i am so tired now i think i'll fall asleep once i hit the bed.
went for val's 21st birthday dinner and party tonight and it was so awesome!! haha had lotsa fun tonight :)) and hope val enjoyed her day too. HAPPY 21ST! oh and this is the first 21st birthday celebration i've been to so far. and the thought that im gonna miss so many awesome parties, celebrations and birthday dinners next year make me feel damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn sian! how many 21st can we have in our life? :((((
was looking at the photo board thing they did for val just now and was so shocked to realise how much one year can do to everyone. haha. brought me back to like one year ago (which felt like soooo long) at this exact same month same day. oh my gosh, things are definitely so much better now. we all looked so horrible then! like so cui and neng and inexperienced and everything. hahaha. i wonder what i'll say one year later at this exact same month same day. ;)
oh my gosh next thing i wana say is, I LOVE GOOD FOOD! :)))) having good food can so lift one's spirits and recharge our exhausted body and mind after a week of work. so i really feel good and excited about the continuous good food hunt we're having now!! heeeheee but the thing is we only have so many free weekends and so much more good restaurants out there waiting for us to try. omg i cant wait to try the korean on little bourke! but before that, lets try vietnamnese(?) this sunday first. :)))))
the best thing about semester 2 is you'll wake up everyday feeling better about today, because everyday brings you closer to longer and warmer sun-lit days, and to my favourite season of the year - spring! colourful flowers blossoming, healthy green leaves growing back onto balding trees and basically brings life back into the gloomy city. best of all spring clothes are the nicest too! very colourful with lotsa floral prints (geok is gonna call me ah huay again haha), and all the spring clothes seem to be in pastel colours too (i lovvvve pastel colour clothes). omg i really do love spring!
i am waiting... for the best season of the year, and then it'll be picnic time at the pretty botanic garden. :)
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
eat gorge indulge
im feeling so happy now i duno where that came from :)))
and i realise i've desserted my dear old bloggie for too long, other than the random sociology essay, i realise i haven been blogging anything close to my life. :)
life's good but dear old school's no good. why is it always so difficult to strike a balance between work and play. i've been so so so so so so slack this semester. feeling slacky towards everything. i haven been studying hard enough (and i think im lagging in finance, jap and ob, which is 3 out of 4 subjects im doing!), i haven been cooking for 2 weeks now, i haven been doing laundry and im procrastinating everything. such a horrible girl.
outside of school, life's been pretty good! (ding!:D) see i told you im feeling happy now hees. just survived the first wave of assignments in week 3 and 4 and have been going out alot these few weeks. was just back from michelle's place and she practically whipped up a feast tonight! like from dinner to dessert to cupcakes. :)
main point is that i've been eating so much every consecutive night (till my stomach's like a big round full pumped beach ball) that suddenly yesterday after dinner i asked myself, why am i doing this to myself? why am i gorging myself with so much food every night till i feel so damn full? what was that for? i am too greedy to eat till so full. so i've decided, that from now on i should stop being greedy and stop overindulging. that could lead to disgestive and constipation problems yea. haha.
and because of this korean show i've watched, 'the world they lived' or something like that, im totally hundred percent into korean now!!! the food, the language, the people, absolutely everything! maybe i haven stressed enough, to illustrate the impact, hmm i have been to have korean for 3 nights in a week. :) and im so sensitive to koreans now i can detect them as soon as they open their mouth to speak and i'll be so excited haha. and whenever i answer my phone i'll go like 'yopseyo!', or if i get the chance i'll use the limited korean that i know of. crazy ass i know. hahaha.
aigooo~ stop playing yumin.
(:D :P)
and i realise i've desserted my dear old bloggie for too long, other than the random sociology essay, i realise i haven been blogging anything close to my life. :)
life's good but dear old school's no good. why is it always so difficult to strike a balance between work and play. i've been so so so so so so slack this semester. feeling slacky towards everything. i haven been studying hard enough (and i think im lagging in finance, jap and ob, which is 3 out of 4 subjects im doing!), i haven been cooking for 2 weeks now, i haven been doing laundry and im procrastinating everything. such a horrible girl.
outside of school, life's been pretty good! (ding!:D) see i told you im feeling happy now hees. just survived the first wave of assignments in week 3 and 4 and have been going out alot these few weeks. was just back from michelle's place and she practically whipped up a feast tonight! like from dinner to dessert to cupcakes. :)
main point is that i've been eating so much every consecutive night (till my stomach's like a big round full pumped beach ball) that suddenly yesterday after dinner i asked myself, why am i doing this to myself? why am i gorging myself with so much food every night till i feel so damn full? what was that for? i am too greedy to eat till so full. so i've decided, that from now on i should stop being greedy and stop overindulging. that could lead to disgestive and constipation problems yea. haha.
and because of this korean show i've watched, 'the world they lived' or something like that, im totally hundred percent into korean now!!! the food, the language, the people, absolutely everything! maybe i haven stressed enough, to illustrate the impact, hmm i have been to have korean for 3 nights in a week. :) and im so sensitive to koreans now i can detect them as soon as they open their mouth to speak and i'll be so excited haha. and whenever i answer my phone i'll go like 'yopseyo!', or if i get the chance i'll use the limited korean that i know of. crazy ass i know. hahaha.
aigooo~ stop playing yumin.
