Sunday, February 15, 2009

to-be-departed

bala departed for brisbane, and in another 2 weeks time, it'll be my turn.. :((

28 feb, will be leaving on 28 feb. this 3 months of summer holiday's been great. ultimate slacking hanging out nua-ing shopping mahjonging meeting gathering interneting and whatever not.

i visited orchard road singapore river esplande, ate mee pok, chicken rice, wanton mee, nasi lemak, char kway teow, sting ray, satays, carrot cake, mum's cooking, roti prata. all places and food i've missed while i was there. (refer to previous entries to double check, if you're so free haha) but i still feel its not enough. it'll never be enough i guess. (greedy me, 3 months still not enough!)

ah wells, hurry go back and complete your degree yumins. last 2 weeks here and im gonna download many many more shows to bring back :D eat many many more food, meet up with many many more friends :D and lastly, the hustle bustle of packing up to leave again.. :(

ps. humdingers gathering yesterday, or the day before to be exact since its 3.55am, was awesome! everything's just right with them around. love those girls. :)) and shopping trip with fer was fruitful too. photos to be uploaded, soon i hope! hees.

Friday, January 30, 2009

pings

this post is dedicated to a special friend...

i have been hanging out alot with huiping (aka kelsey her new name haha) recently. like really alot, for example i just saw her yesterday and im meeting her again tomorrow. really enjoy her company, like you feel totally free and unrestrain, to be able to be who i am, for she don't judge. i can just do act say whatever i like and know she won't be judging my actions or habouring any bad thoughts about me. also because of that she's seen the most unglam side of me, goodness when i say most unglam that really means most (you know the meaning of most? nothing exceeds most). and i shall not elaborate on that.

im really glad to have her back in my life once again (for we lost contact for a few years in between) haha this crazy girl never fail to make me laugh, with her endless grandmother stories to tell.

thank you lah1 pings, for you just being you. :)

HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY in advance and sorry for not being able to be here with you on your birthday. (though i know you'll never read this hee)

Sunday, January 4, 2009

back under the sun

okay i have a very very very very strong urge to blog right now although its 2.20am. despite me telling myself to sleep early, to tune back to the normal lifestyle of sleeping at most by 2am and waking up at most by 12pm. i am still not heeding me.

deadly unlimited internet. i guess i am appreciating it too much, treasuring it too much, utilising it too much. feels really good to bump around facebook opening any random albums i feel like flipping through without worrying about how much megabytes it will take up, entering any blogs i feel like reading without having to click on the stop button immediately to prevent photos or songs being downloaded without my knowledge.

best of all to be sitting on the not-very-comfortable-ikea-green-chair (which is sitting in my very-cosy-and-comfortable-lavender-bedroom, which is in my not-very-neat-but-good-enough-house, which is in the more-and-more-hip-yishun and the list goes ons) surfing the net and typing this entry. 31 days back home and i am still happy and glad to be back. i guess i'll always be happy and contented for as long as i stay here.
you lose things so you appreciate when you get them back.
and right now i am enjoying and treasuring every moment i have on this island for i know i will have to leave again soon.

I LOVE ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY on this island. and am glad nothing's changed, the friendship, the bonds and the chemistry we share. perhaps the only change - everybody aged a little, matured a little, gained more experience a little.
met up with many people in the last 31 days, and almost finish meeting most friends whom i needa and wanta meet, with a few exceptions like RICH, and some other odacers.

talk about odacers, i am really proud of us. (despite the failed gathering which only 6 people attended) met up with xiu, cheryl and eeling for mahjong today (new mahjong khakis :)) and after that went dinner with eeling. guess who we saw in northpoint hub, its mel and val! mello wello jello hello and valli vallo valla vallin (violin?)!

yes. the reason i say i am proud of us is despite one and a half year after graduating from odac, the bonds we formed through that other one and a half year are still there. gatherings are always hard to organise, especially for a big group of 24 people with different schedules and timetables (since school's starting). the thing that warms my heart is seeing everyone taking time out of their busy lives, to stop by and catch up with one another, individually or in small groups. and the ability of us to talk and laugh like we always do in any odac activities or meetings or outings we use to have.

mel and val's 3H (?) dinner proved that point (or are they just plain talkative and mean? to see the queue outside the HK cafe gets longer but still making use of that bowl of half eaten and unwanted zhi ma hu to continue sitting in their seats)
and standing in the middle of the way into the bus interchange, oblivious to the fact that we may be obstructing the way of other passer-bys, talking out of nothingness but still enjoying the conversation. "er kim wee, every syllabus can be a surname" and start giving permutations to the name. kim wee er, er wee kim, kim er wee, wee kim er and so on. (no offence boss we were just missing you haha) and i wonder how our conversation drifted to murai and pekakak hut! in our haste to recalling more of ubin huts' name, peranakan hut and belachan hut sprang out. (what nonsense!) the little nyonya's fault alright. haha had a good time laughing.

