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2007-07-06T00:26:00.001+08:00

HOLA,
i deleted epiphanies.
i am now writing in here!

the coming of age....

2007-03-13T12:02:00.000+08:00

hello!
i made a new blog, so i'll be posting there from now on.

EPIPHANIES

so true

2007-03-01T12:47:00.000+08:00

THE WORLDS NEED
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

O many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

charcoal

2006-12-15T19:40:00.000+08:00

harrrowww
i haven't posted in sooooo long.
i got frustrated cuz my laptop kept refusing to let me post.
well today was the last day of 1st semester! SO FAST. it just went by so so fast. my goodness. exams went by super fast too, and i actually studied pretty hard this time so they weren't hard at all. it does pay to study! haha its a pretty obvious thing to know, but it doesn't really hit you until you do it yourself.
anyways, i skipped annual class chrismas party to finish my charcoal drawing today. i had to or i would've gotten a 90. if i could get a 100 in art, i must get a 100. so here it is!

louis vuitton ad 2 by ~imugem on deviant ART

its my first ever attempt at charcoal drawing! it was really really fun. i love shading and highlighting. it does wonders to your drawing. i love art. the stuff you can do with art is endless. its the best. i'm gonna do loads of art during this break. buy my own charcoal set, and actually use the easel jeremy made for me :D

the heart of life is soo gooood

2006-11-19T19:35:00.000+08:00

yes! blogger worked on my laptop for the first time!!!
okay, i'm gonna post some more...
i'm waiting for my dad to come home anyways, so i can grab my stuff and go over to rach's house... and then to JB tomorrow morning! aaah so excited.
some pictures...
breakfast at the balcony :)

wow it just started to rain all of a sudden. so nice.

OKAAY... photobucket isn't uploading the breakfast at the balcony pictures... dang it.
ha he ha he ha he
victoria, uncle jonathan, and aunty juliana came back from japan and i got to see all of them today! aawww man i missed them. and victoria impressed me so much with her japanese. she's so adorable. she can write all the japanese hiragana alphabets while saying them out loud. and she can hold simple dialogues with me too. so so cute.
and japan really burns in my heart, even more so since tyrone's been talking about the nations and all that. i really need to go there and be part of what God is doing or what he's gonna do. and nothing's gonna stop me unless God himself does.
well, i'll be back from JB changed and with lots of photos. have a good week everybody.

the heart of life is gooooood

2006-11-19T19:29:00.000+08:00

LTT begins tomorrow and i'm so soooo excited. having tyrone talk to us has already been such a blessing i feel like i'm gonna be so overwhelmed after this week ends. so many things that's become mundane's become alive again and i am going to conquer the dissatisfaction i'm feeling. because God is so much more than what i'm living out now.
well, i'm gonna sleep over at rach's house again tonight!!! which means maybe breakfast at the balcony again tomorrow? yeah.
life is so good because God is good and yeah i just felt like saying that.
i hope everyone has an awesome week, and let God speak to you cuz you don't wanna miss out on what he has to say.. and the call and plan he has for you.
over and out!

spirit week

2006-11-15T10:24:00.000+08:00

hello,
some pictures..

Nerd day!!!

Retro/hippie day!
today's mafia day but i didn't dress up :( i lack black clothes that look scary. oh well, i kinda missed wearing my uniform anyways. haha.
oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUTH!!!!!!! she turns 18 today. wow. its my turn soon. in 11 days.... can't wait!

cereal

2006-11-06T10:30:00.000+08:00

hey
i'm in study hall now and i'm craving a chocolate danish from choupinette. and a cup of hot milk tea. aaaaah.
last night i bought an orange bowl from ikea (its really cute. the shape's kinda different.) cuz it made me want to eat cereal from it (or salad or soup) and i thought it'd motivate me to wake up earlier.. but, i still couldn't wake up this morning! no matter how appealing the sound of eating cereal from my new orange bowl sounded... so i ended up eating breakfast in the car again, as usual. plus i got a box of corn flakes and milk from the gas station when jeremy's dad stopped by last night. hahaha. oh well, i can have cereal tomorrow.

but i know the heart of life is good

2006-11-05T19:56:00.000+08:00

halloo
i'm at jeremy's house and i'm not sure what he's doing downstairs.. but we're just about to leave to go to IKEA!
anyways, 3 day weekend has been pretty good. got to practice for the gig that's coming up and we are getting better and better, and actually, i think we sound pretty good :) so yeah, if you haven't bought tickets, BUY! because we've put in a lot of hard work, and we want everybody to have fun. yes..
and kiyoko and i got to go to mrs. mcdermott's house last night to rehearse for the christmas event coming up. i have to learn a song i've never heard of in my life - ave maria. some hymn ish sounding song. and i've never liked learning music through theory. so it was really really hard trying to get the beat and tune in that theoratical way that she was teaching. she was tapping her foot on the floor and doing the 5 count thingy and i couldn't even hear it.
oh well.
gotta go!!!
bye bye

today is a good day

2006-10-31T10:13:00.000+08:00

yaaay. art field trip today. i completely forgot til geoffrey reminded me this morning. so that means i don't have to take the english essay test later. YES!
and then i might finally go get to see the colonial house later, where i'll be putting up my art.
and i feel happy cuz i'm wearing new earrings i got from chinatown yesterday. they were only $1.90. i dunno, wearing new things -esp jewelry - makes me feel happy.
anyways, to end with a random thought:
cockiness is annoying.

finally..

2006-10-30T09:57:00.000+08:00

helloo!
haven't posted in a while.. even though i wanted to since i left my blog on a rather crappy note. but my internet refused to connect to blogger for some reason, so yah. oh well.
anyways, right now i'm in autoCAD class and i finished my drawing already so i'm just doing whatever. and i wish i could be sleeping in my bed instead. baaaaaaaahhh.
so, yes, the poster above: senior gig's coming up! next friday. come! support us so we can go to thailand.
umm, some random pictures kiyoko and i took when trying to find inspiration for art a while ago. i had a lot more other pictures except my internet at home refused to upload all of them as well.
so here are threeee.

contrasting colors

ice cream man

trishaw man (it didn't finish uploading..)

we were at chinatown. funny that the peace sign automatically comes up when the camera is faced at them.
anyways, that's all for now.

RANT

2006-10-15T20:52:00.000+08:00

oh my goodness.
everything is PISSING ME OFF!!!! i hate pms.
isaku's singing, my dog barking, my dad touching my hair.
you do not want to mess with me right now.
ARRRRGHHGHADJSGH.
i know i'm posting about pms but its my blog so i can say whatever i want. OKAY.
rawrrawrrrrarawrr rarawrrrwarawrrarw RARWRRRRRRRRR

75

2006-10-09T20:17:00.000+08:00

i felt like doing one of these hahahaha. fun.

75 Questions Some People Wouldn't Think To Ask!

001. When's the last time you ran?:
i can't remember

002. Do your jeans have rips, tears, and holes in them?:
nope but i wouldn't mind a pair like that

003. What are you dreading right now?:
hmmmm. nothing

004. Do you celebrate 4/20?:
whats that?

005. Favorite country group?:
none..

006. What face cleanser do you use?:
shokubutsu orange

007. When was your last doctors visit?:
last month to get an xray for my shin

008. Do you get the full 8 hours of sleep?:
most of the time

009. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?:
it really depends. if i wanna curl my hair, i take about 40. if i keep to my minimalistic routine (haha) i can get ready by 10.

010. "First Loves Are Never Over" is this true for you?
no; i mean, its possible, but its possible to get over it too.

