Our Monkeying Days...

Thursday, August 30, 2007

when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them.
but we can go on loving them, just the same.
it isn't a matter of comprehension, it's forgiveness.
tough choices - sometimes, the wrong decisions are made.
as much as you would like to forgive and bury everything in the grave,
maybe the old saying that "history is indelible" is ever so true -
you can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear;
but you will always know what's hidden underneath.

you can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top;
you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

another long day in the office, staring at the computer screen till i go bonkers.
im still thinking if i should go back rg for teacher's day tmr.

.:xiufang:.

~*1:33 AM*~

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Mallals is next tues. Super stressed...What i did within the span of half a year last year (binder,memorial,moots), i'm supposed to complete within 1 week this time round. Not good...although technically this time it's self-induced frustration (literally) so i really just have myself to blame. Hopefully i can round up more ppl to research together, though so far it's just me and xinjie ploughing through all the stuff. Joel, fangyi and jgan might come on board, if joel really does decide that his research team and mine should combine forces. Really hope that happens.

-XL

~*4:11 PM*~

vanishing act.

things don't get lost if they don't have value -

you don't miss what you don't care about.

.:xiufang:.

~*9:08 AM*~

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

gluttons bay :)

~*1:32 AM*~

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

if life is a comedy
then why are there all the tragedies

if you're there i wish you'd show me.
if you care then i wish you'd know me.
i hope u don't mind me asking the questions,
but i figure that you're big enough.
cos i'm not big enough.

i imagine the size of the universe.
and i wonder what's beyond the edges.

enlighten me, please.

.:xiufang:.

~*2:26 AM*~

i can only imagine...

calamarerings.seacoconut.carrotcake.siewmai.oilyoily.but shiok :]

will i ever dance for you?

.:xiufang:.

~*2:12 AM*~

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Hey ppl do check out http://lovethelipless.livejournal.com/ My cousin is selling her stuff there! :D

Anyway, went for NUS vs Combined UK Schools moots at the Singapore Legal Forum yesterday. Haha all us law peeps were being super enthu about all the freebies that were up for grabs at the law career fair. Everyone was shamelessly getting free ice-cream from this ice-cream guy who was walking around the place, plus strategically walking up to certain law firms' booth to get free cupcakes and umbrellas. :p

Natalie Morris for the Combined UK Schools side of the moots is super powerful. Love her tone, pacing and the way she handles questions from the judges. Man i aspire to be as good as that. We were all rather shocked that she didn't win best speaker. Not that Jared Kok was all that bad. In fact, he was pretty impressive himself, although we have christened him with a not-so-impressive nickname, Surf and Turf, cos of his recent appearance in KFC commericals. :P

Then went for Bourne Ultimatum! I was quite amazed that we actually managed to get seats considering how last minute we got the tixs and how we're talking about watching at PS, which almost always runs out of tixs 2-3hrs before. The movie certainly lived up to its expectations though. I can't say much about the first two movies, since I can barely remember what they were like, but the third one was just amazing. Especially loved the scenes depicting Bourne outsmarting the whole team of CIA agents. Unbelievable. :P

Met up with the 3c peeps for dinner and fireworks! Everywhere in city hall was DARN packed, and even though we were initially determined not to resort to fast food, ended up buying our food at carl's junior. Haha oopz sorry to the UK and US ppl! We then got ourselves squashed at the steps at marina square to watch the fireworks display! It started 20min late, but it sure was worth the wait. :P

We were all getting bored because the fireworks wasn't starting and so started photo-whoring...

...and pics of the fireworks!

-XL :)

~*2:26 PM*~

the rebounder :]

sometimes it is not about what we can, but what we want.
sometimes the ability to accomplish something comes not from our ability, but more from the powerful desires of the heart.
that is why faith can move mountains -
because we can believe without seeing.

we're gonna be alright
cos i know my God saved the day
and i know His word never fails
and i know my God made a way for me

we may have missed some shots in life - some of them small, but others big. but when we crash the board, we take the rebound and sink in the shots. again and again, one rebound after the other.

