Our monkeying days

2008-11-23T13:12:00.006Z

Snow in Notts!

Saw in the weather forecast that it would snow in the wee hours of the morning here, so i actually set my alarm clocked to wake up (all my flatmates thought i was mad. :P)...and there it was!!

Haha ok not very clear...but u can see the white colour of the snow on the cars. :)

And this shot taken in the morning is clearer...And this was how the houses looked like in the morning! :P

Oh, and the christmas lights and the christmas fair, as well as the outdoor skating rink at market square, are all up and running! WOW there's really such festive cheer in the air!! Inspired by them, I got 2 pounds worth of deco and had a mini christmas decoration in my room. :)

My room is now christmas-y! :)

2008-11-08T18:23:00.002Z

This whole week has been super weird. First my mp3 breaks down. Then my laptop monitor dies on me when i have a presentation in two days' time and which i hadn't prepared. And then yesterday, as if i hadn't gotten my fair share of bad luck for the week, I had a whole string of bad incidents. First this salesguy at carphone warehouse added 20 pounds of credit for me to the wrong network because he didn't clarify that my network and this other network were not the same, and then refused to refund my money. Then, out of three transactions, 2 of the cashiers short-changed me money, and only gave back the correct amount when i pointed out that i needed more change. And then the shuttle which was supposed to come did not come, leaving me waiting at the bus stop in the cold for one whole hour. Honestly, all this suay-ness has gotten me rather tired. I'm tired that after having just resolved one problem that crops up, another obstacle is thrown my way, so fast and so close to the previous incident that i don't even have time to breathe a sigh of relief. I can only pray and hope that this bout of bad luck will end soon...

2008-11-02T21:46:00.003Z

Haven't been blogging in AGES! Well, guess it's cos i've been too busy travelling out every weekend. What i've done over these weekends is really too long to go through, but at the end of it all, I'm just really grateful for the great friends i have here! I think ultimately the company is what really matters most. No matter where you are, or how terrible the weather could be sometimes (and noooo i insist i'm NOT a jinx on the weather! :P), in the end, with friends around, even walking through the strongest gale is still a fun experience! :D So thanks guys, for making my weekends so wonderful!! :):)

On another note, starting to feel somewhat homesick. Haha rather delayed reaction really, but i guess after the initial excitement and novelty has worn off, and life settles into a routine, you start missing people and stuff back home. Because ultimately the routine in notts is just not the same as the routine back in sg. Need to figure out if there's a way i can skype. One year only on msn is starting to feel somewhat insufficient.

-XL

P.S. Haha as you can see, on my part i'm emo-ing after a great weekend has ended, as we all said we would individually. :P

2008-10-07T17:25:00.008+01:00

It feels so good to be eating ice-cream when the weather is cold. Not that i'm actually doing it, considering how i'd closed the window as i tuck into my Cookie Dough Ben&Jerry's ice-cream. Wow...but it's DAMN satisfying! Haha, i guess it's cos i've been craving ice-cream since FOREVER, considering how i'd been down with a cough, and then down with a cold. It's been a month since i last tasted ice-cream. The horrors!

Anyway, Italy air tickets have been booked! It's rather ironic that i'll be going there without visiting Rome and Venice, but i guess the places that Jansen has planned sounds interesting nonetheless (Florence, Milan, Lake Como, Sicily!), and I can't wait for dec to come so i can fly off already! Spain planning is still in a mess though, haha i guess mostly cos i'm doing the planning for that, and I have still yet to figure a lot of things out. But will be meeting lilian in glasgow this thurs, and then we can really sit down and discuss, and start the rest of the booking! :P Sadly, tutorial timings are STILL not out, and weekend trips have to be held on hold, even though i'm already more than ready to book tickets for at least a couple of them. Ah wells. Hopefully by the end of this week, as promised.

On another note, was talking to Kenneth, and I realise that I've more or less settled into life in Nottingham. There's no longer that feeling that 'I'm in the UK', or 'I'm staying in a hostel'; now i view Notts Uni as 'school', Market Square as 'town', and my hostel as 'my room/home'. I guess having nice roommates help. Xin Yi is like this big sis to me, always fussing over whether i'm getting enough food, whether i need help with this and that etc. Also, now that I've met people like See Jia, Russell, Sheanney, Wilson, Natalie, Pierre, Andrea and Stephanie, school no longer seems like such a friendless place. Sadly they'll all leave notts after this sem though. But i guess it's good that there's always msn to keep in contact, and I can always meet See Jia and the rest of the NUS exchange peeps again when i'm back in sg. :P

And i'm also getting pro-er at cooking! Haha i think by the end of the academic year, I can go for a chef degree. Thankfully communal dinners within the flat are getting more frequent though. It's really damn mafan to cook just my own share. And with communal dinners, it means more dishes! Like yesterday there was my french fries (made from scratch with potatos) and lemon chicken, xin yi's ma po tofu, and sen jie's stir fried beef, and long beans with pork slices. YUM! :P

2008-10-04T17:45:00.006+01:00

Went for the annual goose fair today! Stupid me actually thought i was going to see geese, but it's really just a temporary amusement park. (Apparently it used to be an annual goose trading day many many years ago, but the geese had disappeared over time, and had been replaced by this annual festival.) Compared to such temporary theme parks in Singapore, the place was HUGE though.

The Fairgrounds!

The huge stuffed toys were SO tempting, but we didn't try the games at any of the booths in the end.

Some of the rides

We all tried the ghost train, which was honestly quite funny, instead of scary. There was this part where they flashed green lights on the walls, with images of those really fake cartoonish ghosts and a recording of ghostly voices, and russell, see jia and i just burst out laughing. Russell, Andrea and Stephanie were then garang enough to try this windmill-like ride (centre row: left), which was CRAZY, while See Jia and I opted for the seemingly tamer mouse roller coaster (centre row: right), which honestly WASN'T that tame. Omg the coaster was turning as it was dropping, and it made me quite nauseous for a while. Haha, and honestly i was quite freaked out by all those drops. I think i barely opened my eyes the entire ride. See Jia and i were saying that the couple next to us (who were wonderfully calm the entire ride) must think the both of us are super noob, cos we were going 'omg omg' the entire time. :P

Russell was damn freaked out after his experience on the windmill ride. :P

2008-09-30T14:04:00.010+01:00

Random shots over the weekend!

GREGGS! One word: YUM! :P

Autumn's finally arriving! Just look at the colour of the leaves! Haha, it inspired xf and i to take this emo shot.

Xf's drink at The Bank......and our Sunday Roast Beef, all for 4.99 pounds!

Tornado in the sky. Xf and I have NO IDEA what this is, but doesn't it look cool?? :P

I just LOVE xf's guitar. Easy to press and strum, nice mellow and rich tone, and a beautiful dark blue colour! Wah, it's love at first sight! Shall get myself something like that once i'm back in Singapore. :P

Anyway, I've spent SO MUCH money over these couple of days that it adds a new meaning to the idea of broke-ness. Haha first it was tickets to glasgow, then it was my coat and backpack, then yesterday it was textbooks. And textbook buying round 2 still beckons within these couple of days. Man money is going out the window, and I haven't even been here a month yet! Note to self: I should NOT shop anymore (exception being when i'm in spain cos, really, how can you NOT shop when you're at zara there?? :P)

2008-09-27T23:11:00.006+01:00

Haven't been updating for a few days cos i've been down with a cold, so was too busy coughing and feeling sian to post. Thankfully it seems to be getting better after drinking LOADS of warm water, and hopefully i'll be fully recovered soon!

Anyway, xf's here!! Haha so cool to be shopping with her around notts. It's like going along orchard road in Singapore, only colder. Was happily showing her around broadmarsh shopping centre, and introducing her to my all-time favourite pastry shop here, Greggs. Thankfully, I managed to risk temptation from all the nice stuff at H&M and Dorothy Perkins, such that i ended up getting only 2 more scarves. A worthy investment, if i may say so myself, since I have now learnt my lesson and shall cover up (excessively, if necessary) to prevent myself from catching a cold again.

Oh, and I have also just booked my bus tickets to glasgow! Darn excited. So the travelling begins! :D:D Sadly, the journey both ways would take me a whooping 23hrs in total, but since that would mean saving 27 pounds compared to taking the train, i guess it's worth it.

2008-09-24T11:06:00.005+01:00

Went to school yesterday to settle mods for these two sems. It's official, I have a four-day week (assuming that tutorials also do not fall on friday) all year! Weekend traveling, here i come! :P The process of module selection took longer than expected though, cos a couple of people were asking questions like '-points at timetable-, how do i know when exactly are my classes'? Errr...just highlight whenever you see the class you want to take in the timetable? Haha alec and i were looking at each other with this 'huh?' face when that question was asked.

Then it was off to shopping with see jia and kenneth! Because see jia didn't have many winter clothes, it turned out to be a HUGE shopping spree for her. Darn i already have most of the stuff i need, so no excuse to shop man. DID end up getting a cap, 2 scarves and a school bag though, although i maintain that those are ESSENTIALS, so it doesn't really count. :P See Jia must be the most efficient shopper ever though. Haha i was telling her that if it were me, i'd take hours to come to a conclusion of what to buy, cos i just KIV everything. But for her it was, 'this is nice', then try it on, then buy. I think kenneth must have been thanking his lucky stars that it wasn't me doing the shopping. :P

Oh, and i cooked dinner last night!! Haha cos alec was too lazy to cook. The egg i tried frying for kenneth turned out damn miserable, but the pasta was edible i guess, so all's good!

Random Shots

I commented about how kenneth looked damn scary wielding the kitchen knife, and so here's a photo to prove my point! :P

Poor Alec wouldn't have known what hit him had he opened the door. :P

Don't let the smiling face fool you. Kenneth was actually have a damn hard time cutting up the minced beef. Haha it took him almost 10min to achieve it.

Anyway, the terrible weather the day before had obviously taken its toll on me, and i'm down with a cold. Noooooo i just recovered from my cough! Hmph. Panadol cold relief seems to be working somewhat though, so i shall cross my fingers and hope the cold goes away soon.

2008-09-22T18:32:00.024+01:00

The weather in Notts is terrible today. Has been raining on and off the whole day, and so it's more chilly than usual. Thankfully all the essentials for the house has been bought! FINALLY! Haha that was 3 days of grocery shopping straight. :S The walk down to the city centre is starting to feel less long and tiring. Guess i'm getting used to it. :)

Anyway photos from last week's trip! I realise i have TONS of photos, so instead of giving a whole long commentary, i'll let the pics do the talking. :P

Stratford

Conventry

York
Think this is a really nice, pretty town. Especially loved the piano busker. Made me miss my piano back home.

Hadrian's WallRather disappointing honestly. When the tour guide mentioned about a huge wall that sounded similar to that of the Great Wall of China, i had huge expectations of it. But then it has already eroded to this state.

At the border between Scotland and England
It was freezing cold. Look at my eskimo shot!

