2007, I bid thee farewell.

Christmas has come and gone.
I have an inkling that there won't be any more updates till 2008, due to my [clears throat] "academic commitments".

ROTFL.

Oh well, time for the good old resolutions that I never keep.
:D

1. Lose weight
Like duh. It's been on the list since dinosaurs roamed.
2. Play "Last Christmas" like Kotaro Oshio a pro. HAHAHAHAHA
3. Drink more water.
4. Go to church?

Number four is... well, I don't know. I haven't been to a church for quite some time. Let's just leave it to God.

Truth to be told, 2007 has been a boring year. Nothing out of the ordinary, no emotional turmoils (okay, maybe close to having none of those), and nothing gratifying.
Bah.
"God, please make 2008 a better year ahead."
Then again, who am I to complain? We're all alive and well.
Beggars can't be choosers.
I'd ask for world peace, but I'm not in a beauty pageant (okay, quit sniggering. I can hear you all. you know the others won't stand a chance against yours truly)

HAHAHAHA.

2008 will be good. It'll be like Frans' 'New Perfect Day'.

And no, I'm not emotional today. I'm just sad because I haven't been able to catch any fish with my new fishing rod.
It must be a sign or something.


Till then, adieu!

Chovale, 2007

Last Christmas

did i mention that i LOOOOOVVVEEEE Kotaro Oshio?

I think I did. Lol.

Hrmmphh.

Whoever said "'tis the season to be jolly" ought to enroll himself in MCM.

WHAT HOLIDAYS? WHAT SEASON?

I only see deadlines.
What a sad Christmas, lol.

To all those out there, please buy me an external hard disk for Christmas.
My mac is running out of space (again).

heh.

恶作剧2吻

This is heaven.
I absolutely heart joe cheng.
:)

The week in a single blogpost.

MJRband's m|brosia 2007.

Tuba section (without Kaikiat! and Melvin)

With Mr. Farhmy :D


I&E at Christalite Methodist Home.

and of course, leelin and dory <3

Dreamweave through the night!

It is now 4:16AM.



I AM SO TIRED. :(



I have close to nothing on my website.




AND NOW,
I'm off to sleep. :D

SKULLHEAD DOOM GUY!!

credit: Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis

k630i

YAY FINALLY A CAMERA PHONE!
accompanied dory for a haircut ytd. she's so 阳光 now.. haha :D

see! CUTE RIGHT! X)

i'm so jealous she got to dress up wang lee hom. I want to dress someone up too, lol.
haha. i just had to include the "dressing up wang lee hom" part. my friend is so famous lah. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
*she's so gg to punch me"
my new hair makes me look super kok.

gymmed with huiyun and peifen today! 5km, WHOOOO! :D

heh heh heh :D

DECK THE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF WEB D, FA LA LA.

Guys, meet Uncle Studer.

He's my official christmas nightmare thanks to the last test. *REH-DIIIOO!! THUNDER + LIGHTNING*
lawl.
I've never done so much design work my entire life. The files take up hell too much space and CS3 lags the bloody thing up like no one's business. :(
on the brighter side, I have three buttons and a half completed logo for my website!
I CAN'T WAIT TILL FRIDAE, I TELL Y-HOO.
am trying to get my creative brain juices flowing with the classical station.
weird thing about classical music is that they don't know when to stop. fine, fine!!! lol. One song, twenty minutes. oh my.
Had the very first popeyes meal of my entire life (yes, i know i'm deprived.) and pulled the remaining of my hair out while doing pr.
I CUT MY HAIR.
YOU ARE ALL WELCOME TO UN-CALL ME DORAEMON/LEGOGIRL/BRUCELEE/what have yous.
alrighty, off to PEE ARR.

Killing me softly with school work...

KILLING ME SOFTLY~
WITH SCHOOL WORK~
:(

Assignments at an all time high, productivity six feet under.
Radio test went screwy on me, dang the library cd and the md player. I now present you sixty seconds of dead air.






*bawls*
on a lighter note, my interviewee has finally replied! yay! now i can finally get started on FA1, which is due tomorrow. LOL.

Behold, it's Godzilla! and Cinderella! and Snow White! ALL IN ONE!

lol, yes i've finally caught 'Enchanted', which explains the post title. that guy is so hawt. :D
haven't been doing any school work. i seriously need a break from all the work. all the procrastination is making me tired. lol.
changed my guitar strings today, whoo! :D

two interviews down, two to go, and of course, i should get started on that darn article.

asdfghjkl;gobbledygook.

