starstruck

/Edited

Okay, since e ep has aired i can finally post this. Didnt want to remind ppl to watch it. Ha! Post was typed after e filming like month ago. Anw i look so unflattering!


Burnt my entire Sunday bcos of this.
And no, i didnt volunteer/ sign up for this but entirely for e sake of doing my dad a favour.

For those of u who rarely watch mediacorp production, "neighborhood society" is a local variety show tht promotes neighborhood cohesion just like its name suggest (DUH). So what they do is every week, they will go to a particular neighborhood to film. Firstly, they start off the game with a 达人who basically is technically the team leader and there she has to go ard the neighborhood in search of 10 people who satisfy the criteria set by game producer. After which, the 10 members with the leader will need to decorate some figure and adhere to the theme. Public will then vote and decide the winner.

And as usual i did e most epic thing.
You'll probably find my face really blank in e beginning of e show bcos i thght it was a rehearsal when it was actually the REAL THING. =/

Plus the weather was insanely hot and standing under the furnace-like sun for almost 5h is no joke and it makes me SUPER ANGSTY. Even with e camera on me, my face was just 臭 and looking really unglam with the sweaty-ness that was killing me.

Overall, it was a good experience. But.. i still dun want to do ever again!

blank canvas

damn hard 3d puzzle that took us more than 2 hr and still cldnt fix!

see my dress-like apron. e 监制 was quite impressed with how i made a fashion statement with an ugly pink apron. lol

shall not post e final product if not it'll be such a spoiler

recognise him? 百家乐's 小天使

My very nice frens came to vote and then escorted me home to shower before we had a very home-ly zichar dinner and then a nice htht session. :)

school

Finished my presentation today! yay! Im a happy gal! Good thing i volunteered to be the first few to present which gives me more time to hesitate and procrastinate for my 2nd assignment =X

Really gets on my nerves when people does stuff and then complain abt it after that. If you know you'll just end up wasting time den why bother doing it. And dun freaking come whine to me abt it.

Period.

uni and such

Today was the boy's first day/night in school so we both dl-ed skype to chat. 

picnic under e fireworks

Had tuition on a national day holiday morning. How sad. Kids these days are really poor thing. Good thing my p4 kid is rather entertaining so time actually flies by. She loves telling me her things in school and she can blabber nonstop aboout all the different books and storylines that mr mystery & mr midnight write. (Not my era kind of thing though). Tried to ask if she knew boxcar children, she gave me a puzzled look. (oh no! generation gap! =O )

Went to met bf at his place after that bcos we had no destination in mind. Yup, we are always plan-less like that. His mum was like more enthu than us in planning places to go. I bet his mum would make a better bf than he does. Hah. She kept throwing places we could go and offered to let us take e car and all. How nice.

Out of time pressure and unwillingness to bum ard at home anymore, he finally compromised with my idea, e one that he always had qualms about. Ha! PICNIC!!

So we did some simple grocery shopping at his ntuc and started preparing. His mum was so eager and got us a picnic bag, picnic mat, and very meticulously threw in a pack of wet tissue which was super handy. Initially i thght it was my bf. But, no! Tsk tsk.

 green apple egg salad with leftover grapes from batam! ha

 egg mayo sandwich & tuna sandwich

Took a LONG time to get parking lots. The only downside of driving i guess. Reached barrage and it was so OVERWHELMED with SWARMS of ppl. Apparently there was live screening of ndp at e field with a big screen (not big like cinema but still bigger than tv kind of big). Sat down and starting munching our food. Should have brought more if we knew the barrage was so happening! haha!

 funny milo mascot forced to stop n take photo with ppl

 the flag actually flew past. super huge. had an amazing unblocked view

 n the dunno f15 or f16 which doesnt bothers me

partial view of fireworks thanks to mbs

Unfortunately we had a group of kids, like a gang of more than 10 people, shouting at EVERY SINGLE thing sitting near us. I swear my ear drums were dying. Too attention-seeking! They just had to sing bday song at least 3 times at the TOP OF THEIR VOICE just right beside us. They were shouting and jumping THROUGHOUT e whole fireworks. That was a total turn-off. 

