You freak!

2009-01-12T20:54:00.001+08:00

MOVED.

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2009-01-07T12:55:00.012+08:00

I love Ellen Degeneres and her show! This clip cracks TEL and I up all the time. Watch the whole clip, but 5:17 is our favourite part!

In addition, although this sounds terribly bimbotic I love all the dresses that Paris Hilton wore on Paris Hilton's my new BFF show (TTYN, haha. TEL’s watching it too!), the clothes are so incredibly gorgeous and very me. I wouldn't want to be her BFF though.

I made Green Tea Mont Blanc! I really like it. :)

Honey Matcha Financier base and Matcha white chocolate truffle enrobed in chestnut cream.
Also, macarons! Finally. Chestnut and Nutella macarons. :) I'm pleased with it, considering it's my maiden attempt.

Yay I'm making good use of my holidays.

Yesterday my Mum asked me if I wanted to go to Le Cordon Bleu in Paris after A Levels, probably cause she read about it in he papers that day. Hahah actually I don't mind going to Paris itself and not use the money to enroll in the patisserie course but to use to money to shop instead.

It feels great sleeping/eating/swimming/going out/spending money while others are at school. :)

Anyway, results are coming out next Monday (click here)! My heartbeat gets all irregular thinking about it...

Yesterday I went out with TEL!
Didn't do much shopping for CNY though, it is so hard to find something I have in mind, because all the shops sell similar clothing. :( Anyway instead of shopping at the usual haunts (i.e. Wisma, Heeren, etc.) we walked around Taka, DFS Galleria and Paragon... in search of TEL's Burberry wallet, which sadly, could not be found... Which reminds me of the stupid Burberry salesperson who tried to con us. Well all in all it was a pleasant and enjoyable shopping experience. :)

Met up with Esther, Jacq and Astrid for ice-cream at Ben & Jerry's @ Dempseys. Um I'm really not a fan of Ben & Jerry's, but the company was good. :) Before that I met Astrid to go shopping for a bit. We were trying to convince Astrid to buy something from Topshop. Mmm I do not have a single piece of clothing from Topshop, contrary to popular belief. I hate it, it's seriously overrated. So are geek glasses.

We were about to throw the Frangipanis in the air.

This is Astrid's set-up which she took several pictures of. Haha.

This is Astrid's Fall/Winter Campaign shot.

Pictures from Astrid:

Astrid's scarf which made us laugh haha.

Photos from Esther:

With TEL:

This is for TEL to show her cousin that Juicy Couture is opening. Please do not buy Juicy Couture (To add on to the list: Louis Vuitton, Carlo Rino, Bonia), it screams "Ah Lian"(in the case of Juicy Couture, the rest are plain gross).

I have decided against getting an iPhone because I struggle to use the iTouch with my long fingernails.

Wow. TEL and I want one next time. When we are overseas we can zip around to the countryside... how nice.

We headed over to Tanglin Mall.

On a random note, this is my second favourite cereal, after Post's Strawberry Crunch Cereal. Third in place is Reeses' Puffs. :)

Lucky Charms! As you can see I purposely moved all the marshmallow bits to one side.

Oh I just found out Rosalind Pho (sp?) is my neighbour. And I saw the nyona... Zhenzhu or something at Liang Court's Kino.

2008-12-28T22:43:00.003+08:00

Am I the only one who doesn’t like watching Little Nyona? I finished watching the recorded episodes in less than half an hour because I kept fast forwarding. I find that show so incredibly slow-moving.

Desserts (for Christmas) I made!

Crushed dried rosebuds, rose-white chocolate whipped ganache, raspberry gelee, litchi gelee. Inspired by Pierre Hermé's Emotion Ispahan. :) So good I can still remember how it tastes like.

I saw a cookbook by Pierre Hermé in Virgin Megastore in Paris on all his macarons gosh they look so incredibly good, pity it was in French. Sigh I wish I knew how to make macarons.

White chocolate/passionfruit mousse with roasted pineapple.

Chocolate caramel truffles with Fleur de Sel.

Mendiants

Eeleng and I visited Astrid at her workplace some time ago. :) I never knew Raffles Place had shopping malls!

Thereafter Ee Leng and I walked to Clarke Quay.

TEL said she was in heaven after eating this cake haha.

My Fauchon bag carries presents. :)

TEL likes my face to be blurred out haha.

Ray Bans forever. :)

Me does not know how to get to Bukit Timah from Liang Court, TEL’s former “territory”.

We discovered the Map function on the iTouch.

TEL is taking very nice pictures! Will impart all that I know about photography to her when she comes back from Malaysia.

Dinner with the extended family thereafter at Dempseys. I passed a box of La Maison Du Chocolat chocolates to Susan via Aunty Kat, and she called me to say it was the best chocolate she had tasted in her life haha. I’m craving it so much, it’s truly one of the 10 best chocolatiers in Paris/the world. It’s so expensive though, one piece costs at least 3 SGD.

(photo from UE)

Kuishin-bo buffet with the extended family again… from I don’t know when.

I had a French manicure. :)

Yun Ching has come back from Brisbane!!! Met up with her and her sister Yun Fang some time ago. We watched Nick and Norah’s infinite Playlist, which I thought was okay. I’m no movie buff. Conversations about the family between her and her cousin are hilarious. Oh we went to Far East because her cousin was there and went into 2 shops selling tee-shirts that looked really alike with 2 guys who wore the same outfit working as salespersons who looking really alike too so we thought he followed us from one shop to the other but it turned out to be otherwise haha.

“So you’re not the same guy in that shop just now?”

“No.”

Hahahahah.

Went to her house after some time, her uncle used to be my Dad’s colleague!

Then my Dad picked me up and they talked and I got to stay for another half an hour. :)

Walking through HDBs at night is really creepy.

The spy shot Yun Ching tried to take of her cousin and his friend.

Mum and I made gyozas/potstickers a few days back. :) Yumm.

I am in love with this ruby ring my Mum gave me. Apparently my Dad gave it to my Mum when they were dating haha. Small but beautiful. On anoher note I have a fetish for cocktail rings now. :)

Met up with Ethel yesterday at Vivo City, which is not really that big. We are both late whenever we meet up haha. WE had the “shopped in Japan/Paris” syndrome so we didn’t get anything in the end because everything was so common. I think once you’ve been to Orchard you would have covered every shop to be found in Singapore. Sad.

We bring our sunnies everywhere in sunny Singapore.

From Ethel.

OK I think you got really sick of it, so the camwhoring has stopped.:)

This week and the next are going to be really fun! I thought Adrian and Nat were coming back on the 23rd but they popped up in church on the 21st instead what a nice surprise. We're going to Bukit Timah Market/Food centre! Yay I haven't been there in ages... I miss the carrot cake, I think that's one of the few chinese foods I like.

And thanks for your Christmas presents/well wishes everyone. :)

2008-12-15T17:44:00.009+08:00

Paris Part II

I miss the people, the atmosphere, the food, the shopping, the supermarkets...

Everyone dresses well, guys dress à la Jude Law, with trousers at the perfect length, just above the shoe, fitted jackets, and women donning fur coats and well-fitting jeans with stilettos.

I lost my black leather jacket, so I had to wear the blue jacket for 12 days. :( Should have been the chamber maid. I don't think I've lost anything expensive before (Yes I am actually more responsible than you hah), so this should be a first.

Breakfast in Stuttgart, Germany.

White chocolate drink. :)

Train ride back to Paris

Cuteness

Travel essentials: Evian water, haribo gummy bears, iPod, Pez Orange Mints (way better than orange tic tacs)

Versailles -Château de Versailles

Overexposed.

I really love Jeff Koons’ works, many of which were displayed at the Château de Versailles.

Tour Eiffel sparkles for 5 minutes every half an hour.

On top of it, the next morning

So sweet I want to have my wedding/honeymoon in Paris too.

Spot the real McCoys.

Forced picture.

Familiar much?

Oh gosh the best scallops I’ve tasted in my entire life. I feel like eating it again so bad. :(

Molleux

Tea

Favourite place #2: Everything in Fauchon looks terribly good and pink.

Dessert from Fauchon:

Favourite place #1: Pierre Hermé!!! Best macarons, hands down. A must try in Paris, especially the passionfuit and milk chocolate, salted caramel and hazelnut ones.

Ladurée, Melin and her parents like it too.

Metro

Favourite place #3: Rue Montorgueil

The markets were closing.:(

There were many more macarons but my family devoured them really fast. :)

Look at how generous they are with the filling.

I owe many people pictures. Heh sorry will upload them soon.