Dory and I broke our record today! Non-stop from Plaza Sing to Geylang East! WHOOOOOO!
Right now, I officially acknowledge Kotaro Oshio as king of guitar.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, you've successfully killed my fingers and 4 hours of my sleep.

see all the crazy slapping? you can hear the strings, zomg.
when i do the same, it sounds like i'm hitting wood.

Writer's Block.

My feature writing article is screwed. Pachebel's Canon is stuck in my head.
Today I tried to fly. Much to my dismay, I landed in a messy heap right in front of my classmates. I was literally rolling on the floor, laughing. Now I have this huge bruise on my left knee.

Boy, I'm going mad.
How on earth am I supposed to churn out an article on Death and Dying in a week?
and I&E is so redundant.

The word "stressed" is officially an understatement.

My week in a nutshell: Fished, Prawn-fished, invested in Fishing equipment. Oh, and i drew a giraffe from scratch, outlined an SLR, all the name of WebD.
And there's comm issues. six books on media violence.
AND THERE'S FEATURE WRITING, with an angle and no interviewees.
and the rest of web d, and pr...

photos of prawnies to be uploaded once i get hold of the camera cable.

I'm so stressed because I owe people money and have gotten nowhere for work.
am entering the third week without exercising. i'm going to go crazy.

like....
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! kind of crazy.

forgive me for being incoherent. must be monday blues. or deadlines-induced blues. or something.

WARAKU DE LA WUVVVVV!!! <3

Waraku-ed with lin, dory and bomba ytd! I was feeling brave so I got myself the black squid ink pasta... thingy.

it's DELICIOUS, but messy. lol :)
and then we headed to bugis to squeeze with the whole pack of 小猪's fans. ALL BECAUSE OF BOMBA. HAHAHHAHAHA. okay la. at least we got to see a little bit of his hair. lol.
and then i got really tired. and then i started to whine.

so we went home. haha :)
ok lah, i love you allllll to bitttsssssss!!! :D
and no more coconut juice for valerie! lol.

Goodbye, lazy days. Hello, hectic work plan.

I swear, the only thing that keeps me semi sane now is NPS. lol.
the outing today was fantabulous, despite the few accidents which caused some bloodshed. HAHA.
moving on, to my super crazy workplan. i so need a to-do list now, considering the fact that i was (or rather, "am") unaware of certain projects that are calling out to me. "you can't run away from me now, i'm going to get you and strangle the heck out of you with deadlines!!!!! HAHAHAHHAHAHHA!!!"
darn!
alrighty, i'm not making much sense here. time for radio~

shabu shabu @ ry's

i don't have the other pictures. files were corrupted. :(

I either have very strong hands, or teeth.

Today, I've managed an incredible feat.
*drumrolls*

I broke my toothbrush into half while brushing. LOL!
:)

NPS LOVE

Family concert yesterday was a huge success, kudos to the concert committee, and of course, the splendid emcees of the night. HAHAHHAHA! had a wonderful time working with Brandon the co-emcee. I've never embarrassed myself on such a large scale, ever. :)

MY LOVE IN NP.
STRING SIDE :D
TAICHI GIRLS with a potentially endangering KOLIONG GUY. HAHAHA.
WATASHI, HUIYUN and JIAXUE :D
with ANNNNNNNABEL!! and huiyun! :D :D
taken the other day while we were out fishing for prawns. :D


photographs credited to Huiyun. And if you're reading this, I WANT THAT PHOTO!

and so we got really high after the concert. hahahaa.. headed for al-ameen, had alot of really good 100% authentic indian nasi briyani, and hung around bukit timah playing pool and stoning till 5am.
gosh, we make such good dwellers :)

WE ARE NPSTRINGS! WE ARE FAMILY! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~~ :D

My appetite ain't got no heart.

no-school-fridaye today! :)
tomorrow's family concert, do drop by!