and the new year party with humdingers was really good. it feels like we've reach a point in our friendship that goes beyond friends, its like family. we grumble and complain about each other, joke, laugh, be joked at, be laughed at, talk, share, care (okay this is getting cheesy, like cheese fries) but at the end of everything, you know they are the people who will accompany you through another infinite years of your life. this feels like its time a full group photo shows up, but ah wells, its 3.30am now. heee lazieee. and thanks UHU for the satays btw. and wii. you must be waiting for your name to appear, and waiting for my post, NAH give you one whole long post, read until your eyes pop out. :P

and all other meetups i've had within the last 31 days which are too long to blog about individually, you know i enjoyed and treasured those meetups.

all in all nice to be able to bum around back home, under the sun (in town, along singapore river and not yarra river) and buzz around madam boh. :D for those concern, madam boh is working in my dad's company now and especially for val, bala is good, haha you and your bala's mess tin hahaha. and torchlight. :D

p.s this is a very rare long post which i myself am shock that i actually typed all of those out. okay think it requires extraordinary feel and urge which i duno when i'll have again. :)

Friday, January 2, 2009

2-0-0-9

welcome into year 2009!

i've been wondering if i should start this post by a "Happy New Year", but yet stopped at the thought. we are only one day (and 40mins to be exact) into the new year and how would i know how the new year had been going for everybody so far. mhmm whatever that is not the main point of this post.

29 days, i've been back home for 29 days. :) the clock seems to tick a few minutes faster once i'm back and after a few days i felt like i've never left this place at all. i'm back to the old me, old lifestyle i'm so comfortable and familiar with, and start taking everything for granted once again. no i'll have to slow down my pace and start thinking about the past 4 and a half months i've been through last year. recall every bits of feelings i so recently felt before coming home. i must not and will not waste my holidays away.

appreciate and be thankful!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

home sweet home

morning comes around and i, cant wait to see my sunny island
in its glorious greenery, whether rain or shine its still beautiful
bright lights shine on the streets at night, guiding me closer to home
to a place where i know i'll be safe and warm where i belong
friends and family by my side, seeing me through as i grow and learn
everyday's experience bitter sweet or sour its still wonderful

I AM GOING HOME! :DD

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

the callings

exams are over, but why am i feeling so calm so unfeeling so numb. it feels so unreal that i'll be able to go home soon (not quite 9 days still feels quite long). the exams had seriously dragged on for too long, one month!! well almost its ridiculously long for just 4 papers!!! :(

the initial highness i thought this day would bring to me is not there. ah i feel so lazy, can i just go to sleep tonight and wake up on my singapore bedroom's bed tomorrow morning? with all my belongings safely transported back to where they belong.

and i saw the harry potter and the half blood prince's trailer. I CANT WAIT to catch the show on the big screen! i think i've read the book a dozen times and can even remember all the memories which dumbledore showed harry in sequence. JK Rowling is a real genius! and she deserves all the bucks she's earning now for creating such an awesome series. i am going to read the last book again for the nth time when i get back home. by far and by last [:(] my favourite book out of all. :)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

rainy nights please come again

YOHOO IM DOWN TO THE LAST PAPER!!! :DD

felt like the entire exam is over today. light and bright. :) but yea! hang in there and stay focus for the last paper yo! uhu (my dajie) will be coming and reaching here on this saturday morning! :) so after the paper on monday we'll be travelling around melbourne. but then the prospects of being able to go home is much much more anticipated to!

I CANT WAIT what the hell why did i change my flight to such a late date. next sem im gonna book my flight to be a day or two after my last paper! and i'm already thinking and listing a whole long list of things i wana do when i get back. i need to visit SA! :)

yes its raining again! i love love love rainy nights :)

I AM 14 DAYS AWAY FROM HOME!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

the pink bomb

YAYS i just had accounting paper this morning and i am so so glad that its over! i mean the accounting paper, not the entire exam of course! was totally stressed out before the exam, couldn't sleep at all for the first few hours on bed last night my mind was like exploding with information and invisible post-it notes reminding me of this and that. and woke up at like 7am and couldn't get back to sleep. the paper was, well very tricky and time consuming. and my balance sheet, as always did not balance up! what the hell, always cannot balance, just call it an unbalance sheet. whatever it is its over!!! HAHAHA and i'll never need to touch accounting anymore :)

and these 2 days hell we were practically living in an oven! damn hot 33 degrees and its not even summer yet! im so glad i'll be going home soon :) and its not only the heat and sun, the flies!!! the flies were circulating me every few minutes when i was doing the paper, damn annoying. and if i ever didn't finish the paper it will be the flies fault. (haha push everything to the flies)

