i cant help it

tis morning, i was woken up not by the alarm clock but the cold. it was 16.3oC. i was thrilled. i admit i hate wearing layer over layer to beat the cold but hey, thats better than feeling warm. what can i do? strip? u wish. :P

i'm partially losing my voice from explaining the photography packages to the graduates as well as having to speak on top of the noise at the leighton hall within the scientia. plus, i was so tired too. it has been a long day. *yawn*

folks who read tis, pls help me think of a contingency plan to shoo off more pigeon visits. the balcony is now spotless but risking a shit or 2 anytime soon. so kind souls out there.....hear my plea....do drop me an idea. btw, other half and i are safe from the pigeon shit massive cleanout yday cos we were equipped with gloves and were washing the floor with dettol...that is 99.9% of bacteria killed. HA! sorry i cant stop talking abt my pigeon shit. u'll hear me go on abt it for a while. bear with me. but now u can rest your ears cos i'm going to bed. have a good rest while u hear me go on abt the shit tomorrow. HA HA HA!

more rubbish from me

telly junkie is sad today...cos she missed "my restaurant rules", she missed "lost" and she also missed bits of "the amazing race - the last episode". the former 2 were due to back home late from work while the latter was due to chit chat with her ma over the phone. yep yep, my parents have confirmed their air tix to syd. i'm happy but sad too cos they'll only be here for a week. so short!!!

telly junkie was a happy and satisfying girl today, cos she finally gotten rid of the pigeon mess in the balcony. balcony is a L-shaped one. 1 end is where 2 suitcases of books are while the other end is a horrifying/disgusting/gross/not meant for human eyes mess of pigeon shit, feathers, dusts, more shit (dried ones & maybe some semi dry ones. hehe) and more feathers, not forgetting the pigeon nest (made within a discarded plastic bucket. i dont know why the bucket was there instead of the rubbish chute) too. ric & pot will know what i mean since they saw it before. finally tis morning, other half and i took the courage to clear up the mess which we always thought we might hire the pest control pple for help. its really that bad. to make things worse, all the crap that i mentioned were underneath tis 2 seater ratten chair. that means we got to get rid of the chair as well. there were so much shit on it too. the sight of it makes me shudder, let alone carry it downstairs to dump. so we spread newspapers all over the chair to make it less of an eyesore. after all the dumping and sweeping of pigeon waste, we washed the balcony floor till it's fit enough to sleep on. *proud* cant wait for housemate to praise us. *thick skin*

so it was work at the scientia again. business was slow today. camera shy bunch of graduates we got tis evening. i went in to clancy for the not-so-mind-drifting job. saw a batch of sports science students whom i had lectures with before. i used to wonder if they really r into sports to be studying sports science cos everything they study is related to sports. what happen to the brain if one is jogging? what is the average heart rate when one is doing sports? blah blah blah. even the labs r carried out while jogging on the exercise bike with probes attached on the chest or stuff like that. u've to be on the move. nah, i dont like carrying out experiments on someone moving here and there. very chor-theng. very difficult to take readings. anyway, it's all over. of course, if u give me a chance to do it again, i'll cos that means i'm studying again. i prefer studying to working. sigh. *not realistic* i could have slept over at scientia since i've to be at work at 7:30am tomorrow. a long day too. yep yep, i better go to bed soon. good nite blogger.

save the environment

a trip to the recycling room where i stay is like making a trip to dump off a body u've jus killed. haha. watched too much CSI. seriously, i wonder how many residents in tis block actually bother to recycle their bottles and waste papers when the recycling room is tucked away at the basement, in the most corner-est corner.....where pple like other half and i took months to find out. my housemate who stayed here for 4 years still doesnt know where it is. hey, doesnt it sound like it was ideal for hiding dead bodies? lemme take u on a trip to the recycling room aka the body hiding place.

the recycling room

a long walk from the lift to the recycling room that is tucked away in the corner of the basement carpark

anzac day

do u think there���s any significance in dreams���yeah, dreams we dream at nite when we sleep. u know those that are so real that it makes u feel as if it really happened. for me, my dream last nite was a good wake-up call (and yes, it did wake me up as well). everything happened at chai chee, where i stayed. i was in the feeder bus with 2 couple friends, sitting away from each other. then, while we were alighting from the bus, 1 girl from 1 of the couple friends asked me something abt my insurance. huh, insurance?! i don���t think i answered her. next scene, i was in my bedroom standing by the window and looking out. somewhat, instead of the 2 pri schs (should still be there since mom didnt tell me anything), there was tis huge block of flats. and in between tis ���new��� block and an existing block, appeared a beach with huge waves hitting the shore. as i stood there watching, even more huge waves came rushing in. i tot that was so nice and so i went to grab my digital cam to capture it. as i came back to the windows, the waves hv already reached my windows and was finding ways to flow into my room. *gasp* btw, i m staying on the 5th floor. next scene, the waves have resided and the ocean was all calm. i was in my room still. out of a sudden, there was a loud noise and it made me look out of the window. there in the ocean, was a huge plane or space shuttle lookalike machine that had jus emerged from the ocean. i remember looking at the underside of the plane. at that instant, an ultrasonic wave (emitting from the plane) started enveloping me, penetrating through my skin. my brain, my heart, even my kidney, my gallbladder, could sense a disaster approaching, and so i picked up my pace and off i ran to the kitchen and hugged my mom who was already hugging my brother. none of us screamed or shouted, we jus stayed quiet, as if we knew that was the end and jus wanted to be in each other���s arms till death do us apart. the ultrasonic wave was so strong that i cant keep my eyes open. within secs, i could feel my body disintegrating and then, i woke up. *poof* i woke up and the words ���end of the world��� spilled out from my mouth. it really felt so real. i cant wait to go out and get cracking���.do all the things i���ve put off doing. OMG, i need a dream that seem so real to remind me that life is short, life is unpredictable. i thought it was a very strange dream but it sorta sunk in as the day went on.

it was anzac day (a public holiday) today so most shops were opened only from 1pm onwards, to show some respect for the veterans who fought and died in WWI. exactly, anzac day is to commemorate them. i finally moved my @$$ and got out of the house at 4pm. the usual at the mall, i gotto go steal a peek at the pets. the persian kittens were adorable���..sleeping and twitching away while the spoodles (cocker spaniel crossed poodle) were ���fighting���. wish for the day that i can hv my own pet. bumped into WS & his parents at coles. that was when i noticed the resemblance between WS and his dad. didnt hv a good look on his graduation day. grabbed the staples and off we went. the sky was already so dark when we came out of the mall. it was only 6pm then. *sob* the thing with autumn & winter. took the bus back to kingsford and bought dinner from a malaysian & singaporean restaurant. the owner is a malaysian. couldn���t finish my hor fun. my body is aching and my head is spinning. i think i���m coming down with flu. i haven���t been eating enough fruits of late. that must be the reason cos i sure did rest and drink enough. okay, will stop here for now, gonna hv an early nite.

