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Whee.. 1000 hits!

- 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, August 25, 2005

grrrrrr...

today is not exactly the worst day... but it wasn't that great.

basically my 'day' only started after i step out of my house in the evening to go for my jap classes bcos i woke up at... *sheepishly* 2 pm, heehee... and spent the afternoon playing this hotmail detective game.

and so... as usual, i hurriedly gobbled up my dinner and rushed to the bus stop becos i knew i was going to be late again. haha... fortunately for me, the bus arrived shortly after and i tot for once, i was going to be punctual!!! yAy! but my gosh... *slap forehead* i boarded a bus that is soooo slow i think i could run faster than it at times!! aAaArgh... i looked at the time indicated by my hp and countdown to the time my lesson would start... worriedly at first, then followed by angrily. i looked out of the window, hardly seeing the buildings in the dark, at the same time recalling how bright it was when i saw the same building last week. i onli barely made it in time last week lar!! grrr... i popped out my head into the aisle a few times and stared at the bus driver, wanting so much to just shout 'uncle why you drive so slow like a snail???' of cos i didn't lah... gRaaAr... i realli dun understand why lar. is it becos the bus would explode if he drove faster? the bus was oredi vibrating alot at it's 30km/hr speed...

at last.. it reached the stop and i ran off impatiently and angrily towards my class. of cos lesson oredi started. the moment i sat down and took out my book, the teacher called my name and asked me to go up and write some hiragana. -_-" i didn't revise at all!! jialat... i used the short few seconds b4 going up to memorise how to write, in the end onli rmb 4/5 of it. embarrassingly i told the teacher i cant rmb... *paiseh* luckily he's nice lar... so i got off easily. heh~ but still very paiseh!!! >_<

a few minutes later, another latecomer arrived. This person is someone whom i dun exactly hope to have too much interactions with cos of past encounters. but as luck would have it... he came over and requested to sit beside me. -_-" BUT WHY!!! there are sooo many empty tables around!!! why come and squeeze in the tiny table with me!!??? gRAaAar.... bobian. i removed my bag from the seat beside and made some space for him... which i tink he needed. *bleah* sent an sms to cw saying "My greatest fear happened... >_< HELP!!! *sob* "

sigh... and so throughout the lesson, i leaned towards the other end of the table as much as i could, enduring the vibration of the table and even my chair (??!!!) whenever he shook his leg. not just that, he had to try to start a conversation by asking stupid questions when i was trying hard to concentrate and catch what the teacher was saying. these were still not so bad... what realli turned me off was that he came to class with just a file with i duno what's inside becos throughout the whole lesson, he took out NO paper NO book NO pen NO nothing!!! what on earth did he pay the fees for??? to come to class to chat and disturb pple?? he didn't even bother listening to the teacher larh... cos halfway thru he would ask the teacher one really irrelevant and stupid question and the teacher would be a little shocked & confused cos he had no idea how the qn came abt.

but anyway i was superbly glad when the class ended and thankful that for this lesson, we didn't have to practise conversations with the person next to us. *pHeW* i brisk walked to the bus interchange as fast as i could, and while waiting for the bus, made sure he wun just pop out from some random corner and talked to me again. luckily for me, just when i saw him walking into the bus interchange from the corner of my eye, the bus i'm waiting for was setting off. wah piangz... heng ah!

nvm. shall pray for a better week next week!!

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yeah, lemme talk a little abt this hotmail detective game - The Kitty Caper. I found it from the email from 'Hotmail Staff' with the subject 'Can you solve the Kitty Caper mystery?' Looked a little interesting to someone who had been slacking and rotting and wasting time like nobody's business... so i gave it a try. haha... quite a brainless game, but i spent quite some time on it bcos for one, timid me is afraid of being frightened by... in fact anything as long as i got into the scary mode. so i do everything very slowly and cautiously. for two, i looked thru the clues many many times to find the exact code to the safe becos there are just too many possible combinations and lazy me was too lazy to turn the safe knob and try all of them. in the end i play until i damn sianz liao then gave up... actually oso bcos it's time to go for lessons lar. hahaha... yah, so.. give it a try if you are bored lor. and tell me what the safe code is... thankew!