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Paris Part I

I’m so bored! But it beats being stressed out anytime. Anyway I’m back from France and Germany, which has made me hate living in Singapore even more. The trip was beyond awesome, re-visiting some places, shopping, Christmas markets, eating, a ton of cheeses, casual banter with strangers and tasting some of the best food I’ve ever had in my life. :) I want to migrate to Paris! Pity I can’t speak French. I only know how to get around, understand what I’m ordering and buying and speak basic phrases. :( Mummy says I can go there with my friends next time, and TEL says she can go with me in the future too! :)

The people and weather were nice, gosh I love the way everyone dresses! Tres chic. Unlike S’pore where everyone looks like everyone else, has a generic dress sense, shops/eats at the same place (Orchard is passé, Dempsey’s FTW!)… yuck. Yeah I think I’m talking about myself too sometimes.

Image overkill. :)

Breakfast, yumyum. Pastries, desserts and cakes took up 3/4 of the buffet spread.

Our hotel

Notre Dame de Paris reminded me of the cartoon Esmeralda or something like that.

Avenue des Champs- Élysées! One of my favourite places to go for shopping and eating (Ladurée!).

I kind of think Sephora is overrated.

Arc de Triomphe

On top

Love the pattern of the streets but they are a bitch to get around sometimes.

Cute. :) I don’t mind getting one of those even though my mum calls it a selfish car because it can only seat 2 people.

Some of them flew into me! Stupid birds who can’t see where they’re going I don’t want to get bird flu or something.

The best soupe a l’oignon au fromage (sp?)aka French onion soup!!!

Sexy

Hash browns are surprisingly good there I don’t know why.

Pain au chocolat

The best hot chocolate!

Speaking of which I’m going to try and make my own, maybe with marshmallows from Hediard too. :)

We toured on this bus for 2 consecutive days.

Novel ideas

Musée du Louvre

I like visitng tourist-y places and help others take pictures. :) They’re really nice, mostly French/American/British/Japanese.

The thing in the centre is a lift

Cute guy got in my way

Better.

Overrated. There was a whole throng of people surrounding it.

Musée du Louvre

Walls there has infinitely better flavours.

Rue montmartre, another one of my favourite places.

Escalope, and the tastiest green beans behind it.

Gelato

My mum likes this guy and his dressing (pointy leather shoes, I forgot the specific name for it). Haha well he was pretty affable and spoke good english.

Strasbourg (Capital of Christmas), France

My dad likes to take candids.

Sorry TEL had I not been able to carry balloons on the plane I would have bought one immediately and flown it back for you.

Printemps! Yet another one of my favourite places.

Escargots with garlic and butter

I forgot what it was called… but it was something like ham in puff pastry with barbeque sauce, really tasty.

It irks me to use the French keyboard, the letters and symbols are all in completely different places compared to the qwerty keyboard.

Just look at the plenitude of chocolates!

Shrek cookies

Christmas spirit everywhere

Mummy’s favourite.

All waiters should dress like this one. (Another guy which my mum likes hahah)

Leaving for Stuttgart, Germany.

Sigh I can’t pan properly.

Love boules.

Shopping!

BEST SAUSAGES EVER

And the only hot dog my mum will ever let me eat

They willingly posed for me. :)

2008-11-24T11:54:00.006+08:00

/edit/ 26th Nov 2008

Pictures! I’ll go into details when I get back from France/Germany.

St. James.

We entered the wrong party at first at Movida but it was so interesting, better than XOXO at Powerhouse, in terms of music and entertainment. It was such an eventful night! Saving Melin (HAHAH), lecherous men, gay guy + Astrid, Astrid’s urge to dance, people dressed casually, groping, cabaret, cool stamps (“Remember to show them the right hand!” [which Astrid failed to do haha] ) fights, hilarious robotic dancing, drunkards, rude people, guest list, cranberry drinks, “This is Singapore”!

I heard it became even more eventful after I left hehe. Thank you very much Astrid, Lianne, Melin (and thanks for the European playlist too!) as well as Esther for that night. :)

Out with TEL today, who is finally back from Japan. Will miss you bestie! :(

TEL took some pictures too, which are really pretty. :)

We took a bus that was not air-conditioned! It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. :)

This was really good.

Free Madelines!

TEL counting her money.

Pink walls and floors

Ahh will miss my Channel U 10 o' clock show and channel 8 9 o' clock show (yes very loser I know but I have nothing better to do). Thank goodness for DVD recorders.
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This week will be a very enjoyable week. :)

Today I went last-minute shopping with Mummy for winter clothes (hate doing last minute things BTW, shopping or not), because we realized some of them had lost their elasticity etc. and some leather gloves have mould on them (going to buy a new pair in Paris though, leather gloves here are very expensive :( ) Sucks I only get to wear winter clothing once a year. If Singapore had winter I would have a plethora of scarves (love them) and jackets.

Tomorrow I’m getting my new lenses and filter for my camera, then its shopping at Vivo for a while before meeting Astrid, Lianne, Melin and Esther for dinner. St. James thereafter. :)

Wednesday would be the bussing trip around Singapore and Twelve + One Pâtisserie. Head to the airport at night and then I’ll fly off to Paris the next morning. :) Yay can’t wait. Croissants, baguettes, escargots, French onion soup, Crazy Horse… Pierre Hermé! Ladurée! Sadaharu Aoki! Fauchon! La Maison Du Chocolat! G. Detou! Mora! Le Bon Marché! Pozzetto! Grom! Even the best desserts/pâtisseries in Singapore pale in comparison to those in Paris. Actually I hate eating bread, save for tuna buns, sausage buns, white bread and those served in French restaurants with butter on them. But bread in Paris is heavenly. :)

P.S. Spoiler for ANTM Cycle 11

I’m apathetic towards McKey winning but I still think Analeigh should have been in the final two (and won). :(

P.P.S. Aunt Irene offered me a job! It sounds intriguing, running around dressing models/celebrities/ “football stars” (In Singapore? Dream on). Plus, the pay is good! $80 a day for 8 hours of work. And Aunt Irene thought it wasn’t enough.

P.P.P.S. It's a devil to wear Prada...have you seen this?

P.P.P.P.S. I baked! For the first time in 2/3 months?

I think my dad replaced the raspberry with some red ball thinking that I wouldn't notice.

2008-11-14T22:53:00.009+08:00

UPDATED.

IMMENSELY IMAGE HEAVY,

so much so that I suggest you few this post in parts.

Post-O level activities

13 Nov

Re-enactment of this scene from HSM after Bio MCQ.

Orchard with Esther and Ee!

My favourite

Drinks at Food Republic. Yum yum Monin syrup the best ever.

I want.

Pictures from Esther. :)

TEL emulating Breadou

14 Nov

Sentosa’s Siloso Beach with some people from 4G :)

Shopping at Vivo with Zoe and Ee afterwards.

Overexposed shots. :(

From Esther. :)

15 Nov

Games Day! Very fun albeit tiring. Dinner with Daryl, Nathan, Jesse, Wen yin, Tiffany and Deanna thereafter at Sun and Moon. Send me pictures!!!

I finally had my fringe cut! It was so disgusting. My previous hairdresser left, the new one's weird even though he does a pretty good job. And he wears the grossest Gucci shoes (even though I like Gucci). I feel like changing my hairstylist.

16 Nov

Zouk flea market with Ethel! :) Waited for her for 45 minutes (I hate waiting BTW) but while waiting I was talking to this (young) woman sitting beside me on the bench about stuff, like “How’s the flea market I only come here for clubbing; my friend’s late yeah so is mine etc.” Sigh it reminds me of Europe/Australia where I can just talk to any stranger. Singapore should have more people like her.

Packed as usual. I saw some people I knew. No. I saw alot of people I knew. It's surprising (and funny) sometimes how you meet people at places you would never think of.

Yum Frolick!

Ethel loves her dress.

Fail.

Yuck.

From Ethel!

I feel thoroughly satisfied with my buys from the past few days. :)

11/11/08

TEL's surprise birthday bash

Pre-O levels:

Last day of school

Seatmates!

Blur pictures. :(

Old seatmates

Mantou. (look at Zhang haha)

Random:

Chirstmas lights at night at Orchard! I like this year's decorations. Especially the giant lighted cupcakes. :)

Finally done. :) I'm probaly going to Paris next week! :)

I'm going to the National Library tomorrow (in what seems like ages)! And get a French manicure sometime soon.

I should exercise and maybe bake since I'm so free and can't possibly go out everyday.

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4 weeks and 18 papers later...

O levels are over!!! I feel pretty purposeless though. But it beats feeling stressed and vexed anytime.:) Proper update soon on post-‘O' level activities!

My current favourite song:

You’ve got to love Agyness Deyn. :)

Plus, Melin, Ee and I think the womanizer in the Womanizer music video is pretty hot. :) Watch it to believe it! (Don't be momentarily stunned by a naked Britney. There's no frontal nudity. :))

On a more pensive note my cousin passed away, which was quite a shock for me since she's only in her thirties and has a 3 year old son. This might sound hackneyed but life truly is unpredictable.