!modnar os gneib pots

The first day of MCM 2.2 was good. Time didn't fly. Our funny lecturers made up for the sucky modules.
(And if any of you guys happen to wonder why yours truly is trying to shed as much weight as possible now, its all because of that damned pair of jeans.
yeap, i blew a hundred bucks on another piece of denim. bleargh.
which explains why i should do my wallet some justice. lol.)
and so i sat through the lectures, reunited with coursemates whom i have not met for two months, came home, and went to the library to borrow some books (THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES!) i swear i'd never get around to finishing.
blah lah lah blah.
it's so refreshing to have a high strung lecturer for a change. he's probably the only guy who's capable of putting the word "fun" into every two or three sentences. got PhD one leh.
DAMN CUTE, especially when he got really excited over some videos he showed us.
"WANT TO WATCH IT AGAIN???? LET'S WATCH IT AGAIN!!!!!!!" (and i'm not kidding about the excessive use of punctuation marks.)
so looking forward to tuesday lectures :D

Family Concert

Daye: Saturday, 20th October 2007
Location: Ngee Ann Polytechnic, LT26
Time: 7.00pm
Free concert for everyone! :)

Come, come!

Sawdust: B-sides and Rarities

Happpy Birthday to you, my much beloved sister. <3

Music camp was fantabulous. I've never screamed so much in my entire life.
Thank you annabel for the to-die-for caterpillar, the new addition to my bed. Official name's "kuih", courtesy of my sister, after the kuih i've always craved for on saturday mornings. heh.
okay, back to the camp. Lots of new faces, and some old ones. and i'm officially dubbed as "Harry Potter" and "LegoGirl" again. In four days, I've:
- fought over a banana peel hidden beneath some flour
- become gay. zomgwtfbbq. "Watashi GAYY des!"
- scared the guts out of some people.
- un-scared the guts out of other people.
- become a proactive member of Maphia Infinity 8 Flying Fish. (Yeah, the name makes so much sense.)
- built my first (and second, and third, and fourth, and fifth) sparkler rocket.
- become brave all of a sudden and engage in some form of communication with another being. you all know i'm shy and reserved the rest of the time. HAWHAWAW.
right, enough bull. photos shall come when i feel like it. :D

Missed frans, yongkang, vanet, and all the others. come back soon!

Today was a good day. Ngee Ann Kongsi donated 15million to the school. We played two songs while they indulged in heavenly food.
We had some of their leftover caviar. yes.
Caviar. Leftover.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
and on to prawn fishing with sister and her boy. fifteen huge prawns in three hours! :D

The Killers' "Sawdust: B-sides and Rarities" to be out in stores on 13th November. YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

I heart Coffee Prince

This is bad. The dang episode is taking too long to load.
I need to sleeeeeeeeeeep.

Thursdaye. Leelin-day.

Woke up in the wee hours in preparation of somebody's big day. Well, not exactly wee hours. Dory and Cailing were still late. HAHAH.

Our gourmet spread. :) We make splendid cooks, dory, cailing and me :D
Just like Ratatouille. HAHA

The birthday girl
and then it started pouring, and since we were in the middle of nowhere, we got drenched. And so we screamed and tried to cover ourselves with the "picnic mat" (a huge piece of plastic drop cloth we got for $1.80) and kept ourselves warm by eating potato chips. heh.
and then we manage to convince leelin to believe that we made reservations at some high end restaurant for dinner...

...and brought her to Macdonalds where 20 of her friends (primary sch, secondary sch, poly mates) were waiting.

happy eighteenth. <3

HANAZAKARI NO KIMITACHI E

I'VE FINISHED HANA KIMI! ZOMG IT'S SO NICE. SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE TAIWANESE ONE!
ZOMG! NAKATSU, SANO, MIZUKI! <3 <3 <3
NANBA SEMPAI! NAKAO! SEKEMI! TENNOUJI! KARA-forgot-how-to-spell-high-jumper-from-the-other-school! GAY NURSE/TEACHER!
YUUJIRO!
ZOMG!! <3 <3 <3!!!!!!
I CRIED!
AHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT THE DVD!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The loves of my life.

:)

Meow.

Mummy, can i have a cat?

PLEEEAASSSEEE?????

Office rant of an office temp.

