Our Monkeying Days...

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

"It's so hot here I think I'm gonna freeze to death."

- Sandie

Soaking up the sun. Weather's super nice and hot to be at the beach today! cloudless day. spent the day with the sand, sea, coconut trees and MEE POK. i like :) SILOSO here we come!!

S for SANDIE "mee pok"

up UP and awAY! =D

turning into bak gua at Sentosa

Sentosa was pretty empty today. so it was nice and uncrowded :) we had our fill running across the sizzling hot sand frying our feet, without realising that we had SLIPPERS.

and a pretty peacock crossed our path

Ahhh!!! nothing beats having BEN & JERRY'S after baking in the hot hottt sun!

moo moo & han

Shopping with charmaine MOO MOO! and lee han (whom both of us think has lost weight.haha) in the afternoon. zara. topshop. french connection. warehouse. bebe. aldo. but my fav was the green/brown/white jacket in TOPMAN. hahaha. TNS alert: we're planning a trip to Genting!!! maybe july *cross fingers* pls pls pls i hope we can all go! =D

.:Xiufang:.

~*2:39 PM*~

Outside temp: Ideal for baking

Wah...what's wrong with Singapore temp these days...It's really darn HOT...Feel like I'm melting every time i step outside...And no hope of rain at all man...There's no clouds in the sky the last time I checked...;) Days like this really make me crave for those wonderful summer weather in London...Think air-con temp everywhere you go!! Haha, pity I'll not likely experience it in the near future...considering how my chances of going to LSE has dwindled rather quickly down to near zero...

Anyway, tomorrow is BIG DECISION day...Oh updates to those whom I still haven't called to ask for advice/whine about my indecisiveness...Got both the NUS Undgergrad Scholarship and the SMU Scholarship...and the deadline for replying them is tomorrow...So kind of have a HUGE headache deciding now...Hmmm, I guess I should be feeling really happy that I finally got some form of scholarship, but the weird thing is, I kind of have no feeling towards these two. Don't know if I'm asking for too much lah, but generally my opinion of a scholarship is that it's something that I should have to work to get...In this case, I somehow feel that I only got them cos my results look good on paper, and not because the interviewers like me as a person. Don't get me wrong, I'm honoured that both sides are offering me so much stuff...it's just that I don't feel like it's been some sort of achievement or anything...Not something I've aimed towards and managed to attain, so to speak...Haiz...I think too much...:P

-XL :)

P.S. To erica, oopz but I'm not going to NTU after all...so can't go stay at the hostel with you...Sorry!

P.P.S I must be the only person left in this world who still hasn't watched X-Men 3...Not that it's much of a diff...I already know half the story...haha...;)

~*10:58 AM*~

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

YAYY!! Miami Heat won !! :)

yipeee...so its 3-1 against Detroit Pistons now!

and Dwyane Wade rocks.

"i've never seen a more mismatched set of human beings in my entire life."

hahaha..singapore idol is really hilarious to watch.

.:Xiufang:.

~*3:51 PM*~

far east

we couldn't take it and succumbed to GELARE!

i wanna steal those baby sharks and put them in my fish tank :)

GSS with sheehwee and xinling today.my gosh we walked walked walked till our feet almost died. we died at gelare! sheehwee and xl got to eat yummy gelare waffle topped with cookies n cream & some caramel choc ice cream (arghhh! i want!) while i stared cos im fasting. hehe. never been on a retail therapy for such a long long time. we walked the whole of level 1 looking for sheehwee's shorts. then the whole of level 2 and 3 for sheehwee's shorts. then back to level 1 for sheehwee's shorts. haha! =D

Teddy Geiger :: For You I Will

I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have

And cannon-ball into the water

I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have

For you I will

.:Xiufang:.

~*2:42 PM*~

Monday, May 29, 2006

buttons.shimmie.christine. =)

buttons galore at spotlight because christine was looking for a button to fix her shoe. its been quite a while since i went to spotlight.used to go there pretty often to get all my art supplies, but nowadays i just dont feel like making anything. haven't been painting much either :( haha just bumming around in front of the tv, watching the taiwan serial (the prince turned into a frog) occasionally that's why im so slow! haha im still only at disc 7 after like what...2 weeks! xl's gonna make noise again. heh.

