Bintan

will be off to bintan tmr with the family.

NOT looking forward to it. no, not at all.

哥哥 Leslie Cheung

i was letting mum listen to 為你鐘情, not quite able to contain my excitement of having discovered yet another great song by 哥哥. so i was raving to her abt it but she was either uninterested or distracted by the tv, dismissing me with just an 'uh-huh'. -_-ll not quite the response i was expecting. doesnt anyone share my enthusiasm for good ol' music??


so while i was in my room, fully immersed in the charm of his voice, mum came in and gave me these.

OH. MY. GAWD!

all this time i have been searching tirelessly through imeem for his songs, and there in some dustcovered box within my house lies these treasures! cannot believe it lor! anyway, after having listened to 2 of the cds, i told mum that nevermind if she doesnt leave me any money in her will. these cds will do. =)

//oh oh, another song to share!

Yet Another..

yet another post on songs im currently crazy abt. i wonder if there is a term for my condition? anyway i didnt noe jeff chang could speak in cantonese. but his rendition of 习惯失恋 is the best i've heard so far. 草蜢 has also performed it before. nice stuff too.

old news i noe, but jacky cheung is coming for yet another concert. and im going! again! tell me im not out of my mind. ok, relatively sane cos i bought the $88 tickets. though i really would want to pay for front seats if i could. cos the best seats were snapped up so fast we tot it wun be worth paying tt much to be seated rows behind. and guess wat, after the tickets were bought, another show was added on the 5th! jacky jacky, i love and hate you so.

x'mas is round the corner and gifts need to be decided on. not that im running short of ideas, in fact there's quite a few options i dunno wat to do! hmm.. maybe i should just create one of each and let them choose. hah!

The Little Black Dress

cool little book. with a chilly price too. $73.44. i think it's bcos of the word VINTAGE/TREASURE/BOTH that's imprinted. hah. but i bought it at a sale for $20 at bras basah. still unreasonably priced i feel, for a 30 odd paged book. but i guess its quite a steal. the dresses featured were lovely, am hoping i can re-create something from it. and oh, did i mention the book had a full picture of audrey hepburn too? now that, would be well-worth the $20.

sat with miss zhuang was quite a pocket burner. apart from coercing me to get the above mentioned book, she wanted lunch at some fancy restaurant and high tea at some other pricey cafe. seriously high maintenance lah she. i was just glad SAM was entrance free. dun get me wrong, im not actually complaining, just trying to save up for my "spinster" fund (private joke) hahaha!

Shooting Stars

Friday evening was sth new. i went for a musical with someone cantonese, and quite an expert in canto oldies too. anyway, the musical was staged entirely in cantonese, and it was a really good show. the actors were great and the songs were awesome. some were even delivered like it was a concert. and yes, tt includes the actor running down-stage to shake hands with the audience, along with security to hoist off delirious fans. totally amusing.

i would think the team banked heavily on the names of the 2 great singers to draw a crowd. and clearly it did. most of the audience were in their 30s - 50s, who like me, were drawn by their songs. but at the end of the show, despite the glitz and all, a message was brought across. i guess i can never listen to leslie cheung's 追 the same way i had before. tt particular scene of him sinking into depression and with each word of the song affected me somehow. *emo emo*

all in all, i enjoyed the performance thoroughly and am hoping that they'll bring more of such shows to s'pore. but for now, i gotta go google for the awesomely nice songs sung during the show.

軟硬 Long Time No See

wahahaha! i almost died laughing after having watched this! esp the individual dance highlight, tt kot guy is hilarious!

Intensely

"The pain is so intense because the joy was so intense."


How true.


Being robbed of the joy pains.


But sometime, somewhere, somehow, the pain will cease...


... for joy and hope to come through.