60 not enough

ARGH! the computer is lagging again... yep, the time of the month is here. i bet we must hv hit the 60 gigs download quota again. dear housemate, i think we might hv to upgrade our plan.

boredom strikes

i m weird. i actually asked for fried rice, for dinner. i didn���t fry it, i got other half to takeaway from the kiam and ti restaurant (on his way from work) cos they sell the cheapest fried rice. oh, that was not the reason i had fried rice. usually when i cant think of what to have, i���ll go for fried rice, but thats very rare. i hope it wont turn out to be too oily. i did get sick of it 1/3 into it. at first i thought if i get sick with my fried rice, i can ���cobe��� other half���s dinner. but it turned out that he ordered fried rice too. some special fried rice while i had thai fried rice. me & my thai food. no wonder God puts me with a thai housemate now. u wont see me fry rice on a normal occasion. i only do it when i���ve leftover rice. well, no cooking today cos housemate was in and i think he was cooking as well. so i gave up the kitchen to him. knowing him, if i were to step in, he sure feel paiseh and lemme have it. nah, let him have it for the weekends. i gladly do.

cannot believe i spent an entire afternoon chatting on msn. with WL, pot, platypus and autumn leaf. hehee. was reminiscing my sec sch days with WL. time really flies. tis phrase has been so conveniently used but now that i said it, it really is���.time flies. sec sch days were donkey years ago but it felt like yday. we both agreed we were some telly addicts and called ourselves the teletubbies!!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/ i want to be po cos i like pink (actually po is more of red than pink) but WL also loves pink too, so there���ll hv to be 2 po. hahaa. other half was at work so i was exceptionally bored. luckily, my Korean drama download finished in time for me to watch. if u ever feel like crying but have no tears, catch a soapy drama, i guarantee u sure cry. its really reliving.

caught ���world���s greatest commercials��� on channel 7. some adverts were funny, some were stupid while some were very innovative and creative. i love tis kind of work���advertising, anything that requires exploring my creativity. oh no, looks like i���m in the wrong line. no lah, i love what i studied equally. awaiting ���iron chef��� on SBS, the cooking competition, that always makes me salivate without fail. but no worries today, i���m well fed and m ready for the show proper.

tipsy...abit high...still not drunk

it was my ex-housemate, WS's graduation today. met him when he came over to scientia (where i worked) after his graduation at clancy auditorium. jann (my unofficial supervisor. 1 of my colleagues labelled her "our leader") wasnt ard today and so i cant help WS much abt his photography package (u know what i mean). all i managed to do was to steer him away from alex (see entry on 16 april). was "dragged" *wry smile* by WS to take picture. i dont like to be photographed. not photogenic and also so short. but in the end, i obliged. the reluctant me only took 1 shot. hahaa....very bad but i was working then so cant anyhow leave my seat. *excuses and more excuses* truthfully, i wish i m more photogenic for my friends.

for the entire day, i only ate abt 6 small cookies and 2 pieces of cake (2.5 by 2.5cm), part of the refreshments for the graduates. "steal" graduates' food...very cheapskate!!! hehe. i was actually feeling quite hungry but have no time to eat. what an excuse, isnt it?!? yeah, i know. SO, the moment i got back, i quickly put away my things and dug in like a monster.....my really green "thai green curry". hey, pinky left a comment that it didnt look like green curry. yeah, i guess the color scared many pple off but really, that pic was a bad representation of my looked-terribly-green-but-still-taste-good-the-next-day green curry. as i see it, its not green green but yellowish green (that is, its green with a tinge of yellow. its different from greenish yellow, which is the other way round).

i jus caught american idol and the-best-voice-in-the-competition aka ***** (which episode r u guys up to in singapore? i cant spell out the name....cos i'm afraid i'll kill the suspense. but there's always the website u can find out from) was out of the competition. actually, i dont know who i'll like to see win the competition. they are getting kinda boring. or shld i say i'm getting bored with these remaining. to give them the benefit of doubt, u can say its the latter.

i m finishing off tis entry while sipping james boag's premium (who sips beer? ME!!!!!!). i m still not tipsy, not high, not drunk. so i demanded for my VB which i bought after work jus now. its really easy to turn alcoholic in australia. there're bottleshops everywhere. in fact, there're 2 downstairs. and 2 pubs too (regent hotel is 1 of them). besides, australian beer is dirt cheap. *twisting the cap* *ouch* even before i can enjoy myself, i hurt myself. the cap is not women's hands friendly. hmmm....the sniff reminds me of tiger/carlsberg beer (i used to poke my nose into my pa & brothers' beer during cny reunion dinner) but the aftertaste is great. malty? rice-y? after jus 2 sips, i think i'm abit maboh already. VB cant be that strong?! must be the accumulating effect of james boag & VB!! in all, i probably took less than 10 sips. other half said i'd probably fall asleep before i post today's entry. *tipsy* *abit high* *still not drunk*

it was such a rush jus now that i forgot to say "CONGRATULATIONS WS!!!"

green is in

sob sob. jus saw aaron proposed to hayden on ���the amazing race���. wow, so unexpected, surprising, touching, romantic, sweet, (i can go on with a thousand words). that moment must be so special, be it for the girl or the guy.

i m so thankful for the cool weather since a few days ago, esp during the nites���.the cool breeze over my face as i lie in bed. very shiok. yep, my bed���s headboard is against that wall with the windows���haha���i get drops on my face when the rain comes too.

tried my hand at cooking thai green curry for dinner jus now. it was my first attempt. my housemate who made fantastically delicious green curry, did briefly told us the ingredients, but without the exact proportion. so i had to play by ear & add in whatever quantity i fancy. it was a lot of work, comparable to cooking spaghetti bolognaise from scratch. we don���t hv a food processor at home so i had to painstakingly chop up the ingredients to make sure they���re very fine. and at the same, watch to see none fly all over the place, esp the floor. i know i m very leh-chey & seem to do double/triple/quadruple/infinity work. i like cleaning & wiping as i cook. i cant stand bits of ingredients falling off the chopping board, in the sink, ard the stove. i make sure they go into the bin. so if u cant stand pple like me, don���t hang ard me when i cook, or if u insist, u can take over. hehee. after all the hard work, it taste alrite. like green curry lor but better than thai restaurants in my suburb cos i put in love. HA! other half said it was good though he complained it was alil spicy. i cant remember if it taste as good as my housemate���s. and i don���t dare let him try cos i���m scared he���ll puke. heheee. if u want to give it a try, shop ard for tis green curry paste by the brand of ���mae ploy���. u���ll still need all the other ingredients like coriander roots, garlic, shallots, onions, basil leaves, fish, mince meat, chicken (the main meat), coconut milk, veges (broccoli & bean sprouts. the latter is a must i think or maybe that's my housemate's preference. i'm taking him as a std cos he's a thai). lemme know how it went, okay?!?!?!

hey, need to sleep soon. gotto work tomorrow.

the finely chopped ingredients


the end product...looks like green curry or not? at least its green rite??!!

in the strain of our struggle

i really like tis passage from "our daily bread" 7 april 2005, and would like to share with u. http://www.rbc.org/odb/ (for non-christians, do read with an open mind)

================

I was in my second year of widowhood and I was struggling. Morning after morning my prayer-life consisted of one daily sigh: "Lord, I shouldn't be struggling like this!" "And why not?" His still, small voice asked me from within one morning.

Then the answer came���unrecognized pride! Somehow I had thought that a person of my spiritual maturity should be beyond such struggle. What a ridiculous thought! I had never been a widow before and needed the freedom to be a true learner���even a struggling learner.

At the same time, I was reminded of the story of a man who took home a cocoon so he could watch the emperor moth emerge. As the moth struggled to get through the tiny opening, the man enlarged it with a snip of his scissors. The moth emerged easily���but its wings were shriveled. The struggle through the narrow opening is God's way to force fluid from its body into its wings. The "merciful" snip, in reality, was cruel.

Hebrews 12 describes the Christian life as a race that involves endurance, discipline, and correction. We never get beyond the need of a holy striving against self and sin. Sometimes the struggle is exactly what we need to become what God intends us to be.

