all pretzelled up

2006-10-15T23:17:00.000+08:00

this is for those who still check back here :)

i've moved to THIS PLACE. some entries will be friends only though, so comment to have yourself added if you wanna be privy to what i write. (subject to my consideration of course ;))

2006-09-24T01:56:00.000+08:00

this is my 100th post, and i'm moving.

ask me for the address!!

take care and have fun, y'all. byeeeeeeee.

2006-09-23T17:34:00.000+08:00

yesterday was a pretty good day, all things considered. good chat with friends which elicited much laughter and jokes, trekking around shenton way without having to carry anything, and being sent home by elvis :) not forgetting our little sports thing in the morning, though we missed the guys' match against the yr3s!

//and then they let you loose on the streets.

2006-09-17T23:20:00.000+08:00

i love rachel chia yan mei :) haha thanks for being a constant source of inspiration, for being sucha rock in my life. even after a week of emotional baggage accumulated from a lot of people, you have the ability to make it all seem so miniscule. thanks for the support and being the voice of reason, you're so much stronger than me, in every sense of the word :] and i know you'd do things very differently if you were in my shoes and i respect that, cos i know i cld never do it.

2006-09-14T02:14:00.000+08:00

sometimes its amazing that friends, being objective bystanders, can see things so much more clearly than you ever can. and how lucid the picture is to them, yet for the life of me, i cant see past the murky duckweed on the surface of the water.

and then you realise, some people change and you dont really quite know them after all.

its so hard not to get caught up in the superficiality of the world, aye?

**

apologies for the cryptic-ness, this blog is getting too public la.

and you also realise that a blog is probably the worst way to read a person yes?

2006-09-10T00:47:00.000+08:00

damn this is inane. am not going to blog for a while.

2006-09-09T14:47:00.000+08:00

haven't been blogging in a while, but i dont really have much to say so i shall just upload photos of the past few weeks:

HAHAH charred lost a bet so she had to do this

and a completely random shot of the burger at billy bombers' (which is yummy) to end off this extremely random post. bye.

2006-08-29T00:45:00.000+08:00

was looking through the photos taken the past year and i realised how much we've changed. back when we still looked relatively carefree and hassle-free from the stress that is lawsch, a year back when we took all those incriminating photos at the drunkards' night, a year back when everything was just so different.

sometimes i wish, for a fleeting instant, that we could go back to those days. but that would mean giving up so many other things, and i pause.

and then i feel like i dont really know what i want after all.

2006-08-27T19:43:00.000+08:00

it has been a busy but extremely fruitful day!!

slept at 1am last night and hauled myself outta bed at 615 for the Sheares Bridge Run! ray nette and i were a bit apprehensive at first cos we haven't really been running and i have not even ran 10km before!

but. the pace was good, the weather was great (except for the rain which came later :( but still we continued running!), plus it was really cool running on the expressway and on specially-cordoned off roads, AND i had terrific company! although the downsides were that it was insanely crowded, the run saw us squeezing our way through all the sweaty and stinky army boys (YUCKS!) cos all the lazy shites were walking and blocking our way, having to climb over the metal barriers to take a long-cut so that we could skip the human jam (which was just strange), the rain (though it made me feel very garang to run through the rain hehhehh), and the acute pain which came in my last km or so. but i had to grit my teeth and run la, i think if i stopped after running 9km, i'd probably launch myself off into the kallang river (that was where the last stretch was). and seeing the finish line in front of me was really satisfying.

yes, indeed, such things are kinda addictive. ray signed up for the standchartered marathon at the end of the year, would have signed up too lah but my exams wont be over yet :/

(btw my stupid nut of a brother just told me he ran 17km yesterday for fun, thus diminishing my sense of satisfaction at finishing 10km this morning:/)

but anyway, am still very proud of myself and the girls :)

after which, had a little fiasco with nette and her bag which saw us mobilising a hell lot of army guys and really, they were extremely helpful, we were quite touched. spent an hour there, then rushed for lunch, then to church, then to meet di.

and i haven't touched company yet and ii've tutorial tmr. YIKES.

am feeling very sleepy now too. dang.

2006-08-26T01:12:00.000+08:00

2 weeks of school have past and it was utterly dreadful. yes, of course i exaggerate. school wasn't bad per se, i guess it was just me. they were 2 awful weeks of being ridiculously pms-sy (must be my abnormal body functions acting up...) and having a hell of an oscillating mood-swing.

thank you to my friends who tolerated my weird and easily irritable behaviour, i know how irksome i can be sometimes :/

and its so tiring to stay on top of everything but i'm trying, really.

and a good heart-to-heart conversation with a jetsetting friend did a lot for me. although it left me 1km away from my home, past midnight and in heels to boot. had to scrap the idea of walking home.

sometimes i'm shocked by the audacity of some people, and the bitchiness of others. the nerve of them to judge like that, when they are really no better. worse, maybe. if only miss pris could rule the world.

and this is so fragmented, its ridiculous and incoherent.

goodbye.

2006-08-22T15:53:00.000+08:00

i am not too busy to blog, i just dont think i have anything interesting to say.

school has been the same old, same old.

**

on another completely unrelated note, i dont really like going to the airport unless i'm the one flying. i look around at the commuters milling about, the working executives with places to go and people to meet; i match my step to the suit-clad individuals, trying to look purposeful, as though i was a very-important-person with places to go and people to meet as well. but they get on their airbuses and boeings and i get on my little car, them flying off, me going back.

going to the airport fills me with such a sense of wanderlust, although its not as if i'm discontented with wherever i am right now.

**

will put up the photos taken during our recent jaunt to botanic gardens soon, for now, its back to propertylaw. hooray.

2006-08-13T22:48:00.000+08:00

school starts tomorrow and already the work is piling up. somebody tell me why i am not surprised. but really, i am quite reluctant for school to start, no more bumming around, filling up the endless days with whatever catches my fancy. shucks.

and i've been caught up with so much school stuff this week (cos of matric week), going back to school doesn't seem like a novelty anymore.

and i'm just reallyreally sian cos i can imagine the shitload of work that will be dumped on us right from the first day of school and i'm totally dreading that.

and my 3 month break just flew by like that, i'm still quite bummed out about it. cos i really didnt do anything that was mildly productive during the holidays, i just let it all fizzle out. aiyar but anyway i shall stop whining. whiny people are irritating. much like fake syrupy-sweet people who suffocate those around with all that sugar overload. -shudder. i just cannot take that.

anyway on friday, we spent the entire day prepping for fright night and then a further 4 hours ++ scaring the freshies. it was tiring, to say the least. plus, i was the narrator, so i got the most sian job :( while the rest were inside scaring the hell outta them, i was outside narrating my silly story while nursing a really bad back cos i had been standing for 13 hours ++. and i had to say so much rubbish to set the mood while the freshies were waiting outside for the thing to start. and my feet were starting to get numb by the time the night was over (cos of all that standing), and i think they really became swollen after the whole ordeal.

anyway some photos of the night, before the whole thing started, during the interminable waiting for the freshies to arrive--when we were still quite energetic.

haunted house station-rachel wei yixin charred elan and myself! (didn't put make up on till much later cos i didn't wanna put any at first. but i had to la.. else i wouldn't look the least bit scary at all. not that i really did look a lot scarier in the end. but oh well.)

and wei helped me to save the 4millionsmiles collage so here it is! anyway my face looks very big in that little yellow box :/

ps. ok la school tmr seems quite promising. at least i'll get a homemade gourmet sandwich tmr! and i know quite a few people in my tutorial groups already.

alright its midnight alr, am gonna go get some sleep.

pps. oh i dunno why the haunted house photos are so small. go to wei's blog to check out the real thing.

2006-08-08T13:46:00.000+08:00

i have contributed substantially to singapore's 4millionsmiles project! here you go!

i would have liked to showcase part of the mural here instead of only showing my silly face, but it seems technologically impossible to do so :/ but anyhow, to take a look at part of the mural (the impt bit of course, where my face is), pls click HERE!

anyway, yesterday, the whole bunch of us headed down to botanic gardens for a picnic to celebrate charms' birthday, which incidentally falls on national day. we waited around for everyone to reach awfully choc (it almost seems like we've got a share in that place already) before trekking to botanic gardens. we walked so farr in the sweltering noonday heat that we were all frazzled and sweaty and tired at the end, reaching the stage-area was like finding the oasis in a desert. pardon the poor analogy, but you get the idea.

we laid the groundsheet and proceeded to indulge in our picnic feast! everyone brought reallly yummy food--lan and her indo mee goreng & sambal chilli, debbie & edward with their potato salad (plus they provided the entertainment heheh), elan with his vadai & samosas, charred with her hashbrowns, rachel with her muffins, dolly with her sandwiches and sausage rolls, daniel with his potato salad with a lot of eggs, me with my chicken nuggets, troy with her brownies, darryl with his chicken, and charms with the er, drinks. hahaha. birthday girl la, special privileges.

the food was all so filling, we wanted to explode at the end of it, so we fed the turtles and fishes with the remnants of our food. it was almost like taking a day trip back into our childhood.

walked all the way back to island creamery for some much needed rest and dessert after.

and today, i'm left with a nasty bruise near my temple all because of a cardoor and a silly weasley dog :/

2006-08-07T22:24:00.000+08:00

i think i was really quite high last night, i spouted so much rubbish to so many different people haha, stuff that i can barely remember. much as if i was indeed drunkenly high.

thanks to charms for reminding me about it :S

update later. i'm off to wallow in embarrassment.

2006-08-06T22:48:00.000+08:00

i always feel a little tongue-tied (or in this case, er, finger-tied?) when i face the empty page on blogger, much like how stage fright would feel for some, i imagine (i dont feel tongue-tied when i'm on stage la, i have other shortcomings). and somehow, no matter how much i wanted to blog about some stuff initially, it gets lost whilst making the journey from my brain to my fingertips.

anyhow. i will try.

today was a reallly fruitful day. ran 5km ++ after service with rayyy and audrey and ps bel. i really admire ps bel's determination and resilience, she's a working adult who hardly exercises and she actually joined us in signing up for the SBR which will be held at the end of the month. woah. and she runs with us regularly and no matter how slow or tired she gets, she never stops. running.

went home with rayyy and i walked allll the way from kembangan mrt to siglap! ok those not living in the east wont understand, but just know that its a damn. far. distance. went grocery shopping and bought some food back and i felt damn domesticated. haah its not often that you see such a side of me. but i think i could get used to that kinda lifestyle, shopping for groceries at the supermarket (btw, i love it, its really quite exciting to choose from the amazing array of stuff they have there), buying food for your family and err cooking i suppose. though i dont actually cook. but well, i imagine i would.

(anyway, i was supposed to grill chicken nuggets for the picnic tmr but my mum very very kindly volunteered so that i wouldnt have to wake up so early, so wellll i guess pris has had enough of domesticity for one day. i doubt they really want to test my culinary expertise out though :/)

i wonder if this is a surprising revelation for many. but oh well, i will never know what i have to give up till i get there, wont i?

anw i was msging my mum and praising her daughter for being such a good domesticated girl (ie going to cold storage and choosing fruits like a kiasu housewife) and my mum replied:" Good practice for you since you cant wait to get married."

HAHHA. (for the record, it is completely untrue. my mum just likes to talk rubbish.)

anyhow i think this post doesn't really sound like me. but i'm feeling quite high now, must be all that endorphin rush. quite an abnormal amount of energy considering the hour. which is why i am able to blog and entertain 6 people on msn! all at the same time! heh.

but well, consider that i took about 45 mins to type this?

****

was just thinking about this while i was on my solitary walk home, that what use would it be really, if someone had abundant material wealth but was as poor as a church mouse inside.

how would you feel then, when confronted with your own mortality? to suddenly realise that there's nothing real to represent whatever you stood for, despite your days of glory. how tragic that would be.

i think queer thoughts alone.

