Amsterdam - All that was taken has been lost!

I'm so bloody hell damn sad now! Wails! All the photos that I've snapped on my camera has been formatted away! Boo Hoo hoo!!! I'm so messed up now. £"$"$%"£$

Thinking that I've backed up my photos onto my desktop, I went to reformat my memory card to clear space for more photos in my coming trip to Germany the very next day. Normally I won't have done the formatting until I'm sure I've gotten my stuffs backed up. But this time, think I'm tired out from the straining overnight journey back home from Amsterdam that my mind must have been in space and I didn't realise what I was doing. (too much weed smoking maybe? HA) Imagine getting off the bus for the customs check 3 times flat in the cold wee morning hours!!! Noisy passengers and cramp seat through out 12 hours or more! What's worse, I've gotta get to work right after arriving in the coach station in the morning. Squeezing into the tube with the rush hour crowds with my baggages. :(

ARGH!!!! I just can't believe that this happened! My lovely photos of me in Amsterdam! The wooden clogs, the windmills, the fishing villages, the trams, the building, the canal boat ride, the people, the Heineken Brewery! ALL GONE! Boo Hoo HOoO!!! I'm so inconsolable now! I want my photos back!!! Sobs! Wails! ARGH!!!!

Anyway Amsterdam was nice apart from the fact of my deleted photos, we had a great time. Ate a lot of free cheese in Holland. :) But I'm still very sad now that I want to cry it all out! All the frustration just engulfs me up. Sobs. Miserable! I want to go back to Amsterdam again to get back what I've lost! It's lovely there. :(

The Land of Madame Tussauds

Brother in London

My brother flew over from Singapore to London for a visit on the 25th Nov. He's gonna be here for a near month long holiday in the UK and Europe. I can't say winter's the best time to be here for such a long holiday as it's freezing cold and short day lights. But this is the only long time he could get away for such a long holiday, so guess we might as well just make do with that for now.

Pity I didn't have much leaves left to show him around London as much as I would like to. So the first few days (he arrived on a Friday late morning), I tortured him and made him walk like mad and tire him out. *grins* On his arrival day, I brought him to the main areas of the city - Borough Market, Tate Modern (Art Museum) , Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Sq, Soho (China Town), Piccadilly Circus. And for his first weekend, we went to Portebello (Flea) Market, Camden Town and Madame Tussauds. We even went to the Tower of London. Gee... That's really some kinda holiday isn't it? Poor brother of mine. Haha... But there's still so much more in London that he has yet to see - there's London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Spitalfields (Flea) Market, etc.! And there's isn't much days/time left since every weekend we'll be away in some parts of Europe for our holiday. And I have to work. Bummer. But to date, he's managed to get the some other museums - V&A, Science Museum, Natural History - on his own (while I'm at work). Hope he's having fun, apart from the icy winter and frosty fingers from the cold.

And for the first time in the 6 months here, I actually got down to trying to cook some RICE on my own for our meals. Haha... Also attempted whipping up more oriental chinese style meals for our dinner (otherwise I normally settle for salad, sandwiches, potatoes or pasta at home). Straining/tiring but fun to eat what I cooked and it gets better with practise. Haha! Now I know how hard it is for Mums to plan and cook dinners.

This coming weekend we're gonna be in Amsterdam, then Nuremberg, Germany the week after followed by Barcelona next. Woo Hoo!! It's gonna be fun and hell tiring. Can't wait!

Blackpool, Lancashire

After being in London for near 6 months, I decided that I'm missing the beach big time. Hence a mini weekend get away by the beach in Blackpool I went (19th - 20th Nov). The weekend I was so looking forward to didn't turn out a great one afterall. First, I nearly missed catching my train to Blackpool due to failed tube signals in London. Second, a friend whom I was suppose to meet there played me out bloody hell big time. Cursed and swear. #@£*% There I was left to take in the sights of the pretty beach on my own in the freaking cold. Third, I decided to change my route back to London earlier on Sunday. I decided to opt travelling via Manchester Piccadilly to London at Preston, instead of from Preston direct to London. However the train before mine had failed and had to be pull off the track, thus causing delay again. Bummer. And that was not all! Forth, the train I was to embark at Manchester Piccadilly had faults too. Caught a glimsp of Manchester though, it seem like a nice city for a short weekend visit next time. Anyway I ended up reaching home past midnight, much later than I was suppose to have been. I was so darn tired. Gee, tell me about the word lucky again please. I guess that's UK for you. Get use to it. Not everything can be trusted. Ha.

Oh well, all else is not fail, I managed to have an alright time in Blackpool. Had a nice time sitting by and walking along the beach on both days. I love the beach. Being away from home had taken away the lovely beach from me which I've so taken for granted. So there I sat watching the beautiful dusk, witnessing the round red ball of fire slowly disappearing beneath the sea. Hell beautiful and hell freezing cold. Ha, darn, I left my gloves in my hotel room. Anyway I couldn't help smiling at the sight, the sky was so pretty, amazing red and purple. :)

When I get home next year, I'm definately gonna head to the beach! I'm gonna drag my friends with me to the beaches, parks, coast! I'm gonna sit on the swings in the park! Yay! I can't wait! Gotta get back to Sentosa with the vball guys for our beach games! Getting hit by the volleyball, splashing and dunking each other in the sea. Woopie! And yep, I'm definately gonna get me blades and go blading for hours and hours by the coast. Get ready for some blading sprinting when I'm back! No Blades No Angela! Woo la la!

