501st Post and a New Year

Hellohello. Well it's a sunny day today, quite something new since the past week's been rather gloomy but snowy nonetheless.

It actually is New Year's Eve and I'm missing you guys and home over here in Nottingham. I have my essays to rush through and that means I won't be able to visit my Sangor and cousin in Birmingham, about 2h away by train. Perhaps some of us will be leaping into the new year with realtime-reality-inducing countdowns. As for me, it'll have to be "Hello 2006" in my own way. Hahaha.

In any case, I'm quite sure that as I type over here on my laptop, you guys are probably doing something pertaining to the celebrative nature of ushering in 2006. (And Peiyun should have touched down from Yunnan yesterday, yes?) Just wanted to say that it's been a fruitful year for me, with ups and downs, gleeful days and dismal ones alike, and that I've grown. My wings seem sturdier. And my eyesight, I swear, it's becoming less 6/6-perfect now.

My hopes for the new year remain those ongoing ones. And the mini-one is to be a more thoughtful friend after what seems like a long hiatus from keeping in touch with everybody else. What are yours?

I can't believe we're turning 21. I can't believe Fleacia's turning 21. I can't believe my parents have 养ed me for this long. And I'm going to change the digit on the blog after this post.

Huayuan's on night-call tonight, so it's quite coincidental with my predicament too. You guys can send a Gang message to threaten him a Happy New Year all right. Haha, can just imagine, "EH. YOU BETTER HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR." Haaah. Miss you guys la.

I feel like there're only a few hours left of 2005 and soon I'll not be able to speak to anyone or do anything in this "realm". So I'll leave you guys with one of the more quintessential pictures of 2005-huayu here.



:) Goodbye, 2005.

a little help perhaps..

What's one good adjective for:
being less self absorbed. and more think-from-someone else's-shoe and see-it-from-another-perspective?

any idea anyone..? huay?

serene for u.. haa wei jun jie is the guy in white! haaa he's married to ahxue in zhenqing.. do u noe tt? 

hee my moses chan ho! (chen hao).. when u called tt day i was q gek sia.. hafnt seen him on tv in a while.. dunnoe y i always like to watch his shows :) 

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to serene..

yea i agree the ending to overtime is like shit.. i hate it when she left him. but i would still say it's one of my fav jap dramas after so many years :)
rem we always like to discuss every other thing he says tt sounds so cheem and deep rite?

haha photography is damn cool.. so keep up the good work ya!

to the issue of eating alone haa we r still at it aft so many many years! but well sometimes i dont think its solitude, as the word itself sounds lonely.. but rather like wat u say, swimming in ur own thots and jus taking in all tt peacefulness.. aint tt bad rite?
im sure when u work.. aft u make fren w ur collegues ll haf lunch time kaki one la :)

and yes the actor is.. kong wa!! ( i tink its jiang hua)

haha not easy to find the picture leh! muahaha

smth's wrong with the tagboard. anyway just wanted to say that i only read the first 2 or so chapters. and that kundera's so mentally-acrobatic and just stating the simple all at the same time. k back to work!

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heyo huay.
am reading the book: "unbearable lightness of being" now. will share with you asap my thots if there's any. i like milan kundera style of writing.
i watched LOVE ACTUALLY (uncensored version) just an hour ago at my friend's house. just think its a coincidence since we were talking abt it just few nights ago. (: and also we discussed the carl and sarah issue (once again). its interesting how different pple have different takes on WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. hee. cool.

Allo laoda.
hee. wah. kinda flattered u compare me to darling "somrimachi". :D heehee. although i hated the ending. hated that jiu-wu (or watever his name) doctor. hated that sickening gal. and feel so "dui2" for soichiro laaa. never wanna watch that show or read the book ever ever again i tell ya.
but yeah.. i felt quite happy proving to myself that my interest in pictures/photography was not imagined up cos i always thot i wanna snap this shot at this angle or capture this object with that background.. and i thot i have quite a flair. glad pple appreciate my pics. hehehe.
feel kinda happy oso that perhaps i have found a new hobby..! wun feel that sian anymore. LOL.