���Joanie Yoder

When God allows His chastening hand

To give us little rest, His only purpose is our good

���He wants for us His best.

���D. De Haan

We experience God's strength in the strain of our struggle.

===============

victoria less bitter (VLB)

huge banner outside regent hotel promoting the deal

the bar where we paid for our steaks & drinks. drinks are compulsory (hehe...never hear tis word for a long time. eg. "attendance for sports day is compulsory") for the $5 offer to be valid. other half had a victoria bitter (VB) while i had an orange juice. it turned out that i quite like VB after i took a sip of it. ironically, it turned out less bitter (despite the name. think it shld be renamed to victoria less bitter or VLB) than some other beers other half has been experimenting with, where i stole a sip from. i might get it the next time he makes a trip to the bottle shop.

here's where we tell the chef how well we want our steak to be done, the sauce that goes on top, etc. we ordered "medium" for our meat and it turned out quite bloody. maybe by australia's standards where pple can take their beef very raw, we shld order "medium well' the next time.



our VB & orange juice on the table while we wait for our steaks

a pool table within the pub...but too bad, i play no pool.



rump steak with chips topped with green pepper sauce. other half loves tis sauce.

rump steak with mash potatoes topped with mushroom sauce. i love tis one better.

want to know if your steak is done the way u want it, check out tis webby

http://et.sdsu.edu/radair/world_wide_weber/steak_doneness.htm

.

.

.

.

.

.

now, we'll find ourselves poking our arms at "jack's place", "lawry's" & steakhouses. :P

though life is unsettling and finances r tight, we managed to get by. to achieve that, u (i) need to fool yourself that everything will get better. hehe, seriously, having faith in God is very important and that���s what really works for me. i always believe that things in life happen for a reason. u (i) need to have faith and so long as u (i) did your (my) best, God will do the rest. of course, i���m no saint, i���ve moments when i���m doubtful.

instead of letting your (my) heart and soul dwell on the bad things that have happened, why not focus on the good things that have happened or is gonna happen? pinky���s bro once said, ���u choose to be happy or to be sad. why choose sad?��� life is short & we (i) only live once so why not live it the best we (i) can? i don���t mean to become a millionaire like bill gates or donald trump. well, if that���s your goal & it makes u happy, go ahead. please, please, please, tis is our (my) life, we (i)���ve complete control of it. lets be happy!!!

one day, should u (i) wake up having one of your (my) doubtful moment or feels that life hasn���t been treating u (me) well, take a moment, talk to God and psych yourself (myself) up.

(all the above, i���m repeating it to myself again and again)

steamboat finally

drifted into dreamland straight after finishing a late and full lunch, and woke up feeling blur. saw other half playing his PS2 in the dark. got up and switched on the light. he didn���t want to wake me up by switching on the light. so thoughtful of him.

decided to have yday-planned-steamboat in the comfort of our home, enjoy it at our own leisure. went out to the kitchen to prepare the stuff other half bought in the afternoon. i seldom hang ard in the kitchen over the weekends cos my housemate is in and so i let him have it to himself since i���ve the kitchen to myself during the weekdays. indulged in a cup of cookies & cream ice cream after the preparation and while typing the front bit of tis entry. also called my ma for the 2nd time today. i m very touched they've decided to come for my graduation in may. the whole idea is not so much of my graduation but rather seeing them and having them ard. my current visa do not allow me to travel overseas unless i apply for it. since i m gonna apply to go back in sep/ oct for other half���s sis��� wedding, i prefer pa & ma to visit me. i m disappointed i cant pay for their air tix, but i'll definately save up for their expenditure here. sigh. i���ll start looking for another casual job. actually, i���ve been looking at the uni career and employment website but not frequent enough. only look at it when i remember to. that���s bad isn���t it? *embarrassed* i m not quite ready for a permanent, full time job yet. well, the thing with other half���s job opportunities in other states. probably i'm being ���ethical��� but i don���t know how i���m gonna quit, say after working a few weeks or months. feel very irresponsible. is that unnecessary worrying?

---------------------------

stopped typing to have my dinner

---------------------------

had steamboat dinner while watching "my restaurant rules" & CSI. it was tom yum steamboat but it looked like curry (jus the color, not the consistency). its somewhat a vegetarian steamboat since the only meat were chicken, fishballs and fish tofu. i ate alot of chinese cabbage, my fave. tis steamboat cooker my ma bought is really good. cooks really fast and looks good too. gonna watch "UFO: seeing is believing" on telly now. hehe, whats new?!!

BEWARE: serious ranting!!!

15042005

i want a camera phone! i want one!!! i always forget my digital cam and so having a camera phone would be so handy. i can snap away on anything i want. the graduation reception was at the scientia (within leighton hall) and that���s where i was working too. i was manning the sales counter when beautiful music sounded outside leighton hall. my face lighted up. i quickly summoned someone to look after the counter (cos of cash registers) while i popped my head out to see what was going on. THERE IT WAS, A STRING QUARTET!!!!!! woh���what was the occasion? i wish i had my camera with me so that i can take a pic of it and show u guys. the music was so pleasant to the ears. so nice so nice. if only they���re here every time i work. *wishful thinking*