Okay, back to Blackpool. I decided to head up the Blackpool Tower. Why not since I'm there since I might not get back there again. It was there that I gotten to befriend a fellow asian who's from Malaysia, my first random friend gotten known off the streets. Guess travelling alone can be pretty fun. Pity the clear blue sky was grey and misty when we were up in the tower. Nevertheless the view was magnificent. Then we both went about the rest of the day walking by the beach and helping each other snap pictures of ourselves. I think - apart from the time I spend watching TV and sleeping in my hotel room - I've spent 70% of my time in Blackpool by the beach. Lovely. Being able to hear the waves gentle movements soothes and calms me. I just love the beach!

Now I've been to the beaches in Brighton and Blackpool, I can't wait for my brother to come visit. We're gonna get to Barcelona in December. Yay! Another beach! Heard it's lovely there. May it hold true in the winter December. At least I have someone to share the lovely beach with once more. Wonder which beach after next?

Color Quiz Test Results

Angela's Existing Situation

Works well in cooperation with others but is disinclined to take the leading role. Needs a personal life of mutual understanding and freedom from discord.

Angela's Stress Sources

Wants to overcome a feeling of emptiness and of separation from others. Believes that life still has far more to offer and that she may miss her share of experiences if she fails to make the best use of every opportunity. She therefore pursues her objectives with a fierce intensity and commits herself deeply and readily. Feels herself to be completely competent in any field in which she engages, and can sometimes be considered by others to be interfering or meddlesome.

Angela's Restrained Characteristics

Egocentric and therefore quick to take offense. Able to achieve satisfaction through sexual activity but tends to hold aloof emotionally. -- HAHAHAHAHA Laughing My Arse Off!

Angela's Desired Objective

Needs recognition. Ambitious, wants to impress and be looked up to, to be both popular and admired. Seeks to bridge the gap which she feels separates her from others.

Angela's Actual Problem

Afraid that she may be prevented from achieving the things she wants and therefore demands that others should recognize her right to them.

Angela's Actual Problem #2

Strongly resists outside influence and any interference with her freedom to make her own decisions and plans. Works to establish and strengthen her own position.

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Pictcha!

Some more pictcha montages brought to you by me!
Will try to keep more of em' coming in, so stay tune!
A pictcha speaks a thousand words!

Phantom of the Opera with Trixy, 17th September

Thames River Festival with Trixy, 18th September

London Design Festival with Priska, 25th September

{Spans from 15th to 30th September}

Brighton with Yang Yang, 22nd - 24th October

Housemates, Colleagues and their Friends in the 6 months
That's not all!

Random blabbering

It's been a really long time since I last blog in here. I'm starting to fade away from my blog. I've started to detach myself away that I'm starting to feel numb to all around me. Hmm. I'm even starting to sound nonsensical.

Yes, it's been a long time I've been away from home, it's my 6th month here in London. For the first time in my life, I've never been living away from my family and friends for so long! Though we still try to keep in contact through msn or emails, the feeling's never right. We are still thousand miles apart. Nothing's gonna change that. I can't say I don't totally enjoy being here, working and meeting new people and learning new stuffs about the world out there. Somehow home will always get to you, especially when all the fun goes to bed and loneliness ties you down. Heh.

Many things happen in the past 6 months. I'm really glad that I'm here and for the umteen times I can't believe I'm actually here. Man! So what is my point?! Heh

Weather's turning colder. It's really a test to my coldness endurance. Let's see who wins, the winter or I. We'll wait and see, the coldest day is yet to come! Always a good reason to shop for new warm clothes. I really worry for my little luggage. How am I gonna bring back the load I already have brought and bought. If I do really come back to the UK again next year, be sure to remind me just to bring an empty luggage so I can buy all the pretty outfits here and not worry I won't have no space in me baggage. Yeah!

This is really random blabbering. Cause? Too long of no constant blogging. Heh.

You know what, I like talking to myself when I'm alone walking on the streets. No, not streets filled with people, that's gonna make me weird. Just thinking aloud while I'm walking alone in a deserted street, like on my way home from the tube station. Shhh, don't go telling others about my queer habit.

Though I now have all the freedom in the world away from home, it's never ever gonna beat the freedom I dearly enjoy when I'm blading out in the parks back home. The taste of freedom in the wind brushing against your bare skin. Think that's the best feeling in the world - freedom! Blading along with the wind blowing against your face, I simply love that feeling. I love being by the beach or coast too, looking at the waves hitting against the shore or rocks. It soothes and calms and heals you. I just can't wait to go to the beach! I just can't wait to be blading again! Pray I do not fall and hurt myself and get all those nasty scars. Heh. I'm gonna go sit by the beach all day long! Looking out in the the vastness and think aloud! Yeah! Heh.

Mind ya the wind can be nasty here when it's winter. Yes, I've made claims that I love the wind blowing into my face, but this? We'll see what I have to say again once I had enough of the chills against me pretty face. Heh.

