i truly hope ya'll had a very happy one. well as for me, it was really warm and homey, then a lot of anger and boo boos, and then a lot of 'sighssss'. but let me just say that's it's really okay to have a bad Christmas, as long as at the end of the day, you are thankful for God sending Jesus down to save us, and i know i am. i am also thankful for my presents, haha!
i don't think i really am going to let anything make me sore about how my Christmas turned out, i am still REALLY in the Christmassy mood. and in case any of you are sore about your Christmas, there are eleven more days left to make it right! it really isn't so much about the day itself, but more of the period i guess. and i don't know, to me, Christmas isn't so much of whether it's perfect for me but rather whether i made someone happy, which is why you all should check your letter boxes!!! i put a whole lot of effort into each and everyone of your cards, please don't tell me they look insincere because i spent a lot of time into every one! another reason to be happy, the advent calendar on neopets hasn't closed yet, so CONTINUE TO COLLECT YOUR FREEBIES!
ahah, this has been stuck in my head all day and all night
THUMPETY THUMP THUMP THUMPETY THUMP THUMP OVER THE HILLS OF SNOWWWW! beepbeep!
GONE SHOPPING,12/26/2007 03:29:00 am
Saturday, December 22, 2007 Swan Lake
went for swan lake last night, it wasn't bad. spotted a few mistakes here and there, and they weren't totally synchronised all the time but hey, the Singapore Dance Theatre isn't something very prestigious. it was very entertaining though, and some parts were kinda funny, though i don't think they were supposed to be funny but oh well!
so the story is, there's Goodie, Baddie, and Swan. Goodie goes swan hunting at a lake and spots Swan magically change into a princess, turns out that that the princess was under a spell by Baddie and is a swan by day and human by night. only true love can break the spell, so heartwarming right? sighssss. WELL, so Goodie, being a goodie, falls in love and wants to break the spell, so he chases Swan and Swan acts all shy and stuff but she's probably playing hard to get so that Goodie would chase her some more and fall into the evil clasps of her hynoptism, muahahahahaha. then all the other swans start turning on him because they've found out that Goodie killed their great tribal chief Hunkalama and made him into a pillow which he drools on every night. later, to prevent the spell from breaking, Baddie captures Swan and locks her up in the highest tower of the castle on the highest hill. Goodie, who is throwing a birthday party at which he is supposed to choose a bride, does not know about it and when Baddie's daughter, Baddette, disguises as Swan and comes to his party, Goodie chooses her for his bride and breaks his promise of everlasting love to Swan. (wah, scaaandalousss) after they got married, Baddie reveals Badette and they both laugh at Goodie menacingly. Goodie goes to find Swan but is stopped by Baddie and Goodie tries to kill Baddie to break the spell forever. unfortunately, Goodie falls in love with Baddie and they both become gay.
maybe i just should have bought a programme booklet with the story in it. but seriously, at the part where Goodie was fighting Baddie, they looked more like they were doing the tango, there was a lot of hand holding and hugging and once, goodie even outreached his arm towards Baddie and did that 'i long for you' thing. funnyfunny.
clarissa and i got very good seats for the show, it was the second most expensive tickets (or third cheapest), though they weren't that expensive. it was directly in front of the stage, not too near and slightly elevated. we were initially very happy with the seats until we looked around us. we were surrounded by CHILDREN. and the kids behind us were veeerry noisy. the boy kept asking really dumb questions, "mum, are the boys wearing pants?", "mum, is that the princess?" i felt like boxing him. but i think the parents realised that ballets weren't for kids (DUH) and they disappeared after the first interval. the show ended really late, it started at 8 and ended at 11. probably because of the two intervals which were 20 minutes each. i have no idea why they made it so long.
so yeah, that was my night. the day before yesterday was really funny, audrey and i went shopping, for her to find a dress for the Abnia party and for me to find a job. we sat at Starbucks and hogged their classifieds section of the newspaper calling around. no luck, she said i was just being picky, i think so too, HAHA. but please, $4 per hour is total child labour. and you gotta give it to me because i even called a toy shop asking about the job offer and pretended to love kids. WOW, no?
GONE SHOPPING,12/22/2007 08:26:00 am
Monday, December 17, 2007 ETHEL'S PINK SWEET SIXTEEN BIRTHDAY BASH!
