I’m busy trying to upload Christmas photos -_-

But FB is not cooperating.. So I thot I might as well blog abt it as I upload

23rd Dec: Xmas w FS

It was a potluck event at AJ’s house, but no gift exchange dis time.

I’m just very happy to be able to meet up with these precious ppl in my life

**We are more happy and excited than we look. really..**

Just dat Kia’s not very impressed by AJ’s skill of squeezing out the wasabi.

YUCKS.

ALOT of food! and as usual, we din even finish like half of it???

And we talked till 2am

Amazing how different our lives are right now… And AJ’s leaving for Sweden on 13th Jan.

Probably half a year w/o any pri sch gathering coz he’s always the one planning

OH NOOOOoooo….

24th Dec: Mani-Pedi

Free mani pedi from mum’s fren so y not yeah…

Rushed off to do last min shopping… zzz mad christmas crowd.

Too many last min shoppers out there.

24th Dec: Christmas with Poppy

Tried to prepare at top speed, but good thing that Poppy had to drive down to office to do some stuff to his tyres and changed car w his mum, so he took another hr to reach my place (past the planned time).

Which is good, coz I JUST finished preparing then.

A place whr we dun have to get stuck in a jam, wait endlessly for carpark or queue 2 hrs to get a seat.

Quaint little French restaurant…

Extremely nice feeling to have Poppy say grace for us and to say Amen tgt

“We serve the meats red in the middle.”

We love it!

Love the food, too many things to say and compliment, but the dessert was below my expectation

So much of a chocolate fan, I hate Blackforest.

And the 72% Choc Mousse tasted like concentrated Black forest.

The lemon tart was very light and tasty, but far from anything special.

Vanilla ice cream was pretty nice though… coz u can even seen the vanilla bits inside…

Gift exchange!

Sth dat Poppy has laid eyes on for a long long time but din get for himself coz he’s saving for new lens…

I really love the box alot coz it’s full of words and really swt words

Had a happy evening w Poppy… <3

24th Dec: Church Celebration

Rushed to church aft dinner to join in the celebration…

16 of us wanted to cont celebrating so we ended up looking for movies to watch.

Most places were sold out except for….

TIONG BAHRU PLAZA.

Hah! And my last day was the day b4 lah… How coincidental

And we watched Bodyguards and Assassins. A side story abt Sun’s revolution.

Pretty nice show… Very good cast.

25th Dec: Cookies Baking

Spent Christmas day with Poppy, lazing ard, talking to Poppy, watching Clean House marathon, binging on tidbits, talking abt his new Faith and s’more last min shopping -_-

Then we started to bake cookies for his potluck and it took hours man…

And we realised that sth is wrong w our measuring tools

But the cookies were ok lah, prettier, but not as crunchy as the last time…

And aft Poppy sent me home, we sat down to prepare presents for CHAOS.

Christmas gathering w CHAOS was… as usual… chaotic.

We planned for it to be a double surprise whr we told WX we are celebrating Deon’s bday and told deon we’re celebrating WX’s bday.

Glad that everyone was able to made it although… the plan din go on time

And the WAITER who pretty much spoiled our plan for Deon…

“Oh, u guys got a cake? They have a cake inside too!”

*ARGH*

But it still went pretty much like wad we envisioned it to be

We told u it’s sth dat u wanted

CHAOS’ standard way to eat a bday cake…

The result in NEVER pretty (so is the process)…

Anw we sang from 12 to 6pm and went for dinner whr we had our gift exchange

Super yummmy food

We took these photos outside the restaurant and the ppl inside kept looking out -_-

Well… dat’s it for Christmas 09

I had a great time catching up w some lovely people and received alot of nice gifts…

But the greatest gift that I received this year…

Poppy received Christ

I’m sure it’s his greatest gift as well…

And to see so many ppl expressing their joy and excitement when they hear that he is part of the great big family of God

Yeah!