Scotland and Nottinghill Carnival

August has been a pretty good if not broke month for me. It’s supposed to be summer and I’m glad I did something about it!

Together with a friend, Edward, and his brother, Edwin - I call them the Ed Brothers - we went to Scotland for 5 days from the 22nd August. It had been a pretty last minute holiday planning. This is my first backpacking experience ever. Living in a backpackers hostel, sleeping in a mixed dorm for my stay in Edinburgh. A pretty interesting experience, sharing a room with so many people from around the world. Managed to catch a little chat with one of them, a girl from California. Not much luck with the rest as they aren’t in the room most of the time, if not asleep (and vice versa).

On the 2nd day we took a day trip up to Glencoe, the Highlands and Loch Ness. It’s really very lovely with the mountains, castles and Lochs. So much greens about. Ah yesh! Pity I couldn’t spot Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. Oh well. On the forth day, we made a quick short trip to Glasgow, spending a couple of hours there. The Scottish accent was really strong in Glasgow. There’s wasn’t really much there, it felt more like London as compared to Edinbugrh. But I do love The Lighthouse, Glasgow, one of Europe's largest architecture, design centres and exhibition spaces. Makes me wanna design! Hahaha…Very inspirational indeed.


Edinburgh was lovely, but much much colder than in London, especially when the strong wind blows. The first day was lovely weather, the remaining were showery and grey, and occasionally sunny. We went there for the Edinburgh Festival, the buskering on the High Street drawing crowds all about. We hopped from one busker to the other. It really reminds me of the Buskers Festival we have back home every November. It’s very vibrant, with people on the streets trying to promote their plays and stuffs. We caught comedies, dance, theater play, and orchestra. Awesome! It’s really arty and cool, loved the festival! A must do for those who want to visit Scotland in August. The Scots have such great sense of humour too.

Then it was back to London once more. It was bank Holiday on 29th August, Monday. There’s a Notting Hill Carnival on the 28th and 29th. Lucky for me and Trixy, we have a friend, Nok, just living in Notting Hill area where her place overlooks part of the carnival. The sunny Notting Hill streets were packed with hot crowds, loads of people, Jamaican,/Brazilian food and music! Woah! People were dancing and eating and drinking in the streets. We have to push our way about the crowds. Pity I’d forgotten to bring my main memory card for my camera, if not I could have captured more of the festive carnival.

Oxford, Oxfordshire

Finally after a near 3 months in London, I made a trip out of London last Saturday with Trixy and some friends. Yay!!! Not too far out, but Oxford was a nice little town. We started the Saturday morning visiting the City Center, walking about admiring the magnificent views of Oxford. Did you know that they shot Harry Potter at some of the locations in Oxford?? We visited the Universities and churches and gardens, pity we have to pay to get in for most which we didnt. But we paid to get up this tower and had a nice time snapping photos from above. Tsk tsk... The weather was great in the morning, however it started turning grey and rained in the afternoon. That was a killer but it didn't daunt our spirits. :)

a month into London

It's a near month I'm in London since 24th May. "Do you miss home?" Some people/friends I met here and back home that I talked to online were asking me when I was barely in London for long.

Now a month into London, so what's it about that I'm missing from home? Family and friends excluded.

1. Radio Stations & Music Variety - There's alot more black music here, not that I have anything against them. They are nice.
2. My PC & broadband! - I miss stoning in front of my PC in the wee hours doing nothing! Hahaha!
3. Shopping - It's so much cheaper back home!!!!
4. Authentic Asian Food - I MISS nasi padang!!!! Pineapple rice!!! Some chinese food here don't even taste nor look chinese!!
5. MRT & SBS/buses - I miss the aircon and speed. It's stuffy in the transport here when the weather gets hot. It's much cheaper back home too!!!
6. Fruits - Much cheaper! So much more! I want my papaya!
7. Bed & Pillows & Bloaster - I MISS my baby bloaster!

Ah, but there must be stuffs here that I'm enjoying and liking!

1. Cherries & Strawberries - It's their season!! Much cheaper too! YUMMY!!!
2. Pastry, Cakes, Cookies, Desserts! - Simply heaven! Yummylicious! Wide choices! I simply LOVE the carrort cake at one of the cafe at Sloane Square!!!
3. Marks & Spencer - LOVE it though not cheap! The food! The sandwiches! Best!
4. Fashion - Dress as you like! So much more shops, varieties, choices! So much much more! Men here dress up more too! Cool~
5. People - All sorts: weird, funny, scary, cute, charming, cool, interesting, shocking, rude, good, etc. Different mixtures, more than Singapore!
6. MTVs - Yeah and certain shows too, like Will & Grace, SATC, both sexually hilarious.
7. Supermarkets & Sandwiches - Too many choices!
8. SALES/Shopping - Only time when things cost cheaper : sales!
9. (Flea) Markets, Museums, Parks - Awesome! I'm fascinated by Richmond Park.
10. Stockings & Boots - Good for the cooler weather. Woo lala! I'm gonna wear those!

So there you go! I dare say I'm still having a great time here, other than the darn HOT weather otherwise perfect. Gimme a few more months before asking me once more. *Grinz*

Hello from London!