****

anyway, i just read charms blog, so, photo time! thanks charms!! :)

us at macritchie sometime last week. i like the big dog, he's called billy! the small dog is too emo for me.

charms hwee and myself went back to vj sometime last week as well (cant be bothered to remember the days). had fun gossiping with the teachers about my brother, visiting the stone tables, sitting in on 10 mins of sayers' lecture (i dont miss it, REALLY), eating canteen food (its still bad la, but i had to, you know how it is), talking to the teachers, feeling so much older than the students there.

ok i'm getting a bit dizzy from feeling so high. i'm off now. bye!

2006-08-01T00:21:00.000+08:00

today, i went to macritchie bright and early in the morning with charms darryl troy and elan, fully intending to go for the treetop trail, but alas, it was closed!! and elan happily brought his 2 dogs, but dogs were banned in the nature reserve! so we took a nice stroll around the reservoir, unknowingly entered the forbidden zone, entertained his 2 dogs, got dragged around and abused by the golden retriever, worked up a light sweat, and felt immensely pleased with ourselves for engaging in such wholesome, back-to-nature activities.

charms looking pink and feeling happy.

and at night, we met up again to surprise lan at her working place at bukit timah! partly cos we haven't seen her in so long, and partly cos she's flying off to bkk tmr already. enjoy yourself yeah! we had a yummy time at island creamery (my first time there, believe it or not) and i am quite amazed at the delectable range of unusual icecream they've got there! reallly glad that our campus is gonna be around that area, so it means more islandcreamery days. heh.

waiting for lan to knock off at her awfully minimalistic shop.

the busy worker. hey actually it is quite fulfilling to sell cakes--to provide that lovely finishing touch to someone else's celebration?

charms and myself

waving helloooo

and after that, we decided to explore our new bukit timah campus since we were in the vicinity. i felt extremely gung-ho clambering over the rocky terrain (cos construction is still ongoing) and trudging through the muddy areas. the idea was cool, the experience not necessarily so. but from the little that we could see, the new campus is gonna be realllly beautiful! it finally looks like a REAL uni, complete with our own quadrangle to have picnics and to play games on! am really looking forward to starting school there, hopefully most of it would have been completed by the 14th!

anyhow, i'm really bushed right now, so i shall go sleep first. this week is gonna be rather hectic :/ haven't had the time to go catch pirate II yet :( shucksss and school is starting already. the horror!

2006-07-29T19:46:00.000+08:00

/edited: some photos added.

this week went off tangent in a most unexpected, but most welcome, way.

for one, i finally ended work on thursday noon (haha dont ask, all due to very persuasive and underhand peer pressure methods....). hooray, no more waking up at unearthly hours, no more squeezing with the office crowd (which i realllyreallllyreally hate, all the kiasu office aunties and inconsiderate travellers, really. the morning would be A LOT better if we all bothered enough and then the day wouldn't start on such a bad note!), no more feeling bored at work, no more extremely sedentary lifestyle, no more reading FULL cases!

but ok la, it hasn't been that bad. ive learnt quite a bit from this short stint, even though i had reallly minimal work, but hey, my sharp observation skills were really put to the test ;) it was a different experience, and i'm sorta glad i went through it, makes me look at things from a different perspective. and i've enjoyed the company of the other interns, majority of whom come from overseas (UK, US, finland/scotland, sweden), it was really interesting mixing with them and hanging out in the library chatting. and not forgetting all the times i went upstairs to the other floor to disturb troyy! (who was kept reallly busy, the poor girl), and all the lunches with darryl (and charm, who came occasionally) and elan, the intern from across the street.

that's most of the interns on the last day of work!

and so, on thursday, it was CHARRRRRED'S birthday! went to east coast for a sumptuous seafood dinner, followed by a chat which yielded not-so-surprising revelations. i hope you enjoyed yourself, and have a happy 20th year ahead! i'd post some embarrassing picture of you here (hehe) but i'm not using my own laptop now so you just gotta hang on for that ;)

(ok there you go! not that unglam right! i've got worse!!! hehe)

happy birthday. i hope we have a great year ahead together.

the entire group who turned up

charms with debbie/ yos went around taking photos with everyone again and intruding upon all the couples hehe -debbie and edward!/ charrred/ eugene and dolly/ debbie and edward are damn cute together haha

more photos on charms' blog, i cant be bothered to rip them la haha.

and. this morning, i woke up at the extremely unearthly hour of SIX AM for the charity walkathon that my church was taking part in! but it was fun in a way, caught up with rayyy over the many things happening in our lives while undertaking the 4+ km walk which saw us traversing the heart of the city (city hall-raffles place-boat quay), and it was quite enjoyable really, taking a stroll alongside some of the people closest to your heart.

a shot to start off the day!

bright and early at the padang (note the skyline-the old and new supreme court side by side)

hers looks like a postcard right (cos i snapped it laa, whereas she was the lousy photographer who took mine where i looked like a lost sheep instead)

"this bridge was made for walking!"

shopping around after the walk/ me and vann resting in the shop cos we were soo tired/ sammie dancing along to the music in the morning haha!/ rayyy catching a break during the walk (lazy girl)/ with narash the joker/ more walking/ vann showing off her snazzy magic tricks/ serene/ early-in-the-morning shots/ saw sam there as well/ rayyy trying on her dress.

after which, the cellies adjourned to raffles city where we ate at the soup spoon again! hahaha!! i think i just might get sick of it soon.. i probably ate there 4 times in the span of a week. but that may be just me, you know, short intensive attention span.

and yos joined us after for 'the lake house'. it was pretty good la, but i think we'd have enjoyed it more if we just weren't so damned tired. cos the front part was a bit slow, and i could have fallen asleep there and then. but it was not bad, romanticism laced with a tinge of bittersweet-ness that prevented it from becoming sappy and shallow.

we are all sooo tired by the end of it all.

so this week was actually pretty good. an open and honest conversation with a friend i hold dear to my heart, after such a looong time of not really talking (haha yes you should be very flattered, i know you read this!), the improved changed dynamics, the TRUE friendships i know i've forged with friends i hope i'll never lose, the gatherings, the blessed days.

these are days worth living indeed.

2006-07-24T23:12:00.000+08:00

this week is going to be quite interesting.

erm okay.

right, enough of irritating pseudo-mysterious one-liners. back to blogging proper.

but how does one begin a proper post? is there any protocol to follow, any unspoken golden rule amongst the blogging converts? any invisible barrier you're forbidden to cross?

the easiest way to answer these questions, and to solve the problem of not being fully able to express my thoughts here: photo time!

photos from wayyy back-during fun fair prep day

the would be mascots having a lot of fun:

sylvester and scoobydoo (yuankai and eugene from og2 if i'm not wrong)

charred! taking a photo with the mascot made her day hahaa (like a lil kiddd)

myself with the 3 mascots, bugs bunny included.

winston and tris posing with bugs.

ha. this was eugene i believe.

the happy camper.

the 2 struggling artists with no one around to appreciate their music...

for wei! haha finallyy i posted her pictures of her and her vespa.

anyway so many things happening, so many things coming up.

and on a more frivolous note, i ate at the soup spoon twice in a row, 2 days straight. and this came right after i ate at cedele twice in a span of a few days. mad huh. but i guess i'm just in my soup-bread phase. CHARRED! we shall dine there soon yess. i keep getting cravings for sandwiches and soups nowadays :) and ive found many (ok actually just 2) like-minded people.

i cannot decide how i want this entry to sound. frivolous and silly. or pensive and irritated.

so i shall just end here and go sleep. enough thinking to last me till the end of the holidays anyway.

2006-07-23T23:58:00.000+08:00

so this is what i've been doing the entire week, having fun with the other interns and talking and doing rubbish in the library, anything but work, really.

mina and isobel the 2 most hardworking interns around; farrah and brian the ultimate slackers; brian with his penguin tie; darryl and debra. missing in the photo: troy!

anyway internship has been pretty alright. well it should be for me, really, since i hardly do any work.

just been busy mixing with ther lawyers, haha!

got some other random photos in my phone but i'm too tired and spent to do any more things. its been such a long, draining day and i still hafta get up early tomorrow morning. greaaat.

2006-07-23T23:06:00.000+08:00

ok i'm just here to post pictures of today cos all of them are bugging me to hurry and upload them. so here goes: dress sunday. haha.

the lovely majority of VCELL!

talking talking

with ps bel outside!

and ps jimmy!

individual shots now with ps bel: sammie and rachel the dressy ones

yos and myself, the black and white ensemble

dawn and van, the non-dress people

the lovely ladies :)

much love.

2006-07-20T00:40:00.000+08:00

"no no no marriage changes people because people let themselves be changed. marriage shouldn't"

a nugget of wisdom brought away from a rather enlightening conversation, made me realise so many things. hmmm.

people's perspectives really do change when they grow older huh.

but anyway i stand true to my earlier convictions, though i do see your side of the story as well :)

quite surprising what a few days of mere observation can do for me.

anyway i'm off to sleeep now!

2006-07-16T20:52:00.000+08:00

what a tiring week this has been! so the flag component of lawfoc was finally completed on saturday with the funfair held at nushigh. it was pretty enriching but extremely tiring as well.

anyway, i guess what always makes an event different and fun is the company, and i'm proud and glad to say that i managed to wrestle my own polaroid of the occasion! my very own souvenir from the experience. it wasn't an easy task i can assure you.

and we live for such polaroid-shot moments, dont we now?

am gonna be extremely busy in the upcoming weeks, and the next thing i'll know, it'll be matric week and the re-opening of school. ohdear.

and then i read of the war happening x number of miles away from us, and we go about our daily lives like nothing ever happened, and i realise how insular we all are, how fixated we are on staying in our comfort zone, and i wonder if it is for the best.

2006-07-11T22:01:00.000+08:00

i'm missing hongkong, tuen mun, the apartment, and yos.

the aimless walks to nowhere with szeyu, the dim sum with jean, the yos-bargaining scenes which usually result in us being blacklisted by the shopkeepers, getting shot dirty looks which she'd promptly return, the almost-prosecuted incident, the unhealthy, oil-infested hawker food, the looong car rides, the sadistic amusement we derived when we saw each other's hot and bothered faces along mongkok, the photo-whoring, the unspoken words, the almost unbelievable wavelength, the am conversations, the all-nighter pulled.

the almost recluse, almost perfect.

2006-07-09T03:19:00.000+08:00

am in hongkong right now! at yos' cousin's place using the internet and its more than a little strange cos all the words are in chinese, and i can only guess and figure my way around.

anyway, i've been doing nothing these past coupla days except shopping, walking, eating and then the whole cycle repeats itself all over again... i mean i'm having fun la, of course, but its getting a bit tiring i suppose. 1 week in hongkong just might prove to be a tad too much. haha i think i might just be getting sick of shopping :) but anyhow, the company's good so no complains from me here.

am awake at this unearthly hour, cos we start our days pretty late here in hk, we wake up at noon then shopshopshop till like night, and i guess we're taking things pretty slowly here, cos we've really got quite a bit of time.

doesn't really feel like i'm in a foreign land, actually, seeing as hk doesn't really differ that much from singapore. just feels like i'm taking a nice short respite from everything singapore has to offer.

not really looking forward to going back though, cos i'll have such a packed schedule when i'm back shuckss.

and i wanna watch superman but its not showing here yet and soo many people have watched already! any poor sad souls like me who have not watched it yet?? haha

seeyou guys soon

2006-07-05T02:46:00.000+08:00

ive got nothing to do till 3am when the match finallyy starts so here i am again.

its pretty curious to see what staying up till the wee hours of the morning can do for msn conversations. unintended philosophical discussions, a time of pondering and reflection. these sessions do me good, really.

i feel doubly, triply blessed for being in the position that i am in right now, indeed, i have everything at my fingertips, everything that i could ever ask for, and i wish this period would never cease. but then again, the stasis would cripple and ultimately infuriate me, so i guess all's good, really.

my brain feels a little fried, my eyes a little blurry from staring at the brightly illuminated screen for so long, i can only hope i'm typing coherently.

tomorrow i embark on my hk shopping trip, and i will be back in a week's time. try not to miss me ya (haha) and i'll try not to miss you guys :)

2006-07-04T23:07:00.000+08:00

quote of the day:

"i felt that law camp was basically paying money to get lied to.. to get bullied.. to get deceived.. to get pranked on, and to get laughed at.."

mmm i dont tell lies, do i :D

(and at least i spared you the wrath of the yr2s by not leaving your name...)

