some life in the midst of sucky nie!

4 Feb.. checkeed out bellini grande FINALLY with chem darlings :)
it was really GRAND and i felt i paid to watch a show haha.. no more cosy bellini room feeling :(

13 Feb... celebrated Priscilla's 24th birthday!! :)
@ vivo earle's swensens
(the food steak chicken n all was totally sucky but the salad bar made up for it)
and drinks chill out @ Prive Keppel Marina! nice nice lovely place! :D
miss the girlss..
may our meet up once a week plan actually even work!
our east coast park outinggg tooo!! haha

18 Feb... then rushing my work till 5am the previous night just so to go ktving with the big group of nie chem peeps!! :) @ ten dollar ktv as usual!
haah first time goign ktv with SUCH a BIGGGG group of people
and felt so much happier knowing teo hwee better coz she's so so funny n made me laugh the whole dinner
may everyone pass practicum in a breeeze!! :)

starting off 2009 beforeee the dreadful nie..

2 Jan 2009

its more KTV again with JUDOGIRLS! its beeen real long since i last saw all of them esp when the meddies are mugging their arses off for mbbs!!! goodness! 5years since JC.. time flies la!!

anyway it was back to $10 KTV thanks to beng n her many memberships here n there haha i really wonder how she keeps track of all her membership cards n all haha :P
this time round, we didnt have that small little pathetic room behind the kitchen of $10ktv club so it was much much bettter n more comfy!! :) worth the money la in big groups..

[group photo with mel mel!!]

3 Jan 2009
met the hualagang for games at settlers!! they had BIG TABOOOO yay! haha
nice night out with them as always, discussing the most boliao hilarious stufff :)
n of coz, a little celebration for our birthday girl - felicia!
one of my very first frens in rgs in sec 1 class!!!
haaaapppy birrrthdaaay girl!our impromptu cake from starbucks self decorated.. :P

the oldest girl of my batch that i know of! heehee

happpy us :)

4 Jan 2009
caught up with little xian finalllly! been ages since i met her.. perhaps almost 2 months compared to our almost weekly meet ups last time..
shoppped our afternooon away and
she recommended a nice Thai Food place @ meridien foodcourt!!
i so wanna go back there to try the fried seafood vermicelli!! :)


and since 5 jan 2009.
im back to the dreaded nie.
piled up with lotsa homework.
more essays than i ever have in my life.
in 2 months. i counted. i have around 10 essays averaging 900 words each.
about minimum 1 essay a week?
goodness gracious.
yes. i know.
im paid not for slacking.
perhaps its just this influx of work thats causing the stupid sorethroat-cough viral attack
n my sleepless nights

im simply
just cant
cant
cant
CANT WAIT FOR CNY!!!!!!!! :) :) :)
something for me to look forward to seriously.

eunice's wedding & ucc bqq

morning of 27 Dec 08 -
cheers to the newly wed :) the first to be married from our BOD heh..
so happpy to see eunice so blissfullly married to patrick.. :)


afternoon -
rest of the BOD met up with alvin at greatworld for coffee n catching up :)

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evening -
celebrating mama's birthday with family + bro's gf!!! :)
first time celebrating not at a zichar stall but at crystal jade! heh

night -
joined the ucc peeps at abeli's house for post xmas partyyy.. where we played big taboo n exhcanged gifts!!! big taboooo was waaayyyy fun!! :) :)
im so gonna get the gameee hahaha

last weekend... Gina's BirtHday :) + GESL!

celebrated a super ATAS 23rd birthday for Gina on Sat! :)

went to Tea Cafe for a atas high tea, then headed over to Jack's place for some steak.. and ended off the night bumming at intercontinental hotel lounge! :)


next morning, had to go for the Clean and Green Roadshow for our GESL project!!

something STUPID again happened before this.

the event was supposed to be on SUNDAY but yet i kept THINKING it was on SaT!
so i woke up at 6am on Sat.. went over to CCK n saw NO ONE NO ACTION...
called my frens n realised i made a wasted triP! :( sigh

so woke up the next morn at 6am to go for the roadshow!! so my whole weekend was spent waking up at 6am! GOODNESS! :( anyhow, im glad part 1 of it is OVER! for goood! heh
we spent the morning getting ppl to pledge that they will SAVE Electricity..

