Our Monkeying Days...

Monday, April 30, 2007

human clay

when dreaming, i'm guided to another world
time and time again,
at sunrise i fight to fall asleep.

can you take me higher?
to a place where blind men see
can you take me higher?
to a place with golden streets.

Up high i feel like i'm alive for the very first time
set up high, i'm strong enough to take these dreams.

So,
let's make our escape.

.:xiufang:.

~*5:47 PM*~

WOW i've seriously been MIA for a LONG time again. Haha i'm really being anti-social these days, holed up in my room at home and not going out to meet most of civilisation. I blame it on the exams. :P Haha, prior to legal theory paper when I was finally obliged to show my face again in public, PY was commenting how it's 'been A WHILE' since anyone saw me. Hey at least it's not to the extent that you guys no longer remember how i look like, k? :P

Well, it's 2 papers down, and 1 more to go! Not looking forward to writing crim essays on fri though, considering how i'm pretty much apathetic towards any potential 'problems' in the Penal Code, and their relevant 'solutions'. Haha, if tsh reads this, she'd probably be wondering how someone as detached about the law as i am can be in support of natural law for legal theory. :P Yikes, but all these are legal jargon. I should REFRAIN from continuing.

Anyway, after contract paper today, went with PY to adam's road for (what else?) nasi lemak. :P Haha, i think we're total failures la. After one whole year in law school, we still haven't figured out the shortcut through botantic gardens. Got hopelessly lost, and ended up walking one whole BIG round just to get to the exit. Haha, and on top of that, we got our feet and shoes all soaked in mud (not a pretty sight) cos we decided to cut through a patch of grass instead of walking the proper footpath, totally forgetting about the HUGE thunderstorm early in the morning. Bleah.

Oh, and finally got my threadless shirts! :D Was quite worried when XJ said that size M was just nice for her, but thankfully i could still squeeze into the tees i bought. The wonders of black tees - you can't really tell that it's tight on you. :P

-XL :)

P.s. I insist i'm not as predictable as people make me out to be. Hmph. It's just easy to guess that I would want to watch Spiderman 3 after exams cos EVERYONE ELSE wants to watch it too. :P

~*3:53 PM*~

Sunday, April 29, 2007

random post:

yay! i have a dustbin!

hahaha finally i can stop making frequent trips to the kitchen just to dump my thrash. it's kinda stupid really.. i wonder how i managed to survive without a dustbin in my room for the past three months. but now that i have one so, hah!

i love my weekend, cos i had very good meals!! on saturday night, we cooked curry chicken with potatoes, with the thai yellow curry packet =)=) it actually tasted pretty close to the real thing i have back home, not those cheapo fake pre-made curry powder ones that are totally inedible. yummy. apparently prima boasts the best curry powder around(according to linsteadian reviews hurhur), so one of these days when i feel like coming out of my hermit hole i shall make a trip down to chinatown to get it. oh, and we cooked cheese-cum-sausages omelette. we are getting better with zee eggs. hahaha

i just had turkey for dinner=) talk about well-fed. havnt felt like that in ages, cos i usually eat crap food. from now on, the weekends will be super-meal days, with nice and big portions of food..*oink oinks*

ok back to mechanics.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

.:xiufang:.

~*9:20 PM*~

Saturday, April 28, 2007

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.:xiufang:.

~*12:28 PM*~

Friday, April 27, 2007

like a hermit in my head

i think my body is malfunctioning. it seems that no matter what time i go to bed the night before, i wake up far earlier than needs to be. it's like a peculiar wrinkle in my sleep schedule, which i pray would go away soon, cos i hate the fuzzy state of mind i find myself in at 630 am in the morning.

was chatting to daryll just now, about squash about singapore.
wo yao hui jia
makes me think about coach francis, uncle maurice, uncle jason, coach zainal; about the usual mon wed trainings at slf, the usual tue gang at orchid park, and the saturday sessions at sp. hahaha its funny how i used to spend so many hours in the court...it makes me wonder what i actually did with rest of my time. now i can actually see where my mom's nagging is coming from - like how i used to make her so upset with me because i was over-training, how i could never make it back home for dinner(and even supper) because i was still playing at slf. and how im always spending way too much time at kallang, at the games, at training.

argh.decisions decisions. i need to decide, soon. i dont wish to disappoint myself, neither do i want to cause another upset again. i've been away from home for so long, the least i could do is to fulfill the promise that i made. and if that means giving it up, so be it.

