Filed under: daily, rambling | Tags: family, funny, grandma, mom, money, shopping
anyway in the weekend i resolved to wake up at 9.30am to do work. buuuuut it never worked out. the earliest i did was like 11am. which is so early omg. that was on saturday because i have math tution at 12.30.
so anyway today i watched terminator 2018. is that what’s it’s called? i mean the one with christian bale in it. hmm i prefered dark knight. he was more buff there HAHA. no i kid. it’s just that i never got the whole paradox time loop thingy…. i just… didn’t. ohoh and i watched charlie’s angels full throttle on channel 5 too. i must’ve watched it at least 3 times cos it always shows on tv. anyway the highlight of the movie was when i saw shia labeouf with his ginger afro ‘do. he looked so young then! heh
anyway i did a bit of cosmetics (not makeup) shopping today. i bought shampoo from asience, balmers’ body butter, some veet cream and facial wash from vichy. oh and i bought the watson’s card and a caramel mocchiatto (is that how you spell it). anyway the total was a whopping $70 dollars. wow. and to think i wanted to buy slippers too.
speaking of slippers, my grandma is damn angry at me because she says i keep buying shoes. she says i have enough shoes to open a shoe shop. well she says that for everything; i have too many bottles (like creams and lotions) so she says i can open a beauty shop, one time she claimed i had too many bras so she said i could open a lingerie shop, then i have too many pens also cannot, must also open stationery shop. so anyway when i left for northpoint i mentioned in passing that i wanted to buy a pair of slippers (because my old black pair broke… and i don’t have any other slippers without heels) and she was like NOOO!!! literally shouting at me:
“SO MANY SHOES STILL WANNA BUY SHOES”
“no but waipuo i don’t have slippers!!”
“you have so many pairs of slippers you still wanna buy slippers huh! i take out and show you all your shoes! can open shoe shop already!”
“yeah yeah ok fine i’ll see when i come back” *leaves house in hurry to avoid further conflict*
so lo and behold when i came back she took out all my shoes and lined them up at the shoe cabinet. ok, i admit i was kinda shocked because i didn’t think she was serious. and also because i saw them all lined up side-by-side for once, and it stretched the whole length of cabinets. buuut well i mean i don’t really have that many pairs of shoes… i counted, it was only 15 pairs (excluding sneakers and trainers) my parents say i’m turing into imelda macros but hey, at least i don’t spend a fortune on ONE pair of shoes. and she has 2000 (or is it 4000) pairs of shoes and all of them are either louboutins or manolo blanik or whatever super extravagant brands!! all of mine are cheap stuff. and they don’t cost that much in total anyway.
when ever i buy clothes or bags or shoes or whatever i have to sneak them into my room and hide them… and lie about their prices. if not my grandma will freak. “$30???(when it’s actually $60) SO EXPENSIVE???? do you know that’s 150 dollars in renmingbi!!! lol i can imagine her voice now.
oh wellos. there’s physics remedial tomorrow so i have to go school. =_= can you see the eyebags under my eyes already.
Filed under: daily, reflective, videos | Tags: brother, dad, exams, family, life, mom, money, music, school
the weekend’s been really productive. hopefully i’ll be able to retain all that info though! seems to be a stretch but hopefully it happens. and my goal for the prelims is to get at least a 6 in all HLs and 7 for chem and 6 for physics. i got 5 for chinese a2 but since we’ve gotten the score for our written papers for ib back already and have already submitted the ias, i hope i get a 7!
suddenly i have this real urge to go study in the uk, just seems like such a great place to be. even though i know it’s selfish because it’s sooo expensive and i should just remain in singapore and go to nus (because well, given the job climate now if i do get into law in the uk i’ll probably stay there after i graduate). well but my long term goal is to buy my parents a house by the seaside (lol mom i know you’re reading this) and then pay for my bro’s uni tuition fees so i guess anywhere’s fine as long as i get a job. cus you know, confucius ranks high on my list of life’s philosophies (after maybe say… uhhh)
haha. i know right? and if i have enough money left i’ll save up for my wedding. HAHA!
but since i’m so bad at saving i’ll prolly be a perpetually poor student even after i graduate. boohoo.
and i’m spamming a lot of indie music in my itunes recently. idk the stuff they sing about’s catchy and laid-back at the same time. and it’s cute how a lot of indie bands name themselves with the article “the” at the start of their names:the red jumpsuit apparatus (hmm is that an indie band?), the crib, the pigeon detectives, the ramones, the scientists… aaaaand this band called the kooks whose music i really like recently!
this song’s pretty good, and i used to be really crazy over their song ‘naive’, except then i didn’t really know which band played it. except half the time i can’t understand the lyrics, hm. maybe sometimes things are made to be appreciated, not to be understood.
p.s. this is random, but i’m suddenly craving that sweet, white and thick chinese hot dessert. rahhh
didn’t have time to update yesterday:
actually, today i thought i was ponning school because i had really bad cramps in the morning and didnt’t want to get out of bed. and it so happens that today the music/art/computer science people were still having their papers. and i only realised this when pam called by around 2 to ask me to go shopping. haha, i am total fail at remembering holidays. we decided to go to square 2, which was pretty deserted, imo. anyway pictures speak more than a thousand words.