.:xiufang:.

~*3:56 AM*~

Friday, August 17, 2007

i am :)

i'm typing this in the staff room now..because this is my super free day! only one lesson to go for the entire day...and for the rest of the time, i can foresee myself watching re-runs of prison break(what's new.), making frequent and unnecessary trips to the canteen, small talks with my old teachers(who seem to remember me.gasp) and checking out what's new in school.oh yes, and the little stroll to the popular bookshop.. where i have added another coloured marker to my collection :) beams. you know those with double ends.. yeahh THOSE. coloured markers remind me of school - girls love their stationery hahaha... guys (i.e. my bro) always think we are obsessed with 'trivial things' but... WHO CARES. haha coloured markers make us happy.

hooray. i'm done with marking. well sorta..im kinda lazy with my marking sometimes. i can't stand untidy handwriting. well, if my student has gross handwriting but gets everything correct, then it's still alright. but when u see an illegible doodle of numbers that make no sense whatsoever, and the answers are wrong.. u just can't seem to bother pinpointing or figuring out why it is wrong.. that's why i'm deriving sadistic pleasure from giving them big fatttt crosses on their assignments. muahaha

ok..aside from school, what ive been up to - pretty much nothing. tues - out with manling & lawrence.. our trio decided on a little food expedition around spore haha. except that we only managed orchard and chinatown in the end. :) we ate for almost 3 hrs plus non-stop (!!) amazing.. maxwell has got very nice chicken rice. and carrot cake.. i should try the healthier version next time aka 'white' one.. i was so full at the end of it i went home and felt like a big fat dumpling. before long, the big fat dumpling was lying on bed..snoozing. hahaha.

wed- thomson csc qualifiers.nothing muchhhh..saw chongwai again so went for a hit with him. yck gym reeks of male testosterone by the way..hahaha eeeee. small talk here and there.. went to angmokio for supper.we had a feast, and as usual me susan and jerryca didn't have to fork out a single cent cos the uncles and aunties paid for everything. i must say the food was really awesome - chilli kangkong, omelette with stuffing, pork ribs, fried chicken wings, some glutinous rice balls thingie.. mmmhh i went home and collapsed yet on another very full stomach. i need to watch what im eating.

thurs - bummed ard after school with tj, at home. (happy 5th!) then out for a mini celebration dinner at ding tai feng where i got to eat my favourite fried rice with shrimps and egg! Yuummmm. followed by our usual dose of uncle ice-cream. hahaha there are so many uncle ice cream stalls popping out all over orchard road they're countless.

today is a rainy day. what happened to me sleeping on a rainy day on a holiday. hmmm..
im stuck in the staff room waiting for upper sec assembly to start.i hope it is interesting today... not some boring talk that will surely put me to sleep. how embarrassing to catch a teacher sleeping.. haha let's hope i'm not the first :)

.:xiufang:.

~*1:34 AM*~

Monday, August 13, 2007

Thanks you guys for making my day! :D

Yesterday:

Breakfast at Delifrance at Taka

Met up with Wan and Pearl at 10am (wah early!) before hip hop class. As you can see, i'm still not very awake, hence the slits for eyes. :P Breakfast was sumptous! French toast and scrambled egg and tomato and sausages + tea. Filling!

Yummy Strawberry Cake!

Immediately after breakfast, there was cake! Apparantly Pearl had bought it the day before, and cos she came over to my place, the cake was actually sitting in my fridge for a couple of hours before she left and took it home with her. Haha can't believe i was so blur i didn't even realise! :P

Pearl, Wan and I had a great laugh reading through the instructions manual for the keyboard they got me, which had things like 'it cannot be putted into the oven and putted on the fire to roast'. You guys should be proud to know that till now i had not 'put out strength to twist or pull it'. :P

Lunch at NYDC with XF, Weiting and Lilian!

