u know when u re getting older when your frens start to all get attached..
and when everyone is talking bout job prospects and application..
and when u re approaching mid-twenties, u suddenly hv alot of wedding invitations..and doom day of thirty is here when your gatherings always end up as a child-care session..
all these stuff tt seems to distant to me in the past..
suddenly, i seem to find myself in this situation.. meeting ups with frens is getting harder and harder.. gotta make more advance bookings nowadays.. now i'm beginning to understand wad mommy says -- tt every best fren of mine is going to have their own life, their own family, spouse and home and u will get to see them less often even if u re still as close as before..
i still see myself as a "gal".. "woman" is such a foreign term to me.. yet, pple re starting to use this term on me and they dont seem awkward about it.. well, admit it gal, u re growing old..
received 2 big news today..
1) a close fren just got attached! sincerely congratulating her and blessing tt everything wont turn out well..
2) bbm got his pay rise and bonus.. hmmm.. although he's not vv happy over it, i tink it's rather good already.. i dont expect to have a pay rise until i work at least 2 yrs in a company.. frankly, i wont be a pharmacist if i want lotsa money.. the finance sector is so so much more lucrative.. but dunno whether it's me being too ideal or smth, i want my work to have a meaning, to make a diff in the lives of others.. at least i would feel tt i've got a more purposeful life so perhaps my life is "richer" in other aspects..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
been going quite alot of wedding dinners and ceremonies within the past yr.. okay, it's 3 in total but that's really alot by my stnd (the grand total of weddings tt i attended in spore for my 1st 21 yrs of life is like 3 at most)..
went furama riverfront yesterday.. and well, it's the least fav one i've attended so far.. i'm not talking bout the pple there since i kinda dun know anyone there.. it's the atmosphere i'm talking bout..
firstly, the ballroom has a horribly low celling.. a "stage" (less than 50cm tall) was placed in the center of the ballroom, and any guy who was walking across the "stage" had to bend low in order not to knock their head into the celling lights on top.. the lights, in my opinion was way way too huge to be placed in that ballroom tt has a really really low celling, i mean it's lower than the celling in my house and seriously i dont think a good interior designer would be done tt sorta designs.. chandeliers re supposed to make the place look grand, not crammed..
secondly, the ballroom is filled with pillars.. so pple sitting on the side tables cant see what was on the stage and pple sitting in the centre cant really see wad's on the projector screens which was on the sides of the ballroom.. haha..
thridly, the aisle for the march in was a mere 5m from the "stage", so the couple had to walk really extra slow and wave their hands like wad politicians do during GE.. it's well.. weird seriously.. no offence to whoever who arranged this but i dont think i'll fancy it when it's my turn..
or simply, this is not an ideal venue to hold a wedding dinner..
and smth else tt i shld rmb.. exclude steam live prawns from the menu, it's simply too troublesome to eat..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
steamboat at jiaen's house on thurs was fantastic.. the best part was tt her parents were not at home and we had the whole house to ourselves to yell, laugh and talk about even the most taboo topics..
left school at 5.30 (wanted to pon pk cls but the "moral compass" (sandra) of the group insisted tt we can pon cls) and went sheng siong to mai3 cai4 for our steamboat party.. bought 2 basket of food and rushed over to jiaen's house since all the little pigs were all so so hungry by 6 plus..
there was so much fun and laughter for the nite tt monika laughed till she hyperventilated and sandra was wheezing from laughter while the rest of us were tearing.. haha.. i always love this sorta girly parties..
there was so much fun and laughter for the nite tt monika laughed till she hyperventilated and sandra was wheezing from laughter while the rest of us were tearing.. haha.. i always love this sorta girly parties..
photo whoring in the kitchen..
yummy yummyz food.. the fish (which none of us knew wad fish was it) was fantastic)
some shots before commencing our buffet..
sandra was our prawn-peeler for the nite, thx so much gal..
from jiaen's wardrobe and a most interesting t-shirt tt i've seen.. how i wish i own it..
p.s. parry's reaction when we told him tt we re having steamboat after class-- "steamboat on thursday".. haha..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream
to kit: okay, i'll attempt to blog a little more regularly..
somehow the sem became alot more laden than i expected it to be.. the initial plan was to simply heck care about all other stuff and simply conc on studies, just to pull my cap up tt tiny bit so i can safely to fyp.. seems like everything did not work well again.. i realised how much i love wasting time.. when i have extra time, i kept "ston-ning" it off and that's totally not helpful.. and so i went back to the hectic routine of working once again.. actually i tink i wont be doing this if not for all the new opportunities opened up to me.. no more simply staying at the door and waiting for the show to end.. now i have a say in how to run the event and i must say it feels good.. and i'm glad i have my own personal coach to guide me as i try, error and learn..