Jedburgh

Edinburgh

and Edinburgh Castle!
Our very animated and funny tour guide in Edinburgh

At the dinner table for the Scottish Show in Edinburgh

Gretna Green
where couples used to go to elope. Awww how romantic. :P

Grasmere: Lake District
The scenery in this entire area is just AMAZING. Pity the bus driver's driving was akin to taking us on a roller coaster ride, which caused me motion sickness after a while, so instead of taking more photos, i was trying not to be too nauseous.

The cruise and steam train ride at Windermere: Lake District

Liverpool
Chester

In North Wales: SO MANY sheep.First there was one, then two, then look at all of them! Haha, and my dad is doing funny poses again.

Llangollen: North Wales

And the hotels I stayed in for the three nights...
Especially LOVE the rubber duckies in the hotel we stayed in on the first night. Loved them so much, that there's a set sitting on my desk in hall right now. :P

And finally...Aimee and me!
Met this really nice aussie girl on the trafalgar tours. This tour operator is apparently renowned as an old-folks oriented tour company, and hence besides the both of us and david (this other law school guy who's here on exchange -- what a small world huh!), there's absolutely no one even near our age. :P

2008-09-20T23:15:00.008+01:00

I've officially moved into my school hall! Initially, was rather apprehensive about st peter's court cos it's quite far away from school, and the area it's in is supposedly not really safe, but once i opened the door to my room...it's love at first sight! Contrary to the usual, where hall rooms are small to the extent of being claustrophobic, my room is actually somewhat similar in size to my room back in singapore. Although technically that doesn't say much, cos my room back in sg was not super huge to begin with anyway. But just like the small, cosy feeling of it. :P The idea of my own toilet is another plus too. No need to sprint across the corridor in all my unglamness whenever i need to use the loo. Privacy in this sense is always good. :P

Pictures of my room and the common areas!

Here there's photos of my very own private toilet, my room, the corridor between the rooms in our flat, the common kitchen and the common living area. :P

The view outside my room. :)

The other two people sharing our flat are also chinese, which is quite cool. As alec said, at least it'll be more docile, which is perfectly to my liking. :) The other girl in our flat is this taiwan girl doing her postgrad at notts, and is really nice and friendly. She even offered kenneth and i instant noodles for dinner, which we felt too paiseh to accept. The other guy, also a postgrad, but from china, is more quiet though. All we said to him today was hi and bye...the rest of the time he just stuck to his room. Ah wells maybe after a while he'll open up. :P

Anyway, as with the process of moving into a new room, alec, kenneth and i had to head out for groceries and stuff for the room. Apparently the city centre was rather nearby, so alec suggested we walk there and save the money we'd have to pay for the bus. And lo and behold, down the road, up a slope, and down the slope later, there was Market Square! (Haha although honestly, i think my stamina SUCKS, cos personally i DID think the walking journey was rather too long for my liking. Oopz. :P)

Market Square, aka Nottingham city centre!

This is the part of Nottingham i absolutely love. Everything from the huge open space and the city council building, to the fountain and the tram car, it's just SO beautiful. I could stay there all day. And the shopping in the area's quite good too, so that helps as well. :P

Anyway, Market Square was totally swarming with students, as many people whizzed by with what looked like a truckload worth of groceries and other misc stuff. Because the 3 of us only reached in the afternoon, and only proceeded to start our acquisition process after lunch, all the major cheap outlets like Primark and Tesco were already absolutely raided by the time we arrived. It took us 4 places and 3 shopping areas before we finally laid our hands upon single-sized quilts. Everywhere else there was only king and super king left. No prizes for guessing why the other size we wanted got snapped up so quickly. :P Because we were so loaded down with all our pillows and stuff, we had to leave grocery shopping to tomorrow, and hence dinner consisted of a very sumptuous roasted chicken ham sandwich, with absolutely no other ingredients. Ah wells...at least it's only one day...so i guess i'll survive. Tomorrow i shall go get my cornflakes and milk and pasta! :P

-Xin Ling :)

P.s. Have loads to comment about the travelling prior to reaching notts as well, but it's really late, so i guess i'll leave that to another day. :)

2008-08-21T08:50:00.006+01:00

The weather's been terrible today. It was sunny, then rainy, then sunny again, then a second downpour, and it goes on....It's like the sky is determined to ruin my running plans. Either that, or challenging me to run fast enough so i'd finish within 30min and avoid the next downpour.

Anyway, going down to kent ridge had been somewhat of a nuisance. The journey into campus takes me about 1.5hrs, and I have been in and out of that place 3 times already these few weeks. Thankfully my laptop's back, and most of the medical issues for exchange has (hopefully) been settled. It made me really grateful that law has moved to btc. So much more convenient! And three cheers for bus no. 48!

On another note, the Beijing Olympics is just amazing! It has become a daily routine over these couple of weeks: wake up for Olympics, continue watching until i go out (if at all), then come back and switch on the tv again. The athletes this time round are just sensational. Already have my faves: Michael Phelps (swimming), Shawn Johnson and Nastia Luikin (Artistic Gymnastics) and the USA volleyball team (haha yes i DO realise that somehow they're all from America). The swimmers and runners put me to shame though! 2 laps of the pool in 1min?! 400m around the track in 1min too?!?! At least I'd always known my running speed was sucky, so people like usain bolt can bolt as fast as they want for all i care. But for a while i was actually quite proud of my 1min+ timing per lap in the pool! Wah, clearly i was highly misconceived!!

(And yep...it has started raining...AGAIN. SIGH...)

2008-08-19T11:24:00.019+01:00

I'm slow in updating again. But i want to say thanks loads to everyone who made my 21st so wonderful and memorable. You guys made me feel blessed to have such great family and friends! :) Great thanks to mum, dad, ah mun, ah mun's mum and dad, wan, pearl, max, dai gu ze, dai gu jiong, sai gu ze, xf, lilian, weiting, geri, dory, sh, py, xj, eugene, vincent, grace, nic, joel, jolin and desmond for the presents and for celebrating my 21st with me, and also many thanks to everyone else who remembered and sent your best wishes through sms and/or facebook! :D

10 Aug - Family celebration day!

Had lunch with Ah Mun and her family at Ah Yet Abalone near Clarke Quay. My birthday twin! Happy birthday to you again ! :)

And Dinner was at Suntec NUSS with Wan and Pearl and Max's families. Check out my 'horns' in our candid shot. :P

Some of the yummy food we had, which included appetisers, soup, steak/duck/fish for main course, and apricot tart with ice cream. Also, had a very unique and delicious avocado cake flown in by sai gu ze all the way from the philippines to end off our sumptuous meal. :P

11 Aug - with the law peeps

Had dinner with the law people at swensen's (marina). Amazingly, unlike most law events/birthday celebrations, there was actually no alcohol. :P Even vincent was saying my birthday celebrations were rather tame...but well...i say it's a good thing that i start my birthday actually aware of what's happening around me. :P

Group shots, including some that i took of us myself. See i'm getting better with zi pai-ing!

They got me a swensen's ice-cream cake, and sung the birthday song considerably louder than the group who was celebrating someone else's birthday a few tables away earlier on, and who they said were singing too softly. :P

And that's all of us! (and as usual, eugene's face STILL looks sian...:P)

And then, to hone all our singing skills, we went (minus desmond, who unfortunately had 9am classes the next day and couldn't stay to join us) for kbox! Haha, of course, that was also because eugene and the rest were determined for me to start my 21st with a bang by exceeding my usual curfew time, and cos our initial movie plans didn't work out as there was nothing to watch. :P There was another mini birthday surprise when they paused the kbox machine at 12 midnight sharp to sing the birthday song for me once again, this time in english AND chinese (because you must sing chinese songs at kbox. :P) AND canto (well, ok, only eugene and vincent knew this version, but they gamely tried singing the parts they knew, humming along for the rest that they didn't. :P)

12 Aug - Happy birthday to me! (with mum, dad, xf, lilian, weiting, geri, dory, and shi hui)

Dad treated mum and I to The Line buffet lunch at Shangri-La! YUM! What kind I say, their international buffet is just SUPERB. Especially love this terriyaki beef dish, which i enjoyed so much that i went for second helpings. :P Their desserts (including chocolate eclair, creme brulee, macaron, tiramisu and chocolate mousse) were also delicious! Couldn't help feeling a little happy that their tiramisu tasted almost identical to the one i have made before though. Muahaha i can make Shangri-La standard tiramisu! :P

Had dinner with curly, lilian, weiting, geri, shi hui and dory at Shokudo! We ordered SO MUCH food, it's like jap buffet galore! Just check out the stuff that we all chowed down. And that was in addition to the gelare ice-cream waffle that weiting, lilian, shi hui and i had just an hour before this. But their jap food's just AMAZING though!

Photo-whoring session!

SOOO CUTE! :D

The cake they got me was a chocolate cake from Canele, which is apparently all the rage now, and i can see why, because it's just so good! I was rather reluctant to eat my white chocolate birthday words, but it's all gone now, after it was decided that i'd split it with everyone. Think i ended up eating the 'Xin' part of it. :P

And a photo of all of us together! :):)

And when i got back home, there was another cake waiting for me! And of course, another photo-whoring session. :P Although my parents refused to join me in the pictures because according to them, they were rather unglamly dressed. :p

Yep...all in all...it was an amazing 21st! Once again, thanks to all of you for making my day! A million thanks can't express how glad I am that all of you are a part of my life!! :D:D

2008-08-01T14:37:00.015+01:00

Went for a faculty-organized old supreme court tour, and for Singapore Garden Festival today. For once, I have my camera with me, and it works! Happy. :D:D Canon ROCKS!

Old Supreme Court Tour

The start of the old supreme court tour, where we were brought to the holding area for the accused/prisoners during the trial period, including a visit to the prisoner cells.

The old Court of Appeal, and the Chief Justice's Chambers.

Walking along the corridors of the building, and out on the balcony.

Singapore Garden Festival '08

And it's off to the Garden Festival! (Where i took this one and only shot of me for the entire day. :P)

The Fantasy Gardens on the 6th floor. Check out 'Going to Shangri-la', right in the middle. Amazing piece of work.

The orchid show on the 4th floor.

And PY was teaching me to use the macro function on my digicam...so here are my masterpieces! :P

2008-07-31T13:36:00.005+01:00

This entry is long overdue...A BIG thanks to Rufus, jolin, py, jenna, nadia, akshay and wei cong for the birthday surprise! And also thanks to all the other people there who sung the birthday song so enthusiastically for me, even though they don't know who I am! You guys made what was a normal Sunday evening fantastic!! :D

And thanks PY for the beads box!! LOVE it! Been looking for something like this for AGES. See i'm making full use of it now. :P

And finally...presenting...my new camera! :D

2008-07-12T16:48:00.009+01:00

K-boxed three times this week! That should be considered a sin man.