In light of this I think we're postponing the trip to Paris to late December/early January (before 11 January, thanks for the useful info Zoe!). But at least I'm still going to Europe (and having weekly French lessons with Tristan). :) I need to shop for high rise boots too, since viewing The Sartorialist has spurred me to dress better in winter (if only Singapore had 4 seasons). I don't want to look like another plain old tourist.

Well, make the most out of your holidays everyone! Carpe diem!

2008-09-08T19:17:00.008+08:00

/edit/ 10 Sept 08

I've been waiting every September to see what new contraption Apples comes up with. Nothing very fascinating this time round but I might consider changing to the new iPod nano (the red one!!!). My current one is scratched all over and disgusting. Not considering the iPod touch though because it's a little too bulky for me. I like things I can stuff in my pocket/handbag/clutch. Moreover, colours appeal to me. :)

(click to enlarge)

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I know these were from a gazillion years back but whatever. Pictures from the film camera (I lost 12 shots accidentally while yanking out the film from the camera because I exposed one part of it to the light. :()

I baked! :)

I apologise for the gross pictures.

I love the Spring 2009 Ready-to-Wear collection. :)

Gucci does it again:

Favorites:

Abate Spring 08

Chanel Resort 09

Oscar de La Renta

I like

Le sigh if only we had prom all over again.

School was humdrum and dreary. I shouldn't have gone to school today. I only went to school because I thought there was CCA checking. But yakking with Esther, TEL and Jacq (especially about some guys) is insanely fun though. ;)

After listening to Hotel California on Connor's iPod I'm very much in love with the song now. Now it's been on repeat on my iPod. :)

Oh I love Marjorie (She's from Marseille, France!!!) from ANTM 11. She's so adorable, so Agyness Deyn. I love her peroxide blond hair. But nerves get the better of her though, I just know she isn't going to win. :(

AD

M

Thank you very very very (x10000) much Nathan. :)

And to -----, I'm really sorry and I hope that we'll still remain friends and maybe, just maybe, I might consider it after my O levels. :)

2008-08-31T22:25:00.004+08:00

I'm hoooked onto Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. It's hilarious. Season 4 is out now. :) Yay one more show to watch besides ANTM C11.

Some of my favourites:

I love Sorin. :) Even though he's not a model anymore.

Check out 3.28 onwards.

And 7.45 onwards

PS cafe@Dempsey with Adrian Nat Deanna Ed Nathan Hx on Thursday night. :) It was great catching up with Adrian and Nat, with their anecdotes from Down under, followed by sea salt and caramel ice-cream!!! We love. :) (Speaking of which there's a fleur de sel-caramel-chocolate craze going on in my house now.) Afterwhich we went to SC and visited Aunty Maureen. Didn't eat a lot then but the crème brûlée was awesome and the chocolate mousse was... special hahahah inside joke. Send me pictures friends. :)

Went out with Car in the afternoon a few days ago for some shopping, and reserved a few items (because my dad wants to pay for them via credit card to gain Krisflyer miles). :) It was lovely catching up and talking about anything under the sun, from shopping and people to irksome Singaporean behaviour (Do you say 'Thank you' when someone opens the lift for you and waits for you to leave before getting out [simple things like that]?). Met um a gay guy along the way. Hahaha he's pretty funny (in a positive way). BTW I don't condone homosexuality.

I've had so many people looking at my sandals.

4G class pictures from some time ago (Oh yes that's my school's gross canteen in the background)

Credits: Ms Tan

Forgot what the commotion was about.

And TEL! You haven't sent me the pictures yet!

Chinese tuition with Melvin and Ethel is always enjoyable. We were having a debate on who _____ liked and finally affirmed our suspicions by asking Ethel lookalike2. Melvin won the debate, with Ethel and I still reeling in shock and disbelief. Really...

Lunch next week with Melvin and Ethel tentatively. Melvin's going to treat us[with his $500 a week allowance (!!!)]. I don't know if I should believe him. Pfft.

My phone conked out a few days ago. It's unable to send SMSes. So if you've sent me an SMS but have yet to receive a reply you know the reason now. >:(

Oh and I got my Jivara Lactée, Ivoire and Equatoriale chocolate! :) After O's I'm gonna make this for Mummy's birthday. :)

Anyway I'm going to get a new DSLR! Preferably a Nikon D40x or D60 (And I'm hoping for a D80 at the end of next year!). Giving the comex fair a miss though, many have told me of how disgustingly crowded and hectic it is. :( As long as I get my camera before setting off for the Land of Baguettes. Which is not too long a wait. :)

It's going to be a happening week. Can't wait! :)

2008-08-06T21:21:00.007+08:00

/edit/
25 Aug 2008

15th Aug 2008

Me loves Michael Phelps. :)

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I'm so getting these, they're so cool:

I want high-waisted shorts too. :)

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Sorry TEL, as much as you are my best friend, this is too comical and entertaining hahaha.

The reason why TTM, Melin, Salad, Thiam, Esther and I were sprawling on the floor/table laughing on Monday:

From TTM's blog:

" Oh. I must recount something really funny that TEL said. Context: Mr Loh let us watch this video, where this guy took a hard-bioled egg, made a hole at each end of the egg, and blew the egg out of the middle ring of shell. So. TEL went home to try it, and apparently so did Sarah Thiam.

ST:Aye, how come you can do it, and I can't?
TEL: The bottom hole must be quite big.
ST: How big is your bottom hole?
TEL: A few fingers. *starts laughing*

And we all burst out laughing, and ostracise TEL for the rest of Physics and History. The funniest part was when she pretended to be mad at us for making fun of her, she pretended to cry! haha! Dabbing her eyes with tissue!!! Yes, it had us howling on the floor with laughter. (o: "

Lunchbox day! :)

Compare:

Photo credit: Thiam via TTM's blog

We are ANTM fanatics. We did another ANTM shot for class photo-taking too.

This is for Mrs Jay (Juan) Manuel; ANTM Cycle 11 as seen on the latest issue of Vogue!

Yuck hahaha.

On a different note, Daddy brought back lots of goodies from Japan. :)

Gérard Mulot macarons, one of the best I've ever tasted (after Pierre Hermé).

Citron, The vért, Café, Framboise, citron being the best.

And the best matcha and adzuki red bean cake I've tasted, from Pâtisserie Tiffin.

Oh I went to Canele at Shaw Centre on Sunday and saw this:

Reminds you of Champs-Élysées, no?

Considering how much I frikin talk about food my blog could jolly well be a food directory.

2008-07-31T17:36:00.003+08:00

Founder's Day I

I have 500 photos. So I'll take my time uploading it. :) Here's some for now (in random order). Some pictures from others. :)

This was surprisingly good.

I was eating Grace Chan's chocolate ice cream and talking to TEL in the toilet.

Hiding behind the curtains all prepped up for the ANTM fashion show!

TEL's favourite picture

Ho hum guess who

My falsies. Made my eye itch a little.

Awkwardness

Astrid said 'don't smile'

:)

Candid!

We did make up at Grace Chan's house. :)

Zoe before

Zoe after!

Before make up hahah.

More later. :)

2008-07-19T19:26:00.004+08:00

Cath...
She stands with a well intentioned man
But she can't relax with his hands on the small of her back
As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile
Like someone would hold a crying child

Soon everybody will ask what became of you
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do

Cath...
It seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed
But you said your vows and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more

Soon everybody will ask what became of you
Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do
The whispers that it won't last roll up and down the pews
And if our hearts were dying that fast, they would have done the same as you
I'd have done the same as you

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Happy birthday July babies! :)
i.e. Salad
Ethel
Nathan
Dad
Daryl
Renata

Have a blessed birthday!

I've eaten... at least 5 birthday cakes this month. Haha.

The highly anticipated Founder's Day is next week! I think I'll have supper after that. :)

And,

Thanks for the camera DC!

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On yet another disparate note,

hate the plaids but love the concept. :)

2008-07-06T16:10:00.002+08:00

Weekends!

Lunch at Fre(n)sh, OMG they have some of the best desserts I've ever tasted. Like Crème brûlée and Opera.

Tangs Vivo City

Dinner at Picotin, very lovely desserts. :)

I love taking pictures of molten chocolate cakes. :)

A pint of beer.

Aunt P gave me a pair of 3-inch heels. Yay now I don’t need to wear my 4.5 inch heels for Founders. :)

Hectic weeks. :( But random happenings like ANTM reenactments and being the fashion police make my day. :)

We did SAT sample questions in Learning Lab for an hour. :) Maybe I should go to the States to study? I was actually thinking UK/Australia. I guess I can leave that decision till later for the time being.