and your sharing of how u used to sit there alone during lunch. makes me feel kinda sad and cold. as usual, its one of the issues which we always debated and laughed abt. how u can bear with solitude yet i will die if i hafta eat alone. but i must say you have been an inspiration. whenever i feel i kant get thru this kinda moments. i think of ya and feel motivated! and now, i reckon i m all right. see.. i can even spend time by myself wandering ard.
there's such beauty in silence and swimming in one's thought. and just soaking in everything. or merely emptying the mind of any thots.
budden i think abt my future. and work. and realise how i might hafta do this lunch-alone thingy very often. i wonder if then i can still appreciate such "me time".
and oh. so have u ever met james.lye there?? heehee.

anyway so i called you abt chen.hao right? haha. he is on this chn55 show at 10pm la. some shanghai-tan period drama.. and my fave hk actor (weijunjie) is in it too, altho he is some small fry role. and the main character other than chen.hao was the guy who acted as the qin emperor who went into the future? whats his name.. zhang hua? chen hua? he is oso the journey to the west shi fu/tang san zang monk.. you know you know?? haha.
:)

oops

hey guys, sorry ar. its 4am in the morning and i was posting these pics on my blog. but i forgot the change the setting in hello so they end up here. and i was lazy to delete one by one after realising this boo-boo. so nvmind la k? haha.
so yeap. i went out on my own today. and acted like a tourist. taking photos of my fave places and buildings that i had always wanted to photograph but never did so. loved the experience. i truly enjoyed myself! :) anyways since the pics are up.. enjoy too! (i wun charge you money. haha)

the weather was divine!

walking towards the heart of it all..

is there light at the end of the tunnel??

at the other side. singapore river at 4pm is so quiet and serene. totally unlike its other fascade upon the setting of the sun. i adore this part of singapore. for its rich history... for its architectural exhibitions of tall towering buildings. one feels so lost and small in the midst of it. surreal.

love the road sign.

tall dark handsome - buildings.

full view of everything surrounding me.

i was approaching my fave part of singapore river.

One of my fave pics! (notice with the street lamp! and branches hanging down..) and the tall towering building that looked like giants. i felt lost in the concrete jungle!

indochine at waterfront. can we come here for my birthday at night? its really pretty. and its my dream..

fullerton from the other far end. was thrilled to catch it at an angle, under such lighting.

esplanade from far away with the rest of the sky line

the fullerton beckoning

further away... with boats.

with street lamp!

on the other side looking at the flowers hanging down. took the pic with the tree branches hanging above me. kinda cool eh. this pic has this whole british.colonial feel that i like.

on the bridge looking at fullerton..

full view of both the spaceship and westin. i was standing directly beneath uob (i think) anyway its such a coincidence that i have forgotten to bring extra batteries so i had to walk all the way to some watson at some obscure corner to get batts. without this incident, i'd prob remain at the other side of the river and not come over. so i was walking past standard charter when i wonder if i would bump into james.lye. HAHA! (eh he is the only singaporean actor i like, altho he doesn't act anymore.)

ALIEN ATTACK!

i just love the fact how westin seems to hold the entire sky up.

under the uob or some tall building with the restaurant SIX. facing the fullerton. i just love this corner pic.

My favourite hotel.always tried to snap a pic at night when its really mesmerising. but the pics never came out nice. so i thot i'd take a day time one. its kinda old, english, (even colonialish) and its GREY! alongside with the grey sky and strong wind, i really feel outta town.

love that building. staring down singapore river, taking in both sides of it on the bridge. i love the river winding towards me kinda feel.

the esplanade from the other side (the esplanade park). which behind me is the padang and courthouse (is it?). both names hold certain significance :) well. just the padang then cos i dunno whats the other building's name. that big one. hurh hurh.

couldn't resist the road signs and street lamp. LOVE street lamps! of course then i turn left la.

so i was there. check out those white floating balls in the river. they're meant for some new year's day celebration. check out the weather. that's what an IDEAL 4pm weather should look like in singapore everyday, in every corner.

the random things

before anything else, haha flea, huimin and serene happy nott i called you guys to yak today! haha :P peiyun i'll yak with you when you're back ok.

haha now that i know you guys can't comment on the xanga i think i may switch! haha other than the fact that xanga's really nice to use, and that everyone seems to have a blogspot, i realised there's some other secret reason why i'm having a xanga! hahaha. shh, secret.

anyway. yes. as promised i'm going to write about the random things about me! but i donno whom to tag. so won't tag.