011. Think of all your exes. Would you take any of them back?
no.

012. If anyone came to your house on your "lazy days" what would they find you wearing?
shirt and shorts

013. Does your school have tornado drills?
hahahaha no

014. Have you ever been on your school's track team?
noo i'm so bad at running

015. Do you own a pair of Converse?
yah

016. Who did you cut and paste this survey from?
melody

017. Do you eat raw cookie dough?:
yes!! aah

018. Have you ever kicked a vending machine?:
i think so

019. Don't you hate when the radio ruins good songs by overplaying them?:
yeah, but i don't listen to the radio so

020. Would you rather them play the whole video or just a clip of it on TRL?:
i don't care, don't watch TRL.

021. Do you watch Trading Spaces?:
isn't it trading spouses? never heard of trading spaces.

022. How do you eat oreos?:
just eat it

023. Have you ever stayed online for a very long time waiting for someone to sign in?:
hahaha yes. a looong time ago.

024. Are you cocky?
don't think so

025. Shortest relationship?
a month i think

026. Longest?:
a year and a half

030. Could you live without a computer?:
yeah, but it'll be quite hard

031. Do you wear your shoes in the house?
noo

032. When you watch movies at home, do you turn the lights off?
yah

033. At what age did you find out that santa wasn't real?
i never thought he was real

034. How many phones, house phones and cell phones are in your house?
1 house phone and 4 handphones (1 for each family member; except right now isaku's is in his school pants at someone else's house. he's been trying to call it for the past hour. someone took it by accident hahaha. poor thing)

035. What do you do when you're sad?
cry

036. Who would you call first if you won the lottery?
jeremy

037. Last time you saw your best friend?:
yesterday!

038. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
my inferior complex that kicks in occasionally

039. Last movie you rented?:
the notebook, hotel rwanda, and the perfect catch

040. Who/What sleeps with you every night?:
a polar bear and a stuffed dog

041. How many times have you been pulled over?
never

042. Pancakes or Frenchtoast?:
pancakes

043. How do you like your eggs?:
scrambled

044. Are you in highschool?:
yeah

045. Is anyone on your bad side right now?
hmm well, there are people whom i find annoying but who aren't necessarily on my bad side? i dunno!

046. What jewelry are you wearing?:
none, i take them off everytime i get home

047. What's the first thing you do when you get online?:
check mail, check myspace- normal stuff.

048. Do you own any TV seasons on DVD?:
no

049. Do you watch Grey's Anatomy?:
no

050. How do most people spell your name?
megumi

051. Do you wear your boy/girlfriends clothes?
yeah sometimes - his boxers when i go over to his house. thai silk!

052. Do you watch pro sports on TV?:
nooope. don't watch tv much

053. What do you do before you sleep every night?:
blank out, or sometimes pray, or dream even before i fall asleep :) usually about my dream house.

054. What was the first movie that gave you nightmares?
i never got nightmares from movies

055. Who's your favorite celebrity couple?
hahaha i don't care!

056. Favorite 80's teen movie?:
dunno. the parent trap? is that the 80s? hahaha

057. Is Justin Timberlake becoming the next Michael Jackson or Elton John?:
uhhhh i dunno. wow such random questions.

059. Favorite name for a boy?
i quite like eugene. jeremy is nice too :)

060. Will you keep your last name when you get married?
hahaha no, but it'll still be the same.

061. Your favorite restaurant you don't get to eat that much?
brewerkz is nice. but not my fave. don't have a fave yet. i'm more of a cheapo coffee shop/hawker type person. or if its a cafe type thing, i love CHOUPINETTE.

062. When is the last time you left your house?:
this morning

063. Do you buy your own school supplies?
yeah

064. Do you already have your school supplies?:
yeah...

065. Have you ever cursed at a teacher?:
nope

066. How do you eat your steak?:
cut small pieces and savor every bite.

067. Who is your favorite rapper?:
i don't like rap

068. How do you get to school?:
my dad or my mom drives me

069. If you heard your phone ringing right now, who do you expect it to be?
jeremy or ruth or kiyoko

070. What noise do you hear?:
isaku's broken aircon

071. Would you survive in prison?:
it'll be REALLY hard but yah i can.

072. Next concert you hope to go to?
i wanna go to a john mayer concert! or gavin degraw. or motown.. or really nice jazz.

073. What was the last thing you ate?:
a beef and mushroom pie

074. When was the last time you said I love you, and meant it?:
just now

075. Who is the youngest in your family?:
my brother, and only by a minute! nyahaha.

runny nose

2006-10-03T10:34:00.000+08:00

helloo
haven't blogged in a while
i'm in study hall now and david just gave me a can of lemon 1000 juice drink which supposedly helps "the welfare of your body" since i'm sick now. so nice. auugh i hate blocked noses. i have to blow my nose every 5 minutes;.

my aunt passed away on sunday two days ago. last night was the first night of her funeral wake. i'll miss having her at all our family gatherings and seeing her at church. it was pretty amazing though, seeing her praise God until her very last breath.

we took some political quizzes in government class yesterday and today. it was really really interesting. i think i'm very in favor with the power of the government. i got a 0 and 0 on one of the quizzes which meant that the government should have power over every of the options that were listed. and i'm supposedly a left (liberal). i thought i'd be a conservative. but then again, i wasn't so sure about the things i was answering on the quiz anyways. didn't know enough about the US government. oh well :)

more pictures

2006-09-26T22:27:00.000+08:00

Before...

and after

hahaha even my arms got darker. aah!
anyways, i just ate and i'm so so full.
i miss jeremy!!!!
"bloody army!"

some people want diamond rings

2006-09-26T18:53:00.000+08:00

well, i'm sitting in isaku's room listening to s club 7 hahaha. good stuff :) brings back feelings of nostalgia. "never had a dream come true.."
anyways, school was pretty fun today. not really sure why, it just was.
i realised i didn't update on how the TTS game went. we won! yeah. 29 to 17. it was an okay game though. there's another game at TTS tomorrow. this time its with the TTS B team.
i'm more excited about soccer though. i mean, so far we've only had one soccer practice!!! (at least for me, cuz i missed the second one) i miss it. i gotta get soccer boots and socks soon!
the end of the year is coming up. so many things to look forwardd to :) year-ends are always so exciting. my birthday, other people's birthdays, christmas, holidays, shopping, SALES.. etc.
anyways, not much to say actually. just lazing. its been a tiring day. having to practice the japanese dance for international night, and sprinting for 5 seconds to the hawker. sprinting for 5 seconds already makes me out of breath! coach cannot expect me to sprint for 2 minutes!
tomorrow's See You At The Pole, so i get to wear my flag colors. hahaha the only time of the year i look patriotic. i can't be bothered on national day. but if it calls for FREE DRESS to school, that's a different story.

brewerkz!

2006-09-25T14:45:00.000+08:00

happy birthday maria! we went to brewerkz saturday night to celebrate. it was so much fun. some pictures!

nathan was turning so red. hahaha.

before the food came...

after the food came. the buffalo wings were the best!!
other than that, we got a seafood calzone, a pepperoni calzone, fries (they have the best fries), and a burger and more fries.

anna trying to smoke a sparkler. hahaha, nice :)

tomorrow...

2006-09-19T22:38:00.000+08:00

OPEN GIRL'S FIRST GAME at tanglin trust!!!

kaya toast

2006-09-19T11:01:00.000+08:00

i remember, i said something about posting more pictures from the barbeque. well, i'm too lazy! so i stole some from ruth's site :)
cuz the previous pictures i put up from the barbeque were just pictures of me and jeremy, and it kinda looked like it was only the both of us there hahaha.

mmm, i'm hungry now, i wish i could be sucked into the picture.

jeremy's hand!

i'm craving ya kun kaya toast now. i wanna sit at a balcony and eat ya kun kaya toast.

i got a bunch of stuff with jeremy yesterday :) happy happy joy joy. i got two different kinds of in-soles for my shoes. one's washable, and one's throw-away, but more expensive. cuz it was some extreme odour DESTROYER one from scholl. so i hope it works. my feet feels cooled even right now as i type. an interesting sensation. or maybe its all in the mind. who knows, but it better work!!!!! cuz i scrubbed my feet with this lemongrass foot exfoliator i got from body shop yesterday.
and body shop sold this awesome lip and cheek stainer in a tube. 2 in 1! and its a stainer, just like lipice, so it doesn't go on like paint like lipstick. and it doesn't go on like powder (that rubs off really easily) like normal blush. it STAINS. and it looks natural. i love it. its so great cuz i used to try and add pink to my cheeks with lipice (and its not meant for that) so now i got something that's actually meant for both my lips and cheeks, and i know i'm being londwinded and going on about a cosmetic product, but i really need to stress on how great this product is! it is great.
ah, here's a picture

it is extremely liquidy so it does not make your cheeks feel gooey or anything. aaah i love it :D
tonight, me, ruth and rach: dinner at the new botanic garden's food court. haven't been there in ages. yaaaaaaay.

craaave.