Xmen was not as nice as expected o... :( aiks why are movies getting more and more disappointing?like da vinci! cyclops died so fast. he lasted for like what...a mere 5 mins! and i thought jean grey looked like she was possessed right from the start. "hair extensions" as erica put it. hahahah. aiya anyway, looks like there might be XMen 4!! :):)

wheee! sentosa on wed =D please don't rain, pretty pretty please...

.:|Xiufang|:.

~*4:29 PM*~

quote of the day:

"if your contact lenses were to melt into your eyes, would you get perfect eyesight?"

yipee! X-MEN 3 tonight!!

.:Xiufang:.

~*6:20 AM*~

Sunday, May 28, 2006

bro

mum & dad

omg i'm so in love with this now! someone please buy me the wilson nCode n120 racket!! =) uncle latiff refused to give me GSS for the racket though it's already discounted. haha. but it's still so expensive :( next month next month, i shall save!

Romans 8:28 Everything in life is either God-sent or God-used. give thanks for every blessing that He gives and for all the good things that He has provided for us in our lives. more importantly, give thanks even when things are not going according to our will. because God will turn every negative situation around and overcome all the problems in our lives. :) Yayyy! 4 more days to EMERGE '06!! i can't wait!

.:Xiufang!:.

~*4:54 PM*~

Saturday, May 27, 2006

To everyone around me, thanks a lot for your concern these few days when I'm feeling down!! :P I guess you can say that I've sort of come to terms with my current situation...The disappointment/sadness is not gone totally, but at least I'm not longer like...devastated...So really a big THANKS to everyone for being there to console/advice me on what to do!! :D Haha, the current plan is to first enrol in one of the Singapore unis for accountancy cum appeal for NUS law, (though not harbouring too much hopes for the latter) then if I really can't tahan accountancy after studying there for one month, then it's bye bye Singapore, and HELLO LSE! :P These few days have been madness cos of this though...Think considering details for LSE accomodation (deadline 31 may), considering which Singapore uni to go to (deadline 5 june), consider appeal (starts 1 june), considering whether I want accomodation and if so where to stay if I go to NUS or NTU (deadline ???) Man, they really should give ppl who get rejected for their first choice and hence get thrown off course more time for these kind of things man...At least a week more so as to accomodate some time for the "be sad" period...;) As it is, for me it's been "sad for 1-2 days", then immediately "ok so now what?" and then -plan plan plan- Well, at least I suppose being busy helps keeps my mind off things...:P

-XL :)

~*3:35 PM*~

Thursday, May 25, 2006

"Life is a journey, enjoy the trip."
guido.ramone.mater.luigi.sally.
fillmore.lightning mcqueen.

~*5:17 PM*~

OH MY GOD, TAYLOR HICKS WON AMERICAN IDOL!!!

coughs. chokes. gulps.
i'd have to admit he's pretty unique in his, erm...spasmodic dance moves. haha he's a very interesting character to watch on stage though. all i have to say is that american idol churns out pretty weird winners. haha.

what has been taken from you, however precious, will be returned back to you in other ways. maybe God has made unexpected and sudden changes to your life so that He may bless you greatly in other areas. things will just turn out for the better if you have FAITH; faith in that God has a greater plan for you so that you may use your experience and encounter to touch others around you. instead of grieving, thank the Lord for every circumstance He has placed you in, for He will make you a blessing to all mankind. broken hearts, broken lives, He will take them all...

Hillsong :: Reaching For You
And i stand here before you
In wide opened wonder
Amazed at the glory of you
The power of heaven
Revealing your purpose in me
As i'm reaching for you

.:|Xiufang|:.

~*3:01 AM*~

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

manukan island. mt kinabalu =)

~*9:58 AM*~

"Women have issues like Kleenex has tissues."

went for medical checkup and X-ray this morning. walked past all the children consultation centres and saw so many cute babies! Oooo.. for a moment i felt my maternal instincts coming alive. haha! i love kids. i used to dream of having many many children next time. maybe 6, 7? half a dozen would be nice. haha enough to form half a soccer team. =)

i hope that you will follow your heart. if it's something that you have always wanted, go for it. maybe it will be a choice that involves a lot of risks, but if you have the passion for it i am sure that you will overcome them. though i personally feel that it would be a better choice to study in lse, but it is a decision that is yours ultimately. maybe it just depends on which risk is bigger. if being a lawyer is something which you have been dreaming of since young, you shouldn't give it all up. maybe it has come to a point where you have to reweigh all the options, but i just hope that you will decide and settle for something that you really, truly want. =D

Corinne Bailey Rae :: Put Your Records on
Three little birds sat on my window
And they told me i don't need to worry
Summer came like cinnamon, so sweet
Little girls dubble-dutch on the concrete

.:|Xiufang!|:.

