i watched nancy drew by myself while my sis and my mom walked around in town a few days ago..

the experience was pleasant :) i give the show 3 out of 5 stars..actually 2.75, but let's round it up shall we??? hehe...

i was a small fan of nancy drew when i was 13-14 years old. that was why i wanted to watch it.

i remember wanting to collect the entire series of nancy drew books...the "teenage" ones...ended up only buying 3...and they are all gone now, they were given away....

and emma roberts really resembles julia roberts! her acting was not fantastic but i could imagine an 11 year old girl admiring her and wanting to be like her (both emma roberts and nancy drew in the movie)

i'm essentially nerdy. and so when i saw nancy drew all prim and proper, handing in those fantastic assignments (basically, doing well in school), i went "wow!" in my heart...hahaha...

p.s.: i'm trying to find out the difference between geeky and nerdy..are they the same???

p.p.s : i got myself this really cute turtle "handphone hanging thingy", really cute mushroom and a bigger version of the turtle...they are so cute...couldn't resist!!!! it really feels good to satisfy and pacify your inner child ;)









The last book i read before i went on my jolly holiday in Sydney was The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O' Farrell. i give it 3 stars out of 5.

I don't get the ending. I read it 3 times and I still don't get it.

Did she try to kill her sister or not??? Did her sister die??? What happened???













So after coming back from Sydney i found that my appetite for food grew tremendously...not exactly sure why but i have a feeling it's the serving portions in aussie...i miss Sydney~!

anyway, when i came back i bought myself a jar of nutella, why? because it's been a long time since i had it and they were advertising it in aussie...

i ate the whole jar as if it were ice-cream...i did not use it as a spread!! and so i grew fattttt!

i finished the jar in 4 days...

i'm craving for another one now...but the way i eat it is not healthy...i will grow fatter...no no no!!!




So Friday night was Makan Mania--two buses brought some people around Singapore to eat...

Here's what i ate at the 4 stops we went to:

first stop: Bedok Interchange
-- Sugar Cane drink and nibbled on carrot cake and some fried potato?
second stop: Old Airport Road
-- Pasta Manna's meatball pasta and one chicken wing
third stop: Liang Seah Street
-- Sesame Paste!
fourth stop: Geylang
-- beancurd and you tiao

i was super full!!! i'm still thinking about the Sesame Paste...mm mmmmmm~...yummy!!!

When a person looks good, does it mean he/she feels good?

Nope. I think not.

I was thinking about this the past few days...i was struggling with some fashion issues...having problems dressing myself...trying to find out what "me" really is...and how to fit myself into some of my clothes ...and my mind wandered to the ever so popular topic of models or women starving themselves to "look good".

For the sake of this post, the concept of "look good" will mean slim, model figure, celebrity-like, think supermodels...

ok so we go around calling this and that person "slim" "good-looking" "fashionable" "beautiful" all the positive adjectives u can think of pertaining to looks BUT have you ever considered if that person you are referring to actually feels good?

would you rather be on a perpetual "hunger strike" and constantly feel hungry or would you rather eat and feel sustained?

This may sound cheesy and cliche BUT it is an undeniable fact, "we live only once." And are we going to purposefully go hungry for the rest of our waking lives just for the sake of this world-made idea of what a "good-looking" person is and how he or she should look like??

This post was not written as an excuse for me to gorge myself with every kind of food i so happen to feel like eating any time during the day....cos, there is also the issue of obesity.

yeah i'm back here now, again, i'm keeping my xanga site up, maybe i'll keep that just for photos...

let me explain why i'm back here..it's all about the links (links to my frens' blogs)

i just could not find a way to link or change the template in xanga...and also i wrote a very long entry and xanga lost it...

so i'm back here...

yep :) so sad..no smileys here haiz..

but dun u just love this blogskin??? i love it!! i love the city and i love the country for short periods of time...haha...i can stay in the city FOREVER!!!!




erm...blog migrating to www.xanga.com/usernametakenalready

this blog's gonna stay no matter what...and i'll come back just in case i can't get used to xanga...

Edit: err...no this blog is not gonna stay "no matter what" i'll decide to take it down one day but it'll stay up for archival purposes...for now...

















Ermmmmmm....i just went over to mrbrown's blog and got myself a huge laugh...

i still can't believe not everyone in Singapore knows who Steven Lim is...eewww. i don't even wish to say his name...but i have to...if not, how am i going to continue with my story??...

a while back when celestine, andrea and i were walking down the streets of orchard...we chanced upon Steven Lim approaching a lady....i told andrea and celestine, "he's at it again..." and both of them ignored me at first and then later on asked if i said something....then i said..."haiz...steven lim..approaching another victim..." both of them looked at me blankly and told me they did not know who he was and then i went on and said, "what??!!! you don't know him???!!! you din watch singapore idol???!!!" (i'm laughing at myself now, was singapore idol that important???lol...) anyway they both said no...and celestine said, "oh...we were wondering why you were talking to yourself"...and i said, "no! i thought i was talking to you!" haha..funny right?

anyway..me being kaypoh, i went to the link mrbrown provided to that site steven lim made for his "modeling agency"...eew...