Went to Wheelock's NYDC for pizza and baked rice after dance class. The Bratwurst sausage-filled pizza was simply heavenly! And the Grandma Goes Nuts Mudpie was delicious too! :D We had fun posing with the stuffed toys lying around. :P

Dinner with May and cake at home with my parents!

May got me the top i have been eyeing for quite some time at The Station! YAY!! Haha was so excited that we decided that i should change into it immediately. :P Went to take neoprints at cine before going next door for Cha Chan Ting dinner! Haha pity by then i was so bloated that i couldnt' really finish whatever i ordered. :P

Then went home for cake-cutting with my parents. (third cake of the day!) They didn't wanna take photos with me :( so there i am sitting alone with my cake. :P

Today:

Last night i was actually feeling somewhat sad cos py, puddles and bern had ALL not wished me happy birthday. But then that was all of, to quote py, their sadistic plan to surprise me in school today! :D

The pretty jewerly box they got me!

Cutting of the cake and stuff was darn funny. Cos we were sitting at the SPP student lounge, they were singing the Happy Birthday song in whispers and then i was to 'blow' the candles although we had no lighters to light it up. Had all of us going up in giggles. :P Apparantly i was supposed to get one of those super embarrassing balloons to carry around too, but thankfully bern forgot to get one. :p

Anyway, thanks for making me feel special this birthday! :D It's great having you guys as friends/cousins! And also thanks to all of you whom i couldn't meet up with yesterday but still remembered! :D

-XL :)

~*1:53 PM*~

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Donuts Heaven!

Turns out the 'short' queue at Suntec was not so short after all. But then i bumped into Zhen Chang near the front of the queue! Ahhhh my lucky day. Haha my mum says i should be glad that i wasn't beaten up by those behind for cutting queue. :P The donuts though...are YUMMY! :D

Pics of the NDP rehearsal fireworks!

Took these a couple of weeks ago but forgot all about them. Going to watch the fireworks with my relatives who are coming down from China again tomorrow though. Can't wait! :D

-XL :)

~*2:38 PM*~

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Went back rjc with tcube, zhen chang and qi sheng. Haha rather spontaneous if i might say so...considering how we only decided on it last night. Turns out Mrs Chan is no longer around! Oh no hope it's not cos we traumatised her into leaving rj...:S Managed to find and talk to the rest of the teachers though: Mrs Tan, Miss Hor, Mrs Toh and Mrs Chong! Haha they all still looked the same, except Miss Hor, who has grown her hair long! (though i had already known that since i bumped into her a few days ago at Corrinne May concert. :P) Oh, and Mrs Kwan-Chua is pregnant again! Wow that's like her...6th-7th child? Haha soccer team already. :P

The four of us bumming around in A-34, our homeroom! :P

Qi sheng came all prepared with his camera to take photos with Mrs Toh and Mrs Tan. :P

National day celebrations in rjc was rather grand-scale this year. They had a full fledged carnival going on! Teck tee showed off how noob he was in golf by hitting some of the balls way over the target, such that we had to go pick them up later. :P

Teck Tee and his '1min of glory'. :P

Oh, but was quite pleasantly surprised that Teck Tee and Zhen Chang got me a be-early present. (haha ok maybe surprised is not the word, considering how Zhen Chang spilled the beans last night already.) Still...didn't really expect them to get anything for me, so thanks a lot you guys! It's really nice!! :D

Anyway, bummed around J8 for a while before heading off to city hall to meet up with PY, Bern and Puddles for dinner. Bumped into XF and Lilian there! Haha so qiao. Luckily they were there to keep me company cos everyone was late, and Bern couldn't turn up in the end. (though at least PY and Puddles did turn up eventually...which is much better than a certain someone who pangseh me yesterday. :p) But sad la...once school starts...it'll be much harder for Puddles and I to meet up with PY and Bern. Law school won't be the same man. :(

-XL :)

~*5:51 PM*~

YIIPEEE DOODLESSS
hols tmr!
no more annoying sec 3 kids for the next five days
glorious :)

.:xiufang:.

