hmm today was a pretty hectic day, had to go down for a few interviews. so came back home really shagged and thus i took a nap on a sofa, and now i’m super awake. durr. not good. cos i’m supposed to rest for tomorrow. 

anyway i’ve suddenly gotten this end-of-year blues. like the feeling that, omg, another year has ended! i’m only 2 years away from the second decade in my life (sounds weird, what i mean is that i’m 2 years from 20). looking back on these past 18 years, i’ve got to say this year and the last probably played the biggest role in making me grow up. i can’t say how or why, but it just did, and it can’t be put down in words because i don’t know how to explain it. all those days working under pressure to finish eetokia, pulling all-nighters, getting blasted by teachers for no reason and the like. these reasons sound superficial, but i think ib really made me a more resilient person. that’s not to metion friends and the good company. :) thank you everything who’ve made a difference in my life, and have made it better. you may not see this, but i really appreciate all the times and the little things! point 12, guitar, babes and everyone else. thank you! without you i would’ve been stuck in at the bottom of a pit of depression still. words can’t express how grateful i am. sometimes all it took was someone to talk to help me out of my stupid fits. i feel really blessed to be alive and kicking, with friends and family all around me. i really am. and i’m not saying this just because it’s the new year and it’s time for saying thank you and writing resolutions and stuff. yup. and i wanted to write this because i’m not sure if i can blog again until 2jan the earliest.

hope tmr night will be fun! CHEERS EVERY ONE AND HAVE A NICE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR!!

every since i heard this song/saw this music video i couldn’t wait to show it to you guys on christmas!!

it the only christmas song that i’ve heard that actually made me wanna dance and headbang around my house in a santa hat. too bad the original music video can only be seen in the uk :(
anyway today i watched princess and the frog and ate at blue mountain cafe in 313@somerset (excellent service, good food plus uber cheap cos we split the cost 3 way) and the omega disturbing _______ conversation over dinner. seriously made me lose my appetite for a bit, and you know how hard that is.

we’re having steamboat for christmas dinner tomorrow, how traditional. haha

bc is back in singapore! hmm taiwan was a happening place, but it wasn’t as exciting as expected. it was like a more backward version of shanghai lo, but surrounded by mountains and forests. but i’ve got to say the service and cleanliness in taiwan is much better than shanghai, like even the toilets in the countryside are uber-clean? that’ll be impossible in china. hmm what else. the tour guide kept bringing us to buy expensive stuff. like this SGD$2000++ mushroom! yikes. that was my least fave part about the trip, the forced shopping and what not. hmm my favourite parts were probably eating, eating smelly tofu (there was this kimchi+smelly tofu+sweet chilli mix i ate in shilin night market that was very very nice :D), the hotel bed and the museum. too bad we didn’t really stop long in the museum to appreciate the works properly. and the time we ate at this homely hotpot place which had lcd tvs showing anime, that was pretty nice. except you’re supposed to go there to eat the smelly hotpot (which was smelly tofu, meat, cabbage and nice things in it) but my dad prevented me from ordering it for the interests of the other people of the tour bus. LOL. ohoh and we went to this temple to see statues carved out of white jade, and the buddha relic. i felt quite noob cos i didn’t know the “goddess of mercy” was male, and indian!! who knew he dressed up as a woman to treat sick people in the olden days. anyway the carved statues were really exquisite, from an artistic standpoint. next time i should go on those museum tours, like tour all the museums and art galleries of a country. that’ll be nice! i hope to visit the paris louvre and the british museum one day.

on the 2nd last night we stopped at this novelty restaurant that served you food in mini-toilet bowls. the whole restaurant was like a giant bathroom, like the seats were actual toilets and the table was a bathtub with a piece of glass on top with an actual showerhead attached to the wall! that was pretty fun!

other than that taiwan was slightly boring la. it was like a backward version of shanghai, might as well go shanghai again, there’re more things to do there. and i’m too lazy to put photos. maybe later

and in other news i need more kachingzzz. maybe i should go get a job

yesterday we celebrated with a yummy (but slightly expensive) buffet at straits cafe @ rendezvous hotel! had fun chitchatting and eating with tony, shoban, guang, ham, edsee, pam! gosh it was hilarious. first of all tony and his alfalfa, basically it’s this moss like thing that tasted like grass. pam was throwing him eye-rolls and grimaces when he was eating it like some bovine organism. and the disgusting durian creme and puff. oh god if i ever have the pleasure of eating (forced, tricked, accidentally or otherwise) anything with durian in it i swear i will use one whole bottle of listerine in one sitting. then we watched a movie called gomorrah at cathay picturehouse (it was between that and christmas carol 3D, but since pam’s 18 we chose the former m18 movie LOL). it apparently won the top prize at the cannes film festival (plus certified 91% fresh via pam’s rottentomatoes), but it turned out… as i quote the birthday girl “this movie was such a milestone for me” well. i still prefer the heavily-stylized 40s american mafia movie a la the godfather. gomorrah was too hyper-real imo. :/ anyway have fun in malacca girl!

