The Earthquake

The death toll from the earthquake and tsunamis has hit 60,000.

It is one thing to study something in your geography textbooks, but another to witness the might of nature, and the disaster that unfolds.

I find it hard to express in words the kind of pain and anguish and the suffering of the people who lost families and friends in the disaster. I find it even harder to put down in words how painful it is to see so many people lose their lives in this disaster.

On Sunday morning at 7, everything was perfect, the weather is wonderful. Who would have thought that 24 minutes later such a disaster would strike? The suddenness and the magnitude of the disaster is mind blowing.

When you read about people losing their 11 children, daughters asking for help to look for their fathers, parents grieving over dead children, vacationers having a tragic end to their holidays, things seem very bleak and hopeless. Why do things like that happen to people? Why does something like that have to occur?

I just watched the news, and there was footage of a woman breaking down and crying uncontrollably. I don’t know which country she is from, and what or who she has lost. But in her, it was an embodiment of all the emotions and the suffering people are experiencing. It is painful to watch.

Because this does not directly affect Singapore, I find that we are generally very blasé about it. Certainly, if something does not affect you, would you pay much attention about it?

But I urge you to put yourselves in the shoes of the disaster victims. Think not only about how lucky Singapore is geographically, but also of the pain the disaster victims are going through. The world is so much bigger than that which you inhabit.

I find myself questioning what I can do to help. The Red Cross representative said that what are really needed now are monetary donations. However, there must be something more than that which we can do.

When destruction is so great, words seem insignificant.

*Grin

Okay here goes

HO HO HO!

Merry Christmas!

(I really like saying 'ho ho ho' :D)

Chrisss reporting from Taiwan!

Hello! I'm in a small dookie cyber cafe in Taiwan right now. Will be back in about 30 hours!

I miss my bed and comforter.

I miss the people in Singapore.

I miss my lappie.

I miss the nearness. And I miss lots of stuff that happened a couple of weeks ago, which left me more than a little confused.

Hm...

I bought lots of stuff! And because the currency is so different, I always get the sense of feeling that the thing is really cheap, but them on impulse, then realise (after calculating) that the prices are actually the same, or slightly plus minus.

Also, it's quite hard to buy gifts, I realise. So you guys are only gonna get foodstuff. But they are delish!! Haha...

They have this brand here called TheFaceShop. I love it, and the stuff there are so cheap!!!

Tried to get Abercrombie clothes too, but they are all the winter season clothes. Dad said we can go to HK next year! Haha. Yay!

Oh ya, I can attest that Taiwanese guys are cute! At least those in Xi Men Ting are very very cute. There's this Pan Wei Bo look alike working at California Fitness! Wenyi, if you're going there you should check him out! Haha.

Going off now. :) Cya guys soon!

New hairstyle! (I think I was at Grandma's bday dinner) 

Life sized Precious Thoughts

Saw this at Suntec, I couldn't resist. :D

Dim Sum breakfast

Our 145 bucks dim sum breakfast. Hahaha. It was delicious though!

Fifi the Angel dog!

The angel dog! *loves* I voted for it 2 times! Heh. I think it's a Maltese (sans long fur) It's too adorable!

The Bodynits top!

Which I totally love :D I have a photo of the back of the top... might not post it. It's sort wrap around top, so the back of the top is only secured by a ribbon. Mum will NEVER let me wear it out without a sweater. But I love it so much!!!

My new hairstyle!

For those who still do not know... I've straightened my hair! Yay! Haha. Slightly only, cause it's soft straightening so I still have a little curl left. So my hair is now feathery looking, which I love!

New hairstyle! :) 

The night of the old school friends and dim sums

Yesterday I went out for dim sum breakfast with the mentoring gang - Wenyi, Caleb, Daniel and Weisiong. Went to this place at Chin Swee called Red Star Restaurant. It's pretty good actually, and I think it would have been cheap if we ate in moderation. Haha. Unfortunately, that word isn't in our dictionary so we ended up running up a bill of 145 bucks! Heh. We were a little worried initially, and our worse fears were confirmed when the bill is tallied up. (I honestly hoped the pork ribs I asked the waitress to get for me isn't counted as special item! Haha) 42 plates of dim sum! I mean, even for brunch that a little excessive. That means on average I ate about 8 plates of food!

