jialing is tired. 真的好累，好累啊。总觉得等着我去做的事太多，做不完，需要做的事接二连三的来，根本没时间休息，喘气。杀了我吧。。。这样下去真的会死。哈哈。

cant believe its the last day of the year already.. got various things i'd wanna talk about here.. but too tired.. so another time.

To God be all the glory for all He has done in me and blessed me with :)

anyway, so that was a rant about school.. got lots more to rant about.. maybe another time. it's 8.24 pm on a thurs night and i am sitting alone in canteen 1. dot went home first cos i wanted to linger and use sch electricity as i blog etc.

today, i brought my $9.90 kettle jug to school! The jug that i bought at Courts Tampines Megastore at half price, that i queued for half an hour to buy tgt with my new toy, my Casio Exlim 10.1 megapix cam :) am pleased with it despite song wee revealing that Casio has the highest digital noise. haha. anyway, philip (Child Health n Nutrition lecturer, our only male lecturer ahahaha) commented that it shoots very clear videos! cos we happily showed him the video we made for our ITA assignment.. we showed it to another lecturer today too, ahahha. am rather proud of it tho of cos, if we had more time had been more efficient etc it could have been more professional and nicer.. the audio part esp.. the sound recordings at some parts really make me wanna cringe. haha. what to do, working with limited time is like that.

the ITA video has caused calista's 'gang' to howl "AH BOYYYYYY!! ah boyyy dont go!!!" whenever they see her.. not forgetting "ARMY ENLISTMENT?? stay home and be a mummy's boy!" lol. hilarious. i like the video of dot and evie a lot.. think it's very funny.. the nuances of their expressions and all.. neer fails to tickle me :P

i realise i keep on and on about school! this is bad. my life does NOT just revolve around school... although these past few weeks has really been about school school and more school stuff.. hais.

last day of sch tmr b4 our 3 week break! but it's not gonna be a very relaxing break cos still got sch work to do.. my math learning corner to set up especially.. sigh.. suck my bloood again.. dunno how i'll urvive as a teacher next time when i take ages to do lesson plans and put my thoughts together, and even to come up with creative ways to teach the content. HMM.

oh, and i'll be working part time too.. at chiltern house! tho it'll be tiring, i'll look forward to the income ($$$ is always welcome! Have been splurging man. on food and all. cos when life is stressful.. must pamper oneself to make things more bearable ma!) and to seeing what things are like there now that i've been in sch for almost 2 years.. observe how they teach, the things they do.. hee :)

listening to my jay hou cd now that xh n lum gave me as my bday present. speaking of which.. i am sad becos altho i had the most wonderful bday celebration with my beloved S8 gals this year on the eve of my 22nd.. but.. it has left me SCARRED FOR LIFE. *sniff sniff* it's so ugly.. boo hoo.. the scar left from hitting my shin on the bus as i tried to board it while being blindfolded... sad.. ah wells. Ivan, the crazy little boy-man (33 years old, married with 2 kids, i diagnose him with ADHD. lol. refer to pict below. he's my RWinds sectionmate :) but he makes pracs fun. he's hilarious man. )

he sends the most scandalous sounding smses too. when i have the time i'll type some out here. ahahhaa.

anyway as i was saying, this Ivan fellow is actually a doctor. in the geriatrics (elderly pple) in CGH. i asked him abt that scar yest, he said the lump there is prob cos got scar tissue underneath.. and that it's prob permanent. AHHHHHHHHH

hahaha. ok nvm.

i am also sad that i cant go turkey. ok actually not really sad sad la.. but it IS a pity that finally my uncle is bringing his family to Turkey and he wanted to bring me but i can't.. cos my baobao will be back and cos of RWinds.. i have been bugging him to bring me on a holiday for a while liaos.. now that it has materialised, i've gotta give it a miss, so, ya quite a pity. then now, apparently cos he bought air tic for my bro, my bro will be going too... makes me wish even more that i can go.. cos i havent been on a hol with my bro in very long.. i miss all those times when my bro brought me on trips.. and what's more it's to such an exciting place this time leh, turkey. TURKEY. woah... ah wells. it would have been so much fun getting to go with my cousins and my bro and my uncle.. ok basically, my uncle's family and my bro...