Although I must say that ktv is highly addictive. Even now, just one day after my previous session, i'm feeling the withdrawal symptoms. :P Lucky for me, it seems I'm not the only one, and groups of friends are up for k-box again some time soon. YAY time to prepare my song list for the next session! :D

Have also started a new internship. My mentor's ok, but can't really say the same for the work he does. I can only get that excited over motor vehicle accident insurance claims. :P I guess I'm lucky that at least i got posted to liti though, unlike andre, who specified a liti preference, but is now over at corporate. And I actually have my own workstation unlike some of the previous interns who were stuck in the library (thumbs up for that), and the daily pay is at a higher than expected rate of 16 bucks per day (plus another 1o points). So overall, I guess I could live with 3 weeks (or 2.5 weeks because of company trip - add another 20 points for that :P) of work. Then after that it's back to holiday...can't wait! Not that i'm not having a life now as it is, as my frequency of kbox sessions clearly prove. :p

2008-07-06T14:13:00.012+01:00

Had a great weekend!

Yesterday
Woke up bright and early (for me anyway) at 9 plus so that i could make it down to kbox at marina for klunch! Lilian commented that I looked super tired, even though she was the one who woke up earlier at 7+. Haha oopz. We made the bad mistake of singing zhang hui mei songs at the start, and it didn't take long for us all to be drinking water and taking turns to rest our vocals. :P Sadly, the kbox session was SO unsatisfying! Apparently marina kbox is smarter and actually utilizes this electronic function that halts all the songs once time is up, so we couldn't keep insisting that we'll be singing our 'last' song and plonk our butts there for ages without leaving. So ended up with only 2.5hrs to sing (cos we only made it in at 11.30 owing to the queue), and didn't get to belt out many songs! Pity! Haha we all had kbox withdrawal symptoms after that, thinking of all the great songs we had lined up but didn't get to sing. :P

Then, because i was DETERMINED not to spend money shopping, and cos wt and lilian were not too keen on that either, headed down to suntec arcade. The drum game thing was ok, Mario kart was FUN (although somehow i ended up too far ahead so i didn't throw any weapons at all, and was holding on to my tornado for AGES without anything to do with it), we still didn't beat the high score for spot the difference (what's new? :P), i sucked at Time Crisis 3 (as usual), and we ALL sucked at this random hk game thingy where you push red, blue and green buttons (we failed all but one game! Wow that must be a record for what should have been rather foolproof. :P) But the highlight of the whole arcade experience must be this new game thingy where you shoot balls (the kind you find in childrens' ball pits in places like IKEA) at the screen at the random objects that you are told to shoot at, depending on which of about 10 minigames you choose from. Initially there were only kids playing that game. Then us brave souls blatantly ignored the fact that we were more than twice the age of the children playing before us and decided to give it a try, and before we knew it, when we were done, -voila-, there was a queue of people around our age or even older behind us! What's more, that queue never stopped even after we left the arcade! What can i say...we're trendsetters. :P (I actually woke up with my arms aching today because of that game though. Can't believe it! I swim 30 laps and i'm perfectly fine; then i throw a few of those balls that children throw, and my arms are dying...OMG i suck. :P)

After that, it was off to RGS reunion! It's quite amazing seeing everyone again, especially since it's been awhile since we all last met up. Although not the whole batch was there, the turnout was fairly decent, especially amongst 4/9 people. :) Going around exploring the K S Chee Theatre, amphitheatre, 409 classroom etc really brought back many great memories, and made me even more sure that the rgs days were the best years of my schooling life. We even sang the school song and did a RGS cheer, lead by the prefects of our year, just like the good old days. Can't believe that 5 years have actually passed since we graduated. Really makes you feel old! :P

Xiu's photos!

Shots of a few of us at the amphitheatre. (And a photo of Tarbet's banner this year! LOVE the theme. Theatre rocks! :P)

Classroom of the current 409, who're clearly living up to the tradition of being the funkiest class ever! Check out the classroom deco!

Today
Met up with xf and lilian in town first for a bit of walking around (i refuse to say shopping. :P) Despite my HUGE determination not to get anything, bought a vest from ZARA. Nooooo...Feeling SO guilty now. :(:( But when your friends go on about the benefits of being able to pair it with white tops, black tops, and tube tops, and that i can bring it on exchange to wear too, how could i resist right? Right?? :P

We then met up with Erica and Felicia for Hancock, which turned out to be rather disappointing. All was good and well at the start, and the concept of hancock as the superhero who was misunderstood and who was trying to gain a better reputation was actually rather refreshing. Then they added in a superwoman, threw in some romance, and made a weak attempt at explaining how hancock and that superwoman came about, and the whole movie just ended up going nowhere. Sad, for actually i DO like will smith.

2008-06-30T16:19:00.004+01:00

SPAIN WON! :D

Funny game though. 1) Casilla got himself a yellow card despite being goalkeeper, which technically should have made it almost impossible for him to get booked. 2) This German defender (cannot remember who) passed the ball, which rolled slowly towards the side of the field for 5s without any other German player moving forward to intercept it, before a Spanish player realised that no one was going to care about the ball and ran forward to snatch it. 3) Torres was hurt and rolling around on the ground, and the German player with the ball just dribbled the ball right in front of him and bent down to ask if he was ok, seeming to forget completely that the game was still on. (It almost looked like he was going to offer a free kick to Torres in apology, even though the referee had not blown his whistle to signal a foul. :P)

But i must say that Torres is without doubt one of the most talented footballer i have ever seen, and definitely the most exciting player of the night. Was quite sad when he was substituted, and Spain's playing became predictably more boring after that. And it's also amazing that I managed to stay up the entire time to watch it! Although i MUST admit that I'm dead tired today. :P

2008-06-23T17:20:00.004+01:00

Learnt a new thing today. Besides handsome and boyish-cute, there's a third category of good-looking, known as 'ugly cute'. Courtesy of py. :P (Haha and don't ask me how that category is even possible. :P)

Anyway, tiramisu-baking tomorrow! Finally I've gotten all my ingredients, including the rum, which I eventually settled with buying a middle-sized bottle from the supermarket downstairs. (Man why doesn't alcohol come in smaller quantities...I only need 4 tablespoons worth!) Anyway, hope it turns out well. For one, the ingredients did NOT come cheap. But can't wait! :D

And my set of clay beads have arrived! Excited to start making earrings with them. :P Also have to figure out the design for py's earrings, although technically she has helped me out much by explaining the type of look she wants. :P But lazy today...maybe tomorrow...assuming I even have any energy left after cooking lunch AND baking.

And on top of that, I need to get my visa settled! Have been sitting on it for days man. Even my dad has delivered with his financial statement already. Time to complete my part of it if I really want to get my butt to UK in sept.

As can be seen...I have ambitious plans for tomorrow, or rather, later on today, judging by what time it is already. :P

2008-06-22T10:33:00.003+01:00

Love East Coast

Love the sound of the waves as they crashed against the shore, the feel of the sand under my feet (ok fine...under my feet, socks and shoes. :P), and the feel of the wind as I ride on my bicycle along the bicycle trail. Also, how all the ships stayed stagnant on the ocean waters, like one big endless picture you hang along your wall.

Love the people (and animal) watching. The brave souls dipping into the murky greenish-blue ocean waters, including one daring soul with his terrier, which looked like it was frantically paddling towards shore, except that it was held in its owner's grasp and was swimming nowhere. Dogs of all shapes and sizes walking/jogging/running (depending on the size of their feet) along with their owners, and this one particular dark-brown labrador which was rolling over again, and again...and again on the grass, as its owner tugged in vain on its leash, looking exasperated. People sitting in their tents and in groups at the stone tables, watching us cyclists and bladers go by. Bladers, cyclists and runners of varying competency weaving in and out past each other in the somewhat overcrowded trail. People trying out all sorts of water sports in the ocean, including kayaking, sailing and jet skiing (cool i want to try that!).

Especially love Bedok Jetty. Even in the afternoon, and after so many years, there is still so many, if not more, fishing enthusiasts. You would have thought that the fishes would have gotten smarter by now, by natural selection or something, as all their more trusting ancestors take the bait and become anchovies/ikan billis. Although i DID notice one guy take up his fish trap, still filled full of bait but not at all with any fish (aw.) So maybe the fishes ARE getting more savvy about the dangers that lurk above the waters after all. :P The view, at least, is still the same. From there, you get a clear view of airplanes that have taken off from Changi Airport (that will be me in a few months!), and in the opposite direction, my condo, not too far a distance away. Soothing and serene. :)

All these kind of made me wonder why I'd abandoned my weekly cycling routine a few years ago. Haha, although technically the word 'laziness' keeps popping into my head. :P Yep, but definitely will visit more before I fly. Last I checked i think there's no beaches in the UK. I could be wrong, but either ways, I'll still be unwilling to freeze my butt off at one of their beaches there. Of course, there's always Hyde Park in London, just a 2hr train ride away from Notts. Will be looking forward to visiting it again. :P

2008-06-20T12:04:00.003+01:00

Exchange is finally confirmed, and come 16th sept, i'll definitely be away from Singapore for a period of 9 months. A few months ago this news would have me jumping up and down for joy and spur me into travel research and visa application and what-nots. ANYTHING to make exchange come faster. But i guess too much has happened at the start of this week that I'm now leaving with rather mixed feelings. Not that I regret my decision to go on exchange. Was talking to xf on msn yesterday, and really, despite it all, my wish to go overseas for year 3 of law still hasn't changed. I guess xf is right and we must always be forward-looking. So one year of travelling in europe it is, and who knows, when i'm back things would be better! :)

2008-06-15T15:04:00.007+01:00

Shall post lyrics to this song that i'm absolutely IN LOVE with now. :)

<<复活>>

你变得像他一样沉默
偶尔也像他一样活泼
连笑声也都一样
我怎么忘
也忘不过一秒
我想要爱
却看到他离开的刹那
你将爱情带走
留我一个分手的魔咒
叫我伤得彻底不敢再妄想谁的温柔
看我的眼神闪躲
我知道你有话不能说
我该如何假装
心才不隐隐作痛
你说分手后
你(我)第一次有想爱的念头
可是眼前的是他还是你(我)
还在争夺
我懂你不想承诺
却又无法解开这魔咒
让我在你心里面复活
无数次的复活
我只要你爱我

远远看你勇敢在心头
靠近一点却又太懦弱
不拆穿你的困惑
爱不了我(你)
至少不要难过
任何结果
我会点头
只要你快乐
你将爱情带走
留我一个分手的魔咒
叫我伤得彻底不敢再妄想谁的温柔
看我的眼神闪躲
我知道你有话不能说
我该如何假装
心才不隐隐作痛
你说分手后
我(你)第一次有想爱的念头
可是眼前的是他还是你(我)
我(你)还在争夺
我不想给你承诺
却又无法解开这魔咒
让我在你心里面复活
无数次的复活
我只要你爱我
无数次的复活
我只要你爱我

P.s. Incidentally, it is now also the background music of the blog. :P

2008-06-10T19:10:00.003+01:00

Cooking, baking, watching tv (korean drama serial my mum is watching, ming zhong zhu ding wo ai ni every monday, so you think you can dance season 3), making earrings, swimming, reading gossip girl books, readings comics, going out...It seems like these days there's just not enough time to do all the things i want to do within the day. Although technically speaking, i guess that's also because i wake up at 11am everyday. So before the day even starts, it's already half gone. :p

Baked strawberry cheesecake today, and it's actually quite yummy! Cracker crumb crust at the base, rich cheese in the middle, and strawberry preserves as the topping: DELICIOUS! (okok so i'm bragging here, but I'm quite proud of this accomplishment, considering my baking experience, or lack thereof. :P) I attribute it to the cream cheese that i bought at the NTUC though. Very good tasting in itself. And with that as the main ingredient, I guess it's really quite hard to go wrong. :P The other dishes that I've conjured up over the week (mozzarella chicken, coleslaw, chicken with cashew nuts, broccoli with oyster sauce) are only so-so. But at least they don't poison anyone, and are actually decent enough to be eaten, so that's a good start I suppose!