Later we went over to Suntec. On the way there, Y smsed me to tell us 'not to make fun of W'. Haha... I thought it was quite funny cause we were hardly doing that. We were too busy insinuating something else. Still. I replied something like 'Ok la!'. Then you know what happened?! He called me and said 'Yeah right.' And I was like '?! What on earth?! I said ok means ok!'

And then he said 'I do not want to repeat this again ok!' And I was flabbergasted. I was like 'Excuse me, are you threatening me?'

Maybe it's a joke... and I took it too seriously? I don't know... I turned over to Weisiong and Wenyi who were in Weisiong's car behind and gestured to them about the phone call. But I think they thought I was ... I don't know... entertaining them or something. Haha.

Later met Cher at Suntec to hang out for a while. Haven't seen her in a while, and next sem's she going to US! Anyway we hung out, watched a dog show and voted for Fifi (angel dog!), bought clothes and ate at Crepes and Cream.

And I really want to buy a top from Bodynits!!!

• Night of the old school friends

Mum did something totally out of character yesterday. She gave my phone number to a guy who came up to her and told her he knew me from primary school. Apparently he's called Andrew, and she sort of recognised him.

Here's the funny thing - I don't know anyone called Andrew from primary school.

So how? He smsed me, and I still don't remember him. Apparently he's from another class, but I honestly have NO idea who he is. And he suggested meeting up. This would have been quite funny if it didn't happen to me. :/

And I saw Zhihui today! Zhihui, Youxiang, Siewlee and I were kind of great buddies back in sec 3. Kind of happy, but I didn't really recognise him. He called me and I was looking around to see who called me. HAha. He's still really tall but he looks so different! HAha. I don't know... we were talking alright for a while then he suddenly became very uncomfortable. Which I thought was kind of strange. Hm.

Lala... I'm going off to watch Shrek now!

The daddy's little girl.

Have you guys seen the Soo Kee advertisement? The one about the father and the daughter?

A diamond says 'I'm happy for you'

A Soo Kee diamond says 'You'll always be Daddy's little girl'

Aw... :)

I love that thought.

Stoneeeeyyyyy

Last last night, I fell asleep at 9 plus.

I was supposed to meet the SMP people at 10 at Adam's Road for supper.

Weisiong called at about 1015 and asked me 'Eh, I knew you will fang4 fei1 ji1' one... Hahaha. We had a joke about the a stupid airline company. And that outing I was the pilot. Sorry guys!!! Haha. :P

And then, Caleb and Weisiong asked me. 'You got Jury Duty is it?'. *laughs* I hope this doesn't stick. I can see this, say 5 years later when we have some SMP gathering. I turn up late, and all of them will simultaneously ask - 'Chris!!! You got Jury Duty is it?'

Later we are going for Dim Sum buffet! Same one where Sly-Shandi-Sim threw up after we binged on dim sum. The good old days in JC... :D

Oh and I am so addicted to Passi's 'Reviens Dan Ma Vie'. No idea what that means, but love it. (Edit - Apparently means 'Returns to my life' or something)

The (materialistic) wishlist!

Because I love making lists and I am materialistic.

1) Carolina Herrera 212 (New favourite scent! CH rocks!)
2) Organiser from Borders/Kino. Those nice illustrated ones! (Maybe I should wait for sale at Borders? But they will only have those awful designs left... :/)
3) Jordi Labanda bag (which costs about 200 US bucks so I probably can forget about it. Unless... *grin*)
4) Natural Source Hi-Shine Super Shine Mask (This is a need!)
5) Elizabeth Arden 5th Avenue (Sam!!!!! Hahah we always procrastinate.)
6) Sex and the City DVD box set (If there is Season 1-6 boxed. I'm not sure...)
7) In the Mood for Love Citerion Collection DVD (THIS IS A NEED! ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL!)
8) Chungking Express DVD!!!! (Prefably the one without Quentin Tarantino on the cover. Esh.)
9) The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher (This guy is a genius! I want to hang out with him!)
10) A Diamond (Daddy's gotten me one!!! My first diamond! Yayyyy!!!)