i had a brush with racism at work. maybe it was, maybe it was not cos he (the guy who almost made me explode) wasn���t well liked in the first place, thus it could jus be his personality. okay, so he���s one of the photographers with my company. he���s been with the company for quite some time (don���t know how long), at least more than a year. so since he has been working for my boss for a reasonably long period, he ought to know the procedures and where things are and so on. apparently, after he was done shooting of the graduates, he came over to the sales counter and sat by 1 of the ibooks. he started fiddling with the ibook and asked me if there���re games. please, don���t play ard can? i���m not familiar with MAC. i told him we are not allowed to play ard with the icons except for the program used for the graduation. he then started calling up his friends, one after another. if i���m the boss, sitting jus there, i bet he wouldn���t have the guts to yak on the phone. anyway, i couldn���t care less. i carried on folding letters and inserting them into envelopes. my boss gave us the task in the morning, to only do it when we���re free. i was the only one there at the sales counter cos my other colleague was inside the auditorium, for the ���mind���drifting��� job. there���re normally 4 of us at the sales counter but 2 more wont come till 11 or 11:30. so i was there doing my thing and the photographer yakking on the phone. 1 lady from the framing booth came over and needed some help on the dimension of the photos. i didn���t know what was the dimensions for the smallest photo we offer, so i called out to him (the photographer. i can jolly well type out his name cos he doesn���t read my blog anyway. he���s alex) but he couldn���t hear me or either that he was too engrossed in his phone conversation, so i signaled him. for the record, the reason why i urgently ���interrupted��� his conversation was cos the customer that the framing lady was serving, was still at her booth. in fact, there were more reasons to interrupt him. theoretically, he shouldn���t even be on the phone!!! besides, instead of being on the phone, he shld be helping me with the letters and envelopes. that was resolved (in my opinion) for alex answered the framing lady. a graduate and his family then came register with me and so i told alex to get ready. he picked up his camera box and went off. then, at the other end of leighton hall, he shouted for me to go over and helped dress the graduate. oh, i���d love too. that���s my forte cos i think i do quite a decent job compared to the rest. i shouted across to him that i cant leave the counter cos at least 1 person has to be at the cash register. he cant hear me so he came walking towards me and sort of insisted that i helped but i told him the reason why i couldn���t. he then said where���s the bag of pins (to pin the graduate���s gown), i told him its on one of the table (its been there since day 1���.i tell u, tis boss of mine is very systematic. everything is where its supposed to be). there shld be one bag of pins on the table jus next to his set anyway (i didn���t tell him tis cos i think he���s cock-eyed and don���t want to remind him :P). he then said he didn���t know those bags were there on the table. HELLO???!!!!! all 3 photographers and the person who is in charge of dressing the graduates know the 2 bags are on the table at the end of the hall, where there���s also a board we pin up pre-ordered receipts. at that moment, i know why my so-called supervisor always tell me alex is lazy and don���t go for him when i want my graduation photos done. he then pointed out to tis bag of pins next to the ibook where he was sitting by jus now. huh? why was it doing there? he���s such an id**t!!! he must hv brought the bag which i left it at his set (cos i was doing the gown job in the morning b4 my colleague went in to the auditorium) to the sales counter after he was done with shooting. since when do u have to carry it with u?? the boss only said to bring the camera box with u if u leave the photography set. then so, there���s always another bag there what. that���s not all that happened. after he was done with the graduate, alex came back to where he sat before. he started ���confronting��� me. he asked why didn���t i said excuse me jus now when he was on the phone. HEY, i said but he didn���t even hear me. what big deal is that? in fact, u were yakking on the phone while u were at work, cmon!!! never mind, then he said he never knew those bags of pins were on that table. SIGH. i gave up. i didn���t even bother to argue with him. i merely said, they���ve always been there. he sort of apologized that he didn���t hear me said excuse me and that he really didn���t know the pins were there. did u think that was all? he did something else which demean singaporeans, sort of. he asked where i was born. i said 'singapore' and he said, ���oh, sandbar���. i was like ���huh?���. he then said, ���oh, singapore is an island surrounded by sand.��� maybe i shouldn���t have said tis but i did. i said, 'the sand wasn���t real, it was reclaimed'. and he took the chance to rub it some more. he said ���it must be weird born there���. i went ���what do u mean?��� he replied, ���everything is MADE there���. GOSH, i was fuming. i wish to reply ���u're also made what���. he ended the whole bloody conversation (if u call that one) by saying 'maybe not, since u were born there, u were used to it'. i was mad, very mad. i told myself not to be angry over such pple. no point. i turned away from him and carried on with what i was doing. sometimes i cant imagine there���re pple like him. so full of themselves. he also told me all the graduates are stupid. hey, it���ll be my turn soon, in may, so that makes me stupid too? (though i know he was probably mad with the graduates who didnt follow his instructions) i seriously think he���s like a kid on the loose and needs constant supervision. i wasn���t intending to type abt my encounter with alex. looks like i cant ���resist���. sorry to whoever reading my blog. i need to rant it out. i was burned out after work yday. jann (my so-called supervisor. its not official but i treat her like 1) wasn���t around yday and i was in charge again. had a lot of refunds and changed orders from customers. i had to take over those customers from my colleagues cos i was the only one authorized to do that (other than jann). i must say i m getting used to the pressure, not alex though. u know the pressure u get when u r serving your own customer and at the same time, have to settle your other 2 colleagues��� customers and every customer wants to be served first. sigh. no worries, i'll be fine.

after i got back from work, at abt 8pm, pot and his parents came over to my place to drop off their luggage for they���ve to check out from their hotel on sat at abt 12 noon. since they���re taking the night flight, they���ll be stranded with their luggage the whole afternoon. other half and i were so tired from work so we rejected their dinner offer. i feel bad turning them down but i really was beat. my eyelids were so heavy. had leftover from lunch for dinner. went to bed shortly after dinner and a bath. other half was stuck to his GT4 on PS2 while i snoozed away.

16042005

i m glad i didn���t hv to work today. nice to be resting and taking a break from all the smiling, ���hi, how r u?���, ���which package would u like?���, ���here���s your credit card���, ���thank you, have a nice day.��� was also expecting pot in the late afternoon. he asked me for dinner again but i cant cos i���ve already promised my other half that we���ll be having steamboat (EDITED 17/04/05: after he come back from work. & i cant contact him now to change our plans plus i wouldnt like to hv my dinner twice). i like pot���s parents, they���re very easy going and nice pple (cos they appreciate my jokes & could laugh at them *chuckle*). i only knew pot���s parents tis time round when they came to syd for his graduation. i helped them carry 1 small bag downstairs (while they carried 2 more huge suitcases) and waited with them for a cab. pot handed me an envelope and said to see only after they leave. hmm���.so mysterious. i promised them we���ll have chilli crayfish at alexandra village when i go back to singapore. i opened up the envelope while i was on my way home. he wrote me a sweet note of thanks and also enclosed a sum of money for the rental of their luggage at my place. aiyoh, that was meant as a joke what! take me as what???? i m not money faced okay?!! well, he also mentioned that he meant to thank me for all my help in syd and didn���t know what to buy me as a gift so gave me the money instead. i quickly called his mobile and ���scolded��� him. he���s gonna get it when i go back in oct. :P since other half don���t want slow food (EDITED 17/04/05: that is, steamboat. he cant wait, he was hungry beyond words can describe), we settled for ben���s thai (his fave) for dinner.

for the entire day, i���ve been waiting for my korean drama to complete downloading. not to mention, i waited a week for the episode to be posted online. i carried on typing tis after dinner and dessert. now gonna watch ���iron chef���. a routine affair on every sat. cheers.

me, myself, and i... the telly junkie

another uneventful day for me. up to nothing except for nuah-ing and grocery shopping at eastgardens. went to coles to get the staple; milk, juice, bread, detergent, etc. used to have to drop by the pet food aisle but need not anymore. it was quite a strain on us having to buy food (more for pampering) for meow meow then (when we were still staying at the previous place) cos our budget was so tight. still, we���d buy him the best while we had instant noodles. i wonder how is he now. he went missing 2 weeks after other half and i moved out. has he gone in search for us? hehe���.such thick skin. to clarify, my ex-housemate (meow meow���s owner) do get cat food for him but usually dried ones while meow meow prefers tuna or snapper. hehee... what an indulgent cat! without fail, i dropped by the pet shop to look at the cats and dogs that were for sale. most of them were sleeping except for the maltese crossed shih tzu (were going for $495, cheap or not?). ha, u know what was keeping them awake? 1 was biting & fiddling with a piece of paper (part of the litter tray) while the other 2 would try to ���snatch��� or bite the paper away from him... so stupid but so cute. as soon as i got home, i down 2 glasses of juice. been craving for tis juice since last week. besides, i was thirsty. it was warm today.

anyone here a huge fan of ���desperate housewives���? or ���lost���? yeah yeah... i m a telly junkie... i watch everything. i can skip psychic detectives or body of evidence but not desperate housewives. my housemate is a huge fan and he cant wait for the local telly so he downloads it from the internet. i���ve watched till episode 13, all thanks to him. now, i m waiting for episode 14, on telly. hopefully it���ll be up soon.

okay, the telly junkie is getting herself ready for a series of drama and more drama. *switch on the telly* ermmm.... she���s finding it hard to concentrate on her blog, her head turning to look at the telly for the umpteen times & now her eyes are glued to it. THAT���S IT!

tis our fave meow meow!!! so proud looking, isnt he? he was waiting to get in the house.


thats him hiding behind the curtain sleeping


ermmm...face on his paws, snoozing. SO CUTE!


another of his adorable sleeping patterns

no theme today

i miss out 2 lines from the australian national anthem yday. for those who really took the effort to listen to it, u'll notice it. the anthem ends with the following 2 lines.

In joyful strains then let us sing,

Advance Australia Fair.