Test shots for D. :)

I know this is late but thanks for the well wishes everyone. :) They're greatly appreciated. :)

2008-06-18T00:37:00.004+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREA CHEAH!!!!! (:

Stay pretty and happy, and

have a lovely sweet sixteenth!

this time you didn't expect our early surprise, no? (:

Lots of love,
geraldine, deanna, fi. (:

2008-06-13T01:50:00.003+08:00

Ahah well I’m feeling really unperturbed these days, and I’ve been going to bed early because there’s nothing for me to stay up for. I finished watching ANTM Cycle 10! I love Katarzyna. And, she’s gorgeous. I think gorgeous people look their best without make up. :)

Don’t. Like. Jaslene.

OMG I want this! So cool, a yoghurt and ice-cream maker.

Then I can come up with 7 tier ice creams with 7 different flavours, just like the very ones I had in Hokkaido. I miss Japan and Hokkaido milk and Ginza (strawberries, rock melon, tempura, dessert, matcha!).

They looked something like these.

I can’t really recall all the flavours but I think there is matcha, lavender rock melon, sea salt(really good even though it sounds weird), black sesame, chocolate, strawberry, milk… yum.

Oh I got my prom dress. :) It’s not perfect per se, but it’ll do. :)

I miss Australia too. My ANTM bunkmates, the supermarkets, snorkeling, friends. And the guy at movie world we bumped into. Ahaha.:)

Aha well there are pictures of Jacq (snorkeling and shopping buddy!) and I snorkeling too, but we look too funny for the pictures to be put up here. Hahaha. (Snorkeling pictures to be up soonish)

I went to Giuseppe Zanotti today, they were having a sale and I wanted to buy a pair of T-bars but they didn’t have my size. Damnit.

Lovely.

Pictures from quite some time ago.

So pretty. From Miu Miu (favourite brand!).

2008-06-01T00:43:00.005+08:00

The week was mundane, as usual. >:(

Anyway it was the ACS IB open house on Monday. Met up with Mel, TEL, Esther, Astrid and Zoe. :) Pretty much did nothing there. One hour later we found ourselves in the canteen eating dessert/noodles. Esther and I are dessert buddies. :) Then we cam whored till 4 plus.

We asked Astrid to take us on the bridge and zoom in, but we ended up being small little people on a bridge. :)

Fake grass photos. We were against the sun, so there were dark photos.

Failed shot.

TEL was our marker. :)

TEL, Me, Esther.

Brilliant photo-taking ideas.

Hallelujah.

/edit/ Photos from Esther. :)

And the random.

Friday, dinner with churchies! Tears of laughter, splitting stitches, ice-cream and 2 broken cameras (thankfully not mine hahah). :)

Dinner at Dempsey's tonight, followed by shopping. :)

Later!

2008-05-17T23:50:00.008+08:00

25 May 2008

I went to a pasar malam yesterday, finally, because I happened to pass by Bukit Panjang on the way back home. :) They never ever have pasar malams at Bukit Timah. Quite an interesting experience, there was an array of cheap stuff! Oh on a different note I’m probably going to purchase a Polaroid camera. I’ve been contemplating since October last year, cause they’re not all that cheap, with the film. I think this could be my birthday present from Mummy and Daddy. :)

School has been… bah. Tiring. Not even one week after mid years and we already have homework to do. We did CIP this week, singing to receptive/unreceptive old folks. Ee Leng and I liked this particular mother and daughter pair, haha OMG they’re so cute and sweet. :) Then on Thursday, some of us watched Moulin Rouge in the library but we weren’t able to finish watching it. At 1040 we were going to be late for Physics and hence Julia fast forwarded the part where they were to sing and kiss and everyone went mad. Literally; haha hilarious! But then again on Friday we watched the whole movie together with the class and some other people. Now the songs are stuck in my head. :)

Oh I made cupcakes yesterday! Which reminds me… I need to tidy up the minutes for BS meeting.

Vivo city today for shopping. :) I saw some lovely 100% silk dresses, tres chic. Sadly they didn't have my size. :( And candy empire... oh my I bought like bags of candy+ chocolate. Some are way overpriced though.

Then I had supper with Deanna, Nat, Ed, Tiff, Samuel, Daryl and Geri at Holland V. Good fun. :) ACS IB open house tomorrow, 1 to 5pm. Bah. It takes up my whole afternoon.

17 May 2008

(Probiotic goodness + breakfast)

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Mid-years are over. :) So is (a miraculously successful) Family Day! Finally, a full 8+ hours of sleep, the arduous 6/7 weeks are over. No more jadedness. That is, for now. I guess this is only the beginning. Bah.

Anyway, on a lighter note, I went out yesterday, with Jiani, Esther, Astrid and Maisie! After like 6 weeks of confinement. Went to Borders to try and pick up a Mother’s Day present, Jiani too, we were thinking of getting cookbooks. Gah in the end Maisie Esther and I just drooled on while looking through the wonderfully-photographed food in the cookbooks. Lunch at NYDC and a little shopping at Wisma before splitting up.

It was left with Esther, Astrid and I and after a while Esther left. I saw a lovely prom dress. Too bad the price wasn’t, retailing at $239+ for some thin fabric. :( I’m 99% sure I’m going to tailor make my dress. :)

And at 5.15pm Astrid left. So I shopped a little on my own. :) I got a fetching clutch!

More pictures coming, I’m waiting for Esther to send them to me and Astrid to post them up. :)

Went to Haji Lane today with Mummy. I didn’t get anything though. Tomorrow I’m heading to Vivo city and Ikea, then dinner at Macaron. :)

Tomorrow: lunch with churchies + preview sales…And there’s class party and a belated Mother’s Day dinner on Monday at Carousel (dessert dessert dessert!), so yay. :) I found the snorkeling pictures taken when we were at the Great Barrier Reef for Saabaticals so I’ll post them up soon.

Enjoy your weekend! :)

2008-03-30T19:35:00.015+08:00

/edit/ 120408

Swim meet photos from a week ago...

Lunch with TTM Grace F. Jong and E square at coronation plaza. Hahaha.

TTM took these haha. :)

TTM Grace and Jong then left from worship practise; E^2 and I went for some gelato. :) Before that, we headed to some lovely food marts a stone's throw away.

Ee, Me

Ee's coke. I hate coke; I don't think it tastes awesome.

Tartufo, Jamaican banana; vanilla, lavender and honey. The guy at the counter gave me the wrong ice cream though. I asked for mascarpone. Couldn't be bothered to change the flavours. But it was still pretty good in the end. :)

Ee with a humongous deck of cards!

After that we took a rattling, dingy bus back home. :)

Ahh school's been freaking hectic. My mum thinks I put too much pressure on myself.

Later! :)

090408

Ooh I'm using Apple Safari now... actually there's nothing special about it, haha. Photo update soonish! :)

*WARNING: EXTREMELY IMAGE HEAVY

My longest post ever: A big fat turkey full of photos.

I say there are over 120 photos so if you get sick of seeing them that’s alright haha. You could fast forward to the Olympics pictures of something. :)

So, during my 3-week absence there have been many things going on, BCBG Max Azria fashon show, high tea/tea parties, going out wih people…Bake sale I is over, now it’s Bake sale II and Family Day 08. :)

Watch Step up 2 with Ee Leng some Fridays ago, ahh they have the coolest dance moves, especially at the end!

Me, Ee

Skip to last Friday, the opening show for the Singapore Fashion Festival 2008, Matthew Williamson S/S 2008 (tie-dye galore!) with Ed, Geraldine, Nathan, Tiffy and Sam. :) Dinner was great, food, clothes, and the tribal music hahah… OMG Renata you looked freaking gorgeous. They have Haagen Dazs ice cream backstage! Haha we took like 3 tubs. Photography was not allowed backstage though. Pictures in my other SD card, will be up soon? I suppose. Hmm saw lots of people during the festival, Denise Keller, Patricia Mok, socialites, JJ Lin? Channel News Asia presenters, other celebs/personalities etc.

Yesterday night, Ashley Isham (click here too) Autumn/Winter 2008 Collection with Ethel! Very gorgeous clothes, Black and whites, metallic dresses, snakeskin, shimmer and satin, flowy dresses and fabrics, dark greens/purples/blues, red… to songs like Coronation Rag by the Rah Band! I saw some potential prom dresses! It was so cool, everyone armed with DSLRS/P&S. :) I have more photos, these are just some of them!

Me, Ethel

Entrance

In the Tent @ Orchard

Fake snow. Haha they’re Styrofoam balls.

Video! A short one. Check out the many photographers.

She almost fell! But I guess it happens once in a while.

When Selena came out everyone oohed and aahed, yeah including Ethel and I.

The man himself.

Runway.

Denise Keller and friend.