12 December 2007 had to meet clarissa in the afternoon to go get her bikini for the party later, but i woke up to my maid scolding Papaya telling him to do his homework or else he couldn't go to his friend's house. then all he said was "then i don't go lor". hmm, not good, so i told him that i would bring him out shopping ONLY if he finished. honestly, i didn't think he would finish. and he didn't, but being such an incredibly nice sister, i brought him out anyway. my golly, i was sooo afraid he would run off and get lost forever (technically, that's good, but the parents wouldn't be too happy. i swear, they are such party poopers) well so, i was like giving him a briefing in the lift as if it was his first time going out. "DON'T run off anywhere ah. if you get lost, and i can't find you, you'll never see mummy or daddy or francesca or banette or me EVER again. EVER. when we go into a store, DON'T go out, you stay in there. if you get lost, DON'T move, stand there and i'll look for you. if it gets too crowded, you must hold my hand, if you want to see anything, don't just go there, tell me and we will go look at it together." see, i can be responsible.
met clarissa and he was relatively good, punching innocent members of the public and disturbing the peace of shoppers. i'd say he was better than usual.
look at his fingers! can you see what he's doing? it's hilarious. i so did not teach him that.
went home and met the rest at pasir ris interchange. everyone said that clarissa and i were very formal, but i didn't think we were. i was wearing a casual sundress what. must be my shoes la huh. we were attracting a lot of attention wearing so much pink.
we came into the clubhouse thing and we saw so many pink balloons! according to ethel, there were ONE HUNDRED of them. ahhhh!!! you can never have too much pink.
we were all having so much fun with them.
even jo thought they were cool! then ethel stopped us and said, "guys, can ya'll like go out then i video ya'll pretending to be coming in for the first time?" HAHAHA, hilarious! so we took all our bags and went out. from outside, we could see her videoing around the room, then switch the camera to herself and started talking to it. then she suddenly looked all shocked and pointed in our direction, i suppose she was going all "OH LOOK! my friends are here!" HAHAHA, so we all went SURPRISE!!! soon, the food came. Mr Canadian-Two-For-One-Pizza guy. omg, there was a loooooot of food. a lot a lot a lot. two pizzas, a big tray of a-gar a-gar, and we each got a japanese set meal thing with instant miso soup. there was so much leftover, we even played the number game and made those who lost eat a slice of pizza.
pretty frosted oreo ice cream cake! why isn't it pink?!
HAPPY SWEET SIXTEEN ETHEL!
audrey is an idiot present. look the balloon is bigger than her head! hahaha. then anne and weelyn tied balloons to their heads as well and started some very weird balloon-head bumping thing.
took some pictures with my polaroid!
YOU MUST WATCH THIS, THIS IS FANTASTIC.
HAHAHAHA.
after most people went home, we turned up the music and started to dance! audrey looks pregnant here, but she's not anymore because she ate too many pineapples. poor poor thing. then we started to suck helium from the balloons and started singing bennylava and girlfriend, super fun!
later, went over to her house for the SLUMBER PARTY. it was supposed to be a korean serial drama marathon as well, but SOME people were against korean serial dramas. seriously abi, you'll never know if you don't try watching. we'll MAKE you watch it the next time :D we pranked called people and it was so funny! when we wanted to prank call isabel, we all took a HUGE breath and prepared ourselves to try not to laugh, but in the end she said something so totally isabel-ish and audrey simply burst out in laughter and could not continue anymore. then they hung up and i had to call again. i posed as a 15 year old boy who was into older women cus although i still have A BIT of my low and gross voice, they asked if i was a boy, why my voice hasn't broken yet. -_-" it was the longest prank call ever cus she so happened to be at a sleepover too and they all played along. in my effort to make my voice lower, i called her 'isabAll', and they all burst out in laughter. then we came up with this "isaball is-a-ball" thing, HILARIOUS. afterwards we wanted to have a movie marathon which was pathetic cus we only watched Homerun. haha. woke up the next morning and we each got cute Hello Kitty boxes with cookies in them! then we watched Bend It Like Beckham and i painted audrey's nails hot pink while she was asleep, hahahaha.
i went to east point later in the evening and when i was waiting for my parents to pick me up from the taxi stand, GUESS WHO I SAW.
ISABALL MELISSA PETER. HAHAHAHA, thank goodness she didn't say anything about a prank call. i was quite prepared to flee and run for the hills.
all in all, i'd say that this was the absolute best party of the year spent with good friends, and so manymany memories made. i'd seriously miss what fun we had and i simply loved every single minute of it. thank you ethel and everyone else for making it so memorable.