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old ticket stub and receipts

Just now while trying to look for some spare change to return my sis some money... i found a stack of old ticket stub and receipts. they dated all the way back to 1997... when i was still in sec 1! some of the printing had faded so much i cant even read what it's for. yah... i was one of those ppl who didn't bear to throw away these tings so as to keep them for 'memory' sake. and so i looked thru every single one of them... really brought back quite a number of memories..

most of them are movie tickets. i always tot i'm one of the rare few who dun frequent the cinemas very often.. but wOah... i had actually watched quite alot of movies!! The Chinese Ghost Story and Titanic in 1997, The Prince of Egypt in 1998, zhen xin hua in 1999, Meet the Parents and Generation Y Cops in 2000, and Harry Potter in 2001. There were some which i never remember existed, not to say rmb watching it, for example Dinosaur and Winnie The Pooh. There were also some which i watched with my family when my father suddenly started bringing us out for movie outings... which onli lasted for ard 3 times watching shows like Mulan and Money No Enough. There was also one show which was not the blockbuster kind, we randomly picked it without knowing what it's all about but i ended up liking it particularly - At First Sight.

I still rmb in Sec 1 and 2, i watched most of the movies with this pri sch classmate who was my best fren then... and i was very proud that we were able to keep in contact and remained very good frens for so long. but somehow we drifted apart and didn't really contact each other anymore... sad huh. In Sec 3, I was supposed to meet this recently-found-old-fren for a show... but due to miscommunication, we ended up waiting for each other at different places. but i didn't know that, i tot i was tricked and eventually i angrily bought a ticket for myself and watched the show alone. haha... blame it on us not having a hp which was not tat popular at tat time yet. Sec 4... heh, I was treated to a few movies by some guy frens. could consider those as dates lah? haha... but at tat age, piangz... the so called 'dates' were hilarious and pathetic lar. i tink i onli wasted those guys money.... lol~

Then from 2002 onwards... after getting into a relationship, i kinda reserved all movie trips to one person. or maybe i just didn't keep the stub for movies which i watched with friends. Some shows brought back pretty vivid memories... while some i don't even rmb having watched them. guess that's just being normal right... haha..

other than movie tickets... there are a few receipts of meals and tickets of performances hanging ard. DHS's Kaleidoscope, CO and EDS performances, VJ Piano Ensemble's Eighty 8, and lotsa chinese drama performances: DHS's Rhapsody of Spring, TJ's Lu Yuan Zhi Ye, NTU's A Nantah Story, VJ's hai cheng zhi ye, and of cos the not to be missed HCJC's huang cheng ye yun whose tickets changed from the lousy easily torn pink paper to the good quality stiff smooth ones with coloured printings.. the price obviously increased too. heh..

and that's it. all the memories brought back to me from just tat stack of papers. sorry if this entry was too long and boring, cos it's going to serve the purpose of registering these memories. i've decided to throw away those tix and receipts. not tat i dun 'treasure' them animore... but i guess i cant keep them forever. i'm not a garang kuni, cannot always keep these kind of tings right.. after all, it's the memories that i want to keep, not those pieces of paper.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

UK Bound 05 - Monochrome

It's THE bash for all UK bound students. It promises to be a night where you can catch up with old friends and more importantly make new ones.

There will be various live bands performing.. and this year the theme is 'Monochrome' - black and white. Special prizes await the best dressed guy and girl. ^^

Tickets are priced at $18 (presale) and $20 (at door). If anyone is interested please contact me for tickets!!! =)

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movie + salmon

having not gone out proper for soooo long... a little dressing up and going down to town for a movie helped in lifting my otherwise down and bored spirits, even if the trip is onli a short 3-4 hours.

haha... quite a 'fruitful' trip. cos i managed to obtain some 'paparazzi' info from a fren who happened to catch another common fren red-handed with a girl... wOooHoOo.. good news sia!! but not a confirmed one. it shall remain to be seen... heehee! nonetheless, good luck to you man!! ;)

ended up watching bewitched cos the rest are scheduled too late and i dowan to watch The Maid!!!!!! aaAaArGh! >_< ok, bewtiched is not realli that fantastic a show. light-hearted, not much concentration needed, good to relax lor. but not a must watch show. enjoyed it though... and Nicole Kidman realli looked like a witch with her twitching sharp nose and with the way she moved her head and eyes. heh... it's actually quite fun being able to play a trick on someone and then rewind it when u know it's not the best way to deal with the situation. but we are not witches lar, there's onli one shot at everything.