Thank God for coming to Earth for our salvation on that wonderful night 2000 over years ago and giving us the greatest gift on Earth.

Amen…

Went for Sherlock Holmes preview last night with Poppy, XM and WK.

Thx to Jac for the free tix

It din turn out to be anything like wad I rmbed Sherlock Holmes to be when I was young :\

Then again, both Poppy and I think that it’s worth watching even at weekend price. Of coz, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law gave it a +++ J

I forgot abt Downey’s previous show, I rmb he was some superhero, but couldn’t point out who…

Den at the end of the show, Poppy said Iron Man.

Ahhhh…. Yes! That was another awesome show

Xmas shopping with mum ltr tonight. Super tight schedule…  2 hrs to settle everything… might need to shift my mani-pedi session to thurs -_-

Then again, it’s so near to xmas, I definitely won’t mind jostling in the crowd and experience the mad xmas shopping frenzy in town

On a more serious note, results will be out in an hr.

Hmm. Hopefully I will still be in a festive mood aft dat. Zzz…

Had a great weekend!

Church wedding, family gathering, mission trip rehearsal and preparation.

Moments of joy, laughter and blessings

Looking forward to Thursday!

And 20th Dec.

Then I’ll know wad’s ur answer to HIM.

U have no idea how anxious I am…

I have no idea why I’m soooo sleepy today… Can’t seem to keep my eyes open while trying to stare at my comp screen.

I din even join MIX for clubbing last night at Butter I think I’m still not used to waking up so early…

Have to resort to blogging to keep myself awake (and look like I’m busy).

But internship has been a great experience so far More on it when I finally complete it on the 23rd..

**That reminds me… I have to start Christmas shopping soon!**

Been out everyday aft work and reaching home ard 12 every night. That translates to supper supper supper aft dinner dinner dinner. Will start to control my intake soon

Mtg Pops tonight (for more food I guess… I thot of gng Wala for Shirlyn and a drink or 2, but I scared I’ll be zombified the nxt day coz I’ll end up gng home ard 2am), TGIF-ing with CHAOS tmr night, church wedding on Sat aftnn, Xmas celebration with the relatives at night (**note to self: go get Kathy’s present!**), full-dress rehearsal for mission trip on Sunday and maybe a good rest and some home-cooked food at night. Or shopping w mum… haha

Then the next week comes, late night practice for mission trip on Monday, meeting FS for our annual Christmas gathering on tues or wed, leave for Seramban on Thurs morning and a great 3 days indulged in the work for God b4 rushing back on Sat morning for ZQ and Jenny’s ROM

**Now whr can I slot my tuition kids :\ **

Looking forward to Christmas, although I’m not sure what I’ll be dng. But I’ll be AROUND

Seems like Alice in Wonderland is only coming out mid next year

SO LONGGGG~!!

Oh well…

BACK TO WORK

Aft PA on thurs, I practically shut down fr any sch wrk.

Poppy picked me up at sch and we went for lunch at Fei Fei, whr he had his fav wanton mee and I had prawn noodles

Great hawker fare is such awesome comfort food.

Although home-cooked porridge w luncheon meat will be so much better…

But we are more than glad to make do, coz we spent the rest of the day walking ard City Plaza and went to Sitex

Pops bought a Sennheiser earph (the bass and noise cancellation are so fantastic I dun think he can hear me talking to him when he’s listening to it )

And I bought a pretty red samsung harddisk

And we went to JL expo sales and spent like > $50 on tidbits and snacks. zzzZZ.

But most of it was spent on chocs for pop’s mum

den we went home for dinner and out again for 2012!!

I finally got to watched it!

Cant imagine missing such an awesome show lah..

Honestly… what would u have done when u know that the apocalypse is coming in 3 day?

Would u stay with ur family?

Would u try to run away?

Would u sit down and pray?

Would u try to bring more ppl to know God?

Would u stop studying 4 ur last paper?