~*9:04 AM*~

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

So it really has come down to this...the so-called Plan Bs...or in my case, the plan Cs and Ds...I guess I honestly never thought much about what I'd do if it ends up like this...Rather...I had hoped with all my heart that something like that will never happen...But guess I've been proven wrong again. If you ask me now what it is I'm planning to do with my life/uni/career path...all i can say is, "I really don't know." On one hand, I can always still go to lse to fulfill my career aspiration as a lawyer. However, deep down inside I'm afraid. Not so much that I'll miss my parents and friends, which I definitely will but should be able to handle and get used to after a while, but that I've never been one to have a strong body. I count the number of times I've suffered migraines in the past few years, and I'm afraid of my ability to take care of myself when I go to a place where I'll have no one to depend on, where I'll only have me to rely on even when the headaches are unbearable. Then of course there's the fact that I now doubt my capabilities of being a lawyer. Honestly, I didn't think I would be that bad, but then I'm standing from a biased point of view, and sometimes it takes an outsider to determine that...And for NUS to say i'm not good enough for them, I wonder if I'll ever be good enough for any law firm even if I should just stubbornly pursue what I want to do regardless of the consequences. Then on the other hand, there is the option of staying in Singapore to do accountancy, be it at NUS, SMU or NTU. Asking me to suddenly change my mind and embrace my career as an accountant though, is really easier said than done. I mean, I've always wanted to study law since I was in secondary school, and to ask me to erase all that I've envisioned for myself in a day, or within these couple of months is really impossible. You know, I've honestly never felt so lost before in my life, like everything has gone the other way from what I've planned and hoped, and that I'm suddenly supposed to replan everything when I'm already not in the mood to do any more thinking. What's worse is that everyone around me will be innocently asking me for good news, and then I'll have to deliver my bad news to them. I'm not blaming them...I understand they really didn't mean any harm...just that now what I really need is some alone time, to seriously think about what I plan to do with myself, and my future...

-XL

~*10:09 AM*~

~*9:18 AM*~

Monday, May 22, 2006

DoNnA!!

Mmmmm...prata! I like =D
hehe it was gossip time with Donna tonight at prata cafe. thosai. prata. curry chicken. YUM let's go back again for more! haha. but we got chased out at 11pm because they were closing. so weird, i don't know of any prata shops that are actually closed for the night :( so we have decided that next time we'll eat dinner at prata cafe then walk over to prata house for supper and more pratas! Prata Gluttons.

.:|Xiufang!|:.

~*4:30 PM*~

~*9:30 AM*~

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Wah was at suntec 2 days in a row...On thurs and yesterday...But finally got to meet up with lilian again after so long!! :P Her US trip sounded great...got to go to places like baltimore and las vegas, plus campus tours of harvard and yale...Wish I can go overseas on holiday too!! (haha i bet xiu and lilian are getting tired of me lamenting about how I've been stuck in Singapore...;) ) To lilian, thanks a lot for the las vegas glass! Think it's really nice, even though I don't drink much alcohol, so have to find some other use for it...:P

Dinner was buffet at Siam Kitchen...To those who are thinking of eating there...Be warned that you should be able to tolerate spicy food...Cos almost everything there was hot. Haha, lilian couldn't tahan the tom yam soup...drank one mouth and that was it...:P (though honestly i was not much better...kept drinking my ice lemon tea after i drank it...then the poor waiter had to keep coming back to refill my glass...;) ) The dinner turned out to be quite ex though, 21 bucks per person...Made me broke man...plus not really worth it...cos the 3 of us didn't eat that much...:)