Stepping on the floor with these Styrofoam balls were freaking slippery.

Ethel, Me. I have a black spot on my cheek?!

Complimentary Coke light and some Harper’s Bazaar thing.

In the morning we had Sec 4 Olympic Games! Fun stuff; taking pictures, crazy class cheers, sweltering heat… We were the Floorball champions! :)

I wonder if we know
How they live in Tokyo
If you've seen it, and you mean it,
Then you know you have to go
FAST AND FURIOUS

Drift, Drift, Drift
FAST AND FURIOUS

Drift, Drift, Drift

The Floorball team: (L to R) Grace C, Mel, Julia, Melin, Grace F, Eunice, Jacq, Jennifer, Me, Thiam

TAN EE LENG haha.

TAN TAM MEI haha.

During the game, thanks Eeleng for taking this pic (and others!)!

Jiani, Grace, Eeleng, Me

JUMPING SHOTS!

Zoe Jiani Me XH Yiling EeL hahah.

Zoe, Salad, Ee, Me

The infamous bottle.

SPOT THE THREE DOTS hahaha.

Astrid, me

4T and 4G

Hey Jiani!

So cute!

Pictures for the BS Catalogue

I love my necklace, some people have asked me about it. :)

Ok I'm finally done, bye! :)

2008-02-29T22:33:00.018+08:00

/edit/ 11 March 2008

It's not over tonight
Just give me one more chance to make it right
I may not make it through the night
I won't go home without you

Inside joke. :)

10 March 2008

One week late but: HAPPY BIRTHDAY XIAOHUI!

Ahah madwoman! Thanks for all the fun, laughter and joy shared with Salad and I! :) Haha stay happy you hungry rabbit! :)

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY CHERYL!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ZHANGHUI!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JN!

Last week was a fairly relaxing week. :) Haha it gets quite funny in class sometimes, when we are all half-awake and sleep-deprived, we start ignoring teachers and get grumpy. Then we start to do ridiculous things, from sharing lame jokes to wrestling. Lots of things on this week! Dinners with people and shopping (with Mummy, etc.), oh joy.

Cross country on Friday, the route was short, only 2.8km. :)

Went out with TEL today. Good shopping, I’m elated. :) We’re going to watch a movie on Friday with the free movie passes I have!

Far East Plaza sucks. We went there today, and skipped almost every other shop because the stuff they sold were pretty Ah Lian. We covered the whole mall in 40 minutes? There were a few hidden gems though. :)

Bumped into some people, and elite models. That's where ANTM models are, Jen's in that agency too! Haha so cool.

Wisma Atria.

Ee Leng, Me. Some random green girl behind us.

Me and TEL

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Lunch on a Saturday morning/afternoon at Mingles. One of the days when I bring my camera out. :)

Hello from the soup spoon. :)

I love their crispy chicken with mashed potatoes and cilantro yoghurt. And their triple crème brûlée!

Seafood soup.

Dad’s salmon.

Mum’s rosti.

Dessert! A staple.

Macarons. They were pretty good.

Rose, Mango-Passionfruit, Raspberry, Gianduja.

Dome Exotique:

7p.m.- Band[age] with TEL and Esther. :)

Surprise: Us and the Band[age] committee with balloons for Melin and TTM! :) I love this picture.

The music was pretty good. And Tolstoy! Blew the roof off with Zombie and Heartbeat. :) I liked Redeeming the Riots, even though I don’t like Click 5 songs.

RTR had funny placards.

Then two Tuesdays ago… there was the Serene Centre incident during the meeting, haha how comical.

Might be going for Maroon5’s concert. :)

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These weeks have been passing so fast! Well school is fun I guess, with friends and our crazy laughter, and trips home in Jiani's car. The conversations between her and her dad are hilarious.

"Be a good, it's good, you can save lives."
"Then I should be a fireman."

"Which one of you belong to my Malaysian gang?"

Haha lots of comical happenings in school this week, XH Jiani Jacq Yiling Esther and us all huddles round the canteen table talking, XH's broken spectacles with its lens falling off at the most inappropriate times and our skit etc... hahaha so very amusing.

Some people have bought their proms dresses already. I shall start scouting/looking around too.

I'm going for SFF's Ashely Isham show! Nata said she would try and help me get Matthew Williamson show tickets cos she's doing the show for them or something. Haha cool.

Tomorrow is dinner+ a little shopping time! NExt Saturday would be Band[age]! :)

Prom dress inspirations

and a few random ones. My mum prefers me to wear shorter dresses.

Missioni (Pre Fall 08 and S/S 08)

Rubin Singer (S/S 08)

Versace (S/S 08)

Michael Kors (S/S 08)

Gucci (S/S 08)

I love the yellows and B&W combination. :)

2008-02-16T00:18:00.011+08:00

/edit 24th Feb 2008/

Ugh there’s so many things to do. I guess I’m feeling pretty numb about tests and such, and most of us are. Whatever tests or assignments that come our way, we’d just take it in our stride and not freak out (cue "Chic- Le Freak"), like we did last year, because all of this, MYE and prelims add up to nothing at all. Zilch. It’s really the O level results that counts. :) But it’s silly, we still put pressure on ourselves.

Anyway. This year’s Singapore Fashion Festival is concentrated more on local designers and other high street fashion(hate Mango). Gah, frankly I’m not particularly interested in them, except for Nicholas and Alldressedup. But I want to go for the Carlos Miele and Matthew Williamson show, which was great last year. Hopefully I can get tickets via Dad/Renata. :)

Cookies for friends (test batch for BS). :) Jiani and XH “feel like baking”, haha they have been telling me this since a few days ago.

Went for lunch with the churchies at PS Cafe @ Dempseys. Then we dropped by Apple Centre @ Orchard to purchase my earphones. I think I will get Sennheiser earphones during my next visit. :) They last better and have better sound quality as compared to Apple's.

I'm eagerly awaiting shopping next week! :) And going out with friends/good company (adrian, natasha, ee leng, ethel, nat, nathan, ed, daryl, deanna, carrie, tiffy, gerri, sann, fi etc.) during the March Holidays. Though it will be filled with so much homework. >:( Family day is nearing as well!

It's going to be the end of February. :(

Send me pictures everyone!

P.S. I was going through my pictures and this picture still makes me laugh.

Ahah I love Maisie.

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So, the last two weeks were busy busy dizzy. CNY in KL was great, food and money and talking. JC and O level talk (not your nosey relatives kind of conversation), 6 points 6 points. My dad says HCI is cheena, not for me. >:( But Melissa and Sandra say it’s not all that cheena, so yeah.

And then it was the much-needed extra one-day break, mm biology math biology math biology math. It’s now Friday (actually Saturday morning) and 7 tests later. Next week will be no different, 4 tests? Oh well. Anyway, sports day (yakking with Cheryl), fire drill, total defence day performance and helping to de-thorn roses were the only interesting events this week.

During the fire drill Jiani, XH and I walked through the supposed fire spot, and Mr Koh caught us and pronounced us dead, and now the whole world knows? I got to be a casualty. It was pretty relaxing, sitting on a stretcher carried by 4 people; it feels like I’m in a hammock. Then I slept a little in the air-conditioned MEP room, haha.:) Total defence day performance was a screw-up, hawhaw.

Going home with Jiani; we left a trail of rose petals behind. :) I shall prepare some belated Valentine’s Day presents tomorrow.

Jiani and Astrid:
“You want a lift from my dad”
“Yeah”
“Ok we’ll walk this way, by the open space because there’s reception (for the phone; the reception in MGS sucks)”
“Oh ok, since there’s food I’m gonna eat.”

HAHAHAHAHA

Anyway, pictures! More people pictures when I receive them.

We were bored, so we drove to the countryside/satellite town? Sunset. :)

Chubby Cheeks

We dressed him up in the weirdest clothing we could find for him. Meet the Tibetian toddler.

My granny grows many things in her garden. Just a few:

Pomegranate flower

From inside our house:

I love weekends. :)

2008-01-19T21:30:00.000+08:00

/edit/3rd Feb 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA F.!

Your party was so much fun! And the food was yummo. :) I hope yo like the present Nat and I gave you! :)

This week, though one of the busiest (6 tests! And final proposal due!), has been great! Haha school is wicked fun with friends and crazy modelling poses before Higher Chinese. Laughed so much we had... silent laughter, if you know what I mean when you laugh really hard. :)

So, Friday night I had dinner at Orchard and did late night shopping, even though I already have everything I need for CNY. Same thing for Saturday, haha. I am overjoyed, I got my DSLR, wedges from Aldo, dress from Banana Republic, kitten heels-esque wedges from some shop in Wisma Atria and tops and accessories from several places; Pull and Bear, River Island etc.

