little heartts

2009-12-31T20:00:00.004+11:00

the end of 2009

here i am writing the last post for the year again. this time, it's the last post for this blog too, will be shifting to here! just felt that it's time for a change. after all, i've been at littleheartts.blogspot.com for almost 4 years already. won't be doing long picture posts anymore, we've facebook! :)

well, another year in melbourne just flew past like that. university is no easy piece of shit, you really have to study to get the distinctions. compared to last year, i didn't have as much outings. weekends were normally spent studying or going for super short visits in the city. nevertheless, school wasn't boring as i had cindy and jonathan by my side, and studying was made fun by having cindy, rachel, merrie and my boyfriend with me.

major change from last year to this year was having a boyfriend. or shall i say, having an indonesian boyfriend. like all relationships, it's not perfect. we obviously had ups and downs, but overall, i really had one amazing year with him. though i hardly mention him in my blog, i really do love him a lot. i guess he's the only one who's able to make me happy and sad just like that. :)

this year, i was staying alone in my little studio. thank god for having merrie (especially), rachel, charlene and cindy, for always being there for me. my frequent visits to their houses helped me release boredom, loneliness and homesick-ness. after experiencing it for one year, i can say that i wouldn't want to live alone again. perhaps it's because i come from a family of 7 (plus maid), and was used to staying in a house with 7 other girls. oh well, can't wait for 2010. i'll be sharing a 2 bedroom apartment with merrie chew! :)

as for the wonderful people back in singapore, which includes my family and friends. i'm so thankful for having them in my lives. holidays back in singapore would not have been so much fun without them. friends and family have been trying to squeeze time out to spend with me, and i really appreciate it!

really looking forward to 2010, hoping that it would be a better year than 2009! i'm determined to study hard (get better grades), make more friends, continue to love the people i love, and stay healthy and happy! :)

may everyone have a good new year ahead!

steamboat for dinner!

updated*

just came back from a mini countdown celebration with family near the esplanade. it was a last minute decision to head down to watch the fireworks. shopping malls and hotels car parks were all full and we had to park in citibank building. the fireworks were so beautiful, managed to capture them via video-ing. we brought along some sparkling wine with us, but only had it before heading back to the car. cheers in the car park! :)

2009-12-31T17:40:00.002+11:00

secondary school loves

cafe delma at sentosa

went to the beach at sentosa with cixian, cheryl and yongbin on monday. wanted to enjoy ourselves under the sun, but it was raining that day. luckily, it stopped when we reached, but the sky still looked very gloomy. anyways, we still had fun. talked, photo-ed and played! it was so funny when us girls were trying to run away from yongbin. totally reminded me of our secondary school english enrichment classes, where we'll play catching around the school while the teacher was in the classroom teaching! :)

thereafter, we headed off to sushi tei for dinner. i don't know how and why, but we always end up eating at sushi tei, forever! ate haagen ice cream while having some heart to heart talk at vivo's rooftop with cheryl and yb.

st james power house!

the five of us met up at vivo city at 8 yesterday. after having our dinner, we wanted to catch alvin and the chipmunks 2, but we had no time. well, at least we managed to get a picture with the 3 cuties! :) there was not enough time as we were rushing down to st james power house!

it was ladies night at power house and i had so much fun! really, last night was my most fun clubbing session ever (though i only went thrice)! i don't know whether it's because it's a singapore club, or it's the songs, or it's the great company! :) i think it's everything!

my fellow kumalehs, missing out bram and xiaohan! they should have been there though, i'm sure it'll be much more fun with them around.

my lovely girlfriends. the girls who were there with me throughout the four years, and still counting! (including xiaohan too)

yongbin was the joke of the night! he was in his own world throughout the entire night. all of us were dancing together except for him. he was using tissues and dancing around. he even distribute tissues to us and asked us to dance with him! hahahaha! :)

what's with the checkered shirts?

we clubbed till the club closed. got home at 4.15 am and slept around 5 am. i had so much fun last night and the best thing was, i spent zero dollars (except for bus fare from house to vivo). warren paid mac donalds for me, entry to powerhouse was free (we had some vip tixs), drinks were free (thanks to ladies night and some other friends) and cab was free! how cool is that.

have been been hanging out with these guys quite frequently recently. going to see the whole big jing-gang this saturday at cheryl's house bbq session. i'm not complaining, i'm lovin' it! :)

i passed my basic theory test too! finally, going to start driving soon.

2009-12-27T23:56:00.000+11:00

when can i dive?

i just got off the phone with bf. i'm so jealous. he went jet skiing and diving (not scuba) yesterday and today with his family, and he's doing it again with his friends tomorrow. he jet skii-s almost every month, but it was his first time diving. he was describing to me how fun the experience was and how beautiful the corals and fishes were. i'm so happy for him, but i feel so sad hearing it. i want to experience it too!

i need to change the 'type' of fun i have been having so far. i want to do outdoor activities, like diving, jet skii, canoeing, rafting, horse riding, etc. i know singapore have them too, but they are not worth the money. expensive, and no atmosphere? well, luckily for a change, i'll be heading to the beach tomorrow! :)

2009-12-26T13:34:00.002+11:00

all i want for christmas is you

spent my christmas eve with cindy phua (and her boyfriend came later on). went to orchard, raffles, citylink mall, esplanade and suntec. had my long awaited banana split waffles at max brenner's, i only go there for that. i was searching high and low for a christmas log cake with the help of cindy and her bf. went to all kinds of bakeries, but log cakes were sold out, and i had to resort to crystal jade bakery. so ugly log cake, and it doesn't taste very good either. :(

my family's last minute christmas dinner was such a success! :) dinner was good- fruit salad, shark fin's soup, beef and one whole turkey (a gift from my dad's friend). mummy even made that christmas flower 'bouquet' to beautify our table!

christmas day was spent in the city with my family, come to think of it, it's my first time doing that in the past 18 years. according to my dad, there were 60,000 people in orchard road last night- it was so crowded. bought last minute christmas gifts, they are so cute! :) had dinner at crystal jade restaurant in takashimaya, it was SO GOOD. somehow, i feel that it's better than the one at paragon, prolly due to the chefs. anyways, it was the best roast duck i ever ate in my life. not kidding!

thereafter, we went to lido to watch sherlock holmes. well, i thought that the movie was so-so, shall rate it 3 stars. yenlin said that it was shot on a budget! why? anyhow, robert downey jr. is such a good actor!

passed my BTE, can't wait for BTT, and driving! :)

sat the taxi three times in the past 2 days. every single uncle in the taxi asked me if i went or if i'm going to go clubbing. i said no, will be having dinner at home. they either didn't believe, or kept asking me why. haha, do i have the party person look?

2009-12-23T13:50:00.001+11:00

new blackberry bold 9700

gonna get my hands on it once i reach melbourne!

went in to JB yesterday for tangyuan festival. used to hate eating tangyuans when i was younger, but i grew to enjoy it. love the sweetness in it, especially the ones with black sesame. the funny thing is, tangyuan festival always falls on the 22nd of december. mummy also told me that if it rains on that day, then it won't rain during chinese new year. i wonder how accurate is that, never took notice of it. but oh well, i rained yesterday! :)

went with cousins to get some real cheap fake dvd-s. spent only 50 RM for 13 dvds. how cool is that. they'll be spending christmas at my place tomorrow night. christmas feast! :) guess it's going to be a movie marathon session.

2009-12-21T23:47:00.005+11:00

temporary getaway-s

xiaohan hits the 2

on saturday, the three of us went for some shopping in orchard before meeting up with cheryl. have been going there everyday. i need some help man, i need to travel! singapore is so boring, and it's so crowded- EVERYWHERE! we all bought matching headbands from fourskin, nice and cheap! :)

had pontian wanton noodles for dinner, as requested by xiaohan. listened to xiaohan as it was suppose to be her advanced birthday celebration. she knew nothing until the surprise came later...

time was passing, and we needed to find an opportunity to give her the surprise. so cixian asked her along to the toliet, and she went- easily. me and cheryl started taking out the pressies and the cake from our bags. when i was about to open the box and light the candle, i realised that the cake was squashed! me and cheryl panicked. didn't know what to do. wanted to go buy another cake to replace it, but there was no cake shop around. so we decided to make do with it, despite it looking so ugly. hid the cake in the box as we didn't dare to show it to anyone. i bet people must be thinking, why are we ill-treating our friend. we were so disappointed, sad and SIAN!

despite the cake, and the 3 sad people, xiaohan was still smiling happily! :) i guess, it's really the thought that counts. thank god that we had fantastic gifts for her (to make up for the cake). got her $60 MAC vouchers, anna sui lip gloss and 2 tickets to the korean actor's concert!

please ignore the cake. it looks horrible! sigh. according to cheryl, the cake was so cute and pretty- it was heart-shaped and had flowers and leaves on top of it. the staff at bakerzin even said that she'll tape the bottom of the cake to the box, but she didn't! :( cheryl said she wants to complain. haha.

a wonderful day out with my girlfriends. i love them so much always. they never fail to bring a smile on my face. love this picture to bits, i think photos of the 4 of us are always so pretty! :)

cindy just needs 1 more year

met up with the chews in the afternoon yesterday to get cindy's birthday pressie. thereafter, we walked over to rachel's house and got a ride from her mum to cindy's house. we were the first to reach. :) they played with her 2 big dogs, while i hid in cindy's room.

more guests came around 7. buffet dinner started too. food was so good, almost everything was chilli! :) mee goreng, chicken wings, mushrooms, etc. must get the caterer's contact details! had chocolate fondue, nice, but would have preferred it with milk instead of dark.

well, i guess the pictures summarized everything. we ate, drank, chat, camwhored, mahjong-ed, watched movies, played cards. it was a very slow, relaxing and fun party. thank you cindy phua for inviting us, i hope you had whole lots of fun last night! :) see you soon.

it's late at night and i can't sleep, missing you just runs too deep.

2009-12-18T17:22:00.004+11:00

Merhaba Turkiye!

1st-11th december 2009.

Day 1- singapore to istanbul

whole of day 1 was spent on the 12 hour plane flight. somehow, it didn't felt long, i slept through most of it. :)

Day 2- istanbul to bursa
upon arrival, we saw the only remains of Hippodrome of Constantinople, consisting of 3 monumental columns and a fountain. This was the site where chariot races took place in the past.

we then walked over to the Blue Mosque, also known as Mosque of Sultan Ahmet.

we then visited the Tokapi Palace, once the seat of the Ottoman Empire. now, it is a museum palace with a wide collection of treasures.

after that was lunch. lunch was practically the same every single day. pita bread with kebabs. how boorrriinng, and it doesn't taste very very very good too.

we took a ferry from Eskihisar to Topcular after lunch. short ride, freezing cold, many seagulls.

we visited the Grand Mosque, one of the examples of Ottoman architecture. the mosque has an interior fountain and a classic wooden pulpit.

just next to it was the silk market. love how the stalls display their scarfs.

then it was back to our hotel. one night stay in Bursa.

Day 3- bursa to kusadasi

woke up and saw this beautiful view from our hotel's balcony.

went to the Uludag Winter Sports and Ski Centre, one of the most popular ski resorts in turkey. but because, it wasn't cold enough, there wasn't snow, how disappointing. we only took the cable up and down. it was freaking cold, wore like 3-4 layers.

came down the mountain and took a drive through the countryside to kusadasi. stop over for lunch at one the best meatball restaurants- kofteci ramiz.

stop over at this shop selling turkish delights. we bought back one box of them, as well as apple tea! :) my favourite. well, it's just apple juice heated up.

Day 4- kusadasi to sulcuk to pamukkale

visited a leather jacket outlet, apparently there are famous for their silk leather. one jacket was selling for like 1500 bucks. they do exports to hugo boss and the other big brands, and it costs about 4000 bucks there. so crazy man. i was forced to "volunteer" to model the jacket.

set off for selcuk where we visited the house of virgin mary. virgin mary and st john were said to have lived in ephesus and died there.

next we explored Ephesus, one of the largest archaeological sites in existence. i enjoyed this the most throughout the whole trip. the whole city was made out of marbles.

that was their toilets!!! so cute and funny.

their library, so beautiful. the funny thing was, the brothel was just opposite.

that was their stadium. it was so huge...

had lunch at some random hotel and continued our bus journey to pamukkale. we stayed over for a night.

Day 5- pamukkale to konya to cappadocia

visited the ruins of the ancient city of Hierapolis and explore Cotton Castle, made up of white terraces and pools created by calcareous hot spring waters flowing down the mountain.

the weather was freezing, so it was a treat for us to soak our feet in the waters. i just hope it was a little more warm! :)

from pamukkale, we travelled to cappadocia via konya. had our usual boring lunch at one of the small restaurants along our journey. visited a 13th century Sultan Caravanserai, which was a free hotel for ancient traders and travellers.

Day 6- cappadocia

woke up at 5am in the morning and took a 30 minute bus ride for... our HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE! this was an optional tour, and the ticket cost $400 US per person. freaking expensive, but my dad said that it was an once in a lifetime experience, and we all had to go. i couldn't believe that i actually had second thoughts about going up the balloon due to the cold weather. i'm glad went. we got to see how a hot air balloon is set up and kept, it requires lots of manpower though.

there was only one pilot and approximately 20 people in one basket. we had to stand throughout the 1.5 hour ride, there were no seats. the pilot was consistently holding on to the pump to pump more gas whenever he wanted the balloon to fly higher. he cannot control where he wants to go, he can only turn the balloon clockwise or anti, via pulling the strings. pilot was kind enough to let wen wen try. :)

we were so lucky that the weather was fine. i have heard of people signing up for hot air balloon tours and not being able to ride them due to poor weather conditions that day.

see how the men had to use their weights to stop the balloon from flying. i really enjoyed the landing and keeping of balloon experience.

all of us had a certificate and there was a mini champagne celebration after that! haha.

we headed back to the hotel, had breakfast, met up with our remaining group members and we went to visit the three sisters. well, it's basically just rocks. haha! cappadocia's landscape is full of bizarrely shaped pillars, cones and "fairy chimneys".

next up was a carpet manufacturing place. we were shown how do they obtain the colour dyes, getting the silk from cocoons, and how to they weave the carpet manually. haha, mummy learnt a few tricks from the lady too!

and last but not least, a mini exhibition of the different variety of carpets.

and papa bought a mini one for his own study. :) the one on the left.

pretty fruit trees! :)

next was to the Goreme Open-Air Museum, a compound comprising 29 rock-cut churches, including some that date back to the 6th century. Many are decorated with frescoes depicting biblical stories.

we also had turkish ice cream. it beats the one at clarke quay hands down. haha! very tasty, but i felt that the goat milk smell in it was too strong.

we then had lunch at a cave restaurant. okay, that lunch was different from other lunches. no meatballs and stuff. instead, we had spaghetti and fish. it was very nice! best meal in turkey.

after lunch we visited the Underground City of Kaymakli, one of the largest underground cities in turkey, said to have existed since the Hittie period. we saw bedrooms, kitchens, dining halls, wine cellars, chapels, stables, etc.

headed back to the hotel after that. due to the winter weather, everything turns dark at 4. we mainly spend our night in the hotel playing cards. :)

Day 7- Cappadocia to ankara to bolu

after breakfast, we visited this turquoise outlet. super boring, hence no photos! we then departed for Ankara, the capital of turkey. We had lunch at an old train station, it was the usual not nice lunch. we then visited the Ataturk Mausoleum, the final resting place of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was regarded as the father of Modern Turkey. The Mausoleum features a mix of different architectural styles from various Anatolian civilizations.

that was the only visit for the day, the rest of the day was spent on the bus. proceeded to bolu for our overnight stay.