i once declared smoked salmon as my favourite food. and now.. i'm going to declare again!! salmon sashimi is my very very favourite foooood!!!! wOoOhoOoo... why did i not discover it earlier?? haha... probably cos it's expensive lar. so didn't wanna spend the money to try it in the past. but piangz... i cant resist it anymore once the taste of it and the soya sauce and wasabi mix together and melt in my mouth. *droooools* it's yummylicious!!! *slurp* Loving it! ^^

kk i went out of point for a while. back to the topic. I know I'm a little slow... but i have yet to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. erm... anione keen in going for the weekday show?

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Monday, August 22, 2005

jaded

sojourn has come and go so quickly. i dropped by for a while to see see look look... with the freshers exchanging numbers on their own initiative, staying back after the end of the camp to join the seniors in playing frisbee, the objective of them bonding together has definitely been met. so sojourn can be considered successful right? =)

somehow my enthusiasm has disappeared. not that i dowan to know the freshers.. i just didn't feel the urge to approach them to know them. wonder if it's bcos i'm too old at heart... >_< have to intro myself as a Year 3 now. my gosh... tat sounds realli old. =( i tink the excitement in making new frens all over again has died down sometime ago... is this how being jaded feels like? *shrug* could it be the reason why most seniors usually go into hibernation mode after going into their 3rd year of studies?

i think i'm 'enjoying' rotting my holiday so much that i'm getting a little sianz of everything. starting to feel like an old lady again. too comfortable staying in my little room sleeping, watching whatever TV programmes is on, surfing aimlessly online... basically wasting my time and looking forward to i duno wat comes next. i still have many tings i've planned to do... only challenge is to fight off the lazy monster in me, which is quite a difficult task. looking forward to the end of the lunar 7th month, so that i can go and swim. but i guess i should start by buying a swimsuit first yah...

i'm so bored i dun feel like blogging either. tat explains the frequency of my posts. k.. shall not digress. i just wanna apologise for not being responsive to either the comments or the tagboard. i dun intend to 'dao' you, if u were mistaken. i just dun haf aniting to say. i'm seriously jaded i tink. k.. not exactly the best excuse around. but... yes i DO read what u said!! and... do keep them coming. i will reply... i will!! *trying to make a determined look*

i'm starting to talk nonsense. it's 3am now... yeah, time to sleep. didn't exactly sleep well last night at sentosa. wasn't sleepy enough. and now my eyelids are so heavy i'm sure i wun wake up till tmr afternoon. ;)

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Carnival@Marina

i'm sick. >_< ok... not any major illness, just the common sore throat-flu-cough that one usually gets. so... other than coughing my lungs out when my throat gets really itchy once in a while, i tink i'm on my way to recovery.

had been really really busy for the past week. why?? cos i've been giving out flyers at the carnival@marina everyday from 10am - 10pm, including slacking hours. (shhh!!) so everyday after coming home, i fell asleep almost immediately after i showered. very tired. x_x and that's why i was able to post the previous entry from there and at tat time.

it wasn't the most enjoyable place to be at for such a long period of time. no air-con... constant tanning (even though there are quite a number of trees to obtain shade from, i still got darker)... expensive and not the most delicious food ard (i da bao-ed food there almost everyday but my fren always managed to get lotsa free food for all of us!!)... and the toilet conditions make me wonder what's the longest i can endure. the situation was made worse when i had to drink lots of water after i fell sick, setting a record of going to the toilet more than 10 times in a day. >_< eeks!

it's not totally bad though. for one, i finally know my way around marina south and pretty well too!! at least i found 2 swings there so next time i know where to go if i wanna play!! heehee.... during the 'free' times, i explored the carnival. watched the dynamic shows where u see the fighter jets(?) flying around turning 360 degrees and doing other stuns while 'dropping bombs' which earned a loud scream from me -_-" *paiseh* haha.. oso went over to the total defence static displays side where i got some temporary tatoos from the Guards and the Navy! haha... took the navy ride to look at the sea display too. actually we onli get to tour the LTD(did i rmb correctly?), the one which helicopter can land on one. well... not realli that interesting considering the fact that i had climbed my share up and down the many boats & ships at the maritime museum in sweden. onli difference is the steps of the LTD is not so steep... so easier to climb and descend. heh..