Whee, shopping spree. :) So my jadedness from the past few days has somewhat dissipated. But it's not like I do this often anyway. Haha, I don't know when I will ever have the time to shop like this again.

Anyway I checked out Topshop and I find their stuff overrated, ew.

It is CNY next week!!! Can't wait, Mummy bought so many goodies from Canele and chocolate cake, she even bought pineapple tart ice cream from Island creamery, haha. It sounds weird but it tastes okay I guess.

In addition, Dad bought a Coach clutch from US; he said it was for me to put my red packets in. Haha, sweet but I don't really like the clutch. But it's the thought that counts. :)

Learning Lab is giving out scholarships! And we got glossy, colour worksheets in class, which was pretty fun. Mummy says they have too much money.

These are japanese candies Mummy bought, pretty. :) But it came in a big packet and I have loads extra so I will give these as part of Valentine's Day gifts. Hawhaw.

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24 Oct 2007

It must be the second-happiest day ever.

With a lecture theatre full of crazy screaming girls and hugs. :) And the seniors! They all did so well. Especially Kim! :) Next year we would get a mean L1R5 of less than 10, hopefully.

p.s. Making taffy apples, poached pears and chocolates with Mummy later!

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Today I went shooting! Haha coolest thing ever. Went with Tiffany Bernice Geraldine Jared Nat Bradford Ed and Damien plus our parents. :) The rifle’s really heavy though, my arms ache terribly. Using the revolver (?) was so much fun (for lack of a better word), shooting moving paper human targets. I shot its heart, haha. Gave us all an adrenaline rush. :) It’s so much better than banal counterstrike or whatever you call it.

Then we all went to Au Petit Salut for lunch. :) Their French Seabass and Crème brulée are the best, ever. :)

I jogged 10km today on the treadmill. :) I feels good, because haven't jogged in ages as I've been up to my neck with school/tuition/church stuff.

Yesterday was our Heritage tour, which was pretty boring. It wasted 4 hours of my time, I could have done many things.

Family Day planning is starting, and we may have another BS. Stress, stress, stress. >:( I am going to include shooting for family day though. :)

Typical 10.15 am conversation on weekdays:
“What day is it today?”
“It’s (insert day here).”
“They have (insert name of food here) today!”

Yeah, School Sucks.
I love my group though! :) We talk some mean stuff. :)

I miss watching Martha Stewart shows at 12 noon when I've just woken up. She cooks the best food. :)

2008-01-05T22:55:00.000+08:00

/edit 12th Jan 2008/

Today, while having lunch at Sushi Tei (Shrimp sushi with mayonnaise and cod roe & sashimi! :)) , I think I saw Nigel Barker and family, haha. I just wasn't 100% sure, but he looked so very much like him. Maybe it was him. Hahah whatever.

Then I had dinner at Patara, mm best wayugu beef curry ever. I am nearly done with the weekend homework! Yay tomorrow is rest day. :) In addition, I feel much better now.

"Where's my water bottle?"
"Astrid you're holding it."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whKQBcnLiQ

Soulja Boy FTW!

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Eagerly waiting for the next Friday.

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Insane-but-fun happenings:

-Astrid doing her Victoria's Secret Runway Show Catwalk
-XH throwing her wallet in the air only to hit the fan with a loud 'thunk', we thought the fan had exploded
-XH's stolen Tao Kae Noi diary
-Jiani and I conning Astrid into apologising to us
-Boycotting Mix and Match because of their meagre servings of food
-My whole group (In fact, more than that!)moaning about how we hate school
-Waiting eons for Ivfen so that we can go home together
-Laughing at inappropriate times
-XH's array of stickers
-Discussion on how to decorate the school diary (not for me)
-The Post-it trend

This is what I go to school for. Other than that life is sickeningly depressing. It's only been 3 days, yet the routine goes on: tests, assignments, tests, assignments, tests, assignments... (I.H.S.!)

I made Hazelnut Shortbread with Aunty L today. :)

Can't wait for CNY. :) 2.5 days off school. :)

2007-12-23T20:36:00.000+08:00

31 Dec 2007

2007 has been a great year, spent with friends and family. :)

I don't make it a point to state hopes/wishes/resolutions, because who said these must only be made/said when a new year comes?

Anyway, the sky was lovely today. :)

Still waiting for pictures from the party and last friday...

/edit 29 Dec 2007/IMAGE HEAVY/

Spot Nathan, Daryl, Geraldine, Krystal, Darren, Evan, Zoe K. and I (We don't look all that bad)! This was before I transferred to Glory?

Wednesday

Orchard with Yun Ching, Yun Fang and our mums. Mums did their own shopping and we did ours. Sales!!! We went mad. But it was so good catching up. :) Haha sharing funny stories, secrets and gossip felt great. Brisbane’s schooling life sounds so fun. Compared to Brisbane, Singapore’s partying and clubbing life is way behind Brisbane’s and much more downplayed, haha. Well we only meet once a year? Around there. Then it we saw the Christmas lighting on the streets, which wasn’t very impressive. Can’t wait to see her again.

Me, Yun Ching

If you fancy that huge painting to the right, you can buy it for US$1 300 000.

Yun Ching on the right, she likes that painting a lot haha.

We think alike, whenever we spot a fashion faux past we look at each other and snicker, like telepathy hahaha (“ I think I know what you’re thinking”). It’s not like you haven’t snickered at someone before.

Speaking of which, we saw over 30 people wearing Little Miss and Mr shirts, quite disturbing.

I saw red suede/leather pumps at Zara which were so comfortable! I will buy them sometime before school reopens. :)

Christmas lighting

Friday

Went to school for a meeting, haha Photobooth time! Thinking of ways to save the pictures was an arduous task.

Itchy hands roaming, we found 4 brand new iPod shuffles, haha. I personally wouldn’t put all of them in a conspicuous-looking white box.

“I found an iPod shuffle!”
“OMG”
“I found another one, one for you and one for me”
“I found another two”

I love love Maisie.

may see one; see tree; and we are two (inside)

Haunting Maisie

Sze, Me, Maisie

I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet sky, I could be hurtful, I could be purple, I could be anything you like

Then Nat Nathan Daryl Carrie Deanna Ed came by my house and we went for lunch at Orchard again. This is the only picture that I have, but check out my bright green portfolio (I look like I was posing)!

Dinner with Mum and Dad

Sushi, my favourite. :)

Salmon roe yummo

Green Tea parafait

Green Tea wafers with ice cream and burnt sugar.

Kualr Lumpur some time ago. I only had my slippers as I forgot to bring the rest of my shoes. :(

Visited my newphew, with the chubbiest cheeks ever that beg to be pinched. He doesn’t like it, but I don’t believe in pampering him too much. :) I don't think there was ever one moment where he stood still.

That’s my hairclip. :) He doesn’t know how to pose for the camera.

Dad

Unglam Susan haha

On the street, he tilts his head 90 degrees to look at me and tries on my Haviannas (which I had to take off). I am left with his size 2 shoes.

He eats half of my crème caramel.

Shopping

My mum loves supermarkets. Cold storage:

:)

Bye, and I realised I haven’t worn my MGS school uniform for two months. :)

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It is 1.00am, 25th December 2007. Merry Christmas!

I just came back from the Christmas countdown party. :)

Brownies with ganache as a gift, made with Deanna. :)

I am mass messaging and it is taking forever, I guess thousands of people are mass messaging too, haha.

Anyway take care, and eat your turkey. :)

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These days are pretty awesome (apart from the revising of work), moreover I have been having Japanese cuisine since who knows when, I can’t even remember the last time I ate Chinese food or something, haha. My mummy makes good sushi, zaru soba and katsu don too. :)

There have been several potlucks and parties, haha the biggest one ever on 24th Dec! Can’t wait, but then again school is starting (cue “I hate school!”). Haha ok I don’t wanna be a killjoy.

Anyway, I went out with Ee Leng to Orchard several Mondays ago for some shopping. :) And I found a bookstore that sells books more than $10 cheaper compared to Kino, I think I will hardly patronise Kino again. We were offered jobs too, haha but we can only work next year after O's. :(

Ee lengy with her big Toys R' Us bag and I

Oh yeah haha yes Carrie I forgot to mention that I went to Macau as well and I went to the Venetian. It’s ok, just another shopping mall with canals like that of Venice. Pretty cool I guess. I stepped into the casino accidentally; I didn’t know I was supposed to be above 18, I didn’t even notice that that it was a casino in the first place. But haha I walked through the entire casino, which was so freaking huge that I can say that there were maybe thousands of tables laid with cards and jackpot machines. Security guards were staring at me but I just thought they were weird. Well that was a good experience. They don’t allow photo-taking in the casino though. :(

I want to cut my hair into a chic layered bob, I think it looks pretty awesome and I’m quite tired of my out-of-bed hair.