Day 8- bolu to istanbul

when we reached istanbul, we visited the Hagia Sophia Museum. originally it was a church, then the muslims changed it into a mosque and use plaster to cover up the beautiful mosaics.

after lunch, we headed off to the Grand Bazaar, a maze of over 4,000 stalls and shops selling leather goods, jewellery, handicrafts, ceramics, and other local products.

thereafter, we headed off to the hotel, changed and got ready for a dinner cum belly and folk dance performance. the belly dancers were so good, we saw one of the best dancers in turkey.

Day 9- istanbul

today was a free leisure day. my family spent almost the whole day shopping at taxim square. shopping was very good that day. winter wear was so cheap. bought a new jacket winter jacket! :) mango had a 50% sale, it was wayyy better than singapore's. more variety and cheaper.

lunch was at esmer, one of the restaurants along taxim. the food there was very good, more to the western side and not the turkish side. no meatballs and kebabs, it was pastas and bbq chicken!

we only arrived at the hotel around 5pm. my aunt and mummy decided to stay in the hotel for maggi mee dinner, while the rest of us went to search for mac donalds. and guess what, they do not have my favourite fish filet burger!

Day 10- istanbul

visited the spice market in the morning. it was somewhat similar to the grand bazaar, just that this also sell dried and fresh food. the shop keepers there were really funny, always disturbing their guests. one shopkeeper told my mum that he wanted to marry me! despite being a joke, it was scary man. another shopkeeper gave my dad and sister his card, and ask them to visit his stall again. and guess what was on his card.... it was an orange card, and the two words "MY CARD" was written on it. super funny.

thereafter, we took the Bosphorus cruise. it was quite a cool experience as we were cruising between 2 continents, Asia and Europe. :) love those houses along the river, very pretty. but i still think that sydney is nicer.

the cruise ride ended at some place, can't remember the name already. it was nice, rows of restaurants and a famous ice cream parlour MADO. :)

saw some old men doing fishing... :)

after that, we went to one of the largest shopping mall in istanbul. well, most of the shops are what we saw in taxim, hence, no buys. we had a KFC dinner there before leaving for the airport.

Day 11- istanbul to singapore
this plane flight back was better- slept more.

main things i have learnt from this trip:

1. 99% of the population in turkey are muslims. they are very different from the muslims in south east asia, more open i guess? i hardly see any women wearing tudongs. no offence to anyone, just stating what i saw. :)

2. they are not angmohs, they are turks!

3. turkey is huge, larger then countries such as finland, italy, etc. check the world map.

4. turkey is the only country that has 2 continents in it. how cool is that. asia and europe!

thank you papa and mummy for this wonderful turkey trip! :)

2009-12-17T23:27:00.000+11:00

i'll miss them

caught avatar with my brother and my 2 nephews today. happen to see cixian and good friend in the bus. :) well, to me, avatar is overrated. how can they rate it 4 stars? i'll prolly rate it only 3-3.5? prolly it's just not my type of show. the main thing is, how can the love story in it be compared to titanic's?

after the movie, we got home for dinner and i accompanied mummy to send my 3 cute nephews and niece over to their aunt's house to stay. will miss them so much!

thereafter, we took away food from adam hawker centre. well, it's my first time there, and i think it's better than newton's. will be visiting there soon.

2009-12-16T17:15:00.003+11:00

i don't like that feeling
finally caught new moon with cixian and yongbin yesterday at cinneleisure. :) well, i think it was so-so, not as bad as what people have said. it's prolly due to the fact that i was totally prepared for the worst. yongbin was forced by me to catch it, despite not watching the first. he said that it was to cheesy.

well, bumped into JJ and another J- his friend. he's leaving today for london, lucky shit. better get something back for me! :) used to see him almost everyday in melby, and yesterday was the first in singapore. miss your crazy and funny moves.

went to the 4 storey f21 outlet at 313! ooohh, it's the best ever man. no need to get online to do extra purchasing, cause i'm sure it has everything. heart it.

we had blue mountain coffee at 313 too, cixian heard that it was not bad, and we decided to give it a try. well, my comments? not good. stick to the usual starbucks and coffee bean.

brought my newphews and niece to visit my uncle's new condo- anchorage, at night. very big and spacious, nice! beats their old flat hands down.

brought the kids to paragon for sushi tei and toys'r'us today. the three of them were rushing through their food, as if they have never eaten before. weiwei kept mentioning that the food was very good. haha, sushi tei is my all time favourite. cheap and good!

the guys got their transformer and the little girl got a doll house. and mind you, my 15 year old brother bought 2 transformers too. sigh man, he said they're collector items. like whatever.

gave weiwei a super duper early mini surprise birthday celebration. he's finally 6, but totally acts like one big baby, always asking for hugs. but i like, sooo cuuutee!

2009-12-15T00:49:00.003+11:00

the foos

the three kids are staying over at my house for 3 days. they are all just so cute! :) brought them to west coast park in the evening, and had mac donalds for dinner.

2009-12-13T21:48:00.003+11:00

heels at hyatt

plane flight was delayed by an hour, huge massive jam from changi airport to home & from home to hyatt. hence, being 1.5 hour late for rachel's party. i'm super sorry! :( we had a very nice buffet dinner at oasis restaurant, located just beside the pool. atmosphere, food, drinks and service was good. thank you so much rachel and aunty jean. dinner, and both a chit-chat and photo taking session. a simple dinner, get lots of girly fun.

family and i had our once in awhile shabu shabu lunch at cuppage plaza. we are always there whenever i'm back from melbourne. we're like their once-in-a-while regular customers. always sitting at the exact same table and ordering the exact same food- only differing in portions. :) thereafter, papa went home as he was tired, and the rest of us went to takashimaya. wernhan and kailin bought new phones while yenlin and i went shopping at ion and wisma.

singapore's so borrriiinnng! i wonder what else is there to do besides hanging out in shopping malls and watching movies. come to think of it, i haven't caught a film for quite some time. i want to watch new moon, i heard it's bad, but i still wanna catch it. cixian, please? sigh, my boyfriend is in jakarta, happily doing jet-skii today, while i'm stuck in this small city.

i want to go for short trips. specifically, bangkok. my friends are interested too, but circumstances doesn't seem right. how? i guess it won't be on. :(

2009-12-12T23:37:00.001+11:00

after so long

people, please do not abandon my blog. yes, i'm still alive. :) the past few days have been wonderful, i cannot ask for anything better. i have thousands of photos in my mac, that requires time for compiling and editing. hence, i need a few more days before the turkey trip and rachel's 18th posts are up.

woke up at 12.30pm today. need some sleeping adjustment due to the 6 hours time difference. don't really dislike jetlag, cause i'm always able to sleep no matter where and when. spent the whole day unpacking my luggage and spending time on my mac, visiting usual sites and fb-ing. dinner was with my family at newton circus. turkey food is not nice, we all had cravings for singapore food, it's the best ever! ordered 2 chili stingrays, oyster omelette, black fried carrot cake, salted fish bean sprouts, chicken wings, chicken satays, rojak, sugarcane juice and coconut drinks. so good man so good. missing them since i was in melbourne.

everything so far sounds so good. but it doesn't seem so for my results.

Accounting Transactions and Analysis H1

Business Process Analysis H2A

Introductory Macroeconomics H1

Principles of Business Law H3

well, i did better for BPA and MACRO, got what i wanted for ATA. but i'm super unhappy about my BLAW. sigh... H3? the 3 spoils it all, so ugly. oh well, it's over. moving on to year 2! :)

2009-12-01T17:18:00.000+11:00

have been staying home watching forensic heroes 2. very interesting cases- the whole family is addicted to it, except for my dad. out on sunday with cixian at vivo- shopping for dresses, followed by dinner at RSYC with family.

leaving for turkey tonight at 11pm, will be going there for approximately 10 days. hope the weather won't be so cold, i dislike it. glad that my aunt and nephew is joining us this time. i want nice food please, apparently everyone's complaining about it. cindy said "everyday drink apple tea". haha! must try.

things not going really well, don't know what to do.

2009-11-28T18:20:00.004+11:00

woke up at 12 noon yesterday. lunch-ed, went to bukit panjang plaza and rented forensic heros 2. spent the whole afternoon watching it. very nice! but kind of scary, can only watch it during day time.

dinner was with my family except for yenlin at a japanese restaurant at shaw house. yenlin had a mini class party at my house last night, and we decided to leave the whole house to them. ordered sashimi set, very happy that i finally know how to eat it. shopped awhile before watching hua mulan.

i wonder whether it's a true story? anyone? it was somewhat similar to the cartoon mulan. but, there's more meaning to it. very touching, i like it.

i need to go shop for more party dresses. plenty of partys after my turkey trip. cannot wait. :)

2009-11-26T23:59:00.003+11:00

went for my first theory driving lesson in the morning. not as boring as i thought it would be, as the instructor was funny. laughed my way through the 1.5 hr lesson. cixian came over to my place and she bought me this very adorable little miss sunshine soft toy. thank you! :)

we then left for town and met up with cheryl, yongbin and xiaohan. bought my pastel pink heels. went over to coffee bean as our usual starbucks was packed. warren joined us not long after. it was some good catching up time. :)

headed over to cinneleisure to meet up with bram. couldn't recognise him, as he was wearing shades and with his botak hairstyle. had BBQ chicken at the basement, standard dropped so much, not nice!

took neoprints too, shall scan them soon. :)

dinner ended very early. sadly, cixian had to go see her grandma. so the six of us headed off to beauty world to play pool. the last time we actually pool-ed together was when we were 16, and now we're 18! see how much we've grown! :) it was very fun, stayed there for nearing 2 hours. we played in pairs and i guess bram and xiaohan won, followed by me and warren. yongbin and cheryl damn sad. haha!

stomachs were feeling hungry. cheryl left while cixian joined us for supper at al-ameem, just across the road. it was super packed and we ended up sitting by the alley, with a super huge cat walking round and round. service was shit, prolly due to public holiday, but the food was very good. especially my chocolate banana prata, better than the cheese prata shop at west coast. i want to drive, so that i can go for supper more often with friends. illegal driving? no guts!

left the place only around 11.30pm, thank you warren for sending me home. i had so much fun with them. i want more outings. we are currently planning for our bangkok trip, hope everyone can make it, i'm sure it's gonna be a blast! :)

2009-11-25T15:24:00.002+11:00

went to paragon with daddy and wernie to get my long awaited MacBook Pro this morning. the pictures say it all, it's just so simple, pretty and PRO. love it! papa, thank you so much for it! ;) have to wait 8 more hours before i can start using it- photo booth!!!

there's now BIG O at the basement of paragon. nice. get to eat spike d more often now. brought them there for lunch today and both of them loved spike d. :)

edited*

was so bored in the afternoon and mummy gave me this spontaneous decision to bake a cake. asked my maid for a receipe and started baking a banana cake. improvised it by adding chocolate frosting around it. so nice! :) love the new mixer that mummy bought, it's so huge- like a transformer.

2009-11-24T22:40:00.006+11:00

shopping with cindy phua was so damn good. we did takashimaya, wisma and ion. of course, not all the shops. bought 3 dresses, a pair of black heels and mac blusher! :) not many stuff, but the dollar amount made me feel so guilty. the worst thing is, i saw so many other stuff that i want, but i had to control. cindy phua- my pink heels! how?

finally registered for my driving lessons at bukit batok driving centre yesterday. didn't know that there were so many tests and lessons. it's like going for some academic course or something. some stuff are just so redundant. will be starting my first theory lesson on thursday.

happy that i can make it to rachel's hyatt birthday dinner. it's going to be so awesome.

2009-11-22T22:52:00.005+11:00

today was family bonding day. woke up at 11am and went for lunch with family at east ocean for dim sum. that place was so noisy, worst than a market. but i think that's what make the food taste even better. dim sum in singapore wins melby's hands down. thereafter, we went over to paragon. siblings checked out their new phones, while i went to check out my new macbook pro. alright, shouldn't use "my", but it's "soon to be" . :) didn't get it today as we were rushing off to catch 2012. like everyone have said, it's damn freaking good. plenty of computer graphic effects, but it looked so real. wonder whether countries will start to build that kind of ships in the future, or whether they already have one. anyways, mummy, sisters and i then had sushi tei for dinner. so good- missed it, love it. father accompanied brother to collect his trophy for the BH tournament. :)

yilin. says:

can you imagine. if the world really ends in 2012.

warren. says:

no i cant

I DONT WANNA DIE A VIRGIN!

2009-11-21T21:17:00.002+11:00

great to be back to see my family and friends. they never fail to make me smile.