2006-07-04T00:47:00.000+08:00

urhm i feel a little bit lost for words right now because i know a lot of freshies from og1 are reading this (all you kaypoh voyeurs!!) and i dont really know what to say....

except that i had a great time at starbucks hanging out with them earlier. HAHAHAAHAH. (og outing you see, all these enthusiastic budding lawyers :))

anyway.

yesterday, a couple of us relived the whole secondary-school experience by hanging out at the beach and engaging in extremely wholesome activities like cycling and blading.

everyone looks so happy here its rather heartwarming

(i really hope our friendships have evolved and gone past oh-so-frivolous platitudes and such.)

next up, collages from charm from law camp, i know some of those pictures are repeat ones but heck la

photos from jungle trek

law camp photos:

and charm wrote this:
'why the past yr in law sch has been so fun:'

indeed indeed. much love :)

its been such a busy coupla days and i'm flying off in 2 days! i feel extremely rushed :/ haven't packed, haven't changed money, haven't done shite aarghh.

ok i'm just feeling really tired and cranky now so bye.

2006-06-30T22:36:00.000+08:00

back from law camp!

woahh it was super tiring and we had sooo many things to do each day, and the entire week really passed by very quickly! didn't feel like i really participated in the camp though, cos most of the time we were running around doing the background work and we didn't really follow the og around either.

anyway my og was pretty fun, and i think the yr2s just had a lot of fun tekan-ing the juniors and having fun at their expense ;)

am a bit burnt now though and my shoulders are really lobster-red :/ damnnnnn pain :(

the law camp culminated in the formal dinner on thursday night at the guild house and dbl o after. pictures ahead.

photos from pre law camp and during the camp itself first:

daniel and edward at law camp prep

terrorising rachel who was coerced into being blindfolded for jungle trek dry run

hahaha poor her

during camp:

wei rachel edward on the lorry

the queen on the royal lorry haha

with weixuan

the og doing a gay forfeit at 1 of the stations heh

them stretching before playing soccer, complete with a personal trainer!

og 1

terrorising them during the sp game

and during jungle trek

formal dinner:

justin's band during dinner

the same old same old bunch of us :)

rachel charred me dolls

me and the 2 tallies troyos heh

us with the hottest freshie daniel haha

both the female and male freshies came from my og--thea and daniel

yos up to her usual nonsense hahah

we got a picture with the 2 fabios

with sam

rachel and myself

and with charredd

my date for the night, patrick

with joanna, my junior from sc, who was in my og!

the 2 jokers, daniel and elan

pre-requisite photo of them, charm and darryl

hahha rachel and charred

the biggest guys in law school haha (daniel and elan were banned from joining this shot, for obvious reasons)

rachel and i with yax hahah he's really damn frikking tall!

at mohammed sultan

haah jamie the ogl at checkout today

and this concludes law camp 2006!

(what a long tiresome post i hope this stupid thing doesnt' hang!!)

2006-06-24T22:28:00.000+08:00

law camp's coming up on monday and its just crazy how quickly the year flew by, and just like that, we're year2s already :( it feels not just a little tragic and sad that our undergraduate lives are slipping by us just like that, and soon, we'll be old, burdened, cynical adults slogging away in that dog-eat-dog atmosphere they call the working world.

shucks this entry wasn't meant to be so melancholic. but anyhow, i'm just glad i'm not 20 yet hahaa i can delude myself into thinking i'm still young and that i'll forever be a student with no responsibilities foisted onto me. ya la cheap thrill la i guess.

majority of this week was spent in school prepping for law camp, and the ordeal has left me with zillions of mosquito bites! law fac feels so dirty and musty now what with all the stuff we're pulling out of store rooms, and that coupled with those mosquito bites, have left me feeling rather disgruntled :/

guess yesterday was a rather badddd day, was just feeling rather irritated with everthing and i guess other people's moods really do influence you.

anyhowwww i hope law camp will be fun!

2006-06-23T00:41:00.000+08:00

blogging is getting rather tiresome, but wellllll i've got nothing much to do right now at 1242 AM, so here goes.

anyway, i'm feeling surprisingly rather perky despite a measly 5-hour sleep last night, i think its one of the most important lessons that uni life teaches you--to sleep less and still function like a sane human being (i think).

anyhow, we celebrated dolly's birthday in school yesterday HAPPY 20TH!! hope you had a good day yesterday! hung around in school a bit for land tele dry run (which i hope will be fun! hahaa vested interest you seeee), then headed to bukit timah plaza for lunch with the rest. we had good ol pizza hut haha it was so reminiscent of those secondary-jc school days, it was like being caught in limbo when i was there yest with the law people.

after lunch, wei charm charred and i, er, joined the guys for a bit of soccer. obviously we didn't do much la, and trust me when i say soccer should never be a mixed sport. haha. but the guys were realllyyy nice to us, but we felt so bad cos we were really cramping their game la :/ and after that fiasco of a soccer game, charm charred darryl 2daniels elan edward and i played a bit of tennis. it felt good to play under the sun (though we weren't really engaging in the sport laaa) esp since i haven't been under the sun for goodness knows how long!!

anyway, the hols are reallly zooming by me, i feel like i haven't accomplished anything AT ALL!! so much for setting those goals to learn blahblah and blah SHUCKS i knew this would happen :( and my room is still in a mess, my notes (even from those sls days) are still lying around, and i have absolutely NO impetus to clear them up! looking at those thick stacks of notes is enough to bore and kill.

AND i have no time to do anything else already cos its law camp, HK, internship coming up. SO MUCH FOR THE (APPARENTLY) LONG 3 MONTH BREAK!!!!

ok enough of this ranting, i'm off to sleep. i have a lot of random photos in my phone but i'm too sian to upload them, so i shall whet your appetite (pun intended!) with just 1 photo!

i hate to eat these capsicums, but they make for a really appetising looking picture!

2006-06-18T23:38:00.000+08:00

backk in the tech-sphere after a short hiatus, i dont really have much to say (and which i do not think you'd be interested in hearing either) so i shall leave you with some photos of the last coupla days.

bernard the little cutie

try not to puke aighttt hehe

sammieee with 1 of her many groupies

them with clarence the metro-retro

at dinner earlier

the postcard my sis sent from madridddd!

chicken soup made with love: hurry come home then you can drink lah :)

anyway its almost 1am now and i'm Tired because i have had minimal sleep over the last few days so i'm gonna go sleep first, take care you all.

2006-06-13T02:07:00.000+08:00

haven't had the mood to blog recently, and the holidays are zooming by wayyy too fast :( but it has been a rather fruitful holiday, though i haven't exactly accomplished anything.....

well, not if you count precious quality time spent with oldddd friends and good meet-ups here and there :)

and happy (belated though it is) birthday to elan, may your 22nd year be a happy one, may you live the life you want for yourself.

HEHE this is for you, mr act-glam ;)

2006-06-03T15:30:00.000+08:00

In conjunction with the exhibition "STILL", the Year One Architecture Department is organizing an evening symposium on 9th June 2006, 6.30pm at the Singapore Art Museum Glass Hall. This event brings local artist, Michael Lee, architects Lee Kah Wee and Colin Seah together to rediscover, reinvent and recast the old in a new light.

Unearthing the past through the eyes of an artist, academic, and a practitioner, the symposium goes beyond the boundaries of the exhibition to provide a greater platform for discussion and exploration. The three speakers will be articulating their thoughts and visions regarding the architectural scene in Singapore, sharing critical ideas that were stemmed from a studio setting, while focusing on the renewal and relevancy of old buildings amidst our ever-changing cityscape.

**

ayee so dont say i never help you alright hahah those who are interested in going and delving a little into the whimsical world of the architects, let me know yeah. haha i should be going but i need some company!

anyway yesterday was fun! first time going to the singapore arts house, first time playing in an arcade in a loooonglooong while, totally reminded me of my childhood :)

gotta run now though i'm gonna be late! will update another time.

2006-06-02T01:10:00.000+08:00

so that day was high tea at marina mandarin:

scones and sandwiches and biscotti and nice warm tea.

edward and charmsss

the love birds heheh hope youre having fun in sydney charms!!

yos charred and myself

lan and elan

mmm pensive mood, everyone

darryl and yos the poseurs

charr and myself. have fun in e europe!!

lannnn and myself.

the train.

on the way to the cathay

its really quite a nice and dignified building.

we were trying to imitate the poster la, ok this is damn stupid. anw i wanna watch the show but everyone has either watched it already/dont wanna watch it cos they think its retarded :/

anyway life hasn't really been a bed of roses, you learn so many new things about people everyday. for example. i know i may be too demanding, too aggressive, too opinionated, too grumpy sometimes, but at least i know my flaws. some people are just so damned clueless, its rather flabbergasting. do they choose to wrap themselves up in this cocoon by choice or do they honestly believe no one can see through that paper-thin facade? it has come to a point where ignorance is no longer bliss.

and i haven't really had a rested sleep the entire week :/ i hate this feeling. which does not explain why i'm still up at 2frikkingam in the morning doing this sorta rubbish. i think i really need to get my priorities sorted out, and in more ways than once.

anddd my mum is so sweet to me, i swear if someone treated me the way my mum treats me, i'd marry that person in a heartbeat. hahaha. ok this sounds rather like oedipus, but obviously, no such complexes for me alrighttt. like just now, before i could do anything, my mum said "dont put your hands in that basin of water cos its full of bleach. i dont want your hands to become rough and the bleach will sting your skin" and so she put her own hands in and did everything for me. and she didn't even think much about it.

okkk this entry is getting a lil bit too un-bloggerish. so i shall leave you with a nice photo of the day haha

it was a GREENday, the gelato was green tea and mintchip (which was surprisingly quite a good mix)--dark green and light green, and the waitress even gave me a greeen spoon. and i was wearing a lot of green too hahah. yes this is frivolous--which is the point of this blog, really.

2006-05-27T00:51:00.000+08:00

its been a tiring few days, but at least the workshops are over and done with, at least for now. been busy running around singapore going for the alsa thing, meeting rachhhel, going to the new national library, visiting arab street and people's park (an almost-occurence, dont ask me why) and watching xmen, which was quite a fantastic show! it totally drew me into the story and i was devastated when XX died (dont wanna spoil the show for you guys la) and anyway i like this kinda superhero schtuff la.

some retarded photos up for grabs, haha:

i think therefore i am....?!!

the showercap girl

on another note, i wanna go overseas! grrrr my brother is going to sydney, my sister is going to europe and i'm stuckkkk in singapore HELP!!

anyway, sometimes i'm truly amazed by the level of patience, love and tolerance that other people possess, its truly beyond me, and i am somewhat a little ashamed to say that. and it just seems wrong how we can go back so seamlessly into our own lifestyle with nary a blink. how truly pampered, sheltered and blessed we are.

2006-05-24T00:27:00.000+08:00

i'm not a sponge who would sit there quietly and take other people's nonsense. when push comes to shove, i'll shove back just as (if not more) aggressively.

that spoilt an otherwise rather enjoyable evening.

2006-05-22T00:48:00.000+08:00

Bad Day.

1. woke up wayy early to meet troy yos charred for cycling at east coast park after a mere 6hour-long sleep :/ and they couldn't stay very long cos they had their respective family lunches :/ and my lousy bike was givng me lotsa trouble grrr!

2. my sister's stupid tuition kid played her out, so i stayed at home today for nothing (i'm supposed to take over her)

3. played mj with my sis and her friends and i lost.... :(

4. am super sleepy now but my hair needs to dry first!

5. i have another workshop tmr aaaarghhh!!!

the only silver lining? i had supper at the lagoon: yummy wanton mee, sambal sotong, hokkien mee, oh luat, satay bee hoon, chicken wings and sugar cane juice! :D

2006-05-21T01:20:00.000+08:00

back from darryl's church's service at woodlands (!!) and yummmmy supper at geylang! beef kway teow, chee cheong fun, home made barley, beancurd and you tiao! twas super crowded though and i'm realllly tired now :/

but am waiting for my hair to dry, so here goes: some photos!

hello auntie! please serve us??

nelson is really quite the cam whore...

nelson and darryl

the requisite photo of the couple darryl and charmss

edward the eating monster--he ate 2 big plates of beef kway teow, 1 bowl of beancurd, 1 can of green tea, 1 soyabean drink AND 1 you tiao. WOAH!

nelson and myself, i was having a reallly bad hair day :(

darryl trying to be funny. FAIL!!

gonna go cycling tmr at east coast park earlyyy in the morning, hope i wont be late! hope i can wake up man yikes!