Anyway, then it was off to challenge lilian and xiufang to mario racing...Haha the second game I got sabo-ed darn badly...Ended up last...and no wonder...kept getting hit by everything from tornadoes to banana skins to nails on the floor...;) Haha, xiufang commented how her character kept raising his hands in triumph and going "WOOHOO" (aka my character stepped on/got hit by yet ANOTHER one of her weapons that she threw my way...:P)

Oh, and my starfruit plant has a new batch of starfruits!! Counted 15 in all...;) Pity I don't really like eating startfruit though, or my family can save up on buying fruits...Haha...and Da Vinci is tomorrow! Can't wait!! Plus I haven't seen erica in such a long time...will be great to meet up again...:P

-XL :)

P.S. Changed the blog music cos I now have this tune stuck in my head...:P
P.S.S Xiu fang, have fun figuring out how to change the music to the one I hate...Not gonna help you out there...:P

~*11:10 AM*~

Friday, May 19, 2006

my fav picture of the day.haha!

had our fill at Siam Kitchen today. =) buffet! hahaha.been eating so much the past few days i think my tummy's gonna explode. i like spicy thai food. tom yam soup, pineapple rice, spicy kangkong, chicken in green curry, beef in curry, salted fish, fried fish. Mmmm! as usual we ate so much till we couldnt walk. Tsk. .

then went mario go-karting! hahaha. it's such a cute game! most of the time the machines are hogged by kids, 'cos it's really meant for kids. haha but we don't care! it's FUNN =) nice to see u back lilian! and thanks for the cute Harvard cow haha.

it feels nice not to work, but on the other hand i don't want time to pass so fast. 'cos it would mean it's time for everyone to leave and go different places :(( i guess i wouldn't mind if time remains stagnant for now...i just don't like parting occasions. it makes me really sad. time and again i keep reverting back to the old rgs days.twas were the good ol' days which will be hard to forget..

.:|Xiufang|:.

~*4:47 PM*~

my student Jolyn!

the office

josephine! =)

my last day at work yesterday! gonna miss gilline, conrad, elza, meng han, josephine and the rest...though ive only been working there for a short while but it's been nice knowing these people and joking around with them when work gets boring and frustrating. thanks gil for always buying bubble tea! haha and con and meng han for all your nonsense and off remarks. elza, i still think your dreadlocks are really cool ( haha!) and have fun in the states! jo whom i can always talk to when im bored. and the two interviewers, david and nora! =) i'm gonna miss the whole bunch.

ps: jo why did you leave so fast! haha didn't get to say bye to u. =( anyways take care yea?byeeeeee!!

.:|Xiufang|:.

~*3:31 AM*~

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

.:From The Inside Out:.
your will above all else
my purpose remains
the art of losing myself
in bringing you praise
everlasting
your light will shine when all else fails
never ending
your glory goes beyond all fame
=)

oh yay i can't wait for a la carte buffet at SIAM KITCHEN or PEPPERLUNCH on fri!! =P haha and prata outing tmr night. wheeee i'm one happy fat porky. anyways talking about greedy, i was so bored and hungry at home today i went downstairs to buy THREE meiji yoghurt...coconut, mango and strawberry. haha! anyone who has never tried meiji yoghurt before in their lives MUST MUST try the NATA DE COCO one! hahaha it's heaven-li-cious. i'm just a nut for yoghurt (or as xl would put it, bacteria). elch.

Xiufang!

~*4:40 PM*~

Hmmm...haven't been posting anything these few days cos there's really nothing interesting going on...(hey i'm always at home...what do you expect? ;) ) Anyway, was reading 8 days today and came across this series of brainteasers...(haha, apparantly the premiere of da vinci made them feel that it was time to have an issue on riddles...:P) So shall just post some up here for everyone to think about...:P

1. Mary's father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, and Nono. What's the name of the fifth daughter?
2. A woman has seven children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?
3. Some ducks were walking down a path. There was a duck in front of two ducks, a duck bwhind two ducks, and a duck between two ducks. How many ducks were there in all?
4. If you were running a race and you passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now?
5. How many months have 28 days?
6. You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
7. Can you work out the correct celebrity name from this anagram? MONK HATS (3, 5)
8. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

Haha, pity most of them I've heard of before, so already knew the answer...Ah wells...But it was fun doing them all the same!! :) Oh, and to those who are up for more, 8 days listed this list of webbies... http://www.puzzlechoice.com, http://www.brainbashers.com, http://thinks.com/puzzles, http://puzzles.about.com, http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood

-XL :)

Ans: 1. mary 2. all of the children are boys 3. 3 ducks walking in a single file 4. 2nd place 5. all of them 6. the match 7. tom hanks 8. a stamp

~*1:10 PM*~

Saturday, May 13, 2006

*Chocolate ice-cream makes me uber happy!* not just any choc..but ben & jerry's chocolatey fudgey wudgey ice-cream!!