2006-09-17T20:29:00.000+08:00

well, i had a really nice nap this afternoon, after having lunch at holland village. after trying to be debbie travis my arms were aching and my body felt so tired. i think sunday afternoons are made for lazing anyways. what other perfect way to spend a sunday afternoon than to just be yourself and relaaax. i was craving bread and butter for lunch! and craving to sit at a nice balcony staring out, eating bread and butter. and then falling asleep. but i had to come home to a house without balconies. and it made me realise how my house is so... closed concept? rather small windows.. no balconies. and now i know that whatever house i get in the future, it has to be pretty open concept with balconies and BIIIG WINDOWS with lots of natural sunlight streaming in.

You Are Lemon Meringue Pie

You're the perfect combo of sassy and sweet
Those who like you have well refined tastes

What Kind of Pie Are You?

mmmmm pie is sounding very good now. esp lemon meringue. they read my mind! i love lemon tasting pastries.

Gummy Bears

You may be smooshie and taste unnatural, but you're so darn cute.

What Kind of Candy Are You?

i'm bored. and i'm missing jeremy.

You Are Best Described By...

San Giorgio Maggiore, Twilight
By Claude Monet

What Famous Work of Art Are You?

Your 1920's Name is:

Lurline Robbie

What's Your 1920's Name?

You Are a Glazed Donut

Okay, you know that you're plain - and you're cool with that.
You prefer not to let anything distract from your sweetness.
Your appeal is understated yet universal. Everyone dig you.
And in a pinch, you'll probably get eaten.

What Donut Are You?

ooh now i want donuts! i loved the krispy kreme ones reuben brought back from australia. bring back some again this year!!!

Your Career Personality: Idealistic, Service-Oriented, and Future-Oriented

Your Ideal Careers:

Alternative health practitioner
Architect
Environmental lawyer
Librarian
Magazine editor
Museum curator
Novelist
Nutritionist
Photo journalist
Playwright

The Quick and Dirty Career Test

What Your Soul Really Looks Like

You are quite expressive and thoughtful. You see the world in a way that others are blind to.

You are a grounded person, but you also leave room for imagination and dreams. You feet may be on the ground, but you're head is in the clouds.

You believe that people see you as larger than life and important. While this is true, they also think you're a bit full of yourself.

For you, love is all about caring and comfort. You couldn't fall in love with someone you didn't trust.

Inside the Room of Your Soul

ah i love taking these quizzes! they are so addictive.

Your Japanese Name Is...

Ami Inoue

What's your Japanese Name?

hahaha. i have another japanese name. yaay.

You Are 28% Addicted to Myspace

Your Myspace addiction factor is: Low

You're a typical casual Myspace user... you know what it's all about, but you haven't been sucked in (yet)!

Are You Addicted to Myspace?

hahahaha well, i'm glad.

What Your Face Says

At first glance, people see you as down to earth and reliable.

Overall, your true self is reserved and logical.

With friends, you seem logical, detached, and a bit manipulative.

In love, you seem mysterious and interesting.

In stressful situation, you seem like you're oblivious to the stress.

What Do People Think Of Your Face?

Your Scholastic Strength Is Innovating

You are the master of new ideas, techniques, and ways of looking at things.
You are talented at structuring thoughts, decision making, clarifying, and making deadlines.

You should major in:

Marketing
Psychology
Desgin
Cognitive Science
Economics
Photography

What Should You Major In?

ooh, this one's pretty accurate.

john mayer has a new cd out! continuum. i think. i wanna get it. and his new song and music video's up on his site. aah i love john mayer.

Your Style is 1950s

High heels, pretty dresses, classic makeup...
You're a feminine beauty who knows how to play up her assets!

What Decade Matches Your Style?

You are Sneakers!

You're an active girl, who's all about function
You dress for the occasion - comfort comes first
Your perfect guy? Someone who can keep up with you.
You'll find him - but you might have to slow down to see him!

What Kind of Shoe Are You?

whaaaaaat. i know you're laughing daniel.

okay, enough quizzes. tomorrow's the beginning of the school week once again. and im sooo not in the mood! blaaaahhhh. i'm craving a chocolate bar. i even had a dream about it just now while i was taking a nap. there was a mint chocolate bar. an after eight in bar form. no such thing, but it existed in my dream! sounds really good now.
30 weeks of school left til graduation. i think? it is gonna zoooom by. gotta go eat dinner! i'm craving something oniony!
ruth's mom's right. i don't know what kind of outrageous cravings i'll get when i'm pregnant.

a taste of what debbie travis does

2006-09-16T22:55:00.000+08:00

today, while the owner of the house was out, a bunch of us went to help out with the cleaning and painting of a house (just like one of those home maker over shows. e.g. debbie travis' face lift). it was realllly tiring and tedious work, but i enjoyed being in an empty house and contributing to its niceness (?). haha my blank canvas :) seriously, i've been hearing so much about people's plans to re-do their rooms, and seeing people move houses (rach, jeanne, and aunty joy). I WISH I COULD MOVE TOO! i really would love to start a house from scratch and completely furnishing it with anything thats up to my choice and my own taste.
and when i become an interior designer, every house i furnish will be my own art piece and people will be living in it. its so much more than painting on a canvas and selling it and seeing it being hung up on a wall somewhere. but people will be living in my art, and appreciating it everyday. *squeal*
anyways, pictures from today...

me and nick begging? at the corner of an unfinished dining area.

me and my own handmade paperhat! to prevent paint from splashing on my head.
it kept falling off though, so i didn't wear it in the end. oh well.

jeanne and nick! working on the ceiling paint.

awww, daniel!! i know, right now you're thinking "oi! you took my picture!! *aah!*"

julian, jeremy and nick!

the pictures are kinda dark.. but oh well. and lots of black and white pictures too. hmmm. well i like them not only cuz they're artsy, but also cuz colored pictures sometimes turn out really unflattering with certain lightings. black and white pictures don't. anwaaay.
even MORE pictures!
me and kiyoko going hysterical at the back of the bus on our way to watching sophie scholl on a field trip. we had lots more of these photos but here are a few...

i LOVE kiyoko's face in this one. hahahahaha

cutesy jap girrllsssssss.

well, i better go to bed.
goodnight!

friday yay

2006-09-15T11:04:00.000+08:00

a little snippet from my old old blog. i wrote this poem when i was craving ice cream, and when ruth was studying.. for something. that's right ruth you used to go to school! long gone are those days....

ruth if you were a...
cockroach, i will make snoopy eat you. (i hate cockroaches!!)
ruth, if you were a bird, i will feed you milo cereal instead of bird seeds.
ruth if you were a goat, i will feel you spicy lady's fingers instead of grass.
ruth if you were a butterfly, i would feed you nutella chocolate instead of flower nectar.
ruth if you were a bacteria, i don't think i'll even know you exist.
but i think i'll stick to you being human.

in study hall now. so so happy its a friday!
anyways, i had such a nice dinner last night with nick and jeremy at the cellar door. (so glad we went against the idea of eating at al ameen.)the service is really good and the fooood... *aahhhhh* yah, i really love that place. next stop: choupinette! for breakfast. i want my nice hot cup of english breakfast and bread. or pastry. whatever they have there. everything looks so good. and maybe a nice boook. i wanna indulge in more donald miller.
aw man, now i wanna be there. just sitting there and relaxing instead of sitting in class. of course.
okay, better go.

function not fashion! for once.