2006-05-19T22:54:00.000+08:00

my gosh FINALLY the week is over! this week can probably be recorded as 1 of my most painful weeks (if not the most painful one) out of the entire 3 months holiday!

this week was workshop madness--that meant waking up at 6 everyday (from monday to friday, mind you!) and standing till about 4-5 in the afternoon and running around yelling at kids the entire day :( it was sooo torturous and painful i was really counting down the days till noon friday when my ordeal would be over :(

really lost my voice and patience handling those delinquent kids. sure there were times where you felt motivated to do more cos it seemed like you were really touching and reaching them, but so many other instances just negated those positive moments. anyhow i'm really glad that its over, the second workshop was particularly bad cos there were so few of us and so many naughty kids around and we really went craazzzzzy handling them :/

and this week was also really bad cos i kept meeting people for dinner (most under duress....) and ended up sleeping realllly late and waking up reallly early the next day for a full day workshop. (but i know no matter what i type and how sad i make myself sound, THOSE people wont feel guilty, that's how unconscionable they are! hhhahah)

so monday night when i was already feeling sniffly (insert a sad face here), i met charred elan and edward for supper at the lagoon where the guys ordered a helll lotta food. got back at 1 plus, slept at 2, woke up at 530. MMM. get the idea?

but ok la.. edward treated us to coconuts--i haven't touched those things since primary school i think!

the guys ordered a hell lotta food! and they went to get more.....

wed was dinner at little india with charred elan edward and charm. (visited wei before that in town but she was too busy sitting down to entertain us :( hahaa) we ate at this rather quaint-looking restaurant that seemed a little bit dubious at first, but the food was yummy! it was my first time eating authentic indian food so it was a rather good experience. i like naan!

we polished up alll the food!

charrr and elan

charms and edward

went to walk ard mustafa centre for abit after dinner, my first time there! ok this week was a time of many firsts and i am absolutely drop-dead tired even after napping for a while this afternoon. i need some rest relaxation and recuperation! and i'm going for a facial tmr! yippeeee :D can't wait.

okaydoke its almost 1 am already, i need some sleep else my eye rings are gonna get soo much worse!

2006-05-13T21:39:00.000+08:00

been back since thursday night, but i haven't really had the mood to blog about the KL trip. somehow i felt like i needed time to ruminate over everything that had happened, somehow i felt that if i blogged about it, the memories wouldn't be so private, so personal anymore. but anyhow, here's a photo summary of our KL-Genting trip 2006!

(too bad chrys wei dolly didn't join us!)

(the rest were extremely efficient with the uploading of photos--the photos were up the very next day! check more out at charmss and rachels!)

my camera was being screwy throughout the entire trip, hence i took v v minimal photos therefore, the photos here are courtesy of yos!

(btw, i'm too lazy to organise them in collages, so this is gonna be an extremely lengthy post!)

the very first photo of the trip--at the travel agency bright and early on monday morning.

everyone with their barang

on the bus

lan was trying to sleep and we were disturbing her haha

at the first pit stop with ramly burgers:

she was hungry and had nothing to eat...

hosuefly sunglasses

out on the streets of kl

a sign of more waiting to come for the guys while the girls shop

so they take photos to relieve their boredom

mr poseur

famous amos: yumm!

we are tired!

roomies + shoe shopping!

resting@starbucks

dinner at the ship--yummy food!

allll of us!

headed to KLCC the next day after a sumptuous breakfast at the hotel, took the monorail down which translated into a massive photo-taking frenzy.

in the hotel with charr and yos

nice post-breakfast shot

i dunno what the heck he was doing!! HAH

the two fairest faced

this is the daniel face

this is what everybody looks like after trekking damnbloodyfar in the hot sun to KLCC from the monorail station :/

dunkin donuts! (which i didn't eat :( cos when they ate them, i wasn't in the mood) + tzi char dinner which was superrr good! 25 ringgit for everything + beer + yummy durians!

off to genting!

hahaa darryl looks constipated

in genting, the guys went to the casino, the girls went shopping. quite a number of them headed down to the amusement park but i opted out. the one at berjaya times square was good enough for me, thank you very much!

had a very good dinner at the olive up in genting, the ambience was good, the company even better.

in commemoration of the many coffeejoint chilling out sessions

and the better+stronger friendships forged

KL is loveee :D

so thank you for the great trip charred rachel yos troy darryl daniel charms lan elan edward. here's to better memories together and let's move on from here together :)

2006-05-07T22:37:00.001+08:00

am gonna be offf to kl tomorrow till thursday with the law people, so wont be around these few days! till then, i'll leave you with some photos--

rach and yj at dinner that night

everyone loves birks.

the girls at church this morning!

fcbc (machiam tourists haha):

sammmm and yos

rayyy and me

them with the funky specs!

alright, am gonna go catch some fortywinks cos i gotta wake up realllly early tmr :( havent' woken up this early since secondary school days! right, hope the trip will be good, will be back with more stories and photos soon! :D

/edit: am talking to charms online now, and she's bringing THREE pairs of shoes!! aiyo. she go travelling for 4 days must bring half her wardrobe already. haha. and she just asked me HOW MANY SETS OF PJS I AM BRINGING?!!! hhahahahah. ok looks like the trip is starting on a right note heheh.

2006-05-07T01:11:00.000+08:00

i am tired! today was a looong day indeed, and i finally watched M:I:III. haha i just had to do that. anyway it was a pretty good show, compared to the previous shows, this one had much more action and wayy less plot but it was not bad lah. quite nervewracking and they had really cool tricks, i like!

and i didn't get to satiate my xiaolongbaos craving cos crystal jade was closed by the time we went :( sighhhh

anyway, this is a photo of me and my grandma!

she is a spiry 'ol 92 year old lady! i love her veryvery much, she is damn cute lahh look at her shocked face heh. she kept saying that she didn't know where to look because she never saw a camera phone before so she was wondering wth i was doing grabbing her and all hahhaah :)

2006-05-04T12:47:00.000+08:00

/editted: photos added, courtesy of weiiii!

exams are over, but somehow i dont feel as exhilarated as i thought i'd feel. the exams didn't end with a bang, instead it fizzled out and ended with a tiny whimper. the paper yesterday was Bad. i was shaking my head already when i saw the first question :( but nvm, at least its all over now.

yesterday night was zouk with the girls + darryl, it was so blooody crowded, felt a bit claustrophobic at times, so the night was interfused with sessions of sitting outside zouk, watching little dramas, in their own right, unfold before our eyes.

bright lights at 3am.

us and them and everybody else

them loooopy loop!

and today. woke up tired, but unable to sleep further. my parents are having lunch with their respective friends at swanky places, my sister is shopping her life away in hk, my brother is er.. enjoying school and i am at home on this bright sunny afternoon.

right. shall go make something more of my life.

(what a sad dreary post, right after the exams even!)

2006-05-02T22:50:00.000+08:00

contract in err.. 14 hours? thereabouts. been busy planning what im gonna do after tmr's paper I CANT FREAKKKKING WAIT! haa i guess in a perverse way, the prolonged waiting has made me treasure the free time/holiday i'll have after the exam. and i'm not gonna waste it man.

but i feel so lazy to get down to doing so many things, ie learning driving; doing something more productive--like clearing my room or packing my stuff or learning something new. SOO many people have bugged me to learn driving its quite insane hahah i dont understand why! but i feel damnn sian thinking abt the trip down to the driving centre on a regular basis...... procrastination and laziness will be my downfall, i'll bet.

anyway. quiz-time!

Four jobs you've had in your life
1. relief teaching at a crazy neighbourhood school
2. giving english tuition which was blooodyboring
3. waitressing (where the boss sucked like crazy)
4. errr being my mum's child. haha.

4 movies you could watch over and over
1. V for vendetta! best movie experience ever :D
2. troy
3. spiderman
4. lord of the rings

4 TV shows you love(d) to watch
1. desperate housewives
2. friends
3. err i dont watch much tv leh :/

4 places you've lived
1. east coast
2. bedok
3. kentridge hall
4. errr mount e for 1 month? haha when i was born.

4 places you've been on vacation to
1. ausssie
2. shanghai
3. hk
4. suddenly i realise my family didn't really go on many trips tog, everyones too busy with their own schtuff lah :/

4 places you would rather be
1. on a beach/by the pool suntanning
2. shopping (preferably overseas!)
3. running by the beach at ecp
4. having coffee with/meeting and talking to rayyy

4 of your favourite foods
1. sushi--i love jap food!
2. bittergourd soup (the only thing my mum knows how to make properly hahah)
3. mushroom soup
4. jellybeans!!!!!
(on a sidenote, i dont really prawn mee but i've got a craving for the famous beachrd prawn me now :( sighh)

4 websites you visit daily
1. my blog
2. gmail
3. hotmail
4. errr rayy's/wei's/charred's blog

4 tagged
(pls do this kay? otherwise i'l feel paiseh hahah)
1. charmsss (this is to relive your blog-once-in-a-bluemoon-blog)
2. darryl
3. sammieee
4. anhua (haha pls humour me?? i know you'd prob hate this kinda thing hahhaa)
5. jan--added 1 more cos this is 50-50 haha so not counted. (if you still have a blog, and if you still read this, i dunno where you disappeared to!)

okkk good luck for the paper tmr guys!

2006-05-02T13:03:00.000+08:00

i'm back to upload the photos of last night!

here goes

with their masterpiece--the marinated chicken

daniel pretending to be useful in the kitchen haha

yumm the very succulent chicken!

i set the table! hahaa

i forced him to wash the rice pot cos i already washed the dishes haha and he kept whining about it

the 3 guys studyingggg

ok i'm off to eat lunch now and hopefully do some contract later sighhhhhhh :/

2006-05-01T23:19:00.000+08:00

i am sitting here blogging while the 3 guys study contract at the dining table and charms is off in her little bubble somewhere reading about remedies for the average joe who was the victim of a breach of a contract. shucks how mundane this life is. but welll i'm feeling rather cosy and comfy right now, slouched back against the cushions, legs up, with a cup of rose-raspberry-strawberry tea next to me. this is the life indeed. i am a person of simple delights and easy pleasures.

this evening, darryl very kindly invited us to dinner at his place cos he wanted to cook for us. so we sat down to dinner, with his specialty--grilled (i think?) chicken. it was really prettty good, no wonder he's so proud of it. hahaa. so the other 2 guys attempted to help prepare our dinner and twas quite funny, like having 2 bulls in the china shop. ok some photos of their work!

.... erm okay. i cant seem to upload the photos :/ i'll be back to upload the photos! almost midnight and the guys dont seem like they're gonna leave anytime soon aargh helppppp!! i'm imprisoned here :(

2006-04-30T23:34:00.000+08:00

damnn i'm really the stupidest person around, i accidentally closed this window just now so everything i typed and all the photos i uploaded earlier are all gone. SHIT :( gotta re do everything again. arrgh.

anyway, what i was whining about earlier (you shld be thankful youre spared from hearing most of it, since i can't be bothered to retype everythign) was that i'm sick of studying (yes whats new) and i get damn sleeeepy whenever i look at my notes :( sigh even the most inane things seem so much mroe appealing in comparison. and i barely did anything today, cos the better part of the afternoon and evening was burnt attending some briefing sigghhh!!!!! just cant wait for the exams to be over, 3rd may hurry hurry come please?

photos:

the hair-pulling, brain-numbing crim experience at elans place:

HAHA charms looks damn cute! we were all just damnnn frustrated and irritated that night, hence the look on everyone's faces. haha.

ok ever since i came home, i've been blogsurfing and busy going online chatting to people aaarghhh :(

2006-04-29T17:03:00.000+08:00

got back a while ago from lunch at holland v with the bunch, so crim is finallyyy over!! yay. 1 more paper to go :( i dunno why our exams end so late, i dunno if i'd rather have more time to study (but more waiting time to agonise over) or less time to study but to end earlier. yikes :(

and after my papers i always feel so brain dead :/ sigh. damn damn damn sian to start studying aaaarghh!!