2009-11-20T16:00:00.008+11:00

exams ended on tuesday. have been so busy with just so many things and i finally have the time to sit down and blog about the fun-filled past few days.

tuesday

went out with cindy to the city and did some random shopping right after our blaw test. i bought a new pair of wrangler jeans, have always been wanting that shade of blue, happy me. :) thereafter, the both of us went to meet up with my cousin and his girlfriend. i can't believe that his house is just beside nirwan's, and i only knew it after 6 months. 4 of us then went for korean barbecue for dinner. order 2 hot pots which was too spicy for my liking. oh wells, the beef was still damn good.

wednesday

woke up early in the morning and headed off to merrie chew place. it was 10.30am, and she was still sleeping in bed like a big fat pig. rachel and cindy then came over to help me wake that pig up. it was so so so difficult. but after much effort, we finally left for home@flinders.

it was a very belated birthday surprise for jonathan. something very simple, but i'm really glad he liked it. :) the four of us waited quite awhile for jonathan to come down from his house, on the pretence that he's meeting cindy to return the QM textbook. and finally, he came down. it was so funny. cause he had this sleepy face look and apparently he was more shocked than surprised, due to our loud screams. went to view his some little crib, and the facilities around home@flinders. nice place, especially with little cupcakes being right at the door step.

the girls went for VIP shopping at melbourne central, jonathan went home to study for his exams, while i met my boyfriend for shopping at chadstone. shopping was so good, spent like hundred over. boyfriend finally got his nudie jeans too, very nice! we had ice chocolate at lindtt cafe too, loved it. the milk chocolate was so rich and sweet. :)

went back home around 8 plus pm. with a mini surprise hiding in my house for my boyfriend. merrie helped me with all the preparations beforehand, and it was a success. thank you so much chew! bought him a raspberry cheesecake from the cheesecake shop, a ck-free cologne, and i made a birthday board for him. celebrated his birthday in advance as we'll be back in our own countries on his actual birthday. :(

thursday

it was packing day. will be staying with merrie next year in our two bedroom apartment in college square. hence, i have to vacate out of my small little studio. nirwan and i spent the whole day at home- packing like mad. i can't believe i have so many clothes. i practically gave away one box of clothing, and there's still more. sigh man, i shouldn't buy on impulse.

i had so many things, didn't manage to ship everything over to nirwan's place before dinner. instead, we did that at 11pm, with the help of rachel, merrie, trolleys and a car. the whole car was filled. right up to the front seat, i had to sit crossed-legged. we were so tired, but that's not the end. we still had to shift everything up from the carpark to his apartment, luckily suryo and edwin was there. in the end, i didn't do much. thank you so much guys!

so dinner was with merrie and charlene. rachel wasn't there as she had something else to attend. the three of us went to chogao. surprisingly, the food (side dishes) was so good. i love my mocktail, so fruity and sweet. <3

yesterday was the last day seeing my girlfriends. the next time i'll be seeing them will be in 2 weeks time. it suddenly feels so long, as i always see them on a daily basis. :( take care girls. <3

2009-11-12T19:35:00.003+11:00

i dislike exams

cindy caught that picture on her bb after our accounting paper on monday. thousands and thousands of people, it's scary. today's the fourth day of the week and 3 papers down, one more to go next tuesday. was very confident after ATA, feeling okay after macro, but so not okay after BPA. sigh, hope it doesn't get worst for blaw. keeping fingers crossed.

anyways, spent the whole day with bf after our papers today. finally get to spend some proper time with him, i.e. not just studying. walked the city and watched how to lose a guy in 10 days at home. can't believe that both of us haven't watch that film before.

i'm back home now, spending some me time. :) have been so busy studying, so i thought that i should give myself a break today. going over to merrie's to watch ANTM and GG later, can't wait! exciting!

and today's JONATHAN'S birthday. happy birthday JJ. nice knowing you this semester. you brought much more laugher to the four of us, especially me and cindy. thank you! and good to know that we're taking many subjects together next year. see you when i see you! :)

can't wait for exams to end man. whole row of activities lined up!

3rd november 2009- happy 18th birthday boo!

had dinner at federation square with house 3, it's been a long time since we had a reunion dinner. :) ate at chocolate buddha, a japanese restaurant instead of a chocolate place. food was so so, but the tempura banana was awesome!

caught THIS IS IT after the movie. it was so good. :)

2009-11-02T23:43:00.000+11:00

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2009-10-29T23:53:00.002+11:00

the last day of school was good, the weather made it better. shall not complain about the heat, since it's much better than the cold. anyways, the three of us enjoyed our last one hour break together at animal orchestra. usual chocolate drinks and chit-chat session. the funny thing was, we actually forget to pay. we left just like that, and only realised it half way through our macro lecture. of course, being kind and nice souls like us, we made a trip back to pay our bills. :)

our goods from forever 21 finally arrived today- its been two weeks. :) love my new dress. had lunch at yingtai, it was so good. tom yum seafood soup, green curry chicken and minced pork. was so full that cindy and i couldn't walk. JJ had his freddos ice cream, and as much as i wanted to get one cup for myself, i was just too full. :( another day it shall be.

one week of SWOT VAC before exams start. :( just hoping that i'll be able to study according to my timetable planned out. very tight schedule, and there's so much to study. going to the library at 9am tomorrow! sigh, i want exams to be over, can't wait to play.

2009-10-26T21:01:00.003+11:00

ben and jerry's came to school today. spent one hour at concrete lawn enjoying our cookie dough ice cream under the very hot sun.

going to re-enroll tomorrow for year 2010. how fast, time flies. on to year 2!

2009-10-23T23:54:00.003+11:00

after a long day of studying in the library with the girls, we went for steamboat for dinner at some china shop behind QV. service was bad, but food was not bad, especially with the cheap price. rachel was so hilarious, like usual.

window shopped a bit, followed by max brenners. this time, with no wilber. :( exploding chocolate shot rocks. it just gets better and better.

i am super tired. going to sleep straight away after this.

library with the girls the whole day tomorrow- AGAIN.

2009-10-22T23:28:00.003+11:00

love the one hour breaks between our ata and macro lectures. hot chocolate, slacking, gossiping, and laughing session. today was no exception. we took advantage of the sun by sitting at the lawn and taking pictures. we visited the melbourne university and apple shop in union. made cindy feel like getting the 100 bucks university of melbourne jumper, and made me feel like getting a MacBook Pro. called mummy and papa today, asked papa, and he said okay. :) shall take a few more days to decide. anyways, jonathan asked me to come up with a chooy rating for hot chocolate. since i must always have a cup of hot chocolate whenever i'm out. the idea is quite lame, but it sounds kind of fun. :)

2009-10-18T23:07:00.004+11:00

loved today- it was a fun & unintended shopping trip with chew and cindy. we were just thinking of spending 2 hours in the city, but it turned out to be 6 hours instead. :) gave myself a break today, before starting my hardcore studying for exams tomorrow. :( 21 more days!

anyways, i bought 2 dresses today. only 2, but i love them, enough to cost me a bomb. bought a flora romper from peter alexandra. it's 60 bucks, but it's sweet. (rachel, you can borrow it from me if you want to, but only after i've worn it, haha!) and a dress from portsman for the wedding next year. love that dress so much, going to get heels and clutch to go with it soon! :)

i can't believe that i fit into a size 6. this is bad and good.

taken on last week's monday, the four of us were studying in the library. :) wasn't a library person in the past, but i've been hitting the library quite often nowadays. it seems more productive, cause i'll just day dream if i'm at home. besides, studying with the girls is so much fun. :) anyways, me and cindy had our business law test last friday. it wasn't that good, didn't felt confident of my answers after it. oh wells, results out tomorrow- we shall see.

i'm so glad everything's better, really.

2009-10-17T14:31:00.002+11:00

currently in the library now. have been spending my time studying, but not full on yet, haha! was sick the past few days, very sick indeed. lost weight, which is no good, too much. cannot let mummy know, cause if she finds out, i'm going to get much more nagging.

i want exams to end (skipping the studying part). can't wait to get back to singapore to see my friends, their exams have also ended by that time. :) going to turkey for my family holiday for 2 weeks on the 30th november, i bet it would be a fun and interesting experience for me. sadly, it's on nirwan's birthday. :(

3 months worth of holidays. have many plans lined up already. attempting to get my driving license within that period. hopefully, be able to get my attachment at ernst and young. so far, 2 birthday parties planned and confirm. 2 weddings confirm, one at ritz carlton, one in malaysia. excited much! :) :) :) :) :) :)

2009-10-09T23:57:00.003+11:00

went to st kilda beach with merrie and tjong today. it was finally a sunny day. but still, very cold and windy. we had rachel's long-awaited cold rock ice cream, and took a stroll along the beach. i can't believe that we actually saw penguins, hidden beneath those rocks, so cool! ate mcdonalds before heading back to the city, and we ended up napping in the tram.

thank you arlana for your cheesecake, it was so so so good! :)

2009-10-08T23:22:00.003+11:00

JJ is finally back for lessons. with the drama king back, school was so funny and not boring at all. cindy, JJ and i went for breakfast at animal orchestra during our one hour break, had my favourite hot chocolate and it was so good, as nice as their iced. took polariods, not the rectangle, but squared ones instead, nice! sadly, the film was quite old, hence the colour. but it's vintage yo! :)

2009-10-04T23:20:00.003+11:00

today's the last day of school holidays, which means that mugging officially starts tomorrow. :( well, i really enjoyed myself during the holidays, and today was no exception. merrie and i woke up at 12 noon, and went to the city for little cupcakes as our lunch. as always, the cupcakes were so delicious and petite, very cute! and we were so lucky as we managed to dine in.

thereafter, we went to lincraft. it's a huge craft shop which consists of 2 levels. merrie and i spent lots of time there, exploring all the different variety of art materials they have. :)

at 4.30pm, both of us went for a movie. we watched mao's last dancer. merrie didn't want to watch the movie at all, i dragged her there. at the expense of me accompanying her to watch another movie. oh well, but the movie was so good. i bet she enjoyed it too. :) i love that show, it's so so touching.

after the movie, merrie and i met up with rachel and charlene for dinner. i brought them to the same korean restaurant that i went on wednesday. introduce some good food to them. haha, glad that they liked it. :)

got back, slacked and enjoyed some delicious apple strudel bought back from perth by charlene.

2009-10-03T23:04:00.002+10:00

2009-10-02T21:49:00.010+10:00

just came back from the city with merrie and rachel. had mekong for dinner and bought some stuff to start on my huge upcoming project! :)

ballarat- sovereign hill, was so fun on wednesday, and the weather was so nice too. :) 9 of us met at southern cross station and took a one and a half hour train ride to ballarat. the view was so beautiful, passed by large green patches with countless cows and "valleys". so much land not used.

we reached ballarat train station around 12pm, and waited for a bus to get to sovereign hill. i was quite surprised that ballarat town was quite big, quite a number of shops. but when we got to sovereign hill, it was back to the olden days.

sovereign hill is basically a living museum set outdoors on an early gold mining site, representing ballarat's first discovery of gold. it's now a tourist attraction and there's many activities held- gold mine tours, coach rides, candle dipping, etc. what was interesting to me was that the people there actually dress up in olden days costumes, which makes me feel that i'm brought back to the past, very cool!

people were actually trying to look for "gold" in that big puddle of water? haha. doubt they will ever find anything as it has been there for so many years... we didn't even bother trying, it'll only make us more dirty. oh, and the horses pulling the coaches were so so huge!

the mini town. we entered most of the shops, and i must add that they were pretty interesting. very different from the present. there was a candy shop, candle-making shop, ice cream parlor, photo taking booth where tourists get to dress up in olden day costumes, shops selling masks, soaps, etc.

we were feeling hungry and decided to look for lunch at a bakery. everyone of us had pies, and they are the best pies i have ever eaten. it was so so good, some of us even bought two. the pastry was so soft and tasty, very very nice! :)

we went for 2 tours and i really enjoyed it. we had to climb ladders, walk through underground tunnels that were 100 feet below ground level, sit some mode of transport underground, etc. it was so cool, and we got to know what exactly were the gold miners job- very risky and tough.

we left sovereign hill around 4.30 pm and waited for the bus to bring us back to the station. while waiting, we took tons of photos and had lots of fun enjoying the cool breeze and watching the boys bullying one another, haha! didn't manage to get the photos as there were 4 dsl in total, and they're not yet out on facebook. :(

anyways, we reached the train station and took a 2 hour coach back from ballarat to the city. reached the city and we went for a fantastic korean meal near queen victoria market. the food was so so good, it's the best korean meal i ever eaten in my life, not exaggerating. yuni really knows her way around food, all the dishes she ordered was so tasty. we ordered like 8 dishes for the 6 of us as some had left. the bill was 180 bucks in total, so worth it for such a good meal. :)

anyways, chogao on tuesday was shit. so many drinks were not available and the music was lousy. no fun at all. shouldn't go there on a tuesday i guess. merrie, rachel and i end up having more fun at wanton house, our super duper late dinner cum supper and it was so nice. we should go to the city at late hours for dinner more often. :) and rachel was being so funny, haha!

pancakes with joleen and merrie at joleen's place last night. the 3 of us finished a whole bottle of pancake mix by ourselves. we had nutella, jam, butter, maple syrup, chocolate rock ice cream, etc. it was so nice, filling and fattening. haha, it's alright for now. i have been loosing weight recently, like 3 kgs. good. :)

3 assignments down!

2009-09-28T20:10:00.003+10:00

we drove to crown last night and caught taking of pelham 123, a good movie.

ate at singapore chomp chomp and finally get to eat my favourite chee kueh.

so happy for my good friend for some very good and pleasing reason.

studied the whole afternoon at the state library-the dome, love the decor.

2 assignments more or less done, one more macro toooo goooo!!!

finally, chogao tomorrow night, and ballarat on wednesday. :)

glad that my and his exams end early. 9-ATA, 10-Macro, 12-BPA, 17-Blaw.

both taking the 21st of november 1.05am flight back to singapore! :)

2009-09-25T20:36:00.007+10:00

an amazing day spent with my aussie girlfriends. met up at 11am for tim sum at westlake. order tons of dim sum, it was so delicious. we stayed there for 2 hours due to the long awaited steamed pork bun! :) after that we headed off to laurent at little collins for some afternoon tea. ordered chai latte, hot chocolate and mocha. it was good, but too little for me. anyways, laurent is such a lovely and classy cafe, will definitely go back to try their pastries, they look so pretty and colourful. <3

rachel left us for her mum, while the 3 of us went for some shopping in the city. i finally got myself the sportsgirl bag, and bought stuff from chloe & lola, specially introduced by charlene. they have the sweetest and prettiest stuff there. :)

this was last friday's korean bbq dinner with merrie and rachel. it was the start of our holidays and i spent the afternoon shopping with merrie at dfo. didn't get much from there except for a peter alexandra velvet slacks and a white tee at very cheap prices! <3

sigh, i got to get back to work, i have 3 assignments due the first week of school! :( spent half of yesterday in the library attempting to complete my BPA assignment with norman, michelle and lishen. well, i'm glad that it is more or less done. 2 more to go!

