Thursday, December 30, 2004
just came back from watching aladdin the magical musical pantomime. basically its sg edition done by wild rice productions.
NIICEEE!!!
okok...lemme get it straight
[NOte to huimin: dont read until u watched. I dun wanna spoil it for u, den u wun enjoy the show tmr]
1) There's good audience participation. Cause it's relali for kids, so there's alot of kids, who are super sporting. And since this time we were invited by an Indian com company, wole theatre was filled with people who were invited, and i;ve learnt from mamma mia that these people are generlaly more sporting then the general public.
E.g.:
(i) Cause this is an sg edition, aladdin is tricked by the uncle to travel to Malaysia. Aladdin here is some happy go lucky, kinda simple minded child (20 yrs old). So aladdin walks down the ailse to the stage followed by his uncle. Picutre it: This excited boy who thinks he is gong to malaysia for an advanture jumoping and (actually his uncle wants him to help him get the magic lamp) and a scowling magician strolling behind..looking reri irritated. So the scrpt goes
Aladdin: are we there yet?
Magician: no
Aladdin: are we there yet?
magician: No!( in slighyl louder tone)
Aladdin: are we there yet?
And before the magician can scream "NO!"
This boy in the audience sitting beside the ailse said: YES!
HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!den the boy was grnning so proudly at himself. and he was looking ard at the audience response (all were laughing oso lah), and he realised the magician was pointing his staff at him from diagonally behind and scowling sommore and got a rude shock.
(ii) Ok, for those who don;t rmb the story, Aladdin follows the magician to a cave (in the play the cave is Batu cave-malay for rocks in malaysia). They are supposed to open the cave with a password (abracadabra) and the magician makes aladdin endanger his life to get inside to get the lamp within 5 secs without touching ani of the other diamonds and riches inside or the cave will tumble and fall in.
So the scene begins:
Both of them in front of the cave. And the wizard goes: abrabanana!! and the password happens to be wrong. So aladdin fishes out a book: Common Internet passwords for hackers, and uses the list of passwrods there, one of which:"password"
So any way they carn get the password, and asked the audience" do u noe the passwords?"
Den some kiddish smart alecs saed"OPEN SESAME!!" OPEN SESAME!!!" and sounded so proud of themselves
The magician scowled, narrowed his eyes, and saed: tell u all a secret? open sesame is for ali baba"
Then some voice from some corner of the theatre went:The password is Aladdin is handsome!!!"(which is true by the wae-shall eleborate later)
WHAHAHAH!!!
magician: could we change the noun of tht?
So anywey he went to this man in the audience, and asked: may i have ur nae please?
Name: mark
"what do you do?
"erh...*looks around* ...work"
" I NOE YOU WORK! WHAT KIND OF WORK!"
" erh...pr"
"that's not a real job..*scowls*
So the password shall be: mark does pr for handsome aladdin"
WHAHAH!!!
Any way this guy mark is like the butt of jokes can. After that the princess jasmine (woh is still in sg) appears onstage pining for her aladdin, and asks the audience where did he go?so the audience answer" ,MALAYSIA!" and then she asks" bt where in malaysia?"
tht guy ventured" JOHOR BAHRU!" anyhow lah. So the princess was like: are u trying to b an obstacle in the course of true love sir? and his wife (or gal-fren) beside him pointed at the poor embarrassed man and nodded vigorously. HAHAHA!!
(iii) Ok, so aladdin enters the cave, den theres this ring sticking out of the wall. The prop they use for the ring to show tht the diamon sparkles is this ring tht flasehs red light lah ok. So Aladdin looks at the ring: wow! ...(suppoesd to continue: can u imagine if i bring tht back to jasmine?, but before he finsihed,
Someone in the far left corner of the audience: ITS A BOMB! NOT A RING!
HAHAHHAA!!!
sometimes its great to haf kids tht are so sporting in the audience. and NO, its NOT planted. i;m sure.
2) Script is super funni. Havne;t laughed like tht in a loong time. Its not skapstick, and not cliche humour.
e.g.
b4 the show they sold party bags lah ok..with partypoppers and stuff, so up to parents if they want to buy for their kids. Then during the show in the cave scene,
wizard goes: " if u have the party bag, take out the light stick and wave 3 times and say the password with me. if u dun haf it, u can call the hotline: 1800-MYPARENTSARECHEAP, or go to the website www.stingyparents.com (at this point my mum saed, it shld be www.stingysponsers.com)
3) Now for best part. Robin goh *swoons* is hadnsome*swoons*!!! hunky rather*swoons*!!and good looking*swoons* ok..anyone who watched Forbidden city twice ( on tv and on stage) will know that lah, but forbidden city is different!forbidden city the cast is covered in swamps of cloth and in qi paos. Aladdin he wears this sleevless shirt and better still- topless at times. *swoons*
Too bad his untouchable. sigh. super good looking!!!
this carn go on sam! *slaps* youcarn keep going to the theatre everytime coming back all inspired and lovesick while knowing you will never haf the skills to appear up there!!! at this rate i'll haf to ban myself from the theatre!!! forever!!!
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
11:57 PM
# # # Monday, December 27, 2004
*yawns* *stretches* still in bali at internet cafe. nice weather. nice place. the villa i stayed ih has our private pool!! like every unit has 1 pool. and the chefs come in to the private villa i nthe morning to cook breakfast in ur own villa *smiules dremily* tropical pareadise or wat?
Did parasailing and jrt skiing yesterdae!!blog more abt it when i go back. dn shall blog eveyrthing at one go. perhaps shall blog more abt something more sober now.
My blog always existed purely to entertain you readers or as a bucket for throwing in memories which i want to recall. Now this is realli to pour out my thoughts. Don;t read it if you don;t want to waste time.
i should realli reflect on how lucki i was. About the narrow shave first and foremost. I came out of the very place the tsunami hit and flattend, and entered the country the earthwuake struck, going to the place where terrorist alerts is sooo high tht there are soo few tourists in bali, and coming out of all of it unscathed. NOt hurt at all. To top it off, my sis appeal is apporved, and there are a thousand million things this holidaes tht haf been going so well for me.
Merry x'mas? hah! The Pope asked for world peace on X'mas day. Reporterd in Jarkata Post headlines on the morning of 26th december was:POPE WISEHS FOR WORLD PEACE. Lift your heads from the behind the papers and, WHAM! Images of Tsunami sweeping across 8 countries reported on CNN. Lucky me. Just left Phuket less than a month ago. Sheraton Laguna I stayed in is totlaly flattened by the tsunmi. Devastated. Gone. Nothing left. Nada Nada Nada. Zilch. Didn't know, even when I saw the CNN news heading: Major Hotel Destoryed in Phuket. Didn't really think abt it until my uncle mentioned. 5 daes i was there,I was at the beach. Can imagine my self ling by the beach, playing wif my sis n the surf board when this 10 m w2ave comes and hit me. sae bye bye to sam. It had never been this real and threatening.