this is one of the GOH pledging..

the girls of the event with Dr Koh at our BOOTH .. :)


we also did a voluntary cycling event coz every cyclist will help raise $100 from ExxonMobil! :)


our last group shoT!!! :) with our leafy treees! heh SUCCESS! :)

end of exams... last wednesday!

so i watched What Happens in Vegas with the chem girlies as PosT ExaM celeBratIons :)
hilarious show. many dumb scenes that makes u just laugh out loud. n most importantly,

ashton kutcher was......

*SWOoOOns*

more than suave!!

so since the last of exams,

i've met deaResT HuiJuN for hEr pRe-bIRtHdaY celebratioN!

we had ShOkuDo and OChaCha! oh man.. i love OChaCha! i'm so going bk there again.

their signature hot GREEN TEA with MILK is way more than yummilicious :)

and other than that.. my life has beeen just WORK WORK WORK.

tuition. ucc. ucc. ucc. tuition. ucc. ucc.

and today marks the very last day of my work at ucc.
i'm again, feeling neither happy nor sad. just like when i ended exams.

there's no like extreme feelings of happiness, of excitment, of liberation..
neither is there like nostalgia, sadness...
shockingly, it's more of emptiness.
one less source of income :(

i need to fill up my time from now on. at least till my grad trip.

HapPy 20th biRthday to my dearest BroTher!

......and it's beeen a month since my birthday which i STILL hadn't blogged abt! hahaha

so here goess...

first was a sat afternoon at marina waraku n azabo with darling huijun whom ive not met for ages.. :) jap day! nice catching up! n thanks lovely for everything! :)

then i met up with xianny on a monday night to wala-wala!
1-for-1 happy hour! blisss! hahah cheap like siao! but was EIC which we so didnt like. and the mroe we don't like it. the more we/i bump into them. arghs. didnt take any pix coz both of us forgot the cam! arghsss.. oh well..

then on the actual day of my birthday, the chemgang did a mini celebration for me in sch! :) thanks for the vouchers for my "officewear" which i dun even know if i'm gona get a chance to wear! hahah

then at night, headed for St James (my fav! haha) with cuzzie n abeli! :) had so much fun coz it's like ladies night with all the nice free drinks! haha thanksss dearies for ur company on my birthday! hehthen came thurs, with a nice birthday treat from cuzzie and aunt at Ichiban Boshi at IMM! more jap fooood! hahahha :)

and friday, supposedly was the 3 musketeers birthday celebration for me at Yumi's mum's jap restaurant.. ended up, it was a big birthday surprise with the chem gang there as welll!! :) i kindof guessed that some of chem gang would have joined but not all of them! hehehe oh well.. love u dearys. life wudn't b as exciting w/o u guys huh. hehe

here's to yumi for serving us at the restaurant! :)

then we headed to Clarke Quay Azzucar! the newly opened Latin DAnce Bar! super cool! too bad most pictures at the bar were gone with dianah's camera..
the crowd that night wasnt that great but we still had fun thanks to yumi's recommendation! :) the girls in the band were damn HOT.. hahha seriously. even i feel it when im a girl. i can't imagine the guys. haha

the only pictures of us from my camera which kindof sucked.. at the back is the male head of the band!

and of coz, it's kindof late but thanks to all who smsed and msged on facebook! :)
(was gonna list but well. my hp's down sigh.)
feel so blessed and loved on my 23rd!
shows that i can still live well n alive kicking even as a single! haha yay!
thank you all my darling frens n family! :)

may my bro have a smashing time out now with his frens and musked with my gift of davidoff's coolwater deep! :)

happy BirThday to steLLa!