Oh The Drama!

the past few days have been an emotional roller coaster ride for me. ya, things arent exactly going well. im keeping my fingers crossed at the moment, that the worst has come and GONE, and that better things WILL come my way. (say, my bonus? hehe.) im jus glad that i was out with frens after the news was delivered, helping me to take my mind off the dreaded fact/decision to be made. ya, in times like these, frens, abit of mahjong, food and laughter helps. thanks, pals. =)

was at northpoint for lunch on sat and saw someone who i've not seen for ages. (and there you go thinking nothing interesting could ever happen in plain ol' northpoint.) would have missed her completely if mum hadnt pointed out to me. funny that mum would say she's the xian qi liang mu fren i haf, and that she was actually quoting me. i dun rem saying that at all, to me, she's just hoonie. i would have smiled or waved, and things might somehow develope. but well, i guess its all fate.

anyway, anyone noe the titles of the songs here?

okayyy, just trying my luck.

//The 3rd song is 誰可改變 by Alan Tam.

Oh Holly!

guess wat came in today?

muahahah!


i was positively ecstatic abt receiving the posters since the day i won the bid, but the t-shirt threw me off completely. thanks fren, for the somewhat pleasant surprise. though i think u wouldnt be expecting the gesture to be returned (soon or at all), too short a notice to be in time for ur bday. hah!

// i bought a magnet the other day at suntec. tell me, y am i spending so much money on her?

Life Expectancy

despite my scepticism abt the possibility in the miraculous development of a superhuman reading speed, a miracle has indeed occured.


not to sound boastful or inflate this 'miracle', i have finished reading a 400 odd paged hardback by dean koontz. within 4 days. tts fast, by my standards. hmm, i might get to complete a third of wat i hope if i keep this pace.


and if you're a book buff and have not read any of his books yet, i recommend that u start now. though his works are mainly thrillers, i was laughing out loud while reading. no, not at the tragic and often gruesome end of the psychopath's victims (im not perverse in that sense) but at the dark humour he slips in almost habitually.


as u can tell, im not really good at giving a book review, and i shall not attempt any further. just go grab his books from the stores, write a review on it on facebook and expect a tinkle from me soon. *winks*

The Path To Seam-Stress Status

finally, after 5 lessons of learning dressmaking.


I AM A SEAMSTRESS!


as in seam-stress. stressing over seams.


well, the material for my skirt is actually quite delicate. as in if someone were to rip it off with brute force (heaven forbid), it'll come off before you could mouth the first letter of any protest or even a simple "ah!"


ok, so it isnt the material but my so-called tailoring skills. or perhaps the fact that i've machined, unpicked, machined and unpicked the seams that made it so... tearable (not that i've actually tried tearing).


and although the product isnt exactly tailored quality as its meant to be, the whole process is actually quite rewarding. i've learned the virtue of self-control cos slamming and cursing at the sewing machine wun do much good. and oh yes, the wonders of a stitch unpicker! i seriously doubt i would be still sane if not for it, considering the number of times i had to redo everything.


so there, my first piece of tearable wearable skirt. far from perfect, but still wearable.

next up : wrap skirt.


// a bit ironical, for someone who dun often wear skirts, i need to make not 1, but 2 of it!

The Final Goodbye

Sooner Than Expected

oh my, seems that i wun be able to 'devour' his other books after all.


unless i develope an unhumanly reading speed overnight to finish 19 600 odd paged novels within a month.


not quite possible.


on a separate note, thanks to a fren for sending this song to me. actually prefer this to jacky cheung's version. recently, im into OLD canto songs with the likes of sam hui, alan tam and george lam for reasons unknown. maybe its age. but this song he sent definitely reveals his age, not mine. hah.

Updates

random updates :

currently devouring dean koontz's the face. yes, good books are meant to be devoured, not read. im hoping i get to finish his other books before i eventually leave.

yes, yes, bangkok next week! wee~ shopping! im kinda like doing up a shopping list, which probably wun do any good since i'll just buy watever that comes my way. hah. but a few must buys - tailored suits, nice cheap fabrics, dressing screen, haversack, and yes wei wei, durian chips -_-ll

been watching d. gray-man on tv and youtube recently. didnt realise wat an effect this anime had on me. i was gg omg-omg-omg-omg-omg in the episode where Daisya encountered Tyki and was eventually killed. OH MY GOD! as strange as this might sound, the emotions it triggered were much more apparent than all dramas i've watched thus far. hmm.. this is pretty weird.

my orthodontist probably thinks im mad by now. besides asking (jokingly of cos) if i could keep the mould of my teeth as souvenir, i let out an uncontrollable giggle while he was taking pictures of my teeth. it was beyond embarrassing i tell you. but as i said, it wasnt in my willpower to suppress the urge to laugh. it was just too funny, seeing the reflection of myself on the lens with my mouth pried open to uncanny proportions. hahaha! but i guess i shd really be more concerned abt my first tooth extraction which will probably take place 2 weeks later. (that's only if i garner enough courage to make an appointment) okay, okkkayy, stop being such a chickenshit already.