Then yours truly thinks back.It was a real beautiful resort island. I did mention it was a total tropical paradise. Told my mum I'd bring her back there to Sheraton once i get my income. The next thing you know, its gone. I annot express how sad it is. Think Titanic. The elegant ballroom? After the iceberg struck, its growing moss in the deep end of the Ocean? The grief will never be so rel until you experience it yourself. Now I think of the place i had been in, the lazy river swimming pool, the buggies, the villas, the marketplace, e.t.c. And you imagein them being strewn over with rubbish, corpses, e.t.c. i mean after you haf a feel of how close a shave it was, you can imagine youself , practically feel yourself being there, swept over by the wves. Stil lcan't imgaine how narrowly i missed it? How bout this: my phyket trip was booked for this time, but because bali trip coincided wif it, my mum pusged the phuket trip foreward. And perhaps its not just a coincidence tht i;m like, onli a few km away from the epicentre itself. But nothing will be as bad as this:
Thought abt the driver who served us. He had 2 young children under 10 and sometimes haf no job. hardworking honest man. Struggling to earn random bahts. I sincerely hope he was in the town or in babngkok visiting his brother in law, or in phuket town which was not affected.
Then there was 12 women hu own a massage service. they braided my hair at the beach, and there's one young girl with them, prob their daughter or something. They set their stall right on the beach, having a few beds underneath a few umbrellas in a shady corner of it. I sincerely pray they were serving massaging some other customers somewhere else(since they do house calls too)
There was a man with 2 pretty sisters has a stall next to thje sea. They sold beach slippers, which i bought 3 pairs, did tatoo, where i did my 2 tatoos, and sold other pretty stuff. The man also arranged travels to offshore islands. We used his services to visit phiphi. NOone can beleive the stadnerds of service he provides. Call someone providing such services in say, Europe, or even in Sg, at 10,30 pm, and see what they'llsay. They won;t pick up our phonel or tell you its waay off their office hours. This guy willingly serves you if you choose to call him up at confirm your trip or inquire at 10.30.he has a wife and parents at home. I sincerely hope that they were closde for business that day.
Talk about Phiphi. How about the men who brought us off on the boat to the off shore islands.They procided free fruits and drink on the way, demonstrated such excellent service, helpong me when i kicked my leg against the stupid propeller when i was snorkling. I hope his off duty.
I can;t express the level of gratitude I felt at their exceptionally and unnaturally high standards of service. But its there all right.
Then there was a high school boy working at the Sheraton as summer vacation. He helped us get around on the first day. I hope he had stoped workled by then.
Even the woman selling drinks by the beach. She helped my mum when my mum injured herself in the sea. The image of her and her friend laughing gaily by the beach at a joke always stayed in my mind.I pray that they were not around.
I pray that everyone of those staff that offered their excellent services are unaffected, living somewhere.
Perhaps I sound like i;m trying to make alot out of something minor, make myself sound profound, like trying to be deep. Cause tht;'s how I feel when ppo start blogging about such things. hing is, it really never seem so real before, that people you know and people who you remember may not be around anymore. My dad told the driver at the end of the 5 days: we'll find you again for your services when we come back." God knows where is he.
Or perhaps you may think that we will always be untouched by damage, that even if i was over there right now i'll unlikely be hurt in aniway. But the danger is real this time. It is. I can already imagine myself being washed away had I eben there. Usually its hard to imagien ourselves caught in an earthquake, or volcano eruption. Or even caught in a fire. But i can very well imagine myself being caught by this killer wave.
When the kilelr wave first struck I was thiking, for centuries humans try to determin why these stuff happen. ANd I don;t mean faults in earth, plates, tidal stuff. I mean those things about religion. god. Humans keep tryoing to determine if all these wre pre determined by fate, by god. After thekiller wafes struck places like Thailand, India, Indonesia, detroying all their busineses, I thought: Who would be so heartless to unleash such a horror upon the humble and poor people of hte world? Thus was convinced that things happened individually which utterly no regard for people they affect, damage they inflict. That there is no god, nor fate, or heaven or anything that synchronizes or causes these events.
But on closer thought, perhaps its not. This event happened day after christmas, on the humbler nations of the world. Think about it: It went 3000 km around the world to Somelia, via India, Thauland, Sri LAnka, from Indonesia, doing only minimal damage to Malaysia, and did not affect Sg. Malaysia is kinda devekloped, Sg is more developed, and it nicely skipped all other first world countires. Perhaps it is as what a surviver and witness said: God unleashing his anger. Its not just a ntaural disaster, You think it is? Its the effect of global warming, rising sea waters, reclining coast lines that worsens the whole disaster. Today the death toll stands at 40 000. If it was 40 yrs ago, i bet the damage was minimized by at elast half.It is no coincidence that damage increases per natural disaster as time passes, taking into account the severity of each disaster.
Don;'t know if anyone read the article about the humbling of the human race in the Today paper, but it makes sense. This is what i saw today: an indoneian woman by the streets, sitting on the pavements carrying a baby in her arms. The baby is sick, tht is obvious. She was putting a towel over his forehead. There were flies ard them, and she was so weak she could barely put her hand out to ask the occasional by passer for money. Tht very night, my sis was sick too. She was put to bed in an airconditioned room, covered with 2 thick blankets, fed by the my mum, grnadmother, dad e.t.c, and showered concern by the entire family (13 of us in all). When my grandmpther put a towel over her forehead i was remninded of the scene i saw earlier. Not saying anything. Just thatm poverty nvr bothered me earlier. They r common in thailand, hew york, italy, allmost everywhrere i go for holidays. Onnly now is it so humbling. And te tsunami chooses to hit and sweep these people away. Wheere half way across the world, americans are buying 1.6 million dollars motion stimulators, few million dollars satellites e.t.c. for 5 yr old children.
Patong town is badly hit. Tht was where i did my shopping. i wonder about the state of the woman with her barefooted child in the dvd shop. HOw about the man with amputated limbs?
My msg this yr: count your blessings. This tsunami is notjust a natural disaster. Its probably a sign or an omen. Now its hitting humble folk who struggle to earn just a few dollars a day. Fifty yrs later, its gong to hit the main cities and those rich countries are going to feel the pinch. Had it occured in Thames, London will be underwater. Had it occured in Europe, it would cause a crack from Rome to Berlin. Had the Earthquake "rip through the San Andreas fault in california..it would cause over a trillion dolalrs of damage"Count your blessings. We have been spared. This is like nature's warning to us. Stop messing around with them. Now the poor have "beared the brunt of the suffering", take heed of the warning.
With gratitude and gratefulness comes satisfaction. Count your blessings and stop moaning. Esp to those idiotic blog keepers forever moaning that they have not enuf money to buy their damned it branded goods.
now here;s my new yr resolution:
To really get into medicine. Before this, I went ard sourcing information on other schools, and hose consultants asked: are u realli reali passionate abt getting into medicine? And i was like: uh..more passionate abt it then other choices. Im ean, i want to b a doctor so i can go overseas, to 3rd world countires to help others, but if i were offered some other career options i would still consider.Apparantly to be a doctor you must realli be passioante abt helping others, cos its not onli abt science, its abt helping society, and must have real edurance to put up with the long hours. Now i realli realli want to do it.
Forget world peace, its vague, unrealistic, cliche, and onli serves to please the people. here's my new yr wishes. here;'s how u can achive world peace.
