i went into JB on tue (again!!). i'm so in love with the pasar malam there, i might go in every tue juz for it! anw, this time, i went in with serene & her dad, to work!! haha...

we were at her dad's office, doing the simpler tasks like folding papers & counting doors & windows...it's boring, no doubt, but with the camera ard, we're never short of entertainment!!

This pic we took in the office aft we've finished folding 1 stack of papers. haha...we din wanna ask for more work aft tt, and took some pics to past time while counting down to lunch!!

aft lunch, we went back to the office, slacked ard a bit while waiting for the rain to stop. we headed to giant next door once the rain stopped...we shopped ard there for over 2 hrs, ate, drank, grocery shopping...haha...i won't like if work was like this everyday! by the time we got back with our bagfuls of snacks, it was 4.30 alr!! so we disciplined ourselves to do some work first b4 going to the pasar malam! we were really dedicated...by the time we finished all the tasks, it was 7pm...we rushed down to the pasar malam which was closing at 8pm. despite the limited time we had, we managed to return with handfuls of food!! literally, FOOD. we bought a lot of stuff, from fried to steam to fruits. haha...there was soya bean drink, malay kueh, chinese kueh, shui jian bao, muah chee, mee goreng, penang laksa, chee cheong fun, mee siam (my FAV!!), bananas & jackfruit (delicious!!).



a pic of me with all the food we bought!! it isn't as scary as it looks. haha, it's juz a little bit of food here & there spread out in a lot of plastic bags which makes it seem like a lot.


i think we might be going back in next tue again. her dad's colleagues are prob wondering why they only see us coming in on tue...hehe...

next wk, i'm going to buy all those food that was sold out this wk! more mee siam (it's damn nice!! i can finish 3 whole plates by myself!), rojak, kueh tiao, penang laksa from another stall & more jackfruit!! 2 words: food haven

we both got uwhen was the last time you did something for the first time? someone told me tt over the wkend, which kept me thinking...

i went for wakeboarding lessons on sun at kallang riverside. it was a brand new experience, fun, exciting, thrilling. as warned, my back is aching now. i drank a lot of sea water when i got thrown off the board, and i was so tempted to ask the ppl on the boat to take a pic of me on the board!! lol...oh no, they're going to find out how narcisstic i am! coincidentally, i met one of the guys working at my sydney hostel. alright, technically, we din met cos he din see me while i saw him. heh...while making my way back to the shore from the dock, i prob scratched my foot over the sharp edges of some stones. i din realise how deep the cuts were until it left me hobbling & half-crippled for the rest of the day.

aftward, i headed to serangoon to meet bek. we did some stuff, ate, talked etc...den, i went to vivo to meet up with zy, ed, deb & serene. zy's as retarded as ever, same goes for ed. intellectual stagnation. but someone, zy revealed this new side of hers which surprised us all. this is prob the 1st ever time i've seen her talk with so much ration & sense. winds of change will blow at certain junctions in our lives...

haha...aussie students have juz got too much time on their hands! in the middle of the night, serene called me, saying she had nothing to do. so at ard 1am plus, she came over & we chatted the night away. i was really glad to have her ard last night, to have her company. it lifted my spirits up, and times like this guilt me for not appreciating her enough. in short, i'm juz thankful to have her. haha :) i started wondering how she spent her past few summer vacations. it muz have been super boring for her, esp when all her frens are so caught up with JC and other aspects of their life. i'm lucky to have her for company now...

i wondered again how diff things would be if i'd chosen to stay. if time wasn't as much a luxury as it is now, if if if...but it's pointless to think abt such stuff when u'll nv know the ans. for now, i'm juz thankful for my long break, though i've got too much time on my hands, the amt of freedom it brings beats having to hit the books.

my dad was on leave for the past 2 days.

on tues, me, my mum & my dad went to jb for a short trip. we bought lots of stuff, food & non-food. haha...we also went to the malaysian pasar malam! woah...i juz love their pasar malam and their endless supply of food, fresh & cooked, live & dead. i'm going to force my dad to bring me in more often in future, since he's got some more leave to clear.

yst, me & my dad went fishing!! my mum joined us for a bit b4 leaving. it was our first time fishing since i can't rmb when. it was so rocky along the coast, our hooks kept getting stuck. i could feel pain for the fishes when my dad was unhooking them, but cruel as it may be, it's really addictive. best part is, we were the only ones there!! how ideallic can it get?! haha...most of the fishes died on the way back home...prob from trauma more than anything else. we're having nasi lemak out of them tdy...