Tried to chiong as soon as everything was over, but we could not fight e jam. In any way, we took like 30 min just to get out of barrage. Yup, that bad! I had no idea how long we took to get back home. Probably ages bcos i had a good nap throughout e journey. Hee. 

happy nat day! :)

Having a bit of distance forces us to trust someone without micromanaging

chomp chomp

Met up with ex-work peeps n gk for dinner @chomp chomp. I know im a mountain tortoise cos it's really the FIRST time im gg there. Haha!

Being the super 路痴 that i am, decided to meet gk to make our way there together. So on e way to the interchange to meet her, i bump into sam! Apparently while waiting for me, jk bumped into jerome. So very coincidentally, we bumped into one another when we're supposed to meet straight at chomp chomp. Ha! N the serangoon guru who stays at serangoon brought us there safely.

Chomp chomp certainly lived up to its name as the smelly n humid eating place. I swear i felt like some piece of raw meat or what being cooked/steamed in the big pot. Ordered all the normal food that u will definitely eat at such places. Truthfully speaking, i think it's really quite over-rated. I would probably just go to 85 to eat next time. Nearer plus ba chor mee is not as oily as all e other stuff so wont feel so sick after eating.

Toured ard the village and all the shophouses along the road for a while. It's sooo pretty. If i stayed nearby i wldnt mind hanging out ard there. So many nice cafes to chill! Rot a little on the rooftop garden, catching up on life after they quit working. (cant wait for my turn although i'll be broke-r). Ha. It's so breezy up there! i was so tempted to pitch a tent n just slp inside.

After getting over all e oily feeling we had dessert @udder's. Strawberry fields was so YUM but dunno y my fren gk thinks it's sour. She's weird like tat! haha! But then again i have many weird frens. =p

Took a LONG bus ride home from serangoon but it's nice how we have seats n e bus's quiet enough to talk.

Thanks for e preents from taiwan(gk) and u.s(sam)! =))

You know how when u woke up in fright from a terrible nightmare and then u feel all uneasy the entire day.

The dream is just damn weird.

On a lighter note, it's MIDWEEK alr!

blues

My whole body is in mega-aching mode now after standing for more than 6hours under the hot sun ytd. *faints*

And it've been a while since i had been so rested. By midnight, i was already on the bed which is something quite incredible. I even woke up numerous times naturally before my alarm actually went off. N managed to hitch a ride to office bcos my dad was on leave.

See, perhaps it's not such a bad thing that the boy is off to camp for 6 days. I'll probably need to start getting used to this since it'll be e norm when he starts school officially come August. Kind of like having this breathing space now but it's highly likely that i might be slightly 不爽 when i start seeing his camp photos. Haha. Still in e process of learning to find inner peace and to take such things in my own stride.

fully booked

My bf is extremely nice today.

Despite sleeping only @3ish, he woke up early @8ish to send her sis to jap class, drove home rested a little before driving over @9ish to send me to my tuition @10. Finished tuition @12-ish (shld be 12 but my tutee refused to let me go. again) n he came over to fetch me. Taobao-ed lunch to his hse cos his sis needs to eat too and then he drove me to sch for my 2pm class (although we turned out to be slightly late cos e roads ard wilkie are not very friendly with alot of confusing one way roads. we turned round n round n he kena erp numerous time for e same gantry. lol ). While i was at class, he went to the starbucks downstairs (bcos my sch library closed at 3 which is damn ridiculous! so early eh!) to do his work until i finished lsn. Then he drove us over to bugis to get scott's present before we drove over to mav's place for dinner. And then he had dinner halfway n went to fetch his parents home before driving back again.

So he spent the entire day driving ppl ard. Haha.

Sukiyaki steamboat @mav's place was YUMS. And we celebrated scott's super belated bday. Hah! Like finally after so long. Just a simple affair.

But bcos everybody stays in all directions now, it's quite hard to hang out till late at any particular place even though we had a driver bcos it's just not possible. So the easties left are just fel me n bf (mav had to leave for another date) which made fel e ultimate 电灯泡. But she claimed that she's most comfortable being with us. What can i say. Ha!

So we ended up hanging out at her place talking abt rubbish, she showing us pic of supposedly hot hunks n hot babes. lol! Before we left at 11-ish.