1) That everyone is ensured a shlter they can call home and an opportunity to a decent means of making a living. That no one has to be forced into begging, or prostitution, or sex trade. As long as everyone has a stanerd meens of lviing, they can afford their basic nessaticies. As long as they have a shelter its fine. Then no one will be cheated into going into sweatshops, and child labour is not needed nor exploited.
2) That racism and prejudice is exterminated. Eliminated. Gone. Vanished. Vanquished. Racisim and prejudice is the root of all evil, wars, and violence. If everyone can see past each other's sklin colours, accept people for who theyare, and see all people as one human race instead of segragated into varoius races, it would be the gretest gift of all time.
3)That everyone has the right to a good government. Seroiuslt sad to hear the state of indonesia.Corruption is soo rampant. For example, postage stamps. The sorry state of the country is so much so that the stamp on postage stamps, it can be erased and the stamp can be reused. Little attention to infrastructure. The roads are all flooded. Driver there said that the draaingae system is underdeveloped, so water and rainfall has no where to go, streets are always flooded. Dopn;t get me staarted on what tht might lead to. Of course besides inconvenince of walking there's alweas the threat of malaria etc. pure speculation on my part lah, but i iamgein tis possible. In fact, lack of or poo infrastructure is the problem in affected countires now. Perhaps this is not bad enuf. Bad governments in Russia carried tests regarding hormones on babies in hospitals in the 70s without the parents' consent, leading them to become gays and crookeds. I shudder everytime i read tht. Its awaful to be unable to even trust the doctor when you;re ill or not recvie help ffrom the police. Sg will not changegovernemnt for at e;ast the next half a century, cos however much we complain, we canot deny the PAP provides us with at least a feeling of stability, security and progress.
Let my prayers be heard.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
3:31 PM
# # # Friday, December 24, 2004
oh yeah. tokabt the state of my house.
Entire family is elaving for bali. Meaning aunt, uncle, grandmother, e.t.c. onli thing tht is reminging is dog.
So cousin left her 3 guinea pigs and 1 mouse and 2 birds wif us. grandparents left oscar wif us. aunt left maid wif us. sommore my sis is scared the guinea pigs will dehyrate, so from 5 cages outside the house ( 1 bird cage, 3 guinea pig cages, and our own bird cage), became 4 cages IN the house (2 guinea pig cages brought from inside, a mouse cage, and a bird cage)
Father came home to a shock
First, my aunts maid came out of the kitchen
" Whose maid is this?"
Then walk abit further into the house
"WHAT ARE GUINEA PIGS DOING IN MY LIVING ROOM???"
Then good old oscar came out to greet him
"whoa! we are now hostel for animals, maid, and dog arh!"
haha..mum saes she's going to collect admission fees for coming into the hous soon. its like a zoo.
Gong to bali later. Wish me good luck!!! going to bali for xmas is not a joke ok. still, i;m gong to enjoy mysefl!!!! shopping!!! whahah!! and beaches!!!
But by the time i come back, its no more time for stuff alreadi!! no more tv!!! WAHHHHH!!!!
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:13 PM
# # #
ok..like i saed i;m lagging. Now for wed's events.
Went to play tennis and squash with ginny. Of course we r lousy- understatement of the yr. BU then, THEN, we went to the one-person-tennis court. and ginny started talking abt eudinneee. Den...WHAM! she hit the ball and the ball went waaaay over the court. See the power of love?
Then went to play squash. Heehee. Great game. We made remarkable acheivements! At first we were like: no sound!! no sound!! cos like u noe, u play squash you are supposed to make a he;l lot of noise? In this case no sound!!I mean, not noisy at all lah. But at elast we managed consecutive hits!! which improved as time went on.
Saw barry and macs. and blackie. hehe. blackie squirts all over the place. and his name and his fur totallysuiting wat. haha! cute =)
i need some insanity to remain sane in this ultra complex world. so copmlex tht its becoming insane.
adding on to my list: i oso carn stand ppl who think theylead supermierable lives and act all philosophical, indulging in self pity, acting all depressed. This is NOT referring to anione in particular. rather in gneral. ok. wat took me four yrs to sae this? its so damn common*growls again*
oh! something else to mention. my neighbour is rearing wolves. hang on.
#7 Eng Kong Dr had 4 dogs. 1 dog is old and sick, in fact, could prob haf kicked the buket for all i know. The other dog is a puppy, while the last 2 are nice joyful, peaceful, fully grown dogs. Very nice and friendly. That was the house with the most number of dogs. Until today that is.
Walked oscar past #21 Eng Kong Dr today. oh god. They don;t haf to worry abt getting burlged. Ever. SIX DOGS I COUNTED!!! SIIIX!!! one, two, three, four five, six. Of course maybe not all are theirs? You can say maybe they are taking care of, say, a dog for their relative (kinda like my situation now. shall explain later), but tht stil leaves them with 5 dogs. Ok, so i caught them with 6 dogs, but technically speaking, its 4 dogs.
And 2 wolves.
Really wolves. This is not like, one puppy, one dying aged dog ok. This is 6 FULLY GROWN FIERCE LOOKING CANINES. The 4 more or less normal looking dogs look like normal fierce dogs lah. Slightly samller in size..but still ok. Then there's a husky. I know huskies DUN qualify as wolves. Thye are supposed to be popular and so on. I got nothing against huskies ok. There's ahusky living in Eng Kong Road. Its friendly and helps its aged owner. i like it. Now THIS husky. its a different story. It looks fierce. Not to mention its lovely partner. The other 4 dogs usually somewhere else, but u ALWAES see these 2 dogs tgt.This husky may b only a wolf lookalike. but i tlel u, its partner is a FULLY FLEDGED WOLF!!! its size is similar, its the same build, the ribs are sticking out at the correct areas. And the face. oh God, the face. It is dark grey ad white. So its like, a ring of darkgrey, like framing the head, den its white. Den there are dark grey rings ard its eyes. and the eyes are white. NOT KIDDING. i;m going to take a closer look when i;m more confident it won;t leap out of the enclosure. both wolves look like they can LEAP out of their enclosure!! first time i saw the grey and white "wolf" i was like: oh god, is tht a dog? looks like a mini wolf. hang on, make tht a fully fledged wolf.
when i;m more confident tht it wun come out and bite my leg off i'll ake a nice pic of it. Then when i made frens wif my neoighbour i'll take a pic IWTH it(hopefull wif my limbs intact)
Brought oscar to walk there todae. the 2 dogs grolwed and i was soo scacre they'd just LEAP out of the enclosure ADN the house gate. Both dogs growled, and the owner looked out of the window fromt he 3rd story. You ould think oscar is scared, of dogs 3 times his size. but noooooo, he kindly pooped in front of theor house. FUnny dog. realli
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:26 AM
# # # Monday, December 20, 2004
Speech by Tennis World Champion Sam
I would really like to thank my good ol's partner Celine. We, as world pioneers of new age tennis, has brought tennis to never before standards in the international tennis courts. We have invented, and perfectionised the tennis strokes, and invented new aims, mor practival aims(Read: Tanning) to the otherwise meanngless gme of tennis. (Imean, what purpose does it serve to hit the green ball of fur over the net? Now, tanning is a different aim altogather. Increases your attractiveness factor by sooo much and enables to get a rich man and escape JC forever)
We reconsidered the point system of the game and have found a thousand and one more realistic ways of couting points. Such a way of counting like the present, i.e. to count points everytime you hit a ball tht the opponant can;t catch, is awfully non realisitic. We have tried it and have earned a few thousand points each in a simple one hour game. You can perhaps, infer our average number of cosecutive hits from this (2. The maximum number of consective hits is 6) Therefore, our newstrategy is everytime the ball goes over the net, we win a point. Each time the ball goes out, we win a point. Everytime the the opponant gets the ball, we win a point. If the ball hits the drink can by the side of the tennis court, we win 10 points
I would also love to thank the drink amchine, for your endless supply of dirnks. Thank you for the 8 drinks you have provided the both of us without failing to succumb to the conspiracy theorm and running dry of them.