1. i like having condensed milk mixed in with plain porridge, ever since i was like 6 or something. i have recurrent bouts of addictions to fanta lemon, otah, maoam candy (cherry flavour) and SUPER RINGS. other times i still really love these foods and drinks but less obssessive.

2. for a period of time i really couldn't stand having price stickers on pens. and would peel them off every single one of my pens/pencils and others' too when i rummage through their pencil cases.

3. i have recently acquired a yellow-fish and a green-crab, adding to my zoo collection of the fattyhappy crowd on my bed. hahaha. there's Cow, Pig, Loaf (my blue hippo), Little Hippo (XiaoHeMa), Elephant (XiaoXiang), and lots of others whom i adore. i also like the fat caterpillar from "A Bug's Life". hehheh. i have just spontaneously coined the word "hippocup" here at flat 57 in nottingham, literally meaning a hippo having a hiccup, but really meaning obstacles along the way to being a-ok.

4. it's my mini-resolution, alongside the biggy ones, for 2006, to be a better and more thoughtful friend! i'm still chirpy and all that but really just less "outreaching" after jc. and i really do miss all of you out there though i forget birthdays, don't reply to emails, procrastinate about meeting up, etc. i'm here i'm here!

5. my first pair of red shoes was when i was really little. like those shiny ones worn with frilly socks. since then my love for dorothy-shoes has grown and (as in the wizard of oz) even over here in nottingham, i have about 5 pairs in my room. hahaha. they range from sneakers to clogs. so there.

6. i first used the word wonky without remembering seeing it used anywhere else. haha. eg. "i'm feeling wonky today la... :(" lidet.

tadah! see i surpassed expectation! 6 ok!!! hahaha.

I GOT THE PRESENTS!!

HALLO I'M BACK AT NOTTINGHAM!!

wellwell huayuan's leaving tomorrow and anyway he JUST unpacked and gave me all the stuff from you all and my mama hahahaha. i even have something from his mama too.

anyway.

YES! hahaha he just took a picture of me reading the note. i'll post that one soon la. but i was in really laughing out loud mann. man. today's christmas day so..how apt :)

ehhem and i'll be updating MY blog soon. wah quite proud of myself.

i really miss you all la....like what flea said....it's so sweet to picture you guys working on the "card" together and how in that momentary exercise i would have been "transported" through time and space to changi airport. heehee.

and yeah after this it's like A LOT OF WORK TO DO.

hm..ok la he's leaving tomorrow and i won't be too upset la. i musn't i guess :)

yah la i'm hugging the big blue hippo as i type now haha. Loaf's squashed.

okok talk soon ok...gotta fix some pasta! p/s: seng it's salmon and dill ravioli with white cheese sauce :P

miss you guys la.

MeRrY ChRiStMas

http://www.syfc.org.sg/christmas05/hokkien.htm

In London

hey guys..i'm in london now. just met up with my sangor for some good duck rice yesterday. am leaving for paris tomorrow. it's been really fun and good albeit tiring.

well ok, i'll do the 5 random things when i'm back at notts all right. am about to fall asleep at the desk now. terrible la.

i'll feed you guys with photos later on ok! :)

heh, and anyway, flea and seng, guess what i've gotten something for both your birthdays!! ah! haha.

talk soon.

from dimsum 'not that long' ago.. part 2

fel and crystal..
















fel and xy.. (tt's what happens when ms tall meets ms short.. hard to get proper shot. haha)
















huimin looking constipated.. haha.. who took this? xy?
















py and serene..















huimin and serene...

from dimsum 'not that long' ago.. ;p

huimin and py...















fel and py...















fel and huimin...
















fel and crystal...
















serene and fel..

Rules of the game:1. Post 5 weird/random stuff about yourself.2. At the end, list the names of 5 people whom you want next to do this, and leave a comment "YOU ARE TAGGED!" in their blog and tell them to read your blog for rules.

