Une fille comme moi

Did you say "yay,orientation"?

Saturday, January 31, 2009, 10:07 PM

I am now chronically depressed. I think I will be all the way till next tuesday or maybe even till next next monday till the CT games start. If my CT is as bad as my OG, maybe I'll be sad for life. (=.=) I feel mean to all those people that I don't even yet know in my OG, but I just can't imagine having fun doing "close contact team building" games with them. I'm sorry ): I only recognise Tenille, Minh Phuong and the super genius Liukun. Not to mention that there are so many international scholars in my OG and I'm nowhere near my friends in 402. Life seems to be especially unfair to me since most of my friends got at least ONE person in 402 together with them.

Nevermind, I shall try to focus on happier things, like the shopping trip today together with

melly, addie, xiaoyang and felisa. I'm sorry that addie still couldn't find a bag that she likes after looking at countless shops and bags in wisma and far east.

FINANCIAL DAMAGE

Melly - Topshop pink wallet with lock charm - $50

Felisa - Rectangular brown handbag - $32

Me - Purple tinted Nike bottle - $15.90

A simple purple tinted plastic Nike bottle costs $15.90. Such a ripoff. I originally wanted those kind of metal bottles with cute prints on them but didn't went to Robinson's to find those kind of bottles because of lack of time. I still feel that shopping online is more fun because of the wide variety of clothes I find online. Wisma do have lots of nice clothes that I like from CottonOn, F21, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge etc but it's mostly too expensive for me to frequent. Far east, of course, has much more affordable prices but none of the clothes there really caught my eye. There was this super nice CottonOn skirt that I really liked, it is kind of bandage style, but with an exposed zipper in the middle with a chiffon tiered effect but it costs $40 D:

We also had a lot of fun trying on all the different towering platform heels at Topshop. My friends all told me that I can go and be a model for my height, but I don't think that's possible until I graduate from HC cos my mum doesn't allow it. I actually really love Topshop platforms cos they're really nice and comfortable to wear and doesn't bite your feet like some shoes do, I swear I'm going to buy a pair of Topshop platforms in the future.

Anyway, at Far East, we found this really nice cafe named a SLICE of life that sells milk layered with ice. It's really really delicious, it tastes like ice cream, but the texture is not as thick as that of an ice cream, nor is it as creamy as ice cream. It comes out from a machine in flakes, layered and has an extremely soft texture that melts in your mouth instantly. The cafe has many flavours, which were named after different stages of love like FirstKiss, FirstDate, Matrimony, Breakfast in Bed etc and the flavours are extremely authentic and tastes like the real thing. They will also add in additional berries/fruits/aloe vera in accordance to the flavour you've chosen. Quite a cosy little place that is nicely decorated - simple but cute.

Me and mel's share - FirstDate - Grape flavoured with aloe vera

Felisa, Xiaoyang and Addie's share - Peach flavoured with canned peach + syrup

The shop deco - feature wall

Us!

Now you can see who likes to smile without showing their teeth :D Xiaoyang, my dear, you should smile with your teeth showing sometimes, don't worry, your teeth really isn't that crooked. Smiling with your mouth closed makes you seem stiff and unnatural and that's why I never have the habit of smiling with my mouth closed. When I'm happy, I show it.

Till then, I'm definitely not looking forward to orientation anymore. *hides in shame*

Time flies

Friday, January 30, 2009, 7:08 PM

I have so much to say I don't know where to start. I regretted not blogging about CNY sooner. Perhaps things are better said through photos.

On 除夕 (cny eve)

Me and my parents went to Far East Flora and bought two new year plants! I made sure that both of them are going to flower all year round before we purchased them. I still think plants that flower are so much more prettier. The above is one of the plants that we bought.

My family's sumptious lunch consisting Beijing 烤鸭 (ate the Beijing style with fresh cucumber, spring onion and sauce all wrapped in a thin "pancake") , a cold dish, roast beef and many other veggie dishes (:

I went over to my friend's(liyin) house in the afternoon and there were 5 other girls that I knew there (: We went out to Bugis before coming back at night to watch CCTV春节联欢晚会, it's like something we always do every cny. Sleepover at her house.

On 初一
I went to another friend(weihui)'s house together with Liyin again and there were a lot of kids there as well. Had fun outside at her local Npark where they had this trampoline and then we played mahjong till late and I slept over at her house too.