Thank you for considering me to be a Nobel Prize winner for the improve ment of the game of Tennis.
Whahaha!Celine was so cute lah. She was like, lets act pro. So we sook hands and went: see u at the finals. whahaa. ok..after tennis game, we went to play tabel foot ball. Seemed to be a curse or something. All the
games we played (4 or 5 of them) had the score 2-5 in Cel's favour save for one. And all the
games she won is because I KICKED THE BALL INTO HER GOAL. HMph. Aniwae we violated the very first rule of table football: no spinning. whahah! thnks celin!!! wat a greaat dae! and i tanned!! i tanned!
haha!
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
8:40 PM
# # # Saturday, December 18, 2004
*yawnz* *stretches*
something i hate: unappreciative ppl, ppl who indugles in self pity, ppl who complains at every whim, ppl who act all hypocrital and all superficial and materialistic. *growls*
*yawns* come back and blog another day
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
8:17 PM
# # # Friday, December 17, 2004
ok..this one i wantd to blooog looooongg looooong ago
First day i reached thailand, kinda in a bad mood. Things were going against me. Totally for the conspiracy theorm. Then I came across 2 things:
1) Went to a shop to buy DVDs. The woman was singlehandedly mannig the shop and taking care of her child. Her child was barefoot, and watching the dvds tht she sells lah. But really...Can;t describe it, kinda shocks u back to reality on how privilleged you are
2) This one was worst. Saw a man, sitting on a cardboard on the pavements, using his hands to drag himself. WOrst thing was, it just rained, the roads were all wet. Kinda remminds me of soldiers who fought in the war but returned to be less than welcomed. Allied soldiers returned half handicapped, with barely enough money to get them by. Russian soldiers were worst. ON return they were ferried off to Siberia. Exiled. Only cause they were caught by Axis forces and returned alive. THAT is a CRIME? aniwae back to the topic. Seriously, makes you reconsider your proirities and think more.
How's that for anti-narcissitic movement geri? Reckon I matured? After all, i AM sixteen alreadi! =))
Anywae while on the thailand topic, some sutff wanted to blog abt last month but nvr got to. Villa we stayed in was a TROPICAL PARADISE. wait till i get the pics form my dad's laptop. Looking across is some wilderness wth pine trees. Reminded me of european countryside. You can seriously daydream abt a waterfall with crystal clear waters stuck in the middle of the forest. Looking across from there to the resort it self, esp at night, god. Its..its..uh...CAPTIVATING. Cos its supposed to be a villa, so theres like..terraced villas facing the lake.Exterior Walls are red. Like maple leaves tht kind of red. At night its lited with soft yellow lights shing upwards, so it looks..WOW. (forgive my lack of vocab at this point int time). Facing a placid lake. Then if you look out of the window to the wildernes across the lake when its raining at night, its even better. Shrouded by mist. Darn mysterious. Very nice!!!
Resorrt swimming pool was damn cool. Like some winding river, and the sides are not like..pplsleeping on beach chairs. Alot of trees..like a REAL river.
Of course talk abt thailand cannot forgetthe beaches right! crytsal clear water and nice sand (ok..not a good as aussie) BUt the thing is, at ard 1 m from the shore there are LAREADY schoals of fishes . Perfect for snorkeling ok!! at so close u see like.. blue, yellow, RAINBOW (look, i;m not kdding here. the fish was realli totally multicoloured) fishes. Can u imageinwat kindof exotic fishes u get further out. Snorkening there was GREAT.
And of course, when u haf the beaches u haf the nudist. I saw one. Totally din wear the top. Nvr had i seen so many ppl wear bikinis so freely b4. Of course they r all ang mohs! And they haf no figure. Sheesh. ok..gtg..cheryl wants to abandon me on msn. can i allow tht? NO! nightz
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
2:20 AM
# # # Thursday, December 16, 2004
Hehe. Woke up at 10 by Ann's phone call to check movie times for Bridget Jones. YIKES!!! ONLY MOVIE TIMES ARE 11.05 AND 3.15. rushed down to Orchard hoping to make it in time. Took 173 and called Ann to ask her to go ahead with her cousins first, then took the MRt. Reached for phone at Redhill to all Ann, thn realised tht I LEFT MY PHONE AT 173~!!!
Hurried to Cine and reached there at 11.30, late for the movie. Tried searching for Ann, but can;t see her anywher. Den she shouted: SAm! WHOA! so heng, she came out to find me liao, and told me when she called my hp someone replied to ask em to go Bkt Batok to get my hp form the station master (*laughs to huimin* i get my hp back!) She said the guy keep calling everytime she was in the cinema!
Went in to watch bridget jones. FINALLY GET TO SEE MY MORTAL HERO!!!! and colin firth is JUST like himself in pride and prejudice. No emotions watsoever. And yes, the show iS NICE. good ol mark darcy =)) Ann amde sushi to eat at theatre. Hehe..nice, save for the rice.
Went down and called denise, wanting to meet her to give her cookies, and asked her where she was, prepared to travel all the way to holland to meet her. Guess what? She's in cine too!! so got her to come down and gave her her cookie.
Made way to bukit batok to collect hp. At this point have to really thnk ann. Can;t beleive she went more than 10 stops in the opp direction of her house to come to collect hp with me. Transport staff at bukit matok bus interchange reri nice!!! Went to the window outside the office and asked the woman inside. She invited me into the office!! So nice of her right. Thenthis other man help me locate the handphones. Anyway both very nice lah ok..they were smiling all the way...and teasing. hmph.
I was like: Mine is blue colour
Him: I got 4 handphone here! All blue lah!
*describe describe describe*
Me: Can i thnk the bus captain who brought my phone?
Him: You all arh..get hp back den come and praise us. ortherwise u complain and complain (now ow did he know i alwaes coplain abt 173?)
Me: ahahahaha!! no lah..i nvr complain b4
Ann: Ahahahahaa
*gives me a form to survey to complete which i circled "excelletn!" for everything*
The nice lady(too nice to be addressed simplyas woman) who serves me at first comes and picks up my phone from the desk
Lady: wow! this phone got radio one not arh?
Me: dun haf
Man: Nowadays arh..these young people so manydifferent phones arh
Lady: Yeah! See my phone? (Its the nokia 82 somethin one..the one tht ann had..the old one tht was quie popular..reri samll one)
Man: Mine even worst (Held up his: think its mortorola or nokia, black, bulky and with antenna)
Me: erh..hehe...mine dun even haf camera lah
Man: Y u want camera for?? i c u, u c me..enough!