I am invisible. Just like ever other day, I remain in sight of all the jostling humans in this office, but am constantly out of their minds. I am free to do whatever I want, but the imaginary leash holds on tight. Sometimes I think I'm lucky. I'm getting paid to stare into space amidst all the busy people. And then the thought jolts me from my tiny reverie- this could be my future.
I can hardly imagine myself three years down the road, living the life of a nine-to-six office robot. Yes, robots. Man, I hate that term. Who could imagine most intelligent of all creatures that roam the earth are, in fact, bounded by the inclination to work towards the big M? What is success? It's a status measured by the amount money you earn. We humans are reduced to calculative bastards who hunt and kill for success. Talk about being primitive.
I spend every weekday in this little box. The other occupants barely recognise my very existance. Once or twice I am tasked with some filing, some data entry. Right now, I'm just sitting comfortably in my chair and typing away while some data gets transferred to a round, metal object (they call it a DVD). The notion of performing brainless tasks alone kills me. Truth to be told, I hate sitting around with nothing to do. I need to run, scream, jump, or even prance around to keep myself occupied. Reduced brain activity can really bore the heck out of me. Trapped in what they call an office, there is nothing left for me to do (other than to rant to a computer- for God's sake!)my best to look preoccupied. Reason being so they will not see me playing with the swivel chair or fiddling with my electronic music-playing device one time too many...

And then I went for lunch. :D

Australian Smooth Knob-Tailed Gecko

SO CUTE ZOMG! :D

And when the sky is falling, don't look outside the window!

I'm bored to tears.
*bawls*

Sundaye.

Meet my girlfriends :)

Friday was good. Met up with Chiouhuey, Airell the MONSTAZ and their friends. Chiou finally got to torture Airell. heh.
My poly girlfriends :D

chiou's friend, xianwen



Saturday was love. Dory is finally back from hk, and we finally met up as a trio.
K Buffet was delicious :D
Leelin had to post this up, because for once I was the shortest.



Today's good too. Outing to East Coast with chinaboy, ira, mel, peggy and ph. my butt hurts from too much cycling, and my face hurts like dory's did the last time we went fishing.
Didn't manage to find Aunty Mary, she's gone home, so I gave Uncle Hero a curry puff and the rest to the guys. haha.

A splendid weekend spent :) i am now happy and ready for the mundane office job that awaits me tomorrow.

My passion for hole punching.

I've changed my mind about the previous post. I LOVE MY JOB.
And it turned out I had an inborn talent for data entry and filing. :D
They gave me a beautiful pass that admits me through any door in the building, AND I HAVE MY OWN COMPANY EMAIL ADDRESS, DESK, COMPUTER, AND PHONE!!!!!!!!! WAHHHH HAHAHHAHAHAHA.. (talk about cheap thrills)
And my wunderful colleagues :DDDD
I LOVE MY WONDERFUL COLLEAGUES because they bought me yummy food.
This could be the best temp job in the world!

A/N: No sarcasm intended. :) A really happy post.

Office Lady. Bleargh.

Believe it or not, working in an office sucks big time. I was totally grossed out at how Singaporeans can sit through 8 hours every day in front of a monitor. Especially after lunch. The food just settles at our love handles, refusing to budge. I'm so gonna expand :(
Yeah, I got the job, thank you very, very, very much, lin. So that leaves me with no room to complain because it's my dream temp job. hawhaw.
This may be the last time I'll ever want to work in an office in my life...
and so, I've came up with the revised list of my future job prospects :D
1. Professional Monkey Trainer
2. Chambermaid
3. Dog Sitter
4. Tai Tai
5. Car Mechanic
6. Sales Promoter (HAWHAWHAW, COMEX!)
7. Girlfriend of Rich, Famous and Handsome
and the list goes on...
I've been feeling cranky of late, it sucks and I know it annoys the hell out of people.
Aiyah, dunno la. Must be PMS. lol.

Last but not least,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIOUHUEY!
I'm sorry I called you only at 12.26am. Eh, but at least I sang for you okay! :D
Stay cute and sweet but don't stay smelly. :D

ouch.

From Asiaone.com, retrieved on 1st September 2007

FISHING WITH DORY!

Happy Birthday DORY! I LOVE YOU!

We'll be going for our first ever fishing adventure in a few hours, wish us luck! :D

Pardon me while I post photos of my husband. :D

zomg, so cute!!! HE'S MINE! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
I know i swore off korean dramas, but the dvd was there, and i didn't want to study for advert. :D
as usual, i had to fast forward through certain parts. dang, long k dramas!

Make it up, break it up, what do you care?

ahh, protein group, carbohydrates, some fibre, more protein...
i think i'm going mad.
Protein, protein, carbohydrates, protein, protein...
it just doesn't stop, and it gets louder with every spoonful.
Protein, protein, protein
dang, must be too much tofu and beansprouts.