alright, that's that, WS says he'll buy me turkey when he comes back to compensate me. ahahah. Subway turkey sandwich. lol. foot long! 6 inches for me, 6 inches for him :)

shu en is back! it was GREAT spontaneosly staying over at her place on mon night last week... :) bought a $3 hot pink t shirt to wear to school the next day ahaha. got my bday present from her at long last, and got my xmas present in advance. lol. which reminds me, i gotta start on my Xmas cards! this year's Xmas is gonna be totally different from last year's... :)

too many things that happened that i reflected about and had wanted to write
BUT


school sucked my blood and deprived me of my beauty sleep.


guess i just have to settle for updating on how i've been and upload nice pics of recent times! :)


For one, i have been getting a heavy dose of DOROTHY STEPHANIE NG aka DOT DOT


partly cos i requested to do all group projects with her, so she's definitely in all my project groups. and somehow for little projects like today's poster design in class, apparently lots were drawn and we STILL ended up tgt, lol. good thing though, i dun think anyone else can stand how opinionated and domineering i am at times...


brings to mind how upset and hurt i was last sem when a clique member said that of me in an email. went ard asking friends whether they concurred, and what being domineering meant to them. got a variety of answers i think. the one that stood out the most was how all of us are domineering at times when it comes to things that matter to us? i guess, the gist is, we all have our domineering sides..


anyway, the point is, i concur. felt so bad while doing the poster in class with dotdot, cos i kept veto-ing everything she suggested initially. was in a state of disarray cos our original planned design was heavily criticized by teacher and we had to literally come up with a whole new design on the spot. kept feeling like, how how how!?!?!! dunno how to arrange things so it'll look nice.. but i'm gad to say that, at the end of the day, we came through fine :) our poster was pretty nice, and it was cos of dot's suggestions! i think i was having mind block la, just couldnt visualize how to put the various parts of the poster tgt so it would be nice. so anyway, dotdot also has me to thank! cos if i hadnt veto-ed her initial ideas, she wouldnt have thought of the idea that we finally used :) so, we make a good team. lol.


thanks for everything, dotdot :) pics of us :)





my fat legs aside, i like this pic a lot! in the new GELATO ice cream place at Sunset Way... hahaha... i made dotdot walk from ngee ann to clementi mrt with me and we passed by that place on the way and decided to be nice to ourselves. so we treated ourselves to ice cream and waffle! we deserved it ok. stayed back in school till EIGHT PM to burn the cd for ITA assignment.. it wasnt easy figuring out what to burn and what to delete so as not to clutter up the cd, esp as we were super sian and zonked after sleeping 1+ hours the night b4 (spent mon night at dot's house after chionging project in sch on a public hol - hari raya haji - from 10 am till 11.10pm. broke a new record man. previously left sch at 11pm the week b4 chioning EA project... ). wanna thank dotdot for staying back with me to help me with it! otherwise.. hurhur.. i was really VERY SIAN about having to figure that out after already spending so much time on the assignment already..

haha we're too big, the ice cream behind us can barely be seen. lol

in sch, canteen 1 just before leaving. dun we look cute? hahahahaa

act cute pic 2 :D

nice normal pic.

isnt't our poster nice? :) actually, personally i find it too colourful.. lol. too many colours screaming for my attention. and. DOT and i spent A LOT of money on materials for that darn thing la! for some reason, we thought it was to be a HUGE poster, like a bit smaller than mahjong size.. so we bought TWO big pieces of black paper.. each was like abt 3 bucks.. then u see the pretty shiny paper used for the words "Dazzle & Shine '08"? that cost SIX bucks ok.. heart pain... and the green thing for our Xmas tree? i suggested buying 2 or 3.. dot went to buy SIX. each was like almost a buck la. bought other stuff too... oh man.. we really boosting the economy can.. and DUN GET ME STARTED ON HOW MANY TIMES I CABBED THIS PAST WEEK AND A HALF...

at least the poster session ended on a pleasant note. then again, i need that grade to pull up what i prophesy will be a not-high grade for my case study which is 5% more.. cos i merrily crapped out 4 pages only to realise later that 1 of the grading criteria was "ability to be concise etc etc." so, merry christmas to me.. there goes my marks flying away from me.. who ask me to be so last minute.. but then.. its cos of the continuous onslaught of work.. i really am dying la. ok choy. i will survive.

credits to jojo for helping us take the photo with teacher elizabeth! :)

i. need. sleep.