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- haha i look so tall next to pam. the fact that i wore heels didn’t help either
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- we saw this really exqusite bento and dessert set at a toy shop
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- more tiny food
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- we shared a bowl of yummy korean spicy ricecake!
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- the other packet of nice-looking rice cake
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- this really really really pretty pair of gladiator-style heels in a metallic lavender colour from charles and keith that i really really liked but was out in my size :(:(:(:(
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- a close-up of the front
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- what i had for dinner: grapefruit and fish porridge!
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- actually it’s the first time in my life that i’ve eaten a whole, fresh grapefruit haha
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- fish “porridge”. which was just a bowl of rice dumped in a bowl of soup. nice
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- a pretty notebook i saw at artfriend@taka. i needed one for my fashion scrapbook, but i ended getting one with recyled brown paper (waxed). love the contrast! will upload pics of my scrapbook soon :)
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- a painting of lotuses that was located in a art gallery opposite artfriend. looking at it, i have an urge to paint :(
i bought a instant cupcake from the korean supermarket. basically you just need to beat an egg and pour it into the cup, add the brown flour/sugar/yeast mix and the chocolate chip mix, and microwave it on high for 1 min 20 sec. i was expecting something with a high-top and with a fluffy texture, but was sorely disappointed. :( pictures request from pam (lol don’t be too disappointed)
the mix
the final product: tasted okay, but was dry-ish
today was the last of the horrible midyears, yayyyy!!! i’m really happy that the whole nightmare is over – hopefully i don’t too badly and the deans won’t make me drop anything (urghhhhhhh econs plehh)
anyway after school i met up with kk at orchard mrt for a movie! however the funny girl got her phone confiscated (because she bust her phone bill using the net, harhar) so i had no idea how to contact her if i couldn’t find her… thankfully we did though, and went to cine. i had kfc, and saw a lot of cj people and a lot of couples. haha then kk and i digressed a bit bemoaning our single status. so basically we watched ‘wanted’, which has angelina jolie in it and the male lead, whose name i found out; james mcavoy.
in short, it’s about this loser called wesley (mcavoy) who one day is accosted by fox (jolie), who saves him from a supposed murderer called cross. she tells him that his anxiety attacks aren’t what they think they are, and that they are actually surges of adrenalin going to his brain under extreme stress, enabling his heart to beat at 400 bpm and see everything in slo-mo a la the Matrix. then she enlists him into the fellowship of assassins and trains him to kill cross, who also happened to kill his father. and the fellowship uses this shenanigan called the ‘loom of fate’ which weaves a fabric that you can – get this, decipher using binary numbers to form the name of the person “fate” wants killed. in the end, there is always the predictable twist in the story… the ending was quite funny though! there’s like this reference to the earlier part of the movie, and it ends with mcavoy addressing the audience.
on the whole, wanted is basically one gigantic spoof of the martix actually, imo, from the jumping-on-moving-trains to the-camera-following-the-bullet-busting-through-the-victims’-brains. hmmm it’s quite gory, and at certain parts i couldn’t bear to watch i covered by face with my pull-over… ): like there was this part that really made me jump out of my seat.
best part of the movie:
yummmmy heehee. such eyecandy. he was voted as one of the sexiest men alive 2007! however angelina jolie is getting old; her wrinkles are pretty obvious in all the closeups. ): booo and i think she looks better when she’s more voluptuous cos she’s wayy too thin now; makes her look older and frail.
after the movie, we were window shopping and happened to pop into newurbanmale. haha, kk saw a little miss miserable hoodie that she said suited her. we were talking about some relationship problems, and shopkeeper a came, heard and flirted with kk. as you know, all the num shopkeepers are all hunky+hot+cute+flirty, he was all smiley and stuff. kk seemed to be quite taken with him, but i was tired so i sat down, which happened to be eye-level at his………………… wedding ring. haha TOHKINCHENG FLIRTED WITH A MARRIED MAN. not on purpose i’m sure, i don’t think she knew until i told her after that. he was was showing her shirts that said “there are things that look better in you mouth than that cigerette” and other such flirty things… i don’t really talk openly to strangers, so not as prone to such things haha. but okay la, i admit, he’s quite cute. (he reminded me of a puppy)
i bought a magazine and some facial wash today, but mysteriously 50 bucks seemed to have flown away ): darrrrn why am i such a spendthrift. i seem to have holes in my purse. sigh this means i am left with $2 for the whole of next month, again.
love ya girl! see you on friday :D