I still can't believe that I'm actually on London ground!! I'm into my 2nd day here already. It's end of spring, but still pretty cold. Can't tell much yet since I've only got here yesterday noon. For the past month in Singapore, life had been really hectic, projects to complete, friends to meet, gatherings to go, stuffs to get and pack, blah blah blah, the list goes on. I was kept busy awake all night till my flight timing in the morning! I didn't had one last chance to sleep on my bed before I flew. That crept on me when I was on the plane. Pity pity. *Chuckles* Oh well...

London's 7 hours behind Singapore. It's morning here now. I woke up pretty early. The sky's already bright and felt like I've slept past the noon. Hahaha... it gets dark here late too. At 9 - 10pm, it's still pretty bright. Cool! But I doubt I'll enjoy winter as much when it comes. Brrrrrrr...

I landed at 12.15pm yesterday. By the time i got out of the customs, it's an hour later. And I had to try get my almost 30kg worth of baggages to my friend's place from the Heathrow Airport right up to Tooting Broadway Station. Phew! And I tell ya, it ain't easy alright! Stairs to climb and tubes to hop on and off. Good thing the peeps here are pretty helpful when I needed some help with my load. By the time I managed to get me and my baggaes in safe pieces to Tooting Broadway, it's already 3pm. Woo hoo~ What a way to go! It wasn't until near 4pm that I met up with my friend for he had something going on and couldn't come sooner. So I stood by the tube entrance looking at the locals, wooo yeah. I really need to get used to living in London. Too many cute guys about for my eyes to feast on. *chuckles*

So I spent my first day getting familiar with my friend's neighbourhood. Then hop on to some busses and tubes and went exploring about for a bit. *Yawns* Pretty tiring since I didn't sleep much on the plane, I tried hard to keep awake in the tubes. I like taking the bus rides. There's more you can see about as compared to the tubes.

Think I'm gonna go get a local number later if possible and some travel passes and get my ass moving about the central London. Hope to see something cheap, maybe like a good winter wear, at the flea marts later if I find one. Haha!

Welcome to London!

Broken Pieces... Pieces of Me...

It's been a month since me last blog entry. And to think that I ain't got much good news with what I'm about to blog.

I broke my BIG, precious, mirror this morning when I was looking into it. Haha, well, it's not that I'm so ugly that it stunned the mirror and broke it. More like the opposite, too stunned by my beauty. Ha! To think I can still joke about this now. Don't ya just love me to pieces? Haha...

It was almost as tall as I. Wider than I. Easily weighing a few kilograms. Richly brown broad frame with a thin golden lining. Handsome, grand sight. Costing a few hundred bucks. Thick mirror within the pretty frame. Now broken into pieces. Sigh. How clumsy of me to have brought it to such an unglory end. Dead broken. Shattered. Just like my heart. *giggles* Well at least I have the outer frame in its perfect one piece. Perhaps I'll use that to frame a nice piece of art work if any, or I can frame in another new mirror? But I do wonder if a broken mirror bids any bad omen? If there is, I rather not know. Besides that's [the bad omen] not really freaking me out, I'm somewhat feeling indifferent. But it pains my heart that I broke my mirror, now I wont have one to look into every day. Hmm, but my computer seems to be having some probs again. YES! AGAIN! Never ending again! Sigh. To add on to that, I'm behind schdule due to this and many other things that I shan't list. Talking about bad omen eh? Bah! I still ain't freaked out yet! Don't prove me wrong I tell ya!

So how on earth did I break such a BIG mirror? Well, I was resting the mirror against my cupboard. [I didnt had a place to hang my mirror up, so I place it on the floor against my cupboad] Next I was opening another cupboard beside that cupboard [Yes! I have quite a number of cupboards. Vainity]. The cupboard door sorta hit against the side of my mirror, and before I could stop it from sliding off, it hit onto the floor and *PANG* there you go. Ho ho ho... I saw many me in the mirror. Hey that reminds me of a song, Pieces of Me, by Ashlee Simpson

which I kinda like.

Pieces Of Me

On a Monday, I am waiting
Tuesday, I am fading
And by Wednesday, I can't sleep
Then the phone rings, I hear you
And the darkness is a clear view
Cuz you've come to rescue me

Fall... With you, I fall so fast
I can hardly catch my breath, I hope it lasts

[Chorus:]
Ohhhhh
It seems like I can finally rest my head on something real
I like the way that feels
Ohhhhh
It's as if you know me better than I ever knew myself
I love how you can tell
All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me
All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me

I am moody, messy
I get restless, and it's senseless
How you never seem to care

When I'm angry, you listen
Make me happy it's a mission
And you won't stop til I'm there

Fall... Sometimes I fall so fast
When I hit that bottom
Crash, you're all I have

[Chorus:]
Ohhhhh
It seems like I can finally rest my head on something real
I like the way that feels
Ohhhhh
It's as if you known me better than I ever knew myself
I love how you can tell
All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me

How do you know everything I'm about to say?
Am I that obvious?
And if it's written on my face...
I hope it never goes away... yeah

On a Monday, I am waiting
And by Tuesday, I am fading into your arms...
So I can breathe

[Chorus:]
Ohhhhh
It seems like I can finally rest my head on something real
I like the way that feels
Ohhhhh
It's as if you've know me better than I ever knew myself
I love how you can tell
Ohhhhh
I love how you can tell
Ohhhhh
I love how you can tell
All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me
All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me...