SCHOOL IS SUCKING MY BOOD DRY.


never felt so sian and sick and tired of school before, this week was the ultimate.


never spent so much on cab fare in such a short time too! $36.40 on 2 trips to school...

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

3 assignments down this week..

if i had the chinese function, i would type this - yao4 le4 wo3 de4 ming4!

i think my life span will be shortened la at this rate..

more weeks of sleepless nights chionging projects to come?

spare me..



and no time for dance too. SAD. VERY.

growing fat cos eat and eat and eat & no time to exercise...

the rational goes like this - life is already so tough, just let me EAT what i want la.. it's the only cheer in a sad sad busy stressed life

ok la i'm exagerating. i've got lots to thank God for. and yesterday was thanksgiving too ya.


but seriously. for the life of me. i cant figure out how come it's my 4th term already and instead of getting better it's getting worse.. this term is.. horrendous. actually it can be attributed to the sharp increase in workload. at least, thats what i feel.

cant rmmr if i got more sleep in JC last time..

or maybe i'm just old n cant survive with that little sleep already..

la di da dee dum..~

DOROTHY STEPHANIE NG requested to see her name here. so i shall be the obliging nice wonderful friend that i am. see dot! your wish is my command!

(next to me, she sighs and shakes her head in mock frustration) LOL :D

oh, yest jacjac cheekily asked if got her photo when i told her i just uploaded photos to facebook. Cos had 2 major events recently in some sense... Red Camp (which took up a LARGE part of the past week.. whole tues afternoon of practising, then afternoon shift on wed and morn for thurs n fri. somehow, all that coupled with the various learning work AND THE ENDLESS DATELINES of projects n assignments hot on my heels meaning many project meetings too... the end result is one VERY VERY SLEEP DEPRIVED cling. hais. you only need to look at my dark circles and GIGANTIC eye bags to see the extent of my sleep debts... )

am in lect now.. lects are a good time to blog. cos otherwise though i may have things to blog abt, just dont have the time.. a lot of things, some big some little demanding my time.. what's worse is when i 'respond' by slacking and nuaing...

lect is unofficially over.. though we are supposed to discuss some stuff in our small groups.

dont feel like blogging liaos. maybe later, during IT lesson or something...

1 last thing though. My N81 8GB is supposedly ready for collection at Parkwat already! hurrah hurrah!! :D:D:D:D:D

(the person attending to me when i brought it in for repairs after service on sunday enlightened me abt a lot all the cool stuff my hp can do! woohoo~ ",)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

jialing. stop. slacking.



STOP!!!

my 'fave' junior.. lol. so nice of her to help me buy pepsi.. saved me $1! :)

my outfit that sat can hardly be considered 'sexy', now can it? i dress modestly one lor!

Shun Ting! who is getting married in less than 2 weeks! wheeee.... got wedding to attend :)

now to STOP SNACKING so that i will be able to fit into my dress!

dotdot n me.

amy, evie and me!

at amir's house celebrating hari raya.. happy birthday to shifeng!

the caterpiller i just made in today's IT lesson using photoshop! muahaha!

using my laptop now in lecture.. teeeheee >_<

had a whale of a time yest at Ms Lamb's house. ok actually, the whale of the time part really came towards the end of our "quality time" together, and was very unintended actually - it came about because we JUST MISSED the LRT at Tongkang... and so had to wait another 10 mins for the train to come.. when actually it would have been a mere 2 LRT stops walk to Sengkang, but now we not only had to wait for the LRT, we also had to sit on it for the rest of the ard 5 stops cos the LRT is a loop service.