~*3:04 PM*~

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Everyone has their own problems. I have mine too. Yet nowadays as i hear the problems that my friends are having, mine just seem so small and insignificant. But then i question how well i can help/advise those around me when i don't even seem to be able to handle my own problems properly, except for chucking them aside and not thinking about them.

Kk i'm sounding too emo. Must be the fact that it's in the middle of the night and i'm no longer thinking straight. Shall take the phrase 'sleep on it' literally and go to bed.

-XL

~*5:30 PM*~

spider pig, spider pig
does whatever a spider pig does
can he swing, from a web
no, he can't, he's a pig.
look out!
he is spider pig!!

simpsons the movie is hilarious :)

.:xiufang:.

~*9:29 AM*~

Saturday, August 04, 2007

End of work!

It's great to be back in the holidays, even though it's going to be a really short-lived one...:P

Wed:
Met up with May at Parkway. Because she missed Singapore food so much, we pretty much had a buffet worth of food on our table at the food court. Ordered mee siam from the famous mee rebus/mee siam stall, chicken rice set, snacks like goreng pisang, hum jing pang and ma hua, and tau suan for dessert. FULL! Haha, and to think May had actually suggested earlier that we should share THREE main courses instead of two...Bleah. :P

Thanks May for all the pressies!

(top left: toilet paper with 'Happy Birthday' written all over it; top and bottom right: a year's supply of chocolates :P; bottom left: earrings that May made herself!)

Esp loved the Happy Birthday roll of toilet paper! Haha couldn't stop laughing when i saw it. And May was joking that she hoped it won't turn my butt multi-coloured. Lol! :P

Thurs:
Went shopping (haha yes yes i know i'm always shopping...) with Lilian in town. Got the shoes and black necklace that i had been looking for. Very satisfying. :D Still can't seem to find a bag that catches my eye though. Lilian was doing a role-reversal of what i did prior to her birthday, and was vigorously hinting to me to point out which bags i like. Haha, but i think i made it much easier...cos at least i have an idea of what i want, unlike -ahem- a certain someone i know. :P Till date though, there's only one bag that i had KIV-ed, but even though Lilian insisted that we walk back to check if it was available at the Isetan at Wisma, it seems like that bag is only sold at the Parkway branch. Ah wells.

Fri:
Went back to school for matric week dry-run. Turns out the actual dry run was only at night, (ok so on hindsight it is kinda -duh- that it's at night) so only stayed to help out for props-making and set-up. But i must say that the props are SUPER elaborate this year. Was especially impressed with this life-sized one, which apparantly took hours to make. Haha, it was conveniently hung in the MIDDLE of the props room, which left me somewhat stunned for a while when i first entered.

Then rushed off for Corrinne May's concert! Wow she is seriously amazing. Even during live performance her voice is still so melodious yet powerful, and she sings so effortlessly. It's just like listening to her cd, only better, cos you get to see her in person. Swoon. Sadly we got out of the concert hall too slowly after the performance ended, such that there was already a LONG queue for her cd and autograph. So decided against waiting and just left. Darn wasted opportunity...though it kinda proves her point that Singaporeans are patient with waiting for food, but not for anything else. :P

-XL :)

~*4:51 AM*~

Friday, August 03, 2007

busy busy :)

im getting used to the sec 3 kids now.they used to annoy me initially... but i guess they grow onto you after a while. i'm actually enjoying teaching. it keeps me occupied.. though waking up at 6am in the wee hours of the morning is still a put off. haha

it's funny to work with teachers who have once taught you before. somehow i still call address them as miss koh, miss wong, miss pang.. haha. it's nice to know that some things in school still have not changed much. i guess it's the good ol' feeling of familiarity :)

woohoo i have finished marking all tests and assignments! bummed around with re-runs of season 2 of prison break. today we had royston tan for assembly.. watched his film called DIY. haha. not a big fan of his... but i found him pretty interesting. as a person. hahaha

yayyy corinne may concert tonight! time to leave school. ciao!

.:xiufang:.

~*7:29 AM*~