Hmm…

Poppy’s supposed to be rooting me for my final paper, but he’s snoozing away beside me right now. zzz

Must have been really really tiring aft his 3 conseq days of papers..

I guess I better slp soon and wake up early tmr.. Been unproductive the entire day :X

I’m sure my pom-pom boy will be giving me more support aft a good rest tmr

Johnny Depp’s People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for the second time.

And Robert Pattinson was in the running as well.

To think that some ppl even say Patti got “ripped off” the “sexiest man” title because he SHOULD HAVE won.

PLEASE.

COME ON… just because Patti’s young and all… JD looked even more amazing when he was young… But now… wow..

(ok, both’s shabby, but only one is shabbily sexy)

Now who’s sexy u tell me?

And the sexiest part, Depp’s not even bothered w the title coz he’s always got this “hollywood outsider” vibes to him.

U probly realise he doesn’t do all the cool and good looking heroic kinda shows… he’s all weird and quirky Edward Scissorhand, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Madhatter and Capt. Jack Sparrow.

And he does them realllly well.

How Cool Is Dat?!

**OK. Stop acting like a silly fangirl and go STUDY!!**

Freaky.

Not as lousy as Blair witch, but I still din enjoy it a bit.

Well named though.

Coz there is really no story.

Just Paranormal Activities.

Night after night.

I went to toilet half way thru and the couple at the end of the seats are alrdy slping…

Like really in DEEP slp.

Carol’s so smart to totally skip the movie.

I wld have spent that precious 2 hrs on 2012 or Capitalism.

OR SAW VI.

So freakin tired.

At Dempsey now w poppy
Waiting for a warehs sale to start..
How Atas rite, warehs sale at dempsey haha but I’m not having too high expn on my part.. Pops quite excited tho…
Gng for din date w him ltr happy!
Coz I just completed 1 essay qn for tk hm exam.
So that’s 25% done, 25% more tmr…

Saw this on FB.

It’s Elva and Show again!!

I think they look good tgt

(better den him and Jolin)

Gosh I love her glitter dress and thigh-high black boots!!

And the danceeeeee…

And the way the 2 of them work it.

WOW

Just came home aft spending 2 days away.

Not having fun, but working on proj and studying for my quiz on Monday.

Hons year is real madness.

Can’t believe I took 4 lvl 4 mods.

Anw it’s too late to complain now.

Slept at close to 4am last night and I did an amazing thing today.

I went for Psych Assess seminar at freaking 9am!!

(avg attendance for the class is 40% or less and 1/3 of the ppl who went will leave during the break)

But if Poppy din insist in sending me there, I probly wld not have gone

And he had to wake up at 7am just to send me to sch, spent 3 hrs in CL (1 hr playing fish-a-fish with my niece) and accompanied me to buy a mouse aft dat…

I feel so pampered

And I saw S90 at Challenger today and gave it a test.

IN LOVE~!

It’s retailing at $759.

Half the price of Olympus PEN. And it’s CANON, my most trusted camera brand

And it’s actually v portable, v user-friendly and has a very minimalist, basic-black camera design.

I like I like~~~

Oh and Jed got back his results alrdy

Above 85% for Eng, And above 90% for both Chi & Maths.

I’m going back for 1 final lesson on Wed to give him his 2nd STAR pres and collect my tuition fee b4 concentrating on my own exams.

2 tuitions tmr…

I’m gng back to evo psych now.

**I can only depend on God for the strength to finish 13 chaps in 2 days for my test on mon.**

Last night was presentation for Adv Abnormal.

One of the most happening proj so far, coz we had so much hilarious fun for the whole 2 weeks that we were working on it

Can’t believe we did wad we did for the presentation, but I’m sure it would not have been possible at all if we were not all that enthu… It was quite an experience I must say

And we had a post- CPG celebration supper aft the 9pm lesson at Chomps.

I totally adore CPG

** I’m still thinking if I sld post the video up on the blog…**

Had driving on tues morning as well.