.:xiufang:.

~*5:16 PM*~

Thursday, April 26, 2007

beauuuuuuutiful greece =)

yayyy!! we have booked our flight tickets, accoms and all for our summer getaway - greece! the land of the (Greek) gods, the birth of the first summer Olympics, the cloister of Cyclades islands that promises you food, fun and sun! lotsa 'em!

haha! i sound like a poster child for greece...but i simply cant wait! so exciting! we are island hopping...first to andros then to mykonos and finally santorini, the island of the blue&white-washed houses. pretty!

ok, for now..focus focus!!

.:xiufang:.

~*7:54 AM*~

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

sugar overload

i went on a sugar high at sains just now. bought two big packets of haribo, one packet of toffee sweets, two packets of jelly babies and six tubes of polos.

feeling diabetic in seventh heaven =)=)=)

.:xiufang:.

~*9:19 PM*~

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

BBC's A to Z list of fears & phobias is so comprehensive it's funny. it's down to almost every nitty gritty fear & phobia the normal human being can be found guilty of. check this out:

Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school

sounds familiar, non? =)

.:xiufang:.

~*7:42 AM*~

Monday, April 23, 2007

heart's needle

once she has set her heart on something, she will not let it go. but now she ain't so sure, anymore. she puts on her skates and tries to cut through the ice, in preparation of flight. on frozen Esthwaite Water. she attempted a jump, albeit a tad too greedy. or maybe the ice is just thinning, melting, waning.. she landed a little too hard, a little too awkward. evidently, she crashed. picking herself up, she pushed on with a heart of glass. stainless steel wings upon the trail for miles. with ad curvaceous panache, she executed a dazzling pirouette, twirled in carousel fashion, and ended off with a penultimate featly fouette. The skate would last, until her grief graced a fourchette, and the sorrow, was a thing of the past.

.:xiufang:.

~*11:50 PM*~

spamalot coconut clopping

life's a piece of shit when you look at it
life's a laugh and death's a joke it's true
you'll see it's all a show
keep 'em laughing as you go
just remember that the last laugh is on you
so always look on the bright side of life...

haha it's amazing. they just broke the guiness world's record for the world's largest coconut orchestra at trafalgar square tonight! :) the spamalot broadway team taught the public how to 'clip-clop' in time to the Python classic Always Look On The Bright Side of Life (*cue whistle). looks like helluva clip-cloppin' time! and a pity that i totally missed it.

so here we have, a new world record!!

.:xiufang:.

~*10:29 PM*~

Sunday, April 22, 2007

giving her the eye...

A beauty stood on a balcony high,
Sneezed and lost her blue glass eye.
A young man walking down The Strand
Caught the flashing eye-ball one hand.
Invited up to receive her thanks
He drooled on her features, figure, flanks.
While dining on champagne and chicken
These strangers felt their heart beats quicken,
Gazed into each others eyes, imperfections indiscernible,
Including the eye-ball that proved to be returnable.
Over croissants and coffee in the morning
The young man felt suspicion dawning,
Said, "Would you do this for just any passer-by?"
"Oh no!" she said, "He'd have to catch my eye".

.:xiufang:.

~*11:42 AM*~

what a shitload..

=xiufang=

~*9:43 AM*~

Cover me in cyanide
Cover me in ink
Cover me in formaldehyde
And leave me here to think.
Cover me in carpet
Cover me in tile
Cover me and evict me and put me in a file.

Inseminate the natural
Inseminate the dirt
Inseminate the ineffectual
And leave me here to love

.:xiufang:.