Not so great an accomplishment: getting two leg injuries in two days. Haha yes don't ask me how that's even possible. I guess when you have a tendency of bumping into things like I do, nothing's impossible. :P Injury number 1 came about yesterday night as the bottom of my left foot got stabbed by a stray piece of glass from one of the chipped pieces of swarovski crystals that was lying around on my bedroom floor. Injury number 2 happened when my right foot brushed against one of the ringed binders on the living room floor, which somehow managed to cut the area BETWEEN my third and fourth toe. Thankfully, both cuts are rather minor, although now i'm wondering how i'm supposed to go swimming without feeling the sting. Well i suppose there's always plasters, an essential item to have, as my internship stint has taught me. :P

-XL

2008-06-08T15:21:00.003+01:00

When someone gives you a week to make a decision that could potentially alter your path for the future...what do you answer? Well, for me, the answer was no. And i would not deny that part of me feels bummed about it, especially when the reply was so quick, so easy. Just a quick, 'sure, ok' and that was that. And yet it took me one whole week, procrastinating over and over again, before i gathered up the determination to come to the conclusion i did. Now I just hope that I have not made the worst mistake of my life.

-XL

2008-05-24T14:49:00.004+01:00

GSS is here!

And needless to say, i've spent LOADS of money these couple of days. Although I shall attempt to justify it by explaining that half of the clothes bought are for autumn/winter wear in UK. Also included amongst the purchases: a nice black bag for work and a pair of black work pumps to replace my currently dying pair. So...my spending is NECESSARY ok. :P

Anyway, I shall also post photos of the earrings I've made thus far. Haha proud of them! Although each pair took me FOREVER to make. :)

The three pairs of earrings I've made so far!

A very blur photo of a work in progress.

-XL

2008-05-19T05:11:00.006+01:00

Friday

Met up with lilian and WT after work. GSS had started!! But in the end, none of us got anything from any of the sales. Haha I think that's cos we spent more time emo-ing than actually looking at the clothes proper. Food at the Asian Kitchen was good though. I'm not really a noodles person, but thought their la mian was really quite amazing! Quite filling though! Wanted to try their dou sha xiao long bao (YUM my absolute fav xiao long bao) but couldn't find any more space in my tummy to fit that in. Awww darn.

Walking around in my 2.5 inches black work pumps was KILLER. By the end of the night, i was not walking anymore...more like i was dragging my feet around. Even standing on the mrt on the way home was painful! :S You should have seen what my feet looked like when i took my shoes off at home. It's mildly fascinating how they looked like, for lack of a better description, 2 bloated red lumps. Not the best sight. :P

Saturday

Mahjong! Eugene, py, vincent and i first met at adam's road for nasi lemak (ooo i was craving that!!) before heading down to school for our mj session. (haha yes we actually DO have a mahjong set AND mahjong table in school) Surprise surprise i lost money AGAIN. Haha vincent seemed quite shocked when i told him that out of all my mj sessions, i've only won money once. So his motto of 'shu shao suan ying' really applies to me. :P And going by that, since in the end it only worked out to an overall deficit of 4 bucks, all's well and good! Poor py lost a total of 26 bucks though. Her luck really quite suay. Every time she was waiting for a 5 tai, the tiles she wanted just DID NOT come, even though no one was really guarding her as all her tiles were covered. Then in the 1.5 rounds we played, she also barely won any rounds. Haha maybe the next time we play she REALLY should wear her lucky red shorts again. That won her SO MUCH money the other time! (I heart pain just thinking about it...No prizes for guessing who she won money from. :P) Py has insisted she won't play again for the rest of this year though. But I doubt she can resist temptation. :P

Eugene, vincent and I then headed to tiong bahru for dinner, cos eugene was determined to get his lu ding ji from the TS branch there. Spontaneously, we decided to catch Speed Racer, and very randomly, we bumped into lui (who lives around that area), and so the four of us ended up catching that movie together. The movie was...bizarre...to begin with, but once you get used to the cartoon-ish effects, it's actually quite nice! Not much of a plot though really, but i like the racing, which coincidentally is SO similar to this game 'Age of Speed' that i had been rather obsessed with on miniclips not too long ago! Now to figure out how to make my race car drift in the game (which just looks SO cool in the movie. :P)

Sunday
Bead shopping, round 2. Although this time round, I was much more liberal in my choosing and buying of beads, which...let's just say...amounted to A LOT of money. Applebay bead shop at Chinatown Point has LOADS of pretty beads! I had missed it the first time i went bead shopping a week ago because it closes at 5pm, but luckily this time round i decided to check it out, cos it has SO MANY beads i wanted! Of course, they didn't come cheap though. But still highly satisfied with my purchases. :P Also found another bead shop on the third floor of Chinatown Point selling swarovski crystals (which applebay didn't really stock), so thankfully didn't have to go back to that shop at People's Park Centre and stare at the shop assistants' black faces as they choose out the crystals for me. And I got the crystals cheaper this time round too! :D

My proud acquisitions!

Then met wan at cine for Made of Honour. Don't know why mags like 8 days only gave it 2 stars, cos it was HILARIOUS! Patrick Dempsey is SO charming and funny! And wan and i can't help observing that Michelle Monaghan looks like a mix between sandra bullock, selma blair and Anne Hathaway, but anyways she also had great chemistry with Patrick Dempsey, which makes this movie a must watch! :P

Dinner was at this place at the basement of cine called Korean BBQ or something along those lines. In one word: YUM. :P

The name of this dish is called Jerk BBQ, which I found mildly amusing. The chicken is super succulent! Reminded wan and me of PS food court's Indonesian Chicken Leg set. :D

Original Chicken. Kinda looks and tastes like KFC chicken, only this meal is more ex. Apparently it's cooked with olive oil though, which is supposed to make it more healthy. Ah, anything to justify eating fried chicken without feeling guilty. :P

-XL

2008-05-15T15:01:00.005+01:00

I'm surprised my previous entry was actually read. I have loyal fans!! :P

Anyway, it's quite amazing how time flies, even as I complain about how long every day in internship seems to be. Yet before i know it, i've complained my way to almost the end of my corp dept internship, and it's on to liti next week onwards! I can't believe I'm saying this, but now i feel that i'm leaving too soon! Haha, i guess it's cos i really like my mentor. Although I felt like a poor unwanted kid the whole of last week because she was away, and when she came back she was so busy clearing stuff that she didn't have time for me, getting to work with her this week has made this internship so much better. I think she's SO cute! She was all:

Mentor: When are you leaving?
Me: Oh I'm going to liti dept next week onwards.
Mentor: Next wee...that's ONE MORE DAY left!!
Me: Haha eh...ya.
Mentor: Wahh that's fast! Okok but anyway the next two weeks you can feel free to find me when you are free ok? Anyway you are just one floor down.
Me: Ya sure!

Yep, even though it was just one week, she really made me feel welcomed (haha that means her plan to 'leave a very good first impression' worked! :P). I even willingly and happily OT-ed for her yesterday, only to be shooed away with a 'actually you can tell me this tomorrow morning la. No need to torture yourself.' To make me stay back beyond working hours without complaining is an achievement! :P Honestly can't say her work is too exciting though (haha oopz.) Somehow she's so specialised that everything is standard contracts and documents. Kinda reminds me of conveyancing. :S But she did give me much useful insight about the pros and cons of liti and corporate though, as she herself had started off at liti before making the switch. Hmmm much food for thought, esp her story of her VERY pregnant female lawyer friend dragging her files, and her huge tummy, to court. Wah not the work life i want next time man!

Also sad that both Lavan and Vernon are ending tomorrow, though Vernon HAD to go 'hmmm finally ending. TOMORROW LAST DAY. -pointed look and smirk at me-' Hmph! Thankfully still have Pin Ping as my lunch buddy, although next week onwards I wouldn't be sharing a nice big room with her anymore. My new place is a table along the corridors. DARN can't facebook, online shop anymore! Haha not that I was never caught doing those things these two weeks. Have been blatantly surfing all sorts of random sites with the window maximised, and with my com facing the door, when all the while people are walking to and fro outside. I'm sure some of them saw, and the secretary who walked right into the room without me noticing today DEFINITELY realised that the banana republic website i was looking at was NOT corporate-related work. I couldn't even switch windows in time cos the com was SO laggy the pdf window i tried to get to pop up appeared in parts, so the screen was part words and part pictures of nice dresses. If only my mentor's contract is for a design/apparel company. Ah the excuses I could come up with! Haha but ah wells.

-XL

P.s. Just in case anyone out there is worrying because of my previous entry, I'm fine already. So no worries! :P

2008-05-12T17:20:00.003+01:00

I know it's been a while since i last blogged here. But just needed to vent my thoughts somewhere, and since i'm online, i thought of here. All i can say is, the truth hurts. I've talked through this with people, and i've heeded their advice, but i guess it came to a point where i had to know. And there are ways of finding out. Which i did. And i guess the phrase ignorance is bliss was coined for a reason. Although in a way, i guess it's good to know where things stand instead of constantly second-guessing everything. But then i can't deny that i'm sad to know it. Yet i guess these things can be sorted out eventually. It's all a matter of time. And with exchange looming, i guess distance helps too.

-XL

2008-01-17T03:12:00.000Z

Inspired by xf's post, i've decided to update the blog too! To all who are still bothering to come by this blog once in a while, happy belated new year!

Anyway, school has started. Actually, if you notice the time i'm posting this, i AM in school now, in a seemingly neverending lecture. People have started walking out casually to grab coffee, and the lecturer has teasingly commented that the next person to do that will have to buy coffee for her too. :P Thankfully, i finally have a four-day week this sem! Not so thankfully, one of the modules looks set to take up loads of my free time, and it's only four credits! Kinda like PW, legal style. Amazingly, i've heard that people have actually started researching on the first project assignment we have. Apparently they spent 5hrs on research yesterday! (Let's see...for five hours yesterday...i was...surfing net, watching tv, playing piano...anything BUT researching. :P)

Deal or no deal had a hunks special edition yesterday! Haha darn exciting. Lilian and i were both gushing over suitcase guy no. 2. HOT! There was this other jap guy who was not bad too...from afar. Haha cos just when i said he was not bad, the camera zoomed in on him and...um...i prefer it zoomed out. :P He was still quite charming in personality though. :P Douglas had only like a few sad seconds of fame. Haha he was the third to be called. Barely 5min after the show started, off he went from the stage. Oh, and the contestant yesterday actually managed to pick the $250k suitcase, although it was subsequently swapped for a $88k offer. Such a waste! Although 88k for appearing 1hr on tv is still A LOT of money.