2009-09-24T20:29:00.006+10:00

hello people, i'm finally free to blog about my fabulous sydney trip. :) went there with rachel, aunty jean and aunty kathy. we took the 7am saturday flight and reached sydney at 9am. stayed at the royal automobile club which is just located at the ferry terminal, very convenient. the rooms have a very classic look, and their beds are so comfy. less than 10 seconds in bed, and zzzzzzzzz. the suite that we stayed in for the last 2 nights was even better.

SATURDAY

after checking in, we took a ferry to manly beach. love sydney's weather, it was so warm and sunny. me and rachel looked like fools on the beach, as we were the only ones in tights. haha.

we would have just jumped into the waters if we brought extra clothing with us. how i wished that we would have such lovely beaches and weather in melbourne.

we spent about 4 hours at manly beach. played with sand and water, shopped at the boutiques, visited the mini flea markets, and had a lovely simple seafood lunch at crystals.

we took the ferry back, aunty jean and aunty kathy went for drinks with their business friends while rachel and i explored the area around our hotel. :)

the opera house! i finally get to see it in real life, and actually remember it. it looks so nice from far, but it looks like toilet tiles when near. haha. but that place is so lovely!

rachel and i just sat there and attempt to soak into the atmosphere. :) there was live music played by the bands, and people were just drinking and chatting. that's so life man!

got back to the hotel at six, changed and got ready for dinner at the hotel with aunty jean's friends. dinner was so good, especially my dish- the lamb was tender and tasty. loved the flower in the glass teapot, so pretttyyy!
after dinner, we went for baskin robbins ice cream at the harbor. that's always space for dessert despite being so full. we didn't want to get back to the room so early so we decided to hang out at a bar. one waiter introduced us to the basement which plays live jazz music. we spent 1/2 hour looking for it, and when we finally found it, it was full. such a disappointment- but through that we met a very friendly angmoh guy who wanted a picture with us. HAHA!

SUNDAY

there was a big walk on that day itself and many roads were closed, hence the four of us took the train. it was a nice experience, and i can't believe that the train was double-decker! much more advanced than melbourne.

we took the train, and cabbed a little for hillsong church. i've heard so much about it and wanted to see why was it so good, so i went. it was an interesting experience for me. not as scary as compared to my bad experience in singapore. aunty jean bought me a bible too, let's see when i'll read it. :) but i loved the songs they played.

after church, we cabbed to sydney fish market for lunch. the place stinked of fish, obviously. but the seafood there was so good- CHEAP and FRESH. oysters, sea urchins, lobster, prawns, king fish, sashimi, and wine. :) enough of seafood for the moment.

after lunch, we walked from sydney fish market to darling harbor. it was a nice walk, especially with the weather and the view. :) we then cabbed from darling harbor back to the hotel. enjoyed some nice big strawberries before saying goodbye to aunty kathy who was flying back to melby and met aunty mas and her daughter for shopping at westfield. shopping at westfield was good, rachel and i got quite some stuff and we're very happy with our first ever maxi dress! :)

after the shopping trip, aunty mas brought the three of us back to their house. adults had their drinks while we watched MTV. dinner was at the rowing club with their whole family beside the bay, nice!

MONDAY

woke up early, took a walk from our hotel to max brenner's for breakfast. happen to pass by the university of sydney law faculty. :)

as usual, max brenners was so good. ate the usuals, and we were super full after that. skipped lunch.

met up with aunty mas, and she brought us to queen victoria. love the whole layout and design of the shopping mall. so italian... we then went for more shopping at sydney's DFO. it's about the same size as melbourne's, but there's more variety of shops. anyways, i didn't get much buys from there though.

aunty mas then dropped us of at the nearest ferry terminal from her place. we then took a ferry taxi from her house back to circular quay. how cool is that, ferry taxi! anyways, it was a cold and fun half an hour ride. tons of pictures, the view was so nice. how i wished that i could own a house right beside the waters.

back to circular quay, i had guylian hot chocolate and more chocolates while rachel had her baskin robbins. :) got back home, changed, and off we went to meet aunty mas and her family for dinner.

guess where aunty mas brought us to? we went to horizon bar- located at the highest level of Shangri-La hotel. the view from above, 36th level, was so beautiful, and the table top was made of glass! love that place.

after drinks, we went for teppanyaki at the rocks for dinner. we each had a 98 bucks set meal, a treat by aunty mas. :) we were so so so full, none of us could finish everything. no more teppanyaki for 2 years. but the food was really good, so delicious. best teppanyaki i ever ate in my life.

TUESDAY

it was our last day in sydney. woke up early and the 3 of us took the ferry to darling harbor. :)

there were many tourist attractions there, such as the underwater world, etc. the row of restaurants were just endless...

we didn't spend much time there, as we had to rush back to the hotel to check out. so we just hopped on to a mini train, admire and enjoy the beautiful view and ride. :) AND, the 3 little angmoh kids were so cute. rachel and i couldn't stand their cuteness!

before we left darling harbor, we stopped at lindt cafe for some ice cream and chocolates. :) it was so good, i'm absolutely going to buy more ice cream from lindt in melby.

anyways, we missed our ferry back to circular quay and had to cabbed. reached the hotel, packed, checked out and took more pictures. :)

met up with aunty mas and husband for lunch at some gentlemen's club. the women were only allowed in the restaurant and no other area. haha. anyways, i had the pie of the day- mushrooms, beef and black pepper. it was so good but i couldn't finish it. we had a real long lunch, and off we went to the airport. gosh, the plane ride was so scary. i thought that i was going to die, the turbulence was so bad. apparently, it was due to the dust storm in sydney. we were so lucky that we went home just before the storm started. :)

well, i had a real fun trip at sydney. want to thank rachel and her mum for inviting me to join them, and thank my parents for providing me the money to spend. HAHA. will miss sydney. <3

2009-09-23T21:07:00.001+10:00

“Wait for the person who pursues you, the one who will make an ordinary moment seem magical, the kind of person who brings out the best in you and makes you want to be a better person. Wait for the person who will be your best friend, the only person who will drop everything to be with you at any time no matter what the circumstances. Wait for the person who makes you smile like no one else and when they smile you know they need you. Wait for the person who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweat and a t-shirt, but appreciates it when you get dressed up for them. Most of all wait for the person who will put you at the center of their universe, because that’s where you belong.”

saw this on vickii's blog, love this paragraph so much. <3

2009-09-16T14:52:00.004+10:00

at the boyfriend's house now. just finished listening to the macroecons lecture. going back to finish the textbook reading and bluesheet followed by BPA assignment at lishen's tonight. sigh, i really can't wait for holidays to come. especially... SATURDAY. flight's at 7 am in the morning! :)

2009-09-13T17:34:00.006+10:00

yesterday was my dayoff, didn't do any studying at all. weather was so good, windy yet not cold, love it. accompained my dear for his soccer match at 4pm, it was a half an hour drive from the city. anyways, they won 3-2! :)

left the soccer court at 8pm, and travelled to yuni's house at epping. the whole journey took us 2 hours from the city. it was the last train stop, last bus stop, and another 20 mins walk from the bus stop to her house. can't imagine she has to do it everyday. but the area around her house is very very spacious, newly developed housing estate i think.

a mini gathering for she belated birthday. bought her max brenner's chocolates, and the packaging is so pretty, worth the money. both of us were super hungry when we reached. luckily, there's tons of food prepared by her. soup, entree, main and dessert. all very nice! :)

talked, watched, laughed, played and created a big mess. slept only at 3 and woke up at 10. caught the eleven o'clock bus and train and back to the city. :)

thanks for the photos, handy. okay, back to studying.

cindy just called me from singapore. sigh, school without her tomorrow. :(

SYDNEY THIS SATURDAY! :)

2009-09-08T15:13:00.010+10:00

cherry blossom in japan? :)

taken in our very own melbourne unversity. :) decided to stop at univeristy square to take pictures of our pretty school. spring is here/coming, and we're all very happy. say bye to jackets, jeans, and scarfs. hello to dresses and more dresses! :)

had castros during our one hour break.

happily using jonathan's iphone to take pictures! :)

and suddenly... out of nowhere... a gorilla appeared!

he sat down, & attempted to drink his coffee.

he failed, of course. haha.

2009-09-07T23:47:00.003+10:00

castros hot chocolate was fantastic today. why? because the bunk made it. :) back to the usual/last year standard. cindy was continuously saying "damn nice, damn good!". haha.

spent practically the whole day with cindy phua. she came to my ATA tute, and next was blaw lecture with her. boorrriinngg 2 hours. i like the lecturer, as in his personality- very funny and friendly, but i just can't listen in lectures. rather read my source book to prepare myself for this friday's test. :)

after blaw, we went to the law building to study blaw, AGAIN. sixth floor, exclusive to only students mastering in law. thanks to kim seng, that we're able to study with him in our own personal room. :) the three of us were all doing contract law. just that, we were doing an introduction to it, while kimseng was like mastering in it. bought tons of junk food, as if it was a picnic.

have no idea why did we take so many photos today. haha. suddenly in the mood. :) anyways, the three of us stayed in school all the way until 8 pm, before leaving for dinner at some newly opened malaysian restaurant nearby. food was okay only lah, doubt i'll be going back there again. but, it's always good to try new stuff. :)

okay, i'm going to read a little bit more of blaw before sleeping. have to wake up at 7.30 am tomorrow morning! SIGGGHHHH. hate tuesdays' mornings. and i have no idea why are they always so cold. like 10 degreeeesssss!

I WANT SPRING TO COME!

actually it's already here, but the weather's not changing. :(

2009-09-07T10:52:00.005+10:00

finally back to update my blog... it's so dead. i kind of lost the interest in updating it as well. anyways, the usuals- studying. snacks to go with it. :) i'm suddenly into yellow kiwis, they're damn good and sweet. oh, and i made milo jelly.

after a whole day of studying blaw with cindy phua yesterday. both of us went to china town to have dinner at stone grill with kim seng. we wanted to eat the $80 worth of crab per person at crystal jade. but i didn't want to spend so much money when i suddenly lost the craving for it. instead, we went to stone grill. fusion of japanese, chinese and western. :) it was good too.

pretty mocktails, each of us had one.

the food was damn good. similar to nobu, but nobu's definitely better. :) this year is really pathetic for me. i just realised i haven't been going out to enjoy good food. i need to do it this coming holidays. 2 more weeekkksks!

finished dinner early, and i went over to nirwan's place... <3
okay, shall blog when i blog. got to go get changed and meet cindy phua for castro's hot chocolate!

2009-08-27T12:55:00.005+10:00

what the shit!

someone just stripped naked in macroeconomics lecture today. a group of people, around 5, randomly appeared in the lecture hall and start to chant some harry potter rhyme (quite famous on youtube). one guy, who was wearing a blue cloak, kept chanting the word dumbledore, stripped naked right infront of the hall, and jumped onto the lecturer's table. naked okay, wearing NOTHING. shocked the hell out of me. our poor lecturer was just standing at the side watching them carrying out their performance. it lasted for a whole 5 mins. sigh, wanted to video it, but didn't manage to take out my camera in time.

that's something that will NEVER happen in singapore universities.

2009-08-26T13:38:00.004+10:00

blaw test over- H1 for it baby! :) BPA due tomorrow- like finally. Macro and ATA due next week, and the week after- another blaw test. :( sigh, university really no life. the thought of giving up and dropping out of school do occurs, but i doubt it'll ever happen. currently at nirwan's place, making full use of his internet to do my BPA assignment as well as blogging. :) no life, just studying, hence no blog posts.

i seriously can't wait for the holidays. i'm going to sydney with rachel for 4 days, and we'll be meeting her mum there! :) the last time i visited sydney was way back in 1993 (yeah, i was only 2), have no memories of it at all. this time, i wanna go to the opera house, sydney fish market and hopefully blue mountains? & of course, a treat for me will be visiting MATT MORAN in ARIA restaurant. :):):) hundred bucks spent on just one meal. haha!

do you know how to eat timtams? arlana told me how to last year. but i never tried it till this year. it's super delicious okay. bite of the ends, use it as a straw to suck up the milk. :)

when i study, i eat. merrie bought a whole freaking mango cake from crown bakery, and we finished all of it in one evening.

2009-08-19T12:22:00.002+10:00

i have been so busy lately, i currently having a flood. a flood of assignments- ATA due in 2 weeks, BPA due in 1 week, MACRO due in 2 weeks, BLAW this friday. sigh sigh, someone please save me. :( i'm not calling merrie anymore to complain that i'm bored! looks like the trip to cho gao this friday may be cancelled.

chocolate eclair to tune me into the studying mood? cindy says chocolate makes people happy, and i got that from nirwan last night. :) i hope it went well.

2009-08-15T01:00:00.002+10:00

roses are the prettiest thing ever on earth. especially when a bride carries them.