1) I have v strong, vivid imagination that can be very morbid at times..
e.g. i can imagine a motocyclist riding infront of my car get knock down by a lorry frm behind and flew in the sky abit b4 landing... all tt happened in front of my eyes, n the next moment when i snap bk into reality, he was alright and drove away..
i really thought it happened..
Or i can't differentiate reality frm daydream/dreams and things tt i believe happened sometimes didnt, and sometimes i get so confused btw reality and the stories i weave in my head, i cant differentiate them... it's been bothering mi since young

2) i like to eat till my plate is v neat n clean. w porridge or rice.. any topping i put on it tt has the sauce covering tt part of the rice mus be eaten up first, such the the remaining part of the rice/porridge is kept clean.. otherwise i ll b angry haa
tomatoes are CHOU and brinjals sucks coz purple is an unnatural colour for veg

3) pple who noe frm at age 12, tink im nice, benign, happy, friendly, endearing, someone who rarely gets angry :)
when i was in pri sch or earlier, i macam a gangster.. very fierce, get into fights w boys at the back of schools, tore someone's sch uniform before, hang ard at arcades w my frens..
but of coz teachers still love mi coz of my gd grades and helpful nature.. but im inherently nice jus w a slight violent and angry streak in mi.. it got so mild when i go rgs coz most pple there r angelic little girls so there's nothing to b violent and angry abt..
i changed coz the large fluctuations in emotions is too strenous and hard to bare but now.. haa i haf morph into someone so calm and steady tt i lost the ability to feel v happi or v sad.. so everithing is rather moderate for mi in this way... (good? bad?)

if i didnt go rg, i ll prob b a lian ard the rdside now haa.. heng sia

5) if u squish my flabby arm w ur hands, esp the way carol does it, i ll have this unexplainable urge to pee / shit
if u pat my chin... @#!#@$%#^$&*U(I(!!!##@@

4) i LOVE all rides in amusement parks.. esp the scariest ones! haha beng ll noe, how i dragged her ard liu fu chu in taiwan until she cant take it

For the gang only, i gif discount! haa
buy 5 get 2 free

6) Me and serene like to discuss porn stuff we watch in the middle of the nite (not realli la onli once)
serene tinks im the brother she never had
everione tinks im married to peiyun
huay was my first official les partner (if u rem)
i realli tot felika got some weird disease last time, in sec2 when she came up w some stupid "i haf a disease" episode
yimyee always stays at my house on the last day of her spore trip coz im nearest to changi airport

7) I'm the LAODA of the Hualahualagang.. mata if u catch my sidekicks, pls come tan pan w mi :) I was made the laoda coz my sidekicks scared police catch them, so they made mi this dummy front w absolutely no power.. O_o" I dont mind la actualli.. haa

the chosen ones: Serene, Huay, Felika, Xinyi, Chermaine

TAGGED!

Rules of the game:
1. Post 5 weird/random stuff about yourself.
2. At the end, list the names of 5 people whom you want next to do this, and leave a comment "YOU ARE TAGGED!" in their blog and tell them to read your blog for rules.

[1] i like to turn to my right and crack my spine before sleeping. then i'd turn to my left and use the 2 pillows i have (one soft one and one harder one) to stack on top of my head and bury myself under it before drifting to sleep bc i like to feel some weight pressing on me to feel safe. oh that's why i dun sleep on the pillow. i sleep below (pillow) it. heh.

[2] changing hair color is the first step to me implementing a certain change in myself. so whenever i feel stuck in the rut or have the urge to change something in my life, i'd dye my hair first. i always feel better after that, and more inspired to carry out whatever changes intended.

[3] "i want a spikey hair boyfriend" has lost its validity. it doesn't always have to be that way anymore.. (although it would be nice if the guy has spikey hair still.) so maybe you guys should stop using that as a reminder to me saying i m "superficial"..

haha. although i wun compromise in terms of say cheenapokneighbourhoodahbeng or nosenseofhumouratmyfrequency.

oh and the 每一张笑脸 song, haha, i m no longer afraid!! :p so no need to sing anymore to scare me. pui!

[4] i still hate mint-watever: mint sweets, mint ice cream, mint flavoured chocolates, mint this mint that.

[5] i always feel a bit sad and cold whenever all of us part after meeting up. yeah.. :) and that's bc i know i'd miss you guys, but after a day or so, i'll feel better already. its like a cycle la.

