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2007-09-30T21:51:00.000+08:00

Year 3 is pretty slack compared to year 1 and year 2... manz. then again, bathroom project needs time for dreaming, dreaming up the dreambath concept. Guess that leaves me more time to focus my energy on other aspects in life.

I used to wonder if certain things in my life would ever change, things that i wished never started in the first place. Guess now is the time, before everything starts spiralling downwards.

Cryptic, guess only someone can understand!

2007-09-12T10:29:00.000+08:00

Just woke up. In studio now. Yawnz. Sailing later. Rushing my dream bath concepts cos I know I will be to tired to do them tonight. Highlight of the day is talking to dear. We went to the Chinese Garden last Saturday nite and saw a dazzling display of sea creature light installations. We relieved our childhood memories dat day, carrying lanterns, playing with sparklers. Even the trip to China town and Arab street proved nostalgic. Plenty of funky jewellery to see, obsolete items like film rolls, as well as childhood stationery.

My BIGGEST EVER BIRTHDAY PRESENT!

2007-09-03T23:45:00.000+08:00

sleepy now. Dear gave me the most romantic time of my life on my birthday. (No details.) But its no secret who it is.

2007-08-27T22:24:00.000+08:00

secrets. ssshhhhh.

ecofrenly save the earth!!!

2007-08-19T22:03:00.000+08:00

Confirmation today at Wesley Church. Got butterflies in my stomach again when they called my name.

The day before was fun. Had a good time running around with someone. Esp. after dinner, when I wanted to catch the movie on time. Dodging human traffic. Dun try to beat me!

Bourne Ultimatum gave me a eyesore. I was dizzy from trying to make out the different actors amidst the racket that was happening on screen. I was just waiting for the villians to die and the hero to emerge. yay! I guess it would have been better if the laksa in stomach had not been churning so.

Also got another pair of sunglasses. Some things just get hooked on you. At night, I thought a bit of clubbing would be fun. But the atmosphere wasn't there somehow. So just left early.

Spidey Pig!

2007-08-16T23:11:00.000+08:00

Finally some thing about my exchange trip in Sweden! Need to fill in General application form and choose accomodation. Probably gonna buy a bike there and bike around.

Hehe. Comments about me losing weight. good. i wanna stay at 52kg. not freaking 54kg which was prob due to an excess of mac's last sem.

Yay. Babtism today. I was kinda nervous before i entered the pool. The water was pretty warm so dat was great. Forgot to breathe also and some water went up my nostrils. Really grateful for all the support from my small group in Wesley. Love you guys! And Kathlyn, the person who interviewed me for babtism was there too. Can i say i feel "strangely warmed"? hurhurhur. Daddy and mummy were there too. And mum was sick. but she still came! She was not too happy with my small group ppl calling her auntie. Said she feels old. But shes really very young at heart.

Now my new life in God is official. Thanks be to God.

2007-08-04T21:50:00.001+08:00

Guess who we bumped into at the Peak? Too bad i did not buy the Harry Potter books there cos i had no money left. Retailing at 39SGD, they were a steal.

What a spectacular view!

2007-08-04T21:35:00.000+08:00

This sculpture was found in Times Square, a main shopping district in Hong Kong. Doesn't it remind you of Puumba, the hog in Lion King?

Apparently someone had thought of the idea of sitting underneath a fountain before I had. This fountain seating concept was something i thought of for Urban Design last semester. Think mine is nicer. Hehe. The water gushes down the sides in this one, making anyone standing or sitting inside drenched.

Interesting observation tower in Hong Kong park. Looks like it came out from fairy land.

More Hong Kong Photos

2007-08-04T21:25:00.001+08:00

Taken in the Conservatory in Hong Kong Park. A charming house in the background framed with exotic plants.

Friday Nightmare ( i get a kick from describing the nitty gritty of this episode)

2007-08-04T20:15:00.001+08:00

Ok. I decided to go swimming today. Not a bad swim. I actually swam more than 1o laps. Not continuously, but at least there were few rests in between. Then, decided to go to Subway at United Square for lunch. That spelt doom for me. After lunch, my stomach did not feel too good, by night time, i could not sleep because of the churning. At 330 am, I decided to take some light snack in the kitchen since I thought the queasy feeling could be because of gastric, having not eaten dinner. Then, the retching motions of my body told me I should be in the toilet, haha. I never made it there. I transformed into a human merlion, throwing up ALOT of transparent liquid (could be coke light), and brownish remnants with green strands that were probably my Subway Sandwich. I even had puke through my nostrils. Must have been a powerful puke. The worst part was that I had to clean up the excrements. The smell, URGH! But then, I immediately felt a thousand times better. I thought Subway was known for quality bread? Perhaps the chicken teriyaki sandwich i had was teeming with bacteria.