2009-08-14T23:58:00.002+10:00

this week has been a very boring week for me, studying every single day. the weekend ahead will be no better. there's blaw and macro test next week, so i doubt i'll be going out except for korean bbq with nirwan tomorrow night. it's week 3/4, i'm back to the normal routine of studying, but i'm still feeling damn sian. no idea why, never felt so no-life before.

just came back from the city with merrie chew. she has been craving for crepes since last night. i had my banana delight, while she had her banana, maple syrup, and cookies & cream ice cream crepe. we sat under the big clock for more than a hour. ate, people watched, camwhored, chatted. :)

very random, but i think my hair looks very nice on the left photo, haha! :) anyways, we left the place around 11pm, hopped onto the tram and saw this purple hair-ed girl. super attract attention, but i overheard her conversation on the phone, and it sounds as if she was going to a wig party. HAHA! how interesting can aussies' life get.

every friday night, i'll be in the city, and whenever i pass by melby central i hear the music coming from cho gao. i want to go there, it's been 2 weeks! i dont care, by hook or by crook, i must go there next friday.

merrie, change your camera settings please, the photos today are damn blur. :(

2009-08-09T23:07:00.004+10:00

majulah singapura! :)
today's singapore's national day, and i'm quite disappointed that we didn't manage to get tickets for the national day's program held in melby. sigh, should have bought them earlier. oh wells, there's always the next year! :)

my national day afternoon was spent with charlene and kenneth in the city. we went to degraves street to buy cupcakes from little cupcakes. :) they are the tiny-est cupcakes i've ever seen, very pettie, cute and pretty. it tastes very delicious too, really regret not buying more. :( the downside is that they are very costly! one mini cupcake for like 2.50 aussie (they're not the standard size okay). but it's worth it, i wanna go back for more!

later, we went for lunch at yamamitzu, order plenty of side dishes and it was good. :) they headed back while i went to nirwan's house until 8pm, before going to merrie's for transformers while munching on our hungry jack's burgers.

went to the newly open lindtt cafe with nirwan yesterday. the cafe was so crowded, and it was packed. the queue was super long, and we still queued. haha, but we gave up after 1/2 hour. instead, i bought an eclair back (haven't tasted it though). the menu was really mouth-watering. the pastries, desserts sound so beautiful and classy, like those ones featured on masterchef, LOL. :)

2009-08-07T23:26:00.001+10:00

max brenner's- 31st july 2009

we wanted to go to golden monkey, but didn't managed too, as we had 2 under 18 girls with us. they usually don't check for IDs, but friday night was an exception. instead, we decided to go for some chocolate at maxy.

since when did fingers do the running? :)

chapel street- 2nd august 2009
went to chapel street with merrie and cindy for a 'shopping trip'. wouldn't label it as one, as i only bought one top. how pathetic can i get. :( instead, it was more like a chit-chatting and eating session. spending quality time together. :)

went to a japanese restaurant that ann recommended. the decor inside was very japanese-like, and we had to sit on mats, nice. the food was better than those japanese restaurants in melbourne, but i thought it was okay only. sigh, why can't someone open a franchise of sushi tei in melby?

while waiting for cindy phua to try her bardot jeans, looks very nice on her. :)

halfway through shopping, we had a sudden craving for ice chocolate. went to a cafe to satisfy our cravings despite being a cold day. :)

camwhoring at the tramstop. :)

melby central- 5th of august 2009

went to the city with merrie chew. spent 2 hours there buying stuff that we desperately need. stuff like, famous amos cookies, candles, cards and pressies! :)

cupcake bakery- newly opened at melby central's basement. a wide range of pretty cupcakes (but i think they should improve on their packaging though). anyways, bought choc-mint and sticky-date for rachel to munch on. AND, look at the 3 huge cupcakes on display. mind you, they are real okay. i remembering walking past the shop with nirwan, and he kept on insisting that they were fake. so in order to prove him wrong, i went in to ask the person in charge. :)

my sister's keeper- 1st of august 2009

the ugly truth- 7th of august 2009

watched my sister's keeper with nirwan. it's a very sad and touching movie. practically the whole theatre was crying, i swear. haha, could hear everyone tears rolling down their cheeks. but i thought that there were some boring parts, i was expecting more after watching the tralior, the show could have been better.

watched the ugly truth with rachel, vanessa, merrie, cindy and ann today. before that, we had mekong for dinner and sadly, merrie left her camera there. sigh man, how careless can she get, just hope that she'll be able to find it tomorrow! :) anyways, back to the movie... the movie is one sick show, haha! very funny too. but i'm sure that singapore would rate it M18 or censor most conversations and rate it NC16. not bad a movie, worth catching.

never felt so in ____ before.

2009-08-04T19:50:00.003+10:00

winter is always so cold and gloomy.

the second week of school has started. surprisingly, so far, so good. had all 3 tutorials and met many new friends. :) workload is slowly increasing, but currently, still very manageable. going to the city for shopping with merrie and cindy tomorrow, can't wait. need to get out of this small tiny apartment especially when i have so much time- wednesday and friday free days k! i know i haven't been posting much pictures online- all due to my stupid internet connection! :( sigh, prolly try using the internet in school some other day.

thank you merrie chew and cindy phua, appreciate it, love you all. <3

2009-08-02T18:31:00.002+10:00

i wanna go home!

i just hung up the phone with mummy, she was telling me how's everyone at home. the good thing is, wen wen and wei wei stayed over at my place for the weekend. she told me stuff about wei wei, and of course, it sounded damn cute!!! :)

BUT, the bad thing is... my brother has H1N1! :( sigh, it's all because of his 2 classmates who were diagonsed with H1N1 just before i left for melbourne. anyways, mummy said that though he has fever, his condition is okay. haha, it's funny how my brother used to be the most kia-su one in the family, and now he has swine. recover quick okay! :)

i miss home, badly. i have never cried so much after talking on the phone with mummy. it's crazy, i don't know why. it's probably due to the recent stuff that happened around me. feeling very sian this trip back. i'm still in the holiday mood, i don't want school to start. :( i miss my family, to the point that the thought of flying back in september did appear in my mind. should i? maybe i should wait a few more days/weeks for me to step out from my emo mood. is it just PMS?

at least, i know, that there is always someone there for you at home.

2009-07-31T21:39:00.001+10:00

hate it. so stop it.

going golden monkey with the girls. :)

2009-07-26T23:10:00.008+10:00

hello people, i'm back in the freezing cold melbourne. :) before i start talking about what i have been doing the past few days, i must totally mention about my trip to the airport on thursday night...

mummy and daddy sent me off, we had coffee bean before i entered the custom checkpoint, and i couldn't help but "teared" A LOT when we had to bid goodbye. well, that's not the main point though. okay, here it is... as i was approaching gate A10, i saw a very familiar face. a face that i have seen tons of times on pictures, but only once in person. i was thinking to myself, "is it edna? huh. no, cannot be. how can she be inside the airport? should i say hi? should i smile at her? what if it's the wrong person, it'll be super embarassing!". so i threw the thought away immediately. BUT... she smilled back, and walk towards me. i was so shocked that my jaw dropped, really. she came up to me and pass me her handphone, and out came warren's voice. hahahhaah! warren actually asked her to give me a surprise since she was working there that night. a bag charm from accessorize, a merlion badge and a A3 art thingy done by her. warren only came up with the idea, while edna was the one who helped him complete his surprise for me! nevertheless, i'm still very happy. thank you so much warren and edna. :)

okay, the melby part... the flight was comfortable (as i had an empty seat right beside me), so i practically slept the whole way through on the plane. after 7 hours, i finally arrived at melbourne's airport! & when i came out, the first person i saw was nirwan! missed him so much during the holidays. :) anyways, when we were back at my place, i happen to open the fridge to give it a check. & when i opened it, i saw a cake! i was so so shocked and touched, i couldn't believe my eyes. since when did he know how to bake a cake? haha. it was right from scatch, though he asked his friend for some help. :) he didn't allow me to post this picture on my blog cause he says the cake looks very ugly. but i don't care, whether it's ugly or not, i still love it! <3

the second surprise was in the bathroom. haha! i went in and saw this little ginger breadman stucked on the mirror. i remember seeing someone having a smaller version of it on the tram with merrie. since then, i always wanted it so badly. coincidentally, he got it for me from movie world. :) it's so so cute, i love it! <3

have been eating all my long missed melbourne food for the past few days! we had A1- roasted duck with egg chiffon, nandos- barbecue wings with HOT peri peri sauce, korean barbecue- marinated beef and mushroom hot pot, yingtai- pad thai, krispy kreme- chocolate sprinkles, & last but not least- my favourite chocolate cheesecake and ice chocolate from greco. :) just look at that whole slab of it, so sinful right?! but it's really so good, and everyone who comes to melbourne must try it!

caught harry potter and the half blood prince on saturday, and watched transformers- revenge of the fallen, today. wasn't expecting harry potter to be very good, since everyone says that it has no climax, but i thought it was not bad. if you have caught all five already, why not catch the sixth one, right? on the other hand, transformers was very good. nice storyline and nice action, love it. <3

have been watching masterchef the past few days, left a few more episodes to the finale! though i know the result already, but i don't want to miss out anything. i really love the show. :)

school's starting tomorow. sigh, not mentally prepared yet.

2009-07-22T23:59:00.003+10:00

met up with mummy at orchard ion after her flower arrangement class. for today's lesson, she did a bridal bracelet, very pretty. :) anyways, went to orchard to explore the new hot spot in town (ION) just before i leave for melbourne. that shopping mall really reminds me of the ones in hongkong, very similar. :) from B4 to B1 and L1 to L4, 8 levels in total. levels are the higher end stuff, and basements are the lower end stuff. hence, there's something for everyone. :) but i think people shouldn't visit it now, since SO MANY shops are not open yet, especially proper restaurants... me and mummy had to walk over to wisma atria for our lunch. we had local delights, and it was good. ION has so many new brands, especially from hongkong, taiwan and the states. anyways, bought lots of junkie from muji back to aussie. :)

mummy and i reached home around 5. i rested for one hour before leaving the house to meet up with my secondary school friends at jurong point. singapore has really changed a lot- since when did they have extensions after boon lay mrt station? it caused me one extra stop, had to do a u-turn.

the girls and junyang were there when i reached, waited for yongbin and kaiyao before we started ordering our food. everyone happily eating and chatting. :) it's a super duper mini 2e5 gathering, nice.

yongbin the joker. love outings with him, he's forever making me laugh like mad. not only me, all of us. :) haha! & yongbin is so much more handsome now huh, everyone agrees. (yongbin, i know you secrectly happy. it's okay, just show it.)

junyang left after ding tai fung, while the rest of us went to mac donalds for ice cream. samuel joined us after his work- i finally get to see him after such a long long time. cheryl, i'm so happy for you that you've found such a nice boyfriend. :)

we played "i never", individual and team. yongbin is always the loser, individual and team. haha! we had lots of fun, and we never fail to have. cause my clique is just so FFFUUUNNN! :)

my lovely girlfriends. sigh, i will miss all of them so much. :(

left the place around ten plus, and all of us sat the mrt home. yongbin can never be serious one, always such a joke. in the train, so many people looking, still can give that kind of sisssy pose. (look at the indian uncle behind, he must be wondering what is yongbin trying to do, HAHA!)

cheryl and yongbin- enemies for life. :) forever non-stop argung with each other when we're out, but they are very funny. & they love each other so much at heart, right a not? i bet if one of them doesn't exist, the other would be damn sad. LOL.

ong cixian, my partner to go home with me everytime we have a secondary school gathering. :)

sigh sigh sigh. i'm going back to melbourne tomorrow night. the plane takes off at 11.35 pm (singapore time), and reaching melbourne on friday at 8.55 am (melbourne time). mentioned before that i want to go back to melby. but as time is running out, i really feel sad that i'm leaving singapore. mainly, leaving my family and friends. i hope i don't cry at the airport tomorrow.

i have been back for a month, exactly a month. somehow this month just flew past. so fast that i didn't even realise it. soon, i'll be back to studying. :( anyways, i really had loads and loads of fun in singapore, all thanks to my family and friends. visited my father's side relatives, but didn't manage to vist my mother's side relatives. too far lah, KL. will do it in december, see grandma. :) didn't go out as often compared to the previous hols, as i made an extra effort to stay home and accompany my family- mainly my parents. :) i know they miss me so much when i'm in melbourne, and i do too.

studying aboard made me realise who are your true friends. i really appreciate all those friends who made an effort to meet up with me this holiday, really. i'm very glad that despite being away for 1.5 years, we're still able to keep in contact and remain so close. it's just so heart-warming to know that you're welcomed, and people do want to meet you. especially kumalehs, you guys just don't know how happy am i to have such friends like you people. :)

i'm going to spend the entire day tomorrow packing my luggage, and i hope it won't exceed the weight limit again. hence, i won't be blogging tomorrow, and my next post will be back in melbourne. cixian, xiaohan and cheryl, you'll know the result in my next post, haha!

thank you everyone for making my holiday such a pleasant one. :)

2009-07-21T23:17:00.009+10:00

went to qiumei's house for home cooked dinner with yuxin and yuhan today. :) spent the whole evening chit chatting with one another, it's always nice to see the juniors again. i'm glad that they are doing well in JCs. 2 dogs suddenly appeared in qiumei's house, freaked me out. just can't get rid of my phobia of dogs and cats, sigh. :(

someone once asked me if things changed a lot since i went to melbourne. yes, things changed. for the better and for the worst. in terms of close friendships, i came to a conclusion that it won't change, unless the person in singapore doesn't make an effort to sustain the friendship. indirectly, it means that it's not worth it for me to contact that person; one person is guilty of it.

thomas sabo. my newly love accessories boutique. or rather, charm boutique. :) mummy went to ion today, and brought back their catalogue. the charms are so pretty, i want! but it's 40-80 bucks each. :(

2009-07-20T21:15:00.002+10:00

starbuck-ed with my goodfriend.

whether it was at first sight or a progressive development, results are the same. despite being the dumbest fool ever, everything is worth it. that is what i call love. <3

2009-07-19T23:11:00.003+10:00

had lunch at newyork newyork with cixian and cangjun yesterday. cangjun wanted to see me so badly, cause he said he haven't seen me for almost 1.5 years. haha. i thought it was quite funny. :) anyways, the three of us had a real long chat with one another- very nice and funny. CJ, see you on tuesday if i get to go to PJC kay? :)

cixian... see, your cousin is so loving towards you. :)

went back home at 4 plus to change and left the house again to meet up with teresa at bugis. teresa, thanks for meeting up with me. i know you're very busy, and you still spared time for me when you heard that i was going back this thursday. had lots of fun with you yesterday. :) we went to haji lane, walked into some boutiques and i bought a bracelet from one of the shops. fell in love with it at first sight. very unique- cause it's pink, with additional heart and crown charm. BUT! little did i realised that it was a imitation of juicy couture. was super disappointed when i came back home. sigh, i rather buy something with no brand, then get a fake one. anyways, ignoring the juicy couture, i love it. <3

we were hungry, very hungry indeed. teresa introduced me to this place called MA MASION at bugis junction. japanese mixed with western style. the queue was super duper long, but we sit waited. haha. the decor was very french-like, and the food was good. :) teresa was brave enough to try squid ink pasta. it's not bad though, quite nice, but i think it's quite jelat to finish one bowl by ourselves.

thereafter, we walked around bugis junction, bugis village and the new shopping center called iluma. gosh, bugis is forever so so so crowded. why? i think i only visit bugis like once a year. orchard is so much better, i think.

again, teresa introduced me to this new ice cream parlour at iluma. it's something like cold rock, you get to choose your own flavours, toppings, and the guy/girl will just mix them into the ice cream. we had the ultimate cookie dough. it wasn't good, super sweet! but the waffle was nice.

teresa always bring me to nice places for food, i like. :)

teresa, the bag is here! :) you can have a good look at it. haha! anyways, those three bags are all specially made by my mum. 100% handmade from scratch. mummy was thinking of selling them, so i asked for teresa's opinion, and she said can sell. but the problem is the super high cost of making one bag, and a lot of hardwork is required. hence, my mum asked me to sell a bag for like 100-150 bucks. okay, i know. 100 bucks is really freaking expensive. i doubt i'll buy it, unless i really love it or need it. anyways, we're left with the brown one. purple and green are gone. so email me if anyone is interested okay? oh oh, it's able to fit A4 size papers/files, exact measurements can be given. :) alright then, i'm going to JUMBO seafood at dempsy for dinner with my family now. toodles.

updated*

dinner at jumbo was good- crabs, clams, oysters, prawns, scallops, etc.

we were so full that...

papa: all of you are so full from seafood, still want to eat tom & jerry?

me: (laughing like mad).

wernie: why you laugh until like that, very funny meh?

me: (ignoring him) pa... it's ben & jerry.

mummy: (her turn to laugh like mad).

masterchef ends by julie and poh both competing to perfect aria's chocolate tart. julie wins. :)

2009-07-17T23:10:00.002+10:00

i started on my new drama serial- you're my destiny, after finishing lunch at 2pm. this taiwan serial is super duper good. very funny, sad, and romantic. finished 12 episodes today and i'm going to continue watching it on sunday. i'm going out for lunch with CJ and CX, and dinner with teresa lim yi xiu tomorrow.