tdy, i was bored to death staying at home. and it din help tt a lot of things din turn out the way i wanted them to. argh...ultimate frustration, i had to get out of the house! i dunno why my emotions were so turbulent tdy. havin nothing to do made it worse...i kept opening & closin the fridge and couldn't stop feeding myself although i was full already. argh!

start of another wk. it's been pouring like crazy the past few days. makes me more reluctant to leave the house...

my dad's on leave the following 2 days. it's been ages since he's voluntarily on leave, normally, it's a bout of flu or some illness tt keeps him at home. seems his leave will expire if he doesn't utilise it...no wonder...

went to town tdy with my mum & sis. my mum's in the 'spending' mood tdy...haha, it was a pleasant surprise. having so much time on hand, shopping's one of my fav past time now. naturally, i brought them to zara to buy my white jacket! it was evn better to find out tt zara was having extra discount. the price dropped from 75 to 40!! it's a sign, i HAD to get it!! haha :)

my sis was as anal as usual. she's getting too obsessive over her diet. she refused to eat when we had lunch, and only had 1 slice of salmon sashimi. when i asked her if tt was all she was having, she immediately got all sensitive over it and her face became black. for the rest of the day, she was silent as a duck! wad is going on with her man?! during the later part of the day, aft we picked our dad up from his workplace, he passed her an envelope of stuff she got him to print for her. it was pictures of random stuff. when i asked her wad she wanted the stuff for, she mumbled sth and appeared reluctant to reveal her 'secret'. i rebutted her, asking her why she is so biased against me. she claims i always criticise her. so it seems tt if she can't accept my comments, or if my ideas are diff from hers, they're considered 'criticisms'! aft tt, she turned to the car window and refused to look at my direction for the rest of the journey back. i can't stand her attitude, it's getting worse by the day! how can my mum tolerate such nonsense from her?! and since she is so averse towards me, she can settle her stuff from now onwards, i'm not evn going to lift a finger for her sakes, nor meddle in any of her affairs! i sound absolutely childish right now, but 18 yrs of her nonsense is reaching the boiling pt.


why is there always so much miscommunication? why do you always have this presumption b4 anything happens, or b4 i evn say anything?! u always hear, but never listen. u dun listen to me, u dun evn hear yourself sometimes. no wonder we've got lesser things to talk abt nowadays...i'm juz so exasperated!

my mum's nagging...

been going out continuously for the past few consecutive days. think i spend more time outside than i am awake at home. haha...

yst was NJ crashing day. me, fel, den & chye keong went back tgth. den & i were on our way to the hall for assembly when sharon phua came walking our way. i immediately freaked out and abandoned den. i'd only make matters worse if i stayed, so i hurriedly found a corner to hide myself from her sight. haha...it's such an irony we went back for assembly since we were always finding ways and means to skip it in the past when we had to be present for it.

afterward, it was FOODY time! i really feel so rich in NJ...everything's so cheap & discounted! i shudn't have been so stingy back then..i'll definitely be going back for more cheap meals in future...we ate, talked, watched, took pics and hung ard the sch for a while b4 fel drove back to my house in chye keong's car. another benefit of owning a car...why muz cars be so ex in sg?!!! we played bridge tgth (since it's so rare to have exactly 4 players) and had lunch b4 splitting up. i immediately knocked out till dinner time aft sending them off. it's been eons since i've been awake to watch the sun rise. my biological clock's just not attuned to it yet...

i stayed in town the entire day tdy. met up with sarah chian. haha, tt girl's memory is juz impressive...she's the last link i have to all those good ole pri sch days...haha...she evn remembers how we met!! amazing! come to think of it, i act enjoyed my pri sch days better (with all the lost memories) than i did in sec sch. she juz brightens up the classroom.

went on to meet den aft tt. we juz idled at starbucks b4 doing some browsing-cum-shopping at ps. ck joined us aft his work & haircut. it's been a really long time since we met up, it's really hard to find a suitable timing i guess...

got screwed by my mum juz now...been goin out too often & too late at night...she nagged a bit when i came back to take the car out earlier, and she evn stayed up to wait for me to return. the other time she stayed up to wait for me was when i took the car out without permission. this time, i was expecting a call from her, but i din know if my gut feeling would play me out, so i chose to ignore it. haha, turned out i was wrong.

there she was, with a black face, sitting on the couch staring at me when i came back...heh, i haven't seen her look so stern in ages...at least not to me!! lol...at least she's gone to bed now...no more questions. whew! i think there'll be a part 2 tmr...hee hee

guess i won't be venturing out for too long tmr...better stay home for majority of the day to placate her...

it's been almost a wk into the new year. i haven't accomplished much actually, juz the usual few things, play, eat, sleep...and the cycle repeats. been meeting up with den & fel almost everyday, hahaha, no complains there. it feels like we're almost family alr...