(:D :P)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
connection
i was just thinking why is it getting harder to connect with people these days as we grow older. i dun mean im having a problem connecting with people now, just that i see it as harder than before. why? dim gai?
mm, i would assert a big portion of the reason to because we are growing older. yea like angeline said as we grow older, the time we are able to spend with our friends also shortens, say like your primary school friends, from the time you met and knew them to now - about 10 years and counting, secondary school friends, about 6 years and counting, jc friends, about 3 years and counting, uni friends, about 1 year and counting. going by this theory you are suppose to be closest to primary school friends? but this isnt the case for most people. why? dim gai?
perhaps this might be because the secondary school period is the purest and most significant part of forming who we are now i think. the people we meet, the way we interact with one another, the norms and culture formed then teaches us how to deal with social situations we've never set ourselves in before secondary school (since who can we meet other than our families before secondary school). and we sort of formed our first line of frequency with our secondary school friends, sort of influenced each other to believe in a set of values and form attitudes towards different issues and people. this i would call the growing up phase. like we were all growing up in a similar environment with our secondary school friends.
then we go on to junior college, these values and attitudes might change a little as we meet new people, we learn how to deal with different social situations as we set ourselves in different ones, and we form a different but similar line of frequency with new people we meet in there. and maybe through groups like CCA or class, because of a common identity and meeting each other almost everyday, the friendship forged might still be rather strong. this i would call the stabilising phase.
and then off to uni we start to meet people from all over we never knew existed. like all kinds of people (personality wise). from here onwards, we've already had a set of values and attitude towards issues and different social situations. we've sort of been polluted, become more complicated. we stereotype people base on our own values and beliefs. we judge people on their actions and things they talk about. we choose people to befriend with, people whom you think share common values and frequencies as you. because of values, attitudes and actions you disagree with or dislike, you might just dismiss this person who could possibly be a genuine and potential friend. as this process takes place, in a way we are finding it hard to connect with people.
because essentially we've lost our pureness in befriending people. we select people to befriend with instead of simply befriending people, we have our reservations about people and compare them wtih friends we are comfortable with like secondary school and jc friends. which i wana say is unfair because sec sch friends have gone through so much with you, like the entire growing up phase, of course you will have many common values, frequency and attitudes with them.
im not trying to judge if this is a bad or good thing, i think its kinda inevitable. just like one will grow old and die. okay this is a lousy analogy but it just will happen when we meet new people from now on. so maybe thats why we always say sec sch friends are the best i guess. best as in people whom you are most comfortable to be with and people who knows you best.
from now on friends might increase in quantity but quality wise, it might just as well be stagnant (there may always be exceptions i dun want to tie a dead knot here).
i duno if i've put the idea across clearly i've just blabbered in the most organised way i could. if you duno what this is about just forget it. and im definitely not directing this entry towards anyone or any incident, just a mindmap that extended from the question about connecting with people i had in mind.
what the heck what's with this blog entry. like some sociology essay. its all OB's fault (this subject im doing this sem), and some things that i saw is happening which left me pondering over this issue.
and thats the thing about ageing and growing up. things always become more complicated. i dun wana grow up.
mm, i would assert a big portion of the reason to because we are growing older. yea like angeline said as we grow older, the time we are able to spend with our friends also shortens, say like your primary school friends, from the time you met and knew them to now - about 10 years and counting, secondary school friends, about 6 years and counting, jc friends, about 3 years and counting, uni friends, about 1 year and counting. going by this theory you are suppose to be closest to primary school friends? but this isnt the case for most people. why? dim gai?
perhaps this might be because the secondary school period is the purest and most significant part of forming who we are now i think. the people we meet, the way we interact with one another, the norms and culture formed then teaches us how to deal with social situations we've never set ourselves in before secondary school (since who can we meet other than our families before secondary school). and we sort of formed our first line of frequency with our secondary school friends, sort of influenced each other to believe in a set of values and form attitudes towards different issues and people. this i would call the growing up phase. like we were all growing up in a similar environment with our secondary school friends.