Me: hehe..mayb shl take photo of u and send to forum page for good service
Ann: Yeah! i got cam!*reaches for her own phone*
All: *chuckels, laughs, wateva*
Long pause to finish filling form
Man: see lah! lost phone i need to b witness of collection, this one, and this one (points to form) I need to b 3 ppl leh! ok ..ucan go now
Us: oh!! thnkx alot!!*goes out and sees woman* thnx alot too!! *laeeves*
Meets Zakiah at Jurong East to give her her cookie, and met her at popular to give her her cookie =)) Made her treat us to a drink and puuuullled and draaaaagggeeeedd her to jurong entertainment centre with us cos we wanted to shop(ann wanted to shop in jurong point..but must take mrt again lah...so troublesome..but here..haf to thnk her again..she's so qian jiu me *look of guilt*) Only thing the ann0-and-sam-wants-to-shop became the -zakiah-wants-to-eat outing. she bought octopus balls and we sat somewhere watching her eat
I swear..we all look like some..pathetic bodies who haf lost their beloveds or something..moaning in the middle of the shopping centre to each other. Gosh. Then we pei zakiah to KFC top buy icecream. See! i told u it became a zakiah-wants-to-eat-outing. Cause thts all we did. Watched her buy octopus balls, watched her eat them, watch her buy ice cream-which she gave to me cos she asked for chocolate but they gave her cuppocono instead. hehe. freen icecream for me *grinz*
Then we went back.
Anyway, here's to Ann. Thnx alot...thnx looooaddssss, for accompanying me todae and going so far away just to collect back my hp and going to jurong east which has nothing to offer to a shopaholic like you. And thnx for waiting for me and all tht rouble over my hp. Thnx a LOT. And you are not the subtitute(even if i;m JY's substitute). You're an alternative=))
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
4:40 PM
# # # Wednesday, December 15, 2004
damned.
i carn go palces or even take the mrt without feeling tormented. ARGH,. then if i sty at home i'll feel worst cos going out has been something like a routine for me.
aniwae..ginyn was good company todae =))
thnx!fianlly got the buy-swimsuit-outing gong! onli thign she din get the swimsuit in the end. hehe.great afternoon to get mind and body occupired. all too familiar though.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
6:54 PM
# # # Tuesday, December 14, 2004
THE WHOLE WORLD IS LEAVING ME!!!
Shirlynn left for Hk today, Geri left for Thailand todae, Ginny leaving for camp on thurs (i mean, yeah..its one dae onli, BUT IT IS RERI LONG OK!)
NOW WHO'S GOING TO CHAT WITH ME WHEN I SUFFER FROM INSOMIA TONIGHT??
Anyway chalet pics up. Please go view =))
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
8:30 PM
# # #
haiz. its 3.30 am now. ginny;s accompanying me online. feeling looooneeellliiieeeeeeeeeeeee. thnk god for ginny man. n thnx shirlynn too..for staying wif me till morning the past few daes.
i vow to stop taking things for granted.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
3:29 AM
# # # Monday, December 13, 2004
Went to watch Naional Treasure today!!! VERY NICE!!! okok..after the experience with After the SUnset think not many ppl wil ltrust my jsutdgement now? BUT ITS REALLI NICE!! as in..TRULY THIS TIME!!First, the cinema is PACKED! which is more than i can sae for After the Sunset. And the audience were LAUGHING WITH THE JOKES!! Also more than i can say for After the Sunset.
Anyway I;m so INSULTED!!! I so badly wanted to watch Bridgeeeeetttt lah, then my father begun lecturing me:" Samantha, you carn lah. youare not even 16"
WHAT??!!!! i;m not even 16!!I'v been 16 for 3 weeks!!!Anyway I dare sae if i were a few months short of 16 there's still no harm in trying towatch the show. Hmph. But nice of him to bring me out on the show todae =)
Mei's left =((
Good ol' Ann left early (Prob so as to avoid crying?) Mei!!! if you're gone hu;s going to shoot and colelct rubber bands with me, disturb huimin or cheryl with me, go jelita with me, lend me books, meet at Clementi with me an hour late, have a house tht i can so conveniently stop by e.t.c. e.t.c. Sigh. Sob. Anyway thnx for the cookies. The moose is cinnemon? Smells like it...
Anyway played the last trick. Squirted a LOT of lemon concentrate into Wnqing;s milo at MACS! haha!!
Anyway here's my X'mas wish list for all of you interested (YOU ALL BETTER BE INTERESTED):
-ipod- the one that can store pics. colour pics
-Lego set. A huge one with instruction sheet.
Father asked: We have Lego blocks upstairs! Go n play with tht!
Me: no instruction sheets!
Dad:Make ur own instruction sheets! What happened to creativity?
Me: I;m not a kinesstatic person!
Dad: what's tht. I dun understand.
Mum: dun try n use bo
mbastic words to impress us.
Sigh
Conversation 2:
Me: I want a huge lego set with instruction sheets tht ican build and display in my room
Mum: Y carn i haf normal kids like other parents.
-1000 or more pieeces Jigsaw. One with a nice scenery please. Not one of disney chaarcter or anime characer or some tiger or something. Best will be a waterfall. Next will be Moutnains. Perhaps a temperate forest of red leaves, and a river or a waterfall in the middle of it..
-CDs:
Maksim
David Lanz: Anything with Skyline firedance suite. PLEASEEEEE!!!!
Jazz CD: norah jones, or instrumental jazz..
Celine Dion and Anne something one. Forgot the title
Josh Grobans
Some nice love song album. Compilation perhaps? OF recent songs please. As in songs from the 90s. not 80s or anything earliers. Celine Dion, Diana Krall, Elton john, Gareth Gates..some of those
Clay Aiken X',mas CD
Bridget Jones 2 soundtrack
Love Actually Soundtrack
Any compilation Xmas songs of RECENT singers. Not Nat King Cole or Bing Crossby please. Mariah carey, whitney housten, n such. yup =))
DVDs: NIce comedy series. Like, um..friends, or Law and order will be nice. OF course law and order is not a comedy lah. But it'll do too
Demadning eh? Let's hope santa sees this. *hollers up the chimney* SANTA!!! I'LL BE IN BALI THIS YR FOR X'MAS. IN BALI DO U HEAR???BALI!!!REMEMBER!!!!!
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
6:59 PM
# # # Sunday, December 12, 2004
ok..i;m really lagging. like, today blog abt yesterday, yesterday blog abt day before..e.t.c.
So...
Friday 10 December 2004
Supposed to go watch After the Sunset, cause I said it was funny (hey, it WAS funny) Anyway I was wondering what am I dong watching this show when I watched it b4 and have the dvd and rather watch Bridget Jones who is my mortal idol and hero and has recieved rave reviews. So anyway, supposed to meet Mei at Clementi at 10.45. Here's the events:
9.00: Woke up and played com
10:00: Planned to leave at 10.25 but realised horrible histories was showing at 10-10.30. Watched horrible histories and begun preparing during commercial breaks.
10.30: Can;t find my shirt!! Rummages thru closet, sister;s closet, mum's clost, finally called SOS (i.e. maid). She kept it with winter clothings in the attic.
