject I can win my overachiever cousin at. Yup, he got lower grades than me for SATs. *evil laughter... Hah! He's not that great after all!

Speaking about overachiever cousin... well, sometimes it's horrid to have someone the same age as you, but doing so well in terms of curriculum. That's overachiever cousin. 4 As. Distinction for S paper. A for GP. Yuch... I am so disgusted with him. Is there anything Q doesn't do well? Only the SATs, I suppose. So anyway, grandmother was talking about him, and how he's in NS now and has attained officer-ship... er.. or something like that. Is that possible? I mean, he'd just got into NS and he's an officer now? Sounds incredulous. So grandnother was going on about him, how her friends were like 'Oh, your grandson is wonderful, so smart and stuff', right in front of me. I mean, I don't mind it in the sense that I know she isn't doing this deliberately to hurt me or anything. But it's like she forgot that I took my A levels as well. It's like she forgot that I did pretty ok as well. It's like it's only Q that matters, and he's the jewel in the family's crown or something.

*sigh.

Ah well. Oh, I forgot, happy birthday to YX. Yup, YX was one of my good guy friends in secondary school. Him and ZH. It was his bday yesterday, and I wanted to sms SiewLee to remind her. So I went 'Oil box's bday is today!' Hahaha... we used to call him oil box b/c if you play around with the hanyu pinyin of his name, you get 'oil box', which, to us, was pretty funny. :) Heh, the smallest things make us laugh. So I wanted to send the message to SiewLee, but I ended senting it to YX instead! Haha... it's so funny. He remembers the nick. Hee.

Anyway, gotta go eat something, pretty hungry.