===============

ma has been recce-ing the sin-aus exchange rate these days. and DARN. it was S$1 for A$0.75!!! aussie dollar, can u drop a lil pls??? pls���pls���drop by late april can? i love my ma. she���s gonna bring me a lot of goodies in may���including my fave pineapple tarts from ermmm���.i forgot the name...its the bakery at bedok north, and many many more other stuff. i m working on a list u see.

seems like the entire human population is awaiting episode 3. eeeks, i don���t like. *sob* i don���t want to go watch can? *sob* i sure fall asleep lah. i slept throughout episode 1. i don���t understand a single thing. okay, u can say i don���t know how to appreciate it. gimme harry porter, LOTR but star wars ermmm���..can pass. or better still, gimme the money for the tix, i go buy the $5 steak at regent hotel downstairs my place. its more like a motel actually. dont ask me why its called hotel in the first place. aku tatawu?!?

pinky, i m so proud of u. i said that so many times already. have i? at least in my heart.

ric, u cant keep chucking painkillers. give it another day, try my pa���s remedy if u r not scared of the bitterness. but pls pls see the white robe guy soon.

news flash
----------
saw mike tyson with a tattoo on his face���.OMG, not painful? our face is very sensitive with alot of nerves, ya know?!? he cant hv gone under anesthesia when the tattoo was done right? got such thing or not?

earthquakes and tsunamis and now volcano eruption���..indonesia������*shake head* *sigh*

newest idea for charity drive���.aussie football players auctioning their ���undies��� for testicular cancer funds. who wants to buy? smelly smelly!!!!!

end of news bulletin

-------------------

i m going for the regent hotel $5 steak for dinner. now.

ben's thai burp

jus had a relaxing bath after a long day at work and a thai takeaway dinner (from tis restaurant called "ben's thai"). i didn���t eat much though. too tired perhaps. work wasn���t as busy as compared to last friday but i was considerably occupied throughout. and i didn���t get to test print at all tis morning, cos i was setting up the photography props & lightings instead. still, my main duty is to man the sales counter. i found out 1 major con of tis job, that is, i get bloody thumbs from tearing cloth tapes!!! anyone heard before that we are not supposed to use scissors to cut a cloth tape? for my case, it was the first time i heard of it. the bloody thingy is like when u guys trim your nails too deep and it bleeds or stings in contact with water??!! was jus recovering from a bloody toe and now i got a bloody thumb. *fed up* was manning the counter when i got a couple of requests from graduates to help them with their gowns and caps. sometimes, i do get sent to relief my colleague on tidying of the gowns before the graduates hv their pics taken. i m getting the hang of it & also tot that i m quite good at it too���until today. somehow, i felt i could hv done better. like how, i really don���t know. i'm enjoying my job enormously cos i made new friends and learnt something out of my comfort zone. stuff like frontline customer svc, hardware (iBooks, etc) & equipment (photography) set up. i get to train to stay focused too. tis is how: we take a shot of every graduate who goes on stage to receive his/ her degree. the ceremony program booklet has the list of names of the graduates and if everyone attends, its straight forward. say 54 stage photos to 54 names as indicated in the booklet. that is when the names are read out in sequence as reflected in the booklet. BUT, when 1 or many don���t show up, it disrupts the order and we wont know which photo (after developing) to match with which name. in such a case, it���ll be ideal if someone can tick off the graduate���s name from the booklet when the guy calls for the graduate to go on stage . so how does the staying focused come into the picture? sitting at the corner of the row of reserved seats by yourself....buried in the sea of monotonous clappings, freezing air-conditioning (for the graduates i guess, oh���their thick gowns. esp guys in suits and ties), your mind can simply drift away and miss ticking a name or two or more. so far, there's no major hiccup. u know my job better now?

speaking of ticking the names, i volunteered to do the mind-drifting job today. that was for pot!!!! his was the 2:30 session. helped him take a few photos while waiting for the ceremony to start. with tis job now and helping pot, i think i m all prepared for my turn next mth. *burp* i know all the dos and don���ts. other than anticipation (my parents coming), there is also ���fear��� cos my boss and colleagues are ganging up to make my day ���memorable���.

try listen to the australian national anthem...for interest sake. though i m no aussie, but my hairs always stand on ends when they sing tis at the graduation ceremony. http://www.pm.gov.au/audio/anthem_vocal.mp3

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR

Australians all let us rejoice,

For we are young and free;

We've golden soil and wealth for toil;

Our home is girt by sea;

Our land abounds in nature's gifts

Of beauty rich and rare;

In history's page, let every stage

Advance Australia Fair.

*burp*

photographer on duty

had a long day at the uni today. not as long as when i was working but long enough. remember? i was being photographer to pot today. upon receiving his sms at abt 9:20am, i made my way to the uni. plan to meet him at the library lawn cos he said he was going to be there. we covered most ���photographable��� areas of the uni���including the library. i made him do cheesy poses, like flipping a book, picking out a book from the shelf. hahaaa. must be different from the mainstream what??!!! pot was feeling paiseh cos i followed them the whole day but he didn���t have to cos i had fun. its different���being in uni for a different reason (that is, other than study & work). moreover, i get to practise my photography skills too���actually not much skill since i was using a digital cam, not a SLR. maybe more of an angle thingy. it started pouring when we were 戮 into our ���photoshoot��� so we tried to take some indoor shots while waiting for the rain to subside. we also made a trip to the pathology museum at wallace wurth building, where i used to study. the museum had lots of diseased organs preserved up in pots (hey, i m not referring to my friend pot. ha). we came to the lungs section where there was a lung that had a carcinoma���which is cancer���and it was black and all that. pot���s dad was saying something abt the black lung and i went ���oh���.smoking lor���.��� then pot & the mom said to the dad ���see, still want to smoke���. i was like���.SHIT, i didn���t know his dad smokes. it could be a good thing i created awareness for his dad but it might be a bad thing for i reminded pot & his mom abt the possibility of pot���s dad getting lung cancer. i emphasize the word ���POSSIBILITY" here, okay? cant remember what time we call it a day at the uni but we took a walk to kingsford, where i'm staying (also where pot stayed before) and had a late lunch. at 1 of the many hong kong style restaurants, called ���delicious restaurant���. it was decided there cos pot and i tot they had free fruits after meal but there wasn���t any. looks like they took it off already. or if i recall now, perhaps it was only for dinner. we had set meal for 4 and had to choose 3 dishes from a list. we chose spare ribs with peking sauce, fish fillet in sweet and sour sauce, long beans with minced meat and a roast chicken (free with every set meal). and of course rice (���chicken rice��� rice). i find the beans alil salty and the fish fillet kinda sweet. plus the fact that it was chicken rice (& it was quite salty too) and not plain rice, the saltiness of the dishes were more enhanced (enhancement is not what we want here, isn���t it?). as soon as we see the rain lighten up, we left ���delicious��� or maybe ���kiam and ti��� (direct translation of salty & sweet). and hey, pot & parents didn���t know a thing of tis. they probably think i enjoyed the food. in a way i do but not quite my std of kiam & ti. we were at the junction crossing over to my place when it poured again. very heavy tis time. no way we gonna make it across so we stood there waiting and pot���s parents started looking at the menu displayed outside some more chinese restaurants. as soon as the rain lighten up, i told them i shld run home & grab the brollies for them (pot���s mom started coughing & i feel bad making her stand in the cold. starting to get alil) pot insisted coming with me so i let him. i stayed behind while pot brought the brollies with him to fetch his parents from across the road. they spent abt an hour or so jus relaxing at my place. actually pot wanted to copy out all his photos from his digital cam from a few days ago and today into a cd so as to free up space in his digital cam for the next few days of holidaying. i m more than willing to help, in fact, i m happy i helped. it was getting dark at abt 5ish & they were ready to leave. wanted to send them downstairs but they didnt want me too. after they left, okay, get ready for tis���.. I SPENT 1 HOUR READING 8days!!!!! yes, i did! i was so into it, more than my texts. HA! so many celebrities��� babies at 1 time. the last page of tis issue of 8days had some prank ideas which i like. lemme share with u...2 of them.