2006-04-28T00:38:00.000+08:00

shite lah, crim is freaking killing the hell outta me, it has reduced me to an extremely irritable person who needs someone patient to explain all the bloody confusing cases and provisions to me and who has no more brain juice left to type coherently so that you can understand what i am talking about. but seriously. spent half a day in the library today studying common intention common object abement (wtf is the difference between them?!!!!) and then charm edward and i headed to elan's house to discuss crim, where we almost went mad discussing and finding so many loopholes in the law and getting thoroughly confused befuddled bewildered and completely wringed out at the end of it. and i still feel so dannned bloody confused after everything aargh the cases are screwed up!

anyway i feel like i'm gonna die of brain exhaustion, i cant think anymore, good night.

2006-04-25T17:40:00.000+08:00

wanted to blog last night but blogger was being cranky :/ anyway, 1 paper is finally over--legal theory. but obviously the jubilation was more keenly felt yesterday, cos today is back to the humdrum of notes, books and more legalese. yikes :( as i told charm, i wanna be rid of this life, but she very unkindly pointed out that this is what we're gonna be facing for the rest of our life....... morbid thought aint it.

anyway, yesterday, we all felt damn happy after legal theory was over, machiam the entire exams over like that, so all twelve of us headed down to tea party for some afternoon tea and scones! (ok la actually we didn't eat scones but it just sounds nice putting it together right, like acting upper crust and having english tea and scones like old fuddlyduddly grandmas and grandpas heheheh ok ignore me, ive been stuck facing dreaded crim all day!!!)

we had oooodles of fun at tea party, laughing and talking and chatting, really almost like the exams were over already, but anyway, it was nice getting away from talk of section 300c and finnis and dworkin and blahblah, and laughing, screaming and shrieking at the most inane things.

and so today its back to the penal code and section 300, 304 etcetc..... :(

2006-04-24T22:16:00.000+08:00

legal theory is finally over! hahaha one measly paper over and we were quite happy, quite ridiculous aye heh. but at least this marks the start of the exams, hope they'll fly past us and be over v v v v quickly!

anyway twelve of us headed down to the tea party@sixth avenue for some afternoon tea after legal theory to mini-celebrate the end of 1 paper! it was great fun, us laughing and talking like we had no more exams to worry about (yah righttt), and much excited planning about KL! there's gonna be THIRTEEN (!!!) of us heading to KL together gosh it's gonna be damn hectic but fun (i hope!).

haven't done any work AT ALL today, machiam got no more exams after 1 paper is over, and crim is up next arrrgh, considering who my teacher is, i've got some serious cause for concern :/

alrightt gonna sleep early tonight, am feeling a bit ill :(

2006-04-22T14:59:00.000+08:00

reading legal theory makes me feel like sleeping, even after i just got up, my eyes just close involuntarily while i'm sitting at my table! :( and when i'm doing other rubbish like watching tv/going online, i wake up automatically! aiyo.

anwww my stomach hurts like shit la aarghh.

exam on monday, once it starts, it'll go by very fast (i hope!) and not in a bad way, please.

so many people i know have finished their exams its NOT FAIR!!

aarrgh.

2006-04-19T23:02:00.000+08:00

am gonna blog then sleeeep!! been so tired and cranky lately :/

anyway, i think the slug-snail thing is really spreading far and wide and getting a bit out of hand. i purposely omitted talking about it previously because whats the point of it? i think its rather childish to keep harping on it because in my opinion, it really isn't the widely held opinion of law students that we think we're so elitist and mightier than thou. if that was the case, we law students would be very lonely people no? ostracised by all stratas of society just because of the nature of our future occupation.

but obviously that isn't the case, because oh-so-coincidentally, i have friends from arts and archi and blahblah (insert any school/fac here) tagging on my tagboard in complete good faith (yes that was a pun! oooh getting literature-ish here eh, might be the influence of some arts in my life...), i can assure you.

so just treat the article/the labelling as what it is, something to have a laugh about, no point getting into a tizzy about it.

oh and as a sidenote, the reason why law students get so annoyed with snails occupying the library is because it leaves us fatter slugs with nowhere to study! especially if you consider how very little classrooms/quiet space we have at our disposal in the faculty, plus we only have one little library for the entire population of law school. understand the disgruntlement then, when we see snails in the library AND making a hell lot of noise, thereby disrupting our study? take a step back and look at the entire matter objectively, perhaps then, you'll find that this entire argument is rather silly. and to think that it managed to get 20++ years old students in university up in hackles. mmmmm.

on another note, further proof that legal theory is invading everybody's lives: at least THREE people on my msn list have got puns of legal philosophers as their nicknames! haha.

alright, off to sleep, take a chill pill guys!

2006-04-18T16:27:00.000+08:00

so last night we (darryl daniel charm lan charred edward and me) went to seah street deli@raffles hotel for dinner in celebration of daniel's (yes he got a double celebration, the greedy boy) and darryl's impending birthday. the food there was reallly good, much better than the stuff we had at hooters last week! the ambience was really quaint as well, it had the whole old-school american feel, complete with a jukebox even. we even shared an oreo milkshake that was yummmy, i really do wanna go back there again!

elan came later with a cake so we left for esplanade, where we cut the cake for the two birthday boys, so we sang birthday songs for them and went through the whole cake-cutting routine again. heh, i like traditions, as surprising as that may sound. and the 8 of us finished up the entire cake from secret recipe!! (and you know how humnogous those cakes are.....) darryl had the biggest slice (which was about twice or thrice even!, the size of a normal slice of cake) and he really ate until he wanted to puke. hehehe. oh, that wasn't meant to be evil, it was just that it was rather amusing hearing him plead with us to let him stop eating it. hehheh. (but he had to finish it what.. it was his birthday cake!!)

anyway. we milled around for quite a while at the waterfront, following which, we went to sit down at gluttons bay cos some of them wanted a drink. got home pretty later and rather zonked.

and today's a drearydreary day once again! and i am happy cos i like rainy days when i'm indoors, feeling safe and protected where the rain can't get me!

darryl and charm at lunch, they pose for pictures damn automatically hahahaa

THIS IS THE SUPERPANDA WHICH IS DAMN RARE!! heheh i found it yest while eating my hello panda and i got rather excited. you must look out for it when you eat your hello panda!

daniel and charredd posing with the menu

lan and myself

chatting chatting.

edward the food eating monster and me

whats up with the tension, birthday boys??

issit because darryls in a bad mood cos charm has a new boyfriend hmmm?

so he has nothing else to do, but to act cheeeky in front of the camera hahah!

but of course they're soon back to their loveydovey self heheh

but of course, there were other people present that night too...

charred and me with the daniel face

charrred

we started taking photos again cos the guys started talking about crim...

and the last photo of the day: the 2 birthday boys with their strawberry cheesecake.

ok enough of this, back to reading dear old hart.

2006-04-15T23:39:00.000+08:00

i'm feeling a bit sick now, and i've no idea why. to combat the rebellious germs, i drank 3 bottles of water today and my favourite jjherbaltea haha. eating my brother's gummybears now though.. i love them, and jellybeans. they make studying so much more tolerable.

anyway, on thurs night, we went out for dinner to hooters@clarke quay to celebrate daniel's birthday. his girlfriend couldn't celebrate with him, so we very kindly offered to, so that he wouldn't have to spend a lonely birthday all with his poor own self! hehe. my poor phone had very low battery though, so i couldn't take any photos :( what poor timing right, and worse of all, i couldn't take daniel doing the hulahoop in the middle of hooters!! DANG.

adjourned to tcc after, where we had a very enjoyable talk about more consequential topics than just merely that of other people and the hottest gossip in town. twas rather refreshing!

i promised daniel i wouldn't put this up but err. its damn funny lah!! so it justifies everything:)

edward and me in the library.

i wanted to take more photos of that day but my phone let me down :( anyway i took one hour to type this cos i was talking to people and cos of my LOUSY internet connection!! its almost 1 now yikes!! gotta wake up early tmr somemore for church. anyhow, happy easter everyone!

2006-04-13T00:22:00.000+08:00

went for dinner that night with the tg and ewong at this cafe on arab street. pls do not ever go there. the ambience was quite nice at first, very traditional and authentic middle-eastern kinda restaurant. we sat on carpets and leaned against embroided cushions, with long flowing curtains surrounding us, billowing gently in the wind. sounds good? now throw in a humid night, sweaty people on carpets which err soaked up the sweat, a prevalent musty smell, incense which made you feel giddy, food which had been cooked with a liberal helping of spices, diluted curry, and weird rose-petaled rice and what do you get? a not-so-enjoyable dinner. hahah. no la, it wasn't that bad, the company was good, but the food was quite a let down.

anyhow, photos ahead!

a very quaint looking arab street

so mysterious looking ah!!

daniel ruishan lester

alan and daniel. the place looks so colonial right, what the white washed verandah and all.

with alan and daniel

them discussing i dunno what!

ruishan siewmen faezah

me and the gay best friend, after eating, he looks damn fat and self-satisfied right HAHAAH

free palestine! on the back of the menu.

okok damn unglam, at dinner just now :/

charred and her 'daniel face'

charred and her classic face. she added all that stuff on my phone! never knew my phone could do so many things heh

oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEl!! may your 22nd year be a blessed one!

everybody say hello to the birthday boy:

HAHAH he's gonna kill me :S

okok a nicer photo.

here's to a better year ahead for you, my moot-partner/friendwhotakesinallmyshit/GAYBESTFRIEND! hahaha

2006-04-11T00:05:00.000+08:00

what a topsy turvy day today was.

sometimes people put on such a strong front, and act so much like they dont need people around them, but really, how far away is that from reality. i dont expect friends to be there for me all the time, i try not to dump my emotional baggage on them, and sometimes i act moodily cos i just want them to be genuinely concerned about my mental state of mind and for it to come from within, and not for it to merely be a gratuitous enquiry.

i try not to expect too much, but in spite of this, reality falls way below my expectations.

i dont like people to take me for granted, i dont like people to exploit me and i hate for people to expect that i'd be able to tolerate everything simply because i let things slide pretty often, not wanting to kick up a fuss over little things. this is indeed the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

and i suppose everyone's busy with their own little things now, out of sight, out of mind. i can talk to most people about most things on a very superficial level, but how many of them can actually claim to know me beyond all that, and to know what i'm thinking beneath all that laughter and teasing about inconsequential matters?

how much really, do your supposed friends value this friendship? and how much are they willing to put into it, would it be as much as what you gave?

have you been a lousy friend?