SO, i was whining away that we should have walked! or we should walk! cos waste time.. walk can exercise concurrently ma :)

anyway, Ms LAmb started becoming very lame, asking me all sorts of non-sensical questions and asking me to question her back with those questions. unfortunately, i can only rmmr this one now.

what if you wanted to buy green tea and you realised the colour is PINK? would u still buy it?

so just to ying4 chou2 her, i replied, i wont, because food colouring/additives is bad.

and because she wanted me to ask her back,i did.

and she said... she will because it's ROSE GREEN TEA. diao.
(please fill in the '3 fingers down the face' motion at this juncture..)

that was prob the most unfunny one of all the weird questions she asked actually. oh wait. i rmmr 1 more. the first one she asked.

Ms LAmb: What would you do if you woke and found that you were bald?

ME: errr... i will go shopping for wigs.

Ms Lamb: Ask me back ask me back!

ME: ok ok, what would you do?

Ms Lamb: hahahaa... i will think i am dreaming and go back to sleep, and sleep and sleep until all my hair grows back!

well done. i was speechless. wow she was merrily laughing away.

and then later in the LRT, we were snapping away at ourselves (no we ain't doggies k, JJ(s) and Bibi(s) and Spann(ies) we most certainly are NOT ) with our phone cam. ok we were using my phone cam at first. and making rather a din snapping away and laughing and taking funny photos.. somehow for some unknown strange reason MsLamb was reeeeeeally high. (must be miss my presence too much liaos... haha!)

ok so that was that. it was like 7 plus at that time, i thought i would reach home at 9pm. cos if take mrt home, the north east line from sengkang to kem is SUPER long. we went to Popular tgt first, cos i needed to get materials for my lesson the next day. and. AND. AND.

i ended up buying about $105 worth of things. LOL.

b4 you holler at jialing for spending so much $$$ again, WAIT let me clarify. i bought USEFUL STUFF ok! :D and the bulk of my purchases actually came from buying something very useful. hehehee. a laminator and laminating paper! muahahhaa... my new toy ;)

wonder if i can claim $$$ from my parents? lol.

so we finally finished buying everything at... *gasp* close to 9 pm. and i was like carrying tonnes of stuff la. WEll done JIALING! can expect to reach home at 10 pm plus liaos. and having so much stuff to lug as well... very SIAN DIAO can!

thus i was commenting to Ms Lamb that if only i was the type of girl that got a lot of guys zui1 qiu2, i would just browse thru my hp phonebk and randomly call 1 and get the person to chauffeur me home... MUAHAHAAA. unfortunately i'm not. *needle pricks into my fantasy bubble*

alternatively, if i were the type of person who had such a wide social network of friends.. not acquaintances k, FRIENDS. and friends who have cars at their disposals and who have driving licneses. whom i can call up like this out of the blue and wheedle them into giving me a lift home :)

BUT i'm not. heh. so i concluded that i dont have enough friends.

LOL.... MUAHAHAHAAAAAAA

just kidding ok. i dont think i'm so superficial. to want friends so that they can chauffeur me around. but of cos, to have would be a bonus. tee heee hee.

just had my field supervisor supervise me conducting my first language arts lesson in the child care center today. lots of things (really LOTS )to improve on and to work on, but generally... am encouraged for that little bit of acknowledgement of my effort put in and the small nugget of praise. i really spent many days agonising about the ideas for that 1 single lesson plan.. in real life, NO ONE would really agonise for days on end lor. got so much time and energy MEH. hahahaa, singlish!

ok lesson time. to be contd.

p/s: maybe to be contd will be a common sight in my blogs in future. lol.

wow. didnt realise i hadnt been updating for almost a month. it's IT class now, we're watching some video and i'm.. interacting with my new lappy. the cool Fujitsu Lifebook s6520 :)

it's been an eventful couple of weeks. met up with a couple of people i hadnt seen in ages. celebrated the passing of into another year, another coming of age rites of passage, which left me with several after thoughts about... nv, next time when it's more appropriate. was very happy at the unexpected surprise escort (felt like an empress, really. pleasure all mine :D ) and contrary to what might be popular belief, i wasnt feeling paiseh at all. blindfolded ma, cant see anything, people's reactions/expressions, pai what seh... lol.

got to know some people better, added cement to a dearly held friendship (your casual acknowledgement that we are indeed best friends, at least at that point, the significance of having u say that made my day ((: ) amuses me at how whoever saw me doing your present immediately guessed that it was for ws..

ok gotta run. got lecture activity... 3%.

to be contd'

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart from what breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdoms cause
As I go from earth to Eternity

i like those lyrics a lot.. indeed, break my heart for what breaks Yours, Father..