prank idea #4
This one is for people you really don���t like: wait until they park their car in an open-air parking lot, then sprinkle breadcrumbs all over the car. This will attract every bird in the vicinity, who���ll also do what comes naturally (that is, bird shit).

prank idea #5
The night before, pour gelatin or agar-agar powder into the toilet of your target. The next morning, he���ll be doing his business onto a bouncy surface. (don���t worry, it���s easily broken up and flushed away). i meant to do tis to my other half but darn, while i was typing tis post and not looking, he picked up the copy of 8days and read them all. bummer.

i miss talking to my mom again so i called her. so exciting, so exciting. was telling her how my day went and also discussed abt may. i m getting all excited abt may. i cant stress that enough.

supernanny was on tonite���.it came back due to popular demand but we didn���t watch it cos mythbusters was on the other channel. something other half would like better, so i let it stay at that channel. think i was also afraid of the kids��� yelling and screaming on supernanny. i wonder how my parents brought up 3 kids 2 yrs apart each.

have to work tomorrow���.7:30 to 6. and yes, must remember to test print. also got reminder from other half���s yeo buddy. i bathed already so m ready to go to bed. ZZZzzzzz.

pot brought these for me from singapore


arent they cute? i like it so much that pot's mom gave me the entire pack. its tissue paper btw.

learn more abt mythbusters at http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html

going korean

my parents are the best, i am so touched by them, esp today, when i called them for a chat. eversince i was away from home, i get to see more clearly how supportive they are. i hope they'll enjoy themselves when they're here next month.

went for lunch at another korean restaurant "min sok chon" in the city which is jus next door to the one we had before. it was much cheaper, more homely, and more crowded. the food was tastier and i much prefer the side dishes too. my other half had seafood miso soup with rice and i had kimchi soup with rice. the fruit coleslaw is yum yum. wanted to order the green bottle of korean white wine or something, called "soju" which i always see in korean drama. though i dont enjoy alcohol but i was very tempted to try. then i saw on the menu that says soju http://www.american.edu/TED/soju.htm is a type of whisky, i backed out. woah, sure very strong....so far, the only form of whisky i dare drink is irish cream cos its kinda sweet and has a vanilla flavour. i really like vanilla alot. with our stomachs filled, we walked towards chinatown to pick up my altered pants. FINALLY, i get to wear them soon. i was so tired from the walk to and from broadway so we headed home instead of dropping off at randwick. oh, cos i cant get the thing i wanted from broadway.

i was yawning away when i had dinner, and yawning still as i m typing tis post, probably gonna yawn away as i bathe, till i finally hit the pillow. have to wake up early tomorrow for i promised pot (a singaporean friend who came for his graduation) to take pics for him and his parents at the uni. i'll let the pics do the talking.

2 days in 1

no update from me yday cos i was so tired from working that i dozed off after bathing, a light dinner and some fruits. that was only 8ish. i remember the last i was doing was lying in bed watching the milestones of the pope. didnt know much abt him till now. he was such an influential man. very forgiving man as well. he actually went to the prison to visit the guy who attempted to assassinate him. cant remember if the pope bless the fella anot. i was already groggy by then so dont remember much details. work was tiring and stressful. stressful cos i was in charge of setting up the sales counters with 4 iBooks, docket printers, tis hub, that hub and tons of wires...not forgetting the backdrop with posters. was at work by 7.30am. so early right?! work was manageable but it started off with a glitch. THE PRINTER REFUSED TO PRINT!!!! had to issue receipts manually. the boss had to fiddle ard with 1 of the iBooks, which was a new one, when he realised he overlooked some setup. it was partly my fault since i didnt test print first thing after i set it up. and there were some customers whom i tot looked angry. i really wonder why. none of the sales staff (that includes me) said anything to agitate them. maybe its none of our fault, jus that they've some problems or whatsoever. the thing is, it jus made us feel as though that we did or said something wrong. towards the end of the day, i was hoping all the equipment and setting stay the way they were till next tues when i m scheduled to work again. of course, the iBooks have to be kept. sadly to say, everything have to go. sigh. meaning i've to pack up and then set up everything from scratch again on tues. *cry*

woke up at 8ish (slept for 12 hours!!!!) tis morning with sores and aches (from work yday) and saw that my download was done. what else besides korean drama???!!! watched that and then went back to sleep. got up again at abt close to 12. had brunch and then replied some sms. afternoon was spent jalan jalan-ing at chinatown with my ex-housemate. she wanted jus coffee at the caf茅 downstairs but i dragged her to chinatown cos i badly needed alteration for my pants i bought ages ago. we chatted, drank (not alcohol but bubble tea...yeah...its still popular here), walked, shopped. it was nice catching up with her since we haven���t met for 3 weeks. she was back in singapore for a vacation. how i wish i was in her shoes. the afternoon ended at borders. it was abt 5ish when we headed home and darkness was slowly engulfing us already. i cant come home cos my other half and i share 1 set of keys and he was holding them. we cant duplicate it cos the security key to get in the building was made in a special way that it cant be duplicated. it wasn���t a long wait for other half since my ex-housemate and i killed some time at a swing nearby. we chatted for a while more downstairs her place before my other half called to say he was back home and so i walked back and met other half downstairs our place to go buy takeaway for dinner together. i���ll definitely miss all my friends (not a lot to start with) in syd if i���ve to move (for other half���s THE JOB) to another state (other than melbourne cos I���ve ric). WHO WILL GO SHOPPING WITH ME?!?!?

ric (our aspiring DJ...not really lah...its his hobby only, i don���t think he���ll give up his day job. anyway, he promised to be our DJ at our wedding) called to catch up with my other half and i after we had dinner while watching the apprentice. i started typing tis soon after we hung up. i was waiting to update my blog the whole day. finally, its done though its more of a ���what i did, where i went��� kinda entry. bear with me...hopefully, i can go somewhere or do something interesting so that u guys wont be bored reading my blog. but then again, that���s me...always so boring what.

eat less to longevity

i had tis dream that i was back in spore and i was crying to come back to syd. how cant that be possible since i m so homesick????!!! but i can forsee that. whenever i m back in spore for a holiday, in less than 2 weeks, i'd start to miss syd. whereas in syd, i'll only start missing spore months later.

had garlic tofu with spring onion and minced meat with rice for lunch. 1 of my specialties. also prepared dinner. since it was soup so gotto boil way before hand. sigh...thats all i did for household chores today. oh yes, i kept and folded the clothes too.

called my mom and chatted for a while. i m getting worried for her asthma. i hope she goes to the doc to get some preventive medicine. i know there is cos i was on it before. i pray that she listens to me. times like these make me want to pack up here and go home.

today's episode of oprah (its supposed to be "the oprah show" but i call it oprah in short) was emotional but surely an eye opener. it featured the inside lives of dwarfs, down sydromed kids, heavy pple and how their families cope with taking care of them. its easy to stare and point (some do) at them or even call them names but how many actually know the hardship the families have to go through and endure in taking care of them. i was one of the guily ones. i admit i'll look if i come across one but i would never call them names or point at them. oprah commented that its inevitable for pple to stare so i guess i m alright. the lady who was seriously obese, went through a gastric bypass, that is, she got part of her stomach stitched up to the size of an egg. the audience was in shock but i tot that was okay. it doesnt pay to eat alot. in fact, one lives longer when he eats less (i have proof). i dont mean starve, okay?!