"i love you" have been received. thank you cixian. :)

2009-07-16T18:55:00.008+10:00

shopping heaven, not really food.

i'm finally back from hongkong! hongkong was great in terms of shopping. just look at the amount of stuff i bought for myself, i'm so happy! :) & that's excluding mummy's buys. prices wasn't much cheaper than singapore's, unless you're talking about those night markets. variety of shoes and clothing were definitely better, so many more brands from europe and america. :)

food wasn't that WOW. i was kind of disappointed though. dim sum, dim sum and more dim sum. we can get good dim sum in singapore too, no need to fly there especially for it. but dim sum there was very very very cheap! i couldn't believe it. we didn't really explore much of the street food, but it really smells and looks good. desserts were good, from hot to cold, as mentioned by my friends. heart the milk tea there. :)

sunday, 12/7/09

arrived at hongkong at 1.30pm. took a bus from the airport to our hotel. we stayed at jordan area, prudential hotel, and the room was very disappointing. we had an executive suite, but it was super small. wanted to change to another room, but the hotel staff said that all the executive suite rooms are of the same size. we then remembered that this was hongkong, densely populated, haha! checked in, went for dim sum at shamrock hotel, and we started on our shopping! :) we spent our entire afternoon at some shopping center near our hotel. i think the name of the shopping centre starts with M. it wasn't that good, but we got stuff. :) went back to our hotel when it was dark, rested awhile before taking the MTR to mongkok station for ladies night market!

hongkong streets never sleeps, it was so so crowded. went for wanton mee by the roadside. we were so afraid that we would get food poisioning, but no, we didn't. the noodles were handmade, and they were really nice. :) caught a slight glimpse of the toliet after eating. luckily it's after, and not during. appetite will be totally ruined.

headed off to ladies night market. bought plenty of stuff at very cheap prices! :) mummy and aunty joon was bargaining like mad, and the stall holders still sold them to us. i really pity them whenever i see their sad faces, haha! i bought a pair of shoes at S$12. before that, aunty joon wanted to ask for S$1o, but i stopped her. LOL.

we shopped till our feet hurt before going for desserts near by.

monday, 13/7/09

mummy and aunty joon at jordan MTR station. :) we started our shopping at 10.30am. headed off to tsim sha shui- harbour city for shopping. that place was super duper good- 200 over shops in one building. from the small to big brands. love that day especially, bought tons of stuff. :)

everyone loves H&M right? :) bought 5 blouses, a pair of shorts, a headband, and a bracelet there. we went into coach and mummy bought a bag and a pouch. the pouch costs S$100, very nice, and much cheaper than singapore. :)

shop shop shop, hence no photos. :( well, we had lunch and dinner at tsim sha shui. food wasn't good that day. it's prolly due to the fact that none of us could speak cantonese, and i couldn't read so many chinese words NOW! sigh.

mummy was tired after a whole day of shopping and walking. so she went back to the hotel to rest, while i went to ladies market with aunty joon again. :)

tuesday, 14/7/09

we woke up late, skipped the hotel's breakfast and went for brunch at majesty. the food there was much better than shamrock's, and it was cheap too. that's not all we ordered, there were much much more. filled our stomachs and took the MTR to festival walk. it's another big shopping centre, but not as big as harbour city. but, it was good. :)

entrered a shop selling household stuff. loved that shop the most! everything there is so so pretty. if only they had one in singapore! sigh. :(

had afternoon tea at simplylife. love the cafe decor, but the food/drinks there wasn't good.

we went back to the hotel to leave our shopping stuff before heading to tsim sha shui for the lightshow. mummy and aunty joon bought the same DKNY bags, just that it's different colour. coincidentally they were wearing matching outfits. :)

a symphony of lights was BORING. travelled all the way there for a stupid lightshow. the one in sentosa is 10 times better, though it's not very nice either. it could have been better with a few fireworks. hongkong also tried to follow hollywood- avenue of stars, hall of fame. haha!

we left tsim sha shui for jordan. had our dinner at some noodles stall near our hotel. the noodles were very springy? haha. the honey lemon drink and chicken wings were nice too.

after dinner, we went to temple street night market. again, we managed to get some cheap buys. :) there were rows and rows of food, but too bad we didn't get a chance to try them. i think it would be good.

wednesday, 15/7/09

woke up late and had lunch at majesty again. this time we ordered dishes and not dim sum. headed off for shopping at our hotel's shopping center. the shops there wasn't good, except for one- BESS. :) very nice decor and clothing. but it's very expensive.

we spent quite a fair bid of time in that shop. aunty joon and mummy was busy trying clothes, while i sat down patiently waiting for them. mummy bought me a S$50 polka dot scarf from that shop, since she says i love polka dot so much. haha. i have no idea when did i developed this fetish for mini polka dots. i must treasure it properly, my most expensive scarf!

happy me with my new longchamp bag. :) love the blue and white stripes, & according to the sales person, she said that the design is only available in hongkong, limited edition. :)

as the shopping there wasn't good, we headed off to mong kok- langham place. it's another shopping center. bought stuff there, but not a lot. anyways, we had limited time there as we had to rush back to catch our bus to catch our plane back to singapore. we had our dinner at the airport, and i saw a damn handsome angmoh, he's prolly from europe. his 2 kids are so cute and handsome, but the wife wasn't pretty. sigh. haha. well, hongkong trip was very fun, shopping and more shopping, i like. :) must thank my mummy for specially bringing me there and thank my papa for providing me the money to spend. haha. spent loads of it, guilty as charged. i cannot shop in singapore anymore, promise.

2009-07-11T23:28:00.002+10:00

HONG KONG, HERE I COME! :)

leaving singapore at 8.30am tomorrow morning with mummy and aunty joon (her friend). will be spending 4 days in hongkong for a SHOPPING and EATING spree! woohoo! i can't wait man, though i have no idea what's hongkong like as i have never been to hongkong in my life. but according to my friends, hongkong just sounds like a shopping and eating heaven. well, i shall personally fly to hongkong to see if it's true. :)

went to IKEA with mummy, papa and kailin today. bought a sofa bed for papa's new study room, very nice. bought other little random stuff. bought sweddish sweets and desserts. AND 2kg of sweddish meatballs, plus sauce and jam. i shall cook it for my family this thursday when i'm back.

have been skyping almost every single day. no matter how short or how long, it's always nice to hear the voice and see the face. 2 weeks passed, 2 weeks left. as much as i don't want to leave singapore, i want to get back to melbourne.

toodles people, see you soon! :)

girls love flowers, and that's true.

2009-07-10T23:43:00.001+10:00

i'm so happy with my results! :)

Code	Semester	Year	Description	Mark	Grade
306107	1	2009	Accounting Reports and Analysis	087	H1
316102	1	2009	Introductory Microeconomics	080	H1
316130	1	2009	Quantitative Methods 1	080	H1
460671	1	2009	Creativity, Play and the Arts	076	H2A

received messages from merrie and rachel at 1pm, asking me to check my results on the uni melb portal. i was really shocked when i saw my grades, really can't believe it. i was expecting like 70 plus for all 4 subjects, but i got 80 plus for 3. & my ACCOUNTING! shocking. my hard effort put into studying paid off. :)

receiving the results, suddenly reminds me that holidays are ending in 2 weeks time. this means, the start of a new semester. mugging time begins, yet again.

teresa, i'm so sorry for cancelling today's outing. :(

2009-07-09T23:51:00.002+10:00

woke up early this morning to run some errands- which is to get merrie's birthday 'cake' from railway mall. cab here and cab there as public transport was kind of inaccessible to those places.

rachel introduced us to this place at dempsy hill- jones the grocer. it's actually a supermarket and you can dine there too. the cupcakes and cookies are very pretty, and expensive. :) the three of us met up one hour earlier to do merrie's card before she came.

food was so-so. nothing special about it, but it's a nice place to chill out.

after lunch, we went to ben and jerry's for ice cream. that outlet is really nice, designed with a ranch house theme, very big, spacious and comfy. the downside is that the waitresses there aren't exactly very friendly. anyways, we cut her 'cake' there too. it was a huge apple struddle, merrie's favourite! :) she can eat it for her lunch and dinner for days. haha! anyways, happy 18th birthday merrie. hope you enjoyed your day today, though we didn't manage to stick to our original plan. thanks for being such a great friend throughout this 1.5 years, melby life would be such a bore without you. hope i'll be able to celebrate your future birthdays with you. :)

i love this picture of rachel, look at her expression! it changes. haha!

at 3.30pm, rachel's mum picked us up from dempsy and sent me, merrie and cindy to far east while rachel went out with her family. we sat in aunty jean's porsche, and the 3 of us had to squeeze at the back, it was really small. hence, cindy sitting on merrie's lap. anyways, the short ride was really fun. very windy and scary, especially when she speeds. our messy hairdo tells it all.

shopping with cindy and merrie was good. the three of us got ourselves a vintage bag each, cindy and i bought a pair of pumps, and they are all very cheap, i like. :)

2009-07-08T14:02:00.007+10:00

gosh man, i want to watch masterchef! i just visited the website, and i realised that some of the old contestants are back! up till today, the remaining ones are, julie, chris, andre, justine and poh! yes, poh and justine are back! :) tom was, but was eliminated in a taste test challenge with sam, and sam was eliminated in a pressure test. so exciting!!! today's the LAST celebrity challenge and julie's in it. so i guess it means that the finals is drawing nearer! can't wait to go back to melby and just stay home to finish the whole series. :)

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2009-07-07T23:59:00.003+10:00

i have been sleeping at 1am and waking up at 1pm this holiday. the sluggish feeling of lying on the bed is just so good. i love holidays, like this one, totally carefree, doing what i want to do without any obligations, shoik! :)

we met up at wisma at 4pm. cheryl rushed down from her project at a friend's place, xiaohan rushed down from work, yongbin and cixian rushed down from school after finishing their papers, and i rushed down from home. :) yongbin left us around 5pm and we girls window-shopped around wisma and takashimaya. time just flew pass so quickly, and it was time for dinner! :)

we settled for sushi tei as it was cheryl's favourite. well, the main purpose of this outing was to celebrate her super duper belated 18th birthday. :) we took our own sweet time to munch on our food as we chit chat and camwhore with one another. it was a nice long talk, very gossipy, funny and hearty. haha!

xiaohan left the table and 'went to the toliet'. the real purpose was to buy a mini cake for cheryl. xiaohan left it with the waitress and minutes later, the cake came with a candle. warren tan, if you're reading this, the cake is your present to cheryl, haha!

look at cheryl's expression! it obviously shows that she's in shock, and of course, happy! :) we bought her a cute pair of slippers from ALDO (very cute, ribbons and heart shaped 'diamond') and a hello kitty coin purse/keychain. it was all purchased before she came and while she was with us. hence, the big reaction from her. it was so funny, the 3 of us kept explaning how we did it. it was a success. :)

finally, after seeing that the restaurant is almost empty, we decided to leave. :)

went to the basement of paragon to do some stuff and then we whipped out our cameras. we never fail to do that. haha! love that picture above (all 4), love them even more.

i enjoyed myself a lot today, and i hope they did too. my best girlfriends ever. no need for frequent chats or meet-ups, and yet we can still remain so close. <3

bought myself a hellokitty makeup bag. i have 2 hello kitty makeup bags already, the smaller one is from mac hellokitty collection, given by rachel's mum. :) so cute, love the heart shapes!