It was my 1st Stage 4 assessment.

Guess how many demerit pts I managed to accumulate?

SIXTYTWO.

Yes 62. haha. damn pathetic lah!

And it’s all the tiny nitzy gritty things like SAFETY CHECKS.

My instructor let me pass coz he thinks I can drive.

But he say I might do better if I try out for F1 than go for my TP test.

I guess I shldn’t tk it as a compliment…

I must admit I’m not the safest driver… Coz I used to negotiate sharp turns at gear 3 and u-turn at gear 2.

Which I think we’re not supposed to do if we have an L plate.

But for my  pre-test assessment today, I took great pains to rmb all the things that I need to do and I was busy turning my head from left to right to left to do all my checks.

I passed!!

Below 18 dp. yeah

So now I’ve completed my final Manual lesson, just have to wait for my 1 Auto lesson on monday and I can book for test!!

I seriously hope I can pass my test 1-shot…

So that I can save time, save money and not have to go to WOODLANDS.

Whatever it is, I really think God for answering all my prayers, for good instructors, safe lessons, good timings and smooth progress

As I returned to the circuit during my final lesson today, I saw a car in front of me with hazard lights on as it moves.

And it reminds me of my 1st lesson slightly more than 1 mth ago, when I dun even noe how to engage my gears and move off.

I met my 1st instructor just b4 I left and I told him I’ve completed my course, he was as excited abt it as me haha

Hope I get to meet all my past instructors as I return for my revision lessons

Poppy came to meet me aft that.

In his sch u!! Coz RE had this little farewell sch-uniform day thing.

I din allow him to change out coz although we were both from the same JC, I’ve nv seen him in SR sch U b4

Yeah… then I realise the new U is SO diff from the old one

**Coz Pop’s mum threw away his old U so he had to buy a new set**

Not that the old sch U was any nicer, but I still din get to see Pops as he was in his JC days. How sad

**they sld just change the freaking TIE, go change the sch U for wad?!**

But I think pops looks like an Ah-Beng in the sch u haha.

Hmmm… wonder if I’d have noticed Pops if we were in the same batch.

Probably not.

HAHA.

Back from MJ’s This Is It.

A good 2 hrs worth of MJ.

All the great behind the scene moments.

So real and yet so far away.

All those familiar tunes, distinct moves, the man himself..

And the concert, the concert of the decade, dat was to be.

If it had happened, I bet it would have been nth but AWESOME.

Because through out the movie we can see MJ requesting nth but perfection from not just the crew, his dancers and his musicians, but also from himself.

But he did so in a very gentle and loving manner.

It’s like if u wanna do sth for him, u will do ur very best not because u’re afraid of him, but because u respect him and do nt want to fall short of his expectations from you.

He’s one of the best, yet he was extremely humble.

He’s the center of attraction, yet he’s always ready to help others shine.

He has almost everything, yet the things he wanted and hoped for were simple things.

Most of all, the clips really lets us see that MJ is BORN to perform.

Every song was sang live, with musicians and vocalists (not CD minus 1), his mic was on every minute, he was moving with every beat.

Yet u nv hear him pant, never out of breath and most of the time, he had his ear plugs out because he wanted to hear the concert like wad the audience will be hearing.

He was all out to give his best.

But as I watched, I felt really sad…

Coz it made wanna watch his actual concert all the more.

But u noe that no matter how much money u pay, no matte whr u go, u can never see it live.

I can only imagine what are the emotions of the ppl he had been working with for the concert when they watch these clips.

Esp his 11 principal dancers.

And he still looks so gorgeous in the Smooth Criminal mv that they made for the show…

If only I have my own car.

And a license.

Then I can wake up 1 hr later.

And reach there in 12 mins.

Or skip all the ERPs and reach there in 20.

And not have to carry my dance shoes, dance clothes, laptop, school bag, while dressed in office attire.

And be sweating like mad.