MVP - Mitral Valve Prolapse

What is the mitral valve?
The mitral valve controls the flow of blood between two chambers (or "rooms") of your heart, called the left atrium and the left ventricle. Normally, blood flows only from the atrium to the ventricle. When the heart relaxes in between beats, the two flaps of the mitral valve swing open to let blood flow from the atrium to the ventricle. The flaps normally open only one way.


What is mitral valve prolapse?
If you have mitral valve prolapse, the flaps of the valve don't work well. One of the flaps moves back into the atrium when the heart beats. This can let blood flow from the ventricle back into the atrium.

About 1 in 20 Americans has mitral valve prolapse. People are usually born with it. More women have it than men.

How do I know that I have mitral valve prolapse?
Sometimes people with mitral valve prolapse have symptoms that go along with this condition. Here are some of these symptoms:

• Feeling like your heart is racing or is skipping beats
  
• Chest pain that comes now and then
  
• Shortness of breath
  
• Dizziness
  
• Anxiety or panic

Your doctor can find mitral valve prolapse during a regular exam. When listening to your heart with a stethoscope, your doctor may hear a clicking sound. The flap makes the click. If blood is flowing back into the atrium, your doctor will hear a "whooshing" sound. This sound is called a murmur.

To find out how well your valve is working, your doctor may have you get an echocardiogram. The echocardiogram is a special picture of your heart that shows your valve as the blood flows through it. This can help your doctor decide if you need treatment.

How is mitral valve prolapse treated?
Most people with mitral valve prolapse don't need any treatment. In fact, this condition usually has no effect on your health. About 2 of every 100 people with this condition have complications. If your valve is too leaky or if you are having lots of symptoms you may need surgery to fix the valve. You may also have to limit your participation in competitive sports. Ask your doctor if you are in this group.

If your mitral valve prolapse causes chest pain or other symptoms, your doctor might prescribe medicines such as beta blockers to make your symptoms better.

Some people get an infection in the leaky valve when they have surgery or dental work. You might need to take antibiotics before surgery or dental work to prevent this infection. Remind your dentists and doctors that you have mitral valve prolapse so that you can get a prescription for antibiotics before you have surgery or dental work.

Source
familydoctor.org/598.xml

Other Links
www.mvprolapse.com/mvp.html
www.tmc.edu/thi/mvp.html
www.ctds.info/mvp1.html
www.physsportsmed.com/issues/1996/07_96/joy.htm
www.ilovejesus.com/myhome/mcpeg7/MitralValveProlapse.shtml

A birthday just like any other day

First and foremost, I would like to wish myself a very simple, sweet Happy 24th Birthday!

I just wanna celebrate, or rather spend it like any other normal day. I don't feel anything special about this particular day. The sun still rises in the east, and sets in the west, birds still sings and we still breathe.

Since morning, there had been the usual birthday greetings from friends who cared and remembered. I wanna thank you all. Thank you my lovely friends! Sorry if I never replied, for I just ain't in a right state of mood these days. Peace and solitude are what I wished for the time being. But amongst all those sms, there was one which touched me dearly, bringing me near to tears. It reads,"happy birthday 2 my dearest daughter si han fr papa". That was the first ever b-day sms I received from my dad. Just last night I had a little petty argument with my dad, I ended up giving him the cold shoulder and stop talking to him for my ego and pride has got the better of me.

Nevermind about that. Just now I bought a cake, which is to be shared with my family later tonight at home. Dark Chocolate Truffle. Layers of soft chocolate sponge sandwiched between rich chocolate moussee, topped with a layer of dark cocoa powder. Simply a chocolate-lover's delight! I wanted to get a small one of 500grams, but they were sold out. Even the bigger cake hadn't any left. I ended up getting a smaller heart-shaped cake. Cute. It's the thoughts that count, right? Hmm, seems like there must be many others who have their birthdays today too, for it's strange to see such little amount of cakes left from the shop I bought mine at. I wonder who could they be...

Hmm... maybe I should go learn how to bake some really swell cakes and open a shop or cafe and sell 'em. Cool! Swell! I wonder on...

This aint the actual cake though

sick and moody

I can't breathe properly. I'm having difficulty. It's taking double the effort just to breathe. Am I sick? Yes, hell yes! But it's not feeling normal like that. Why am I having such a hard time trying to get some oxygen into my lungs? I desperately need some air! Is this how it's supose to feel like when one's attack by flu/cold & cough?

I seem to be falling prey to sickness pretty often in the past months. Dang! I don't like that. The weather has been rather cranky lately, just like I. It's been raining pretty often lately. The air-con at work has been freezing cold too. Yet when it's not raining, the weather outside can get really hot and humid and yucky. Thinking about it makes me fury and again I desperately try gasping for some fresh air. Cold like a freezer in the office, hot and scorching outside like some dessert (when it ain't raining). Cold, hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold cold cold.... no wonder it makes me sick! The extremes makes me unwell. (Will I be able to survive the weather out there in UK, London?) And my temper seems to be just so. I'm easily worked up these days. Getting pissed off and offended darn easily. What's gotten into me man? I couldn't possibly blame it all on the weather eh. Menopause? Neh, impossible! I'm just but nearly halfway into my mid 20's.