2006-09-14T10:46:00.000+08:00

i absolutely, absolutely adoooore this photograph.
the lamp in the corner as a makeshift sun is so cute, and i love the houses. i really love it.
i've been browsing through deviantart for the past half hour and i realised how much i love photography. all my added favorites are photos. and i can't get enough of them. now i'm really wanting a good camera. not a dinky little digital camera with the most minimalist functions that looks cute. i want FUNCTION. this time, I WANT FUNCTION.

snowflake

2006-09-12T10:42:00.000+08:00

hola!
i just made this snowflake in autocad.

(i looked at this picture for reference)

twas the funnest assignment. can't wait to start on houseplans and stuff. autocad is soo easy to get the hang of. fun funfun fun! and mr. martin is such nice teacher.
i had such a horrible dream of my mom last night. she was in a wheelchair and she was really really sick. horrible dream. i can't wait til she comes back from japan. which is tonight! and tonight is oysters and beer with nick and teri. yaaay.

ahlo

2006-09-08T17:50:00.000+08:00

i'm at the church office now waiting to meet nick for dinner. and i read my old posts from this blog AND THEN i went back to reading the first set of archives from the chickencootiepower blog (me and ruth's really old blog) and my goodness we sound sooooo different! i still used "lol", and i guess i was quite obsessed with going online so i would type a post just to say that there are 10 people online but i'm only talking to 2 people and who those 2 people are... hahahaha brainless but those were fun days. and i don't think there was a single "deep" post i made on that blog.
well, today i had to skip soccer... which was sad cuz my bruise isn't going away. and basketball games start next week. wah lau wah lau. but i only had 4 and a half hours of sleep last night so probably would have almost passed out or passed out if josh made us play like last week! plus some of the girls are at the retreat so that would have meant A LOT more running. my stamina is equivalent to NO BRAND BATTERIES! i need more protein maybe. i've been learning that in anatomy. cuz we're right now going through the chemistry part. so protein's a catalyst for releasing energy or something? something like that. anatomy class is fun. mr. goode cracks me up everyday. picture day yesterday. i hope that this year will be the year that my pictures actually turn out good. there hasn't been ANY year after being in ics for 6 years where i had good yearbook pictures. none. sooo i'm counting on this year. and i did a fierce beauty look in one of them. if you've never ANTM you wouldn't know what i'm talking about. speaking of ANTM, its been crappy. the season with brittany was the best. i can still quote her haha.
wellllllll, my mom is in japan now. my brother is in indonesia. my dog is at some other family's house. so its gonna be just me and my dad at home til sunday night. i really wish i was in japan too right now. the weather must be so nice. and its autumn.. must be so beautiful. that's one season i've never experienced. japaaan... i'll probably be going during thanksgiving, so i can't wait. and jeremy might come along too so its gonna be so fun! and i wanna look at universities there. can't wait.

any given day

2006-09-05T14:47:00.000+08:00

I want to write a song
But my soul is trapped in this body
This body with music trapped in its fingers
These calloused fingers,
they feel so incapable
Incapable of playing more than the chords they already know
Incapable of writing a song worth singing
These calloused fingers,
they should be flipping thrugh the pages of Huckleberry Finn
But right now,
They'd rather be playing tunes they'd forget by tomorrow
Playing tunes to the words they'd forget by tomorrow

...some poem i wrote a long time ago while i was procrastinating with english homework. haha.
i still haven't gotten to write a song. i really want to but its so hard. it must be such a nice feeling making up a tune no one else has before (esp if its really good) and then putting words to it. i admire people who can do that.
anyways, once again, i've been reminded of selfishness during the past week. how selfishness ruins relationships and ruins yourself. because that wasn't what God created us for. He didn't create us for ourselves, but for HIM. what's the use of living solely to feed our desires? that's not where joy is found.

It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know about God's word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out - in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just has the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic ccompulsions of a law-dominated existence?
- Galations 5:14-18 (from The Message version)

well, i missed school today! haha i absolutely could not wake up this morning. had a really long talk with isaku last night, and it was definitely worth staying up.
the word "disillusionment" has been swirling around in my head the past few days. how something good can immediately become a disappointment once disillusionment comes in. and disillusionment, is it true? i think its usually the truth that disppoints us. disillusionment is a type of truth that awakes us to the ugly side of reality. i'm the kind of person who dreams (sometimes pretty unrealisitically) a lot, so disillusionment is extremely hard to handle. but it'll never ever stop me from dreaming. it's too fun :)
i'm just in the mood to ramble right now. just letting my thoughts flooow. and i miss jeremy. it really stinks having to talk to him on the phone and not be able see him. isaku's watching armegeddon right now. can't see the tv but the background music is very dramatic. its okay, it kind of matches this post. hahaha.
dang it, i wanna be in the movie right now.
i wanna be in a super sappy and dramatic scene with tears in my eyes saying lines like "daddy don't go."
my mom said i can have a vespa when i go to japan. yay! i'll be riding around tokyo in my vespa. i need to graduate NOW.
just kidding, school's been pretty fun actually. soccer was fun to the MAX. even though i got my shin hit pretty badly i couldn't walk that night. its all purplegreenandblue now. didn't think girl's soccer would be that violent. but it's the only time in my life i have a good reason to be violent i guess. it was sooo fun. i realised how much i love it more than basketball. basketball's kinda blah for me to be honest. but SOCCER.. *squeal* hahaha okay...... anyways.
another picture of me and jeremy :) i am wearing swedish colors.

maybe...

2006-09-04T00:32:00.000+08:00

i'll just put two pictures up first!
hahaha

arty tarty

2006-09-03T23:55:00.000+08:00

hola!
i'm gonna show off two of my latest art. midterm grades are due tomorrow or something so i had to get 3 done during this weekend. i've only got two so far. late night tonight baby.

tap by ~imugem on deviant ART

more from my kitchen by ~imugem on deviant ART

the second one's kinda dark but that's cuz of my camera. its actually brighter. but yes, these two were something different for a change; never done paintings like these before.
(oh and if the pictures don't appear, try hovering your mouse over the title at the bottom)

other than staying at home painting this weekend, there was a barbeque at jeanne's house saturday night. the food was amaaaazing. nick and jeremy were the chefs, and this barbeque wasn't your cliched frying sausages and chicken wing barbeque. i ate til i looked 2 months pregnant i think. i had so much fun :) i have pictures so i'll put them up later. i'm too sleepy right now to be staring at the computer and waiting for photobucket to upload them. too slow.
oh! and i'm gonna inherit my dad's current ibook. we signed up for better broadband (the one where its wireless internet air) and singtel's giving away free ibooks so my dad got one. i have a laptop now!
nick preached today, good job nick. everything was such a good reminder for me. and japan burnt in my heart when you said thailand burnt in yours. God has huuge plans for us. it is so exciting.
well, i could go on about some more but i should sleep. i'm so so so happy that its a half day tomorrow!
goodnight.

tell me more

2006-08-31T09:55:00.000+08:00

hola, i'm in autocad class now.
my fourth finger got jammed so its really fat. well, this week's gone by really fast, which is really good. i can't wait til the weekend. i'll get to eat TEX MEX!
i also really really need to buy new shoes. have you ever had days where you really didn't have any shoes to wear? well, today was that day for me. yesterday, i ended up walking in the heavy rain to church and got my black ballet flats ruined (they were pretty ruined already anyways). and so i threw them away... i really loved them, so it was sad. and my two other shoes were just washed so they were all wet, and i tried drying my converses overnight under my aircon, but that didn't work out. so i'm wearing my wet pair of converse now. at least they are clean now! they don't smell anymore.
okay, the bell just rang.

the nations are your inheritance

2006-08-29T17:26:00.000+08:00

Greece

i'd looove to be there right now.

yes

2006-08-26T12:14:00.000+08:00

i'm just waiting for my papi to come pick me and isaku up right now. then we'll ride on our black stallions to church.

so, just to kill time...