Well, having a slight fever and still slightly queasy, I went to see Dr Chia. I got some medicine to prevent vomiting and to control my fever. Man, the medicine was strong stuff, i knocked out from 12 to 6. After my porridge lunch, every movement felt so hard to make. I felt limbless, drained of all energy. The good news that came out from the visit was that i lost 1kg. I was a FAT 54kg in April. Probably cos of all the nonsense i ate in school due to stress. Now i have dropped to 53kg. That's still fat. I want to be slimmer. 52kg is my target.

Think i wont be going to United Square Subway for sometime.

Hong Kong Trip and Something Unexpected

2007-07-31T23:56:00.000+08:00

So wat happens after hong kong. I thought it would be a restful week. No. it was full of surprises. Expect the unexpected.

monday
cant rem wat i did

tuesday
visit grandma she loved the perfume i bought from Hong Kong.

wednesday
babtism class interview, turned out to be a worship session. interesting thing was that Kathlyn my interviewer was praying for a pianist for her prophetic class and i popped out of the blue. who says God doesnt answer prayer

thursday
watched transformers with Ben. Free ticket=bad seats. Chair rocked backwards when i sat and i kept hitting the persons knee behind me. nevertheless i enjoyed the movie. But they should have just killed megatron while he was in the ice. could have tossed him into a gigantic furnace or something that would melt his metal. better still stuff the Cube into him then.

Sunday
Service as usual with a really funny speaker from Hong Kong. He's a really great story teller cos he makes the bible stories come alive. He was so passionate that he actually teared while giving his sermon. He talked about the prodigal son. Unconditional love of a father that welcomed his son back after his son spurned his fathers wealth. After that went to attend prophetic meeting. I wanted to see what it was like. Here comes the highlight of my holidays. Its even better than the hong kong trip.

EVEN BETTER THAN GOING TO HONG KONG!
So i attended the prophetic meeting. It was really an eye opener. The holy spirit flowed through the people who attended the meeting. When the "exercise" of prophecy came, they took turns to prophesize about each others lives. Sometimes the prophecy would be wrong, as it could be the prophesizing person's own imagination. However there were also accurate prophecies.

Monday
Worship today again on the 2nd day of the prophetic workshop and I had to play the piano, with Kathlyn worship leading. It was a truly amazing experience. God's presence was felt at the very beginning of the worship, like a bang, i felt it and somehow he moved me to play in a way that conveyed the power of his presence. There was this period of free worship where i could see that the worshippers were all carried by his presence, so immersed in worship that it was beautiful. This was the first time that i have felt his presence so strongly.

hong kong photos

2007-07-25T00:24:00.000+08:00

2007 Hong Kong trip in Singlish

2007-07-24T22:31:00.000+08:00

SHOP SHOP SHOP!!! oh my trip in hong kong was delightful, and hilarious right from the start. Dodo bird sotong that i am.

Tuesday

4am: morning call to airport, took cab to Changi. And got off at the wrong terminal thanks to my dodoness. Its supposed to be terminal 1 but got off at T2. aghz. went to find skytrain and found out that it was not operational. then began the fast and rushed run to T1. Jia Hui saying she expected such things from me right from the start. Thank God we were on the plane to HK at 640 and not stuck in sing.

1020am
finally on the airport express. smooth train ride to hong kong central. LED lights for each stop on the train panels. wah hi tec. den dropped off at wan chai mtr and walked with luggage to wesley hotel. The dodo in me forgot that admiralty was the nearer mtr and we spent the entire trip using wan chai exit. walk extra for nothing.

ok so rest of the day at Causeway Bay. HOng Kong is LITTERED with SASAs. Like every 30m theres one shop. We lost our way and used the SaSa make up shops to guide us back to mtr. Times Square had hideous and hilarious sculptures. The Adam and Eve were particulary vulgar. ahem* enlarged body parts.