What on earth is happening to me?! I'm behaving like some old hag. Or some nasty hound, come near me and I'll bite your hands off!

Sick and moody since last week. Then friends blew a monthly gathering I had tried to plan for the past weekend when I had been pretty caught up with work. Worse thing to have happened, my computer died down on me again last week. Argh!!!! $%#@# Next, I was suppose to have a nice dinner celebration with my folks and bro, to celebrate my parents' wedding anniversary and my b-day. My bro didn't finish his homework, so he stayed home. Mum was pretty pissed off that day, and I ended up pissed off too after she suggested I get take-aways from the hawker. So there you go, my parents went out for their dinner while I and my bro eat take-aways. Pissed pissed pissed!!!!

To add on to my irritation, that jerk [someone whom I don't wish to remember] just kept calling me for the past month. I chose to ignore and not answer. The sound of his voice plus his immaturity will only ill me further. Next he chose to irritate the shit out of me by sending some stupid sms & mms. It pisses me so damn much when one doesn't know when it's time to stop such childish acts. May he rot and go to hell!

Anyway I might be changing my number soon since there's been some change of plans for me at this point of time in life. So heck care that jerk, why should I let his stupid presense affect my mood? *hrmp* May he die a painful death!

21 Reminders

ONE:	Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO:	Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE:	Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR:	When you say, "I love you," mean it.
FIVE:	When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.
SIX:	Be engaged at least six months before you get married......
SEVEN:	Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT:	Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE:	Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN:	In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN:	Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE:	Talk slowly but think quickly.
THIRTEEN:	When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
FOURTEEN:	Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN:	Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN:	When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
SEVENTEEN:	Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN:	Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN:	When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY:	Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY-ONE:	Spend some time alone.

Earthquake!

It was some time about 12.30am. Suddenly I felt myself swaying slightly non-stop from left to right to left to right... Kinda weird. Was I hallucinating? Imagining things? Before that I went for a jog ( after many years of not jogging). I kinda surprised myself for being able to jog 4 rounds straight then another 2 more after walking for a round. Was this swaying feeling the after effects from jogging? This never happened before [think so]. I was really swaying. From what a colleague told me about her mini earthquake experience in Taiwan, I'm suspecting Singapore might be experiencing some earthquake tremors.

I was chatting online with Lisi. I asked if she felt any tremors since she lived pretty near my area. She said no and was shocked by what I told her. Haha... Some time later she told me that her friend sms her saying tremors were felt in parts of Singapore, namely the eastern side. Mine's more in the north east side. Another friend of mine who's living even closer to me than Lisi, said he didn't felt any tremors at all. How queer. Was it just me or what, man? Tsk tsk... this's my first EARTHQUAKE experience! Woo hoo hoo~ Cool! Hey! Wait a minute, why am I being so happy about this? Haha!

But bless us all from harm of the earthquake. It aint a nice thing if something disasterous was to happen to us small Singapore, a lil red dot on the map.

Life is about choices

I'm so sick of myself. Forever being fickle minded and being so indecisive.

To go to the UK or stay in Singapore?

triple birthdays

How could I ever forget his BIRTHDAY!? :) Hmm, make it a "their".. tsk tsk~

It so happens that it's not only one, but three guy's birthdays today! Namely, JJ (a local singer whom I adore), Smith (a friend), and Victor (Syndy's boyfriend). Anymore out there who are born in the 27th March too? Hee.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS !!!


And to help celebrate their birthdays, we the Fab4 and my Godsis gathered at Lisi's place today WITHOUT those 3 guys. Haha, yep you didn't read this wrongly. We gals celebrated their b'days WITHOUT em! Ho ho ho...

WHY? That's 'cos:
1] JJ don't even know us but we know him
2] Smith's probably celebrating with his girlfriend and we havent caught up with him ages ago.
3] Victor's in Canada. Too far away to surprise with a knock on the door. *chuckles*

Anyway back to the "celebration". Syndy baked chocolate cake with chocolate chips and rasins (what an interesting mix), I had some left over oreo cheesecake from the night before, Lisi made some sago pudding. Yum yum! Boy, I really really need to watch what I'm eating! We all ended up playing with our hair next. We locked ourselves in Lisi's room, playing and trying on different kinda curls on one another's hair with Peilin's (my Godsis) hair curler. Then we all went crazy and totally mad over heels with our curls, you can hear those cams go snap snap snap. Vain bitches! Ha ha ha! You don't call girls girls for nothing. Imagine guys doing that? Gee~ Lemme know if you know any who does such stuffs, I wanna hang out with them! *Grinz*

Monthly Gathering - March

I woke up in the morning feeling drowsy. I wanna head back to dreamland again. It's the weekend, but I never seem able to pig in bed for long. It always seem that I have stuffs going on during the weekend, requiring me to be up in the morning. It's the time of the month again. The monthly gathering of my bunch of Secondary School mates. We are gonna have a pot luck at Shufen's place. I'm making sandwiches.

Took me an hour and a half to complete my masterpiece. Egg sandwich and ham & cheese sandwich. I sliced away those crusts. I stuffed 'em full and sliced 'em into 4s. Then I poked 'em right through. 4 cute little triangles pierced with 'lil wooden toothpicks.