we've been shopping and pigging out everyday. pasta mania, swensen's (comes complete with fries on the house!), sakae etc. as den aptly described it, we haven't felt hungry for a very long time! haha :)

i do get the occasional bouts of guilt for using so much money outside and not spending enuf time as i ought to at home. but by next wk, when all the term resumes for all the unis, i won't be going out as often as i am now, so i console myself by believin it's leisure in advance. lol :)

went for sleepover at lisa's house last night. she's going back to sydney on sun for summer sch!! so fast...the next time i'll get to c her again is prob in 2 months time...last night, jas, dot, deb all came, and serene brought her aussie fren along to join us. we played pictionary the whole night until jas, serene & her aussie fren left. haha, i suck at drawing. it's justifiable tt the teacher only just passed me for ART back in sec sch! under time constraints, all my drawings either look the same, or don't make sense. it'd be really interesting to find someone whom can read my mind to pair up with me. all i'd have to do is draw a line and the person would be able to guess the word alr. lol :) but i doubt i'll be able to find tt person if he/her evn exists...lisa was super shacked and couldn't last the night. such a pity...i'd have kept her awake till bfast the next morn otherwise.

headed to town afterwards to meet den, ck, fel, toh & zavier (fel's nephew-to-be). we went to mind's cafe for some games aft lunch; it's my first time at mind's. it has a similar concept to settler's (maybe tt's y i keep getting the names mixed up) and we stayed there from 2-5pm. den left at 3 to return to sch for lessons while the rest of us stayed to game on! it was really fun with toh & zavier ard, beats having our classmates' hands down anytime!

aft they left, i met den for dinner at sakae. jap cuisine is our fav food. sakae shud reward us for our loyalty and constant patronisation...as usual, we were stuffed to the max when we left...we'd really turn into rolly-pollies if we cont to eat at this rate...lol :)

better start thinkin of stuff to do to entertain myself for the rest of the hols......heh

happy new year!

2006 is gone and part of history alr...i spent countdown at my uncle's house and we managed to catch the fireworks both at marina and esplanade from the highest floor of his condo. sadly there were 2 tall blocks of apartments obstructing our view. most of the time, we could only see the colours around the fireworks and the occasional fireworks shot higher into the sky...at least we managed to see it live without having to squeeze with the crowd...

tdy i went out with fel & den to k box. haha...it's been a really long while since we've got there together...as usual, time seemed to run out v quickly, esp at the end. there seemed to be so many songs to sing, but limited time left. haha...aft tt, it was bugis shopping...i suddenly feel tt i'm spending a lot of money whenever i go out, haha...i'm such an ex kid to raise!!! doesn't matter, money can always be made back in future...

this is the time of the year when ppl normally do their reflections...guess i shud do some too. :)
it has been an eventful year. plenty of ups and downs, good & bad. firstly, we finally said a big,
real goodbye to JC life, and moved on to the 6 months break of pure slacking. 3 months into it,
exam results were released, which was a huge relief for all of us!! however, this also meant
dat it was time to search for a suitable uni & an appropriate course...

den somehow, den, fel & i ended up in diff unis...lol...fel went to nus, den went to smu. they both
remained in sg, while i left for aus. it was one of the toughest decision i've ever had to make.
and till now, i do sometimes wonder how diff life would be if i'd chosen to stay. for e 2nd half yr,
i spent it studyin in aus, in a diff env, culture, atmosphere...i saw a lot, learnt a lot over there,
n now i'm back in sg for more than a month alr...been playing since i returned, the hols would
end b4 i know it and it'll be time to go back...haha...oh ya, almost forgot it's the first time i held
down a job for 4-5 months...a pretty huge achievement!!

played thru the entire yr in fact, thru work, sch & hols...hee :) sch will get progressively harder
over the years, but we'll juz take it 1 step at a time...the most sig thing would be shifting to aus,
it was a tough time for me, my family & everyone else. there were a lot of 1st times...laundry
n washing, cooking, bedsheets...urgh...i can't stand doing household chores as much as else out
there! haha :) but i meet a lot of ppl in aus, diff backgrounds, races, cultures, ages and
languages...i really wished i learnt more languages when i was younger so i could converse v
easily...though eng is a huge bonus alr...haha :) and all this travelling back & forth makes it feel
so much like a perpetual holiday!!! muahaha. i'm also free & totally independent over there,
sole ranger, complete freedom!!

ok, not much of a reflection...wrong timing & mood to do reflection now...lol...the mind's fixed in the play mood, everything tt's coming out is juz abt play, play & more play...

argh...i dun wan time to pass so quickly though...