this explains what i saw that day when i was out shopping with adeline at paragon...i saw steven lim talking to one lady and the lady actually looked like she was providing him with some information about herself!!!

anyway if u go to his "model and talents" site and see the backgrounds of the pics he took of the various "models" it might interest you to know most of them i think are from a/various wall/walls in paragon!!! yeah i noticed...

i think both my sister and i were approached by him three times each on various occasions to have our eyebrows plucked by him...all because we needed to get into tangs...one time, i actually witnessed him plucking a girl's eyebrow there at a corner!!!---oh how i cringed!!!

i think he has since migrated to the paragon vicinity (think that was where andrea, celestine and i saw him--outside paragon)...girls and apparently guys (judging from the website) please BEWARE!!!!

mrbrown's post on him and Steven Lim's "model and talents" website---eeewwwww!!!!




I think this post is overdue, anyhow here goes...

My grades for last semester came in late last week...the "confirmed" grades....it wasn't confirmed before because there was a grade for one subject that was still pending (remember that dumb boo boo the school made?)

ok...i started last semester feeling dejected, low, depressed, whatever...cos my GPA fell from that minimum standard i had set for myself...my school has this GPA calculator that allows us to plug in pseudo grades so that we can gauge how our final GPA might turn out...and i kept plugging in the grades i thought i might be able to get and well..the results always left me disappointed...so much so that i even entertained the thought of repeating accounting II so that i can pull my GPA up ( i HATE accounting)...

I studied the best way i knew how...and prayed and surrendered everything to the lord...there were times during the semester when i would feel really lazy...and when the grades for some tests weren't all that pleasing...i would repent of my laziness and pray for the lord's help...sometimes i would feel as if i was trapped in this vicious cycle...procrastinating and then repenting...work a lil'...procrastinate and then repent again...even the day before the exams i could not say i was 100% ready...or i did the best i could...

it's such a miracle...and truly by the grace of God that i got the grades i got...i am extremely happy and satisfied with my grades...my GPA improved!!! i'm still in the running for one of those honors i want...

i think without the lord's mercy, direction and wisdom i would have lost the battle...i asked the lord to show me the areas to concentrate on and He did..He really came true for me...i would converse with the lord constantly, before the exams and ask specifically for Him to show me the areas in which to focus on and He did...and i prayed before taking every paper.

This may seem a lil' difficult for some of my non-christian friends to understand...but the lord really did help...He is my rock and my strength...all i had to do was say "lord take-over" and i would feel some of that heavy weight being lifted off my shoulders...

That being said...please don't misunderstand what i'm trying to say...and think God is some magic genie...

would i still thank the lord even if my grades did not turn out the way it did? well it would be hard...but i would...'cos there is a reason and there's a lesson...He has a great plan for me..tho' i know not yet what....but slowly and surely I trust and have faith that He will reveal it to me...




i have no fancy photoshop, or other kinds of photo editing software...just this collage creator thingy...to spew a lil' creativity...






i'm feeling really lousy i'm not able to sleep or fall into sleep when i really ought to sleep and when i really need the sleep ...

help????!!!!!!!!!





Here are the latest two tees i got from the recent threadless sale:







I'm not sure if i can ever reiterate this enough. the internet is just fabulous!!! i just got one of my problems solved through the internet again...

here's wad happened,

recently, like 2 months or so ago...i accidentally made all my icons on my desktop appear highlighted...there's this blue background over all of them...wad an eyesore it was...and so i changed the background to the same color as the color the icons were highlighted in...i.e. blue...

i've tried many ways on my own to fix the problem...but to no avail...then just now..i thought i should just google and see if i can find help...and how elated i was when i found out that there were people out there who experienced the same thing..i searched through all the answers/solutions and fixed the problem...ahhh~...my desktop looks so much nicer now...

the internet is simply fantastic!!! i love it...

i use it to while away my time...
i use it to get resources for my assignments...
i use it to find information about stupid brainless topics that pop into my head from time to time...
i use it to find information about things i'm seriously interested about...
i use it to find people i would otherwise have lost total contact with...
i use it to express my thoughts on things that don't really matter...
i use it to talk to my friends...
etc...i basically use it a lot!!

i thank God for providing wisdom to the people who invented the internet...my life has definitely been made more convenient...

i thank God for GOOGLE!!!

like they say, " dunno? just google it." haha...









i'm actually feeling guilty for having so much fun while my friends in school are slogging their butts off...i look at the long list of nicks on my msn list...and almost all of them have something to say about schoolwork and how mgm 403 is killing them softly...hahaha...oh man i feel bad for laughing too...blast! ermz... my heart goes out to you guys tho'...keep ur chins up guys! i'm sure u guys will survive...

i'm leaving for sydney on flyday!! can't hardly wait!!!!!!!! whee!!!!!!!!!

i have a lil' less than a month to soak myself deeper in fun! school starts on the 2nd of July for me...man...i can feel it coming...really...i smell..long lessons...and many assignments...and tests...and exams....*shivers*
















Nah...just kidding..more like from afternoon to night...it was a long day...but fellowship was fantastic!




p.s.: those curry puffs were great! *slurp*