8days & i-weekly

woke up at 8 tis morning. meant to go get my fingerprints impression done at a local police station for the singapore police's certificate of no criminal certificate, part of my PR application process. yday i've already called the police station and asked them abt the timing and they said to go between 8-10 in the morning or evening. but tis morning, my other half decided to make another call to confirm. tis time, they said it's only available on sunday. huh??? so cant go today?!? bummer. though we did hear from friends that they normally only do it on sat & sun.

i m so touched but i didnt tell him. he downloaded a series of songs by hootie & the blowfish jus now. that didnt surprise me cos he's fond of downloading songs. quickly after the download finished, he took over the computer and clicked on "i will wait" and played the song using winamp. he said with a shy smile that tis song reminds him of us in 1998, when he was after me and before we got together. i thought that was so sweet. (so blissful!)

did i mention i was fed up yday abt expired sunscreen? not only i got an allergic red & itchy patch after applying, i realised a brand new unopened one had also expired. now, i m contemplating on a new brand of sunscreen which i can get it here or should i rely on my mom to send me the usual brand from singapore which i cant get it here.

i've been getting tis headache and heaty feeling every time i take my multi vit. drinking loads of water wont help. it jus make me visit the loo more often but i m happy i stay hydrated.

a copy each of 8days and i-weekly came through the mail today. YAYYYYY!!!! nope, they didnt come from singapore but melbourne. surprise surprise. yeah, they were from ric, the primay school classmate i talked abt. thanks ric!!! ric's friend bought them when he went back to singapore for a holiday. so sweet of ric to send them to us. something so simple yet so nice. looks like i m homesick. havent gone back home for more than a year.

tis morning, i had tis thought of winding up here and returning to singapore. i miss my parents, esp my mom. my other half and i were discussing and weighing the possibility of him getting "the job" and speculating what his agent might say to him if he were to call & enquire of any new available jobs. btw, tis agent is not handling "the job". he reckon the agent probably would have called if he has jobs for him. and jus then, say 5mins later, his mobile rang. it was the agent!!!! hopes are high again now that the agent called and offered new jobs. lets hope something come out of it though my other half will prefer "the job". whatever the outcome will be, i always believe things happen for a reason. so long we tried our best, we jus gotto learn to embrace the outcome and move on. life is more than jus worrying abt what pple may think or speak of u.

supernanny vs mcleod's daughters

blogger was down yday which was why i didnt post my update. nothing much happened yday except that i had tis cha kway teow smell & look-alike "fried noodle with chicken" for lunch. yeah, thats what its called. nobody would ever think that dish would turn out to be cha kway teow. it was so funny...the way it was ordered. my other half insisted that i have something from tis shop cos he'll be having something and i know he feels bad that he's feasting while i feed on instant noodles. after his persuasion, i gave in & decided on tis dish which my ex-housemate had it before. i sent him to the shop without giving him a name of the dish cos i dont know what it was called. he was explaining to the guy taking his orders and then the chef came out. within seconds, customers in the shop all started staring at him. damm, is it so difficult to get the idea? they cooked the stuff for so many years (since 1999 where my other half came to syd for his studies) and they dont know???!!? sigh. anyway, it was fine by me since he was the one going through the confusion. hahaa... u guys must be wondering how the "noodle" went right? "E'WAS ORRIGHT" (haha...quoting randy jackson from american idol). kinda sweet though. they should go easy on the dark sauce. and of course, no cockles included in case u are wondering.

wednesday is always a boring day....in terms of tv programs. its the middle of the week and the weekend is still 2 days away...shouldnt the tv station put up some interesting programs so that we all have something to watch and look forward to? or m i the only one with tis idea cos everyone has programs and dates while i m the boring one who can only rely on the telly for entertainment? things sorta improved since last week. channel 9 decided to slot in "supernanny". the show was more than alright but it gave me the phobia of having kids. nothing u do is right...only when after supernanny showed her face & gave her tips. http://abc.go.com/primetime/supernanny/ now that my wednesdays are starting to look up, "mcleod's daughters" is coming back next week and it's gonna replace supernanny. what the heck is going on? why is channel 9 toying with me?????????

my resourceful other half managed to find some articles from the internet regarding virgin mary at coogee beach i was talking abt the other day. now i feel like a sua-ku cos the matter happened in early 2003 and i know nothing abt since it must have been such a big hooha then. btw, i dont think the images look like virgin mary at all.