wednesday
Had egg tart from coffee shop in morning. the custard is really soft. like jelly.
In the morning we went to hong kong park. for me it was to check out the tea gallery there was founded by my ancestor. such famous ancestors! K S Lo. Really weird and cool looking ceramics there. Amazing level of skill required to craft those pots. we checked out the aviary there and also the conservatory. ok. pleasant but not spectacular. saw cute birds in nest. We spent lots of time in xin cheng. This cutesy shopping centre with really dirt cheap buys. hehe. like $3SGD underwear. OH MAN. I spent ALOT in one day. Shocking myself. I bought sooooo many earrings! All so pretty and nice! Met up with relatives at night at a seafood restaurant. 11 people from the extended family from my grandmothers side. interesting relatives i have. good food great view of the hong kong harbour. my aunts are heidi, vivienne and scarlett. Scarlett is 16! Jia Hui and I went back to our hotel pooped! ahaha. We bought a pack of heineken beer the night before. So i drank a can, and knocked out immediately. beer helps one sleep actually but not advisable i guess. dun want to be a girl with a beer belly before im married!!! (or even if im single)

thursday
OCEAN park! ok it was freakin hot and it was freakin crowded. the most interesting things were actually the aquariums. Super gigantic fish. Freaking fish can feed 100 ppl. saw friendly stingray. Attention seekin animal swam near the edge of the pool. Lifting up its fins, as if to say hi there! take a picture of me! Saw pandas. not as yellow as expected. ooh The cable car ride was a mite scary. The height was a bit freaky especially when gg down the wire. the view was great. I tried not to think of the cable car that crashed in lantau while i was in it. The rides werent that hot. The rollercoaster was just one big confusing whirl with no time to catch ones breath. we sat on the pirates ship. Haha the backmost seat so our butts were lifted off the seat everytime we were at the highest point. Disgusting chicken for lunch. Oily skin, dry meat, tasteless. ok the hilarious part was that we spent 25 mins trying to get out of the park. We wanted to take the Raging River, only to find the Q was crazy long. Ok so no log boat ride. So we took the triple escalators up to the top. Only to find out that the shuttle bus was back at the bottom. Oh dear. Its ok. only dat the escalators were extremely slow. at least 4min on one. cant exactly say siam! siam! since there were so many ppl. At long last, we were back at the Wesley, chilling from the heat. then its mong kok again!!! hhee this is when the next dodo thing happened. I thought i bought the wrong bag the day before, having seen 2 different white bags at the store. I wanted the smaller one. So i brought the bag back to the shop. Then, i found out that i could button down the sides to make the bag smaller. bingo! the bag that i wanted! Urghz. The shop lady was amused. ok
One more beer before i went to sleep. Shagged!

Friday
another day of non stop shopping. retail therapy rrrrocks!

Saturday
heidi is so nice! she brought us around causeway bay. shes tall and walks really fast, jia hui and i were practically running to catch up with her. haha. jia hui says she looks like air stewardess, tall and attractive. My extended family also bought for us lao po bing 10 boxes! to distribute to frens and family back here in singapore. My wallet with my visa fell out of my bag while shopping. Thank God Jia Hui saw. A totally awesome trip.

my birthday present is gg to HONG KONG! fully sponsored! ahahaha

2007-07-15T21:31:00.000+08:00

monday
slack

tuesday
wisdom tooth op. (not as painful as imagined)

wednesday
slack and ate porridge finally ate my fav porridge at loy kee. Dat day they were sold out.

thursday
harry potter movie, found it draggy. waiting for book to come out.

friday
friends concert ( very entertaining with the chinese drums and percussion)
hurhur. singapore too small. bumped into someones boyfriend.

Saturday
swimming (tanning)
ate my favourite tom yam gou tiao at toa payoh hdb hub

Sunday
church and packing for hk trip

Oh so happy to get away!

please dun let me into studio until I have enjoyed myself to the max this hols.

2007-07-08T21:40:00.000+08:00

O_O

Night cycling on thurs night was great! 6 of us, wilson tan, wan xuan, luke, sanny, wei zhong, and cycled from East Coast to Sentosa. WAH. A bit tiring, but the butt ache was worse. Learnt dat i have to sit on one side and alternate the butt cheeks. Tried to stand and cycle too, but cant do that for long. Ahhhh. The slopes at Sentosa were so fun, downhill only. Some pple tried to cycle uphill and got jelly legs later. Lucky i just decided to walk up with my bike cos it turned out to be the Wrong Way! I had always wanted to go night cycling and thank God for the great weather. Thanks to Wei Zhong for providing the directions and Sanny for leading us to paths of safety. Main bulk of the crappy funny stuff came from wilson tan as usual. Not that i wanted to be the pink among the blue, but all the gals cant make it for some reason and im not gonna change the date.