spent more than half my mid sem break working.. okay.. if mid-sem break is composed of 9 days (sun- sun), then i spent a grand total of 5 days working, 2 days on driving and 1 day sleeping, that kinda left 1 day for school work.. somehow i just cant feel the pressing need to mug and this is horrid..
but the intern opportunity really taught me quite some stuff.. now i can truly appreciate all the hard work tt's behind the scene.. it's alot more taxing and complicated that anyone would have imagined it to be.. although these re not must-know knowledge, it's still nice to know.. just like y i'm always watching animal planet or discovery channels..
caught Dim Sum Dollies: In the History of Spore the other day.. i tot i wont like it since i always find comedian musicals rubbish, but i was really wrong.. i actually really enjoyed it.. and i must say the atmosphere in the auditorium was fantastic.. it felt so like well, national day (even if it's no where near national day).. but it's good to see the crowd the spore dollies re drawing.. seems like the arts scene in spore has quite a good outlook.. next up-- Giselle in the Park on 30th march..
from animal planet: 40% of the world's coral would dead by 2010.. i rmb how i studied bout the great barrier reef in my pri sch days.. one of the world wonders.. feeling a bit disturbed by the fact tt one day, another world wonder will disappear from our world just like how most of the ancient world wonders had.. perhaps i'll make the great barrier reef the next travelling destination.. to see it before it disappears.
and i had a most wonderful 22nd bday back in jan..
celebrating bday with my pharmily gals.. all 7 of us in the lt.. how they managed to lit candles and stuff in the middle of lecture and w/o my knowledge at all??
with manda and my bday flowers from you-know-who.. the florist called in the middle of lecture to get me to collect the flowers.. big surprise.. was kinda suspicious though and tot it was a prank call or smth..
my specially ordered mango premium cake from emicakes frm the special someone.. okay.. the special order part is my fav cherries on the mango cake.. haha.. who else will think of adding cherries on mango cake???received the best bday gift i ever had.. it's a tiny muscial castle.. with a ballerina dancing in the middle of the castle as the "Dance of the Sugar Plum fairies" plays.. really love it..
thank you so much for everything..
our trip to minds cafe as bday celebration.. enjoying our pre-game lunch..
here's mindy, who's expert in hooking the monkey to the remaining sticks.. manda (facing the camera) in awe of mindy's skills..
mindy's version of a erm.. lollipop.. somehow onli plin is capable of being in the same frequency..
and our double helical uno stacko tt twist and turns as nucleotides re removed and used to extend the dna chain length.. copyrights of plin, manda, jiaen and me!!
gal power prevails.. it always still feels like i'm in a gals school.. but i love the girly closeness anyway.. thanks gals..jan-feb feels a little too exciting since my bday day was 1 week frm cny and cny 1 week frm vday.. which means tt i litterally had celebrations every week for 3 consecutive weeks.. kinda distracting to studies but well, there re many things tt re worth more than a uni grad cert..
reunion dinner at my distant relatives' place..
we bought the famous peng2 chai4..a hongkong tradition, the prawns, abalone, sea cucumber, roast meat. beg; layers of dishes piled in a huge claypot, many diff layers of complimentary flavours and texture..yummyz..
shanghai style sweet and sour fish by my aunt..
with a nice family photo of everyone before the start of this new year..valentine's day .. .. ..
no expensive fancy gifts or big big bouquets of flowers can compare to my vday gift..
an awfully chocolate cheesecake.. nope.. i dont mean the famous "awfully chocolate" shop.. but a homemade cheesecake tt had quite a bit too much butter and worn the wrong shirt colour (it was supposed to be white and not brown)..
a picture of how it was supposed to look like.. note: white choc button is supposed to be used, but norm choc button was used instead..didn't ate much of it but it was really surprising and touching to have a guy to be willing to bake for you.. i havent even really made a cake from scratch myself.. ... thank you so much my dear bbm..
a little secret of myself: i'm horribly scared of the sea cos the mystery waters below always feels like it's filled with sharks waiting to eat me (this is not a joke.. i really think so despite the fact tt animal planet reminds me so often tt sharks do not see human as prey)
it's cos of this fear tt i never went for OBS or attempted any water sports activity.. everyone thinks it's cos of the sun or smth but i'm never a gal who thinks i'll melt in the sun..
really very very touched for volunteering to help me to overcome my phobia..
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning..Thanks for being the one..
poco princesa~because i was taught to dream