Was a fun day out yesterday =) ate at yuki yaki cos there was not siam kitchen in town (a la carte buffet!). hahaha as usual we ate till we almost burst. well, at least xl and i did. weiting still had space for nachos! towards the end we got pretty bored and full so i started playing around with the food hehe. more likely the eggs cos we were trying out different concoctions...eggy waffles (puke!). eggy squid-cum-otah-cum-mushroom,which surprisingly tasted pretty decent haha! :D but for aesthetic appeal i would say a big fat O!

poseidon's pretty ok..cool effects but it was so short. the ship already started sinking in the first 5 mins. haha but too bad no sharks..as i told xl or else it would be more fun to watch. :) Ooooh and my favourite song currently is COMING UNDONE by KORN!! yups and i can just imagine the look of disgust on xl's face already haha!

i've been sleeping like a PIG lately. i think i'm addicted to sleep cos ive been sleep deprived the past week. hahaha i think after i quit my job i'm just gonna hibernate in my room! haha. the day before i woke up so late there was no more food cos everyone left for work, school etc so i ate TWO MINI MAGNUMS for breakfast. haha talk about a healthy lifestyle man. grins.

.:|Xiufang|:.

~*2:56 AM*~

Friday, May 12, 2006

Yesterday was such a huge shopping spree! Went with my mum to the Metro Expo sale, and got this pair of Lee Jeans at $29.90. Their cutting is really quite weird though. I tried 2 designs, one in size 28 and the other size 30, and guess which one fitted better? Turned out it was the size 28, and that's because the size 30 was too small, while the size 28 fitted just fine! Haha how ironic. ;) Then the spending continued when my mum and i went to parkway, cos the OP there was having this pre-renovation sale, so got a skirt and a top at a total of $26.90. :)

Oh, and the boy that came after me in my piano lesson yesterday is just so cute!! He talks like a mile an hour, and really can't sit still. Haha in the 20min I was there before my lesson ended, I learned that Man U (the team he supports) won some game, that his mid-year's maths test (the last paper) was that day, that writing 2 pages of answers is considered long (haha man, the life of a primary 2...:P), and that his mum's car got bumped by the car behind and that was considered "interesting" and "cool". He even started imitating Mrs Goh (my piano teacher) as she tried to explain some stuff to me, so much so that she mock-strangled him. Then as I was leaving, he was all, "Mrs Goh, what will you do if I put a crocodile in your room? Like a really big crocodile??" Haha, Mrs Goh was like, "So easy, I'll put you in the crocodile's mouth." ;) I thought that I would get annoyed by so much interruption during my lesson, but actually found him really funny! :P Oh, and he is from the same primary school (tao nan), class (2F) and the same house (killer whale) that I was in. Haha cool...my junior!! :P

Anyway, went out with xf and weiting to cine to watch poseidon today. Lunch-cum-dinner was at Yuki Yaki. (wah 2 buffets in a week..I'm going to get fat...:P) Haha, xf kept experimenting with her food. She actually cooked waffles with scrambled eggs and spring onions and chilli! It turned out looking somewhat like carrot cake, but the taste is...well...Weiting was all -frown-, -raise eyebrows-, -disgusted look- when she tried it, and was saying how it's more like carrot cake after you have left it there for 10 days...Haha...:P Oh, my scrambled eggs with squid apparantly worked though! (couldn't try that lah...allergy...;) ) But weiting and xiufang said it's quite nice! YAY!! :D

Poseidon is not bad! (albeit a little on the short side.) Weiting got kinda freaked out about it though...Think it's cos she can't swim and all, so this kind of disaster show is kind of scary for her...She thinks that Ju-on and Jaws are less scary than this!! No way man...Haha, if you ask me to watch those, I'll probably be so busy hiding behind my hands that I won't watch half the movie...;)

-XL :)

~*2:54 PM*~

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Was trying out this riddle game called The Wicked yesterday after seeing it on Shi Hui's blog, and it's actually quite nice! If you wanna try, you can click on the link I've posted <--- on the list of webbies I've created links for...:P I'm currently on level 10!! Oh, and to those who are as IT-illiterate as I am, I suggest trying The Wicked Junior instead, as the riddles in The Wicked require some form of IT knowledge, while Wicked Junior is more english-based...:)

-XL :)

~*5:19 AM*~

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Neoprints!!