Egg Sandwich:
1st slice of bread - butter + cheese spread + mashed egg
2nd slice of bread - butter + cheese spread + mashed egg + lettuce
3rd slice of bread - goes on top of the 1st 2 slices. Viola~

Ham & Cheese Sandwich:
1st slice of bread - butter + cheese spread + ham + cheese
2nd slice of bread - butter + jam + ham + lettuce
3rd slice of bread - goes on top of the 1st 2 slices. Viola~

Yummy~ Think my sandwiches taste good! Not great but good! Woo! Heh heh...

Here's what the other gals brought:
1] Bee - Hotdogs rolled in bacon
2] Dawn - Nachos and sourcream dip
3] Meizhi - Potato salad
4] Peilin - Agar agar with mixed fruits
5] Shufen - Oreo cheesecake (her friend made it. WOW! Awesome! Simply delicious! If only I know how too. Big money Big money! Haha)
6] Shufen's mum - Fried you tiao, fried bee hoon, fried chicken wings (wow! great mum!)

We ate, we ate, and we ate! Talking about food now is starting to make me feel hungry. Anyway, there we were eating as we watched 2 funny movies, White Chicks & Kung Fu Hustle. White Chicks was darn hilarious! Those 2 "chicks" were great man! Hell yeah! Hahahaha!!! Next we played UNO stacko. Then we chated and each had a go with Peilin's hair curler. Great fun, but a pity some of the gals had to leave early after the movies. So far for our monthly gathering, we've been meeting up for food. Next month it's gonna be my turn to organise. I'm gonna make sure we do some sports for the next gathering. Just we wait. *Sinister laughters*

Mahsuri Bin Mohamad Kamal

Mahsuri tried suckling my left breast as his head touches against my body. I didn't felt it, not till I witness it with my own pair of eyes after the people around me cried out in amusement. Now, now, now, what were you peeps thinking?! My clothes were on of course. There, don't ya get all excited upon reading these words. Ha ha ha.. things ain't what it sounds like.

Mahsuri's the most adorable little newborn I ever carried. He's barely a month old. Awwww.... he's such a sweetheart, I'm melting already. His baby instinct of milk searching was on when I carried him from his mother's hands. *giggles* I was told he does that to males too. How cute eh.

So there I was, along with my ex-colleagues, gathering at my ex-boss's place to celebrate his son's one-month into life. I love carrying babies, they are just the sweetiest little beings on earth and they always smell great. Ahhh, they're so small, so soft, so chubby, so smooth, not to mention "fragile", handle with care please. They're so peaceful and quiet too, that is when they're not sobbing. Then again, I can't stand chiildren when they start knowing how to talk and walk. That's where all the noise and terror begins. I'm always contradicting myself. Oh well...

Jazz by the beach

Clad in tank top, shorts, and plaited hair on both sides (like some China doll), I walking hand-in-hand with Syndy down the Geylang district with Trixy and Flo. They suddenly transformed into my bodyguards for the night. Behold! The bodayguards of Skimpy Angela. Tsk tsk... Geylang, known not only for being a red light district, but also one for its many stall of delicious food. Trixy caught sight of an old man checking out on my bottoms and legs. So darn disgusting! Such cheap feeling.. Hmm.. wait a minute, ain't this entry suppose to be about jazz by the beach? You might be thinking. Yep, it sure is. I'll get to it.

The Jazz performance by the beach started at 6pm, it wasn't until eight-ish that we [Syndy, Lisi, Trixy, Flo, Barnaby and I] got to our destination in Sentosa. We laid out the beach cloths on the spiky grass patch. All of us in high spirits, enjoying one another's lovely company, swaying along to the fantastic jazz. Chill, chill, chill! Light sea breeze, chilled beer and drinks, mumbling chatters. Perfect relaxation. It was a pity the performance ended at 9 plus. Our spirits weren't daunted though. We went on what may be our last monorail ride about the Sentosa Island. Heard that they will be closing down the slow monorail rides for good on this Island, awww. Anyway we just got to do this again sometime soon, I meant the Jazz by the Beach. It's only gonna be held for a few more Saturdays.

After getting back to the "mainland", we decided that the night was still young and wanted to grab a light bite at Geylang while Lisi and Barnaby head on back home. Darn, I shouldn't have worn my (skimpy) beach attire if I had known earlier. Felt kinda awkward as we walked along the streets of Geylang. Felt many pairs of roving eyes fixed onto me, judging me or something like I was some prostitute or call gal. Eeek! But I couldn't be bothered. I had my bodyguards with me. Haha.. Gee~ Nevertheless it's been a pretty interesting night in Geylang. Supper was great. Jazz too.

P.S. Thank you guys for being my "bodyguard" for the night, protecting me against those roving wolves. Ah WoOOoOo!!! Hahaha...

Green is all around

It started to pour again. Thank heaven I got to work without the help of an umbrella. Rainy weathers sure make a nice time for sipping coffee.

*Sips* Ahhh..... Awesome. Slowly sipping my cup of pipping hot 3-in-1 coffee, relaxing on my big office chair, safe from the rain in the cold room. I can hear the rain pattering on the window. Tiny droplets of rain falling rapidly outside. Guess it's a good time to chill and take a break before starting a day's of hard work on such a lovely morning. Tsk tsk... A nice, big, soft bed would fit nicely into the picture too. Hahahaa...