-XL :)

2008-01-01T20:36:00.001Z

okayy i'm bored so i've decided to give this already stagnant blog a new sprinkle of life! time to keep everyone updated about life in london (again!)

it's the time of the year where everybody is supposed to feel all love-dovey and christmas-sy jolly...but somehow coming back to london after a week of skiing in france makes one utterly gloomy and depressed. blame it on the weather? yeah. especially so when you hardly see any sunshine.

skiing was awesome !! and so was the company :) i really love my instructor, he is cool and funny. (even though he can be a bit of a show-off at times) it was a great week of get-away from the gloom and doldrums of the london life. ahhhh wished i had spent my christmas there, at least it would have been snowy and white...

pics of the ski trip will be up soon :)

i've been hooked onto a new sitcom as of late - How I Met Your Mother. it is hilarious and the best sitcom EVER. next to Friends.. Lily and Marshall are the most adorable couple. and Barney is the most retarded human being in the show. ever and ever. ok, enough spoilers! go watch it if you havn't! it's got me hooked for the past few days.. =P

ok enough recap for now. school is starting in 2 days time, how horrible. i am jealous of the oxbridge folks, because their winter break is 3 times as long as ours bahhhhh how unfair

.:xiufang:.

2007-10-01T16:52:00.000+01:00

A lot of bombshells have been dropped on me lately. Things i don't want to hear, stuff i don't want to know. Honestly, it has all made me feel somewhat jaded. I suppose reality can be rather harsh sometimes.

-XL

2007-09-27T16:27:00.000+01:00

Pulau Ubin Cycling Trip!

Cycling around the island was super fun, but also really tiring! Haha my stamina is not what it was before man (which wasn't very good already, to be honest. :P) But it certainly beats cycling around east coast, which is starting to feel mundane and unexciting. The company was great too! Haha, with shermin-little-miss-sunshine, people changing andre's name from dugong to wild boar (haha poor thing, i don't think he was too pleased with that new nickname) and nich and dennis always drawing-the-line with py-nus biz and gaoli-ntu, there was not a dull moment. :P

Have been plagued with stomach viral infection since tues night though. Thankfully the fever and puking's gone, but now i'm still rushing to the toilet every 30min. Sucks. Caused me to miss trial advo yesterday too. Bleah. REALLY hope i recover soon! There's still loads of yummy snowskin mooncake in the fridge waiting for me to eat. Haha. :P

-XL :)

2007-09-22T16:26:00.001+01:00

Mid-sem break is here!

Not that there's much to rejoice about really, considering how there's still property assignment to do, and readings to catch up on. But ah wells, a little break is better than no break at all i guess. And before I go on any further, let me just comment that there's this irritating bug that's buzzing around above me as I type...some unknown flying creature with super long feelers which seems to find enjoyment in repeatedly hitting the light bulb above me. Haha what is it with bugs and bright light? Never understood that.

Anyway, got the car again this week! So shiok being able to get out of the house and reach school in less than 1hr. And it's super useful when I'm going out to meet friends too! The parking, however, is MADNESS. I think i'll be more broke because of parking fees this week instead of shopping, if not for the fact that the cashcard is my dad's (haha phew. :P) Just when i thought the $10+ charge at bugis on thurs was ex, i was slapped with $20+ in parking fees at taka today! Wah almost fainted. My parking skills are improving though if i may say so, even though technically i kind of cheated somewhat by parking at one of those drive-straight-in slots at eu tong sen, which is always helpfully available. But when i tried parking butt in at taka today, i managed it successfully on the first try, without having to adjust! :D Haha, of course now the key is making sure that i can repeat that feat. :P

Met up with xf and lilian in town today before xf flies back to london on monday morning. Sigh so fast man, three months' hols are up just like that, and she's going back for a whole year again. Girl you take care over there ya, and talk to you on msn! (since i'm always online anyway, in school or otherwise. :P) Will miss you!! :(

-XL

2007-09-13T15:27:00.000+01:00

This week seems to be flying by quickly. I'm really proud to say that i've managed to catch up with my readings from the backlog of work that i had accumulated during mallal-ing period. That, of course, came at the expense of my beauty sleep. But as Karen Dixon says, 'sleeping is for the dead'. And anyway, there's always caffaine. :P

Stayed back on tues night to catch the semi-finals of mallals, especially to watch the moots of jared vs exchange student, and vikrum vs vishal. Looking at the way they were bombarded with qns, puddles and i were REALLY glad we didn't have to endure the semi-finals ourselves. Haha my pathetic answer would probably have been, 'errr....' and then -silence-, which is so totally unimpressive compared to the semi-finalists. :P PY and Bern came over to btc to watch too! It's great seeing them again, and to learn they haven't changed one bit: PY is still as auntie, and Bern still doesn't go for lectures. :P Haha, but i suppose it really hasn't been THAT long since they went over to business.

Met up with jen today! Haha the girl is still as pretty and skinny as ever (and NO even when you were in england, that is NOT considered fat. :P) As with always, we were up for jap food, and so went down to ichiban, before heading down to cafe iguana for drinks. Ohh i made a wonderful discovery! Pink guava margaritta there is REALLY good! Haha so next time i go i can vary my options instead of always going for mango margaritta. :P

Also heard from Jen about Maureen, Su Ching and Vivian, and how they came together for a reading of Su Ching's play. Wow it's quite amazing how they all still keep in contact and are active in drama. I'm like so totally out of it already. It made me feel somewhat nostalgic about the LD days, where we were in it for the acting and the drama, and were relatively free from the obstacle that is politics. Wonder if LD now is still the same...

Anyway, shopping with Xiu at bugis tomorrow! Haha darn excited about it! I need retail therapy after all the readings i've done this week man. :P

-XL :)

2007-09-06T07:21:00.000+01:00

Mallals is over! (haha in all senses of the word). As expected, didn't get into the semis, but wells it was a good experience...At least i don't think i screwed it up that bad. :P

Went to school early on tues to practise with grace. We ended up not doing much though, cos grace wasn't done writing her speech, and i was just generally feeling too sleepy to bother reciting my speech over and over again. Thank goodness for the wonders of caffaine, which i had to resort to by afternoon to keep myself relatively sane. Haha, those in my company seminar would have seen me desperately trying to keep my eyes open...i was THAT spaced out. :P

Really loved the whole ambience of Allen & Gledhill. Suppose that's the difference with a big law firm. There's super high security even trying to get into the building, and the first thing you see when you reach the 30th floor is this wonderful sky garden. Wow. I ended up having my moots at the boardroom. (haha funky!) The funny thing though was that amidst all the plush boardroom chairs and the huge boardroom table, there was in the middle of the table (serving as the podium)...a cardboard box. Haha, unglam. The moment i opened my black file on it, there was no space left to rest my hands, which ended up rather awkwardly placed on the table at the sides of the box. :P

The judges were clearly warmed up by the time my moots started though. Apparantly the people for the first timeslot had to recite facts, but then when it was my turn the judges already knew what questions to ask. No matter whether it was amardeep or me speaking, the guy judge just -whack whack whack-. Didn't even have time to finish most of what i wanted to say. Haha, the guy judge was somewhat intimidating: all black-faced and frowning everytime you attempted to respond to his queries. (I don't think i even saw a flicker of approval/smile on his face) Thank goodness for amardeep being there as well. (haha i can't believe i'm actually saying that it's comforting to have opposing counsel around. Although i suppose it would have been an entirely different story altogether if i had gotten the likes of jared kok or nabil for opposing counsel. :P) The girl judge was somewhat more placid though, which made it slightly more comforting. :P

Anyway, went to tcc with grace and ervin after moots! LOVE their bean bags. Haha and plus mine was in the best shape the entire time, unlike ervin's which was oddly rectangular instead of round and plump. He blamed it on the person before him, whom he claimed was just too fat and so flattened the bean bag and made it out of shape. Haha. :P Tried their tirumisu, which was simply heavenly, esp since that was essentially dinner for me that day, aside from the slice of pizza i had at A & G. Must remember to try it again some day. :P

-XL :)

2007-09-05T01:41:00.000+01:00

Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will quite ever match.

maybe..
love is not doing whatever the person you care for expects of you; it's doing what they don't expect.

.:xiufang:.

2007-09-02T17:08:00.000+01:00

OUT WITH THE SQUASHIES! <3<3

awwwww.. a big fat reunion all again. i miss our crazy antics :]
we feed good food into our tummies -
sakae and cartel desserts. yuM.

it's been so long since we laughed like that..the company was greaT.

let's do it again :D

.:xiufang:.

2007-09-01T13:49:00.000+01:00

2007-09-01T05:07:00.000+01:00

sojourn '07.
- say hello to the Spiderpiglets!!

sojourn was awesome!! and i must say that the spiderpiglets are an awfully self-motivated bunch of pple. it's hard to forget the sight of u guys running around orchard road in a human chain singing national day songs at least 5 times in a day... and how a fellow og member (shockingly) devoured the dragonfruit skin under desperate circumstances. kudos to everyone!

the ogls in frisbee action :)

Hi- jump!!

nicely :)

day 2: amazing race - shi zi lu kou.

spiderpigs cracking (and scratching) their heads over the clues.

jie hui, wei shyan.

haha.

2007-08-30T01:33:00.000+01:00

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:.

2007-08-29T16:11:00.001+01:00

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

2007-08-29T09:08:00.000+01:00

vanishing act.

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

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

.:xiufang:.

2007-08-22T01:32:00.001+01:00

gluttons bay :)

2007-08-21T02:26:00.000+01:00

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:.

2007-08-21T02:12:00.001+01:00

i can only imagine...

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

will i ever dance for you?

.:xiufang:.

2007-08-19T14:26:00.000+01:00

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 :)

2007-08-19T03:56:00.000+01:00

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:.

2007-08-17T01:34:00.000+01:00

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:.

2007-08-13T13:53:00.000+01:00

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 :)

2007-08-08T14:38:00.000+01:00

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 :)

2007-08-07T17:51:00.000+01:00

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 :)

2007-08-07T15:04:00.000+01:00

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

.:xiufang:.

2007-08-05T17:30:00.000+01:00

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

2007-08-05T09:29:00.000+01:00

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:.

2007-08-04T04:51:00.000+01:00

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 :)

2007-08-03T07:29:00.000+01:00

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:.

2007-07-29T13:51:00.000+01:00

happy birthday sandie!! :))

2007-07-23T16:58:00.000+01:00

Weekends + Today!

Too lazy to write in prose...So uploading photos it is!

Top: the two nice tees i got whilst shopping at bugis street, including (finally) a little miss t-shirt that actually fits and is affordable! :D; Bottom left: Ben and Jerry's at Raffles City; Bottom right: Triple scoop sundae with Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Strawberry Cheesecake and Chocolate. YUM. :P

The Boy who Lived

And no...I haven't read until the ending...So no spoilers please!