was on msn chatting with little. she introduced me to a handbag website http://www.shenatic.com.sg/ actually they sell other stuff but hangbag was the main intention why she introduced it to me. ermm....i wont say i m very impressed with the designs but i spotted 2 that i like. i've already placed my orders with her. i got her itching to buy as well. she's gonna try get more orders through her sis and friends toget a discount (hopefully). i'll collect my precious bags from her when i return in october. cant wait!!!

had a long and well deserved chat with pinky. its been weeks since we last spoke. had to call her back when the credit on my calling card ran out and got a new one from my ex-housemate who's company is selling them. i miss going out with her. she's the one who tells me the truth....if i look good or hideous in clothes that i try on. gal, i know we're apart and miss alot of times together but God sure has a reason for doing that.

its getting late and i've an exceptionally early and long day tomorrow. gotto bathe and sleep soon. sweet dreams guys.

garlic tofu with spring onion and minced meat for lunch


red date chicken and apple soup for dinner (forgot to add the veg)

good bye CSI

its been an ordinary day for me today except for the realisation that i grew out of CSI cos i much prefer real life crime programs. i m not suggesting i prefer more crimes. they (the shows) can be chilling and made me scared of going to the loo (sometimes, for some stupid reason) but i soon forget abt it once i finished watching so have no problem with it. body of evidence and psychic detectives are 2 of my new found loves. in fact, i jus finished watching them. saw on psychic detectives that a paramedic died before he could even save the victim. i thought that was so tragic cos he didn���t obey the golden rule first aiders and paramedic observe....that is, make sure of one���s own safety before saving others. of course, they didn���t accuse him in the show. i was jus speaking from experience. at least, that was what i learnt. since we���re on the subject of first aid, i doubt i remember how to perform CPR. hmmmm...CPR...that was the highlight of the entire first aid course i attended. we all didn���t know that there was going to be a fake dummy. instead, we thought the instructor gonna summon someone to the front as the ���victim���. glad there wasn���t any form of human contact otherwise its gonna be embarrassing (i knew no one from the class). now that i think back, if a real human subject was called to be the ���victim���, he'd probably become a VICTIM with broken ribs. anyway, the stupid rubbery dummy used in class was not ���cooperative��� at all. no matter how hard i ���blew���, he refused to light up. for non first aiders, there���s tis light indicator that goes red/ green (cant remember what color is right) if u blow correctly. in the end, i was so breathless that i think i needed CPR.

for those who are keen to find out the shows i mentioned, u might wanna check out SCV or probably DVDs or the websites.

body of evidence
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/body_of_evidence/

psychic detectives
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/psychic_detectives/

meet the parents

it took me so loooooong to get tis entry up on blogger. its taking forever to load. no idea why is my computer lagging so badly. *yawn* i cant wait to go to bed.
---------------------------------------

sheesh...i kicked myself against the balcony door ledge and suffered a bloody toe. yeah, while i was chatting on msn with friends ....yes guys (u know who u are), yeah, i was complaining abt the lagging network and then i disappeared a couple of times and went to the kitchen. i tot i'll go to the balcony to pick up my physiology textbook. huh? why there? sigh. what a long story. okay, to cut the story short (if i know how to do that)���.the guy who stayed in my room before i moved in���he was supposed to clear his stuff by the time i was ready to move in but apparently, he didnt. he had an afternoon flight to catch and in the morning, on the same day, he was still packing. the whole hall was dominated by him so when we moved in, we had no place for our luggage and stuff. with no choice, we left all of our things at the balcony temporarily. slowly, day by day, we brought in one by one. then, due to limited space (our current room is much smaller than the previous one), 2 suitcases of books are still there. they've been there eversince. for how long? ermmm.....3 mths. so the reason why the suitcases are in the balcony afterall is not due to the guy right?? heheee. hey, seriously, there���s really no space in our room. okay okay, back to the physiology textbook. i was answering tis friend of mine on msn abt how the organs in our body work when the confusing one came. "do u know if urethra and ureters are the same?" i m always stumped at tis one. i m confused which one come first. btw, i havent answer her yet. see, the reason why i needed the physiology textbook. yeah yeah, i should blame her for my bloody toe right?! oh yeah, the difference between the two. ureters are a pair of ���tubings��� that carry urine from the kidney to our bladders while the urethra is the ���tubing��� that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body. in men, the urethra also serves as a passage for sperm. little, now u know the difference?

i m such a good girl today. i did the laundry that has been piling up. hehee���.whats so good abt doing the laundry u might ask. that would make my mom a VERY VERY VERY GOOD GIRL right? since she does the laundry everyday, sometimes even twice a day.

met my bro on msn late last nite. he was ���instructing��� me to check out air tix to syd. yes yes, my parents are coming!!!! next month. YAYYY!!! i���ve already started thinking of sleeping arrangement. and i can show my parents all the places i���ve stayed so far, bring them to eat at the fierce fierce weird weird man restaurant, bring them sightseeing. basically jus have them around. no words can describe my excitement. pple, if u guys know of any cheap lobang for air tix, esp SQ, LEMME KNOW.

i m sleepy and going to bed soon. u guys have an early nite too. cheerios.

150 words

i m challenging myself to write today's entry in 150 words...like the 150 words summary we do in comprehension. okay, ready, get set, GO....

can feel winter round the
corner. correction. i SEE winter
coming. cos the day is
getting shorter. took passport photos,
bought bank draft & stamps.
did all before lunch. had
bah ku teh for early
dinner. didnt buy it. i
cooked!!! *proud* left house at
6 instead of 5 cos
was deciding to wear trench
coat anot. today, temp dropped
to 18oC. drastic right??! the
police station at bondi beach
has someone to do fingerprinting
today, but only after 6.
kinda late but fine. better
than waiting till sat. fingerprinting
was FUN!!! i had black
ink all over my hands.
prints from my entire fingers,
palms, sides. altogether 18 prints!!!
heard singapore's fingerprinting is electronic.
took me very looong to
SCRUB it off. wasteful trip
if dont take a walk
along the beach. bus ride
back home was much faster.
thank goodness cos i m
somewhat a motion sickness person.

overturn of the cd era

i think i m developing a repulsion for mushrooms. i mean the smell of it. i still eat the fungi though. tis repulsion stems from my housemate. he simply loves mushrooms. ALOT of them! he loves mushrooms in his maggi, in his myojo, in his mamee, in his indomee. he can eat up to 6 huge ones each time. i dont mean to criticize his passion for mushrooms cos i m a huge fan myself. its jus that i didnt know tis brown ugly looking chinese delicacy can smell quite bad.

temperature rose high today. mother nature sure knows i bought sunscreens yday. it went beyond the highest estimate of 32oC. i could melt on my way to the computer fair at the uni. while waiting for my other half do his stuff at the fair, i sat under a tree, looked through 8days and slapped on more sunscreen. UV index is 13 in australia, mind u!! as compared to 4-7 in singapore. being the drama queen that i m, (that makes other half the drama king), we have loads to download and burn out. and since we're nomads who have alot to carry ard as we move, cds r not in favour. dvd is a much wiser choice. bought a dvd burner and a stack of dvds. cool, cds are passe for us from now on.