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it's been a great 2.5 weeks since i returned! no doubt it was a terrific experience in America, making new friends, shopping, spending time with my boyboy, but it's been a very good 2.5 weeks too. meeting up with people, watching my hk serials, going for RWinds.. i've had lots and lots of fun. so much so that, boohoo, i'm kinda a bit sad that school's starting! my 4th sem in NP, no doubt it's gonna be even busier.. and after this sem, in Year 3, haha, that'll be woorse.. cos we'll be macham office job liddat i think, almost everyday go to a child care centre for the whole day... hurhur...

wells. i think it'll be a much needed experience for me actually, to be really and truly exposed to the workings of a child care centre, as compared to the current system of 3/4 hours of attachment per week. when i think of friends like jojo who works in her church's kindergarten during the hols, i feel somewhat 惭愧 cos.. that was something i had in mind too but never got round to doing and i think i really lack A LOT of experience around young children.. i mean, some of my classmates also work at child cares during the term lor. so in that sense, considering how this is my prospective career.. i feel like i'm not doing enough to build up on it. heh.

what to do.. who ask me to be so playful? (and lazy. lol)

there are too many things that i would welcome for my birthday. i cant believe how much wants i have! it's... astounding. too materialistic liaos. must change! i should just... not go out. everytime i go out and happen to see something and if i feel it's a good buy... ta-da! the hole in my wallet grows bigger. :X so either i find me another well-paying tuition job (got lobang please tell me! i wanna teach english for sec sch! and chinese till sec 2 is ok too :D), or.. i must PULL IN THE REINS ON MY WALLET. bolded to remind myself. which i have done so many times but still..... .... .... (the dots speak for me)

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i realise i have many interests. i like many things. i have a number of dreams/fantasies.

i would love to be a dancer - a versatile dancer who can do graceful stuff like rhythmic gymnastics, balet, modern dance, jazz... and also hip hop! a combination of grace and energy... lovely.

i would love to be a jockey! to be a super pro rider.. to feel the wind rushing pass me as i gallop over fields and mountains on the back of my beloved horse.. (u can thus infer that the pet of my dreams would be a horse! a pony ideally, so i can watch and take care of it as it grows.. ((: see, what an expensive dream. lol) so first of all i need riding lessons! which are, unfortunately, terribly ex.

i would love to be a singer! self-explanatory... i like to sing. i dont know which i like more though, if i have to compare this interest with the above 2.. hmm actually the dancer dream can co-exist with this, so mnay singers sing and dance these days.

i would love to act. hahahhaaa. dont ask me why. i dont even know if i can act lor. i just think it'd be fun to try.. to put yourself into another role.. be it drama serials or.. broadway musicals! which is in fact a combi of singing, dancing and acting! coooool- ness. hahahha

i would love to open my own child care center. this is the most realistic yet not really of the list. well well.. we'll see how the big guy above leads ya ;)

just an unrelated note - the golden concubine remarked to me that my boyboy looks so happy in all the pics i posted here. lol. of cos la! for one thing, that's cos I"M around (such unabashedly thick-skinned i am, haha) secondly, makes sense i'll only post the nicer pics up right... :D

back home in spore.. 3 weeks feels like it has zoomed past me.. now my mind keeps entertaining thoughts of going back, for purely playful reasons. flip the papers and my glance immediately goes to airfare to america. lol. ah wells.. yet.. if i do have the time to travel, in the near future i guess it wouldnt be to there again. after all, i havent been to yunnan in a while. thats one place i definitely wanna go back to.. and there's still australia.. perth n melbourne.. maybe will go perth with my family one day? i just dont know when now. but yes, my dad is right when he says my mom needs a break - she's been working all her life for goodness sake! and she hasnt been in good health these couple of months.. always falling sick..