10.50: Finally leaves house (was supposed to meet at 10.45 ok)
Events at Mei;s house (wat i pieced together)
10.00: Wakes up. Recives my wake up call. Goes abck to sleep
10.10: receives my Sms to bring huimin's cookie
10.20: receives reminder 2 to bring huimin's cookie
10:45: leaves house. rushes home again to get huimin's cookie
Supposed to meet Geri Cerhyl HUimn (notice my blog has alot of "supposes"They represent promises unfulfilled) at Somerset
Reached SOmerset 20 mins late and received HUimin's msg to meeet at Taka Kino
Went to taka and bought food alogn the way. Heading for Kino and recived Huimin's msg to go Macs instead. Sigh. Went to watch show. Can't beleive that dvd cut out more scenes than Sg Censorship board. And went looking for Huimin;s ultra cool brother's persent, denwent ard looking for a drink. Realli a darn sweet day. Geraldine went into this shop to uy sweets and the WHOLE shopsells sweets so theres this smell of glucose hanging heavily in the air.
After pinching half the bag of sweets (toped with excess sugar) from Geraldine, went in search of a drink, the holy water (i.e. iced lemon tea. thts the only thing geraldine n i wanted then). Just as sweet. I heard more than once tht iced lemon tea causes diabetes. Went around paragon desperately looking for a seat. Walked into boutique, slacked on the seats, and said loudly: Cheryl! quick choose ur clothes!"
Cheryl sat down and said loudly: Geraldine! dun u want something?
Geri looked at Cheryl and said: Cheryl! Quick ask Elizabeth come out of the fitting room!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Hilarious!
4.30 marked the beginning of the heated dabate on weathre to go back to school for choir(which ends at 5). Rushed back to c all of them leaving. Arh..feeling guilty. Shi Ping sae whole Sop 1 stall just for us to reach (me n huimin tht is) Met Vanessa.
Tht;s it. Thnk god for shirlynn. Tht is my insomnia remedy =))- a fren being onlin at the depths of the night when u carn sleep
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:46 AM
# # # Saturday, December 11, 2004
ok..its 3 am now. carn get to sleep. past few daes have been doing unfinsihed blogging. like..1 para, save as draft, 1 para, save as draft. so shall reblog everything from wed on wards
Wednesday 8 December 2004
Something' s odd. Blogger.com is in CHINESE???
Hmm... anyway on my way home, ard 7.30, noticed something i'd never noticed b4 taking 173 (yeah..tht darned bus alwaes out to conspire against me). Passed by a nice place tht i usually dun notice. act its quite ordinary, just covered by alot of trees. den i realised tht the sky above tht certain spot was a nice wine yellow. realli. not the normal purple or golden yellow u get. wine yellow spotted with patches of white (clouds lah! not fungus! there;s no fungus i nthe sky!) So i looked down below yhat patch of wine yellow sky. Its odd, really, the whole sky is navyblue, almost threatening to rain, super cloudy and unsually dark for 7.30. den there;s this odd spot out of no where tht is wine yellow (of course coloured by the sun lah! den? fairie arh?) below the spot was waterfront houses. n i realised tht 7 yrs living here, 4 yrs taking 173,. and i nvr noticed a LAKE near my house?? realli beautiful lah..waterfrotn houses, nice sky e.t.c. e.t.c. sigh.
nothing nice on tv nowadaes turned to a realli STUPID show on tv. abt a woman whining to a guy. den i was wondering what exactly pisses me off abt this woman. i mean, she whines well. tht's wat the show is abt right? ow come i don;t c her as a good actress. den i realised tht a good actress needs a character. u find a character, and act like the character. whining is like, stereotyping allfemale types and acting like what u think a female is. a good actress, perhaps, will c the difference between different ppl, and act out the special traits u find in them. ok. tht was totlaly a no-point para.
Woke mei up at 8 am todae. not early wat!! seriously, i dun think its reri earlY!!but fine. for someone hu wakes up 2 pm. um. fine. its early. SORRIE!!! carried on cookie making process-packaging stage. whole thing became a blame game.
" All Mei's fault the sprinkles were out of place"
"What? it was Sam's icing!" hehe =))
Supposed to go for job interview with gel, but decided over lunch not to go. Mei called gel for me. Delifrance shephard pie is nice=) Beef anyway. Chicken has nuts that reminds me of red dates that remind me of "date-filled cookie" recipe I came across while searching for Mei's cookie recipe. And its spicy. Not for me=)
Continued doing packaging. Started off as can-go-into-catering-business type and ended as cannot-and-must-not-go-into-catering-business sort.
1) Lazed for an hour and a half on com with maple story
2) Distractions with comic books and entirely out of the topic conversations
3) Irrepressible laughter whenever Huimin's cookie comes into mind
See, Huimin's cookie comes in two parts: The head and the body. Head has 4 strands of icing formed into 2 crosses tht are the eyes. Body has red sprinkles stuck on the neck by a bit of icing. and the dressing has the words: " Ow!" (Ouch is too long see) Guess its name? Morbid. Yes, it IS supposed to be a X'mas cookie. And Mei insits its MY idea. um..hehe...i realli carn rmb. But red sprinkles was mine idea. wait!! before you say a word, it took much PAIN and EFFORT to manually plow through the hundreds and thousands (sprinkles) and separate the reds from the rest!! Anyway, once Huimin's cookie comes to mind, Huimin's predicted reaction will come to mind. Than Liesel's cookie will come to mind. It was supposed to be a cyclops.
Hang on. Of all the cookies that are gingerbread men we baked, only 3 had their heads still on. Those with heads broken off were eaten up. Huimin's one was a brainwave of mine (I think, since Mei saed so :s) not to waste a nicely shaped cookie (ehz! You think all cookies were nicely shaped arh! so many expanded beyond their size and lost their shapes! Since Huimin's one was STILL a nice shape we carn let a broken head stop us can we?) Geradine's one head was reri much intact. Became a nice angel in the oven, realli. One of the better accidents. (After the icing, it looked more like overly-madeup-actress-actihng-as-demon rather than angel. After the packing it looked more like overly-made-up-actress-acting-as-one-hand-handicapped-demon more than anithing else. realli) Cheryl's one. Gosh. You wanted to know what its like not having a nicely shaped cookie? Look at Cheryl's one. The dough head actaully fell off from the dough body. So we attached the head to the body by pressing hard, resulting in fat neck. Heat frm oven resulted in fat body. Result is Fat Man. (Te name was realli obese boyfrne =) ) But at least the shape was there. Liesel's one..hmm..It was also a nice one, and it was Mei's idea to turn it into a cyclops. But to turn it into the cyclops AFTER odysseus, that was an accident. Head fell off after packaging. So turned out looking like cyclops was olding his head after being beheaded after we cling wrapped it. (Accident rate actualyl much higher. Master bakers were careful to eliminate all evidences that can tarnish their reputations as master bakers -we ate others up)
Yeah. So we spent much time imagining HUImin's reaction to herX'mas cookie--> leading to thiking of Liesel's cookie = Laughter = less work. But tht;s not the deciding factor why we carn go into catering business.