My year 2 law books from King Man. Wahh...A LOT!

Riciotti Italian Deli & Bar at Clarke Quay

And the cakes at Riciotti! Totally sinful. :P

-XL :)

2007-07-22T05:43:00.000+01:00

the world's most beautiful sunset...

more Greece photos will be up from abiel's camera:))

HAHAHAHAHAH!!
the three guys are up to some hanky panky mischief...

awww..drools. i can never get enough looking at all the pretty sunset pics taken from Greece.
:)) and all those photos brought back so many good memories..
i wanna go backkkkk. after i've contended myself with spore food first.
muahahaha...everyday here has been a gastronomic bliss. burps!
it's funny how my mom thinks im deprived of choc there; she bought home like tons of royce chocs..my fav dark bitter ones too! :P ok food time!

.:xiufang:.

2007-07-19T05:39:00.000+01:00

the day of the volcanic ramen

ajisen :))

2007-07-15T15:00:00.001+01:00

hiatus

sorry that i've been pretty much mia-ing the past weeks - judging from my inactivity on this blog ever since i got back. haha..quite a lot of fun has been going on.meeting up with friends and stuff..it's funny how much one's perception can change so much in 9 months..

anyways. update! some pics to sum up.. im really too lazy to write.heh shi zi lu kou! which we sadly, did not eat :(

night cycling!
with the big spoked wheel behind us

the good old stadium

.:xiufang:.

2007-07-12T14:36:00.000+01:00

Somewhat pissed off by the insensitivity. I told them in the morning that i couldn't turn up for work the day before because of gastric flu, and yet today i only managed to get down to lunch at 3.45pm. Sure, i understand that there's a lot of things for me to send and that some stuff need to be done urgently, but all i need is 15min for lunch break. Was so hungry that the gastric started acting up again as i was queuing up at DBS bank, and because i was waiting in line (which was painfully slow-moving today), couldn't rush off to get food until after i was done quite some time later. I really think that the people there mean no harm, and that they are in fact rather nice, but sometimes i just wish they'd spare a thought for me, even if i'm just a temp. It's no fun running around sick and on an empty stomach.

-XL

2007-07-09T17:26:00.000+01:00

one life,
i lay at your altar.
one love,
i have with you.
fill me again,
touch me as you hold,
my outstretched hands.

one word,
you know i will follow.
one heart,
broken to you.
use me again,
your mercies follow me,
all of my days.

some random thoughts crossing my mind on this 20th bday night.
shall leave that to another day, when i can better put them into words.

happy birthday.

.:xiufang:.

2007-07-04T13:42:00.000+01:00

Random thoughts about work...

Taking the escalator at exit F of Raffles Place MRT can seriously cause one to be bored to death. I think i can walk up that distance faster than the escalator brings me up.

A most apt description of my current job scope: Sai gang warrior. It's hello to major weight loss by the end of the month. (at least...all those walking BETTER make me slimmer by the start of aug. :P)

The people at the law firm are really nice and friendly...though i think the workload and stress has made them all somewhat cuckoo. :P Ai Ling (the secretary) is especially cute, whining all day long like a little girl. Eg. 'whyyyyy are they callingggg meeeeee', 'urgenttt? everyone all say it's urgentttttt laaaaaaa' *pouts*

Going for completions are like going on blind dates. You never know who you'll meet, and the whole time before you meet them, you pray hard that they won't turn out horrifying (think really cold and sarcastic). When you enter the other law firm, you look around hestitantly, hoping someone will come over and intro themselves with the code words - 'Just Law? You here for completion?', and then you get the answer to what you were praying hard for, which, as with all blind dates, might not be the answer you wanted.

A really queer thought i had when i was walking down Robinson Road from my office to Tanjong Pagar: i LOVE that road. (yes yes i told you it was a queer thought.) It's so unlike other roads in singapore...There's tall office buildings on both sides of the streets which stretch out for a long distance without any side roads in between to break the line. It kind of made me think of New York's commerical district, and for a while, i feel dwarfed and got this surreal feeling that I was walking along a street in some other country.

A photo i took at the end of that long stretch of road.

Yes, as i said, random thoughts...

-XL :)

2007-06-30T16:55:00.000+01:00

a short recap..

yup! home is where i am. welcome back to the land of good hawker food and eternal humidity :))
met up with xl, lilian and eventually shihui on thurs, the day after i touched down. im amazed that i didn't exactly jetlag. orchard is more or less the same, except that i was kinda suaku on a few occasions (and this shall be kept within the three of you!) hahaha. prawn hokkien mee at food republic! and tako pachi! there's so much more food im gonna take my time to eat everything at least once. heehee =) and venezia has new flavours, ok that shall have to wait too.

then it was meeting the fellow ogls for brainstorming of games. supper with tj..sambal stingray and rojak. although i had a tummy upset the following day. haha my tummy is totally unprepared for spore food, cos i seem to get diarrhoea everytime after i eat hawker food. must be the oil they use in the food. dangs.

wakeboarding on friday! :)) with tj, yvette and tzehan! funfun, must less painful than cable-skiing i must say. hehe and much less tiring on the arms. andddddd at least i managed to stand, unlike cable ski where i just learn how to fall the whole day. haha i should have known, go wakeboarding first before cable skiing - a much smarter option haha! the weather ain't too good though, it started to rain towards the 3rd hr or so..but other than that the sun was quite good. i wanna go back wakeboarding! but need to save up a bit more $$$$ first. hehe. then it was off to vivo! the famous giant mall that everyone's been talking about recently. yeah i have to admit it's frigging hUGE! with its own tremendous collection of high-end boutiques. not affordable at the moment HAHAH. and we didn't manage to catch any movie in the end :((

and today - my whole body ached like mad when i tried to get up. i couldn't, so in the end i lay in bed till it was almost time to meet sally for cell. hahaha. my left arm is so sore i can't move it. and my backkkk omg i can't bend. clear signs of ageing. cell was good today..i enjoyed the message and it's nice to see everyone again! sally was funny - she recounted her entire miss emerge pageant experience over lunch. congrats i must say! :):) so sad i missed out on the whole performance but im sure u looked great! and the *video* ohmyyyy hahaha

ok tts pretty much what ive been doing since i got back! will update again! ciao.

.:xiufang:.

2007-06-28T16:54:00.000+01:00

Xiu's BACK! :D

Two interesting facts learnt:

#1: Xiu and I both have slipper tanlines

#2: My skin colour when tanned is that of Xiu's BEFORE she went suntanning in Greece. Yikes am i THAT white?!

At Wisma's Ichiban Sushi! Top: xiu and I (and xf i used BOTH photos we took! Haha you should be proud of me. :P); Bottom: Two of Ichiban's new sushi, hamroll sushi and frutti maki. YUM. :D

Shi Hui, Xiu and I! (and may i add that i'm amazed my camera actually works)

WHOOPS my t-shirt is too small...SIGH.

-XL :)

2007-06-27T12:36:00.000+01:00

Cookies and Cream Cupcakes!

Saw this recipe on the web and decided that it was quite interesting...so gave it a shot!

YUM!

But sorry guys...this is not one of my cupcakes...It's a photo from e website! Haha. :P

My Cupcakes! (and the icing in a separate bowl, ready to be heaped onto them. :P) Oh, and check out my old-fashioned oven with 1-10 for temperature settings instead of 100 degrees-1000 degrees. :P

-XL :)

2007-06-26T09:22:00.001+01:00

Next Stop: MYKONOS!!

the hip and happening land of, "Say say sayyyyy!"

the sand is so hot you simply can't walk around without footwear.

and you've got nude beach go-ers suntanning everywhere. including a part of the beach which is the regular hang-out place for gays. mind you, they go commando as well. hahaa

a pretty (wide) eye-opening experience i should say.. hmm.

the beautiful seaside view

then we headed off to paradise beach where there was more action at the beach bar.
check out the bar top dancers, among which is the elephant man prancing around in a thong.

the island of gays definitely does not disappoint huh. hahaha

from dawn to dusk we bake

our day is never complete without a refreshing douse of seafood!
it's the land where seafood abounds to salivate us... it's time for giant octopuses and calamare rings! :))

oooohhh..extremely fresh and tempting king sized prawns!

our favourite Greek salad dish

walahh. check out the sheer size of that!!

Mykonos was vastly different from Andros. whilst Andros is a peaceful, laidback and serene island, Mykonos boasts of intense nightlife and of a (gay) cosmopolitan culture. the change was greatly welcomed though. next up: Santorini! =)

2007-06-25T16:55:00.001+01:00

it's off to andros!! our first Cyclades island..

as you can see, we were pretty hyper. hahaha

gum-popping session on the ferry

andros! beautiful, aint it? =)

dayung sampan..

soaking up the sun at the first sighting of a beach

that's us lying in the shade cos it's just way too HOTT out there!

pretty sunset

check out the local omelette! it's way HUGE and beyond us. took almost an hour for the chef to prepare. we reckoned it must have contained at least 15 eggs hahahaha. and it's got PIG SKIN inside..eeeew me and tj almost gagged when we asked the waiter what's the soft jelly like thingie in the omelette. owell, what doesn't kill u only makes u stronger doesn't it? :))

2007-06-25T16:39:00.000+01:00

Greece Part 1 - ATHENS!!

2007-06-25T04:47:00.000+01:00

Law Camp Formal Dinner Photos!

top left: py!; top: some of the pretty girls at our table :p; top right: py, christine tee and xinjie; middle left: me & junyi, middle: christine ooi and py!; middle right: grace, py & i at O bar; bottom left: another photo of us 4 girls; bottom: joel looks so darn happy la :P; bottom right: with big boss dennis :P

OG5 peeps, all looking hot in their formal wear! :D

-XL :)

2007-06-23T15:18:00.001+01:00

YIppees! i am back from greece! and peeling.
im so dark and chao ta.. i've never been blacker in the past 9 months
the greek weather was superbly hot and the people were awesome. so was the food =)
it was a great summer get-away, and i am now ever more than prepared to go home!
3 more days before i flyyyyy
hoorayy!

pictures will be up soon

.:xiufang:.

2007-06-22T14:11:00.000+01:00

Back from law camp! It was great getting to know more ppl, both the freshies and ppl from my own batch, even though the sleep was CLEARLY less than sufficient.