Okay I've gotta go back to Boredom Central. Ciao.

Edit - I just feel like the LAZIEST bum in the world. EVERYONE is working. Everyone. I'm not kidding. And what little work I planned to do (writing editorials for the mag) is not being done cause I'm PROCRASTINATING! I just spent 15 minutes today staring at some photos with an inane grin. Grah!!! I can't stand myself!

Edit Edit - He just smsed me today to get my address?! Like, I will give it to you when I barely know you? I mean, you're sweet and all, but COME ON! Anyhoo, I think he's pissed at me, but I don't give a hoot. *Mutter* And all that sweet talking are probably for show.

Edit Edit Edit - There is some stupid pop up that jumps up to IE every 30 minutes or so. Some porn website. Don't ask me how, or why - This is not the computer I usually use, I'm not using my laptop. And the stupid thing is the header 'Thank you for CHOOSING to be on our website'. I didn't choose to be on your idiotic website, you moron.

Edit Edit Edit Edit - Is this the most ridiculous blog entry or what? Why are you still reading this? Could it be you're even more bored than me? Ha! Maybe no one is reading this anyway.

See. And so her mind goes. Rambling away, chatting into the wilderness.

The song that is stuck in my head now!

Broadway's dark tonight, a little bit weaker than it used to be.
See the young man sitting in the old man's bar, waiting for his turn to die...

I love you Goo Goo Dolls!

The Uber Bitch :/

Okayyy... maybe I did come off as an uber bitch in the last entry, but it was all firmly tongue in cheek okay? I was displeased with what happened, that much is true, but it's all over now - I can forgive and forget! Really! :)

Met Madeline from Animal Square at Bugis cause I was writing an editorial for them. She gave me a Katchup tee shirt! :D:D So cute! Heh. Go visit their site... It's really adorable, and I really like the t shirts they have there! It's quite cheap too!

LAter met the BV mentors at Suntec for dinner. I was there early so I walked around Topshop. Saw Coreen and Ruide (seperately). Also, cause I was afraid of being there first and seeing Angel. I will have absolutely no idea what to say to her cause I think she knows I'm pissed, and I am really bad at public confrontations. Saw Caleb and we walked around to avoid being there first haha... later met up with Wenyi, Jiahui and Weisiong and we went to NYDC to eat, Mel joining us later. Was a little strange at first when Angel came, but later it was a lot better as we talked a little. Pretty minimal, but still. I don't feel angry at her or anything.

Later we went to Geylang to buy 'dou hua'. That place was teeming with policemen! What's going on. Actually it was a little scary, like terrorists, you know. But I was thinking they were rounding up pimps or something like that. (Oops, was that PC?) And ya!!! Caleb almost ran me over!!! Hahaha... actually I got off the car and walked across the road in front, and I think he wasn't expecting me to walk in front cause er... something to do with walking in the opposite direction of traffic. Yup.

We all ended up at East Coast Park (like in the first outing) eating dou hua and crystal dumplings which are yummy! Haha.. it was great hanging out with them cause we always do stupid things! Heh. This time it's IC photos and lame jokes. And er... how we think a certain school mentors and mentees are quite screwed. (Okay maybe that's just me) Anywayyy... It was fun! And I am so so so glad I'm am a BV mentor! Yayyy!

The Irresponsible people rant / aka The people who piss me off rant

Okay here is the promised rant. :) But I'm actually to happy to rant now, cause I've got a present! :D

Part 1 - The irresponsible ones

Doesn't it make you pissy when people 'fang4 ni3 fei1 ji1'? Angel messaged me the day before the camp and asked me if I can help me take care of Junping for the first day of camp. Normally, I'd be perfectly fine with it, cause Adarsh is not going for the camp, and I have not much duties to do on the first day anyway.

