12:03 AM
Friday, March 31, 2006
I am so pissed!
Bloody uncles and aunties who are never too greedy and too rude when it comes to money. It's not even my money, yet I am so pissed already. Grrrr.
Always thought that family tie is a very strong bond... Well now I know that money could easily overpower all those.
Anyway, Jack found a place in Clementi. And (I think) it's very cheapppp... A fully-furnished room for two with a bathroom attached to it. Free electricity and free phone. All goes for $450 per month. Unless she found a better place, we'd very likely live there.
Oh and yesterday I went to Gramedia with Mom. I bought a lot of Agatha Christie, all feature Poirot. I realize I looooveeee detective stories. Recently what I do is only reading and re-reading Poirot, Sherlock, Conan and Keaton. After that, the whole family went to Hanamasa. This is supposedly a well-established Japanese restaurant here for quite sometime already, but this visit were our maiden. Turns out that, it's so not Japanese at all (except for the doorgirl who war kimono). It's more like Seoul Garden. Taste OK, price OK, atmosphere OK.
Okay.. til next time!
8:45 PM
Thursday, March 16, 2006
back in surabaya!
8 day of shopping didn't feel taxing when i was doing it, but when i got home n had my post-flight nap.. i felt most lazy to get up coz my whole body ached and was painful and was tired! i turned 20 and realized i was old. sigh.
anyway ppl.. finally after 4 years.. i know that singapore is a cheap place to shop for branded stuff. at least compared to surabaya. bought a pair of charles&keith nice nice nice ethnic slippers for 1/3 of its price here. my mom was so happy to find this out that she bought 2 pair of sandals, 2 wallets, 1 party bag.... and the list goes on.
what a long time for the realization to hit me. rugi besar...
anw. bangkok was ok. it's about as dirty and shanty as indo... prolly a bit worse than jakarta and a bit better than surabaya. havent been to medan so dunno compared to it... eh but ppl told me medan is the singapore of indonesia. is it true, is it true? went to some nice temples that made me experience the same feeling of amazement when i visited borobudur temple many years ago: how could people of hundreds of years ago built this kind of majestic buildings without the help of technology? must have been a king with thousands of slaves' sweat and blood. sher n elvina should go here to pray one day.
i, on the other hand, has never been a fond observer of temples.. i was more intrigued by other aspects of bangkok, such as the seafood. me n mom n uncle were looking for a good dinner, and the hotel bellboy who didn't really know how to speak english couldn't give us good directions, so three of us just stepped out of the hotel. it was 7.30pm, and we were "greeted" by the vast, vast amount of kakilima sellers, and they all offered seafood. soon the temptation got the better of us, n we found ourselves sat together with a lot of angmohs choosing crabs, lobsters, and squids. yummy yummy! gastromaniacs have to look out for this when they go bangkok! (it's located at the chinatown area).
another amazing thing was the gems jewellery, co.ltd. wahhh.. jewels here and there. diamonds, sapphires, rubys, jades, aquamarines, onyxes... blah blah. all gems can be found there. u can even order ur self-designed jewellery for the pengrajin to make. cool. cool. n of course while my mom landed her eyes on the more adult-kind (read: expensive) jewellery, i managed to get a nice pearly necklace and black-stoned necklace, all very cheap!! sheweay will be happy to shop here, too :)
went to KL for 1 day as well... it was on LH's birthday (so EH told me.. haha), and they all went reverse-bungeeing near KL Tower. so fun for what. EH sorry couldnt join y'all.. mom n uncle don't speak english, so had to look out for them.. had my share of fun shopping at times square, though. we were lucky: there were so many SALE signs everywhere in times square! bought so many things that we had to buy an extra, extra, extra large trolley bag from debenhams just to have a place to put all those things. and we travelled back to singapore by bus! imagine how troublesome it was..
aiya. didn't go for pat's treat (9th) and sher's "reunion" (5th). didn't meet up wif fung, er, asih, jaq, xiaobian, el, sherwinnie, mel.. and so many more.. did meet jazz for a while to do my uni app, tho.. problems of being away from "home away from home" aye? but i'll be back :D haha
anw. in bangkok, i heard a story about God. other people's God. or is it the same God? nonetheless, the story is captivating. God is good, God is great :) whichever it is.
10:04 AM
Sunday, March 05, 2006
i wish i have my mother by my side all the time. she's such a tower of strength. talking to her is like an endless shower of sunshine, guiding me through the darkness :)
i love mom!
anyways...
i think it's time for me to finally accept, one more time, what (or who?) i've been denying all along. not only because of the positivity that could be resulted, but also because of the feeling of being safe and sound when i set my life revolving around it.
i hope i could do it more successfully this time than i was last time.
have put my thoughts on what courses to take up, and i think my decision is final. something that will put my strengths for good use, something that will exercise a lil bit of risk-taking in me (i swear i have zero) and something that, if i manage to get through it with passion and zeast, will open ways to head on to (up to now) the biggest project of my life: to teach..
prolly the path i choose won't allow me to teach right away, prolly later; much much later. but it is the most sound path for everyone right now... and i hope i'll be guided..
this is a sentimental day, apparently :D
ok anyways, i bought a pair of wedges today, light brown colour. cute. big bow on the front.
and my parents almost bought me some too-expensive watch. lucky i have enough sense to reject it... it was really much too ex la.. some more, i always lose/break things unintentionally (d'oh..), so it'll really be a disappointing end if i end up losing that watch or whatnots...
btw
SHER HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
10:31 AM
Saturday, March 04, 2006
yi ge pengyou gaosu wo...
i got triple As!
ok... not so good...
but not so bad, either aye?
exceeds own's expectations
i really thought it would be AABB
coz chem and fm were gone
dunno what are the As
and what is the not A
and what is GP
and what are S-papers
so basically still dunno hor
anyway
congratulations
to those who've met their expectations
and those who've exceeded theirs
we all have our own goals
so general standards shouldn't really matter ya
still,
for the exceptionals
like some who score straight As
or some other who scores 5As for the first time
or some other who get 7As
or maybe those who get 6As
and those who perhaps make it from F to A
well u all are big winners! :D
hen duo congratulations!!
9:31 PM
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
The rules/procedures are as follows: The first player of this game starts with the topic "five weird habits of yourself," and people who get tagged need to write an entry about their five weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next five people to be tagged and link to their web journals. Don't forget to leave a comment in their blog or journal that says "You are tagged" (assuming they take comments) and tell them to read yours.
1. I remember people's marks very clearly up to a certain length of time, dunno y! That includes the ones that I accidentally heard being spoken to other ppl. So, beware pple... hee...
2. At home I kiss my v.v.v.v.v small brother's cheeks about fifty times a day.. Gosh he's so cute! Sometimes I pay (bribe?) him with a few teaspoons of coffee... haha.. He likes coffee ba. Erlin dun be jealous.
3. I speak with my sister in a very strange, very old, and very coarse voice almost all the times. She did that to me, too. If u want to hear I'll show u next time. My wish is to extend this habit to anyone willing to speak in the same voice...
4. Whatelse whatelse? How about: I always don't know how to answer questions (any kind) for sure... whatever I say is my best bet, or best approximate, or something like that. I think this is a result of lack in confidence [sighs]
5. Hmm.. is this one allowed? I love stoning even when I got things to do. And Fungus hates me doing this :D I'm just so not weird la... lol.
Hmm... OK! Now I'm tagging:
1. Erlin (plz tag them... haha)
2. Jazz
3. Yessica
4. Winnie
5. Wanxin