Thought my sat wld have ended like tat. But NO. Went to summerbreeze to meet bf's frens. How can i say no when he was so nice driving us ard the entire day right.. :x

Oh, did i mention i helped my bf to choose his present for his secret pal =/

But on a sidenote, bf's parents went on a short trip to malacca and got me stuff (small but still...)
:)

tgif!

forgot my password n got logged out of the system.
now i cant apply leave or apply ot or check my payslips
cos my account is disabled!

really need a new brain

On a side note, the perms are having their d&d tonight so they get to leave office at 330. The bad news is we temps cant leave together with them. But we can leave 30min earlier (quite insignificant) but hopefully the whole office wld be totally empty so that i can watch my shows and surf my net. =p

N im gg to see my boy later for batman. TFIG~
:)

Feel really healthy these day. It's like im back in jc times where i was quite fit due to forced jogging during pe lessons. My tummy isnt exactly flat but it's relatively tamed. hahaha.

Tried to have a breakthrough every session n ended up jogging 3.6kim like cross-country. How amazing! But all e apn kids blocking our way is kind of frustrating and i was on e verge of exploding. Good thing jogging is quite a draining thing so i didnt have much strength to scream at them.

My mum is quite weird. She complained that i shld quit joggin bcos im already very skinny.  *raise eyebrow*

army talk

Attended bf's fren's commissioning parade. Going to SAFTI again feels so nostalgic and all the memories just came flooding back.

kind of like this photo :))

friday!

Another healthy day before hitting the wkends (little sleep, constant eating n spending money. tsk tsk).

Went jogging with jogging buddy @themonkeypoo on our usual route (tamp via park connector to pasir ris park) Kind of like jogging under the dark sky compared to the hot and humid afternoon. Although it's not as if we've ran alot but i think it's quite a feat for us considering that he's nua-ing at home/busy with tuition and driving and me working from 9-6pm which is really exhausting.Taking time out to work out is HUGE THING. Could really feel our strides getting wider than we started n breathing more smoothly while running. Running is still quite a dread though. ha! n we we were thinking how shocked wen wld be when she join us jogging when she's back. =x

But the best part of our jogging session is actually the post-jogging activity! Turns out today was an extremely hungry day and we had 2 sticks of old chang kee each n bubbletea. To minimise the guilt, we abstained from ordering pearls which are super strachy and full of carbs. But actually it didnt really matter since our aim of jogging was to keep fit > lose weight. Hee.

TGIF~

brainless

Ytd,
forgot to bring go-to-sch water bottle today, so brought the office's one to class.

Today,
forgot to bring back the office water bottle n ended up with no bottles.

i think i need a new brain

max-ed out day

Super jam-packed day. Struggled to wake up for tuition with merely 3 hours of sleep bcos there was no way i could even cancel tuition bcos my kuku phone went to the 'hospital' and suffered a major memory loss which resulted in me losing all e contacts i have had. *sigh*

Anw went to catch a wink at bf's hse bcos it was much nearer to int before i met the jco gang (loosely named bcos we chillax-ed @jco) Literally a wink bcos le parents came back after work n i find it rather unpleasant to be aslp when they're back. Ha. But they were quite nice to get me lunch too.  =x

Le bf decided to be nice n sent me to tamp to meet my frens before he went back to finish up some work.


Was SUPER in need of a caffeine rush, wen alike, so we head on a search of a nice comfy coffee house. It's such an ungodly hour at 2+3pm but we cldnt find any seats AT ALL and landed up at jco whose brews were =S. But beggars cant be choosers i guess. Our reason to meet is quite hilarious considering the fact that wen  would only be gone for 2 weeks. hahaha. but i guess there shldnt be reason for us to want to meet up anw.

Le bf was super nice n came to pick me up but tio scammed a little bcos the parents came together too. Got a shock when i saw them in the front seats while nearing the car. But got a lift to town so y not =p

And with 3 hours of slp n a few winks here and there, i survived marketing paper. WOHOO!

forgot to bring retainers out again.

what's new right

random musing

My favourite gal. Hahaha.

jogging

It's a super healthy monday today. Had this urge to do some workout (actually just feeling fat) after such a long long time. Weather was kind of good today after a light downpour in the late afternoon. So this time, we decided to face statistics and not indulge in self satisfaction. Hence, my jogging buddy made use of his smarter phone and dl-ed the nike app.