~*1:22 AM*~

Saturday, April 21, 2007

attempted to work. but after mechanics/materials failed to interest us no more, we decided on a lil excursion to zee science museum =) it's got pretty cool stuff. like Neolithic skull trepanning, aero jet/fan engines (dr. doorly would be proud), flight dreams of the Renaissance..like the gypsy moth, and we even rode on the cranyon simulator. haha.

and now i shall proceed with my dinner plans~ but im feeling bloated and lacking of appetite. it's the time of the month when your body just totally screws up and you just wanna hide in your hole and sleep zzzz

.:xiufang:.

~*6:39 PM*~

happy me!!

i love my fridays =) hahaha because friday means no work day

and i had bak kut teh today

with lotsa food for dinner...haha

happy feet is uber cute!! the amigos are retardedly funny, and the baby penguins are oozing with cuteness. lol

.:xiufang:.

~*1:31 AM*~

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

i need a hiatus.

.:xiufang:.

~*1:08 PM*~

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

do ut des...

is it wrong to expect something in return for the favour you have bestowed upon a fellow being? a tit for tat, one might say.

when you say that you love someone unconditionally, does it mean that you love with an unrequited heart, or do you expect the same measure of love in return? when you give to the poor, are you able to say that you have given with unreciprocated generosity, even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired? or are you simply and perhaps, naively believing in the plain old saying that good begets good(and therefore, triumphs evil)? when you wait for something, are you waiting with an open heart(and an open mind), or are you waiting with a goal in mind?

it takes two hands to make a clap. most things function like a two-way traffic; cynical as it may sound, from a pragmatic point of view in a societal context, giving in lack of expectance is a passe. it aint selfish, neither is it covetous. granted, human beings are covetous creatures who crave. but deep down inside us, we expect recognition and something in return for the good favours that we do. in a society worn down by The Race, have we also started to dehumanize ourselves and don a mask of false pretence? can we ever connect with someone with genuine intimacy anymore?

too many questions, with too many answers. and too many gaps to fill.

i like the analogy though; It is not unlawful per se for a boss to ask a subordinate for sex, nor vice versa, it is the quid pro quo that makes the situation repugnant to the law.

.:xiufang:.

~*8:43 AM*~

i wonder, can the blind see in their dreams?and if they do, do they dream in colours or black-and-white imagery?

as usual, i googled my curiosity

People who suffer from congenital blindness have auditory dreams.They dream in sounds and emotions but not in images. According to Lacan's Theory of the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real, it must be that which forms the symbolic order of the blind. This is a visuality that is coterminous with the association-based, spatial thinking of the unconscious - (the unconscious is structured like a language).

back to blood diamond

.:xiufang:.

~*8:14 AM*~

Monday, April 16, 2007

back from a trip to camden town yesterday! it was a soaring (by London standards) 26degrees with no clouds nor wind whatsoever.you could see some guys walking around topless.it would have been nice if we had deck chairs, then we could have just sat there and basked in the sun. muahahaha...im loving summertime!!

camden town is a super self-sufficient place.with loads of shopping and endless food stalls.it was like a revival of bugis-street-cum-far-east-basement, with majority of the shops sporting gothic themes. ailing would have loved it if she were there..hmm.

i think my face is a tad darker. and im getting fugly tanlines from tennis

AND...i need to stop getting distracted.my daily dosage of House is growing pretty unhealthy.

.:xiufang:.

~*2:02 PM*~

Saturday, April 14, 2007

i'm coming back to the heart of worship

Luke 17:6
He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.

i was reading through my devotional notes for the past year, and i realised how much i've written unknowingly. i particularly like the verses and insights on faith, because you will always learn something new from it. you can never fully grasp the entirety of faith in one sitting, because its revelations are simply multi-fold. faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. faith is not just about believing, it's about believing in miracles. more importantly, it is about seeing what you believe in and acting upon it. no one ever said that having faith grants you the licence to sit there and watch miracles unfold before your very own eyes, because it ain't gonna happen that way. and that is what God means when He tells you and i to 'seed our faith', watch it grow and move mountains.