The rest of the CNY was wasted away at home slacking xD I'm very proud of the sum of my ang pao money this year! I think this is one of the biggest sums I've ever received ($_$) I think I got more than $300.

Thursday - Bagpack buddies - we're so cute :3

Me, Shiing and Melly bought these bags in Ho Chi Minh (vietnam) at very affordable prices. Aren't the prints adorable?

See how happy we're grinning!

Today I went out to celebrate my primary school friend's(sinlin) belated birthday! It was me, sheena, bel, sinlin, wang chi, ben, jieqiang at kbox and we were then joined by zhengwei and wenyang (: It was organised by ben and we went out to kbox to celebrate. As it was my first time going to kbox, I had quite a lot of fun singing both english and chinese songs and I'll have to say that although kbox's range of new english songs is pathetic, but they do have some nice ones that I like from Leona Lewis, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey, Pink and the like. But the down side is almost 60% of their song collection are super old songs from the 1980's onwards.

Anyway, it was a surprise party and sinlin was so touched and surprised to see her primary sch friends again that she cried! AWWWWWW. We had a crazy time singing and teasing each other at kbox before we decided to go bowling! But all the lanes at the bowling place were all full thanks to ACS(I) booking half of the lanes. So the guys played pool and then we went to the arcade. Besides Jieqiang and Ben that really knows how to play, the rest of them don't. Jieqiang is really good at it >.<

No offence, but why is it that people in NY (or maybe it's just ppl in my class) hardly asks their friends out just for a get together one day for fun? Are we normally too busy mugging? But during the holidays, my friends are not those type that will always call to ask a bunch of people out either :/ I have some friends from other schools like Nanhua and she'll always get asked out on weekends for shopping, bday celebration, movie watching and the like. I wonder if this will change when I start my school life in HC proper. Speaking of which, I'm looking forward to orientation on monday! :D

Good luck meeting new friends. I hope I will get into a class as lovely as 402 and I hope that everyone will be happy with their new friends but still keep in close contact with their old ones.

Happy 牛 Year!

Friday, January 23, 2009, 10:00 PM

今天为了庆祝华人新年，我6am就起床到华中初中部集合。以上的照片是在华中的操场旁边拍的，在这个时候，天天都能看到日出，好美哦。如果仔细看的话，你可以看到前面的操场。我爸说华中的校长脑子烧伤了，因为他要我们7.10am 就集合，而只是为了庆祝新年。

The above photo was given a colour boost in the upper half and then processed with a 1960's photo effect.

The cow head structure that the student councillors hung up in the middle of the central plaza. It's really cute. I quite like the way the student councillors decorated the central plaza and the rest of the school building. It's nicely done and very festive looking (:

I'm still thinking whether I should join council as a cca in HC because according to all my other friends, the councillors are the ones that do all the ad-hoc duties and hard work in almost all major school events. They need to plan, organise, make decorations, execute and host the event and finally to clean up. But apparently this is the way to attain leadership skills :/

Students crowded on upper levels to watch the performance.

今年的新年主题是“升”，因为从旁边看，它是个“牛”字。今年的表演当然比南洋的稍微好看一些，不过还是舞狮、华乐、合唱团、武术、华族舞蹈的表演。不过武术与华乐表演都比南洋的精彩，不过合唱团的表演还是一样的单调。可能是因为我每年看南洋的表演看腻了，所以觉得华中的表演比较好看。之后，J2 的学生就开始两个小时的Funfair活动，不过我什么都没有买，因为一点胃口也没有 D：

到最后，就是捞鱼生！虽然真正捞的时间很短，不过第一次和1500个人一起捞鱼生还是蛮有趣的。华中的校友可真有钱，一下就可以买下差不多50包鱼生给所有的同学。我妈妈说那是因为男的还是比女的有钱，所以南洋每次都喊穷，而华中却每次能找到很多赞助商。看来男女还不是很平等。活动结束之后，我们就赶快逃离现场，免得被J2的人抓去跳Mass Dance。原本想回南洋探望以前的老师，不过发现他们很多都已经走了，所以最后和Addie and Xiaoyang 一起去吃Pizzahut :D

总的来说，还算是一个不错的一天。

Boys vs Girls

Thursday, January 22, 2009, 9:56 PM

What is it about hci guys that they constantly feel the need to make a lot of noise? Today, during the bio activity, we had to do a "blood mystery" activity where we had to run to different parts of the school to answer difficult bio questions and attain clues to complete a cloze passage. And the guys pratically make noise after every three senctences said by our lecturer and me and my friends couldn't stand them. Jeez, if they were to be so noisy during official lecture time, I would tell them to shut up.