happpY birTHday To OuR birThday girL, SteLLa!! :)

sorryy for the unsurprise surprise! hahah we've tried our best! hope uve had fun! haha

all of us with the table full of fooood! :)
wah the student deal really worth it lor.. 2-7pm + drinks free flow + tidbits + friedsnackies
per person only $14.50nett!
i wanna remain student! haha better keep our matric card! haha

this is us the ppl of UCs! UCLA, UCDavis n UCSD! haha
to think we were sitting down writing applications for all the stupid UCs n mapping modules
and getting all stressed out some 1.5-2yrs back!! :) time flies!

here's cute xinhui the rapper, and jinzhan who very often actually doesnt need the mic

and our very own 六佰 ms tianxin!! hehe.. with her dearest snoozing at the back..

once again,

HoPe U'Ve Had a GreaT biRthDay my dearesT sep-hawaii-LA TraveL buddddy-cum online shopping kaki! :)

from my fairest snow white from dutchland who's in africa...

today i received a surprise mail...

from exotic UGANDA!

and the first thing i thought of was my dearest SASKIA!! :)

it's beeen so so so long since i heard from her ever since she went africa

and nv ever thought tt she'd send me a CD of ugandian songs and a card for my birthday! :)

oh mann.... i'm so touched i almost teared!

i misss her so much and all the good times we had in california!!!

n i recalled the surprise she n the sep gang had for my bdae celebration!

awwww... lemme just indulge in the love n sweetness for now..

He's everywhere, but nowhere

he's everywhere! mrt, busstop, shopping centres.

and even SMSes and Emails from SPF hhaha

and today's Newpaper headlines was so funny. can't help but laugh when we saw that.

there'a always so much laughter around with serene n luohan :D

and somemore such a random meetup.

to meet serene to shop for presents,

and then join them for their "gang" dinner.

much of natas, Addis Ababa (capital of Ethiopia) [and it's not ALISAMBABA girls! HAHAHA].

tortured babies, mad patient and ghostly stories

that was really hilarious. laughed so so hard.

thanks guys for all that entertainment :)

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and finallly, on thurs, judogirlies caro beng xian me met up again to get xianny's watch! :)

HaPPPy BelAted BirThDay xiaNnY!!

now waiting for caro's photos of us! :)

and xian's joyful gay pose of her new watch!

dinner at SHOKUDO was great! jap marche.

marvellous.

but frivolous spending can be done there la. haha

so much variety of food. small portion. not so ex but yet so ex.

nv even heard of the place before that la when the whole world's talking abt it. so sua gu.

oh and it means 食堂 in jap！hehe

and didn't get to try my dougnuts from J.Co that made Krispy Kremes close down in Jakarta!! darn! will do it someday!

conclusions for that day,

we're greedy pigs that eat damn alot. (all the calories we gained *sobs*)

with caro around there's no end to laughter.

and we love to celebrate birthdays! hahaha

wheeeee!

to end off, here's a feature on Shokudo done by the FADpeople with some glimpses of US! :)

HaPpY birtHdaY CrystaL choOOnG!

we finally celebrated our chem gang member's birthday OUT of school today!! :)

and thanks to dianah who found such a nice turkish restaurant at Robertson Quay which i think normal people won't go there...

we had yummy food n nice ambience!

it's called CAPPADOCIA with authentic Turkish food and a branch at Rail Mall even!

us with the yummilicious food served!

all of us with pris's hubby bran with the carpet! haha

then after dinnner, bran drove his way along with us squeezing in his car to

Timbre Arts House! :) hahah 2nd birthday this yr there after serene's! :)

didn't know Timbre doesnt serve cake, so sad :(

so we ordered Creme Brulee for Crystal to replace the kaya cake! hehe

HaPPy BirThday BabE!

2 dedications in one NIghT! haha hOW sweeeT right! :)

and plUs this wonderful celebratioN, dunch u just love Us! hahahha

haf a great n blessed one! *Hugs*

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yesterday was a great day!

after signing contract again with Singtel for my iOne Plus Student plan and got a $0 phone for daddy coz his hp is piccha already,

now i haf UNLIMITED SMSes to SPARE wahahahhahaha

i can really heck n don't need to shorten my msges n text till the COWS come HOME! hahaha

and freee campus calls! so now if i call from sch, it's FREEE hahaha

a new entertainment if i got nothing to do in pgp! haha

and my darling daddy bought A NEW CAMERA! hahaha

finallly!

it's for his use in China coz he's going to Kunming with my mummy this weekend!

so after their use, it'll BE MINE!!! hahahha

yipppeee! can't stand my pok Konica Minolta anymore tho it's still working. just shity batt.