GONE SHOPPING,12/17/2007 12:59:00 am
Sunday, December 16, 2007 stomach acheee
i'm having a very bad stomach ache right now, i keep feeling like shitting. i was just wondering right, does tea have a laxative effect? because my throat has been feeling very scratchy and uncomfortable lately, so i drank two cups of this HO YAN HOR herbal tea yesterday, and another two just now because it's supposed to be good for the throat and whatever. and i tell you, i have shat a lot.
if tea actually does have a laxative effect, i would think the whole of England would be full of shit because the English simply love to drink tea. you wake up and you have a cup of tea, you have friends over and you have a cup of tea, you get your hair done and you have a cup of tea, you find out that your husband has been cheating on you who is 7 months pregnant for your red haired pretty doctor and you have a cup of tea. nice.
actually it might not be the tea la, it could be the hawker centre food i ate just now, because the last time i had hawker centre food, i got food poisoning from it. that was in malaysia when i ate OH LUAT. fried oysters!! my favourite hawker centre food please. must be because i ate too many times, the oysters are starting to get angry at me for eating their wrinkly great-grand aunties and family members. VENGENCE OF THE OYSTERS. scary.
ok byebyebyebyebye, i need to shit.
/edit haha, i realised it wasn't the tea, neither was it the hawker centre food. i started reading xiaxue after shitting and i saw an advertorial for a restaurant and the food looks damnnnn good, then i felt hungry. so i went to get some grapes and after eating a few, i gave a huge burp and i then felt damn shiok already :D
HEH. i guess it was just gas. C:
GONE SHOPPING,12/16/2007 04:15:00 am
Saturday, December 15, 2007 The art of appreciating boredom
oh my gosh, i'm very sorry JOLENA because i forgot to include in my previousprevious post that the body butter and cookie monster bag was from her as well. so...
THANK YOU CHRYSTAL AND JOLENA FOR THE BODY BUTTER AND COOKIE MONSTER BAG WHICH I UTTERLY LOVE SO MUCH AND IS ALSO BEING EYED BY A LITTLE 4 YEAR OLD GREEN EYED MONSTER.
haha, it was only when i was randomly standing around enjoying my boredom that i realised it, i'm sorry! oh btw, i think people who are bored should treasure being bored because i realised that during the Os period, i envied the juniors who all went "I HAVE NOTHING TO DO NOWWW" in their ultra annoying whiny voice. it's like, awww, shut uppp! so yes, i cherish every moment of my boredom. today, i had about 20 minutes to spare before leaving the house and my mother's son wasn't home (i refuse to acknowledge him as my brother) and it was VERY quiet. so i just sat down on my couch and guess what i did? i sat and then i sat some more and i sat even more. and it was a very good 20 minutes of just sitting there being bored. i loved it.
so guys, treasure your boredom while it lasts.
GONE SHOPPING,12/15/2007 03:23:00 am
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 bored?
no, i'm not really bored, but i just found a new way to beat boredom. just go to some random friend's LJ and look at her friends and just start reading random people's blogs. some of them are really interesting, some of them by people you know, others by those you don't. sometimes you read the random quizes they do, or just hear about their day. sometimes you find pictures and even though you don't know who those people are, it's still nice to look at them and the funny stuff they do. sometimes it actually makes you happy to see people smiling back at you and the silly ways they pose, sometimes the photography effects are really nice too, sometimes you'd find solo pictures of themselves modelling or whatever, and it's nice to laugh at them or admire their skinny legs, sometimes you'd chance upon those camwhore kinds where you can feel the fun they are having through the pictures, sometimes you'd find one of those journals selling stuff and it's interesting to just browse around. C:
GONE SHOPPING,12/11/2007 02:21:00 am
Sunday, December 09, 2007 longest asswipe ever
did a hell lot of asswiping the whole week! on wednesday, met chrys for lunch and i was an hour late cus i didn't know what to pack for our marathon. spent a lot of time staring at my jeans wondering whether to bring them in case they wanted to go ice skating which they have been talking about for two years. in the end i brought my jeans. in the end we didn't go ice skating. asses.
we met becks and jolena later to do kettling at the heeren! was quite excited at first, but after listening to that bell ringringringing for two freakfreakfreaking hours, it got irritating, hahaha. had fun giving out sweets to the little kids and hoping their teeth start to rot though :D SANTA!