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. meg
2. mi chang
3. megsy

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. airplane toilets
2. deranged people or murderers (CSI stuff)
3. blood

THREE THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY:
1. people (my family and friends. "you know who you are!!!" *cheesy*)
2. shopping
3. painting

THREE THINGS YOU HATE:
1. having hair in my mouth (i just got one)
2. mosquito bites
3. raisins

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. i have to sing everyday
2. lipice
3. foood

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. denim shorts
2. green tank top
3. undies

THREE THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE (OR SAME) SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. loves God
2. looks
3. personality (my answers are so broad! but i can't just boil them down to 3 things...)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. hanging out with friends
2. shopping
3. singing

THREE THINGS YOU WANT REALLY BAD RIGHT NOW:
1. a house
2. a vespa
3. plane ticket to greece

THREE CAREERS YOU'VE CONSIDERED:
1. artist
2. actress
3. detective

THREE PLACES YOU WOULD GO ON VACATION:
1. GREECE!!!
2. tuscany
3. bangkok (just for shopping)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. go to greece (or just travel the world)
2. get married of course.
3. hug a polar bear (i don't know, i can't think of stuff i wanna do)

okay, my dad's home!

but isaku's not out of the shower yet..
so, yesterday was nick's 21st birthday. happy birthday! a bunch of us went to eat spanish tapas at laviva at chijmes. the food was faaaaaabulous. yesterday, was just an awesome day overall. singapore is beautiful. chijmes, clark quay, boat quay, the friends i have..
"LIFE...
EMBRACE IT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!"
nick and i were so tempted to go up to someone and clutch them by their shoulders and say that to their face.
despite the quarter-life crisis, the senioritis, or whatever.. life is still awesome.

autocad

2006-08-24T09:39:00.000+08:00

hola, i'm in autoCAD class now. and apparently the license expired for several computers so everyone's just moving around trying to figure out the software. mine's working! so yeah. first period was debate in government. i have to say, after all that complaining to all my friends about how i really don't care, it was a very enjoyable debate session. david dressed up as a woman, because he was supposed to be mary wollstonecraft (it was so cute) with straw hat and a little fan and everything. good job. and karl marx (josh) was like a mix of derek zoolander and some indian man. the result was very very fierce. it was hilarious.
okay, back to autoCAD class...

might be the quarter-life crisis

2006-08-22T18:36:00.000+08:00

hello!
well, its about time i posted SOMETHING about school. since my last post was during the last bit of my summer. well, to be honest, i've been feeling very very detached from school. and already, i can't wait to finish school and just start a new chapter of my life; instead of debating about political philosophies of politcal figures who lived in the 1700s. those things really don't matter to me at all. but that's the way the world functions now, and i have to live with it. so today was one of those days i thought about life. and how if God wasn't in the picture, everything i do and have been doing would be in vain. really, it would. why else would i go to school? cuz i know God put me there for a reason. and everything is part of his plan. and it should never be the other way round. meaning it shouldn't be God being a part of MY plan. so i wanna do the best with this life he's given me even though school's not the funnest thing. but i am truly blessed to be in ICS. awesome teachers, and a rather relaxed school life compared to local schools. JC people are preparing for A levels now. i haven't even APPLIED FOR THE SATS. yes, that says a lot.
another thing that sucks a lot is that jeremy's in the army. i'm missing him so much :( the situation just makes me amount to a whining organism. i'm almost 18 and i still whine. but thanks jeremy for being the sweeeeeetest guy in the world. i really can't wait til november.
basketball practice on monday was a KILLER! hahaha seriously. i was probably the most out of shape out of everyone (even though i don't look it, i know. haha kidding.) i did 3 suicides and started seeing stars. so i had to sit out and steal someone's water. cuz i didn't have my own. hahaha aah. HORRIBLE. tomorrow's practice again, and i'm gonna do better this time. i'll bring my own water and somehow increase my audio skills to try and hear coach in our gym, where sound travels to places except to your ears.
i'm loving my schedule too. even though i'll love it more if i could take MUSIC. the music room's awesome. your voice echoes in there so singing sounds a millions times better. kiyoko and i spent our whole study hall period there singing. it was loads of fun. so i have government first period (bleaugh), and then AUTOCAD! which is awesome cuz we're eventually gonna start learning how to design houses. that is EXACTLY what i wanna do, and its gonna help me so much in the future. and then 3rd period, i have study hall! very nice. a breather before the other harder classes come in the way. after study hall, i have lunch, where i get to leave school :) i haven't eaten lunch at the school canteen yet. or maybe i shouldn't use the word "yet" cuz i'm not sure if i'll ever. the hawker is great cuz everything is so cheap. a generous portion of chicken rice, char siew rice, or duck rice costs 2 dollars. ONLY! it works well with my frugal-life plan. (i made this plan where i'll live a frugal life on the weekdays, and treat myself to one object during the weekends if i get to shop). it works well. and then after lunch, i have anatomy. i love mr. goode, so anatomy, even though its a science subject, is fun. then there's english, which is slightly a challenge. cuz i get so sleepy. and my tendency to zone out is probably the highest then. we watched a video today, and i literally have no idea what it was about. its amazing how a brain can so easily shut out when my eyes are clearly glued onto the tv screen. i saw grass, and gray colored walls (probably hadrian's wall since we've been talking about it). and i saw warriors fighting. that's all i remember. and something about sutton hoo's or something. after english, we have BIBLE! i love bible cuz mr. bridgeman is cool. and cuz bible is bible. the bible is a cool book. and we're learning about church history from the book of acts. very interesting. and after bible is ART! what a great way to end the day. and miss gorman's letting me do whatever i want. and so i'm gonna use that period to build my portfolio, or to experiment with large canvas paintings. i have so many ideas. i just need the money to buy my canvases.
so that's all the word vomit for today.

deer

2006-08-10T12:04:00.000+08:00

mr bridgeman wanted me to paint this on his classroom wall (a rustic version of it) but changed his mind. *phew*

jaaam.

2006-08-10T11:42:00.000+08:00

hey! i'm at the church office right now. waiting for jeremy to come get me and sweep me off my feet! just kidding. we're gonna have yummy bak chor downstairs. and gonna go to some green something place. can't remember the name...
so, school's starting next monday. i thought it would start on tuesday cuz that's right in the middle of august. but i guess it was more convenient to start on a monday... aah. not really looking forward to it. still got lots i wanna do. and i'm gonna be bombarded with lots i have to do that i don't want to do, so i won't be able to do what i wanna do...
as i was eating plain toasts (i didn't know what to spread on them) one morning, and flipping through an interior design book, a new room revamp plan popped into my head. i'm dying to do it; it'll be the best room revamp so far. i must do it! but school's gonna be such a huge hindrance. and i haven't done my flea market thingy. really, i feel quite crappy not accomplishing the things i had planned out. i haven't even touched a basketball all summer. but this summer's been the best summer i've ever had. ever!

jam :)

2006-08-08T08:52:00.000+08:00

i'm on top of the world!!!!!
- jeremy
- i got accepted into a really nice art gallery in arab street (a touristy area)
- i get to sell my art there
- and be part of some short plays maybe

anyways, i'm missing nick soooo much!
just feels like something's missing without him around. can't wait til saturday when he gets back from indonesia.
arab street is one of the awesomest place in singapore. they have the cutest shops. its my favorite hang out place right now.
school's starting next week, i cannot believe it. i'm not ready!

i'm so so so hooked on john mayer now.
"my stupid mouth" is the best song. for now.

i've been able to see glimpses of my future. it's so exciting.
don't know if i'm really making sense. i'm just typing whatever that comes to mind. explains why most sentences don't connect. oh well.
i gotta go eat breakfast now.

interesting night

2006-08-03T12:29:00.000+08:00

well, i ended up sleeping at 5 am last night/this morning. and it's weird getting ready for bed when you know in about half an hour, local school kids will be getting ready for school.

i stole pictures from ruth's blog!

bangs symmetry

my demon dog peering over at me and ruth from the stairs.

ruth seems bothered.

ruth curled my hair!