Day 0: Contrary to what i was planning to do before setting off for temasek hall (i.e. sleep), ended up going to bed at 4am after losing 7 bucks at mahjong. Darn I wish for once I could win money! :P Was so tired that I actually zha4 hu2, but thankfully the rest were kind enough not to penalise me for it, or I would have gotten seriously broke before the camp had even started. Haha, but immediately on the next day, everyone who heard about it wanted me to play with them...Clearly after my money. Tsk. :P

Day 1: Ice-breakers and Land Telematch turned out well. The OG was really sporting in getting dirty and wet and doing the forfeits, even though we seemed to be losing most of the time. Have a really sporty bunch though. We won a lot of the physical activities, and those that we lost, it's cos the station-masters were biased. :P (Think Sam throwing an entire pail of water on Nich and then declaring that we lost cos Nich was wetter. :P) Night Court didn't really go as expected though, but that's really none of my OG ppl's fault. Some of the freshies are really quite attitude. Even though they figured out that the 'judges' were really just students, they refused to do as told. One freshie even went 'i think this is extremely unprofessional and i'm absolutely not going to do anything you ask me to', and then walked out of the moot court! But was quite proud of the OG5 peeps for doing everything that is thrown their way, even with the potential embarrassment. Bentson willingly put on the Afro wig and rapped his whole speech, using the broom as a guitar, whilst Jun Ming stood next to him with a bottle of alcohol in his hand and danced like he was drunk. Definitely the most sporting people of the night. :D

Day 2: Went to West Coast Park for OG outing. The OG really lived up to their name of 'Greed' by whipping out their pack of cards whenever there was free time. Such gambling kings and queens. :P I got darn wet for Jungle Trek though. Haha, i think that's the worst station for a year 2 to be stationed; all those freshies who figured out that they were really throwing water sponges at each other and not the year 2s started aiming at vincent and me. And I bet some of them weren't blindfolded properly! Aiming's too accurate already. One of the freshies even splashed the ENTIRE pail of water on to Vincent, getting him totally drenched. Haha, but the moment Jo Joy popped by the station, the groups that came by really started believing that they were throwing at the year 2 witnesses of Night Court. You should just look at the enthusiasm with which they were throwing the water sponges at each other. Really hilarious. :P Oh, and really loved douglas' group for jungle trek, aka Team Random Noises! Each of the six ppl in his group were given a number and a random noise, and whenever a year 2 said a number, the person assigned will have to make the noise. (car screeching, ICQ sound etc.) Haha, K and I made them do a symphony for us: 2-2-2-2-2-1-3-4-5-6. Sounded so cute! Lol.

Day 3: My event, Water Tele, turned out well! PHEW. After it ended, it was seriously a load off my shoulders. And Joanna said that her OG loved my event! YAY! :D Seriously, after all the planning and dry-runs i went through, it would really have sucked if the activity tanked. Universal Studios was very funny this year though! Mok and Amardeep were amazing at the Nip-Tuck station, esp Mok's imitation of a transexual, going around putting his hands around the guy freshies that kena-ed the station and giving them flirtatious looks. :P And the freshies were super sporting! In competing to see who had better skills in seducing Amardeep, it went to a point that even us year 2s couldn't bear to look anymore. SO X-rated! Lol. And as expected, a lot of the freshies got tricked into answering wrongly at the Prison Break station. To Sam's 'which colour of light travels the fastest and which the slowest?', almost all went 'red is the fastest and blue the slowest', to which Sam turned and pointed to Nich (who was in red) and went, 'hey guys, the freshies see Nich before they see the rest of you!', then cue spraying the freshie with water from the water gun. And heard that when Ruizi asked 'who do you think is the hottest guy OGL', some girl answered 'your boyfriend' and immediately got sprayed cos Ruizi went 'you are lusting after my boyfriend is it?' Haha, no right answer to that one.

After all the activities, stayed up with the OG to, what else, play cards. :P Haha, i kept losing at bridge. Must be cos i was too tired already. Then joined some of the year 2s for Bluff. The good thing about playing with law ppl is that they have yet to figure out how to tell when i'm lying, which is apparantly very obvious to people like Xiu. Ended up clearing my cards really fast. Only Ian, who was sitting out of the game and looking at what cards i was putting down, realised how much i actually lied. :P

Day 4: It was sleep-in time, followed by Inter-OG games like frisbee and captain's ball in the afternoon. Then, the freshies dolled up for the highly anticipated Formal Dinner, where their Secret Pals were all finally revealed. Initially PY and I came to the consensus that Gao Li and Marcus had potential with their secret pals, but Marcus is already attached! Darn. Nevermind, there's still a chance with Gao Li. He and his girl seemed highly happy with each other. :P Oh, and Marcus won hottest freshie! Haha, he was made to take off his shirt cos of his hot bod, and after that, he was obviously a shoo-in for the title. :P

As with tradition, went to Double O for post-formal dinner partying. Ended up at O bar though, instead of upstairs, cos the upper floor was so crowded that a lot of us couldn't get in. But it was just as well, cos O bar was much less smoky, and the whole place was practically swarming with law ppl. There was so many of us that the DJ was even willing to change his song selection for us. It was quite scary how some of the freshies didn't seem to know their drinking limit though. So many of them were wasted and had to be carried out. Thankfully none of us year 2s disgraced ourselves. All were still relatively sane by the end of the night. I'm seriously amazed at some people's alcohol tolerance though. Marcus drank five jugs' worth of alcohol, and was still perfectly sane. Unbelivable. Haha, i bet if it's me, I would be having a really horrible hangover now.

Day 5: Check out...which means...sleep time! :D Haha, conked out the moment i reached home, and only woke up for dinner. Quite awake now though, which is surprising considering how much sleep i need usually, and how much i didn't sleep the past week. :P

-XL :)

2007-06-17T14:00:00.000+01:00

Heading off for law camp in 30min. Can't wait...to go sleep! Haha darn i'm so anti-climax and anti-social. Ya but it's been a LONG (but happy) day. :P

Started hip hop lessons at Dance On Us! Hamzah, the dance instructor, bears such an UNCANNY resemblance to weijie that it's scary. Haha, lilian was adamant that he is not like weijie though, despite weiting and my great effort at trying to persuade her. :P Ah wellz, guess she knows him better after all. :P And the lesson is a serious workout. The warm-up crunches alone were enough to kill my tummy muscles (or whatever is left of them after my long lack of exercise). But the rest of the class are quite pro la...No doubt cos they have a huge headstart on us, us being the total newbies and they the advanced beginners. Nevermind, shall attempt to master the body roll and whacking steps properly in time to come. :P

And after dance, it was off to Lido to chill with Fantasic Four! It wasn't as bad as I heard (haha ahfoo i thought it was quite good!) Loved the silver surfer. Unlimited powers. Wow, you can't beat that. Haha, and weiting was quick to observe that, behind all the silver body paint and digital effects, the silver surfer is actually quite hot! Lol. :P Shall concede that the plot IS rather predictable though, but I don't really get sick of that formula, so all's well and good. :P

Anyway, off to temasek hall. Ciao!

-XL :)

2007-06-14T23:57:00.001+01:00

life is, indeed like a box of chocolates..

you'll never know what you're gonna get.

pack pack pack. did more packing today..my room looks a bit more bare now, which is a good sign. ive been taking AGES to pack..it's such a headache deciding what to bring home and what not to. ive been so slowwww at it..just ask lipen and tj. hahaha.

handed in my last lab report of the year yesterday. felt like a load off the chest..haha, not the lab report. but the fact that it's all over and holidays are finally here! aside from the attempting and irresistable lure of hokkienmee, charkwayteow, popiah, orlua etc.. im happy that this year went really well - the many friends made, the many new things learnt and accomplished. i'm really proud of myself to say the least. haha..i've never been so domesticated before in my entire life. doing laundry, cooking, washing dishes, mopping floor, hahahhahaha i'm never ever taking my mom for granted anymore. hehe. on top of it all, the many exciting travelling experiences are memories that i will bring back with me to spore. and as im saying this...greece is beckoning! im leaving tmr night for the sunny and beautiful beaches of santorini, mykonos and andros! :)) thank God for the predicted hot hot HOT weather there!!

watched Hustle just now. it's a brit serial that has an ocean's eleven feel to it. pretty cool and addictive. hahaa. sometimes i wish i had fewer plans so i can just laze around in my room and watch movies..havnt done that in quite a while. and the fact that i keep going out has thwarted my packing plans. but now i'm 75% done!! one more luggage to go, and that's the one bound for spore! whee :)))

happyme.

.:xiufang:.

2007-06-14T06:14:00.000+01:00

True to my current fetish for the yellow, black and white colour scheme with circular patterns, look at the current layout for the blog! Hope everyone likes it. :D

-XL :)

2007-06-13T17:58:00.001+01:00

testing

2007-06-12T13:24:00.000+01:00

of good food and company :)

tennis yesterday with tj, boris and stephan. too bad the sun wasn't out to play.
tj cooked garlic seafood pasta for lunch. those curlywurly pasta thingies look like worms eh.haha
then it was off to do lab report.. done!! =)

squashed with shim in the morning. terrible terrible..we were panting and aching even though we didn't run that much. tsk tsk us..old with no stamina already. we need to go running after i come back from greece! haha :)) saw some fruits stalls on the way back...and being the deprived me, who eats nothing but apples half the time, i ended up buying home 5 assortment of fruits.
happyme <3

.:xiufang:.

2007-06-11T16:58:00.001+01:00

FINALLY, some free time for myself. The whole of last week was practically taken up by dry-runs. Not that they were all bad...just that too much of it makes the whole idea sianz.

Mon-Wed:
Law Camp dry-runs. And yes folks, the rest are censored. Suffice to say that there's the usual games that will get the freshies wet, dirty and embarrassed. That's the fun of orientation after all. :P

Thurs:
Water tele dry-run. Honestly, i got a bit pissed off that we couldn't run the thing properly as planned, and i think it kind of showed. Not that i was irritated with anyone who turned up - i was more apolegetic towards them because they travelled miles for what was almost a fruitless dry-run because we didn't have enough ppl to try out much. I'm also thankful that they were encouraging enough to tell me that the dry-run was not the disaster that it was. What irks me most is that a certain person who was supposed to be the one taking responsibility is, last i heard, enjoying himself playing WOW everyday whilst i'm dumped with all the planning and execution, and who till this day remains absolutely uncontactable. ARGH.

Ok. Enough bitching. Anyway, contrary to what i've vehemently been telling everyone, because of my mood that day, i decided to cheer myself up by catching Ocean's Thirteen! Haha, kinda ironic, because just hours before, I was telling Ian that i was "never going to catch that movie". Ah wellz i take that back. :P And the movie wasn't as bad as i thought it to be! Not fantasic as Ocean's Eleven of course, but at least the plot makes sense this time, which is not what i can say for the second instalment of the series. And something interesting i learnt that day: guys do not necessarily have better sense of direction than girls! Well, at least if the fact that i was leading them around vivo as opposed to the other way around is any indication. :P

Fri:
Met up with lilian in town for much needed retail therapy. Everyone should SO check out this store called MANGGIS on the third floor of far east plaza. It has clothes with the nicest designs imaginable. Haha, lilian was there to witness my devastation when i realized that they didn't have zips and so couldnt' get them past...erm...a certain part of my body. :P The only two items which came close to being a part of my acquisition were 'bustline' (haha guess why it got that name? :P) and this real nice Guess dress on 70% discount (which i'm totally regretting not getting now...) Lilian, my mum allows! I was mentioning it to her and she was 'oh if it's so nice and cheap, why didn't you just get it?' Darn.