2006-04-09T23:52:00.000+08:00

rayy came down to nus with me that day to study mmm so what do we do when we get bored of studying??

take more shots to add to the already-very-large collection of both of us!

act cute.

show how unglam we look with messy hair all entirely attributed to the exams, if you please.

eat my gay best friend cos i'm feeling hungry from all that studying.

take as many photos as possible.

anyway, i'm feeling a bit sick right now, must be all that criminal law jargon flitting through my head:/

2006-04-08T01:10:00.000+08:00

today was a fantastic day! what started off terribly ended on a fantastically high note :)

so after the usual studying in school, charm darryl and i headed down to great world city, met rayyy and watched v for vendetta!!! it was fantabulous! really. it was so thought-provoking and all the phrases used, cliched as they were, suited the entire mood of the movie. plus, V was so confident and charismatic and smooth and witty, i likee! and his self-sacrificial role, knowing that his end had come, and he didn't ask for anything more, was so touching, plus his softer side that was revealed as the movie wore on. very cool lah, the show. esp all the twists and turns to it:)

fantastic movie, fantastic ambience, fantastic company!i finally met up with rayy after such a long time and it was great talking to her again. i love how i can tell her absolutely everything and how we complete each other's sentences.

and since i felt a bit nostalgic, i did this!!

people who matter to me. here's to more kodak moments :]

2006-04-07T08:54:00.000+08:00

AARGH I AM DAMN PISSED OFFF!!!

came to school bright and early but i stupidly stupidly left my dumb damned phone in the car. i realised it very soon after, so i tried looking for familiar faces to borrow a phone from, but there was NONE! and all the law snobs looked so unapproachable that even i was fazed. asked the librarian for a phone but they pointed to me a damn payphone which needed a PHONECARD, who the blooody hell carries a phonecard around in this day and age?!!! ran back to the library to ask to borrow their phone but they told me to find this elusive payphone on the 2nd/3rd level, adn she couldn't even tell me exactly where it was!!

and while in the canteen (to use the payphone which couldn't even be used), i asked pple if they had a damned phone card (too paiseh to borrow the phone, wait they think i some phone thief), they just flatly said no, without a thought to my desperate demeanour and the fact that i OBVIOUSLY needed a phone. ALL THESE BLOODY INCONSIDERATE UNDERGRADS who have their noses far too high up in the sky and cannot even be bothered to lend a helping finger to those clearly in need. to think that these people will soon become the movers and shakers of singapore. blooody fucking hell la.

luckily i ran into a classmate and she veryvery kindly lent me her phone. BUT by the time i called my mum, she was already halfway home. terrible daughter though i am, i wasn't about to make her come back la.

but anyway i am damn fucking pissed off, pissed off cos this thing wouldnt' have happened if not cos of my stupidity, pissed off cos the people ard me are so damn bloody unhelpful and irritating, pissed off cos it just spoilt my entire day. ARGH. and pissed off cos this damn bloody annoying girl just disturbed me on msn. AAARGHHHH

2006-04-06T18:05:00.000+08:00

am supposed to study but i'm damnnn sian of reading stupid crim :/ so, i spend my time doing stupid rubbish, like this:

at newton that day!

rachel with her present and edward with his book

oh in school before going down to newton, darryl and daniel had an arm-wrestling competition, which, surprise of surprises, daniel won!!! (look at his face, he was screaming in agony and pain during the comp haha!)

me kamini chrys in school

anddd the highlight of this post:

my specialty! taking offf photos of people HAHA!

all of us were badgering wei to look v pitiful and sad so we cld take an off photo of her, so she's supposed to look victimised here. haha. oh and thats kamini!

anyway it soo doenst feel like the exams are coming! and in less than 3 weeks! goodness gracious me.

2006-04-06T01:01:00.000+08:00

its been a busy busy week thus far, though its only the middle of the week! yikes. pris has been as busy as a bumblebee! HAHA excuse the lameness, i've been having a penchant for alliteration lately, no idea why :/ just take a look at my msn nicks. HAH.

anyway, yesterday all 12 of us headed down to newton to celebrate rachel's belated birthday and edward's impending one! we had yummmy seafood, coupled with the loads of other things, including CHARRRREDD'S heartlanderish cockles that she and daniel polished up, which ended up in them having remnants of blood and other raw miscellaneous bits of the cockles on their chins, everybody now: EWWW!! haha. but the way they ate it was really damn funny, and to give them some credit, it was quite nice lah. though you gotta immerse it in lotsa chilli and the half-raw cockle oozes blood and is rather crunchy, so it was a bit disgusting eating it. but anyway. ok. lets move on to more pleasant things.

yes we had a lot of fun at newton, cockles or no, coupled with a massive phototaking session. i didn't take that many pictures la, and i'm a bit lazy to upload them, so look to wei's blog ya!

after which, all of us headed down to bukit merah safra for some bowling. it was fun and damnnn funny to see some pple bowl. esp wei. HAHA i wish i had taken a video of it, she lumbers towards the line, then she squats down and flings the ball away from her at a damn weird angle. haha. and she actually managed to hit the pins (and even get a strike) :/ anyway a few of them bowled really well, like lan and rachel haha they were the dark horses, from like <50 points to above 100. wth righ. haha. we bowled till pretty late, i was so zonked out after that, what with a whole long day of lessons.

oh and i finally went to the tea party today after hearing rave reviews about it from lotsa people. yummy scones and apple crumble they have there, go try!

alright this is rather disjointed la but i'm soo tired (ok whats new) i really need to go and sleep now.

2006-04-04T00:06:00.000+08:00

i had quite an enjoyable weekend, though it left me with rather obvious battle scars ie. badbadbad complexion and perpetual tiredness :/

anyway it doesnt' feel like the exams are coming!! in fact, they're barely 3 weeks away!! YIKES. i dunno why, but everybody around me seems to be rather laidback and i'm barely aware that the exams have insidiously creeped up on me. damn you!

yet another failed attempt today to sleep early :(

2006-03-31T11:38:00.000+08:00

making the most out of a gloomy wednesday afternoon

charred and her under-the-sea theme ;)

my phone comes in very handy indeed.

2006-03-31T02:57:00.000+08:00

I CANT BELIEVE I'M STILL AWAKE. AWAKE BECAUSE OF THIS SHITE:

(sigh)

photos taken at moots. i look horrible in some of them la but i am TOO TIRED to sieve those out so i'm juat gonna dump them all here.

presenting the jazz pianist cum walking freak show: jon lau hahaa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL!!

hah wei's offf photo that she refused to put on her blog!!!

hope you had a great day!

anyway today wasn't a very good day on the whole, but a good yummy dinner with very satisfying company + my favourite watermelon juice at the end of it all made it palatable in the end.

i'll talk about it another time.

for now, i reallyreally need to sleep. i guess the only silver lining is that ive no class tomorrow.

p/s rainy day photos up soon. i was uploading halfway then it died!! i am TOO tired and TOO angry to do it again so i shall try another time. good night and good bye.

2006-03-30T00:02:00.000+08:00

went to school today. twas raining while we were confined in the lawlib, and when charred and i came outta the library, it was a reallyreally nice and comforting sight. like being enveloped in a not-so-warm haven that was the library, on a cold afternoon, watching the heavens cry its heart out. it would have been perfect if we had a cup of hot cappuccino before us, and we would sit at the sofas and watch the rain come pitter-pattering down.

i like rain. when i'm not caught in it.

on another note,

sometimes things change for a reason, and so many intangible reactions are set off, often unknowingly.

i wish i could rewind a coupla things and fast-forward some others.

guess we're never ever satisfied huh?

2006-03-28T23:21:00.000+08:00

here's what i've been busy with:

4 law students trying valiantly to figure how to fit charneozers face into the viewfinder

obviously not very successfully. her face too big laaaaa

finally! thanks to lansss very long arms haha!

so since my phone camera now is not too shabby, be prepared for more photos on my blog in time to come. and more shots of your future lawyers-to-be who will be the ones shaping YOUR future, moulding YOUR nation in time to come. hmm.

2006-03-28T01:47:00.000+08:00

helppp i dunno if i shld go to school tmr:/ aaaargh.

2006-03-28T00:00:00.000+08:00

so the MOOOOTS are over :) and finally tg 1, 13, 14 and 18 (? not sure ooops) can lay bandwagon, allegro, holden and casper to rest.

it has been a very tiring but rewarding journey i think. no matter how tough the going got, we knew we had each other going through the same pitiful fate and it just made accepting everything so much more palatable. but lawr and moots had its fun moments la, and thank you tg1 for helping out with one another's arguments when the need arose. i believe we got through this with the each other's support, physical and emotional :)

though our tg ain't very close, but i believe we have forged a tangible bond, spending so much time discussing blooody !@#!$@%#$ allegro and casper, spending so much time in the lawr classroom (some trying invariably not to fall asleep) and stressing out together about memo deadlines and helping each other out whenever we could. indeed, i am always touched and amazed by the show of solidarity and helpfulness displayed, the willingness to share research and information and the common moans and whines about lawr. at the end of it all though, i'm sure we're all astounded at how far we have come, how much we have improved, and how much we have learnt, academic and non-academic wise.

and a BIIIG thank you especially to my moooot partner, daniel. thank you for putting up with my bouts of insecurity and panic attacks, thank you for tolerating my mood swings and my damn mean remarks to you sometimes (:/) and thank you for always always being there for me. thank you for criticising my argument and talking it through with me, and thank you for being yourself :) we made it through, mr daniel CAI, representing the appellants:)

and also a just as big thank you to lanssss. luckily you did the same issue, i am eternally grateful for that little miracle hehh. thank you for always volunteering new information to help our case, for always pointing new arguments and new points, and for being so willing to share the information with me. thanks for criticising my argument and being so biatchy during questioning and making me feel like slapping you heheh, thank you for making my argument so much sounder and i do believe we make a great team heheh. and thanks for always watching out for me as welll :)

oh dear i dont have a photo of both of us alone in my phone, wait till i get the other pics from daniel kay! (oh btw that's our partners--daniel and lester!)

ok to make up for it, that's us at the zoo a while back

aiyo what a loong post, more photos ahead to make up for it!

lan daniel me elan

with our co-operating tg pple: shawn, wei, chrys, thanks for helping us with our arguments!!

with darryl before moots, after legal theory!

charmss and me! good luck for you mooots on wed!

joseph and lann

daniel and elan

navinn

weiiiii

anyhow i'm really glad today went fine. we had a massive phototaking session after legal theory at the law lobby, where everyone was just snapping away like nobody's business. heh. any opportunity to take photos right haha. too bad my phone ran outta battery and i had to depend on daniel's camera for the rest of the day. so coming up: MORE (that's not always a good thing) shots of us fooling around in the old supreme court and acting lawyerly hahaha

had tea with the 2 opposing counsels before our moots: joseph and jonlau! i'm really glad we had such a good working/non-working relationship with them, it made the entire moots so much more relaxed and non-competitive. and we were stressing out tog before moooots, twas quite fun la actually, thinking back abt it.

our tg (sorry to those who didn't know! our lines of communication not v effective :/) had dinner with the opposing tg and a coupla others who came down, at brewerkz. quite fun la, and a lot of yr1s went there as well after their moots so it was a time of seeing a lot of familiar faces.

alright, its almost 1am now. so much for sleeping early. i haven't read crim yet. and i need a good night's rest after last night's un-fitful sleep. yikes :/

2006-03-24T23:47:00.000+08:00

i'm frikkkkking tired :(

no more adrenaline rush to keep up with the lack of sleep, and my brain is really shutting down on me.

been caught up with lawr this entire week, at the expense of everything else. though i dont feel like i was very productive or that my arguments improved substantially :/ everything just feels so screwed up la. aaaargh. yes, that was a very disgruntled roar.

everyone seems to be going through a hard time now, i think its the stress of moots and having to live up to your own expectations and all that jazz.

but everything seems so pointless though. sigh.

and on the surface, everything is fine, but hey, still waters run deep.

and i bought a new phone on wed, but not unexpectedly, seeing as how my luck has been going, my phone had to conk up on me on the second day of ownership. fantastic. had to go down today again to change it. shiteass luck you know?

aiyarh i cant be bothered with this already.

2006-03-23T01:46:00.000+08:00

i guess, despite the unearthly hours i sleep at nowadays, the insane amount of readings i gotta do, the long dawdling hours spent in the freezing cold lawlibrary, the useless contract lectures that i drag myself to, the never-ending amount of work, the stress of deadlines and writing properlycoherentlypersuasively, the stress of meeting your own and the expectations of others, lawsch has been treating me alright. hhhaha. really. i guess all the perils of being in such a course have been accepted by most of us, and we're all just really trying to make the best out of everything.

i supppose i'm quite contented in this little insular bubble of mine, hah.

ok la i'm too tired to think anymore, so that's all the gibberish i can come up with for tonight.