I can understand if 12-year-old boys do this in school because boys are found to mature slower than girls, but 16/17 year old teenage boys? No wonder they have the need for a discipline master =.= That feels like so primary school to me. But sometimes guys have it so easy. They do not need to worry about their skin, their hair, their clothes or even their appearance. They can always get away with simply because they are guys. Guys can just throw on a tee and pants, or a shirt and pants and tie ensemble for formal events and they're good to go, whereas girls still need to make up, fix their hair up and wear nice clothes with a sense of style. Guys don't have to bleed and experience pain every month. Guys can laugh loudly or do other social taboos that girls are not ever allowed to do.

No matter, I still find girls so much more pleasant than boys hahaha. I'd rather raise a daughter than a son. And no, this is being practical, not feministic. Of course, good girls can go bad too, but most of the time, a son causes more headache for you than a daughter.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's CNY celebration, even though I have to wake up at an unholy hour. And I'm even more looking forward to Orientation and I pray that I won't get into the same class as those bimbotic bitches.

So, a happy CNY in advance! :D Wishing you good luck in the Year of the Ox, and I need to tell myself to work as hard as an ox to pull through this year too (:

Bouncing off the walls

Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 10:49 PM

Wth just now I was trapped inside my own freaking room for more than 40minutes because the door got stuck and I couldn't turn the doorknob to open the stupid door! And I was nearly hyperventilating inside my room cos I didn't even have my specs yet (just came out from bathing) and I couldn't even see clearly. I had to yell crazily at my dad to call a locksmith, who came and opened the door in like 10 freaking minutes and then charged $40 as his fee =.= Now I feel really dumb.

School is getting along ok, actually I'll have to thank my lucky stars that school is still so slack now because my friends in RV IP stream were complaining that they already had a lot of homework and school starts at 8am and ends at 4pm. So far the only lecture I've enjoyed is chemistry, thanks to ms wong, who tries to make it interesting for us. And maybe bio, I would've enjoyed it more if I were allowed to exhibit normal human behaviour in that lecture, for example, be allowed to go toliet, to yawn and to discuss things with friends. But today's physics lecture made me even more determined not to ever take physics. I'll rather drown in a thick stack of bio notes than to listen to Mr-please-don't-call-me-philip-cos-it's-rude-and-immature-thomas. Oops, I think I've said too much :x But the only thing is, I seem to be the only one complaining that I still feel like I'm in a girls' school! It's true. Everyday I surround myself with girls, talk to girls, interact with girls, look at girls and girls only. C'est dommage, je dois attendre le 2 Feb.

I'm looking forward to chinese new year when I can actually get a legitimate reason to stuff myself with fatty food and then look at the mirror and grumble :D

Listening to: If I were a boy - Beyonce {I'm loving the lyrics and beyonce's vocals in this song!}

Eating: Pineapple tarts

Reading: I seriously didn't touch a fiction book for so long I'm ashamed ):

Back to school!

Monday, January 19, 2009, 6:24 PM

The first event of the day confirmed my suspicions about lectures being boring! I was trying to seat still and not look at the clock during the entire duration of the ISYF (International Science Youth Forum) today. The speeches followed by speeches bored me out completely and even though the physics Nobel laureate was more interesting than the rest, he lost me as he droned on. The ISYF opening ceremony ended around 1 hour earlier than the scheduled time and we had to walk around the JC campus aimlessly, waiting till 1140 to the Principal's briefing.

It was extremely funny to watch the guys rebelling against the discipline master, however. Apparently, Minister Shanmugaratnam (minister of finance)'s son, Akilan, was blowing bubblegum bubbles in the audi and he had to be called down to the discipline master who was yelling at the guys. And all the guys were clapping and cheering for him, which was so damn funny. I didn't expect hci guys to be so rowdy! The stereotypes always described hci guys as nerdy, geeky, guaiguai and tooty xD So it was interesting to see the way the guys behave during the entire briefing. After the briefing, it was math lecture, followed by chem lecture.