2009-07-06T20:41:00.002+10:00

as planned, brother, sister, mummy and i went to the cheese prata shop. :) i had my banana chocolate cheese prata, it was very good and cheap. but i felt that the service there was horrible, everyone looked as if they were dying, they must well don't work.

went to the supermarket later, and we bought lots of food back. i cooked 2 dishes for today's dinner, mushrooms and veggie. first time cooking veggie myself, and it was a success. :)

i finally finished prison break, which means the entire series. it's a really good show, though the ending wasn't what i wanted, but it was suitable for the show. :) now that i have finished it, i need to think of another drama serial to watch. boys over flowers??? drastic change huh.

the photos taken above are all from my iphone. love the camera applications that i downloaded, especially the vintage and the polariods ones. :)

bridal bouquet that mummy did last week, nice? she came home with another one today. more flowers in the house please! :)

2009-07-05T15:49:00.006+10:00

tuesday- 30/6/09

had dinner with bram at indochine. second time going there, and i had my favourite shirley temple, and tomyum noodles. :) later, we went to slice for desserts, again.

papa arrived from america at 12 midnight. :)

wednesday & thursday, 1/7/09 & 2/7/09

yeah, baby! i'm at prison break season 4 now- episode 19. how fast can i get. i have been staying home on these 2 days watching prison break on my laptop. the show is really so good. how can anyone miss it?! merrie, continue watching it okay, the main gist of season 4 is where michael scofield helps the 'FBI'. love michael scofield and alexandra mahone, brainy people. glad that they are working hand in hand to bring the company down. :) i also love the way how brad bellick's character is portrayed in this show. funny how some really bad cop in s1/2/3, can turn into some angel in s4, making all the convicts he used to guard moan for him. teabag, one of my hated characters, but sometimes i do feel for him. i pity the way how he's violently treated by the people around him. felt so sorry for him where he let the hostages go, and ended up getting caught himself. to round up, it's a fantastic show!

friday, 3/7/09

met up with kenneth lee for lunch and tea at orchard. it was a super duper belated birthday treat from me to him. we had crystal jade la mian and xiao long baos. love it, especially the sze chuan noodles. later, we went to toast. i wanted to try their nutella cupcakes, as i've seen them on numerous magazine advertisements. but, it was okay only. disappointing. kenneth said, melby ones are much better, can't wait to try them when i get back. :) we walked along orchard, from one shopping mall to the other, trying our very best to pass time. singapore's boring, really. sigh! thereafter, xiao han and yongbin came over to my place to slack before leaving for warren's church musical- the 17 year old virgin. warren was singing and dancing, so we went there to support him! :)

his church wasn't easy to find, we had to walk a long distance from the bus stop. coincidentally, we managed to see the "traditional flea", and it was my first time. xiaohan and i felt weird walking through. haha. anyways, we were early by like 45 minutes (& warren tan said that we were late!), so yongbin brought me and xiaohan to some small ulu hawker centre for dinner. chit-chat-ed, camwhored and back to this church. the musical was not bad, the songs were quite good. warren's acting was super duper funny, a compliment i guess, doubt anyone can pull off that role better than him. right, warren? :)

musical ended at 9.30pm. took pictures with the warren tan, waited for him to debrief and off we went for supper together. together meaning, warren's poly classmates and part of kumaleh. we went for hongkong dim sum nearby, and i thought that the dim sum was good and VERY CHEAP. thumbs up, i want to go back again before i leave singapore! :)

left the place around 11, and reached home at 12. it was a real long wait for 700A. thankfully, warren tan was there with me, if not i'll prolly freak out, waiting alone out of nowhere. warren, dinner/supper some time arh. :)

saturday, 4/7/09

i finally had my shabu shabu after half a year. :) never get sick and tired of it. wonder where can i get such good shabu shabu in melby. had it with my family, before going to conrad hotel.

my family went to conrad hotel for a night stay, it was free. :) it was our second time there, and i thought that this trip was better. mummy and papa took their afternoon nap, while the four of us went for some mini shopping in suntec, marina, raffles city and city link mall. bought candies and accessories. :)

at 5pm, papa drove us to marina barrage. it's a new place in singapore! :) basically, it's just a newly built dam to prevent flood and to ensure fresh water in singapore, but the government so called beautify it, by changing it into a tourist attraction? it quite nice though. :)

that patch of grass isn't on the ground floor, it's the upper floor. :) we had to walk up this slope to reach there. so happen on that day, there was a kite flying competition, very nice! see that eagle above me and my parents, it's a kite! the weather was windy and cool, hence our unkempt hair. oh, and we saw this dog that looked like a bear cum lion, very unique, wonder what breed is that.

there is also a display room, which shows the water history on singapore and how the dam works. it's kinda cool. :) after that, we went for dinner at suntec city, at some chinese restaurant. we manage to see fireworks too, it was coming from the rehearsal for the national day parade. we went back to the hotel and the girls watched knowing on the laptop, while my dad and brother went to catch ice age 3 at suntec, how childish.

sunday, 5/7/09

woke up just in time for the hotel's breakfast. the breakfast was good, wide variety of food available, from japanese to western. we were so full that we decided to skip our lunch. later, we went to collect our new spects. :)

updated*

i'm no more an iphone noob. spent my night installing the new iphone software and downloading new applications to my iphone. to my family and friends, my iphone is not boring anymore! <3

i'm going to sleep soon, and hopefully i'll be able to go to the cheese prata shop at west coast with mummy and the rest tomorrow! goodnight people.

2009-06-29T23:47:00.002+10:00

my craving for sushi tei is finally satisfied. :) had that for lunch with my brother and mother at paragon yesterday. they shifted to a much larger unit, which is better. we ordered so much food, and every one of them tasted so good. no complains. thereafter, we headed off for shopping and i got myself a pair of pumps from pretty fit. accompained my brother to get his hair cut done too.

woke up at 10.30 am today, and off i went to JB with my mum to pay my relatives a short visit. we spent the whole day there and we only got back at night. we had a very good lunch- curry fish head, chilli kangkong, fried squid, and herbal chicken. dinner was steamboat- my favourite forever. :) PLUS PLUS PLUS! i ate lots of local fruits- mangosteen, mango (the mango is super huge- largest i have ever seen), rambutan and DURIAN. i think i ate 3 whole durians myself. felt so bloated after that, but it's worth it. we brought more back home! :)

AND i finally get to see foo shi wen, foo shi wei, and foo shi en. missed them so much. they are all super duper cute, especially wei wei. love them to bits.

i've completed prison break season 2. moving on.

2009-06-27T23:46:00.002+10:00

i've heard so much about pontian wanton noodles, and i finally get to tried it with merrie chew today. :) it was good, but i think it's a little overated. i've always loved wanton noodles (dry). after that, we had SLICE. cheryl introduced it to me in my previous trip back, and i brought merrie there today. very nice, the ice is so thinly sliced giving a smooth texture. but i prefer the mango flavoured one though.

took a bus from far east to plaza singapura. we wanted to sit the shuttle bus to mt sophia, but the queue was way too long. instead, we decided to walk by ourselves. hence, both of us struggled to climb up eight flight of steps. merrie said that my lips turned pale after reaching the top of the stairs. haha! anyways, we finally reached the flea. it was so disappointing. i thought the stalls would be allocated in the open space, but all of them were cramped up in a small building. the worst was, there were so many people! so packed, stuffy and sweaty. both of us walked 2 rounds, and we each got ourselves a handmade bracelet. met up with my friends too, missed them so much. finally get to see them after 5 months. said hi and bye to them and off we went to plaza singapura, aircon please.

spent most of our time in plaza singapura in made with love. thanks to cindy for introducing. love that shop to bits. the whole shop just sells scrapbook materials, and they are all so pretty! they conduct workshops too, and i'm considering to go for one or two. anyone wants to accompany me? cindy? :)

left merrie around 4pm to meet up with xiaohan, jieying and lina. we headed of to vivo city for more shopping. well, we should have just gone to vivo earlier. i bought a white blouse and a black dress from zara. love them to the max. :) didn't expect myself to be shopping at a shopping center, as i thought i would be spending the whole afternoon at the flea, hence the little amount of money i brought along with me. walked into zara and f21, money all gone. :( super sad man. the sales there was so good. anyways, i'm going to orchard with my family tomorrow, prolly going to pull my mummy along to shop with me. :)

remember the pretty roses in my previous post? mummy arranged them into this! my mum's a talent man. she has always love flower arrangements, and she just started taking lessons to get her license. so my house is full of flowers, but i like it. :) mummy's thinking of selling flowers online. she asked me for my opinion, but i doubt it'll work, a flora shop would be better. you think?

2009-06-26T23:46:00.001+10:00

pretty, pretty roses?

2009-06-25T13:54:00.012+10:00

HOT HOT HOT!

i haven't turned my aircon off since i came back last night. yes, i'm back in this small sunny island! it's great to be back, to see my friends and family. my whole day yesterday was spent on the plane. uncomfortable much. anyways, lunch-ed with nirwan at nandos and he sent me off to the airport too. thank you. :) my plane touched down at 10pm last night, got home around 11pm and slept only at 4am in the morning. was busy unpacking my luggage, eating supper with my family and watching prison break. i have been watching prison break season 2 lately, it's so good, even better than season one. guess i will spend my time at home watching the rest of the seasons, thanks to bryan chew for the downloads. :)

22nd of june 2009

nirwan and i had tim sum for lunch at shark fin's house. it was our first time there, due to the forever super long queue. the dim sum was better than westlake's and of course more expensive. but still, it's cheap. 35 bucks for the 2 of us, and it filled our stomachs to the brim. LOL.

after lunch, we went to sydney road. one word- disappointing! we thought it was some major shopping area, but there was nothing. NOTHING. i was so prepared to shop on that day, but it turned out to be some abandoned town.

so we tram-ed back to his place and made strawberry juice. :) slacked at his place till the sun went down, which was around 5pm, and off we went to crown.

the chocolate box. love that stall, filled with nicely decorated chocolates. :)

okay, i look super fat in that picture, poor photographer!

doesn't the fruit tarts look mouth-watering? we went to cafe greeco for cakes. i was down with serious cough (not swine) so i had to watch him indulging himself in his chocolate cheesecake. i tired a few bites too, it's so good. best chocolate cheesecake i've ever tasted. going to try it in a month's time. :)

love the yarra river scenery. <3

23rd of june 2009

some outdated photos, taken way back.

had korean hotpot for lunch. i just had to eat it one last time before i fly off. :)

caught the proposal after that. love the movie so much. it's so freaking funny and touching. wasn't excited to watch the movie at all as i thought it was another lame show. but i was wrong. it's so damn good. i want to download the movie! :)

nice picture of the state library right? took it using his camera. :)

happy 18th birthday cheryl, see you soon. <3

2009-06-20T23:53:00.001+10:00

slept over with rachel and merrie at merrie's place. we woke up at 6.30am by rachel's alarm, said our goodbyes to her and off she went back to singapore. continued sleeping until 11am, and went off to meet nirwan for french crepes. :) the crepe look gross on the picture, but the texture and flavour of the crepe is so good. no wonder it's so famous, and packed with people.

headed off to IKEA. i had swedish meatballs and he had chicken.

colourful colourful bathroom accessories. he bought a new bedsheet and quilt cover. i got myself a very simple yet pretty photo frame. :)

at the tram stop. :) okay, i must say that we met quite a number of weird people today. they are kinda scary.

went to his place to put our stuff down, because we thought we'll continue walking/shopping in the city. but, we decide to go for a movie instead. it was early, so he did his shower curtain, and then we camwhored.

left his house for the movie, but all tickets were sold out. sigh. so we went to max brenner's for 'dinner'. yes, again! :) i'm so going to put on weight after this holidays. eating so much chocolate until i developed sore throat. :( i'm so worried that it's swine. called my mum today, and told her about my throat. she said i was thinking too much, but i bet she's more worried than me. haha. bought a thermometer and checked my temperature every hour. 34 degrees!

not plans for tomorrow, see how it goes. :)

2009-06-19T21:40:00.006+10:00

i smell the air of freedom. yes, exams are finally over! :) one full month of not studying in singapore, and here i come mugging again when the next semester begins. but for now, the fun begins. :)

today was the toughest accounting paper i ever had in my entire life. & it WILL also be the lowest accounting mark i will ever get. sigh. the questions were not difficult, but i just needed more time. attempted all questions, but it's not the best that i can do.

anyways, on the bright side, my no-life days are over. went home straight, changed and off i went shopping with merrie and rachel. bought stuff, spent money, and i'm happy. :) the sad thing is, i didn't manage to get my pair of jeans!

we shopped at melbourne central and chapel. it was a really nice outing- just the three of us. haven't been spending much quality time with them, until now. laughed, gossip-ed, talked.

we had dinner at cafe sienna. nice ambience, food and people. had garlic and cheese pizza, calamari and my favourite ice chocolate. :) look at rachel posing with her newly bought hand sanitiser, she's helping to advertise that product. the number of swine cases is really freaking us out. we're about to board the plane soon, and the plane is the most dangerous place. you never know who's with the virus, and we have to sit in that confined vehicle for 7 hours. super duper contagious. hence, the hand sanitiser and N95 masks. got one for myself too, going to wear them on the plane. i don't want to be quarantine when i go back. i want to see my family and friends.

dinner was not enough. we continued shopping and left chapel for max brenner's at melbourne central. love it to bits, and will never ever get sick of it. :)

oh yeah, i watched night at the museum 2 with nirwan last friday. i wasn't excited to watch the movie, cause the first one was not really very good. but this second movie was better. :) we tried the bean bag seats too, not comfy at all.

2009-06-12T00:20:00.003+10:00

hello people, i'm finaaaallllyyyy back!!! :)

yeah, i know. my blog is so dead. so many friends from singapore have been asking where i am. haha! anyways, sinting, thanks a lot for your concern. i am totally fine. i heard from cixian that you were wondering where i was and were worried for me because of the swine flu disease. really appreciate it, thank you! :)

despite knowing that melbourne is the capital city of swine, and 1000 over people are actually contracting that disease. the government here is really not doing much about it. and apparently, it seems that the disease is not very serious like what the singapore government says. no one here is really trying to stay home and not get into the city (except for my singaporean friends like cindy and rachel). haha! and so far, i only saw about 4 asians wearing masks. haven't seen any locals wearing them. my dad's friend is the minister of health in singapore, and he told my dad that it's better to be safe than sorry, hence the extra healthcare measures. :) which, in fact, is very good. thus explaining the full recovery of all the once-swine flu-patients.

where the hell have i been? okay, i quarantined myself in my small little pathetic apartment for 1.5 weeks. no swine, but studying. no joke, literally studying every single day. doing intro micro and qm every alternate day. finally, 2 papers are down and 1 more to go in 7 days. ACCOUNTING. gosh. my most favourite subject in secondary school, but definitely not in university. hate it. difficult shit.