anyway, yest was a highly, erm, entertainingly fun n special day :) i was honoured to have been able to spend it with her, and to share in those special 'amazing-race-ish' moments.. and i'm glad the gift came at a right time. and i'm glad too that my bouquet-making skills have been proven to be able to handle that new challenge.. :)

basking in the aftermath of having had a heart-to-heart chat with a special new friend.. never dared to imagine that we would be able to talk so much and share so openly.. :) hearing her describe how she was beaming as she read my letter in the office and colleagues teased her asking if it's from a guy, and that she asked for my hp number saying that she could call me at times too... felt happy :) friendship IS a 2-way street ya. u may wanna befriend someone but that person may not exactly want to have that kind of friendship with you. in any case, she's this capable, independent, pretty, and friendly big sister to me.. and i pray that God will watch over this friendship and help the friendship seeds that have been sown to eventually bloom despite the distance... (think 10000+ miles by plane lol) and maybe one day i can share about my heavenly papa to her? hee.

i didnt realise 24th sept was so many pple's birthday.. this period of time is birthday season man! LOL.

ok no link to all the above, but i resolve to manage my finances better and to try my very best to keep unnecessary spending at bay and to SAVE $$$! (only then can i self-sponsor hol trips like what many of my peers do. hehe)

despite that.. i am hoping to buy a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) and a new camera! so have been asking ard, checking out the prices and all.. a umpc would be so handy to bring to sch, bring out n ard n all.. maybe i can ask for that for erm, my 22nd bday present? HEE. as for a new cam.. wells my appearance-wise battle-battered 3 year old konika minolta is still functioning but.. i wanna get something with better features.. so wells, i'll save $$$ first then see how.. currenty eyeing nikon coolpix s550.. ard $350 at PS Best. me wants greater optical zoom (more than the usual 3x) and 28mm wide angle view if possible!

so many wants i have. hurhur.

2.5 weeks left to start of school! does anyone wanna meet up?? :)

jialing is enjoying herself in the states so much that she doesnt wanna go back to singapore.. uh oh.. the ideal situation would be to spend another week in pittsburgh with my baobao first then come ny for yet another week... LOL :) ya right, dream on miss wahwah... haha!
let's have a look at some nice photos n pple in photos! :)

in YAle! :)

the Wahs :)

my newly purchased coach bag, my cousin, n her boyfriend Joseph. vey nice guy :)

we are one family! well almost. hurhur.

need i say more? thats my baobao dearest! :) at the lobby of my cousin's apt.. lovely vase of flowers :)

our dear ziming.. lol... was excited about going to connecticut to look for him today. was quite nice seeing his room, crashing his econometrics lecture, having him bring me ard for a short while n all :)

mr lau lau! cool to meet up with my so6b mate n PW friend here in NY :) we're gonna catch spamalot on broadway tmr! :P

we love jap ramen! :) good food rocks :) though it'd be nice if this wasnt ny so that it wld be cheaper.. n so tips wld also be cheaper.. HEH

chiobu! tour guide who picked my dad n i up from the airport when we first landed in NY LGA. was a tad disappointed that she wasnt my tour guide.. but still, managed to talk a bit to her n take some nice shots, like this one :) oh yes, it's also fun practising my canto on her, heheh.

handsome lil joshua after getting his hair cut.. too bad this isnt that nice a photo of him.. hee.

the mum of that cute boy above.. Kelly! ")

ai wen! my first viola friend.. talented musician and earrings-maker! :)

he loves his rice! but it turns out that he prefers his watermelon over rice, as i found out when fruits were served after dinner, heh.

one of my fave pics :) thats Uncle Wei Siong and adorable lil Naomi! the cute boy in green above is her very active brother, Nathan :) who i only got to meet once and thus doesnt wanna be my friend. lol.

thats my baobao, me, cocoa, and her husband bryan! my godpa and godma lol. i love this couple to bits! :) bryan is the person who reminded me at first glance of ching sing.. then there was another person, brian who reminded me of paul khoo... hahahaa

ok thats all for now!

waiting for my baobao to call me.. his phone network is misbehaving. lol.

munching on chips waiting for him in the meantime. sour cream n onion! n this pkt of 60.3g only caused 99 cents, what a steal man :)

let's see, how is life here different from back in spore?