.:xiufang:.

~*12:42 PM*~

Friday, April 13, 2007

does apathy grow silently where rapture used to fly?

i remember how we once used to discuss about the way(s) we view ourselves as age slowly catches up with us.the juvenile days of hopscotch, five stones and zero point evolved into the open(yet naive) debates on the world at large - politics, homosexuality, racism and the humankind as a whole.as wisdom starts to catch up with our age, we(hopefully) become more sensitive. and sensible.we implore the human behaviour - why are some people like that, and why am i not?sometimes we find ourselves in sophie's world..which is not a bad thing altogether, because it means that we are actually thinking.and it is during this phase of growth where own opinions are formed that you turn hostile to what others have to say.some of us become opinionated, while others, arrogant.

solitude.maybe it is God's way of telling me something.as you grow up, you tend to want more privacy and an allocated so-called private time to yourself.you don't see friendship the way you once did anymore. in a good way.you start to seek friendship within yourself. you start to understand who you are, more and more each day. it's like being on a roller coaster ride of self-discovery. sometimes, you feel the utter soreness of disappointments. at other times, you feel the uncontainable burst of ecstacy and jubilation. at the end of the ride, you feel accomplished..because in one way, you have come to terms with who you really are. and accept the way how God made you, why He put you on this planet earth and what you should be doing with your life. you and i are part of God's perfect plan. it's one thing to be in the picture, and another to be out, and see the big picture.

.:xiufang:.

~*7:39 PM*~

albeit having caught only 4o winks, i am surprisingly awake.
and i woke up before my alarm again. i have a horrible tendency to do that
my biological clock is too acute for its own good

today is gonna be a good day
cos im going for tennis!!
YAY.i hope the weather doesn't disappoint...

christmas songs are playing on my laptop and i cant help but feel the yuletide season
tis the season to be mugging....falalalala
=)

.:xiufang:.

~*7:53 AM*~

why
why
why
why
why
why

why on earth am i still up
when i should be under my duvet
asleep.
dreaming of lollipops and candyfloss and buccaneer dandy

im evolving into an owl. watch me.

i feel like burning my log book

.:xiufang:.

~*12:23 AM*~

Thursday, April 12, 2007

i can feel potatoes swimming in my head

i think i ate so much of 'em for dinner, i feel carbohydrated now
but it was a very nice dinner...after all those nights of instant food
tsk tsk me

today we feasted
on boiled broccoli and carrots and onions, and teriyaki chicken with TONS of potatoes
and fried omelette with tomatoes! =)
muahahaha we were proud of our broccoli cos it was cooked with no oil.and we deskinned our chicken.AND we observed the fifty-cent rule.

i didnt run today =(
but i had a nice lunch at princess diana's memorial fountain.
we semi-picnic(ed).for that one hour, aerodynamicsbeamstorsionlimits were shoved to the recesses of my mind.
ahhhhhhhh how nice

.:xiufang:.

~*10:02 PM*~

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

o_O [rain rein reign in my life] says:
this is disturbing
o_O [rain rein reign in my life] says:
the dog next door sounds like a sheep
the grass is black when it's jelly says:
ooh
the grass is black when it's jelly says:
cool dog
the grass is black when it's jelly says:
sheepdog

.:xiufang:.

~*7:59 PM*~

whatever that you said yesterday
...really meant a lot to me

.:xiufang:.

~*7:04 PM*~

mugging in school today bred familiarity of those forgone jc mugging days
i like big empty classrooms. they block out everything else on your mind.

in yvette's words, maybe we are becoming anti-social
but its ok. ive made newfound friends with my books.

today i learn about turbulence.
and torsion.
and some calculus here and there.

and now i shall rant..
about landlords who never seem to pick up your call
and when they do, they put you on hold
for eternity.
and when you finally finally finally get an appointment with them
they say, ok wait outside for a while
and you wait
and wait
and wait
and wait
when they finally come out half an hour later
they ask you to wait a while more

!!!!!!!

that pretty much sums up my day

time to feed my stomach.