CAMP HORSE!

mar and i were watching the man, and his envelope which seems to contain something highly valuable...

ruth's fancy way of blocking the flash and taking a picture. we are red!

a man sleeping standing up, outside NYDC.

i love this picture

sailormoon bangs. in the shape of a heart... my heart. just kidding.

other than all that, update on my life: it has been so, so exciting.

"i LOVE this cd"

2006-07-29T00:26:00.000+08:00

hola, haven't posted in awhile.
right now, i'm very very hooked on john mayer's latest cd:

its one of those cds i actually feel a deep, deep affection for; and that makes you go "i LOVE this cd." i'm sure ruth can relate. i like how his singing sounds so effortless. compared to the diva-ish voice that makes the singer looks constipated; the kind you hear on american idol.

hahahahaha isaku's playing something on his guitar and my dad's just making up lyrics...
"..seagulls... oh yeah, yeah yeah, yoohoo hoo hooooooo"
hahahahahaha

just a few pictures from the past few weekssssssah!
sentosa

me and sarah!

the pizza was so so good. the crust was thin and crispy, had the right amount of cheese, and a very generous amount of toppings. and my first taste of lime margarita.

ansell and isaku.

when ruth sleptover.
one of those things where you're like "what the crap are we doing!" but you do it anyways cuz its soooo funny at that moment. even though it still makes me laugh, these pictures.
we reckoned people would look absurd if they happened to pose in their sleep. what do you think?
(and its in sepia tone, just for artsy measure ;) )

i know, we look sooo unflattering. oh well.
other than all the nonsense we did, i got to watch nacho libre! and pirates. i loved both movies. nacho libre was sooo funny. and pirates was funny too, and cute? hahaha i could never be a movie critic cuz i just end up liking most movies i watch, and not have very much to say about it. i guess i'm the one who read what the critics have to say and simply be entertained.
we've finally settled into our new church venue. yay! it looks great. and since i've been ending up there almost everyday, i've been able to eat bak chor mee everyday too. i don't think i'll ever get sick of the bak chor mee they sell downstairs. its SO good. ugghhh i can't believe school's starting in about 3 weeks.

-

2006-07-21T23:06:00.000+08:00

i don't know what to do

i feel deep and thoughtful.

2006-07-16T23:30:00.000+08:00

my tag board doesn't work. soooo weird. but oh well.
i'm just sitting in front of my computer eating a bowl of apples and feeling very dissatisfied with myself. i should do more with myself and my life. i'm in a thinking mood all of a sudden.
other than that, i'm uploading CD's i borrowed from nick and rach on my itunes now. jamiroquai, jack johnson, and john mayer. so J-ish! people with names that begin with J tend to be musically inclined i guess. no, never mind, mine starts with an "M." haha just kidding :D your name does not determine your giftedness in music. i'm sorry, i will not be narrow-minded.
so the song of the week is "hot tequila brown" by jamiroquai. it's a great, chatchy song. listen to it!
it's my ring tone right now, so i'm sorry if i take a while to pick up my phone. and i've learned that i really am very anal with my message inbox. i've got to delete my messages to specifically make it a number divisible by 5. hahaha God made me that way :)
well i have nothing really profound to blog as of now so i shall not waste my time and go. goodnight!

oh but i do have a profound quote:

"not all suffering is a result of sin, but all sin result in suffering"

ooooooh. yes, it does help you understand a big part of your life.

fun fun

2006-07-14T01:15:00.000+08:00

i should be sleeping now!
but today was so fun i feel like i must post about it. my waking-up time is getting later and later.
anyways, today isaku and i met up with nick (and then chris and julian came later) to have prata and al-ameen. had really good prata for brunch so that was a really good start to my day. except it was odd that they said they only made plain pratas in the evening when they made every other kind of pratas- cheese, cheese and mushroom, egg, onions etc. so nick and isaku kind of pondered over whether or not to ask the guy for "one cheese and mushroom prata! but without the cheese and mushroom" and see if he'd catch it. but of course, they aren't dumb...
never mind, i'm too sleepy to post about the rest of my day. but i found it soooo funny that nick suggested ewan mcgregor should've zapped off his mole on his forehead with his light saber. he should've! it was so distracting. hahahaha that still makes me laugh.
okay should go to sleep.
goodnight!
and i need to add that i got to go to ikea today :D i love ikea. except the interior design of the exhibition rooms (whatever you call them) weren't as great as they used to be. but it awakened my love for furnitures and interior design once again.

sitting, waiting, wishing

2006-07-11T14:16:00.000+08:00

hellooooo
i'm waiting for my mom to get ready so we can start our second round of errands today. the sun's out and i wish i could go for a swim and get a tan but unfortunately the day only offers me 24 hours, and i don't think that's long enough to accomplish everything i want to do on my mental list of things i want to do (i'm so longwinded!)
my mom's started doing some right brain training on me and isaku everyday. it's really interesting, all we have to do is stare at a piece of paper with zig zag lines and kind of outline them with your eyes over and over. and before that, i have to stare at a piece of orange paper with a blue dot in the middle for 30 seconds, and then close my eyes to see an inverted (the colors) version of that piece of paper in my head. hahaha, at least they're really easy.
well, we're starting the packing of our current church office today, to get ready to move upstairs. so exciting :D
and, i got a call from abby this morning! she's in singapore already so i'll get to see her tomorrow! it's been sooo long.
okay, hopefully my mom's ready now.
bye!

new phone!

2006-07-11T00:49:00.000+08:00

helloooo
i got a new phone today!!!

ta-dah. the nokia 7360.
i really really wanted to get a flip phone though, and i found this really nice samsung one, but it cost a bomb. it was the samsung E870. it had this minimalistic look to it and i loved the buttons; and it had amazing features. oh well.
so it's been a long day today. running errands is tiring even though it was only accomplishing two things- extending my student pass expiry date, and getting a new phone. tomorrow, i'm going to get a new ic and hopefully, a hair curling iron.

one more post

2006-07-06T22:59:00.000+08:00

appear!

whyyy.

2006-07-06T22:53:00.000+08:00

my blog's been taking aaages to load recently. and i'm guessing it's cuz of my KL pictures. so i'm gonna post stuff until it disappears into the archives file.

except photobucket's being stupid too. the pictures won't appear on my site for some reason. aaaghh!

meaningless stuff

2006-07-06T21:26:00.000+08:00

i feel extremely unhealthy.
i just had a piece of greasy cheese sausage with fake machine-processed mashed potatoes (the maggi one), and 13 pieces of deeeeeeeeeeep fried fish with salt and vinegar, and fries from CHIPPY- the place that sells fried mars bars. "peckish" has been my word of the day everyday. somehow i go through phases where i feel permanently hungry, peckish, or not hungry at all. and i'm going through the peckish phase now. but i stuffed myself beyond what "peckish" can bear.
anyways, i haven't updated in a while. last weekend was really interesting... i feel too full to type everthing out in detail. my blood feels thicker. it was a nightmare climbing up the flight of stairs up to the fourth floor of my block.