then we go on to junior college, these values and attitudes might change a little as we meet new people, we learn how to deal with different social situations as we set ourselves in different ones, and we form a different but similar line of frequency with new people we meet in there. and maybe through groups like CCA or class, because of a common identity and meeting each other almost everyday, the friendship forged might still be rather strong. this i would call the stabilising phase.
and then off to uni we start to meet people from all over we never knew existed. like all kinds of people (personality wise). from here onwards, we've already had a set of values and attitude towards issues and different social situations. we've sort of been polluted, become more complicated. we stereotype people base on our own values and beliefs. we judge people on their actions and things they talk about. we choose people to befriend with, people whom you think share common values and frequencies as you. because of values, attitudes and actions you disagree with or dislike, you might just dismiss this person who could possibly be a genuine and potential friend. as this process takes place, in a way we are finding it hard to connect with people.
because essentially we've lost our pureness in befriending people. we select people to befriend with instead of simply befriending people, we have our reservations about people and compare them wtih friends we are comfortable with like secondary school and jc friends. which i wana say is unfair because sec sch friends have gone through so much with you, like the entire growing up phase, of course you will have many common values, frequency and attitudes with them.
im not trying to judge if this is a bad or good thing, i think its kinda inevitable. just like one will grow old and die. okay this is a lousy analogy but it just will happen when we meet new people from now on. so maybe thats why we always say sec sch friends are the best i guess. best as in people whom you are most comfortable to be with and people who knows you best.
from now on friends might increase in quantity but quality wise, it might just as well be stagnant (there may always be exceptions i dun want to tie a dead knot here).
i duno if i've put the idea across clearly i've just blabbered in the most organised way i could. if you duno what this is about just forget it. and im definitely not directing this entry towards anyone or any incident, just a mindmap that extended from the question about connecting with people i had in mind.
what the heck what's with this blog entry. like some sociology essay. its all OB's fault (this subject im doing this sem), and some things that i saw is happening which left me pondering over this issue.
and thats the thing about ageing and growing up. things always become more complicated. i dun wana grow up.
Monday, August 3, 2009
let's go again
its either global warming or im dealing better with the cold now, i hardly need the heater these days.
the usuals, start of semester admin stuff; confirmation of subjects, timetabling issues and textbooks. to my surprise all's smooth sailing, unlike last semester where at this time i was still trying to squeeze into certain desired slots and spending hours finding and waiting for textbook sellers. i remembered first two weeks of school last sem was a hell lot more hectic and messy. now my timetable's settled and i've gotten my texts, at least most of them. sold my text at the exact same price i bought for last sem, so economically i lost nothing thanks to textbookexchange. :)
didnt felt like school had started at all, at least till yesterday. been slacking alot and enjoying the non-busy school days. heee hope the work dont come piling in so soon i still wana read my unfinished twilight (its taking forever) watch shows go shopping and be an ultimate slacker.
tutes are starting this week and there goes the introduce yourself thing again. goodness it feels like i have to go through orientation every semester. and it didnt felt real at all as i said "im in year 2 doing commerce". year 2? since when?
and i think i wrote about the sun steaming my pores ever bigger in my last post, now its the opposite my skin's so dry it feels like orange skin. when can i ever get a perfect moisturised piece of skin? haha.
and i hate winter its affecting my mood.
REPLIES
lee si: nope not changing im 18. forever. haha.
val: seriously? when? haha.
the usuals, start of semester admin stuff; confirmation of subjects, timetabling issues and textbooks. to my surprise all's smooth sailing, unlike last semester where at this time i was still trying to squeeze into certain desired slots and spending hours finding and waiting for textbook sellers. i remembered first two weeks of school last sem was a hell lot more hectic and messy. now my timetable's settled and i've gotten my texts, at least most of them. sold my text at the exact same price i bought for last sem, so economically i lost nothing thanks to textbookexchange. :)
didnt felt like school had started at all, at least till yesterday. been slacking alot and enjoying the non-busy school days. heee hope the work dont come piling in so soon i still wana read my unfinished twilight (its taking forever) watch shows go shopping and be an ultimate slacker.
tutes are starting this week and there goes the introduce yourself thing again. goodness it feels like i have to go through orientation every semester. and it didnt felt real at all as i said "im in year 2 doing commerce". year 2? since when?
and i think i wrote about the sun steaming my pores ever bigger in my last post, now its the opposite my skin's so dry it feels like orange skin. when can i ever get a perfect moisturised piece of skin? haha.
and i hate winter its affecting my mood.
REPLIES
lee si: nope not changing im 18. forever. haha.
val: seriously? when? haha.
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