Something like a longer, layered bob, slightly different from the above cuts. I don't like emulating hairstyles blindly; I hate copying. Then again, maybe I’m not that adventurous. I’ll think about it. Seriously.

Went to Car’s house some time ago!

Calvinnn

Can't seem to upload more photos, maybe more later.

Also, Yun Ching is coming back to Singaporeee. Can’t wait, will be meeting her on Wednesday!!! :)

On a random note my dad helped me invest in stocks, mainly Singtel because it’s a bluechip company. Cool, never knew I could buy stocks at 15 and make money.

I went to KL last week too, haha pity I didn’t meet Maisie there! :)

Anddd I'm getting my SLR early next year (it hasn't arrived yet)! :) :) :) Shopping with mummy after Christmas, it's the season of post-Christmas sales. :)

This post is made up of many many random events. Haha whatever.

2007-12-04T17:45:00.000+08:00

Back from Europe and Malaysia. :)

It was so fun, I want to go to Italy/Paris/Rome/Milan/Austria again. I think we are going there again next year after O levels :) I loved it so much! There were so many things to see, yet so little time. Gelato, pasta, pizza, pastries, vespas, cobblestone streets, huge roundabouts, H&M (where I met Raff and Kyle!:)), pretty people. :) Shopping was soo good! And so was the food. We stayed at Sacher hotel, which was so pretty, and had their world-famous Sacher(sp?) Torte.

I think I had too many desserts. :) Gah pictures later maybe.

Malaysia was pretty much enjoyable too, nasi lemak, shopping and the best roti jala. :)

Anyway there was some pre-Christmas dinner? Hosted by Aunt Kat. :) Half potluck half buffet, French food. Made panna cotta for that. Halfway through Nat Ed Deanna Hannah Jared Daryl Nathan Fiona Samuel and I left halfway to go for the Fullerton Hotel chocolate buffet. Chocolate heaven! Bliss; and full not in a so-sweet-I’m-stuffed way. Puddings, brownies, fondue fountain, charlottes, cheesecakes, fudge, truffles, mousse you name it you got it.

Hehehe before that we watched the most gay show ever after Blades of Glory, Enchanted, hahah. Quite a WTH show but it was pretty funny sometimes, with all the lame parts. Hahaha. Patrick Dempsey looked better in Grey’s Anatomy. After that we went to House, Barracks and Camp (?) at Dempseys for drinks. 10 people shared Green Tea Tiramisu and Strawberry Shortcake :)

I think, Dempsey beats Holland V big time. :)

I just realized we were eating non-stop throughout the night. Hahaha.

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edmunddddd: you know
when you were away
i met matt bellamy

andrea: really! cool when? :)
i knew they were coming to singapore…

edmunddddd: last tuesday
he signed my elect guitar!!

andrea: where at?
eh wait
hahaha dude I was just playing with your guitar yesterday and there was no signature!
what was that for anyway?

edmunddddd: hahahahahaahahahahhh
kidding
the guys are here
were playing truth or dare

andrea: weird hahaah

edmunddddd: dont tell me girls dont play truth or dare!

andrea: we do
only it’s just the truth for us

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Vincent’s 2nd birthday

Pictures from Adeline.

With my nephew

With a person who doesn’t want to be named

With Munzzz

With Susan! :) She sells handbags and jewellery. :)

Panna cotta with berry jelly

Hong Kong

We were at Kowloon Island.

Picture Perfect moment. :)

On SIA

Hong Kong Disneyland. :)

And you all know our favourite doughtnut store

Madame Tussads

My friends

My distorted hand

Prince William and Harry’s beautiful mum.

My Greatgrandfather

The Peak Shopping Mall :)

On a different note, my aunt bought 10 sets of earrings, necklaces and bracelets for me, one of the biggest orders I’ve received. Hehehe. :) I received my first PS assignment today too!

I’m rollinggg in money. :)

Then again, I need to do up my other portfolio. Bah, a huge pain in the neck. >:(

2007-11-11T16:10:00.000+08:00

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Back from Hong Kong. :)

Fun, but not much shopping there. Everything there is so -- ----. But I see some salvation, that is, H&M. :) Much better, and cheaper too, compared to Singapore. Pictures, maybe.
Flight there was good, because of the great music and movies on Krisworld (as usual). :) Watched Stardust (which was pretty okay) and some Enrique Iglesias. The music video’s pretty weird though..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86S5oZzzh4

Ringside’s version could be better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6qF_abO3o

Anyway, met up with churchies last night, giving presents receiving presents and telling hilarious personal recounts. :)

Today Ee Leng and I went to Holland V, then bake. :) We watched MTV’s EMA in Munich, and the show where the guy gets hurt in the ----- in Europe (her) and Australia (me) haha so cool. Pictures soon.

On a different note, ANTM Cycle 9 today! Ooh Shanghai. Grey's Anatomy Season 4 is getting more hilarious.

While doing Higher Chinese homework (WTHHH) and researching on MGS, look what I found on Wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Girls%27_School

WTH who has all the time in the world to update a freaking Wikipedia page! Mind you it is very up-to-date, especially the PB part! So. Freaking. Scary.

I prefer ready-to-wear.

Spring 2008 RTW

Carolina Herrera

Elie Saab (favourite designer/line of all time)

Not so for the bow…

Zac Posen

Karl Lagerfield

Donna Karan

Garret Neff !

Going off tomorrow! Shopping. :)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY EE LENG!
Bestie! Thanks you for being there for me, throughout the ups and down, bitching and all that craziness. I love you! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAISIE (fellow Muse fan and big eater)!
My robot who woke me up every morning in Aust. You’re so funny in you own way, and haha during the Aust. trip… ahaha.

(NOTE: IMAGE HEAVY)

Australia; Brisbane and Cairns (31/10/07 to 7/11/07)

Pretty good, the best part was snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. The film from my underwater camera has been developed already, just that my scanner’s spoilt so photos later. Plus I made some awesome friends. :)

Our bunkmates are so funny, Nic Low too.

“Don’t take a picture of my fat ass”

Our (Tricia, Dorothy, Sze, Maisie and I) ANTM cycle 11 room at Broadbeach, Beach Haven Apartments.

Tyra Banks flew us to Cairns and we ANTM contestants stayed at Bohemia Resort.

Pictures with very bad lighting. Bohemia “resort”, duh.

Meet Maisie Lynn Koh (162cm, Dark)

Meet Choi Sze Wing (159cm, Fair)

Meet Andrea Cheah (168cm, Olive) (Sze’s camera is cool)

Winner of ANTM Cycle 11: Maisie Lynn Koh

Mother of pearl, so pretty.

Me feeding pelicans

The dude

And his crab

Prop roots?

I look like a boy but this is a Maisie picture! Without her I would have slept til lunch. (“Can you all at least move to show me you all have woken up?”) Maise does and says the funniest things, and some which you never in you life would have expected her to say/do (“I can’t believe you just said that”) Jacq and I loveeeee her. (Happy Birthday anyway! I don’t know when exactly.)

Grace Chan realized her fringe was on the wrong side?! Ooh wind in my hair made me look bad. Nic looks nice. Ahaha look at Maisie.

I am currently in love with night shots with LE, they’re so pretty. Maisie is now convinced that night shots with LE are pretty too, she started taking them on the last night. :)

Snorkelling at Wavebreak Island
Coffee-like waters, saw little fish. (“Shit the water’s damn cold”)

Cute guy on the extreme left.

Kuranda Rainforest

At the coffee plantation

Unripe coffee beans

We were supposed to pin on the world map which country we were from. Jacq and I were from Italy (haha) but then this woman came down and said “Where are you from? Do you know that you have to pin it on the country you are from” and ruined our whole plan. >:(

Whale watching

Humpback whale and it’s flippers/fins?
I can't find the pictures of the whale’s tail, I'll post it up later.

Grace Chan with Jacq's sunnies hahaha.

Great Barier Reef !(GBR)

Sparkling, crystal clear waters

L to R – Me, Jacq, Grace. Look at Jacq, haha wind in the hair, so high fashion.

Before snorkeling we had to wear chic jumpsuits. Meet The Blue Jumpsuit Apparatus.
While snorkeling we dropped our waterproof slate board countless times, as well as the fish and coral identification sheets. It was a pain in the neck.

Green Island, coral cay on the GBR

Group picture!

Movie world!

L to R – Grace, Nic, Jacq, Flash!, Maisie, Sze, Me
Flash seriously has flirty eyes.

L to R- Jacq, Me (with our sunnies)

Nic, Meow, Jacq, Me

Pirate, Princess

Sze Me

Jacq says the shoes are so soft and nice.

Marilyn Manson.

Hahah Shi Wang!

Jacq’s sunnies and lethal weapon. I sat on it once and it was a horrific experience.