Sydney Morning Herald "Spike" column on Friday January 24th 2003

Combination picture shows a woman reaching to touch a fence post (image on right) that some Catholics believe appears as a likeness of the Virgin Mary at a lookout near Coogee beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs February 6, 2003. For more than a week devoted Sydney Catholics have been flocking to a vantage point about 300 metres (1,000 feet) from the small wooden fence which, when viewed at certain times each afternoon through squinted eyes (image on left), is believed to be a likeness of the Virgin Mary. Photo at left was deliberately shot out of focus to give an impression as if a person were squinting.

nias island

thought i'll post something before going to bed. seeing the images on the late news made me realise i was wrong, being unfeeling was an understatement. how could anyone compare the boxing day tsunami disaster with tis one?!?! does a disaster that causes less fatality equates a better thing? can we weigh it in such a way? equally, lives were taken away and family members mourn for their losses. life is really so unpredictable... isnt it?

very "interesting" day...

its a super dull day today. dont know where the sun hide to. the sky also not blue blue color one. whats more, saw the news abt the earthquake at nias island, off sumatra. i must confess i dont really feel anything abt it. i've not turn into an unfeeling animal, have i? though i must admit it always take the pple involved to truly feel and understand the severity and helplessness of the situation.

at abt lunch time, i got a call from a friend currently staying in melbourne. we knew each other since primary school. its always nice hearing from him. he has tis energy abt him i wish i had. he's always so sweet....always so supportive of me. he's the kind of friend everyone likes to keep for life and can talk to your grandchildren abt. hope he feels the same way too.

the whole afternoon was spent on improving and adding personalised features to tis blog. all credits must go to my other half and his buddy he knew from ns. without them, i'll have no chance of "chopping off pple's fingers". or is it supposed to be a simple task anyone can do? then in that case, u can call me an "ah gong".

what else can i eat? i jus ate dumplings, ice-cream, chestnuts. not water chestnuts but those in bah-chang, u know? actually i dont like chestnuts....i always dig it out when i eat bah-chang but then i eat it cos its bite sized and convenient to snack on and also easily available from the oriental shop downstairs. they say its good to have 6 small meals instead of 3 large meals a day but i think i eat more than 6 small meals a day. how? is something wrong with my body? i keep getting hungry. have i got convulsive eating disorder? or worse still, M I DIABETIC????

on a more serious note, what should i have for dinner? its abt 6 and its time for that kinda decision. food to me is very important. i eat to live and live to eat too. what abt u?

before i forget again, happy belated birthday spg!!!

rescue operation

indeed, the helicopter at coogee beach yday was on a rescue operation and not covering any traffic updates. it was in the news jus now that 24 pple were rescued while 1 is still missing during a wild surf yday.

sigh, its boring staying home. work at the uni wont start again till next week. here i m feeling demoralised (on behalf of my other half) cos nothing's been heard from the company he wrote to since last october. its THE company he wants to join and be part of badly. he made calls along the way since then and was confirmed he's still in. whats exasperating is that plans have to be shelved and nothing much can be done except to pray and wait. tomorrow is the start of a new work week (public holiday here last friday and today)....lets see if there'll be any good news from THE company.

woooh...its 5 already. what should i have for dinner?

coogee beach instead...

woke up at about 9ish tis morning and was having my breakfast while typing my adventure yday. it went like tis������

saw the time was 9:09am and without the usual lazing abt, i jumped out of bed. getting late. still gotto prepare breakfast and also lunches for the easter show. still, without fail, morning routine involves switching on the computer. saw the time on the computer to be 8:10am. oh yes, daylight saving....yayy....gained back 1 hr. got ready the sandwiches and fruits and then got changed, BUT instead of going for the easter show as planned, we (that is, my other half & me) changed our minds and made it for a movie at ritz cinema and then a picnic at coogee beach (to make use of the lunches we prepared). all that change of mind was cos i had to floss my teeth after we had an early lunch downstairs our place. not that i have to use up the whole day to floss my teeth and so we cant make it for the easter show but that gave us some more time to decide if we really wanted to go. we meant to go out directly after we had lunch but i had meat stucked in between my teeth and by hook or by crook, they must get out if not i cant go out. what's more, we seemed very half-hearted and "sim-tia" abt spending A$27 each for entry fee & train ride when we have already been to it once. probably going for a movie is a much wiser choice. we watched "hitch" which we wanted to catch even before it was opened. it was okay, i think the guys can relate and enjoy it better...like what i heard of.