[6] the reason why i love THE NANNY so much is bc (a) i like maxwell sheffield. (b) bc fran the nanny reminds me how i'd be like in future - single, old, panicking, a bit bimbotic/shallow and always looking out for potential husbands, ALTHOUGH i pray real hard i wun end up like her, ALTHOUGH i wun mind if there's a mr. sheffield ard la.

[7] oh yeah. i kant count...

:D

the lucky pple who dio this are:
-laoda
-huayu
-fel
-xinyi
-ah py (if she miraculously blogs la uh.)

anyway

dun say i never help ar - http://stars.metawire.com/venus/index.html

the gang and the airport

-My Version-
(a first attempt at documentary)

so there. the gang had the usual stayover during the hols.
but its a first at the airport.
the unprecedented adventure began at 930pm when serene joined huimin on bus 88 to bishan, where they then made their way to locate a certain "lenny" at tai hwan heights for the collection of christmas parcel from uk.
it was a hefty 20min walk IN and another 20 min OUT, where they saw a silver car with a number place 932 which serene recognised from all the visits to huay's house.
nice uncle of bus 53 waited for them as they boarded and returned to j8 to meet flea.
they then went to ntuc to get stuff for huay and huimin conveniently bot py her fave food (so she can eat on the plane!)
*AWW*
serene insisted at 12midnight that bus 13 goes to airport when in actual fact she was wrong! it goes to east coast! she had mixed up previous beach outings with airport ones. with the realisation, huimin RAN all the way to the interchange and stopped bus 53 at the traffic light!!
ohmygosh! (serene and flea just walked briskly. tsktsk)
but the bus uncle was very amused to tell them the last bus left at 1115. they had missed it.
ALAS!!! they then decided to take 58 to somewhere in pasir ris and then see how from there.
so began a series of photo shoot on the bus which eventually terminated at some ulu empty pasir ris interchange where the 3 gals flagged for a cab at 1am.
uncle was really nice. he waived the 25 cents off the fare and trio safely reached the airport.
they sat at bk (where py and her team was) and started decorating some card to give to huay!
in between the period of time, a guy with suit and a rose came in. pple sniggered and he glared at them. one of py's frens even went up to ask him why he had a rose on...
after completing the presents, serene and flea ran away from laoda n hid behind some plants. but laoda managed to hunt them down and so began another series of photo-taking.
serene does her annual bully laoda act by making her piggyback ride her. and even posing for a few photos bc she was not happy with those that are taken.
so the pple gathered and check in, and the trio went for breakfast at T1. by then the airport is crowded again and the sun had risen.
they played a few rounds of uno (of which serene won the most sets and huimin never won any!)
and one round of daidee, of which serene won again.
(talks of the coming "huat ar" CNY gambling session at hm's house was brought up. also while walking ard T1, serene described how life would be like for her in the future. it was hilarious with the scenarios of cigarettes and magarita, abused husband, obese single and pregnant with 4 kids!)
then they left for hougang interchange to meet zy to pass him huay's gifts before fel hopped on nel to ps, and huimin took 27 home. and serene took 112.
but it was a fun filled outing. with lotsa chatting, catching up, gossiping and laughter.
wat a memorable night.
thanks guys!!

anyway.. thanks huimin. you're damn efficient. and once again, nice descriptions to go with the photos. haha. but u missed LY. siiigggghhh. he looks good yeah? heh heh heh. ZHUAI3!

this is the first shot of mani pix we took last nite! note the abit frozen n forced look.. its jus tt we hafnt warmed up to the camera la :) aniwae tis is on bus (hmm wat no was it?). we were at bishan collecting huay's cards n gifts 4 us frm lenny.. thnx huay :D e biscuits r v nice... then we wanted to get on a bus to the airport... nearing midnite aft waiting for q some time for 13 we realize tt i goes ecp no airport.. so we ran.. aft bus 53 driving out of the interchange to find out tt the last bus has left... @_@ so we got onto this bus to go pasir ris... setting off on a wonderful n adventurous nite.. w flagging caps at 1am.. spending time w py.. roaming an empty airport... sending py off...breakfast... fortelling our futures.. uno... lastly catching up on long awaited beauty slp at home :D thnx peeps for the wonderful nite n fun hahaha :D

serene n felicia w toothy grin 

blur pix on a moving bus.. 

serene n felicia!