On the carousel, ah childhood days.

At the fake Chinatown in Movieworld

Sze, Jacq, Me

Pretty flowers at the chocolate and cheese making factory

Best Macadamia nut ice cream

Minfeng’s cereal spill

Lake Barrine

Duck.

Someplace I forgot

Sze Maisie Nic Grace Me Jacq

Abbott Street

Best Mango and Raspberry Smoothies at the Dairy Farmer’s Factory

To Brisbane’s International Airport

To infinity.

From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea,
Creations revealing Your Majesty.

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Chinese O levels are over. :) Pretty okay, but I’ll see when the results come.

Dinner with Aunty Flora last Saturday, mm good home cooked food and Shepard’s pie. With Nectarine and Banana ice pops, bostini and Bailey’s and chocoalte ice-cream in shot glasses! All home made. Yum. I can’t wait for the next dinner next week. :)

Churchies have flown to Indiaaa! Sent them off yesterday. :) and :(. Friday at 2am: Dessert bar, we chanced upon iced gems! Oh my childhood days... they make pretty pictures. :)

Ice pops make pretty pictures too. :)

I want to make bostini. My aunt bakes a good bostini pie. :)

Saabaticals!
Keep safe.

xoxo

26 Oct 2007

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071027/tts-science-astronomy-blackholes-c1b2fc3.html

After our last meeting (sorta), supper with churchies a.k.a. Kindergarten 1 buddies (haha) at Holland V's 2am Dessert Bar. Green Tea Crème Brulee, Blueberry Parfait, 2am Meatballs. :)
Blabbing about Kindy-garten 1 fun times. :) I will post that picture soon haha it was so funny then. Last day of school, ah I don't really care. I'm just happy I won't need pass through the gates of MGS for another 2 months. Not looking forward to Sec 4.

"Rule number 1, don't bother sucking up, I hate you already."
"You're like the next Nazi."
"I know."

(loveee! [inside])

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If I told you a secret
You won't tell a soul
Will you hold it and keep it alive
Cause it's burning a hole
And I can't get to sleep
And I can't live alone in this lie

So look up
Take it away
Don't look down the mountain

If the world isn't turning
It won't return
Anyone, anything, anyhow

So take me don't leave me
Take me don't leave me

Well I stand at the crossroads
Of highroads and lowroads
And I got a feeling it's right
If it's real what I'm feeling
There's no makebelieving
The sound of the wings of the flight

Of a dove
Take it away
Don't look down the mountain

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23 Oct 2007

(click to enlarge)

Aww thank you Damien! And Nat, Fi, Ed, Jared, Sam! :) Although I didn't see your tag yesterday, hahah as luck would have it I turned on my phone anyway, and thank you for the surprise BEP/Click 5 ticket! :) So, yesterday night was the BEP/Click 5 concert! Pretty good, hehe. But I always found Click 5 a bore so I didn't really see their performance. Send me picturesss! After that, KAP, talking and home. :) I am very happy, and I have the sweetest+funniest good friends ever. :)

Ahh there are meetings every single day now, hehe it's getting closer to mission trip. Mm I'm pretty excited for you guys! I wish I could go. :(
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I think we're having another bakesale? I have no idea what we're doing but I'm not getting any further into this and I'm honestly quite sick of it already. I doesn't help that my Internet connection fails me at certain times of the day. And I feel like puking whenever I smell certain smells nowadays. Jiani and Astrid also feel like puking too! Oh my I sound like I'm like some pregnant lady. It must be school.

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20th Oct 2007
Meeting today was a blast! Mmm we sorta detoured a bit and baked brownies with chocolate butterflies which were fudge-ier and even better than Famous Amos. :) Pictures soon! Gah I really want to go for mission trip! :(

The job attachment sounds pretty cool, Wheelock Properties and Eurokars (Porsche, Rolls Royce, Saab!!!) ! Maybe I should have went for that instead of Australia.

This week was pretty boring, but I’m pleased with my results, and so are my parents. God answers prayers. :) Well my Higher Chinese sucks like no other though. >:( We have intensive Higher Chinese lessons next week, what a mood dampener. Ugh Higher Chinese ruins my life.

Well, at least there’s dinner with Aunty Flora tonight at Macaron, mmm I love their One, Two, Tea, raspberry granite, pork belly confit and rose bombe. Plus Aunty Flora brought back lots of stuff from the US, Banana Republic etc.! I can’t wait.

I am watching Grey’s Anatomy Season 4 (thanks Nathan!) and ANTM Cycle 9. Nah all the girls aren’t attractive inside and outside, they're only suited for high fashion modelling, no commercial models I guess. I don’t think it’s as good as cycle 8. Season 4 of Grey’s Anatomy is pretty good, maybe even better than Season 3, hehe it’s got lots of twists, humour and parallel plots. I like. :) Plus it’s of high definition, unlike the crap stuff you get on Youtube.

For now, it’s back to studying Chinese.

Tuesday,

"Do you want to go for Exodus?"

"Is it free"

And TTM crushes the flyers and dumps them in Jiani's gross mushroom spaghetti.

13102007
I need cheapo clothes for the Australia trip. No way am I getting my best pair of Levis/Cheap Mondays soaked in seawater or mangrove swamp muck.

On a different note, I want to get somthing like this. Tres chic.

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Thursday
Holland V, JT’s birthday party, 10 hours of sleep. I don’t have pictures my supposedly good friend took away my SD card because he wanted to see scandalous photos, WTH.

Friday
Shopping with Ee Leng at Raffles/Marina/Suntec/Bugis, and taking a lot of pictures. :) I got black skinny jeans.

L to R- Me, Ee leng

Hehe

I look bad but nah who cares.

“Bend down you must be shorter than me”

I like my aviators better. :)

Saturday
Today is shopping with mummy! That’s where the real shopping takes place. :) There’s Aunty D’s party tonight! :) Mmm she always has Haagen Dazs in her fridge.

I didn't know my blood group for Saabaticals and my mum nearly made me go for a blood test WTH but they can’t do a blood transfusion with an oral account alone so I’ll put down what I think my blood group is. It’s found on a card in my birth book whatever you call it, I think that’s it.

Thank goodness if not I could not have went out on Friday.

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Towning today with Salad Ee Maisie Esther Yiling Astrid Jiani Xiaohui Zhang, as well as Nanny Diaries. Haha the kid's too cute, Xiaohui went mad. :) Holland Village tomorrow I think? Shopping! :)

I'm supposed to make something for Aunty Deborah but hehe I'll combine efforts with Addy and Su so they'll bake a cake and buy a present for her, and I'll do the toppers and make a card. :)

And, Ms Kon's leaving MGS! Hah I'll annouce it here faster than the school releases this news to the press.

(Credit: Zalita)

I'm probably gonna do toppers like these, they're pretty. And they require little effort and time so I can do them while watching Grey's Anatomy Season 3 (I'm borrowing the DVD from Deanna!!!).

(I just watched the coolest video ever, Jiani have you watched it yet?!)

Anyway, did you know Salad drinks?! She doesn't believe me that Bailey's has alcohol.

"I like this drink, it's something called..."
"Baileys?"
"Yeah! I like that!"
"I like that tooo! OMG wait you drink?"
"No, Bailey's doesn't contain alcohol"
"Yes it does!"
"No! I only drink two shots!"
"It has alcohol OMG Salad you drink"

Astrid, Esther and I almost died on the spot.

Ivfen thinks Son of a Gun is not a profanity.

Maisie scans through my iPod on the way to school and requested for me to send her (check this out):

Circle circle dot dot(!)
The way I are(!)
Timbaland(!)
GCH
Summer Love
Bones

And more songs I can't remember off hand that surprised me.

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Prefects.

(Send me pictures please! :))

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Last month:

Madness.

Yes that's me.

I founf my Nursery/K1 photo hahah OMG Jared Deanna Nathan Christel Eugene myself ahaha we've changed so much. I'll post the pictures soon! When my scanner works. :)

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Hello, I'm back! After my more than one-month long absence. :)

Gone are:
Studying
5.5 hour sleeps
Headaches
Frustration
Messy, worksheet/textbook-scattered floors

Pinned fringe
Stress

It’s to town the whole of this week! And a whole lot of partying/talking/good food. :)

Happy Birthday CT and JT! :) And Aunty Deborah! So far there's 3 parties this week so yeah it's gonna be cool. :)

Many things to look forward to, Hong Kong, Europe(!!!), Australia, shopping, SFW, jogging with Shuyi, going out, ah all that crazy shit.

I was supposed to leave for HK/Europe on Friday, but then Daddy realised that results were coming back next week so ugh. I can't miss school. >:(

I'm getting an SLR. Sexy. >:)

"How did you find the paper?"
"Fucked up."

Hahaha.

Later. :)