And to our utmost surprise, we didn't actually run as much as we thought! Totally epic! and instantly felt less tired after looking at the statistics and ran abit further than we normally do.

Funny how our psycho works. Sometimes u just need numbers and have the cold hard fact in ur face before you realize u're actually not working hard enough. Ha!

dinner and such

Met up with busy woman who went on her journey to seek nirvana. HA! Finally met her after like more than a month! She wanted to let me try this supposedly-uber-yums liu sha bao from imperial restaurant but by the time we got there, dim sum time was over. So ate other quite yums things before we went to chill at coffeebean.

Just a short meetup before the one in 2 wks' time :)

oh ya did i mention i went harry potter exhibition today. Shall talk abt that another day =p

tummy haven been feel well for the past week
but had sudden craving for cup noodles and yakult.


bf turned up with them at midnight :))

pre-tgif

A impromptu night out with freshly POP-ed boy. But apparently he very much preferred to have some twosome time with his partner so we sent him home before heading out.

No plans (ridiculous plans arent considered plans), we decided to catch the spiderman sneaks at like 11.45PM on a random THURSDAY NIGHT when everybody needs to get up early the following day.

Hmmm. i guess that's what being young is abt. hahaha

Yesterday, i forgot to bring my retainer box.
Today, i brought my retainer box out, but i forgot to wear my retainers out.

oh well

Sometimes u need to die (metaphorically hor!) to live again

drinking e night away

That basically sums up my night. 

Not a fan of drinking though.

kill me

sometimes it's hard to do what ur mind is willing but your heart is not.

MELODRAMATIC

It's a super ultimate drama day i tell you. I'm awake for barely two hours but all these dramas are enough to last me the entire day.

You know how some days you're halfway through a bad dream and instead of snapping yourself out of it, you just wanna keep on dreaming just so to find out if the bad dream has a twist and turns good eventually. Yup, today was one of those days. (Btw the dream didnt get any better than it started). And the best thing was, i woke up feeling like it was Saturday today bcos ytd felt so like friday, spending time rotting at home n doing alot of stuff (cos i took half day leave =x). So when the thought that today was Friday got thrgh me, i literally sprung out of bed. Instead of thinking TGIF, i was thinking: DAMN! Y NOT SAT!

Sigh. Reality sunk in and i flew into a frenzy getting ready and dashing out of hse. Obviously i was late for work by a little. According to official working hrs, i was late for 45 min, but according to unofficial working hrs, i was late for bout 15 min. Oh well..

But reached office and realised that i brought TWO SETS of keys out. This would mean that i literally locked fatty n sis at home. Oh dear... And i'll be home after 9pm today bcos of tuition.

If you think that's it. NO! To my horror, i forgot to bring my retainer box out and this is utterly GROSS! Imagine a pile of dubious looking ball of tissue on my desk and it's not rubbish, just my retainers wrapper in it. So horrifying.

But for this terrible day, there is one GOOD news. Read my mails and received my f21 parcel has been sent out. WOHOO! But gd news can turn bad instantly. Parents left for genting this morning which means... THERE'S NO KEYS TO LETTERBOX! Damn! And if i had a license, the car would have been mine for the next three days.

Oh ya, did i mention i missed coffee hour in the office just now cos i was so busy rushing for report when i went pantry there was NOTHING left. And kena nagged at by pantry aunty for taking water so late bcos she wants to clean up e basin all all e nonsense.

See, all these happened in LESS THAN TWO HOURS!

Back to sucky work, shall talk abt my day ytd later when im free-er

frens de la interview

Woke up with a pighead ytd (seriously!) on my left eye.

For a moment, i though it was one of those scenes in the movie 'Hangover' when you were so shagged out the night before you lost conscious of all the things that happened. And then when you woke up in a dishelved state, u try to recall what happened. I was thinking i cld have been punched by someone.

But all i rmbed was me slogging very hard for my annoying and disgusting marketing report, feeling mega tired and crawled into bed, felling unconscious almost instantaneously. So what on earth happened, probably not a food allergy. The only logical explanation was.. i RUBBED MY EYES TOO MUCH.