And reach sch in 10 mins aft dat coz it’s so freaking along the way.

Now I have to take one hr to go there, one hr to get to sch aft dat. Yay.

WTH.

Stop whining and stop sounding like a weakling.

I really shld just be thankful for this opportunity.

Rarr. Jalan Bukit Ho Swee  -_-

Went Rebel on Wed night to celebrate JM’s birthday.

Been more than half a yr since I clubbed.

Was at the verge of falling aslp at the 12am mark, but managed to survive and get high at the dance floor aft 1am.

Kinda miss dance

Left the club when the light comes on at 4am.

Music was good towards the end, but the DJ b4 dat was cuter.

Gorgeous actually

And his maroon leather jacket. OMG.

Here’s some narssistic shots, the rest are up on FB.

Dammit. no photo of cute DJ

**Yeah I’m getting new lift~~ But b4 dat, ugly backgrounds and hell lot of noise -_- **

Right now, I’m just looking forward to Chaos’ ladies’ night outing on Friday

But b4 dat…

Psych Assess PAPER

Back to my busy schedule and trying to complete one last term paper for this sem.

What seems like the easiest is actually the toughest

**Stay focus Stay focus*

And all the tests and papers have made me delay quite a few readings alrdy… if I dun catch up, I’ll be in deep trouble for the exams -_-

But time to do so seems even more scarce now that Jed’s having his exams soon and I gotta give him an additional 2 hrs each week.

And the preparations for the 2 remaining presentations.

Gosh.

I better whip myself back on track…

Has been perpetually tired for the past week… No early nights seem to have any recuperative effects. Not that I have many of those anw.

Been having 4-5 hrs sleep for the past week and I dun think it’s going to get any better in the recent weeks to come.

Even though driving has been fun and my instructors have been really entertaining, it’s really quite a draining task.

Was so tired on fri dat I almost din go fo bible study.

But so glad we managed to make it there in the end

It was like an instant recharge of energy, a breath of fresh air and an immediate lifting of weariness.

Nth is beyond God’s power Yeah!

We were so happy and uplifted aft BS that we went for an  imprompt movie date

Caught Julie and Julia

A sweet movie, a motivational movie, but mostly a FOODIE MOVIE!

It’s based on 2 true stories.  1 abt Julia Childs, the writer of a French cookbook for Americans, and the other abt Julie, who has never been too persistent on goals that she have set for herself, have not achieved much in her life, but decided to give herself a challenge to try out all 536 recipies in Julia’s book w/in a year, documenting the whole process in her blog.

Here’s the actual blog of Julie Powell, just like the one they showed in the movie!

http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html

Well.. It wasn’t an amazing show so-to-speak…  In fact, ppl were leaving near the end of the show and Meryl Streep’s voice gets increasingly irritating as the show goes on for a good 2hr and 3 mins.

BUT I guess both me and Poppy liked it well enough Food! What could be better??

And inspired by the show, Pops cooked this special Italian dish for me today:

Bread and Tomato Soup

Yums. But I’m hoping for sth more meaty nxt time

Anw I went for a hair cut to trim away the portion of my hair that’s splitting up like nobody’s business.

And now my hair is 3 inches shorter and I accidently got bangs again. zzZZ

I wanted new fringe coz my prev hairstylist cut it too wispy and I want it thick again, so I showed this new stylist a random picture I saw on Cleo and ta-da: BANGS. He says I need to grow it out to see the effects I want.

He even helped me to curl my hair temporarily coz he thot that I’d look good in curls, but washed it off aft my shower So much for his efforts haha

And I got new colour too! Not dat u can see form the picture….

Used the new bubble-foaming dye by Liese.

Not bad!

Quite fool-proof I think… But Pops still helped me to apply

Hair not as smooth as using Somang , and colour not so bright, but colour seemed more even.

Oh man… din seem to do much work today

And I’m feeling ssleepy again zzzZZz.

Maybe I shld slp… Like now…