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birthday girl!

fewd!

edsee laughing at at tony eating his alfalfa

group shot! slightly blurred. (and my face looks like the full moon lol)

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anyway i’ve finally gotten down to listening to the fame monster. gaga is a genius. perhaps i should consider turning from a free-thinker to joining a pagan occult that worships her, LOL. i’m joking, i’m joking, don’t stone me. anyway alejandro is my favourite on the album!! best thing is, it samples czardas (the very hungarian gypsy tune we learned for guitar) at the start. and i love the intro of dance in the dark too!!

hmm i got john mayer’s new album battle studies. spent the whole morning in bed listening to it. i gotta say it’s my favourite album by him yet. the whole thing feels so raw, unpretentious, and intimate. especially love friends, lovers or nothing and the title track, heartbreak warfare. and i shall leave you with the former! the lyrics are really meaningful imo (i’m sure many of us will have felt like this at some point in time or another). the perfect album for single, lonely souls out there, heh:

anything other than yes is no,
anything other than stay is go,
anything less than i love you is lying

haha this is gonna be a post loaded with blurry and unclear pictures taken with my lousy kodak 7.1 megapix cam, phone cam and a shaky hand so bear with the unprofessional pictures! yes i’m not pro enough to lug around those big back bulky cameras (i don’t even know what it’s called lol) which seem so hip recently. so many people have got them.

PRE-PROM MASK HUNTING:

we were cheated!! 15 bucks to rent a lousy mask which we didn’t even use in the end. that’s just… nevertheless pams and i had fun with the costumes in the rental shop!

 pam: come closer sonny, granny can’t see ya

channelling my inner john lennon

after that got a clutch/bag what was pretty similar to my dress! was quite lucky. on the day itself the schduele was super duper rush! did hair and makeup at isetan scotts with barely time to spare (cos we were supposed to practice the performance item) so quickly rushed down to the class’s rented service apartment and put on dress and we were roaring and ready to go!

AT MARRIOTT:

ze sree musketeers 

 the only time my fringe managed to stay nice and flat the whole night :(

 HAHA I LIKE THIS PIC

 me and mr evans! for being such a paitent ct.

 guitar god vs amazonian woman (sounds like a bad marvel comic book name)

after it ended, pics galore.

 class photo!

 kev said high heels can’t possibly be that bad to stand in! well he put it on for 10 secs before he changed back.

kwong, ham, guang, danson, shoban, tony, eddy, pam and i walked back to the service apartment. dunno how i did it but i managed to walk all the way from marriott to centerpoint in 3 inch heels we took pis along the way, with kwong as the artistic stylist.

strike a pose

 group shottt

 LOL. seeing rain momentarily made me forget the pain in my toes

 fail shot at a suave photo. hahaha

 FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYY after what seemed like ages we reached the place!

went to supperclub for a bit with kevlim, vik, jun, cher, steph and the bridge gang. lol couldn’t remember much, just that i couldn’t see anything cos the fog machine kept spraying the crowd when they were dancing. and the place was so tiny! oh and my ears still hurt. blehh. must’ve got something to do with my newly pierced ears, like they’re still throbbing.

 eventually i met darli, who was sitting prim and proper by the side with valencia and ginni and i asked her why she wasn’t dancing, and she replied “because i want to laugh at people”

…LOL

eventually at 2ish 3 left and went to get kwong/pam’s cake for their surprise. orchard at 2am is really deserted and quiet. haha and there there was this episode with the drunk indian and angmoh. tsk.

 cher lounging around as we waited for the receptionist to come back with the cake.

anyway the thing about the celebration was that kev thought we were celebrating pam’s birthday, and pam the other way round! so in the end we surprised both of them! got pam fruit juicer and kwong a whole box of stuffs. sing song, ate cake. then i went to shower but in the meanwhile the class watched silence of the lambs on star movies. it’s not even scary lor, dunno why ming always seem so scared when we talk about this movie. then after that we played guang’s retarded drinking game (with fruit juice and coke), which was quite funny. like there are rules that you must abide by, and the forfeit is drinking the drinks, and like you can’t got to the toilet. damn sadistic lor! there were rules such as “cannot say the word ‘I’”, “cannot point at others”, “cannot ask questions” etc etc. eventually the game progressed to a point were everybody was talking like r2d2 and were afraid to move around too much for fear of breaking a rule of the game. LOL

then morning came and…. 

 most people fell asleep!

the sky at 8 ish am from my spot on the sofa/chair in the living room. helped make pancakes and (failed) eggs for breakfast 

 lounged around the rooftop pool watching some of the guys swim. eventually fell asleep for a long while. it was so nice with the warm cushioned deck chairs and shade from the umbrella. bad part was when guang decide to flick water at the chairs when i was in lala-land. :(

 cleaning up. and we were signing darli’s long overdue birthday present.

going homeeeeee. later ate with class at taka.

then i met ming and kk while lugging all my stuff cos i haven’t seen them in damn long! watched fantastic mr fox but i guess it wasn’t so fantastic cos i fell asleep in the middle of the movie. or it could be due to a combination of too little sleep and too much walking/jumping around from last night. but the animation was damn cute though, like whimsical and nostalic. somehow it reminds me of my childhood. anw then walked a bit looking at prom dresses for ming and kk, and finally came home. almost died on the mrt. even my flats gave me blisters, plus my calves were aching like just ran 2.4 ten times ontinuously! can’t imagine what professional catwalk model’ll have to go through on a daily basis. then arrived home and cleaned up and here i am now!

hmm shall upload pics on fb tomorrow i guess. kinda sleepy now.