the walk from the cinema to coogee beach was like walking down memory lane. we bumped into a domestic short-haired ginger colored cat on the pavement. though unlike meow meow's (my ex-housemate's cat that helped got rid of my feline phobia) color combination, he...she...oh sh*t, i didnt check the sex.... reminds me of times with meow meow. anyway, i got to pat him & took pics of him.

the beach was more crowded than the last time we went, which was last thursday. not surprising being a sunday afterall. there was a helicopter hovering around but we werent surprised since that's a common sight...helicopters are used for traffic forecast here. then, we saw a huge crowd of people up at the cliff where the heli stopped and then the whole group dispersed. we thought that might be some rescue operation going on but didnt care less. we sat down on the sand watching huge waves crashing in to the shore & creating white foam (as seen in beer), before walking up a cliff (opposite the one where the heli stopped). towards the end of the cliff, there was a cordoned patch where pics of Mary and a newspaper article. i scanned the article very quickly cos there were pple, more like tourists, who also wanted a closer look at the article. from my interpretation, some pple actually saw the image of Mary in white and blue robe at the end of the cliff in 2003, the date i forgot. apparently, some saw, some couldn���t. though i m not a catholic, i wonder if i can see her. the best highlight of the day was tis spot halfway down the cliff, where there were steps u stand on, and the waves come crashing against the rocks and forming huge splashes. the sound and view were as spectacular as fireworks and more therapeutic than shopping.

before my heart leads me to some more places in the next few days, here���s some pics taken yday for ya to enjoy���.while the person typing tis, slowly makes her way to her bed to get some shuteye������

ginger-colored cat spotted on the way to coogee

coogee beach seen from the cliff

huge wave approaching

wave crashing

a mark of history...

i have always wanted to have a journal or diary where i can pen down my thoughts and opinions, where in the future, my children and their children and their children and so on, can have a read. i'd often scribble on pieces of papers i can catch hold off and then lose them eventually. i hope the excitement of a new blog dont get into me for too long such that i go on and on and when i look back one day, tis blog is nothing but jus a diary of eat, sleep, shopping, and more boring stuff.

i was greeted by a fabulous full-arc rainbow right before my bedroom's window tis morning. isnt that a beautiful and rare sight in singapore where rainbows and beautiful sunrise and sunsets were blocked by numerous high rise buildings every here and there? the rain's been coming and going and i m alternating between going out? and staying home?. if the rain decide to plague me in the next half an hour or so, i shall welcome increasing astimatigism in both my eyes since i'm likely to stare at the computer surfing the internet for the rest of the day.

do u all (both guys and gals, old and young) agree that shopping is a built-in gene in gals? we enjoy all kinds of shopping: window, grocery, real buying, helping friends choose their prom or D&D dresses,etc. OMG, how much have i spent in the last month eversince i officially graduated from uni? maybe i had too much time on my hands or maybe i should blame flowerpod, MUA, cozycot or maybe i should blame myself for being such a weakling???

going to the easter show http://www.eastershow.com.au tomorrow, so intending to go to coles later to get ingredients for sandwiches for lunch...as u all know how expensive the food is gonna be at carnivals. besides, the $ saved for food can be used to pay for the showbags.

its always nice calling home...even though u expect them (ma & pa) to ask u how are things going and that would mean "how's jobsearch?", "how's your visa status?", blah blah blah. i know, being parents, they'll be concern and want to know your well-being. but being children, we know what we're doing and feel paiseh/bad/unfilial that we've to tell them "oh...not yet, still looking", "i feel very demoralised and miss home", "i m quite tight now, can u send me some $?". what i miss from home (other than pa, ma, my brothers, brother's gf) is the food, the familarity, friends and also not forgetting, shopping. i miss bugis, orchard. :P see, i told u, i m back to talking abt shopping again. good idea that i should jus stop right here, right now?

the rain is gone...meaning i m going out!!!! out of tis boring house.