Xiu and I just realised that the cine machine has a different set of designs for every background! This is the hawaiian set of designs for the yellow background. ;)

This neoprint and the next 2 are designed by me. (Haha, somehow shi hui took most of the neoprints she designed, and I took most of mine...;) )

Haha, I don't know what on earth we are doing...

friends forever!

-XL :)

P.s. Shi hui, can you send me your set of neoprints if you have a scanner and it's not too troublesome?? Thanks ya!! :)

~*2:08 PM*~

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Hey everyone! Thanks alot for your concern, but I'm ok now!! :) Seems like my gunbound therapy really worked!! (oh dear...signs of a violent tendency...:P) Anyway, went for my Auto driving lesson yesterday, and wah it's darn easy compared to manual!! Haha, my driving instructor was commenting about how all manual drivers are like super relaxed during their auto lesson...I was so over enthusiastic with stepping the acclerator that my instructor was all "the speed limit here is 60km/h you know" and "50km/h only here!" Haha, bet I scared him out of his wits with my driving...;)

Oh btw, didn't get to post alot of stuff about Sun cos wasn't in the mood..."Be hip, go topless", guess where this slogan is found??? Wan and I thought it was quite funny...bound to make ppl think off. I bet if you just say this sentence like that without showing ppl where it's found, ppl will think of everything from topless bars to who knows what...;) (It's found on the hippo tour bus btw...aka "topless" buses... :P) Haha, but I suppose you can say that the slogan IS quite catchy lah...:P

Well, talking about animals, you know the cardboard cows are back on the grasslands of Singapore!! And this time, there's more designs, and even baby cows too (which are SUPER cute!!) Darn...I want one man...:P Hmmm...maybe I can suggest that they put some in my condo...since there's so much grass there and all! :P Haha, can imagine how one will start "migrating to greener pastures" to our jc school canteen again though...;) Didn't get to take a photo with the one that was previously there, and didn't have my cam with me again this time, or would have posted photos up here. :P

Anyway, Wan and I were also exchanging some lame riddles we've heard. Shall write those I can remember here... (answers are after the entry. ;) )

1. Yellow houses are made of yellow bricks, blue houses are made of blue bricks, red houses are made of red bricks. What are green houses made of?

2. What is the colour of the thunder sign on the PAP logo?

3. What power will allow you to walk through walls?

4. A pink gun can only be used to shoot a pink elephant. What happens if you want to shoot a pink elephant, but you only have a blue gun?

Oh, and I went to watch Aquamarine! It was ok lah...Shall concede that the plot was quite childish...Not really worth the $9.50 paid...But overall it was not bad really...at least I didn't feel like puking blood at the end of it...:P

-XL :P

Ans for the riddles:
1. glass
2. what thunder sign...the logo is a lightning!
3. doors
4. make the pink elephant hold its breath until it turns blue, then shoot it

P.s. Haha xiufang don't worry man, even I get dizzy after doing too many pirouettes. Everyone does lah...:P

~*5:44 AM*~

Monday, May 08, 2006

"Step 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and UP! Keep your toes pointed!"

hahaha. Jazz was fun today! we learnt a new dance move with six steps and then you get into a ballet stance. hehe! so cool. though i really sucked at balancing cos i kept falling when we have to go on point. *grins* so it's like every time we have to do the pirouette (this ballet move where you spin on your toes and flip your head around), i was spinning round and round and ended up god-knows-where! haha. and i was so giddy and groggy in the end because we were made to spin so many times. shim and i just looked like two retarded drunkards on the dance floor. haha =)

Shim, i think i have work tmr =( so sad...we can't squash tmr again!

.:|Xiufang|:.