And my hands isnt exactly bacteria-free. So timely or untimely (bcos i needed to start on my assignment), i stayed at home. Fatty's mum told fatty to keep away from her cutest ah yi but eventually caved in bcos she was so exhausted and desperate to get away from sticky whiney fatty that she got me to play with her. Hahaha.

On usual occasions, the pig-eye would go off after an extended sleep will the sun comes overhead, bout noon thereabt. But this time, it just refused to go away! Symptom lasted till like forever but it was significantly better and with terrific makeup skills, it could be safely hidden away.

So at night, being the really really nice fren that we are, we decided to help our dear fren WEN with her assignment.

so professional looking just by holding a reasonably atas hand-held corder. ha!

awkward looking face

 With that, we received our FIRST EVER INTERVIEW. It was totally HILARIOUS! bcos the qns were weird and the reply ced gave was equally ambiguous.

Here goes:

W: What do you think about washing toilets?
C: *trying to crap up with alot of things to say* To keep it clean... blah blah
E: *trying not to burst out laughing but already rolling on the ground holding tummy*

But within say 15min, it was a WRAP UP! Wen merely needed 2 min of footage so we easily made it through with weird moments of silences, fake nodding, awkward smiles. LOL!

And then it was ice cream treat from the director! =D

That ended a nice Tuesday alogether

gal date

Girls dayout with my 女人. And she's damn epic!

1. Entrusted the impt task of buying movie tickets to her bcos class ended late. Guess what.
She bought Dictator for the FIRST ROW. HA!
2. Despite the mass of ppl waiting to cross the road from cine to 313, a bird decided to take a leak n pooped some fresh poo tat landed on yz's blouse. EPIC OR WHAT

Seriously dunno how to not laugh when im out with her! =D

same watch :)

a medditerrean affair

Celebrated the only June baby's bday (in our clique that is, i have like at least 6 frens celebrating bday in the month of June). So according to bday gal's wish, she demanded a dinner of med food, which was kind of exotic bcos i nv had the chance to.

Went to Club Med, located @ basement of Orchard Central. Funny how i walk right past it every twice a week but nv did try to walk into it.

The restaurant has quite a nice ambience, dim orange lights, candlelights on the tables and stuff. Concept of the place is like Marche, Ramen Champion tat sort. Given card, buzzers and a whole array of booths selling idiff areas of diff cuisines. Rather spoilt for choice and eventually settled for something really safe bcos wen tried it before- Duck Leg Confit, which was safely yummy!

buzzers of diff nations. tw's rang e moment he put it down. HA

what a spread. even looking at it makes me salivate!

duck leg confit above. Rosti below

So all of us bought a different dish from a different stall and then we ate them all together. Which i think is a brilliant idea cos we get to try a much wider range of dish! The Hawaiian Pizza was visually appealing with its thin crust and e spread of ingredients on it with yummy colours. But well.. not exactly the best dish. Slightly bland and not unforgetable. Lamb and beef kebah was yums though i dun really like these two kind of meat. But if gf deb was constantly picking pieces of meat from the dish, it prolly meant that it was good. Grilled Sea brass ordered by Ced was not that bad too, although he kept insisted that sea beam might turn out even better if not for the fact that the person who took e order head wrongly. Tsk! But it was still good. Tender and juicy with a crispy texture from the fish skin.Last but not least we had the Rosti with sour cream. Slighlt bland after all the savory food so slight disappointing.

So after dinner after some chit-chat, we decided to have an internal poll of the most memorable and must-come-back dish. Majority voted duck leg confit!

And then we had the best part of after dinner- desert! Look at all the yummy colours. Beyond words. But  of all things, ced chose a banana cake which i absolutely hate. (BANANA! How gross is tat :S)

Had a mini song singing, cake cutting after that. But bcos there wasnt any candles, we decided to make do with the candle on the table.

And ced being ced, made us do stupid things with the "in-use" stone. HA!

Followed by lots of talking, walking, cam-whoring. All photo taken by my pretty Leica but koped from ced's blog cos all edited alr. Hee

Supposed to be movie session but i heard there werent seats left n they decided to trek to bugis and take long bus ride home. IDK why. But it must be crazy tw's idea. Lol.

