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- Viv, 19August09

YES! I solved it! *beam*
It was an HTML error.

- Viv, 03August09

There's some problem with blogger.. or is it just my blog??
I cant seem to be able to post anything else without affecting the page layout. =(
Hopefully it's a blogger problem and they will solve it soon.

- Viv, 02August09

Hiyee.. Welcome!
It's a new look again... I hope you will like it. =)

- Viv, 12July09

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..Rambling..

Thursday, April 29, 2004

i like today!

woke up in the morning seeing london raining cats and dogs. was a little detered from going to sch.. but still turned up for the 9am lecture in hope of getting some exam tips. heehee.. stopped raining by the time the 2 hours lecture ended. came back to enjoy the last portion of udon.. heh~

and then... the weather is just right! i like it after rain stops. somehow everything seems so peaceful, calm, serene... no shoutings from pple playing in the garden, no glaring sunlight, even the leaves stop their whisperings. missing the rainbow though, heh.. i dun like winds, i like the gentle breeze.. i like the 'filtered' sunshine from the clouds.. it's not too hot, it's not cold, it's cooling. it's really a very nice feeling.. as though everything slowed down, nobody is rushiing u for anything, the time has stopped. makes one feel very peaceful all of a sudden. nice.. would b great if i can afford the time to just sit down, drink some tea, eat some snacks, and spend some time alone either looking at the scenery or bring back memories of the past. even better if there's a rocking chair or a swing!! haha.... sounds like some old woman ya.. =P but then, that's realli a nice feeling... to b void of worries, to just enjoy the time doing nothing...

right, enough of my elderly thoughts.

by the way, just in case anyone hasn't bought his/her air tix back to spore yet, lee's travel is having an offer of 385pounds (exclude tax) singapore return.

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

wah... didn't realize i hafen blogged for sooo long. dun haf the discipline liao... hahaa...

had jed's roast pork on wednesday! it's fantabudelicious!!!! hahaha.. together with roasted potato... exactly like a meal in some restaurant. was a wonderful meal, except for the little game suggested by mr lim choon sern - whoever picked the smallest card had to cOnSuMe the leftover fats. uRGh... i suay suay tio two rounds. aAaAaaAah... sTUPid jUnsHEng!!!

met up with the italy gang in four seasons on thurs. as usual, it started off with sharon's blur-ness again - changing to the northern line instead of the circle line. heh~ luckily she realize b4 it's too late! heehee... was fun being with them again, feels as though we r still touring(miss jac though... =P). loiter in HMV after tat, and we come across the grossest, most disgusting, gruesome and bloody show: the Nosepicker! hahaha..

nothing much in the weekend... except i got to eat the jap rice jacqueline gave me!! woOhOo.. nice! but onli enough for 1.5 meals.. still, thaNx foR the riCe!!

finally, sch started today. it's realli so so fast.. tot i juz returned from my trip onli. met some pple in sch... then i realize how far behind i am in my study!! dengz.. still tot i was considered disciplined already.

but... i AM disciplined in watching xun qin ji!! yAaAAy!! it's showing in spore now (or has it ended?) and i tot i wun get to watch it! until jingye showed it to us while we were waiting for the roast pork to b ready... all thanx to him tat i get to finish watching 10+ episodes in 3 days!! and tat's after lots of voices in my head asking me to concentrate on my studies.. well done... *aDDicTeD* kena scolded by jingye for having low immune system when i told him abt my withdrawal syndrome. nonetheless, i juz got another batch (continuation) to watch!! (haha...like some drug addict who found drug..) hiakz.. *hAppY*

oh my goodness! a guy juz opened my room door w/o knocking!! upon seeing me and my roommate, he quickly apologised: 'sorry.. i'm on the wrong floor.. i shud b upstairs..' so he lives above me. dengz! he doesn't look drunk... how can anyone get the wrong room!!!! *aMuSeD*

having the sun setting only at 8.30pm is good... i used to prefer the night, but duno since when, i started to like the day instead. mayb it's bcos the light doesn't make me feel down as easily as the darkness does. the weather is getting better and better too. it doesn't freeze anymore and we actually feel warmth.. and sometimes heat from the sun!! everyday sees pple having pinic in the garden or sometimes sunbathing..topless!! haha... i've seen only the guys doing tat so far... sorry to disappoint! :p and duno y, even until now, at midnight, the garden my room is facing is still so 'lively'... full of shoutings and laughter. and sometimes when it goes beyond a certain limit, we can simply classify it as noise.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

right.. another zuo bo day.. wonder y do i always waste my day when i'm alone in my room. isn't it the best time to concentrate on study...?

very full now. *bLoAteD* had a four seasons meal with huifang just now. just the two of us and we ate 31 pounds worth of food. dengz..