4) Zilch organisation. After all escapades with purple cellophane paper, scotchtape, cloudy pastal papers, ribbons, and gold string which has tendancy to hide its free ends, decided to go Somerset with Mei to meet ppl to give cookies. Meeting at 5.30. BEgan getting ready, running up and down, at 4.30. Left at 5.00.
At the turning at end of street
Mei: oput the orange bag in ur bag arh
" No? Don;t u have it? "
" No! Oh shit, RUN!"
Went back to get cookies, walked out again
Reached same point as just now, Huimin called.
"Where are you allnow?"
"Still at Greenleaf View...oh Shit!"
Forgot stuff needed to bring for Geri and HUimin.
Went back AGAIN. and left for good this time.
And subsequently relised we forgot the most important cookie. Huimin's one.
ARGHHHHHHH.
Met ppl. Walked in wrong direction first, den turned ard. Anyway what their reactiosn are not important lah. What's important is HUimin's reaction. Which is not important either. What;s REALLI important was our predicted reaction of Huimin. Which is supr funni but not good to put down lest she realli carries it out. So they all went off for dinner and i went home, meaning to meet WQ at clementi to give her her cookie. Called her when i was at Raffles Place. Guess where she was? Orchard. ITS A CONSPIRACY!
Thusday 9 Dec 2004
First day stayed at home for the entire day since Os ended. I;m not kidding. Really.
First Piano lesson since Oct and 1st time touched piano books and piano since Oct. Really too.
Saw Pei Hwa at piano anywae. she just changed teacher? i tinkso
God, its 4.12 n i;m tired. blog abt yesterdae when i wake uplatr this morning.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
3:25 AM
# # # Thursday, December 09, 2004
ok. its 1.15 am n i just got out of the bathroom. FINALLY undid my hair. god. i left the bathroom with half the number of hair i had. god. SO MUCH HAIR DROP!!!spent 3 hrs undoingall the braids WITH my sis help. den went to wash. wat a nightmare!!!so much hair drop. *moans* and everything is tangled and frizzeled b4 i conditioned it. just like diana tang. n to make matters worst i turned on the heater 2 hrs b4 washing hair so tht i can haf nice warm water, but someone went to turn it off!!! n i din noe lah. i was so confident of having nice warm water, i stepped in, and turned on the shoer, and god. i shan;t describe further. still wanted to do this in bali. tink cannot afford the time. reri nice lah, but a chore washing and undoing. sigh. wat a pity.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:20 AM
# # # Wednesday, December 08, 2004
1.15 am now. erhaps wondering wat i;m doing online? just FINISHEDwatching bbc's pride and prejudice. took me 6 montsh to fnihs watched. actuall started in june. but school started b4 i could fisnih. than after Os had to start all over again. n this time it took me 2 weeks to finihs./ gosh..wat a classic. fine. i carn hear wat they're saying half the time!
it goes like
"uarethemostselfishmanievermetandaccedingtoyourrequestwillbethelastthingido"
(you are the most selfish man i ever met and acceding to your request will be the last thing i do)
of course, in 10 times more cheemer english, which realli makes things worst. its bad enough they string their words together, but its worst when they use words on an average of 4 syllabus per words in addition to other words tht probably don't appear in the Oxford Concise Dictionary, or Webster Pocket dictoinary, or the likes of them. Reason being they were only spoken by 18th century people.
but then again, the manner of those people are so dignifying its almost captivating. i mean..some of the most irritating characters go starts shrieking away at the top of the voices (perhaps u'll find this hilarious ginny =)) ) and the other ppl just go sit ard and smile, or string together some other 4 syllabus words and retaliate in the most abstract wae with a smile. whoa..if i were there i'll just slap the person and shock the hell out of the 18th century ppl man. realli..there r atualyl ppl hu would sit ard and smile when they;ve just been duly insulted!
made me wonder throughout the movie how i'd live if i suddenly time travelled there in jeans and a nice tank top.
just imaghine this: ppl standing around with their lacybonents and puffy dresses, den poof! sam enters in jeans and tank tops. then those ppl will just" r u a gal?? " and promptly faint!
den perhaps a nice soul will take me in n offer me one of their dresses..though my hair in this state will totallyscream : REBEL. den i'll go n sit ard in their dressing rooms trying not to sleep thru a 18th century literature book, or read the bible, or meddle with the piano (which sounds like a haropsichord btw) oh, please dun ask me to try sewing, it'll end up a mess of different coloured strings and i'll have to try and convince them with normal 2 syllabal words at best or better still, 4 letter words, tht its called modern and "avant garde" art.
i'll be like, shouting, " what the hell is this mess! its, like, all screwed up and everything"
n they will sit around smiling," i don;t understand child, icannot comprehand your infuriated statement!"
so i'lltry and sell it off" oh..its realli nothinggg..i am done sewing, may i be excuse?"
n they will b like: you are confirmed to be finished?(3 worded sentences like "r u sure" is a no-no)
so i'll go: oh yes! can u make out a picture from it? see! there's a turtle, and there;s a cloud! what's a turtle doing with a cloud? oh! its the NEWEST in art! i;ve JUST taken some creative liberties!
n i'llprocede to run away and find out if i;ve miraculously transported my gameboy and enough batteries with me.a nice game of pokemon will probably take me out of pateincetown.
but the real main thing is...whew...COLIN FIRTH IS HOT! WOW. 6 hours of him is great!! n jennifer ehle is pretty!!!! gosh!! the whole cast is captivating. tht's all i can sae. 6 hours of them!!!!good show, onli thing they've all got motor mouths. and BEAUTIFUL scenery. wgive anithing to spend a week there. gosh.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:13 AM
# # # Tuesday, December 07, 2004
did i mention?
Thnx to CAO me not going to Shanghai!
haha...mum carn get away from work, so we cancelled shanghai. dad scared of cold too!! not all tht dissapointed. alot of things to do in sg. realli.
aniwae yest went wif geri, denise and her sis to jazz class. god. strech stretch streeeeeeeeeetttttccccccchhhhhhhhhhh. get the idea? thighs and tummy is ACHING!! haha..but sincerely hope develop abs!! good training!! esp for someone like me. what's wrong with me? did someone ask? here;s wats wrong: inflexible, horrible hang-leg and hand-brain co=ordination, carn differentiate left and right, heap of flabs...let's hope 12 sessions will work out a miracle lah huh ? =)
todae went to sc centre
yeah yeha..wat m i doing there?
computer society my dad's part of organised this competition where they r bringing exchange students who r competing to sc centre.so tagged along to get free passes in. met hk ppl, vietnam, indonesia, japan, e.t.c. ALL BOYS CEPT FOR 1 OR 2!!! HOW COME GALS NOT SMART ENUFTO GET IN EH??? HUH??
haha..
going to watch tv now. bb!
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
10:01 PM
# # # Sunday, December 05, 2004
arh..
mei came over yest to bake cookies
god..wat a dae
she woke up at 2 pm first k
den met her at cold storage by
walking all the wae
n subseqeuntly missing the bus on the wae home. *look of anooyance*
so a 3 hr plan became a stay-for-dinner-plan which subsequently became a sleepover plan
spent aftrenoon baking and night watching
movies
gosh..watched troy at 3am in the morning!!
at the same time playing uno stacko.
