thanks to jun, i suddenly remember i have a blog ( Read more... )

yes grace, this place has most unfortunately accumulated close to three months of virtual dust.
but hey, new year, new start okay!

maybe i can start off with an update abt life in mfa (thats ministry of foreign affairs for you, and yes, ive caught on but not mastered the art of acronymising)
have been there close to two months; highlights of my career ( Read more... )

i won my first pair of tickets to an SSO concert and went last friday, accompanied by jun.
we were 5 minutes late and had to go in during the interval, which was thankfully before ravel's concerto for left hand in d major.
alexandre tharaud's performance kept me enthralled, not just because of the music, but of the dramatic way his entire body ( Read more... )

1. finding out you had a paper cut when you were squeezing a lime over a lunch of hokkien mee 
i grimaced, shook my hand up and down to distract myself from the pain, sucked on it, ...the stinging lasted an agonising 5 minutes. 
any good idea to prevent paper cuts? 
this beats the blood test i took in sec 3 (remember, the one with a 3-inch long needle ( Read more... )

sorry, was just testing to see if the thesaurus in my new microsoft student home 2007 edition worked
(i have no idea if these words really mean 'random', tell me if they dont!)

and...that was a clumsy lead-in to provide an opportunity for myself to announce the official demise of jack the VAIO (yes, he's finally RIPed for good), and his resurrection ( Read more... )

thank you reka dear for nudging me out of laziness to resuscitate this stagnant blog, and megs for reminding me that the last post about my 32 demerit points is hardly a read about my glamourous past.
i return with yet another boring monologue on my life 
(shameless plug here: did you read my more happening post about batam? its finally up!)

so anyway ( Read more... )

my sister had raved so much about it and the doughnuts she brought back were as good as she promised, so i decided to head there myself to have a look.

i followed my uncle and aunt onboard the penguin 5, which took us on a surprisingly bump-less 45min ride across the sea to the island officially known as pulau batam.
it was most unfortunate that the ( Read more... )

1. i failed my driving test having incurred 32 points and an immediate failure for doing a right turn instead of a U-turn. icing on the cake? my re-test date is september 11. nuff' sad.
2. the HTC children ministry Superhero kids camp is officially over. now i can get my sleep back
3. i finally watched a movie. two, in fact. too bad pirates and spiderman are ( Read more... )

its been over a month since i last posted.
i know some of you guys have been asking abt taiwan (fyi and if for some reason you havent realised, we are safe and sound in singapore)
so much for the morbid thoughts huh.

the long story short, its my graduation day tomorrow.
we will have to wear a robe with hideous frills along the shoulder hem (the many ( Read more... )

okay, so my previous post was a tad depressing-didnt realise that, haha.
anyway. more morbid thoughts emerge as i do my final packing for the taiwan trip (jetstar crashing, blahblahblah)
you guys know i love you all, right?

well, if i die, id like to have a funeral with good music and happy people all around.
a good mix of franz ferdinand, oasis, simon ( Read more... )