saturday- really long worship practice. ended up helping a bunch of paya lebar mgs girls (they formed a little band) to sing cuz the singers were sooo afraid of the mic. they were going to perform for this 90 hour singing marathon thing organized by their school for a fundraiser, AND to enter the guiness world records. sooo if we get in the world records, ruth, jeanne and i contributed to half an hour of it :) we sang at millenia walk from 11:00-11:30.
sunday-ruth, nick, rach, and i preached! i had no idea i could be so longwinded, i went on about 40 minutes without knowing it. but everyone preached really well. it was really cool too, we decided not to discuss about what we were going to preach about, trusting that God will somehow put something on each of our hearts that will be tied together. and true enough, he did. we all talked about being part of the body of christ (a very broad topic, but our messages were all tied together).
monday- watched superman! with ruth, rach, daniel, and mar. then met up with ansell for dinner.
tuesdayhad dinner with ruth and rach. we had sushi :) sleptover at ruth's house with rach. helped rach dye her hair. watched lots of tv! discovered another drama that closely resembles laguna beach - 8th and ocean. they are so shallow. watched csi, an episode which made me slightly paranoid cuz both cases were about two people beaten/stabbed to death in bed. and catherine looks at the little boy's body and dramatically, but silently whispers... "people aren't even safe in their own beds..."
aah! csi is too morbid for me. i think i'll try to avoid it from now on. even though the investigating side of it really interests me. the forensic stuff. if i were smart enough, and brave enough, i'd definitely do something like what warrick and catherine does in csi.
wednesday- ruth, rach and i meant to wake up to watch the germany and italy game early in the morning (3 am) but ruth's alarm chose not to ring! so we completely missed it. i wasn't bummed though cuz i really am not into the world cup, but ruth was.
rach comes into the room at around 7 am in her school uniform ready to leave for school: ruth! you missed the game!!!!!
ruth gets up immediately from bed: oh crap!!!!
me: *groans* *goes back to bed*
ruth: i can't believe i missed the game!!!!!!!!!!!! : ( : ( : ( : (
ruth and i went to the church office in the afternoon. i sat at the church library and read dr. james dobson's life on the edge. it's a really really good book. it talks about the different things kids my age face. choosing colleges, relationships, love of money , emotional ups and downs etc. basically, everything.
and today- i cleared out my clothes to sell at the flea market from my closet. i had A LOT. and then i went down to the church office again to meet ruth! and had my very unhealthy dinner.

oookay. i'm done rambling!

fish scales in the skaahhh

2006-06-27T22:33:00.000+08:00

holaaaaaaaaaaa.
today was a good day! i went shopping with my mom and got new clothes. still in need of some more. somehow, when you intentionally shop, you can't really find the stuff you want. impulsive buys are still THE BEST! but i haven't had the money to make impulsive buys. and i found it odd that zara and top shop weren't on sale when its GSS right now. welllll it turns out they have their sales after the GSS. non-conformists!! sooo after that, i watched cars with my family and jeanne (i was the gooseberry sitting in between my parents, and jeanne+isaku). but it was a GREAT MOVIE! i loved it. i wasn't expecting much cuz i'm not like a biiiig fan of animations but it was really really funny. and of course, my dad was laughing the loudest throughout the whole movie.
and i'm glad i got to spend time with my family too. the last movie i watched with them was the secondhand lions (which was also a great movie). my parent's old church's pastors wife suddenly died a few days ago and it really really hit me that i should never take my friends or family for granted. i mean, that lady wasn't sick or anything. she just suddenly died from a breathing difficulty. anything could happen. so yeah, it was a huge shock for me. i saw her about 2 weeks ago in JB and never would've guessed she'd pass away in 2 weeks. so last weekend i got to think about life and death a lot.
anyways, ruth, nick, rach, and i are preaching this sunday cuz its youth sunday and we're TAKING OVER! hope everything works out well. well, i know it will :) hahaha
the sky's been looking very pretty too. i feel like i must update you guys on the sky cuz no one else seems to really pay attention to it? today was all clear and blue. on MONDAY, it was amaaazing. the clouds were all wispy and it made like a fish scale looking pattern on the sky. well the sky isn't like a ceiling so i can't really use the preposition "on" but it looked like it. a blue ceiling with white fish scale patterns.

KLKLKLKLKL

2006-06-21T21:47:00.000+08:00

so, KL was reeaally fun. unlike all of the other times i've been to KL, i didn't buy a single item (food excluded). but we did eat A LOT. italian, japanese, dunkin donuts! baskin robbins, bakerzin (nick and i ordering every dessert tapa thingy- which is kinda like ordering every dessert on the menu but in smaller portions- they had 12 different kinds) chinese, malay etc. the hotel was really nice too. and it would've been perfect if there was a beach.
okay, pictures!

(my white pointy shoes! and ruth's cute little-girl shoes!)
our car ride up to KL seemed like a short one. i don't even know how long it took. and i got to finish my first chick-lit book in AGES which was pretty good - the undomestic goddess.

our lovely room. i liked the interior, the mauve (was it mauve? haha) carpeting and the yellow lighting. very well done.
and the closet was so cute, i decided to actually hang my clothes in it, which i never do.

ruth's toiletries, and mine.

we had italian for dinner on our first night there :) - since the coffee shop was fully booked, which is fine by me. italian was good. we got a bunch of stuff and shared. and that's me and ruth!

ruth's parents, and mine too.

nick and his cutlery art. veeerrryyy impressive.

me and my plate shadow art! i had a dog and my own hand for dinner.

this was what we had for dessert. the first one's tiramisu, and i'm not sure what the second one was called.

the second day:
lunch at the coffee house!

we tore up napkins, and i made a heart. napkin art!
nick's pun (after sticking my napkin heart in cold water): you have a cold heart hahaha!
i thought that was quite funny.

oooh looking very divine.

then... we took a complimentary shuttle bus to 1 utama - a huuuuuge shopping mall in KL. maybe the biggest? and we met skye! we got to know her at the GTT in JB.

there's skye! we ate at nando's cuz she was staaarving.

and then we ate at some chinese place for dinner later on... told you we ate a lot.
and right when i was gonna take a picture of nick and daniel, my camera DIED.
but this was the day we ate at bakerzin. i was telling everyone how i wanted live swans and ducks at my wedding (since skye was trying to get ideas for her sister's wedding) and i guess it sounded quite bizarre nick began conjuring up greater plans for my future wedding. such as releasing the doves after saying "i do" and having carriages... drawn by four miniature ponies on EACH carriage, all of them dressed as unicorns...
i don't know if it was the sugar. i was laughing soooo hard.

the third day (after charging my batteries):
ruth and i woke up just in time to have a quick breakfast and to catch the shuttle bus to midvalley (to meet skye again) but we missed it while waiting for nick and daniel to finish breakfast. but its okay, we made it there by cab :)

skye got a bit bored while ruth went a bit crazy at the cd shop, so she got us to take a picture with this very very kooool graffiti wall.

the 3 of us ate at nando's (i LOVE their peri peri sauce. i practically go there for it, not their chicken.) except we only had about 5 minutes to gobble up our food, and get dunkin donuts (which we successfully sneaked in! hahahaaaaaaa! nick: "put it under your arm pit and stand next to me!") cuz we were catching a movie- R.V. which was pretty good. i have a soft spot for that kind of family movies. especially when steve martin (e.g. cheaper by the dozen 1 and 2, and FATHER OF THE BRIDE!) is in it, but this one had robin williams. it was still really good. oh, jojo was in it too. hahaha

the dunkin' donuts we sneaked in. i can't use flash in the theater so its hard to see but you're looking at donuts!

daniel and i swam when we got back. ruth had to do her ITCC poor ruth.

our view from the bench. well, not quite... since everything other than the sky looks really dark in the picture.

ruth and i thought we were having japanese for dinner but the place was closed! so we had to walk all the way back to the lobby. the lights and stuff were pretty and japanesey so i took some pictures. didn't get it right the first time cuz this lizard appeared out of the little trees while i was setting my camera on timer on one of the lights. aaaaah!

so we ate at the coffee house again. --------- me and ruth with a grape in her mouth.

i had blackened cajun chicken

the desserts weren't that great.

ruth's fruit art!

in the hotel room after dinner. ruth's mom came over to play the chicken word game on the lap top, and i can't remember what ruth was doing (oh right, she was playing with her camera too! haha i just looked at the picture again and figured it out). but i know i was really really sleeeeeepy.

the fourth/last day

part of my breakfast, which i didn't finish. the waffles were already too chewy, and the doughnuts were sooo sweet. but i sneaked one into my bag for the car ride.

lunch at the japanese restaurant
ruth doesn't know i took this. i think she was taking pictures of a fly she was shooing away?

the car ride home. ah! my smile looks fake hahaha
and there's daaaaaniel with his laptop.

the sky usually doesn't look so great in malaysia, but there were bits of the car ride where the sky looked quite pretty.

so that was my non-shopping trip to KL!

i've done 88 of these 157 things.

2006-06-21T21:27:00.000+08:00

i am back from KL!
but i need to upload photos before i go on about it
so i'm gonna do this while i wait for them to upload onto photobucket.