Hang on..let's do this is chronological order:
Baking cookies:
Apple green dye turned into some nice pandan colour
Blood red dye turned into this nice babyskin-pink colour (not baby pink. pink in the sense the colour of baby skin), or better yet don;t turn up at all
Gingerbread man keeps beheading himself...tssssk
and star-like figure turned into nice normal circle
Great taste ok!!REALLI!
Watching
movies:
There was white chicks..where mei laugh until she was banging the cusion with her fist so hard, and coincidently, the cusion was on my lap...=))
Than there was troy, which we watched at 3 am. Here goes the audio commentary:
"Oh, this scene is STUPID! I can;t beleive he did tht!"
"Oh, this is another STUPID scene! How dumb is tht?!"
"Oh god, this is STUPID!!! He does that STUPID thing again!"
"This is realluy really STUPID!!.."
e.t.c e.t.c. Get the idea?
haha!!=))
UNo stacko:
Punishment for loser: drink comcentrarted lemon concentrate
But lemon concentrate wans;t tht sour, just tastes like ammonia, so we revamped the punishment: MnMs dipped in Garlic Chillli Sauce
DON"T underestimate tht. it SUCKS!!! realli AWFUL!!!!!!! Mei had me eat tht 3 times cos i lost all 3 times!!(at least she did try it in the end..) Children, don;t try this at home. People doing this are skilled and had high edurance power.
Magic Cards (at 6am)
Discovered a pack of magic cards *yawns* at 6 am *yawns* and struggled to read the chinese instructions *yawns* and performed magic tricks! *yawns and gives blurry grin*
So then we went to watch Ever After at 7 am on the couch and the next thing you know, we woke up facing a blank screen. Yup, u guessed it, we fell asleep watching the show. By than, vcd one was over n it was 9 oclock, procceeded upstairs to sleep till 1 . sigh
Baking Cookies part 2: icing and sprinkles
This Cookie
This X'mas cookie was made by cookie
This X/'mas cookie was made by master cookie monsters
This X'mas cookie was made by master cookie makers
This X'mas cookie was lovingly made by master cookie makers
This X'mas cookie was lovingly made by master cookie makers. Each srpinkle
This X'mas cookie was lovingly made by master cookie makers Sam & Mei. Each Sprinkle
This X'mas cookie was lovingly made by master cookiemakers Sam (...) & Mei (...). Each Sprinkle and drop of icing was inserted..
This X'mas cookie was lovingly mde by master cookie makers Sam (..) and Mei (...) Each Sprinkle and drop of icing was painstakingly and manually inserted by hands of geniuses
*phew* done.
After 48 hours of cinnamon, bloody red dye, apple green die, cookie dough, rodent shit, cling wrap (economy cling wrap. meaning cheapcling wrap. meaning lousy cling wrap. meaning DIFFICULT AND TIME CONSUMGING to wrap cling wrap!!!). DONE.
not exactly. realli. theres STILL the packagging.
Anyway elmo realli sucks. when i turned telly on todae, he suddenly shrieked in his frequency 200 mega hz voice: YAY! I GOT AN EMAIL! and den i saw oscar shurdder. REALLI !! oscar SHUDDERED!!urgh..get the idea??
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
9:39 PM
# # # Friday, December 03, 2004
ooh..came back from phuket yesterday. wait. its 1.26. ok. came back the day b4.blog abt it another dae. have some entries i blogged in my pda. blog abt tonight first
WHAT A NIGHT!
Haha! Enjoyed myself so much!! First met mei at Clemnti to go to Changi airport to send Ann off. Ok, supposed to meet at 5.00. Than again, who dosen't know me and mei?
Mei will be late. DUh. Common sense. So since my grandpa offered to send me thought i could leave at 5.00 ( yeah..when i;m supposed to meet her at 5.00) Anyway, thing was, at 5.00, i was STILL packing.
5.00: Ohshit! 5 liao!! Not done packing!
5.05: ARGH!! there's Cheryl's autograph!! Haven't did it!! Grabs glue and already cut out construction paper and Cheryl's book and run downstairs intending to ask my sis for nice pens
5.10: ARGH!! More things to dooo!!!
5.15: Run out!! Grandfather started car engine already!!
5.17: Msgs Mei: WIll be late. DON'T SAY A WORD
5.20: ,mei msgs: I'll say something. i;m late too
5.25: Mei calls: are u here? WHAT? YOU MEAN U R LATR THAN ME?? IS THT POSSIBLE??
5.26: FINALLY reaches clementi. And subsequently realises that i forgot to bring pen and brought the wrong construction paper. :p
Frantic calls to Ann to beg her not to go in and wait for us. Damn!! 6.00 and still at Lavender MRT?? Supposed to meet Geri e.t.c. for dinner at 6.30 after sending ann off and we are still NOT at the airport by 6.00!!. Finally reached there by 6.25. Went to Coffeebeans. Oh yeah. Met Mrs Lim. Very nice. She's going same place as Ann, but luckily diff tour. Thing is, chances are they'll meet. NZ seem to be quite a place huh. Last time i went, was on the same flight as Mei to and back. Funniest thing was, she was on a tour, I was not. My family actually booked the same flights and same date as the tour was on?? Hah, and we din meet not once in NZ lah, only on the flight to and back. She noticed me on the flight to, I noticed her on the flight back, and not one of us went forward to call the other?? Realli odd.
So anyway, sat at coffeebeans. Liesel msged: Where are you?
Tiny White lie: waiting for the MRT. very long leh.
*sheepish grin*
[We shall now interrupt this post with an important msg from the author: WTH!! I LOST MINESWEEPER WHEN THERE WAS ONLI 2 BOMBS LEFT!! AND I ALMOST BEAT MY RECORD BY A HUNDRED SECONDS????]
ok. Ann's dad treated us to coffee. Than we left for City Hall.
Geri called: Where are you? We are waiting for u to start!!
Mei: HAve you started? Dun start without us!! (perhaps I should mention it was 7.45 already. More than an hour we promised to meet them)We are in between MRT stations. Dunno where
Me: *whispers* quickly hang up before they announce "Kallang" and Geri hears it!(yeah, we r STILL at kallang)
So made way to City hall.
"Ooh. Its raining. Shall I open umbrella to walk to taxi stand?"
"Yes. Please."
Guess what. Taxi stand JUST around the corner. Like, less than 5 metres?
Took Taxi, went all the way there, and FIANLLY started.
oH. wAIT. Taxi stopped at Regent Hotel, man opened door for me. "nice hair!"he said. =)). Shall go on more about it when i talk about Thailand. (Customs officer when i returned from Thailand said the same thing! Haha! *ego* =))
Every one else cept Liesel is sunburnt from WWW!! haha! Anyway finally started eating. And left for desert with Liesel, Huimin and mei. Walked few streets but carn find good place. Wlaked by Hilton, den i saw this suspiciously familiar snowman in a car parked by Hiton.
"OMg! Tht's my father's car lah!"
Ok, so called dad, asked him for a lift, and spent time in borders eeating icecream while waiting for him to finish the Wedding, Den went home.
Ooh..shall post murder mystery II next. MEI! GET ONLINE AND SEND ME THE PICS!
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:24 AM
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