Cycling at nite is chilly. Ahhh the sunrise at bedok jetty was beautiful. ruined the morning peace by mentioning that Chang Er flies there.

Hung out with Ren Hui to watch Girl who leapt through time. Nice romantic anime. Though a bit confusing with the time travel. REGRETTED buying a lame shirt. Guess it will become a studio outfit.

Den, Saturday night Zi Gang and Zi Qiang's party. Food was great!!! (Though a tad too meaty on the whole). It was at some Italian restaurant. Hurhur the presents were funny. doctors kit and police cuffs? feels kinky. They even got an Xbox!

ha tmr must go sch clear table. So much trash! my precious ruined protos! Then tuesday got appt with dentist to remove my wisdom teeth. Thats so "exciting".

Always owe ppl $$. Haiz. Ripped a friend of his running comp. prize money. AHAHAHA. But i always pay my debts. (without interest)

Christine Loves my present! The colours really suit her! enjoy your trip in Thailand.

Green tea frapuchhinno from STarbucks is too creamy.

I miss my laptop! someone return to me! But do a good job of your design first.

HONG KONG awaits. yay!!!!!!!

-when you don't understand, when you don't see his plan when you can't trace his hand trust his heart (from Trust His Heart)

RUN!

2007-07-01T22:08:00.001+08:00

Today run 4k at the CitiMILK run. Actually i think only 3k, cos it was super crowded. smell other ppls BO. Aha. But it was very fun. Or maybe cos ming xuan was there to motivate me, instead of crawling with the masses. ahaha. should put him in a comic book with the classic lets go! pose. So it really depends on who i run with i guess. But that makes me a dependent runner!

And I bumped into Claudia for the 3rd time in a row this hols. My goodness, talk about freaky. She was at windsurfing, at my babtism class, and now at the MILK run! And it was not like i had to look hard to find her, she was standing right in front of me in the Q for bags.

I feel happy today! or maybe its just the endorphins giving me a high.

I hope the following week be interesting and full of purpose. And that i would get my body off the bed.

The mind calculates, the spirit yearns, the heart knows.

2007-06-28T19:03:00.000+08:00

Im flying off to Hong Kong from the 17th to 21st of July. So glad to have a change of scenery. Not just the Singapore downtown belt. However, have to endure wisdom tooth surgery on the 10th. AGHZ.

To all my dear friends. !2 midnight is my curfew. Cant stay out later than that cos my mum worries for my health. "u noe by 40 you will look like..." She says im like cinderella, and if i reach home later than that, she might just send a pumpkin to look for me. Ahaha cute.

Night cycling tmr nite. The last week i spent gg out with diff ppl.

Monday
Had babtism class and a super rushed practiced worship. But thank God we pulled through, despite the last minute rehearsal.

Tuesday
Hung out with Ben. Aha quite fun. We went from Vivo to Clarke Quay to China town. And i bought a bling bling TAi TAi watch for ten bucks. It has a phoenix printed on the face. Ben bought some of his toys. (a monkey that dances, he also wanted to buy a clock with birds but it was scratched)

Wednesday
Hung with Jia Hui and Edrick at Toa Payoh swimming pool. Mostly it was Jia Hui teaching him how to swim. Ah she's a patient teacher. I was praying for no misfortunes to befall anyone. (no drowning) But Edrick could float and move forward! A big improvement. After that we decided to go to suntec city to get tube bikini tops for tanning but none appealed. On the way home I picked up A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay. Love their music because its relaxing. Still pining for Rihannas CD though, Good Girl Gone Bad.

Thursday
I spent my day reading Cell by Stephen King. GREAT BOOK! Thats where I got my philosophical title. Its about how cell phones caused the next fall of civilisation. A widespread instantaneous holocaust. Anyone who picks up the cell phone gets fugged up by the signals and becomes a murdering zombie. Another recommended book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. An inspiring tale of how we should follow our dreams. Of how God has a special plan for everyone. Andof how we are often afraid to even pursue them for the fear of failure.

Friday
Night cycling!
I hope it does not rain. My first time some more.