~*3:59 PM*~

Haiz...feeling quite sucky now...Basically found out something yesterday that made me quite upset, but cos I was with Wan the whole day and didn't wanna bother her with my probs, then spent the day appearing to be cheerful and pretending that everything was ok. Seems like I've reached my limit of tahan-ing though, cos woke up today and can't even get myself to smile, not even to my interviewers at SMU. Yupz, so today's interview was a disaster. Aiyah, honestly the interviewers chose the wrong time to grill me about law vs accountancy man. I'm not even such a good liar normally, but today I was so not in the mood that I couldn't even get my line of reasoning straight. Even forgot that I was trying out for accountancy, such that I stupidly told them that if given a chance to go on internships, I would go to the UK. The interviewer just laughed in my face at that...and was like "Errrr...you wanna do accountancy/finance? Then shouldn't you want to go like the US instead?" Ya, so I was so super convincing that law wasn't my first choice. Seriously, if I were the interviewer, I won't buy it either.

-XL
P.s. Um...I really don't feel like talking about what it is I'm upset about as of now. So pls don't ask.

~*2:50 AM*~

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Isaish 55:9
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Woke up pretty late for church today 'cos ive been sleeping very late these days. but i was glad that i made it for service or else i would have missed out on the great word of Rev. Casey Treat. his message was amazing today and he touched on things that i could actually feel myself relating to in my life right now. he talked about how prosperity in our lives will only come if we prosper in our walk with God by sanctifying ourselves in the truth. because it is by walking in the truth that God sets us free..from depression, fear, anxiety and problems in our lives; it is by walking in the truth that we learn to trust in God's promises and know that He will provide for everything in our lives. i have realised how selfish i was in the past, where i attributed all my accomplishments and achievements to myself...my capabilities, my hard work, my diligence. i had never once included God in my achievements. i only seeked Him when i needed help and when i needed someone to solve all my problems. it was a selfish and self-centred relationship. but as i began to encounter disappointments and realised that there are some things in life which are totally beyond my control, God started to show me His way and brought me out of my pride.

as i begin to reach a cross-road in my life right now... not knowing where to go, how to go about making decisions and feeling afraid of what will happen, this is when i know that i can no longer depend on myself because there is only so much that i can do. at times, we may get overwhelmed by too many problems, but as we begin to put our faith and trust in God and prosper in our walk with Him, He will begin to prosper us in all things. =)

.:|Xiufang|:.

~*9:44 AM*~

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Haha darn...almost everything that I can say about yesterday, xiufang has said already...:P The dinner at Sakae Sushi was really funny though...You know xiufang can't tell apart fried salmon and fried chicken?! Haha, then weiting and I were trying to explain to her that it's really quite obvious, then xiufang was all "Nooo...you all only know what it is from the colour of the plates!" (the fried chicken was a red plate...while the fried salmon was colour plate...:P) We tried snapping photos of both plates to post up so that we can show how easy it is to tell apart, while xiufang can somehow convince others that they are identical...;) But guess what happened? The fried chicken got taken down by the people just one table away from us!! Haha bad luck...And we waited so long for that, cos there was only one plate of that on the entire belt...;) It was quite funny seeing weiting trying to explain to xiufang what vegetable tempura is too...

XF: What's that? -points at vegetable tempura-
WT: Vegetable tempura.
XF: -pause- What's that?
WT: -blinks- Vegetable...tempura...
XF: -blur- What's in it??

Haha, luckily we finally got that sorted out and ordered one...which was yummy!! :P

Oh, and watched John Q this morning...and now i finally understand what's so great about denzel washington. Kudos to his great acting man...actually made me tear up a bit (and you know how hard it is to make me cry in movies...:P) Oh xf, if you haven't watched this...you really should...since you like denzel washington so much and all...;)

-XL :)

~*5:29 AM*~

Friday, May 05, 2006

"do lizards swim?" hahaha. i have no idea.