2006-03-17T23:35:00.000+08:00

what a tiring week its been, i can barely remember what i did yesterday, let alone a whole week back. anyway i'm suffering from major sleep deficiency, i've been sleeping soo little this week! considering i need at least 8 hours of sleep every night laa. been busy with lawr and moots and legal theory and and and, aiyah work is always never ending :/

i feel like im getting a miniscule taste of what my life will be like next time, no time for anything :(

so even when the moots end, and lawr is over, there'll be the exams to look forward to. hurray. i can't hardly wait for this sem to be over, then its 3 full months of holidays!

oh, i just read lavan's blog, i suppose he's right, i dont wanna get too caught up in work either and just let my life in lawsch slip past me like that. cos no matter how much i whine about the workload, i'd definitely rather be here studying than out in the workforce eking out a living. and i suppose the friends around me more than make up for the angst incurred from being here :) heh. i guess ultimately, i'm happy being here (in a way) and i dont think i (neither would i allow myeslf to) regret choosing this path.

anyway, lotsa birthdays coming up in april! can have a nice celebrationn after the moooots are over!

feeling a lot cheerier now, good luck for the rewrite!

2006-03-12T21:24:00.000+08:00

i feel like the angsty part of my life is over, at least for now. so even though i have much work staring at me in the face, i dont feel very stressed la. surprisingly.

i guess we should really be thankful for all the little blessings that we have in our life. dont be so demanding and take so many things for granted, okay?

like being able to have brunch with an old friend at siglap, like making the time to go for church and seeing the cellies, like finally having homecooked food for dinner (not like my mum's a fantastic cook, mind you, but its the thought and warmth that goes behind cooking for one's own family), like being able to eat red bean soup for dessert!

oh anyway i haven't prepared my argument for lawr tomorrow yikes!

am gonna do that soon, but before that, i'm off to eat my yummmy homemade red bean soup!!

2006-03-08T23:33:00.000+08:00

i'm sooo efffing tired, though i didn't even do much today.

so our sentosa plans fell through (obviously) and we ended up spending the day in school studying, or rather attempting to study. our short lunch break ended up being a 3 hour long crazzzy break, it was mad la. our conversation and the things we said, it was mad fun, and all of us laughed like crazy, i think we made enough noise for the entire canteen to hear. strange how all this always happens when the exams near, it sorta feels like an escapist route to avoid having to think about the upcoming exams.

anyway moots are nearing, yet i haven't been doing much to prepare for it or anything, i feel a bit insecure and paranoid about it, but i can't seem to find the impetus to do something for it.

that's the problem with studying now la, i sppose. i dont feel the zest nor the passion for whatever i'm doing or learning now. i used to possess that energy for learning and absorbing new information, but that was really in the past. i guess this apathy stemmed from my completely lackadaisical attitude about entering law in the first place. or maybe its just the result of having been put through 12 rigorous years of the education system, that has resulted in a cant-be-bothered attitude towards studying.

whatever the case, i do feel that this situation is rather sad, and totally deplorable. i need to regain that zest for learning, whether its for the sake of my results or for my own need to feel satisfied and happy about what im' doing now.

i wonder if i'd have been happier doing mass comm in ntu sometimes hehheh, i know this is rather irrelevant and silly, and jan, whose blog is forever going on about some project or the other, would probably think i'm crazy but, you know, there are just so many what-ifs in life. though i traditionally hate going down that road.

been rather emo, whiny and angsty this weeek, sorry to those who had to put up with it. i resolved to be less so this sem, and its been working out rather well, hasn't it? (cept for the few errant times)

anyway i took almost an hour to type this cos i was talking to misc people yikes its past midnight, gotta sleep!

2006-03-06T13:31:00.000+08:00

dunno why i'm blogging so much now also.. i'm just damn bored.

you wont believe where i am man.. i'm at the blooody fly-mosquito-ant infested bench in the midst of some lousy garden near lawfac. cos everywhere else is taken up GRRRR.

anyway i think my hair makes me look and feel more ahlian :/

damn sick and tired of preparing for lawrrr, i hope i dont hafta present later! haven't even prepared what i wanna say yet yikes.

and i've a feeling the upcoming week is gonna be baddd, i feel like the week hasn't begun on a very good note.

damn sian of school and EVERYTHING ELSE.

2006-03-04T21:08:00.000+08:00

i know i've been blogging way too much recently, but recent events leave me with no other choice cos i've simply gotta rant here.

i dyed my hair earlier in the afternoon today and its damneffing BAD!! :(

its red and its too bright and i meant for it to be streaks but the stupidwoman dyed the entire front part of my head?!! so my fringe and all the surrounding area is BRIGHT RED. fantastic shite man. :( i'm damn sad cos i think its hideous aaaarghhhh

i dont wanna go out anymore :(

2006-03-04T12:24:00.000+08:00

we took a hell load of photos when we were at smooo yesterday and i figure i should put them up la.. relieve the doomandgloom atmosphere of this blog.

all photos courtesy of rach! we were really being damn touristy ard smu hhah thank goodness yos and i wont be going back anytime soon!

first few sillly shots

silly shots

we made a trip to the library just to take photos.. hahaha

in the libraryy

thats me trying to act like i owned the place hahaha

... i know

dont ask me what we were doing.. anw i like the bottom right photo!

pre-requisite smu jump shot.. ok we were being damn fakos :/

dinner at billybombers, good food good convo. ohh the milkshake there is a must-try, its really damn nice!

/edit: more photos added, cos rachh just sent the photos to me!

i like this photo, i think its hilarious :)

like the triumvirate haha

among the shelves haha

yoss and me!

2006-03-04T01:19:00.000+08:00

sometimes i think we should really be thankful for the things that we have, and the experiences (however shitty we think they are at that point in time) that we go through because, really, it is all a matter of relativity, and hey, some people do not even have the ability to feel the way we do.

and sometimes all your bigger-than-thou issues are really so inconsequential in the light of everything else.

lets not get too caught up in silly mind games, politicking, and all that senseless sensitivity issues aightt.

its really all just relative, aint it.

today was a rather emo day, too many things for miss pris to deal with in one day!

(hit me when i'm down, wont you)

but it ended rather nicely with a good dinner, good conversation, good shopping and a good trip home.

though the night was rather disrupted by the familiar guilt trip,

but hey thanks for listening :)

mmm i know this is rather cryptic but aiyarr i can't deal with so much emo stuff in one day.

haven't done much work this entire week, i think i really should get cracking and do something productive over the weekend. gotta play catchup!

and i should really sleep more, i think i'm looking more and more haggard everyday :( and everyone commented on how pale and bleaghh i looked today :( haha.

oh the perils of uni life.

almost 2am now, its been such a loongloong day. my head is spinning but i still feel like i've got so many things to do aargh.

2006-03-03T01:11:00.000+08:00

pre-zoo photos!

inside the zoo! what an unglam photo of me tho, but in my defence, i was damnnn tired after walking like ard 3 km:/

they paid 5 bucks to get kissed by CARLOS the sea lion with raw-fish breath hahaah check out lan's expression damn funny. and charrred-this was the highlight of her trip haha

sorry for being such a rip off but i stole the photos completely from charms blog heheh. first time she upload so quickly (anw i can't comment on your blog! do something abt it kay!) anw thanks for the photos!

soo tired i think i'm gonna die in class tmr :(

2006-03-02T00:24:00.000+08:00

today was such a tiringtiring day! but it was also a day of many novel experiences.

you will not believe what i did today, seriously, especially people who know me.

after lecture this morning, charred lan elan charm edward, darryl and i headed to the MANDAI ZOO for an afternoon with the giraffes and zebras and rhinos and sealions and blahblah. HAHA. can't believe it actually materialised. a few of us were just talking abt it yesterday and how we shld relive our childhood and all hehheh and we really went down today.

i was actually quite excited about it in the morning cos i hadn't been there in ages, and it was just sucha.. unique experience going to the zoo with your fellow uni classmates. haha. though as usual, we spent 10 years discussing and persuading various people before finally leaving school.

and we had the whole going-on-an-excursion experience, lunch at the zoo, followed by about 4 hours of touring the exhibits at the zoo. i was quite enthusiastic at first laaa (and some of the aniamls were pretty cute) until i got so tired, hot and sticky from walking soo much and the rest insisted on viewing the reptile exhibit, which was just damn frikking gross.

had the mandatory ben&jerry's at the zoo as well!

after that, we headed down to holland v to eat something before we all left.

met up with samkatsheryl at night and we had a picnic in town. yes, you heard right. a picnic. they played stupid reverse psychology on me, and i was still in the mood of being game for unique and novel experiences and so we tapao-ed stuff to eat at the bluelights place. twas quite fun la but rather messy.

anyway today's trips probably hit the quota for novel experiences so no more of such outings for a while. pris shall be normal and boring for the time being.

took a hell lot of photos today as well, will be up once i get the photos.

goshhhh am so tired now :/ probably walked ard 3 km today touring the entire zoo on foot. geeez. my legs are so pain now! and fantastic, its almost 1 am now and i still have school tmr :( yikessss.

2006-02-19T14:38:00.000+08:00

arghh i'm still sick!! i hate this feeling man :(

its the third day and i'm still down with a fever, a great big hacking cough, a sandpapered throat and a nose which wont stop going drip-drap-drip. sigh. effectively lost my voice as well cos my throat is just too pain for me to talk.

doubt i'd be able to enjoy much of this term break yikess :(

2006-02-17T16:21:00.000+08:00

today has the potential to be worst day of this entire year (well yeah considering i'm only into the 17th day of the second month of the year :()

today was the first time i woke up feeling so horrrribly horrid, cold shivers wracking down my body despite having 2 comforters laid over me. had to drag myself outta bed to consume 2 panadols at the unearthly hour of 750 when no one at home was awake (my bro had left for sch), and i had to tend to and console myself that i wasn't about to die :(

ADDED to that is the fact that my effffing memo is NOT done and despite me feeling like i'm about to drop dead and collapse, i still have to plonk my butt in front of my laptop and work scurrilously at my stupid memo, which is so bloody unpolished and incoherent because my brain feels like its burning up and i've no idea if i'm churning out gibberish :( get the picture?

PLUS my stupid bro is so damn unsympathetic to my plight. he just came home and on hearing me whine about my plight, he said flippantly, "dont pass it to me" and then promptly left. WTH right :(

and the WORST thing is that i'm down sick on the first glorious day of the mid sem breakl!! :(

and its the first time i've been ill in a loonngloong while shucks. i hate being sick.

haha now i know what purpose my blog serves--its to provide me with an outlet to WHINE and if you cant take it, dont read! (haha too late huh if youre reading this)

oh and this post was an attempt to write persuasively to invoke feelings of sympathy for me as learned from oh-so-wonderful lawr! now go do your memo, people!

2006-02-12T22:37:00.000+08:00

i'm soo tired :( went to watch i not stupid too just now and it was really really good! i think it is, by far, the best local movie i've watched so far. it really gets to the nub of the problems that kids and parents face these days, and it was a nice mix of tears and laughter. the jokes were not bad too la, at least they weren't the lame affairs of so many other local movies. and the show was quite realistic la, made me think of those days of relief teaching, cos the situation was really so analogous sometimes. yea i can't believe i survived those days of terror kids :/

and charred got me all paranoid just now with her 'killer illness' so i went to drink 1 big glass of water and another cup of the vitmain c thing. really dont wanna fall sick at this period with the memorial NOT DONE (damn screwed la shit) and the holidays coming up. yikes.

so i'm gonna sleep damn early tonight byee

2006-02-12T12:31:00.000+08:00

photos stolen from wei (more on her blog) on the day all of us went to stnicks. erh obviously i'm not from there la i was just being a pseudo stnicks girl for a day hhaha. they brought me to eat all the food there (and we ate damn a lot!) and were showing me all the touristy parts of their school haha

all of us!

the spoils of our war haha

charrreddd

rachel

chrys

wei

me

the small venn diagram hehe

haha

haha i like this photo! we were sitting on miniature pri schoolkids' chairs

2006-02-06T21:50:00.000+08:00

it makes you wonder what scenes the airport stages every single day, all that coming and going. it is that exact same reason why i had always wanted to work in a hotel when i grew up. (aint that far away now but my dreams are getting further and further away)

such sweet sorrow, such poignancy.

the airport holds so many memories for me, all across the spectrum, and sometimes i dont really know whether i like or dislike the place. mmmm.

anyway tonight was a rather melancholic night, thanks to daniel though for trying to cheer me up! he was being a regular clown on msn (or adium for us macfolks), excerpts of our convo:

on going to the army:
"but i remember it was quite a sad feeling
and i rubbed my bald head everyday."

on receiving flowers:
pris; (such sweet sorrow)
9:16
anyway who doesn't like receiving flowers
haha

daniel.
9:17
me
hahaha

pris; (such sweet sorrow)
9:17
chey
youre not a girl

daniel.
9:17
i rather have something practical
like a ruler
or a notebook

pris; (such sweet sorrow)
9:17
...

daniel.
9:17
or a pencil

on giving flowers to his best friend:
"i give her... carpet grass
use a changkol and dig up a whole patch... specially for her"

just a sidenote, i think i dont really turn to friends when i feel troubled by something though i know they'd be there for me, its just not in me to expect anything, or to take the initiative to open myself up to others.

anyway i feel like i'm coming down with a fever. what a thoroughly fabulous night.