later on, chrys and i went to becks' house for a CABLE TV MARATHON. -_-" we initially wanted to have a 3 day marathon thing, but qian couldn't make it on wednesday, and it is qian's turn to hold it at her place. so we just went to becks' place. in the end chrys also couldn't stay the night, so she left at about 2am. then i was stuck with becks, ellen, and her father's teapot collection. i painted her toenails green :D
we woke up late and we were close to two hours late in meeting chrys, even qian was earlier than us and that definitely says something. sorry chryssy! then she gave us our presents she got from Hong Kong. i got a body shop vitamin E body butter (not sold in SG!) and a cookie monster bag! thanks chrys! omgggg, i absolutely LOVEEE the cookie monster bag, i'm thinking of starting a collection. oh, in cineleisure, there's this shop called MAAMEEMOO and they sell a lot a lot a lot of cute cookie monster keychains!
went to qian's house and our marathon officially began. i think we're getting old and tired cus we're watching less shows every year, but we could have watched more la, i had to rush off to meet theresse and some others for dinner before sending her off to the Philippines. i was an hour late in meeting them, heh, even i'm getting annoyed at myself for being late so much.
that night, becks told me that a very pretty gold thing arrived at her house. so exciting! met her the next day so that she could pass it to me. becks was right, i am getting pretty bored of seeing her. "rebecca again?!" hahahaaaaa. we went to paragon so that she could think of tasks for a station in some amazing race thing. it was really dumb la, haha, and really funny. we thought of tasks like, "take a picture with the doorman of Prada" or "go to Miu Miu and start meowing like a cat" or "get a guy to try on a bra in La Senza" or "go to iblues (a clothes shop) and ask where the ipods are" or "try to bargain a thousand dollar pair of shoes to 500 dollars, then go, oh i don't think i want it anymore". ahahah, funfunfun. becks has been laughing at me the whole day because i told her, "wow, polaroids these days very high tech ah, got digital screens also." it really takes much more than common sense to understand why this is so funny, let's see if you can get it. if no one comments about it, i'll just take it that no one gets it. REBECCA HOW, DON'T TELL ANYONE WHY. and neither should all the people she has spread the 'joke' with.
oh, i am quite peeved by the weather. on monday, i bet with jo one ice milo that it would rain the next day, but it didn't. instead, it rained on the nextnext day, the nextnextnext day, the nextnextnextnext day, the nextnextnextnextnext day and the nextnextnextnextnextnext day. meaning, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. GRRRR.
GONE SHOPPING,12/09/2007 11:42:00 pm
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 The Right Thing
it is really really hard to do the right thing sometimes. in my case, it's really hard to KNOW whether what you're doing is right or wrong. that's the thing, i don't KNOW whether it's right.
alumni band. yes, i was very keen on it, quite excited about it even, but when it starts swallowing up your time, i don't know whether i really want to do it anymore. these are my holidays, this is my youth, once it's gone, it's never coming back. i thought i was going to have fun, i thought i was going to relive all the good moments, but it's just isn't fun anymore. if i were still in school, i really wouldn't mind. i would have made it my duty to see that i do my part in the band, that i can actually do something for it and i would make band my life. but i'm not in the school anymore, i have a life, i want to get a job, i want to do so many things, but band is holding me back. i asked one of my seniors and she told me that then, i had no commitment, and band is all about commitment. and so i came to realise that if i probably want to have fun in band, i would have to commit as well, but such commitments has made band not fun anymore because i have to cancel so many of my plans for it. so when i'm at band, trying to have fun, i'm feeling sore about all the fun i could be having if i weren't at band. get it?
it's not only about the commitment, it's about peer pressure. i know that a lot of people would probably think that i don't like band anymore, i don't like my clarinet, i don't like music. that all these four years of me being in band, i've only been pretending to love band. what, so that i could hang out with all the cool band freaks? please. i need to clarify this, in my four years of being in band, of course there had been many times when i've wondered how it would be like if i were in a different cca, or complained and dragged my feet to come for band practice, there were many times when i was just tired of coming. but i stand firm in thinking that band has given me the best memories i've had, the best lessons i've learnt and if i had to repeat my secondary school life, i think i would have chosen to be in the band again. i genuinely loved band. and i think that it is this risk of people misunderstanding this that made me not want to withdraw myself from alumni band.