back to the title yes i received a pink bomb from the mail box! hahahaha. damn joke kept laughing and laughing when i saw it. the bomb exploded with 2 monsters emerging from it, a full grown dinosaur and a failed hercules-to-be. totally shocked and surpirse haha. a spectacular introduction into ntu hall of residence blk 11 #**-**** and made me even more confirm not to enter the very suspicious room when i go back hahaha. and sorry to disappoint i did not use the suspicious looking tissue paper enclosed! whose idea was it to enclose that tissue paper?! i see left over tom yum stains on it! please be more hygenic will the both of you! hahaha but THANKS the bomb looks like alot of work! totally appreciate it and definitely explosive for me. sweeeeeet and that made me feel even more like going home! and hang out till i hang out, use internet till the computer hang up! wow totally not addicted to the usage of hang out/up. haha!

WHEEEEEEE

I AM 20 DAYS FROM HOME! :DD

prepare the champagne uhu

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

this is no good

:(((((

i cant believe i still have to go through this very difficult period for another 5 times in future. going through it once now is already killing me. and this is the longest week i've ever lived through. it feels like ten thousand years had passed.

you know now i think studying for a's was so much better than now. at least i'm home..

:((((((((

Friday, November 7, 2008

updates

today can be voted as one of the hottest day since i came here. the sun is practically burning every thing under it man. within one hour i immediately turn into a roasted pork ribs! and sweated like i've never sweated in ages (which sadly to say is true). went for the last tennis lesson today and damn, i still cant swerve properly. and my backhand... :(

the scary flies are out now, in full swarm super disgusting! i've long heard stories about these flies, being slow, being big, being lazy and un-afraid of human. but i've never really experienced them until today. EEKS! keep circling around my head non-stop, and one even landed on my eyelid momentarily. i can still feel its big body on my eyelid now damn gross!!! totally remind me of that stupid toad in my school shoe last time. that feeling which lingered on my foot, same as the feeling which lingered on my eyelid now. though the toad one's still the ultimate.

and the ants, big black ants are all out and active!!!! eee i really hate ants to the max leh. they are totally the king of pests can, crowned by me. cockroaches at least they are relatively big and they don't come out in streams, a vacuum cleaner pesticide or slipper would do the job. rat a rat trapper, but ants!!! how to kill?! you kill a dozen today a hundred will emerge again tomorrow. never-ending! and i hate it that they are so small. humph all in all all sorts of pests should just go extinct, especially ANTS! the mp3 incident still gives me shivers whenever i think of it. *shivers*

okay i digressed. anyways i wanted to say after the session i had a very very strong craving for 100plus without gas. 100 plus!!! :( became really grumpy when i realised there isn't 100 plus here to drink after exercise. how can?! 100 plus the best isotonic drink! :(( proceeded to safeway (supermarket like ntuc) to buy whatever i intended to buy. and when i walked past the aisle which display soft drinks, a certain unknown invisible force pushed me into walking down that aisle and shifted my vision to the top most corner shelf and there it is! 100 PLUS! HAHAHA. sitting nice and steady alongside other isotonic drink. :DDD immediately grab a can can. haha. and continued with my groceries shopping with this change in mood :(( --> :DD

bought alot of unhealthy food back. instant noodles and canned campbell soup. i need excitement in my breakfast menu! i've been eating ham sandwich for the past 6 days consecutively, reason being need to consume the ham within 5 days after opening. super sians. super sick of having to chiong food because of expiry date, and worst thing is after finishing the food, you realise you gotta start the cycle all over again (the chionging food cycle) when you buy new ones. its a viscous cycle. neways, hahaha, say byebye to ham sandwich tomorrow, its garlic bread all over again, but this time round with mushroom soup!

exams are starting next week, this week of study break's gonna end soon. but man, who cares i cant wait for it to be here and over. my breakfast menu is never going to be boring again when i go back. wanton mee, mee pok, nasi lemak, fishball noodles, roti prata, laksa wow i am such an unhealthy girl through and through. wait for me poh tian(?) wanton mee!

*yumin is 27 days from home wheeee~*

reply to tags:

renee: renee tay you are finally back! haha where have you disappered to? :D

mel: mello wello jello!! haha cant resist not to call you that hahaha. hey yes i realise there is in asian supermarket! :) northpoint has been revamped?! gosh i am so excited to see its new look haha. and what why does my block resembles a watermelon? haha they better not do anything to my block! but watermelon sounds cute.

mies: haha even if i didn't he cant do anything because i'll be in the house.

xx: haha is xiang4 hua4 ma1 hua is number 4!! lol disturb you. jia you for your exams you can do it! don't stress! :)

wanling: hey ya indeed im surprised haha. yea i miss odac alot alot too. always thinking about those stuff we did last time. :( and uni isn't as great for me as well. boring and mundane. nothing much. luckily there's holidays! :) seeya really soon during your dec hols and take care! haha.