2006-02-02T22:46:00.000+08:00

i'm so tired now i think the late nights have really been getting to me :/ last night was the law bash at indochine, i think we all reaallly regretted going. wanted to go support them in the pageant but we really really couldn't see anything at all cos we were stuck at the back! we are all damn frustrated and irritated after that, nobody really had the mood. and thanks to daniel charred wei becks and lan for waiting for me for so long :)

today's school was such a torture cos i was so frigging tired, legal theory was such a bore and it made everything worse. grrr.

and im such a lousy procrastinator, i still haven't finished my crim readings:(

2006-01-31T17:04:00.000+08:00

at the risk of shocking quite a few people, i think i'm getting rather sick of mahjong :/ haha! been playing mahjong for 3 conseuctive days i'm quite tired of it alr. oh but anw i won money just now! :)

certain things and certain people always make me think too much. sometimes to the detriment of my own character. i admit its not entirely nice, but sometimes its so save my own sanity y'know. man is selfish. i'm trying not to be, but it aint' easy:/ (and you know, some people really don't deserve it)

okkk i shall stop being cryptic here, i know its kinda irritating.

anyway today's my mum's birthday! gonna go out for dinner in a bit. oh, and school starts tmr :/

2006-01-31T04:31:00.000+08:00

i am soo tired but i just dont feel like sleeping yet, too many thoughts whirring through my mind.

so the chinese new year has come and gone. and for perhaps the first time in my entire life, i thought how meaningless this whole act of visiting relatives was. everyone just going around, making small talk, acting interested in each other's lives when this was just a formality, a show staged every year, and we've all got it down pat.

how ironic that i see these people mainly only once a year, they could be complete strangers to me, cept for the common link we have flowing through our veins. and i wonder what would happen next time when our elders were gone, would we still keep up this tradition of visiting one another? or would they be lost, like so many of those other traditions.

not really in the festive mood this year, perhaps school had been to hectic before that, and i couldn't properly feel excited about the new year.

and anyway, the only person i really wanted to see this new year was my grandma.

2006-01-28T15:02:00.000+08:00

hurrah i just submitted my memo, no more lawr to think about! :) it really is a load off my mind, and at least it allows me to enjoy my new year break in peace!

yesterday, i became an honorary smu student for a day haha meeting rachh and her friend at smu, and having dinner with them, and staying till late there. sigh sometimes i really wished we'd chosen the same course, our paths seemed so parallel and similar initially, yet in the end, things happen. :/

oh and just now, cos i said i wasn't hungry but my mum was persuading me to eat her porridge, and in the end, she ended up feeding me while i stood next to her. haha. it just tickled me cos she hasn't fed me since godknowswhen! and i felt like a little kid all over again, i guess we'll always be little children who never grow up in our parents' eyes. and it made me feel nice and warm and fuzzy inside and its a nice feeling to have on new year's eve :)

have a good new year and break, all!

2006-01-26T23:22:00.000+08:00

stayed home today to write my memo and AT LONG LAST i finished it!! though the wording is damnn inelegant and i just put everything in but at least i've managed to cough something out :) will hafta finetune it a lot tho but now that its written, its a load off my back. dont wanna spend sat slogging over it.

ya anyway i'm damn proud of myself hahaha cos i was very determined to do it today.

oh and i watched memoirs of a geisha yest with charreddd, it wasn't too bad la, but it didn't really live up to expectations. never liked zhangziyi before this, but now i think she's a pretty good actress and shes quite pretty also la. though my favourite is michelle yeoh, i think shes damn cool.

ok and i still haven' tdone my crim readings yet :( argh i hate always procrastinating.

2006-01-25T00:27:00.000+08:00

i think its quite sian to blog about lawr so to spare you all the agony of reading my angst filled whines:

i read rayy's blog and i saw this quiz hehh so in the midst of searching for stuff online i did the quiz for fun.

Black
Your color is black. The color of night. Serene and mysterious, black conjures up images of elegant evening gowns, dashing tuxedos, and gleaming limousines. Traditionally a symbol of success, black also represents power and an uncompromising demand for perfection. Not surprisingly, you tend to set challenging goals for yourself and do whatever it takes to achieve them — your strength of character is second to none. This unfaltering determination, along with your natural elegance, impresses people. But keep in mind that your personality might be intimidating to some. Try to temper your demanding side with a little softness — trust us, it won't kill you. Overall, though, black is the color of professionalism and achievement, which means it's clearly the color for you.

from http://web.tickle.com/color

2006-01-22T20:17:00.000+08:00

i blog whenever i hafta do my legal theory readings :/

anyway my poor feet are blistered again! after wearing those supremely uncomfortable but very chic shoes :( grrr resulted in me having to cab home cos i couldn't take it anymore :/

and last night's msn convo with charrreddd was damn funny haha i would show you snippets of our convo just that i think msn doesn't have that function? ah or rather, i didn't activate that function :( ok anyway i said i thought i was rather approachable and i dont scare people off then she started getting hysterical, she probably said "ARE YOU MAD" more than 3 times. haha. but i really dont think so!! and then we started talking about how she always has a maniacal gleam in her eyes when she smashes during badminton hah like jack the ripper or sth.

ok anw this is so inconsequential, i'm gonna try and get some readings done!

2006-01-21T23:02:00.000+08:00

just gonna blog a lil bit so that my blog wont stagnate.

anw its been a crazy hectic wk :/ and i dont have much time for anything else.

and tis the season to bitch about lawr again. its so damnnn much work and of all things, the printer in the library had to break down yesterday and i couldn't get my materials :( and i'm getting a bit confused by the the memo and statute and all that jazzzz aargh i just cant wait to get this outta the way. then it'll be the cny!

and today was a good today, played badminton in the morning with charrred chrys paul and charred's classmates, fengchang daryl and edwin. haha it was realllly fun. though i had to rush like mad after that cos i'd stayed too long (but the only reason why i stayed longer than expected was cos the rest were late..........)

(yes charrrrrred that was directed at you HA)

anw i'm superr tired already, gonna sleep early tonight!

2006-01-15T21:20:00.000+08:00

i suddenly felt that i'm not living each day as if it were my last, because if anything happened to me tomorrow and i left this world, i'd definitely have major regrets for not having done this or that.

sorry for sounding so morbid but well just realised that.

anyway i still haven't touched my legal theory readings argh :(

2006-01-14T23:35:00.000+08:00

(verbal constipation)

i went to town 4 days out of 5 the past week, i think i'm getting really sick of it already. on a brighter note though, i returned home each day with the spoils of my war so alls good really. i'm gonna endeavour to go home earlier though, since i've moved back home already.

had an impromptu meet up with rayyy on thurs and had dinner with her and yos, who was lugging her 5kg bag around haha. we had soo much fun at crystal jade just talking and catching up, nicely ensconed in that little red booth of ours.

yesterday, i shopped with charred before meeting the rest at siglap (wow for once they went to the east) for lan's birthday dinner. ate at werner's oven, afterwhich they went for karaoke but which i opted out of.

and it just struck me that day, as i was makin idle chat with a classmate, how blessed i am. some people find it such a privilege to be in law school and they dont mind going through all that hardship cos they got that coveted place in university and here i am, not fully appreciating all that i have. and its not just terms in of school too, but the fact that i've got so many people around me who give in to my admittedly spoilt demands sometimes without complaining (well cept for the few errant few), and how my life is really quite smooth-sailing despite all my grouses. i guess we really do take a lot of things for granted sometimes and turn each molehill into a mountain.

its all been good though, i can't wait for the chinese new year for that much deserved break!

and happy birthday lann hope you had a great birthday!

sleep induced mess

2006-01-11T23:53:00.000+08:00

i'm still in the midst of plowing through my legal theory readings, its really gibberish man, i can barely get what that oldfart is rambling on and on about and i'm reading for the sake of reading it :(

anyway, i guess we're full force into school already, what with the heavy workload. gah. this sem doesn't look too promising.

oh on tuesday, the family went to this jap restaurant for lunch and the food was yummy. haah i'm blogging about it only cos i rarely eat jap food nowadays so i was especially happy during lunch on tues. heh. i dunno why, but it seems like not many of my friends like jap food, and i only eat it with the sc people.

ohh and i'm gonna buy shoes tmr at queensway (if everything goes as planned) yay.

ok i really dunno what to say and i'm going back to my legal theory YIKES

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2006-01-08T22:45:00.000+08:00

its so tiresome having to think of titles when i blog.

anyway, its back to school again tmr :( opened up my notes and ivle and stuff and realised, much too belatedly, that there was a shitload of work to do!!! talking to daniel online only made me freak out more :/ i think we were freaking each other out la. anyway, 3 hours on, didnt manage to accomplish much either, i have forsaken my notes in favour of the internet.

aiyah, so much for working harder next sem.

am going to sleep la.

oh. on another note, i cut my hair today!! think the difference ain't that noticeable though. and i'm gonna dye it soon!! yay.

back to school whirl

2006-01-08T05:59:00.000+08:00

so yesterday was spent at the workshop, learnt and discovered a lot of things not entirely related to the workshop. it was quite a novel experience in many ways, a lot of small little things that happened (not all good), but as always, i really enjoyed working with rachhhel :) it'll be sad when sch starts again and we gradually speak/interact less but i know we'll always be there for each other. she's like my pillar of support and best confidante, i can say just abt anything to her and we can read each other so well :) love you rachiebaby hehh.

lunched at swensens, 10 of us in total. after that, rachel, esther and i went to alex's house where we stayed for surprisingly long cos dawdling rach took so long to bid for her modules, its super mafan man, i'm glad i dont hafta go through that. alex drove us down to smu after that and i accompanied rach to do all her rubbish before we went for a short spot of shopping.

anw i'm gonna be late already so i better stop talking here byee

aching feeet and more pics

2006-01-05T22:28:00.000+08:00

today was a crazyyass day :/ woke up at 530 AM to get to bukit batok by 715 :( was still late tho cos we couldn't get any cabs. anw today's workshop was the pitsss man, i shouted soo much that my throat is damnn pain now :( first time that i actually got a sore throat after a day of working with children. but its really no joke dealing with 9 classes worth of bratty, mischievous, gangsta students, the noise they create is enough to send you up the wall.

went to town after that with charm charred daniel yos and darryl. ate at food republic for the first time and the place is really quaint! quite nice ambience and the food was good! we all ate yummmy hokkien mee with the exception of darryl.

anw i'm gonna go sleep NOW cos tmr's another long day of facing those kids :/

shall leave you with some photos taken that day at darryl's place.

at yos' place before gg down to darryls place tog

yos helping to prepare the food (she did damn little la and ate a lot HAHA)

the man who did most of the work, thanks!

the food! we ate till we were so stuffed

people people milling around

being damn tickled while playing some sillly game heh

lost the game to he had to eat the leftovers haha

charms and me

dolly and me

yoss and me

dont ask me what they were doing, you really wouldn't wanna know haha

the girls who were left at his place, charm me dolly yos

rubbish of the night, plus yummy ben and jerrys!! :)

okay enough pics for 1 night i'm off to sleep!

pictorial craze

2006-01-04T12:07:00.000+08:00

me hwee yj outside werner's oven after lunch

including becks

at the christmas party

dawn the mad narcissist

see what i mean??

5 of us

the 3 1.73m tall giants

them fooling ard trying to decide on a pose

and so they come up with this hhaah