I seriously love Ms Wong Huiming, who gave the chem lecture! She is so cute and funny and interesting and lame, but I really had fun during the entire length of her lecture! I hope she'll be teaching me in the future! And anyway, the jc canteen food is not all that bad as compared to nanyang's food, only that the mixed veg store is so lousy as compared to the nanyang mixed veg store! Warning though, the prices have gone up around 50cents to a dollar more, so I guess it's still more worth it to go to the high school side to eat. First day of school was gone through quite smoothly only that as Ms Wong said: the audi is not nice, the chairs are so hard, the guys are so quiet and keeping to themselves and life gets sad after a while.

But I'm starting to like school and I'm still looking forward to the next day :D After all, it IS a nice change from seating at home and doing nothing all day long.

Labels: a smile a day

Sunday, January 18, 2009, 12:55 PM

I'm get hyped up (in a bad way) everytime I think that I need to wake up at 630am tomorrow morning for school! And it will be lectures all day long till 3pm. This is so sad. Why can't they have 2 orientations to let students go out of school blues first?

Anyway, the 402 class chalet went along quite well, I thought that although we ran out of charcoal and other stuff, the food was yummy and well prepared and there were even prepared fruits! (Even though 50% of the fruits went down the drain because people couldn't finish it) I especially enjoyed the nuggets, barbequed satay, sweet potato and especially roasted marshmallows that melts in your mouth! It really is very pleasant just spending time with my

friends at night at the beach, looking at the bright stars, the ship lights and lapping sea waves. I am really glad and grateful for all my friends in 402, thanks for being there for me, teaching me homework and putting up with my craziness. I really really hope that I will be in the same class as some of you guys in JC! I still think friends are the most important things in life. EVER. Friends relate to me in a whole different level as compared to my family and people can do without their family but they can never do without friends because friends can be family but family can't always be friends.

My drawings in the sand. We're in l'amour et nous aimons la plage!

Addie, Xiaoyang and me (:

I really really hope I won't be bored sitting through lectures throughout tomorrow! But I'm glad I can see all my friends in hc uniform (at least that's a change, even though the uniform makes you appear like you're wearing cardboard) and I'm also excited to doodle in my new IHEARTPARIS planner, which I intend to show off after one week has been filled.

Goals to reach:

1. Try to pay attention in lectures!

2. Do revision at home if necessary

3. Be happy every day

4. Get used to (close) physical contact with guys ._.

What's an end is a new beginning

Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 5:24 PM

Yesterday I went to Nanyang officially in my hongzi for the last time to receive my O level results. Not that I was anxious or nervous or anything unlike O lvl track people but then, it is my last time with my friends in Nanyang after all. I got A2 for HCL and B3 for French. (Je suis tres desolee, monsieur. J'ai pense que je peux obtenir un A2.) I will continue to love the beautiful beautiful Nanyang campus (which was what lured me to ny 4 years ago!) and also all my fantatically fabulous friends.

Special mention to: Adeline, Melly, Jean, Xiaoyang, Jelly, Huimin, Ann, Ha and Felisa (my teachers!) and also michmich! I'm glad to have known you and I thank all of you for making the past two years of my school life so much more awesome than the first two years. *muacks*

For all of you, please listen to this song: We're all in this Dance - La Meme Histoire Par Feist (Paris, Je t'aime OST) Paris, je t'aime is made up of 22 short meaningful films which I highly recommend you to watch. The below song is actually a compilation of both the english and french version, but the lyrics are actually different for the two languages. I prefer the french one :D It's more meaningful.

Today, I was bored in the afternoon again and I decided to make Japanese mochi or Daifuku. It is extremely easy to make but extremely hard to handle because the sticky rice "dough" is just way too sticky. It sticks to everything and you need to keep on dipping it into more potato flour to make them stop sticking. It is also very very hard to shape the mochi using hands, because of its stickiness and also because the Anko (red bean paste) is very soft. So I can't really wrap the anko properly in the exact centre of the sticky rice dough. However, besides all these problems, my Daifuku still turned out great and very yummy. Sticky sticky texture (but not oily at all)

with sweet, soft anko in the middle :D

My orchid plant with the daifuku.