my phonecard had run out of credit. and i dowan to buy a new phonecard cos i know i wun finish using it b4 it expires.. BUT, i need to make a call tml!! how... anyone who cant finish his/her phonecard credit mind selling it to me??

yesterday the sky roared for the first time in London. or at least the first time during my stay here. it is the very common kind of thunder which u hear so frequently in spore.. and it is considered the not so loud kind. so the only reaction i have after hearing it is: wah.. first time in london eh~ finally going to rain properly instead of juz drizzling? whereas on the other side of the room, my roommate looked a little surprised. after a few moments of silence, she asked: "that's thunder right?? not some plane crashing into buildings right?" hmm.. wat can i say? the fear of living in London? it is amusing to hear someone equate thunder to that, but.. cant rule out the fact that london IS a dangerous place to live in yAr.. that aside, mayb this can b considered a 'cultural or.. country - shock'? just like a few months ago, when i was so excitedly prepared to go out of the hall to 'feel' some snow upon seeing it, and she was just sitting on her chair saying 'it's quite rare to c london snows... in china, it would snow so heavily that the snow would accumulate so deep that... blahblabh...'

d/led the movie chicago from val after watching it that night after dinner. watched it again... and, repeatedly watched the part where they sang and dance 'he had it coming'. was really impressed by how they fit in little snipets of the 'real world' into the dance. also the matching of the movements of their mouth with the lyrics with exact timing seems to bring 'life' to the stage. nvm if u dun understand wat i'm trying 2 say.. i'm juz bad at expressing myself. nonetheless, that dance makes me feel like dancing too!! esp the 'couple dance'.. er.. i tink it's latin dance?? it's so cool.. so energetic.. so 'forceful'.. brings life to me!! heh.. i wanna learn how to dance like that!! but... no talent. no money. =( still, it brings back the desire to perform again. the feeling of being on stage. i dowan just to be in some small little skits. i wanna b part of a serious play. feel like joining some drama organisation. but.. these are just desires... again, i dun haf the quality for tat. =(

feel like doing alot of tings this summer. just 1+ month more. cant wait to fly back...

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Sunday, April 18, 2004

today jed arrived back in london and appeared in the hall just at the right time - dinner time! but the FIRST ting he said after seeing me is 'how come u r so dark?'

-_-"

thanx to the italy trip and the hyde park pinic yesterday.

still, i'm very happy today!! haha.. cos i've finally accomplished something i always wanted to do and is considered an achievement! my black pepper chicken is a success!!!! haha... well... not tat successful i would say, cos not salty enough. but can always make the excuse of 'healthy diet' mah! at least still edible and the meat are completely cooked. *pHeW~* heh.. thanx to lu and junsheng for doing the tough job of deboning the drumsticks. otherwise wun taste as good... hee~ also, thanx to the corn flour which has been in my kitchen for so long and nobody claims it. so i juz borrowed a little bit... heee~ (lalala.. nobody knows..) er, this is the most complicated dish i know how to cook.. so, dun expect anything better out of me for now! =P

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Saturday, April 17, 2004

today went to the hyde park with the linsteadians to "enjoy" the sun. started with a simple game of frisbee. no matter how i throw or where i aim, the frisbee seem to onli end up in one place.. =( after that they continued with soccer. i didn't join in cos i juz dun like playing soccer, leg coordination too lousy. after tat had lunch - tuna and ham sandwich. the one with the onion and BBQ sauce taste like those fast food kind of burger! delicious..

after tat, played ultimate frisbee. sporean(+PR) against malaysian(+ a bruneian). we won!! cant rmb it's 10-1 or 10-2 or.. ? tis being my first time playing frisbee, i can say i'm very satisfied with my improvement! hee.. however i was too clumsy in catching the frisbee, halfway my lip kena hit by a flying frisbee and knocked against my tooth. bled.. ='( *pAiNpAiN*

was suppose to leave at 3pm when the game finished. but.. we dragged on and continue with volley ball tossing and finally ultimate captain's ball! same grouping this time but with lionel and charlotte excluded to enjoy their time under the shade. urgh.. lost tis time by 11-15 or 12- 15 or 13-15.. cant rmb again.. was too tired and leg kena blister. =( finally returned to the hall at 5pm.

made soup for dinner! er... for our first try, i tink it's not bad!! heh... taste very nice esp with rice. yUmYuM.. juz tat i cant realli appreciate the soup cos of my lip 'injury'. =( well.. hopefully tml's black pepper chicken wun b a disaster!

shud b watching anime later... (no.. i wun b adicted to it.. my determination is strong! haha) aaah.. going to spend one whole day not studying at all. to tink tat i still allocated today to study my lousiest module. oh no.. no time..