so i talked to my sister. she told me that i shouldn't care what people think, if it is making me unhappy, i just shouldn't do it. why do i torture myself by doing something someone else expects me to do? i'm not living for anybody, i have to live for myself, i shouldn't care about what other people say, that i'm not loyal or whatever, even if i am supposed to like something, and i don't like it anymore, don't do it. for a few days i really thought that was the way to go. but i can't bring myself to do it, i just can't. that's because i do care what people say, i do care how my actions affect things, i do care whether i'm doing the right thing or not!
this is so agitating.
well, so then i talked to my mum and she made the most sense i suppose (which is quite surprising cus some of the things she says can be a bit fluffy). she told me that she thinks it is good to have some commitment and be a bit more responsible, but she thinks i need to come out of my little hole and see that there are much more things in life than band. and if band is holding me back from getting a job, going for classes and 'developing myself further in life', then i should just drop it, because it's not as if i'm going to use band to land me a job as a musician or anything. she kept saying that i needed to broaden my horizons.
best to listen to mummy i guess. but i do still feel very guilty for dropping it because i've been told that the alumni band is already so short of people and how could i do this to them? so have i REALLY done the right thing or not?
decided to go to the doctor again, i was quite concerned as well about whether my flu is contagious. i don't think he could really figure out what was going on, he asked a lot of questions, i mean a lot, some really elaborated ones as well, like whether i cough because my running nose backflows a lot and irritates my throat. it's like erm... i don't know? in the end he just asked me whether i have any important events coming up, so i told him band. he asked what instrument i was playing, i told him clarinet. i also told him that at the last band practice, my voice became a lot worse after playing my instrument, and he gave me a lesson on vocal chords saying that if they get damaged, they would heal back, but there's a chance of some water bubble forming in the way and my voice could stay the way it is and can only be cured by micro-surgery, with that camera and blahblah. so he said that i should try to miss it and gave me a week's MC.
i told people that i didn't come for band because i was on MC and i won't be coming for the rest of practices because of the MC as well, but it's really just to cut the long story short and after all it was my deciding factor of not doing the performance. doctor's orders.
so yes, i am still unsure of what the right thing to do is, what if there IS no right thing? what if i just can't win? if i do go for band, i won't be very happy, i won't even be able to play that well because honestly my head feels as if it's choked up with mucus, my ears are blocked, my throat is blocked, it is difficult to play. it's alright la, janaine can do it. i think i should at least watch the performance though, at least show my face. the right thing to do is one thing, to be responsible is another, and i think it's quite irresponsible if i just don't come like that.
i feel like killing my conscience.
GONE SHOPPING,12/05/2007 01:51:00 am
Sunday, December 02, 2007 ADVENT!
it is advent! it is advent!
i'm am in succcch a Christmassy mood alreay, it is time to put up the decorations, start shopping for presents, start asking for home addresses, and best of all, START COLLECTING FREEBIES ON NEOPETS.
hahaha! it is the only time i play neopets actually. i am so happy, i had the best time i ever had with the Legionaries yesterday. went to Bark Cafe at Changi, ate and played pool, EVERYTHING SPONSORED! good food, good company, good games. see, we are hip and cool.
actually i think the word 'hip' is quite uncool. haha. pictures will be up soon. speaking of pictures, iphoto is whacked. sometimes i can burn photos into a disc, other times i can't. it was so embarassing to pass my juniors a disc supposedly containing the pictures from our section outing and then they tell me that the disc was empty. oh well!
i am sickkk. still. since that day i disappeared to Malaysia, Truly Asia. what i think is it's because my brother sneezed on me. it's really annoying, he does that all the time and this is not the first time i got sick from it. and what's more is that i think it's on purpose, if say we are in the car and i am sitting next to him, there is this big gap between us. he's looking out the window and suddenly when he feels sneezing, he would turn to me and sneeze. if that's not on purpose then i really don't know what to say. oh well! he's dumb. i dunno what to do leh, i've vistied the docs already. i've even finished my antibiotics already. somehow playing the clarinet has made my voice become worse as well, i don't pick up phones anymore. and my nose started running yesterday, and today was the first day of my period.
aiya, don't care la, as long as i still can shop can already, haha. went to the John Little sale today! i saw JESSIE. i met her at the Bark Cafe as well. why am i seeing her everywhere? oh, and i bought moomoo bed sheets! they're green and have cow prints on them, really cute cartoon cows. bought a lot of other rubbish. i wanted to get another set of bedsheets which were pink and said "Her Party" in cursive. my sister was all "why would you want to buy that? it say 'Hen Party'!" hahaha!
i want to go to ikea, i need a change of curtains, my curtains have ugly teddy bears on them.