of cos, on National Day itself during the NDP, i also stole a few glances off the big screen at the kite-flying area. managed to catch the jets flying across the sky above me!!! oOoOoh... so exciting!!! hehe.. and of cos, the not to be missed fireworks!! but the funny thing is... both the fireworks for the Padang and for Marina can be seen. So, greedy me keep turning my head left and right to look at both fireworks... in the end not realli able to take in the beauty of any of them. =( serve me right. >_<

well, met alot of ppl at the carnival too. managed to find a 'lost' fren from vj.. saw a vj teacher.. met a future colleague, a few 'imperialists', a fren's gf, an ex-classmate... blah. cant rmb liao. was oso glad to meet the group of pple i worked with and oso the ones working in the neighbouring booths, had fun while we were 'taking breaks'.. haha...

all in all, though tiring... it was an interesting experience. but doubt i'll wanna do it again!! not for now!!! x_x heehee...

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

happy national day!!!

Happy 40th Birthday Singapore!!!! coming from Marina South at 9th August, 8.39pm!!! just watched both the fireworks at marina AND padang at the same time... it's LOVELY!! woah! only thing is... i keep moving my head to the left and right... didn't really enjoyed it as much as i think i would have if i was not greedy and just focus on just one. haha.. but nvm!!

as to why i can blog at this time at this place... haha... tell u more later when i'm much free-er!! i am damn tired... x_x heehee... =P

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Friday, August 05, 2005

which type of supreme pizza are you?

You are a Chicken Supreme Pizza!
Be it spicy, roasted or ham, you love them all! Just like your attitude towards friends, you accept and love your friends for who they are. You are also faithful to your family and friends; someone who can be trusted and depended on. One bite into this pizza and you'll love it for life!

Which type of Supreme Pizza are you?
Brought to you by Pizza Hut

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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

how's ur paper today?

at last... i managed to talk to a few of my coursemates, and to my beeg beeeg SuRpRiSe, i didn't do tat badly after all!!! ^^ so happy!!!! yeah.. thanx alot to those who offered words of comfort. appreciate alot! =) ah ha... but charlotte u are right, even if others did similarly well, it doesn't mean i shouldn't work as hard or even harder next year. haha... i will strive to work harder next yr!!! erm... tat shall b my new academic year resolution? bah...

the announcement of exam results reminds me of smtg which never fails to disappoint me. not sure how many ppl know this, but i hate it whenever someone asked me how i did for my exam after i'm done for a paper. it's not that i dun appreciate the person's concern for me.. of cos i am more than happy if that someone is genuinely concerned over my studies. but what's disappointing is when this person already have a conclusion, have already passed me a sentence, even before i say aniting. i'm quite sure many of u out there experienced this before - no matter what your reply was, that person will ignore any difficulties you mentioned and only believe you if your reply was: "the paper was blardy easy lar!" all your stress and frustration and panic experienced during the papers will all be ruled out by "that's what you always say but in the end still do so well... dun bluff lar~" ... ... oh well.. how very understanding a relative/friend/classmate/anybody you have huh.

if u are not going to believe what i say... why bother asking in the first place?? u were not in my shoes, u didn't see the stress i've been thru, u didn't see the panic in me, u didn't feel the peer pressure around me, u din know exactly how different the situation was from b4, u have no right u to pass such a judgement on me just becos i was lucky enough not to screw up in my previous attempts. u have no idea how afraid i was each time that lady luck will stop smiling on me for that round.

if u dun intend to believe me when i tell u i was really worried, if u dun intend to share the same amount of joy and relief when i found out that my results didn't screw up, then i dun think u shud even bother asking me 'so how was ur paper?'. tat's y i dun like to answer that question... cos i'm tired of ppl not believing in what i've said. it's too frustrating and disappointing especially when those are the times when i'm so hoping for a person to just understand what i'm going thru and give some words of comfort.

but then again, i guess i shud be happy that i can even complain about this... cos that means i have been very lucky so far~ however, even if i did screwed up before, i think onli very few would truly know and believe.

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