.:xiufang:.

~*6:34 PM*~

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

just one in a million faces..

it's nice to wake up to kutless(sea of faces) in the morning.
ever since bro sent me some of their songs, they've been running on the loop on my playlist..
hehe, simply cos they've got one of the best praise and worship songs around!

Your body's the bread, Your blood is the wine,
Because you traded Your life for mine

i have to stop procrastinating and do my quiet time =)

.:xiufang:.

~*9:25 AM*~

Monday, April 09, 2007

Experts at Leeds University have discovered the secret to the ideal sandwich...

The formula is: N = C + {fb (cm) . fb (tc)} + fb (Ts) + fc . ta, where N=force in Newtons required to break the cooked bacon, fb=function of the bacon type, fc=function of the condiment/filling effect, Ts=serving temperature, tc=cooking time, ta=time or duration of application of condiment/filling, cm=cooking method, C=Newtons required to break uncooked bacon.

now, that's some food for thought huh?

.:xiufang:.

~*8:49 PM*~

frisbee last night at queen's lawn was fun.and, (for lack of a better word)...therapeutic.
in a way.
- watching the fibre-optically-lit-red-and-blue disc flying in the dark =)
making out shadows on the pitch-

thy mugging season hath begun.
yet my blogging frequency is far less sporadic than i wish to.strangely so, cos i mean what's there to blog about when you're mugging?

maybe its just random thoughts coming to mind.
time to educate myself about beams

.:xiufang:.

~*11:15 AM*~

Sunday, April 08, 2007

If you had not,

touched me the way you once did at the altar
spoken to me the word that once stilled my heart
baptised me with the love that once saturated me

...i would not be who i am today.

happy easter =)

.:xiufang:.

~*11:14 AM*~

Saturday, April 07, 2007

that wretched washing machine(!!!!)
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but thank God for glocare colour-run remover.

.:xiufang:.

~*9:43 AM*~

come away with me
and i will write you a song

~*2:10 AM*~

live like you were dying

He said I was in my early forties, with a lot of life before me
And one moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays
Talking bout' the options and talking bout' sweet times.
I asked him when it sank in, that this might really be the real end
How did it hit you when you get that kind of news?
Man, what did you do?
He said

I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

Like tomorrow was the end
And you got eternity to think about what to do with it
What should you do with it

.:xiufang:.

~*1:52 AM*~

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Valencia!

time for some sun at the beach :)

(a tad) lobstery-red after basking in the sun for 'bout 4 hrs..wish we could have stayed longer at the beach if only the weather (and time) permitted.grew pretty cloudy and cold towards the evening so we headed inland and back to our hostel.donor kebab near our place was pretty yummy.we were all so full and tired we didnt go to radio city in the end.

i'll always remember valencia for the beach =) though im starting to miss spain terribly.on a brighter note, im leaving for bath and bristol tmr! back on friday!

time to catch 40winks before i pack again. gdnight, world.

.:xiufang:.

~*5:30 AM*~

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Villa de Madrid

on our way to the football stadium..

Santiago Bernabeu
Real Madrid F.C. Stadium!

a ladybird walking the streets of madrid

Plaza Mayor
a grand arcaded square in the centre of madrid,
with Casa de la Panaderia in the background

buskers along the streets

we stayed in a traditional spanish homestay in madrid..it's one of the prettiest hostel ive ever seen. plus its near dunkin' donuts and kukuxumusu! haha..my constant lookouts in spain(aside from zara) =D we didn't do much sightseeing in madrid...the late afternoon was spent shopping along the stretch of road that has THREE zara shops (?!?!) and then we retired for the night in a cosy restaurant with...what else, but another set of paella-cum-sangria dinner!! would have loved to stay in madrid a wee bit longer..but due to time constraint we have to leave for valencia the next day - it's time for some sun at the beach!