I'm using the cup Lisi gave me for my post-x'mas gift. It's got cats printed on it; green cat, green spotted cat, orange striped cat with cute lil blue mice on the handle. Green I would say dominates. Meow~

Remembered once I told a friend, "Loving GREEN doesn't necessary means owning lotsa green clothes and stuffs." Seems like I've prove that wrong, for now at least. I'm sipping coffee from a green cup, wearing a green top not only today but yesterday too. Recently bought 2 more green tops. I got a new turquoise-ish greenish shoe which I simply adore. It's like a knitted lacy pair. I'm waiting for a chance to wear the pair to work, don't wanna dirty the fabric on a wet weather. Hmm, perhaps I could wear the other new green top tomorrow. Haha.... Even my umbrella is green! Gosh! Green all about! And I do get green with jealousy easily. Is that a trait for green lovers? Tsk tsk...

Oh well, the rain has stopped, the sun's smiling, my cup's empty, the coffee break's done. That's it for now. Time to stop this blog and get back to reality. Work!

slip me on...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Step right up! Step right up! Over here!
Come take a look at our selection of the coolest Havaianas Slippers!
VOTES! Come vote for the slipper of your choice! Cast your votes!

Hmm, I'm torn between which pair to get. So peeps, any votes? I tried on choice number 5, and kinda like it. Due to time constrain, I didn't get to try on the other designs.

Roses for the ladies

I'm gonna keep this short and simple.

As you know it's the V-day today. It was really swell of the guys from my department in the office to get us girls a stalk of rose each. :) No wonder they disappeared right after we all had lunch together, only to emerge back into the office with a rose each for my other female colleague and I in the room. Awww.. really sweet. My first rose for the year. A sweet pink rose. ^_^

Had a nice simple dinner with Boon Siong [my Lao Ba] after work. We had dinner at Boat Quay's Big Porridge [think that's what it's called]. We both had noodles instead of porridge. I'm not much of a porridge person. Haha... And so we both chilled and chatted about quite some stuffs about guys and girls. Pretty interesting topics being discussed.

Happy Valentine's Day

14th Feb. It's that time of the year again. And as usual, I'm alone. But I'm not fretting about it. It's nice being alone still. Gee~

Was watching a Japanese anime earlier on in the eve [of Sunday]. Here's what I caught from the anime which I found pretty suitable for me current mood. Tsk Tsk...


"But if the one for me... falls in love with me...
that is when I have to part with the one for me.

Still, I want to meet the one for me.
I think that as I walk through the empty town."

Born to Race

It had been a very fun day today. I went to the Escape Theme Park at Downtown East Pasir Ris with 2 other friends. We gotten in for FREE! Yippy! Hee... A pity one of them wasn't a dare devil like me and the other. Tsk tsk.. So she spent most of the time watching us go on the rides. But we all had our share of fun, especially on the Go-Kart. Think we all must have raced a minimun of 6 times on those tracks. Woo Hoo Hoo!!! Hell loads of fun! At least this one was so much nicer and faster than the one in Genting. Brooooom Brooom! Speeding was great! I won't get a ticket for this. Hiak hiak! The feeling of overtaking the person in front of you was great! Woo Hoo! I came in first a few times! Go-kart was the best!

We went on the bumper boat too, whereby each of us gotta try hit each other's boat while squirting, shooting water into one aother's boat and faces. Ha ha ha! That was really fun too! *splish splash*

Guess these were my two most fav rides in the theme park then :)

Shitty New Year

It's the eve of Chinese New Year. I should be happy, for I'm able to get red packets soon. Instead, I'm feeling so darn pissed off with myself. Or rather so darn sad and disappointed in myself. Gee, what a way to start my first blog for 2005 [Yes, first blog after so long].

Just last week, something happened to my computer. The taskbar suddenly went cranky and thinking it would be alright to restart the computer to rid of that crankiness, I went ahead with it. Hell, what a big mistake it was. I killed my computer. It went dead. Argh! Stupid me, I should have quickly backed up all my files since I already sensed something wasn't quite right weeks before this murder! That's the lesson for being lazy.

Thought that with a new computer and files copied over from the old drives, my data will be saved. But ho ho ho! Hell no! I was such a fool! Wonder if it's really due to a virus? Data's Gone! All gone! The data in my C drive all gone! Shitty! Sucky! Argh!!!! Why? GRrRrrr!!!!! If only I had done something, like backing up my data constantly. Yeah yeah yeah, it's always an "If only I this.. If only I that... If only.." Ya dah ya dah dah dah argh!

*sulks* Yeah, it's no point crying over spilt milk. It's all my doing. Hope my cousin might be able to help me do something about this lost data bit. If only he would pick up his phone.

*sigh* imagine all my working files of my website and freelance and designs, murdered! And my photos too! All killed! Blood has been shed, a great battle lost! My soilder of data all dropped dead and vanished into thin air! What's maddening is I can't seem to type Chinese text in my new com. How queer!

Think I'm gonna try contact my cousin again... hmm no answer again~ Lalalalala... Im just so fucked!