What made me a little annoyed was the fact that she only dropped this bombshell on the day before the camp. And her reason was so damn vague! 'Important conference' - Yeah right. Do you really expect me to buy that? You may as well say something like 'Family matter' or... no no no... why don't you say something like 'Jury duty'? Huh? Come on! I'm the queen of excuses! That 'important conference' is not going to convince me! If it's so important, why didn't you know about it sooner? Why do you only know it 1 day BEFORE the camp? How convenient right?

AND THEN SHE DID NOT TURN UP ON THE SECOND DAY AS PROMISED. This is going to take the cake. Even me, the queen of the late, the queen of excuses, the queen of cancel-dates-at-last-minute would NEVER EVER do something like that. Not only did she not turn up, she did not even call me to tell me that she will not be coming! How irresponsible is that?! I mean, you saddle me with your mentee, tell me that you'll be back the next day, fail to turn up, and did not even have the common decency and courtesy to call ME to tell me! What the hell?!

And what's even worse? The excuse!!!! She has a sore eyes!!! That's the worst excuse I've ever heard! If you're going do the disappearing act on me, make sure you have a good excuse, really. That makes me so angry I wanted to put her face on a porcupine!!!!

Shite I am so angry now I don't know what I'm going to do when I see her tomorrow. I must keep calm!!! Zen!

Part 2 - The brainless bigots.

Part 2 of my rant has to do with stupid idiots.

No, really.

Can you believe the idiocy of some people? In this case, it's this mentor from Jurong Sec. He was talking about Bryan. (At that point, I didn't know who he's talking about) And he said something like 'Wah... that guy, sure go for a sex change in the future.' I thought it was a pretty tasteless thing to say, because it just goes to show you're just small minded and generally bigoted. (Sam will know what I'm talking about right *wink)

And I can remember thinking 'You are the one who needs the sex change, you idiot.'

And then it turned out he was talking about Bryan. And I was so pissed I totally gave him the evil eye everytime I see him. (I try not to, bad for the eyes) I mean, come on! You are a mentor and you're talking like you have no friggin' brains. That was probably the most evil, tasteless and stupid remark I've heard anyone made. And if it were a mentee who said that, I could accept it cause they are ignorant. BUT you are a 22 year old male and you make comments like that, when you are a mentor and suppose to set an example - Then I think you are stupid. That totally made me lose all respect for the said person.

What a lily livered idiot.

As Shakspeare will say - "Kiss my codpiece, thou puny fat-kidneyed lewdster!"

Yuck.

The one about the lazy girl who just BBQed

Eh! I just realised almost all of the mentors have already published their camp entries and I haven't even started on it yet! Haha... It was interesting to read theirs though.

I have been writing in my diary more constantly recently. Have already wrote about 3 pages in my diary about the camp. I think the more important, and the more special stuff I'll write in there, and the rest will be online. Also the more snarky thoughts will be online too... haha. Especially how some people irritate the hell out of me and according to Weisiong, if I am anymore so easily irritable, I'll have no friends. Hahaha.

ETA - Weisiong and Jiahui just messaged me about my 'irresponisble people' rant. Hahaha. I'm in a good mood today! Can't rant now! Hahah.

Anyway, I just came back from the MC bbq at Pasir Ris park. To quote Weiherng - 'Zhe shi she me gui di fang?!' (What kind of place is this?!). It was raining, hardly ideal for bbqing. But it was fun. I was late for 30 minutes ('fashionably late' according to Weiherng, 'as usual' according to Larry, 'Bravo' according to Peiling cause I was the first to dash through the turnstile.. haha.) ung out with them, Joy and Kevin, and talked to a couple of the year ones. Ailian is really sweet! She knew I was having a sore throat and gave me lozengers. The food was surprisingly good, I loved the satay (without the sauce) and the chicken wings. This must be the only time I ever liked BBQed chicken wings. It was yummy! Heh. Went back with Joy and had a good time chatting on the way back. We talked about SEP and ANTM! Yay! I didn't know so many people watched them.