So on the other side of the island, went off to meet bf and his friends. It's funny how we're all classmates/ schoolmates at one point or other but that's just it. Frankly speaking, if we ever broke up, would i ever see them ever in my life? 99.9% Nope! It's not me being pessimistic, emotional or anything like that. It's just a plain truth that we need to realise. And the vice versa applies. Just a sudden qn that popped into my head and i ans-ed it myself. See, think abt it urself.

Didnt do much actually, hang ard, went to forbidden city (haven step foot into Clarke Quay for dino yrs) and  then slack at starbucks.

Slightly peeved by some stuff and den head home at 3-ish in the wee hrs. Think im getting old ba. Happening night life isnt exactly my kind of lifestyle anymore.

aloha~

Attended Jaz's 21st bday party today. And i think it's pretty amazing we're still in contact bcos we knew one another since primary school, and the 2 of them since kindergarden. It's like we're a family now more than just frens. Instead of lingering ard e bday day, we actually find ourselves catching up with her siblings and parents more than anything else. It's kind of nice. 

We dun often, we might not chat much, but we share such a funny and weird rship we just glue back into shape right when we see each other. 

:)) 

old is gold

Met up with cherie love to make jaz's bday card. Though we're both really not artistic at all, i think we did quite a decent job.

Love how dun meet often but instantly connect like the good old times.

Really enjoy the catching up and so so so happy for her! :))

songbird

Special day-out with bf today, specially booked like a week ago. :)

Made our way esplanade to join in this event called "songbird", which was uber cool! The storyline goes like this...

A young talented local singer is supposed to have a debut here in spore, however a series of events happened and cause her to be uncertain abt appearing at e event. So the point is, we are gg to backtrack what happened on that fateful day, following her footsteps.

And guess what, we borrowed an ipad each! The company is totally generous, high budget and trusting. So we just had to access to this ipod app called songbird and then embark on our adventure.

First stop was Fullerton Hotel and they did really good partnership with them cos we cld get in and really walk ard. And then we were walking all ard the area, listening to the earphones and it will just keep telling stories or showing footages of wat happened. Totally amazing! We even got to sit inside this limo! and had free ice cream! Super fun day! And then there were all the nice pretty things all ard for the arts festival. Feel so arty farty all of a sudden! The flea was good too but rushing to watch MIB3 so not much time to rummage thrgh.

=D
 
 

riding, wind, sun

Despite the insane weather, we decided to carry on with the plan.

Cycling for the 2nd time after i learnt. The tamp eco green garden is  no joke. I thght i could feel my legs falling apart.

uss

not exactly the best bday i ever had, but just grateful for all e things in my life that i can be grateful for.

thanks :))

pre bday celebration day 2

Got woken up by loud popping sound, for a moment i thght there was renovating near by house. Then it struck me that i was still at the chalet. How retarded. Ha.

So apparently daddy was bursting all the balloons from last night. Got up, helped to clear and move all e things to the car before leaving. Well, didnt exactly have a gd night slp though we were so very exhausted. Mummy told us to leave a light on throughout the night. But guess what, a single light on was light trying to sleep with the sun right above your head. No kidding. And it's funny how we so persistently tried to heed my mum's word. Till bout almost 5am we thght this cnt go on and finally off the lights and KO-ed almost instantaneously. Seriously.

Had breakfast @changi area before heading home. Funny how even though we're really really tired we couldnt nap any more. Hence, bf decided that we should go cycling. Fyi, i just learnt cycling late last yr. Cycling experience- twice including the one when i managed to learn. Bf wanted to go on a cycling trip to cycle on ROADS which was strongly refused by me bcos im not exactly 21 yet n i dont really want to kill myself before that. So rented a bike at sun plaza park and went all the way to tamp eco green garden which wasnt a good move. Cycling on grass is insane for a beginner like me. For every 3 trees distance i had to take a break bcos my legs r killing me!

Managed to survive it and cycled to pasir ris park. What a feat for a newbie like me! :)

Both got home, took a nice long shower before meeting again during evening. Wanted to catch a movie but no slots. :( Long story cut short, ended up dinner @85 with his parents. You must be wondering how our date got there. Ha!

N then it was more nua-ing at his place, watching silly shows.

My last day being 20.