1. my SUPER EFFICIENT bowel system... no kidding ok.. walking ard on the streets, suddenly feel got urge for beeeg business... i've nv been to the toilet so regularly b4! good thing my bowels arent liddat in china can. i cant imagine having to keep going to thei mao ce!

2. how regular i've become at my skincare regime. i've NEVER been so conscientious abt applying moistuizer n all.. but it's so darn supe dry that my skin was flaking terribly badly.. so on goes layers of moisturizers.. only for the face tho. too lazy fo whole body, only when i;m i the mood then apply to legs n hands. hehe :)

3. da pao da pao food everywhere i go! o almost everywhere la. it's cos they serve food in most places in ridiculosly HUGE portions.. so in the spirit of not wasting food and $$$, everytime i'm full enough n cant finish, it's packed to takeaway. :) n i'll have it later in the day or the next day.. HEE. i think it'd be a better idea if they served smaller portions at smaller prices lor! :)

4. i've been cooking! haha, but all the time save 1 time (cooking with ws, we did sweet n sour cum ketchup chicken with orange n yellow capsicum, n shanghaichoy with shitake mushroom in oyster sauce:P ), it's always noodles in soup, with various veg, sometimes sausage, sometimes egg, sometimes wanton/chicken/tuna etc. heheh. dunno y i just keep feeling like eating noodles soup here, so just as well la.. rice n fying stuff wld be more mafan. heh.


ok thats it for the main big differences. i shld go sleep early today since tmr will be the ealiest that dad n i are leaving the house.. we've been such pampered travellers, leaving ard 11+ 12 + so far.. tmr will be a challenge at 8am! :)

cute kids n random US photos :)

i'm very happy now :) more accurately, i feel so blissful...

the difference between happiness and blissfulness, 快乐和幸福。

which would you choose?

that at-the-spur-of-a-moment burst of happiness can be very tempting, no?

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it's like a dream come true to be here in the states, first holidaying, then now with wei siong at pittsburgh, finally able to put faces to names, to see what his apt looks like, to experience the bustle of his school for myself...

i love just sitting on the grass patch beneath the shade of a small tree and watching pple go by or playing tennis or just doing my own stuff, even as the wind blows occasionally...

so, so idyllic.

it's been 3 bouts so far, and this hol is 3 weeks long. is 1 week of holiday worth 1 bout? haha. a loose association.

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been meeting very very nice pple... and very very cute kids. hehe! :) pictures up another time cos kinda hard to sync everything, i've been taking pics by the hundreds... please pray that nothing bad happens to my portable hard disk drive, that it doesnt crash or get stolen or anything, cos thats where all my precious precious memories are...

today, had a good time chatting with bryan n his wife cocoa. such wonderful friendly pple, and cocoa gave me a very pretty rose which she made herself! it's so special, never seen anything like it b4... anyway, bryan is this guy who reminds me A LOT of ching sing... they look similar, and mannerisms also a bit.. just that bryan here is a larger, more vocal, more expressive version of cs, whom i think is much, much quieter. heh. think it would be interesting if 1 day they could meet each other... LOL.

bryan commented that from the first instant that he saw me on friday night when ws brought me to cell group, he went home n told his wife that i was a very bubbly person. and that i was very controlled that night. i was so amused la... cos haha in a sense it's quite accurate.. i WAS pretty mild, actually quite normal and sane that night, so the fact that he could tell i was bubbly AND controlled from that 1 meeting alone was quite impressive :P and he said he was surprised at first cos he imagined that ws's gf would be quiet like him too, 没想到却是 exact opposite... he said he cant imagine me being out of control. ahahah~! :D

ok, enough for now! better use the time to upload more photos to facebook while ws's reading his textbk n doesnt need the laptop yet... hehe :)

take care everyone!