Okay, I'll prob write my rant tomorrow :) Hahah.

PS - Anybody shops at 'Animal Square'? I'm writing an article for them... need your comments. Tell me!

Succinct entries rock

Because I'm too lazy to type out full sentences. And to write whole coherent paragraphs now. Maybe later. I will still use the caps and not lingo though cause I cannot stand to read entries TaT lO0k LiEk TiS lolZ! WtH?! You get what I mean. (Ps I don't hate people who use lingo. I hate lingo. There is a difference :))

Camp was fun. At some points, I guess. Adarsh was not there, but I have some duties to do. Will post the full rant about irresponsible people later but now I'm a little tired.

LAter :)

I officially crown myself Queen of Delusion/Irrational/Ridiculous

And if I run off halfway through breakfast to find a blog that I thought contains his name again, I will smack myself. Maybe.

Can I be more ridiculous? Geez.

The one about the Sentosa recee

Went to the Sentosa recee on Sunday. :) I think I'm gonna spend a lot of time at Sentosa (relatively) this holidays. There's the camp, then with the Daer crew, then suntanning with Sam! I think I'm gonna be so tanned and I love it! Hahah. Makes me look thinner also.

Was with Mel and Wenyi most of the time, actually almost all of the time hahaha. It was fun! Actually we didn't do much, just played some ice breaker games, sat around at Palawan and then the night walk at the Dragon's Trail. It's REALLY dark in there! Gosh, I was really terrified half of the time. If there weren't like, 30 people walking the trail with me, I think I'll just sit down and refuse to move. Haha. I DON'T think any mentee who are in their right minds will actually do the solo walk, but then again maybe I am easily scared of the dark. Heh.

Lala. What else. NOthing much but I'm looking forward to the camp!

The awkward incident

Saw CF last week when I was at the library studying. I went out for a quick lunch and when I was crossing the road, I saw him over at the other side of the road.

For some reason, I quickly looked over to the other side and pretended not to see him. Gah. I don't know why. I was kind of embarressed I guess. The last time I was supposed to go out with him (at 3pm), I messaged him 30 minutes before I was supposed to meet him and cooked up some dumb lie and said I couldn't possibly meet him. This happened about 2 to 3 times. (Yes, I know I am irresponsible and such. :/) He's a very very nice person, and I've known him for a long time, but somehow I still didn't really feel like going out with him.

I don't know why I always say yes to dates then back out of them last minute cause I am afraid I'll be bored by the other party. And I do get bored very easily, and sometimes when I go out with someone, I get bored like 30 minutes into the date. They most likely are bored with me too.
Gahhhh!!! Why can't I ever ever be not bored. Or be fascinated by someone so much that I am not bored by them.

Anyhow, back to the incident. He called out to me just as I walked past him. (In my head I was going 'No no no no no no no no no .... Don't see me') I did a totally fake and awkward about turn and cranked 'Oh hi!' in a totally false manner.

The girl hanging on his arm gave me a supercilious once over.

Bah.

The one where the girl gets sick

I think I'm coming down with a flu/cough/sore throat. This is horrible.

The jumbled up mess

I don't know. It's like, I have so much to write about. When I'm on the bus, I'd draft entries in my head, preparing to come home and blog about it. But once I got home, I switch on the computer and slack. Usually chatting on MSN/ replying emails /checking out FORT and what not. I think I'd be better off buying one of those Felicity type tape recorders. It will be tres cool!

Okay, some happenings.

1) Exams are over! However, I think there is something wrong with me. I keep thinking that I had forgotten to sit for one of my papers. I try counting, and yes, I DID sit for 5 papers, but somehow I keep having the 'maybe I forgot to go for an exam' kind of feeling. I can't even try to describe to you how stupid and confused I feel. MAYBE, just maybe, I actually took 6 modules this semester, but mistakenly thought I had 5. Oh what the hell. I don't even make sense.