I love dory, because we went to Geylang lor. 9 for 油条大王 yesterday.
more protein...
we spent the entire day soaking ourselves in chlorine-filled water, eating, and arguing over the usage of certain chinese words.
起不对，能不可。
i <3 dory. :)

Walked home from Heeren the other day, whooopeedooo. :D

Look here: charred remains of where my heart used to be

So this is the end.
Five years took an hour to mark its last sojourn. What can I say? I'm devastated, but not para suicidal. I've seen it all along, but i've refused its very presence.
no more mind games, no more secret fantasies of having someone I knew I didn't deserve.
I'm just so sad. :(

Allow me to share my immense dislike for...stuff

...or not.
the projects for this sem have finally baded their goodbyes, and the exams are trudging in.

everything has been going well (forgive me for mysteriously disappearing for a couple of days) and sheereen and i have a story to tell :)
didn't really conquer the Relay Duathlon. our kayak SANK, and then we capsized halfway into 3km (when most of the people in our category have already started with the 4km run). they've mostly finished their 4km by the time we found our way back on land.
it wasn't a bad experience, really.
i got a nice shirt, funny tanlines, 4 bruises, aching muscles, and i got to drink the water in bedok reservoir (mmm, tasty!)while swimming in the dark, murky water with my shoes on.
and so i had the perfect excuse to miss the 4km run. :D
I'm so gonna join another run. :)

Ok, where was I? yeah, the exams. my attempt to study failed tremendously. I'M STILL AT PAGE ONE! :D thanks to idiot chiouhuey. :D
and to the idiot chiouhuey who thinks i've forgotten her, you're not.
because you made me go all the way to siglap to study CHILL. HAHAHHAA
ok lah, i lurbbbeeez you, idiot. <3

i've been catching up with my tv (which explains why i found blogging to be a chore, quite recently). watched lots of movies, dramas (finished goong in 6 hours, forwarded through the boring parts), two episodes of "Jeopardy!" and am currently at the first 10 minutes of One Tree Hill.

gosh, i love the holidays. :D

One down, gazillion to go...

don't get me wrong, i love writing.
i just don't like NEWS writing. :D

Roving, raving, reporter val.

I'm so not cut out for journalism.
While I'd love to spend the rest of my life week playing on muh new pyah-no, i have NEWSWRITING.

now watch me rot the rest of the day away in front of an empty word document.


I WANT HIS BAUHAUS TEE SHIRT!!!!!!!

sans brakes!

Advertising is finally OVER! zomg.
so is mrm, and most of mm...
i'm so glad the helliest week is over. bwah!
rollerbladed with cailing in the morning. got muh brakes removed, got into an accident with a three year old on a four wheeler.
ok, it wasn't really an accident. just him cutting my path and me falling onto the grass. in front of his extended family- gong gong, ah ma, auntie, dog, cat, whoever.
so embarassing can. lol

Relay Duathlon this saturday! I'M SO GONNA EAT DIRT.
haven't trained for a week, my arms and tummy feels like jell-o. fiak. lol
sheereen: lets just let the canoe sink. too heavy alrdy lah. lol.

alumni band practice was good. apart from the fact that i still do not have a mouthpiece patch. and that my 5-year-long crush looks like (good looking) Hagrid sans beard and strange looking robes. people's muscles damn big can?
oh shut up valerie, you are just giving him an ego boost! HAWHAWHAW.

that's it. nobody wants to hire me as a car mechanic. i'm officially depressed. go away before i throw a spanner at you. :D

The final sprint...

Well, i hope everything goes well for advertising later. Just pray hard that my mouth stays shut at the right times.
The first thing i'm going to do after today is to sleep. Oh wait, I have to do MM before 5pm.
DANG~
lol.. wish us luck!

And the sleepless nights beckon...

I think we have the strangest statuses on gmail chat.
this is prolly what MCM does to everybody. lol.


Oh, and check out my new wallpaper. :D



2.21AM...
yinny and i got into a heated debate about how KAOPEH is spelt.

la la la. :D

Holidays, come ye forth.

can't wait for the holidays. i'm dying under the workload.
and if you think we're not stressed enough, here's a quote from our ever friendly ryouko.

ry: I think i'm stressed

*kowtows*