I made eight daifuku in the end. Probably because I made them too big. Shown here are three of them.

I wish I had japanese plates, I could've bought them from Daiso where I got my Anko but $2 for a plate that I don't really use? Not worth it :/

If you're interested in making daifuku on your own, just ask me over msn or google for the recipes online (:

Labels: baking

Remember the days...

Friday, January 09, 2009, 2:23 PM

I cherish and will still cherish my precious primary school days in 6I, where I have spent nearly 6 years with 1/3 of the people in it. I will continute to look back upon the "good old days" and laugh about the stupid things we did and the hilarious happenings in class(fights between girls and boys) and the antics of our class clown (jiahua).

The 6I class gathering on 070109 was really great and I really really hope that everyone had enjoyed themselves on that day. I'm kind of disappointed that we only managed to get so little girls to go, but it's better than nothing. All the girls never changed much at all. It was the guys that changed the most, because some of them grew from 1.50 to 1.78 and some of them gained more muscle mass and some of them lost weight and look elongated and some of them has taken to smoking (=.=) After lunch at Mac's at East Coast, the guys stayed at a spot and played cards and another group of girls and guys went cycling. We rented two doubles and four singles and Alex had to cycle with Belinda in tow cos Sinlin couldn't do it xD I had to cycle with Honglan in tow. And then after the cycling, it was just cards, Twister, camwhoring, dinner and crazy laughter the whole time. We had so much fun on the MRT ride home, reminiscing stupid stories of Jiahua xD so much that the people in the MRT were giving us stares.

Laughing with my old friends are just so effortless and so easy. It's as though their presence alone makes me happy and weightless. Maybe it's because we get all nostalgic telling each other the stories in primary school, and maybe it's because I didn't see them for years and maybe it's just because that we watched each other grew up and became attached to one another. I don't know. Or maybe it's because that we know that the girls will only be able to attack guys with waterbottles and whack them unecessarily and the guys will only be able to make disgusting pornrelated jokes and do really immature things ONCE in everyone's lives. But I really hope that I can still stay in contact with a majority of them (:

From left to right, xiangyun, sheena, me, bel, honglan, sinlin. Crazy babes xD

6I, I love you.

Top to bottom, left to right(in case I should forget in the future): sinlin, me, honglan, melvin, wenyang, ben, jieqiang, shentong, jack, wangchi, jonathan. Belinda, xiangyun, sheena, kaisong, jieren and alex.

Happy (belated) New Year!

Saturday, January 03, 2009, 12:55 PM

Sorry I'm so slow in blogging about my new year. I swear next year I'm not ever going to my mum's annual D&D again, they just get more and more boring year by year. Next year, I would drag my friends to a proper countdown. Photos of the D&D coming up in a bit!

The first day of Jan09 was spent at Jurong Point dining out at DIN TAI FENG with my family. Jurong Point has now turned into every shoppaholic's dream - There are a great number of apparel shops on the first and second floors, good food in the basement, as well as a lot of gift shops selling interesting stuff and 2 korean stationery stores! :D I finally got the chance to get my beautiful 2009 planner ^_^

The insides of this planner are filled with tiny photos of Parisian streets and quirky parisian stores like the boulangerie!

Speaking of which, I'm starting to find my grandparents really annoying now. They love to hover around me, pushing into my space, asking me about every single stupid detail that is absolutely none of their business and at the start, they keep on calling me for no big reason. I say at the start because ever since my attitude to them turned frostier, I guess they took the hint and stopped being so nosy. They really get on my nerves sometimes and I can't help but snap at them and straining the already strained relationship with me and my mum. Stupid. I just hope that everyone leave me alone now for some peace and quiet. I would pick friends over family any day. The people in my family are unable to understand me or converse with me in any way that would make me laugh, because they are in a different wavelength entirely. They simply provide me with my physical needs, not my emotional and mental ones. Good friends, on the other hand, always make me feel good about myself and always cheer me up whenever I'm down. I can't wait to move out when I turn 18.

Anyway, some MUD CUPCAKES to usher in the new year! It was supposed to be a non flour recipe, but then the batter was so watery that I had to add quite a lot of flour to compensate for my lack of butter. The result, rich chocolatety cupcake with a slightly fudge-like consistency. Actually I had these baked before 31st dec, but didn't have the chance to post them up.