NEW CAMERA! YAY! happpy!

then rushed over to J8 (i kindof missed judo training days at RI and we just bummed ard there..those were the days my judogirlies!!!! our times at J8 was when it was still in its ancient looks! haha)

to meet aunt n cuzzie to watch CJ7! but the timing was crap. missed it.

caught Juno instead! yay!

FANGX - i got to watch it! hahaha

wittty dialogues but too bad i cudnt catch ALL of it coz no Chinese Subtitles.

so i think my aunt was rather zai to watch the whole angmoh movie since she's mandarin educated!

im glad i caught it, it's quite an intersting show showing how love comes about after birth! haha

their puppy love is so cute actually :)

the birth process reminded me of Knocked Up haha

but i guess the Movie of the month of Feb, PS I LOVE YOU still lingers on

and i think it'll b quite some time later on till a movie hits me with that much love from PS!

to kailyn: i kindof forgot abt the steamboat thingy! oops! hahah ok ur wish will come true sooN! rush popo the organiser for one next Sat! she proposed the idea to me yesterday! so next Sat it will be! :) save ur chocs for US eh! hehe

sT jaMes!

finally explored all the rooms of st james yesterday night with company of abeli, abeli's fren jinying and yumi!! :)

powerhouse's music was much better than what i heard. i love the "cubicles" hahaha.. some privacy in dancing with no humsumplo! nice!

broiler room was errrr. english getai yst. RA summore. haha they said it is usually much much better.

dragonfly! yes. ive been wanting to go there since god knows when. haha they played quite alot of angmoh music yst tho.. unexpected.. and i only got time to stay for 1 short chinese song. so sad :( hvnt experienced the "getai" feeling. haha but i really think it's funny seeing people dancing to chinese music la. haha so hilarious.

movida. i think this is gonna be my FAV in st james!!! funky spontaneous interactive band. limbo rock. "pole" dancing. chacha. salsa. lovely spanish latino music. reminds me of my times when i was in san diego! all the spanish n angmohs! u can really have hell of a time there. im so goin back there again.

didnt step into belini room yst coz had enuff of it i guess. haha.

but overall, i conclude that guys at st james REALLY dance compared to like other clubs. haha. maybe they are older and less shy. hahaha.

never regretted going last night tho i was dead tired from lack of sleeep! ahhh! MOVIDA!!


oh and i'm so inspired by jinying to go be air stewardess la! hahahha so many privileges!!! but darn. im too short! *sobz* suddenly i dun wanna be cher animore :(

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HaPPy BirThday to...

my DarliNGest mUMmmY!!! :)

*muakz*

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hapPy birthDay to me!

a million thanks to

zijia
saskia
xianrong
yaolong

for the surprise birthday way before my actual birthday that i spent quietly in hawaii!

they successfully tricked the SMART me and gave me a shock of my life coz i din tink there would b a celebration coz exams were just round the corner!!!

thank you dearies! :)

my birthday cake!
(my name XY was purposely decorated using peanuts coz i was forced to eat them)

i din even sense or see thru any of their conspirations till i was at the door of my house where zijiasurprised me by BURSTING a PINK BALLOON filled with PINK CONFETTI!! hehe..

our resident chief cook with zijia also whipped up a meal for me!! :D

they even noted my CRAVINGS for bbq chicken.. and sas remembered the pair of shorts i saw at express which i liked but din buy!! so that was my PRESENT! :) ahhhh.. i feel so loved!! hehehe

im so glad to have them to celebrate my birthday for me!! :)
if not.... i'll really have a SUPER QUIET and PEACEFUL BIRTHDAY!!