relived our days at bugis today. finally tried cheese fries at good ol' billy bombers! hahaha seems like we always end up eating there when we can't think of where to eat. and the three of us... all hungry gluttons, devoured two spring chickens like nobody's business. haha the leftovers looked pretty gross though..looks like girls DO eat like guys after all! =) oh yea, can we go surf & turf next time instead of billys again? haha, heard it's real good food there. i wanna try all the seafood! hehs..oh no but xl you can't eat them. but as you said, i can eat the 'surf' and you'll eat the 'turf'. haha :D

dinner was at sakae sushi...i was so full from our lunch i didn't eat much. had only 3 plates,im quite proud of myself haha. but the sushi belt was tempting me though...everytime i see the octopus and the potato balls and the jelly and the peas in a pod i get tempted. but in the end i only had fried tofu (which i only recently developed a liking for), fried maki (is tt what it's called?hehe) and VEGGIE TEMPURA which is so so very yummy and nice! haha ;) im so gonna get that again next time we go sakae. its like fried cucumber and brinjal and onions and carrots...i've never liked brinjal and onions but somehow, the japanese made them taste so good.

oh and i'm so proud of you weiting! hope you'll follow your heart in the end and decide what's best for you! hope you can somehow persuade them to get you into upenn too. hehe. aiks so sad everyone's going everywhere :( i've been missing the whole rgs bunch a lot lately..lilian(hey girl when will you be back from the states?), shimmie, serene, hui chong, manu, erica, geri, christine and a whole lot other pple whom i haven't met up in ages cos of work committments. i miss the rgs schooldays a lot. it was so much fun then when we used to laugh, talk and joke about everything under the sun. i guess it's just the thought of everyone going different unis that's making me feel nostalgic.

Jolyn: Heyz! hope you'll recover soon! 'cos i won't be free tmr..maybe we'll arrange for tuition next week okae? take care and rest! :)

.:*Xiufang!*:.

~*3:39 PM*~

o.u.c.h.

im aching everywhere. my arms my legs and my back hurt so bad when i got outta bed today. oh no..signs of ageing. and i didn't even work out much yesterday..sighs im getting so unfit now. hehe. age is catching up with me =(

oh xinling let's go see the new Sasa Sparkle range today! haha you can get your glittery shimmery shiny nail polish! *grins*

0_O Xiufang!

~*4:48 AM*~

You know, I used to wonder what's e diff between those $40+ puzzle sets in shops, and those 2 for $10 ones you find at marketplaces...Haha, after spending part of yesterday with my puzzle, I've realised that the 2 for $10 ones:
1) are not cut properly, such that when you try to pry the individual pieces apart, they break into half, instead of one protruding and one concave...(then I had to scotch-tape the 2 pieces back together again...:P)
2) crumble apart when you give the completed sections a slight prod...(and here comes the handy scotch-tape...I really need to buy a few more rolls...;) )
3) have a few pieces that can actually fit into one puzzle piece (haha for a while I was wondering how come Tigger had such a huge nose...:P)
Such a pity...cos I was planning on buying more of the cheap puzzles...No money for the $40+ ones lah...:P

Anyway, I've discovered a really nice new reality tv show! It's called Renovate My Family, on Channel 5 at 3pm every Mon-Thurs (haha oopz to those peeps who are working...;) ) The houses after renovation are all so nice!! Makes me almost want to be an architect...except for the slight prob that I can't draw...:P Oh, you know my dad actually tried convincing me to be an architect for a period of time? Haha, I just laughed at the suggestion...I mean, me an architect? When all I can draw are stick ppl and square houses with triangular roofs?? Er...not exactly the best outlook for the future landscape of Singapore man..;)

Oh, and Xiufang, the lizard comment in your entry made me dream of my toilet being invested with lizards! Haha, and I was trying in vain to flush them all down the bathtub...-shudders- To all the animal lovers out there...this incident is imaginery lah...So don't start suing me for animal abuse...:P And anyway, there's also such a thing as population control, so I had to do what I had to do...;)

-XL :)

P.s. Can lizards swim? Cos in my dream...all of them were trying to swim against the current...and I don't know how realistic that is...Haha, stupid question...;)

~*4:10 AM*~

Thursday, May 04, 2006

mr cartel

...with hair

...and a moustache!

mr. cartel after a plastic nose surgery

our combo in crumbs.. YUMS! =)

RGSquashies at cafe cartel...minus shim!

Hey shieh yuan..so sorry about yest. sthg was wrong with the uploading. anyways, here are the pics at cartel! =) hope we meet up to eat again!

*Xiufang!*

~*5:17 PM*~