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Friday, April 16, 2004

if anyone bothered to visit my blog often enough and realized i hafen been blogging for so long, it's not bcos i'm too bz, although i shud b. but... it's bcos my life is so uneventful now. i dowan it to b too eventful though, cos under the disguise of being in my room 'studying', i need the time for real study after wasting those time trying to get the engine started. still trying to find the unseen lecture notes and finish those undone tutorials. i cant believe i actualli didn't touch the tutorials of 2 modules!! how did i survive the past 6 months of tutorial lessons without getting caught... *wOndEr*

apart from the uneventful life, there's so much so much tings i wanna say. there's so much i want to tell the whole world. but i juz cant get those thoughts organised. simply duno wat and how to say. i know i shudn't keep tings to myself... cos there'll come a pt when everything juz explodes. but.. no pt telling anione when i know i'll get over it after the hols, after sch starts, after i see crowds of pple again. it's not just loneliness... it's something else..

perhaps it's tis moody feeling of mine tat's causing me to look sad. it's tis 'there's nothing to b happy abt' feeling that is not making me smile or laugh like i used to. tis is not the expression i want to face pple with. somehow, i hope to just lock myself up in my room and not see anyone until i feel normal again.

i'm missing home. finally i'm homesick. i want to b back in my room in tat little flat in aljunied. the place where i know no matter wat i do, i wun b judged, i wun haf to worry abt aniting, i'll still b loved, i'll b fine, i'll b happy. everything will b alrite. looking forward to after exams, to tat 13hr flight. nothing in london interests me animore.

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Sunday, April 11, 2004

bOriNg. bOriNG. boRinG.

that is the onli word i can use to describe these few days. weirdly, i didn't feel extremely excited after returning from italy. perhaps was too tired, or perhaps i'm aware of the lack of time i'm facing. hafen laughed whole-heartedly after reaching london. mayb it's bcos there's no one here to make me laugh. no one ard me. loneliness sets in again...

must be my room again. ceiling too low, window too small. besides my chair, there's no where else i can 'settle down' other than my bed. can survive one whole day without walking, tat's excluding toilet breaks. was told tat qin hui, the one who harmed yue fei, is still in hell in his 50cm by 50cm prison cell. guess he must haf gone insane oredi. cos i'm getting crazy too.

i'm now black! nobody believes me when i said i'll get very dark after a little exposure to the sun. feel so yuan wang~ c... now here's the proof. but i'm the onli one who's the victim.. the rest will juz 'oh.. i din know it'll b tat bad'... sigh, just my fate..

anyway, something to add on to the italy trip. a WoOdlOUse ran across my pillow~!!! eeeks.. freak me out.. luckily it was caught by jac b4 the next night. pHeW~ also, i was 'invited' to 'help out' in a street performance, like those in covent garden. aAaRgh.. initially tot onli the italians would know of it. but seems like jac took a few secs video of it too. ... ...

doubt i'ld b blogging for the next few days. or even the next few weeks. cos nothing interesting would happen and there's nothing much to write except:

boRinG. bOriNG. boRing.

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Thursday, April 08, 2004

i'm bACk!! stepped into my room-sweet-room at 3am this morning. haha... cant believe i actualli miss London!! the all-so-familiar 'excuse me' and 'thank you' make me feel sooo good as compared to 'attenzione' and 'grazie'. had ALOT of trouble when i was ordering food or buying stuff in italy. haha..

First - being my first trip out of UK, i've got alot of firSts!! first time carrying a backpack, first low-budget airline flight, first passport stamp(other than spore and london), first train ride(eurostar is soooo much better!! no ear pain..), first manual lever flush toilet, first london taxi ride(i din know there's no front seat in london's cab, i actualli tried to open the front door.. dEngZ!), first gondola ride, first 4 scopes of ice-cream at one go, blahblahblah.. the list just goes on and on...

Eleven - the word i would use to describe this trip. Bus eleven is our onli mean of transport from the 3rd day onwards when touring in a city. how many km we walked, i'm not too sure... juz know we would start walking from ard 9am to 7pm on average, with the exception of meal time.

however, all these walking didn't realli help in slimming me down..haha.. cos somehow the gelato in italy is sooo good i tink i had a total of more than 12 BIG scopes of it!! also, haf been eating quite a number of two courses meals... heeheee... so, just hope tat there's no horizontal development lor..

took a total of ard 200 fotos. will try to put them somewhere for easy access. though i'm not too sure how long i'll take to do tat. it's time to start studying... even if i allocate 1 week for each module, i still wun haf enough time to study b4 exam comes.. =( will try not to slack too much... for now, 3 basketfuls of laundry to do.

ciao baby! LOL...

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