life is at its peak now. or rather, this season i'm current;y in is so good, save one point... am not getting enough sleep. lol. otherwise, everything's good, more or less la haha, a very satisfying sch term is ending, hols are starting, my US trip is approaching, i'm in contact with friends again, am drawing closer to God once more and 're-discovering' my faith for the third time lol, and enjoying a fruitful relationship with my dearest mr bear.

material things wise, i cannot deny how priviledged and blessed i am because my parents and mr bear provide for ALL my needs and erm, unfortunately, most of my wants. unfortunately cos, yes, i really do have a lot of wants.. getting apalled at myself, how come my list of wants never seems to decrease??!

was with ivy-vi just now and it was just so good catching up after ALL THESE YEARS. filling each other up with the brief/essential details of our lives ever since 1999 till now. thats like, erm, almost a decade can! i thank God for this friendship, i thank God that everything i 'invested' into our friendship then has finally born some fruits in the sense that i cant believe u initiated today's meet up :) heh sorry la, i can be that lil bit jaded abt friendships. it was a god solid 5 hours spent tgt. am looking forward to visiting you in ntu and seeing just how bad the lab system is.. and we will study together ok! heheh. thank you for your patience as i erm shopped for that yellow blue thing. muahaha. i'm REALLY looking forward to seeing more of you in future, ok? p/s: i can see now why u dont like dawn yang... lol. interesting the stuff there is to read abt her.

i should be sleeping i know. having slept ard 3+ 4 hours last night, what with last minute mugging and seeing mr bear off.. but i have no idea why i'm not feeling sleepy now. HMMM.

ONE more paper to go. just that ONE MORE.... :D

I thank God for...

... the small miracle of finding my ITBD (infant and toddler behaviour n development) file 14 hours before the exam tmr at 2 pm. To be more accurate, i thank God for Wati whom i think found it for me. Nevertheless, i thank God for enabling her to find it cos i had been searching for it for days and couldnt find it.. (this is how last minute i have become in poly. lol. i REALLY cant imagine myself being so last minute in rg or rj lor! )

.. my wonderful wonderful Mr Bear who has blessed me just by being him and all the things he has done for me, and for the great 1.5 months we had together this year, through which i believe our 'friendship' grew another level as we quarrelled and made up over little things that form the basis of communication. for all his gifts and presents, things like the blender (!!!) today and the taxi fare home... :) i will miss you, but i'm excited cos i will be seeing you in the States finally! looking forward to seeing your cell group and playing with all the kids hahaha. and many many other things. i thank God for you, period.

... my mama fang who together with mr bear have been the 2 pillars who stand by me when i'm at my rock bottom. who when i cannot see hope, can see it for me and so together with others, support me through and accept me for who i am :)

... my parents, cos they are the ones who get the most crap and shit from me, to be frank and erm somewhat crude. i cant imagine having myself as a daughter lor! *faint. for how far we have come as a family, and for how much further we will continue to go..

... for my brother, because regardless of how many other 'brudders'-ish relationships i establish with good guyfriends, nothing comes close to that single blood tie which God has given for a reason. how tho we arent close in the traditional sense of the word and dont tell each other everything, he's a special person in my life who has special influence on me. oh yes, did i mention the nice presents he gets me from his overseas escapades??? lol. they're partly why i "forgive" him for not being more available and taking more initiative when i need him lol.

... for my helper Wati, for her indispensable help in everything. :) really EVERYTHING. heh.

... for a lot of other things like resolution or closure in some sense to a broken friendship which i have been ambivalent about for... 3 years. lol. for all the friendships with those special gals, you know who you are ok ;) YOU are important to me, be you church friends, band friends, ex-classmates etc. i love you!

i musnt go on for now anymore otherwise really no point having found my file cos wont have time to study!!

:) :) :) :) :)

last but not least, I thank God for God. hahaha. :)

guess how much that stone cost... btw, it's the real thing k. from larry jewellery...

i love the rosemary lamb chop at botak jones! my meat fix. my treat to myself to celebrate last lesson for the semester! :D

our much aniticipated reunion.. i'm so glad the day has finally come :) although some things have changed... but may the friendship remain and grow stronger :)