2) Zouk on Wednesday. Don't get me wrong. I like Zouk. Best club in Singapore/Asia/the world, yup I agree. But it's so freaking packed on Wednesdays!!! What, are all people like me? Me, who will only club when it's free? Hahaha. Was at Zouk on Wednesday Cher and Xiufen. Actually wanted to join the biz gang, but can't find them. Saw Val and Jiaying though. And Yanting. I SERIOUSLY think that they should switch Phuture and Mambo. Come on!!! Phuture is so damn packed! Can the powers that be move it to somewhere were we can actually enter? I went to the washroom for about 5 minutes and I took 15 minutes to reenter Phuture, and it's so packed we were back to back kind of squashed. Now, this may sound REALLY shallow, but I didn't really mind (that much) because 1)There is a really cute guy behind me 2) He is nicely built. But still!!! More space please!

3) Vomit on my feet. ACK!!!! ... And that is why sometimes I hate clubbing. People vomitting. On my feet. When I'm wearing my new cute T sandals. I was so stunned, I didn't react for a full 30 seconds. When I was like 'WHAT ON EARTH?!'. That guy is lucky he didn't vomit on me, cause I seriously (seriously, I stress) would have tried to punch him. I went to the washroom and tried to do damage control. The entire floor was wet, and the Zouk auntie was really pissed. Haha. :/

3) Me no like-y playboys. About 5 minutes after we entered Phuture, this guy sidled behind me. He was okay looking, I guess, and very cool. So I danced with him for a while. Stress on a while, cause I got bored after 5 minutes and tried to squirm away. It wasn't easy, Cheryl had to 'save' me. So for 3 awkward minutes, I was sandwiched between him and Cher. Him behind me and Cher in front trying to drag me away. Strange. For some (really strange) reason, the scene replayed in my head like a Botticelli image. (Did I get that spelling right?) . I don't know why. There is honestly no link. Anyhow, I'm not saying that I'm proud of it or anything, but I would have laughed if I saw a girl in that situation. 'You asked for it!!' would be my exact words. (And NO, for those whom I know will ask. He didn't do anything)

4) School of Seduction / Bride and Prejudice / Bridget Jones : Edge of Reason
I watched all three in a span of 1 week. I will recommend Bride and Prejudice. Great film, and followed closely to Pride and Prejudice, which I love. (Sidenote- Isn't the guy's sister supposed to want Darcy for herself? I can't remember. I need to read it again) It is very very funny, and Martin Henderson is beyond goodlooking. School of Seduction is so funny! I absolutely loved it. However, the strong British accent and no subtitles meant that I missed out a couple of jokes. Still, it is really funny, and no, don't expect to learn much about seduction, cause the emphasis is really on something else. Bridget Jones - I didn't enjoy it as much as the first part. And it was strangely disappointing, even with Colin Firth. But the fountain fight thing was so good! *laugh*

5) Hair cut. I don't know. I've been wearing caps and ponytails since my haircut. What do you think? I need to remedify it.

6) Hanging out with best friends - Priceless. Oh wait, this isn't the Citybank advertisement. (crappy laughter) Hung out with Sam whom I haven't seen for the longest time! Went to Expo and boy. That exhibition is HUGE. And full of women wearing ugly plastic like tube tops and mini skirts. I'm not sure about the appeal of these clothes in relation to buying electronic gadgets. I think the clothes look ugly as hell and really awful. But then it's just me. Erm, I'm not really an IT person so I'll just say that it was pretty cool and leave it at that.

7) Oh ya!!! The Xmas queen pageant. Saw Ricardo doing some mc-ing job, hosting this pageant thingy. Ooh. I love bitching about pageant people. *laugh. Yes, I know they are probably a lot prettier and more daring than me but.. pffft. Actually some of the girls, I don't mean to be nasty, but what are they doing there?!

8) Sentosa tomorrow. Need to go to bed now.