.:xiufang:.

~*8:34 PM*~

me gusta barcelona!!

our first city in spain!

calamare rings!

paella! a must try for anyone visiting barcelona for the first time! =)
yummy yum..we had paella almost everyday we were in spain..it's really that good!

nic & ian..our 'tour guides' in barcelona hahaha

Casa Balto
a very pretty structure designed by the famous architect Antoni Gaudi, who also built all the beautiful sculptures and buildings in barcelona.

the interior of the building
the fact that Gaudi doesn't make use of lines in any of his designs or architectural works makes them so unique!

Park Guell
another famous work done by Gaudi...we were amazed by how fairytale-like the whole place looks =D

our seaside hostel :):)

sadly the day when we decided to visit the beach, it was all gloomy and gusty :(:(

and we were freezing our toes off in the water!

FC Barcelona!!

Barcelona fans, EAT UR HEARTS OUT! muahahah

~*1:40 PM*~

Monday, April 02, 2007

i actually woke up this morning feeling hot..peeped outta my window and was elated to see so much sun! woohooo i cant wait for summer!!

just skyped with my bro...and he was trying to show me his busted knee but i couldnt see anything cos his webcam is so blur. u clumsytoots. but anws, hope u recover soon for ur game next week!! =)

.:xiufang:.

~*3:26 PM*~

Sat: end-of-lawr celebration party!

Had a combined lawr party with tgs 12, 13 and 14 at The Wine Company. One round of free drinks on the tutors! :D Haha, i almost forgot that you cannot mix your alcohol, and was happily trying a sip of everyone else's drinks whenever people offered me. Thankfully i didn't drink too much of each...or i would seriously have conked out. Already i was wondering why drinking so little alcohol actually had an effect on me. (i started feeling a little tired. :P)

TG11 peeps! And poor karen (our tutor) broke her leg when she fell down some stairs in school on fri. Ouch.

Chris and jojoy, our formidable moots opponents (or, in chris' words, our learned friends :P) with py and me.

Py, rachel and joanna! :D

Oh, nik DID get drunk though! He was all incoherent and sprouting nonsensical phrases...to everyone else's amusement. Blame it on his mix of red wine with sherry brandy (or so i heard.) He was all.

Nik: (to me) Hey...pei ling...i like your earrings.

Me: oh thanks...but erm...you DO know i'm XIN ling, not PEI ling, right?

Nik: ...huh...oh...ya. -stares at me blankly-

After drinks, went with bern, xj, junyi, junrong, nik, eugene and jolin to Chong Qing Huo Guo along Beach Road for yummy buffet steamboat! It was supposed to be a combined tg 11-12 lawr dinner, but turned out to be more of a contract tg outing instead, since everyone there (except for eugene) is from contract tg10. :p Conversation was darn hilarious...esp since nik STILL hadn't fully sobered up.

Nik: (to bern) heyyy you know i almost mistook that waitress -points to a waitress- for you?

Bern: oh, cos they're wearing red polo tees too? Haha ok, i so get that. But they have a yellow collar, and i don't!

Nik: but yellow is like the colour of our skin, so it's like it is not there...

Bern: (to junyi, who was wearing yellow) hahaha that means junyi is not wearing any clothes!

Junrong, who was sitting next to Junyi: -covers his eyes and pretends to look in shock- AHH Junyi! Why are you not wearing anything?!!

Sun:

Finally got my hair cut...Not that i've done anything drastic to my hairstyle. It is just back to its usual length (slightly below the shoulder. :P) The hairstylist was quite amusing though.

Hairstylist: you did a soft rebonding a few months ago is it? Do you want to do it again?

Me: eh? Oh no...my hair's naturally like that.

Hairstylist: Oh. Do you want to do a soft rebond? You know...so you can look shy.

Me: -thinks to self- (look...shy?!!) Haha err no it's ok...i think i'll just cut my hair. Thanks.

-XL :)

~*8:30 AM*~