as i mentioned earlier, the heat was unbearable today. having enjoyed on average 19oC for the past few days, 33.4oC (as of 3pm) was a big no no. with the blind closed, it was still very glaring. i could have napped with my shades on. thank goodness for modern civilization, baths & ice-cream are tools that helped alleivate the heat.

had an emotional chat with my mom last night. told her abt my intention last thursday. she said with a choking voice that it must have been tough for me not having my dad and her ard me. tears were on the edge of my eyes but i held them back. it wouldnt be wise for 2 women to be crying over the phone. that would be so depressing. i seriously dont want to doubt and question God but i truly think if He wants to test our patience, we definitely have stood the test. its easy to fall back on the easy way of life, living a protected life. its been a year and we're still hanging on. i have no doubt that we deserved a pat on our backs though i admit we received tremendous help and support from our families. lets all be strong and firm in what we truly believe in and go all out to achieve it. your dream can only be a reality when u put your words into actions.

fingerprint merry-go-round

i m so pissed today....with m****b** police station, the immigration dept as well as myself. okay, here's the story. instead of doing the fingerprint impression tomorrow right, we thought we can do it today. tried our luck in calling the station and yep, the service is available today and now. it'll be till 3pm but no guarantee cos if someone is in custody then it'll be a different story. okay okay, got ready, took a bus and made it there at abt 1ish. there was a guy before us, getting his fingerprints done too so we had to wait. before tis guy went in through the door, they asked him for his documents and stuff and also stamps. i m like why need stamps?!! thought we'll be getting the fingerprints (btw, its all 10 fingers, not jus the thumb) ready by today. though i know sometimes, for some other services, an envelope and a stamp is required for them to send the stuff back to u. okay, then the fingerprinting guy (probably a police officer too) asked me if we have stamps or where m i sending mine to & how much stamps i paid for. i said i havent weigh the stuff so didnt buy any stamp. the fact is i havent gotten the fingerprint thingy, how do i know how heavy is the entire envelope & so how to buy the stamps??!! ultimately, the fingerprints, 'certificate of no criminal conviction' or CNCC form, passport-sized photos, etc, will have to be sent to the police headquarters in singapore. anyway, i told them i thought we were supposed to send it off ourselves (cos thats what they told me when i called them. and now its a different story. can i sue them? btw, we called so many times & were told so many different timings for the fingerprint svc). they said they cant trust us with the fingerprints so they'll send it off on our behalf. thats weird right? how are we supposed to know how much to pay for the stamps. jus tikam? *shake head* worse still, the fingerprint guy wont be in tomorrow (when he's supposed to) but i cant get hold of stamps as well as a bank draft (for singapore police) anyway. i was fuming when i stepped out of the police station. i was so mad at myself for procastinating. i wanted to buy the bank draft yesterday but thought i'll do it on monday after getting the fingerprints done tomorrow. sigh. having said that, i wouldnt think of buying stamps first cos i wouldnt know how heavy the entire document is gonna be. then how come the immigration dept never include a remark on tis. apparently the guy before me also didnt prepare any stamp. tis system is jus not right. and they (police station) should allow us to pay by credit card. more convenient what??!!! well, at least, the immigration dept is credit card friendly. r u guys tired of hearing me out already? or fell asleep already? wow, i was really that angry. now, i m not as angry anymore but i m feeling giddy. *seeing stars* can jus imagine my other half hearing me complain and complain as we walked to eastgardens (shopping centre...near our place). hey, the story is still not over yet. as we walked and walked, an idea struck me. why didnt i jus do my fingerprints jus now??? then on monday, i can go down and give them the rest of stuff they need. i called 1234 (something like 100 in singapore) to ask for m****b** police station's number. see, i wanted to add the number in my mobile tis morning but i felt i wont need it. if i need it, i can go search the yellow pages. OMG, i dont know why is it so difficult to key the number into my phone. got the number & called the police station. what the???!!! they said i cant do it today unless i've all the documents ready cos they'll send it out today. yeah right, no postman will come collect it anyway. sigh. story is still not over. i was still hoping to get it done today if possible. i know i m an idiot if i ask the post office (my next destination) if they sell bank drafts. they normally sell money order. so, i tried to call the CNCC officer in singapore to check if money order is acceptable cos they only specify bank draft but no one answered. thought the government svc works 5 1/2 days? or is it 5 day work week already? sigh. besides, the post office was closed by the time we got there. it was closed at 1pm. i thought it closes at 2 from the website i saw. sigh (another one). looks like i cant do anything today. i really dont want to wait till next sat. tis CNCC application will take abt 2 weeks. once they process it and mail it back to me, i gotto send it to the immigration dept within 28days. i hope there's sufficient time. i'll check out another police station that can do it during the weekdays. seems like m****b** police station is the only one in the eastern beaches closest to us that can do fingerprinting. judging from the inconsistent information given, i cant trust them. will probably try the CBD area. pray hard that some fingerprint guy works on a weekday.

got my sunscreen finally, after going through a few shops. the last one on the shelf!!!! that one was for the face. also got one for the body. both of different brands. those who want to buy sunscreen but dont know what brand to buy, can ask me for advice. heeeheee. saw a t-shirt that pinky will love to bits. i dont know if i should buy anot????? bought lunch and had it while watching korean drama "wonderful". thats one thing that can cheer me up. indulging in the show can make me forget my worries and anger. one impt msg from the show: "no one survives a relationship without love". that is so true.

time flies, its already april. my convocation which is in may is jus next month. it seems so far away when i was first told in december. still not sure if my parents are flying here to attend. if they r not, maybe i should skip it and go to work. i was scheduled to work anyway.

i m having papaya salad for dinner as i m typing tis....yep, a very late dinner. *time check: 7.30pm singapore time* i m sure u guys r now enjoying your dinner too. chicken rice? laksa? fishball noodles? *drool*

sunset at 5:46pm viewed from my bedroom


sunset at 6:05pm


sunset at 6:18pm

tired but happy

first things first, i must thank pinky for offering to buy the sunscreen for me. no worries my dear, for convenience's sake, i've decided to try another brand. supposed to buy it today but it was out of stock. and thanks for the comments u left on my blog. if not for your email, i wouldnt realise it. hehee...i m a blur queen as u know.

i m pretty tired now. been out since the afternoon. grabbed some stuff from paddy's http://www.paddysmarkets.com.au/PaddysMarket.html and then had vietnamese beef noodles (1 of my fave food in syd) for lunch. more like an early dinner since it was already 5. luckily the fiece fiece or weird weird (kinda abit of both) man wasnt around. he's quite spooky. he has tis stare that can penetrate things so if suay suay kena he takes our orders, i'll not say what i want cos that would mean i've to look at him. i'll jus point at the dish i want on the menu, say thank you like a timid girl then look away at my tea or pretend to prepare the chopsticks and spoons. serious, he's really that scary. if he doesnt know i m scared of him, he would probably think i m rude. anyway, when u guys come to syd, we'll go there and u'll know what i mean. walked to broadway (shopping centre opposite "the university of syd") for the kmart there. there're other kmarts around but since we're in that area, so might as well. there's a sale on. i meant to check out some skincare products. sale what??! best time to buy stuff. can cut cost. of course, i only bought the needs & not the wants.

what m i happy abt? orrrr... will tell u guys when the time is right. dont expect much cos i m easily contented to start with so the thing i m happy abt cant be a big thing. i m going to have my 6th meal of the day then take my bath and go to bed. no photo today cos i forgot to bring my camera out with me.

the weekends are here....have a good one. and happy april fool's day! (whoever celebrates it. hehee)