Sat-Mon:
Except for dinner at NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House with dai gu zei and sai gu zai on sat, and watching the Austrian Choir at the University Cultural Centre with Wan and her family on sun, have pretty much been wilting away at home these few days. But to prevent myself from looking literally like a couch potato, have decided to start a swimming regime. After all, with the sweltering heat, what better form of exercise is there? :P Am proud to say that i've clocked up two swimming sessions in three days, and that i'm planning to go again on wed. :D My stamina sucks now though. In the past, 20 laps was a breeze; now i have to do it in sets instead of all at one shot. Sadz.

-XL :)

2007-06-10T12:46:00.000+01:00

YAYYYYY

it's over!!

.:xiufang:.

2007-06-05T15:23:00.000+01:00

due to the onslaught of materialsmathsstrutanalsmechanics papers,
it has been pretty stagnant around here for quite a while...
but i'm counting down
as i tick it all off the list :
i have only two more papers to go!!

it's time to go home soon :))))

.:xiufang:.

2007-06-03T21:09:00.000+01:00

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

-from the opening lines of Love Actually. i really love the way how a mosaic of separate (but intertwining) stories of love are told. when i first watched it, i totally fell - hook, line and sinker - for each one of the courtships. it's sad how we live in cynical times - and neglect the microcosm of human relationships.

dangs.i feel like watching it tonight.but i've got structures paper tmr!
back to reality.

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-30T14:33:00.000+01:00

Dead tired. The flu that has been threatening to come this past week seems set to come out in full force any time soon. :S

Anyway, had water tele dry-run at christine's house today. Due to the unofficial gag order on all things law-camp related, shall not elaborate much. Save to say that some games needed a bit of tweaking, and we seem to be running UNDERtime, as opposed to OVERtime. Haha, and Nat was still worried that we might stretch beyond our allocated 3hrs. Not a chance man. :P Kinda regretted not bringing along my swimsuit though (on hindsight a darn stupid decision. ) Just as I felt the heat was unbearable and was giving in to temptation to jump into the pool t-shirt, shorts and all, the security came over and explained that those already in the water without proper swimming attire should come out. Darn. Luckily later I could cool off at lilian's pool! No security there, and the whole pool (jacuzzi included) to ourselves!! Ahhh so wonderful...:P

Oh, and was totally hooked onto this new reality show the past couple of days. It's called Treasure Hunters. To all reality tv fans (esp fans of amazing race), it's something not to be missed, and can be catched anytime, anywhere (provided u have a laptop/com of sorts) on youtube! The wonders of that website. :D

-XL :)

2007-05-29T23:10:00.001+01:00

check out this cool thang
it's an evergreen car
hahaha whoever's heard of it?
there are really green stuff (grass, algae?!) growing all over it
is that enough reason to summon it a parking ticket?

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-28T22:09:00.000+01:00

PoP!Corn :)

how many kernels are there in the bag?

i finally popped the cornbags i bought from sains like two weeks ago.
the microwave was popping like a...well, popping machine.
(for the lack of a better description)
it was quite scary - i thought it might explode
..and my poor poppies will be scorched :((

the bag blew up like a balloon
and a very pleased me,
opened up to a bagful of fluffy poppies :))

im addicted to lifehouse
cos they've got sad sad emo songs
which is exactly what i feel right now.

so when will this end
it goes on and on
and over and over and over again
keep spinning around i know that it wont stop
till i step down from this

sick cycle carousel, this is a sick cycle, yeah
sick cycle carousel
this is a sick cycle yeah.

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-27T13:04:00.000+01:00

feeling down and shitty. but still breathing

weather didn't help undampen my spirits
went for service and walked back home
plodding in the rain
wishing my bro was here
it sucks to think of home when i'm down
cos it makes me feel like the english weather
gloomy sad and completely depressing
sorry im wallowing in self-pity
and this is a rather depressing post
i feel like there's a tightness around my chest
it's painful to breathe
maybe i'm just thinking too much of home
and hating the exam period
cos it sucks BIGTIME.

a tad happier.i skyped with home
and seeing how my bro has grown darker
and more hairless makes me laugh
haha
stop shaving ur head
and i can't belive i missed out on my cousin's wedding =(
owell.. 12 days to end of exams, 19 days to greece and 30 days to homeshweethome

hooray.

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-27T00:04:00.001+01:00

I'm looking past the shadows
Of my mind into the truth and
I'm trying to identify
The voices inside my head

Cause i want nothing more than
To sit outside your door
and listen to you breathing.

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-26T15:51:00.000+01:00

Apparantly we can check results at the same time as everyone else even though we don't do the NUS survey! Haha, so somewhat without mental preparation, logged in to the NUS student portal...took a deep breath...and.....PHEW. Well, I can't say I have the best results in the world, but quoting what lionel says, "at least we didn't get any Cs". :D And going by how much i hated some of those modules, my results are something to be thankful for as they are. :P

Anyway, went for pirates 3 with lilian and weiting at bugis, which unfortunately turned out to be rather disappointing. Yes, there was action (loads of it in fact), there was fighting (a lot of those too), and of course there's johnny depp reprising his role as the unforgettable jack sparrow, but the plot just fell short of expectations. It's like trying to achieve too much, but ending up getting too little. Haha, but as Life! reported, it's still worth giving this movie a shot if you have already seen pirates 1 and 2, since this is the final instalment of a trilogy after all! :P

-XL :)

P.s. To lilian and weiting: Ironically I bought a skirt and a top at Parkway Parade after I parted with you both, cos went on a mini shopping spree whilst waiting for my parents to finish their dinner! Haha bleah...how come my resistance is LOWER when there's no one there trying to induce me to buy stuff?? :P

2007-05-25T00:33:00.001+01:00

5days and counting

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-23T19:16:00.001+01:00

walked out this morning i don't believe what i saw
a hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
seems i'm not alone at being alone
a hundred billion castaways all looking for a home

serene! love the nutella-swirl cupcakes you made! :))
thankyouu!
haha lucky girl, have fun back in spore!

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-20T16:47:00.000+01:00

Something's been bothering me.
But i don't know what to do about it.
And in a way, I kind of understand why it's become like that.
Though i still wish that things won't turn out this way. :(

-XL

2007-05-20T00:30:00.000+01:00

this is what we do when we study

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-19T16:34:00.000+01:00

Baking muffins with lilian a few days ago has inspired me to try out baking. Was so determined that i digged up my old rgs cookbook, and went grocery shopping for all my baking needs. Then came back home and remembered why my previous attempt at baking failed so miserably, even with instant Betty Crocker Brownie mix. Turns out my oven has no temperature readings! It's just marked '1' to '10', and I can't find the manual to see what that all means. So does '1' equal 100 degrees? But then that means my oven can go up until 1000 degrees?! Haha, that's some powerful oven. But then if '1' does not equal to 100 degrees, then what on earth can it mean? And if my cookbook specifies 170 degrees...wellz...gg. Haha, but i shall not admit defeat...after all...these stuff are trial and error...right?

Oh, and had a rather impromptu tg outing to Samar yesterday. Bern finally managed to get the whole bunch of us to check out her fave haunt, and it's surprisingly nice! Loved the deco and the general atmosphere of the place, perfect for chatting with friends and just languishing. :P Bern did not succeed in getting me to try out shisha though, but I must say that PY is simply a natural at it!! Haha, you should just see her puff smoke...it's like she's been doing it all her life! :P Also got wind of my og placing for law camp through PY, and I must say i'm quite glad with where I ended up...At least there's PY and Eugene in the same og, so it's not like i'm going to be totally with people i'm not familiar with. :D

-XL :)

P.s. To those who have not caught Phantom of the Opera at the Esplanade...you guys are missing out on a great performance! The whole stage setting, the live band (with the hip and cool female conductor), the mesmerising music and the powerful vocals from the cast all made it an experience one cannot forget!! Haha, i would urge everyone to watch it...though this seems to be coming rather late, considering how i heard that the last few performances these couple of days are sold out. Oopz.

P.p.s On a random note, the Phantom's actually rather good-looking in real life...Haha, just something PY and I noticed as we past by a photo of him on the way out. :P

P.p.p.s Pirates 3 out this week. I can't WAIT! :D

2007-05-14T23:56:00.000+01:00

humpty dumpty sat on the wall

i can't wait for tmr :))))

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-13T15:27:00.000+01:00

mr hungry caterpillar has found more food!
chompchomp :))

(uploading pics on blogger is such a pain.) i took eons just to get this pic up.

fried rice with paprika chicken! reminds me of nasi bryani back home.. :/

this is t.urning into a food blog. well, almost.
hahaha. been whipping up dishes more than usual as of late..
to reward and save our poor tortured tummies from the usual dose of -
jelly babies, choc bars and wad-nots
studying makes unhealthy binging=(

time for housework and some domestication.

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-13T11:18:00.000+01:00

of steak and wine..

tj cooked this last friday! :)) hahaha
if eng doesnt work out u can go open a restaurant

this was so appetising.

c'mon, droooooooool

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-13T03:55:00.000+01:00

mr hungry caterpillar

in the light of the moon a little egg lay on the leaf
one fine day the egg cracked and out came a tiny little caterpillar
he was very hungry after having cooped up for so long in that shell of his
and so he started to eat
and eat and eat.
he eats his way through one apple on Monday
two pears on Tuesday
three plums on Wednesday
and so on,
through cherry pie and sausage
---until he is really fat and has a stomachache
(and i am quite sure you know what happens after that!)

i envy mr hungry caterpillar
how nice to eat so much and turn into something beautiful after that :)))

ok i think i need some sleep.

goodnight, world.

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-10T09:04:00.000+01:00

because of who you are

Romans 8:15
'For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."'

you and i are made to worship
you and i are called to love
you and i, forgiven and free

when you and i embrace surrender
when you and i choose to believe
you and i will see,
who we were meant to be
:) :)

<3>.:xiufang:.

2007-05-09T07:55:00.000+01:00

ishouldbedoingmechanics

running on creed fever :) :)
i wanna download more songs
and watch more movies
like love actually
except that i've got to contend with mechanicsaerodythermodystrutanalsmaterialsmathsaircraft
phwah
see i can't even be bothered to separate them, they are just one big lump of, of, of
WORK.

i should do a little joggedy jog later after my paper. hope i don't get another pollen attack!

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-08T21:20:00.000+01:00

rain rain go away
come again another day

boo. where has the sun gone? it's supposed to be HOT but the weather doesn't seem to agree.
it was so windy today. the wind kept blowing pollen into my eyes i had to cover my face with the hoodie. it must have been a sight watching me blunder through hyde park, fighting those dratted pollen.

if the pollen grains decide to germinate and grow inside my body
i would turn into a..
pollenhead.
like jx, hahaha

liking the smiley on my hand
:) :)

.:xiufang:.

2007-05-07T03:13:00.000+01:00

let that be enough

I just remembered that time at the market
Snucked up behind me and jumped on my shopping cart
And rolled down aisle five
You looked behind you to smile back at me
Crashed into a rack full of magazines
They asked us if we could leave

.:xiufang:.