AND... i must totally rant about my past 2 exams. okay, the exam hall is super duper HUGE. jaw-dropping-ly huge. really, shocked the hell out of me. i cannot see the other end of the hall. one big main entrance, and 2 sub entrances. and the amount of people going in is countless. i shall take a picture of that entering-the-exam-hall scene next week. haha! and the best thing is, i've been walking past the examination hall a hundred times, but never knew where the royal exhibition building was until yesterday.

microecons was bad. bad bad bad. i didn't finish paper. first time ever in my own history. 10 marks were left blank. i was panicking when the invigilator announced that we had 15 mins left. nearly burst into tears. but after the collection of papers, i realised that almost half of the hall didn't manage to finish it on time. made me feel better. but why? why can't jeff borland give us more time? i'm sure i can answer almost every question.

and then there was quantitative methods. enough time, but hope there was more. didn't do as well as i thought i could do. one stupid careless mistake which cost me 3 marks. and some other questions which i didn't do it the right way. oh well, what's done is done. i shall stop talking about it after this post.

and now, it's my break time. going to rest until tomorrow night. and then, i'll start the whole quarantine process again. :( anyways, after qm exam this evening. i went to brunetti's with cindy. it's been a long time since i had hot chocolate outside my house. slacking at a cafe, talking and just camwhoring. love it. <3

thereafter, cindy went back home. lucky her... she went home to wait for her boyfriend's arrival from singapore. her boyfriend has came up to melbourne twice this year already!!! haha. while, i went home to catch up with my masterchef series. haven't been watching it for 3 days. it's really very good. people in singapore should also catch it, www.masterchef.com.au. :)

2 more weeks to singapore

meeting nirwan tomorrow

the weather is freaking cold

2009-06-02T14:19:00.002+10:00

2009-05-28T00:23:00.006+10:00

i just came back from watching angels and demons. i cannot think of any word or probably there's no word in the dictionary that can describe it. it was so bloody damn freaking good. love it to the max. everyone should just go and watch it. the twist was superb. super unexpected, wasted my tears for the baddie. anyways, watching the movie really reminds me of my trip to italy when i was 8 or 9 years old. i remember myself standing in the hot sun with my siblings, parents and grandma at saint peter's square waiting for someone to appear. yeah, and that special someone was the pope. i was complaining to my mum why must we wait SO LONG for that person to show. finally, after a very long time (i can't exactly remember how long) the pope finally showed. and of course, i couldn't even get to see his face clearly, it was from afar. after tonight, i finally realised how important that pope was, and i really regret not even attempting to see his face clearly. sigh man. i really want to revisit europe. europe is the bomb man, really. i've travelled to many countries, but i still love europe the most. despite me having little memory, and not appreciating the country as much as i would now.

papa, shall we go to europe at the end of this year, please? :)

2009-05-25T20:30:00.012+10:00

friday- 22/5/09

excuse me for my camwhoring. :) haha. had a hour break in between my QM lecture and accounting tutorial. YES! i finally went for QM lecture, it's been a long time since i last saw robert dixon. haha, as boring and naggy and draggy as usual. but since i was free, so i thought i should go.

went to docklands to celebrate charlene's 19th birthday. :) it was a belated celebration though. as a group of nearly 20 people barge into her house on tuesday night/wednesday morning at 12am with a birthday cake from brunettis, a bottle of wine (which i like, no alcohol taste at all) and a very ultra big card made by the 9 of us (main credits were to merrie chew). photos soon i hope. anyways, dinner was good. company even better. first time going out with charlene's malaysian friends. nice. :) had lots of fun snapping shots and chit chatting with one another in the restaurant. by the way, me, merrie, rachel and ann were the surprise for that night. i swear charlene was super shock when she saw us, you should see the look on her face. ultra uber funny. HAHA!

the food was very nice, especially the wide variety of dipping sauces. :) but the late was really long. we only started eating around 9pm, i think? wanted to order desserts cause they look so good on the menu (just the names though, no pictures!) shall visit them one day for desserts.

that's charlene's favourite orange FLOURLESS cake (and adrina's now)! yeap, flourless. charlene was totally bragging and ranting about how good the cake was. and of course, all of us were very excited about it. BUT, it turned out so-so only. only adrina fell in love with it. the look on rachel's and adrina's faces were drastic, v. funny.

the night was fun. especially us camwhoring away outside the resaturant on the dock. pretty view and of course super cold and windy weather. photos are in the others' cameras. cause my camera died down on me. merrie's and rachel's also. haha. bad luck. wanted to watch angels and demons, but it was too late. catching it this wednesday. :) came back and surprised charlene with her birthday pressie from peter alexandra. it was a set of PJs. wanted to get her something that she'll like, and not from her wishlist.

saturday- 23/5/09

thank you kenneth lee and wei an, like tons. went over to their house in the afternoon as we needed the oven to bake. yeah, it was for our creativity, arts and play assignment 3. we wanted to bake some cookies, for the pictures on our powerpoint as well as letting the audience try them. had lots of fun baking. did more on myself after eleanor left. credits to kenneth's camera too. :)

flour (and all the random stuff), egg and butter.

it was damn funny. we added all the ingredients and tried mixing them using a large wooden spoon. but no matter how hard we tried, the dough doesn't seem to form. so i called kenneth lee for help (disturbing him from completing his assignment) and he tried by using his hands to mix the stuffings. and taadaa... dough formed immediately. how stupid we were in not thinking of using our hands. sigh man.

our first cookie that went into the oven itself. turned out bad/burnt! because we didn't set the right temperature. luckily, it was one and not the whole batch.

had fun designing the cookies. it was a real test of creativity! haha. but thanks to the wide range of cookie cutters, MNM's as well as the writing icing that made my job much easier. :)

pretty pretty? haha. so colourful and kiddish right. just perfect for our presentation.

went to the bailleu library this afternoon for my CAP group discussion. ended around 5.30pm, but i decided to stay and use their internet to blog (cause of the super fast speed). BUT, while connecting to the internet, there was a blackout. instantly, i could hear many cries and wails (okay, not so serious) from people. prolly because they didn't save their work. really pity them man. anyways, they had to evacuate everyone out of the library as they needed time to work on fixing the light. and there were so many people! tons man. everyone's so hardworking!

i'm loving masterchef. its the bomb, really. everyone should just spent 1 hour per day, except for saturdays to catch that show. 7pm, and 7.30pm on sundays. see i'm an avid fan man, can remember all the timmings. love it. <3

i want to be a food critic. :)

2009-05-17T23:37:00.002+10:00

did my CAP essay the whole day in nirwan's house. thanks to his internet, if not i'll be dead meat! :) haven't completed it though, one more point and conclusion.

i don't like teresa! i just read her blog and saw these cameras! love at first sight. they're so pretty. just nice, i was thinking of changing my camera a while ago. Hmmmmm, in the process of deciding! own money of course, unless. :)

2009-05-16T23:17:00.011+10:00

had san churros with nirwan for supper. :) needed a break from my creativity, arts and play essay. seriously, 1000 words on how is play, creativity and art linked? tough man, not an essay job. SIGH! anyways, it's been a YEAR since i had san churros. for melby people information, the price increased. we had to order double portion- with 2 choices of dippings. the single portion was pathetic- 3 churros. expensive good stuff. love the milk chocolate to bits, very rich and smooth. <3 after that, i went over to his place to use his internet to work on my essay. why? cause my internet is down! 3 is so lousy to the max, don't sign up for it! first, gave me problems signing up for it and now, THIS. super duper irritating especially when i need it for assignments. luckily there's him. :)

2009-05-15T23:00:00.006+10:00

spent a bomb today, really. BUT, only one item for myself, and the rest are for the people i love. how selfless i am. :) after exams, it'll be MY OWN SHOPPING. prolly going to hongkong with mummy and her friend. i cannot wait. day time shopping and night time deserts! shiok. *random, my shopping bags for the day were all black. coolness.

MY GUESS WATCH IS BACK. BRAND NEW. I'M VERY VERY HAPPY! :)

2009-05-13T13:37:00.004+10:00

chocolate is my love and downfall. bought 4 bars of chocolate after my QM tutorial today, as i didn't manage to get them last night. yesterday, i locked myself out of my room! i was intending to buy CHOCOLATE to re-boost my energy to continue sutdying while sending cindy to the door. BUT! i forgot the key! first time man! so i had to go down to the reception and ask for a key, but he refused to hand it to me since i didn't carry an ID with me. so i camp-ed at merrie's for nearing 3 hours reading my econs notes. finally at 12, the security was here, and then they willingly opened the door for me. and on monday, i was suppose to cook stir-fried beef for merrie & ann, but i accidentally knock the whole bottle of pepper into the bowl. the whole bottle. imagine that. i rinsed the meat, but it was still super duper hot. sigh, very unlucky these few days.

2009-05-12T12:57:00.002+10:00

2009's AUTUMN IS HERE!

or rather, i finally see it!

taken with cindy phua in our university while walking from accounting lecture to microecons lecture. and we had to force nirwan to take it, as he thought that it was embarassing. haha! love the atumn leaves. <3

today's lecture was all very slackish. watch video clips and played games. :)

cindy's coming over in a really short while. we're going to study for the rest of the day. i hope it'll be productive. and we're cooking mee sua for dinner tonight! our favourite.

2009-05-11T20:29:00.005+10:00

HAPPY BELATED MOTHERS' DAY! <3

i love you mummy.

caught ghost of girlfriends past with nirwan yesterday. love the film, it's very nice and touching. kind of remind me of someone. haha! did mini shopping with chew and tjong. & i bought myself a ben sherman jacket. love it, have been finding high and low for a jacket similar like that. :) and i had freddos too. i bought one tub of ice cream, 3 flavours, and i finished it all by myself in one day. it's simply too delicious to resist it. anyways, today was very slackish for me. went through my econs and accounting worksheet, and that's all. sigh. suppose to start on my essay, but i'm feeling very reluctant to do it. i dislike school. i want holidays! not exams.

2009-05-09T22:40:00.006+10:00

i never fail to wake up late whenever i'm staying over at merrie's. have no idea why, but it's just like that. anyways, stayed home and completed my reading for CAP essay 2. can finally start writing it on monday. :) i can't believe i skipped lunch and dinner and i didn't feel hungry at all. of course, i snacked. grapes and more grapes. how healthy can it get? left my house at 8.30 pm for max brenner's in town. had it with merrie, bryan and cindy. chocolate was fantastic as usual! :) going over to merrie's again, and we're watching ROB-B-HOOD. and it's a MUST for me to get up early as i have to meet up with my friends for our CAP project. in the afternoon, it'll be shopping time for me. i need to shop, haven't been spending money!!! & movie with nirwan. :) ghosts of girlfriends' past.

photos from merrie's. it was some event on facebook. people were dressing up like zombies and 'parading' in the city. cool right? that's something that we'll never see in singapore.

2009-05-07T23:42:00.005+10:00

attempted to make chocolate fondue yesterday with nirwan. finally put the fondue set he gave me to good use. i shall say our attempt went well. :) the start was horrible, the chocolate was all in sticky lumps (as you can see in the top right hand corner). but after much sitring, the texture was perfect (bottom photos)! but still, max brenner's beats it. shall visit them on saturday. :) study first!

2009-05-04T12:58:00.002+10:00

the exams dates are out, finally. very happy with my time table, enough time to study everything, especially for accounting, reports and analysis. :) exams end on the 19 of june, but i don't intend to fly back to singapore so early. i wanna stay in melbourne a little while longer. shall ask mummy to book my flight back on the 24th, same as the chews. stay home for a couple of days, and start meeting up with singapore friends on the saturday, 27th. i'm going back for a MONTH! :)

2009-05-03T18:45:00.006+10:00

this week has been super hectic for me. everything i do don't seem to turn out well- in the sense of school work. i can't wait for wednesday to come, and that's when 2 assignments are down, 3 more to go! last night, cindy, nirwan and i did our accounting quickbooks assignment till 3am in the morning. madness, dead tired today. & my handsome/charming econs tutor didn't reply my email! thus, i cannot complete the last question for the assignment. sigh man, people here are really lazy. saturdays and sundays are non-working days, shouldn't it apply to me too?yesterday morning was fun. started my creativity, play and arts assignment with grace and eleanor. we're suppose to plan a program for children that can promote creativity, play and the arts, and we came up with the idea of baking cookies, and designing their own cookie contanier. :) so we went to town, and got all the necessary items for our first attempt to bake next week. also, we needed photos for our powerpoint presentation, and we were like running around the supermart looking for the ingredients and snapping shots of them, very fun! :)

had dinner with nirwan at bbq pacific house yesterday, the food was even better than my previous trip. :) alright, got to go to merrie's for porridge.

2009-04-28T20:30:00.004+10:00

this morning was freezing! 8 degrees man, the coldest i experienced this year. more colder days to come man. sigh. really had a hard time crawling out from my warm and cosy bed. with the heater turned on the entire night, it just makes my room more comfy. i dislike tuesday mornings when i have to wake up at 7 am, while everyone is still asleep. walking all the way to the commerce building alone, with no one in sight. it's quite cool actually, you have the i-own-the-whole-university feeling. HAHA! luckily it's econs tutorial! i like the subject, the people are nice, and my tutor richie is freaking handsome/charming! if it's QM, i doubt i will even wake up. okay, i got to go read my econs textbook.

extreme left & right photos were taken by millie. she was very bored, i think.

2009-04-27T19:28:00.003+10:00

town-ed with merrie, cindy and nirwan yesterday. cindy needed nirwan as a comparison for her boyfriend to ensure that she didn't buy the wrong shirt size. she was a real big joke. went to ben sherman and i saw a black jacket that i like, i'm in the process of considering.

the weather yesterday was horrible. despite that, we still walked in the rain and wind just to enjoy our korean hot pot. they should seriously consider introducing some vip card. me and nirwan would get it for sure! :)

after lunch, we went to nirwan's place to get his laptop. merrie and cindy acted as if their were from the mountains. everything to them was just like amazing! haha. but the condo is really nice.

headed back to my place. nirwan, cindy and i did our accounting assignment. we were left with 3 source documents, and we got stucked! sigh man. so near yet so far from completing it. i cooked porridge for them, and i think the pork i marinated myself was super good. we ate dinner while watcing so you think you can dance. the show was marvellous, very nice! but i'm kind of sad that ben got out so fast when and i was expecting him to win. :( he's so charming.

i just cut my hair with cindy. gosh man. total mistake! why on earth did i tell the hairdresser to cut 1 and a 1/2 inch off!?! it seems very little compared to my original hair length, but the actual result was a drastic change! sigh man... i want my hair to grow faster! :(

university is horrible. so many assignments. i'm dying.

2009-04-26T23:29:00.000+10:00

had brunettis for supper on saturday night with kenneth lee, it was a catch up session for the both of us. i haven't seen him for almost 3 weeks, gosh man. anyways, we talked from 9.45pm to 12.45pm, non-stop. it was nice, more stories and drama? HAHA. cindy joined us for an hour too. her accompany was good as usual. very very funny, totally amused me and kenneth.

drama loves you, or you love drama?

p/s: i'm freaking busy. i need more time.