Paranoia

PARANOID.

that should really be my middle name.

well, frens who noe me should agree cos i can get quite paranoid at times. save the numerous episodes of doubting and misunderstanding, construing sudden interests as hidden agendas, saturday's incident has got to be the most ridiculous by far.

i was at amk cc for my weekly dressmaking class. my first project is a skirt and its beginning to look like one now. hah. shall blog more abt this when i've completed it. anyway, wat happened was i was the first few who reached, and went to the ladies which was down the corridor in a secluded corner. most of the other classrooms were still empty and as it was 7ish then, the whole level looked abit ominous with the lights still off.

no one was inside the toilet when i entered and while i was inside the cubicle, i heard the door open. now the strange thing was, no one walked past to get to the last cubicle next to mine. nor did i hear the tap running. all i heard was this clicking sound gg rhythmically as if someone is playing with a pen while waiting for something or someone. and the disturbing thing was that i heard no such noise before i heard the door open.

i stood frozen and the first thing that came to mind was that SOMEONE could actually be out there waiting to mug his next unsuspecting victim i.e yours truly. and because im such a paranoid, thank you very much, i was able to foresaw his deceit of knocking out his victims before transporting them in a stolen car to a deserted factory to disembowel them and finally decapitating their heads off as trophies, but not without the signature psychopatic laughter and a thundering storm as backdrop.

-____-llll

i noe i noe, very tvb drama. i've been watching far too much of it lah. but at that very moment, i truly believed that someone was actually out there waiting to pounce on me. there wasnt much i could do without my phone with me, so i remained where i was amid the sweltering heat. my best bet was to wait for someone to walk in or that the mugger will get tired of the wait and leave. but after 5 mins, the heat was getting to me and i tot wat the heck. besides, dying from hyperthermia isnt exactly glam.

so i stepped out and..... nothing.

not even a cockroach was seen. but the door was opened alright. probably the cleaner came in to keep the door open with the door stopper and turned on the fan as well, which explains the clicking sound i heard.

-____-llll

still couldnt believe wat a big bozo i was. told my mum all abt it and she laughed her head off. well, guess i can nv be a police detective.

Shamed

ok, i take back wat i said - that my revulsion of children will cease to exist soon.

but one thing's for sure, the dormant volcano has erupted somehow. and im sorry to say that the lil' one who suffered the wrath is none other than my own niece. :(

to sis - sorry for shouting tiu and slamming the car door shut at your daughter. (i made sure she was clear of the door!)

to mum - sorry for storming off to the bus stop without turning back although i heard you call out to me

to nicole - sorry for my lack of tolerance and understanding of your wilful and bratty behaviour

to myself - you ought to be ashamed of all this over-reaction and reflect much on how a piglet could hold more weight in your niece's heart

sigh. whoever said being someone's ah yi was going to be easy?

Yes, I Know

Yes, yet another post on my dahhling nephew

Yes, I'm terribly, terribly fond of him (if you cun already tell)

Yes, I'm not worried abt how my public display of favoritism will affect my dear niece (Bro, coincidentally, has the same tendency towards his nephew)

Yes, I do believe he'll steal quite alot of hearts with those eyes (why, he already has mine)

Yes, I foresee that my revulsion of children (which has laid dormant for quite awhile) will cease to exist comes the day when he could speak the 2 words

Lil' Dino

"Grrrrr! Grrrrr! Grrrrr!"

If pain has an expiry date....

"If pain has an expiry date, mine has expired."

Yes, wounds heal.

But does grief?

4.26 pm :

Release of results on student portal.


Present status :

Drowning my sorrows in a packet of Arnott's Tim Tams chocolate biscuits. Double Coated.