[ ] I have been on some sort of varsity team.
[ ] I have run more than 2 miles without stopping.
[ ] I have been to Canada.
[ ] I have been to Europe.
[1] I have watched cartoons for hours.
[2] I have tripped UP the stairs.
[3] I have fallen down an entire flight of stairs.
[4] I have been snowboarding/skiing.
[5] I have played ping pong.
[6] I swam in the ocean.
[ ] I have been on a whale watch.
[7] I have seen fireworks.

[ ] I have seen a shooting star.
[ ] I have seen a meteor shower.
[ ] I have almost drowned.
[8] I have been so embarrassed I wanted to disappear.
[9] I have listened to one CD over and over and over again.
[ ] I have had stitches.
[ ] I have had frostbite.
[ ] I have licked a frozen pole and got stuck there.
[10] I have stayed up til 2 doing homework/projects.
[ ] I currently have a job
[11] I have been ice skating.
[12] I have been rollerblading.
[13] I have fallen flat on my face.
[14] I have tripped over my own two feet.
[ ] I have been in a fist fight.
[15] I have played video games for more than 3 hours straight.
[16] I have watched the power rangers.

[17] I attend(ed) church regularly.
[18 ] I have played truth or dare.
[19] I have already had my 16th birthday.
[20] I have already had my 17th birthday.
[21] I've called someone stupid.
[22] I've been in a verbal argument.
[23] I've cried in school.
[24] I've played basketball on a team.
[ ] I've played baseball on a team.
[ ] I've played football on a team
[25] I've played soccer on a team.
[ ] I've done cheerleading on a team.
[ ] I've played softball on a team.
[26] I've played volleyball on a team.
[ ] I've played tennis on a team.
[ ] I've been on a track or cross country team.
[27] I've been swimming more than 20 times in my life.
[ ] I've bungee jumped.

[28]I've climbed a rock wall.
[29] I've lost more than $20.
[ ] I've called myself an idiot.
[ ] I've called someone else an idiot.
[30 ] I've cried myself to sleep.
[31 ] I've had (or have) pets.

[ ] I've owned a Spice Girls CD.
[32 ] I've owned a Britney Spears CD.
[33] I've owned an N*Sync CD.
[ ] I've owned a backstreet boys CD.
[ ] I've mooned someone.
[ ] I have sworn at someone of authority before.
[ ] I've been in the newspaper.
[ ]I've been on TV.
[ ] I've been to Hawaii.
[34 ]I've eaten sushi.
[35 ] I've been on the other side of a waterfall.
[36 ] I've watched all of the Lord of the Rings movies.
[ ] I've watched all the Harry Potter movies.
[ ] I've watched all of the Rocky movies.
[ ] I've watched The Three Stooges.
[37] I've watched "Newlyweds" Nick & Jessica.
[38] I've watched Looney Tunes.
[ ] I've been stuffed into a locker/I have stuffed others into lockers.
[39] I've been called a geek.
[ ]I've studied hard for a test and got a bad grade.
[40]I've not studied at all for a test and aced it.
[ ] I've hugged my mom within the past 24 hrs.
[ ] I've hugged my dad within the past 24 hours.
[ ] I've met a celebrity/music artist.
[41 ]I've written poetry.
[ ] I've been arrested
[42]I've been attracted to someone older than me.
[43]I've been tickeled till i cried
[44] I've tickled someone else until they cried.
[45] I've had/have siblings.
[46] I've been to a rock concert.
[ ] I've listened to classical music and enjoyed it.
[47] I've been in a play.
[ ] I've been picked last in gym class.
[48] I've been picked first in gym class.
[49] I've been picked in that middle-range in gym class.
[50] I've cried in front of my friends.
[51]I've read a book longer than 1,000 pages.
[ I've played Halo 2.
[52]I've freaked out over a sports game.
[ ]I've been to Alaska.
[ ] I've been to China.
[ ] I've been to Spain.
[53] I've been to Japan.
[54] I've had a fight with someone on AIM.
[55] I've had a fight with someone face-to-face.
[56] I've had serious conversations on any IM.
[57] I've forgiven someone who has done something wrong to me.
[58] I've been forgiven.
[59]I've screamed at a scary movie.
[ ]I've cried at a chick flick.
[60]I've watched a lot of action movies.
[61]I've screamed at the top of my lungs
[ ] I've been to a rap concert
[ ] I've been to a hip hop concert.
[62]I've lived in more than 2 houses.
[63] I've driven on the highway/been on the highway.
[64] I've driven more than 40 miles in a day/been in a car that went more than 40 miles in a day.
[65] I've been in a car accident.
[ ] I've done drugs.
[ ] i've been homesick.
[66] i'vethrown up.
[67] I've puked on someone.
[ ]I've been horseback riding.
[68]I've filled out more than 10 MySpace surveys.
[69]I've spoken my mind in public.
[70] I've proven someone wrong.
[71]I've been proven wrong by someone.
[ ] I've broken a leg.
[ ] I've broken an arm.
[72]I've fallen off a swing.
[73]I've swung on a swing for more than 30 minutes straight
[ ]I've watched Winnie the Pooh movies.
[ ]I've forgotten my backpack when I've gone to school.
[ ]I've lost my backpack.
[ ] I've come close to dying.
[ ]I've seen someone/something die.
[74] I've known someone who has died.
[75]I've wanted to be an actor/actress at some point.
[ ] I've done modeling.
[76]I've forgotten to brush my teeth some mornings.
[77]I've taken something/someone for granted.
[78] I've realized how good my life is (was).
[79]i've counted my blessings.
[80]I've made fun of a classmate.
[81]I've slapped someone in the face.
[82]i've been skateboarding.
[83]I've been backstabbed by someone I thought was a friend.
[84]I've lied to someone to their face.
[85]I've told a little white lie.
[86]I've taken a day off from school just so I don't go insane.
[ ] I've fainted.
[ ]I've had an argument with someone about whether cheerleading is a sport or not.
[87]Ive pushed someone into a pool.
[88]i've been pushed into a pool.

another video!

2006-06-17T20:53:00.000+08:00

first place music video for lock-in 2003.

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

everyone looked so young. aww.
anyways, i'm going to KL tomorrow! with ruth's family, rach's family (minus rach cuz she has to study and stuff...) and nick. i'm so excited. i bought two new swim suits for the trip today cuz they were all on sale, even though i only needed one... but oh well.
and! rach and i got to try the fried mars bar, which was soooooo good. why didn't i try it earlier? its one of the best things ever. but unfortunately, has a lot of calories. so not something i should be eating regularly anyways.

well, i should go pack.

LMNT?

2006-06-17T00:13:00.000+08:00

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

i took this a loooong time ago during the lock-in 3 years ago in ms. vogt's room. (my 8th grade year). awwwwww. it was so much fun. (and i hope they don't mind me putting this up)

anyways, sleepy time.
bak chor mee at 12 nickruthrachjeannedaniel!
goodnight!

shoes

2006-06-16T00:20:00.000+08:00

i got new shoes today!!!!!!! from top shop. aaaaah i'm so happy.
finally, something to replace my worn out (and smelly) ballet flats. come to think of it, its been a year since i got them, since i got them for hagen daaz. and that was last year when i worked for them. i'm so glad i'm not a waitress this year. one of the most boring jobs if you really have better things to do. although buttercup was lots of fun. i guess it depends.
anyways, deviant art is fun. seeing people add your art works to their "favorites" and stuff. really makes me feel special :)
today, i made 5 postcards! i think? yeah something like 5 post cards. i sat at the church office and painted. so today was a productive day for me. its sad to think i'll have to depart from them if anyone ever buys them at my flea market store... but i'll take pictures of them so at least. 2 of them were just clouds. one of them against a pink sky, and another against a lime green sky. i really love clouds. painting them too.
tomorrow, i'm gonna buy another pair of shoes. i've been eyeing them for awhile... heh heh heh. 19 dollars for pointy white shoes. i found this shop near my church, pretty obscure place actually. i think they bring in leftovers, factory rejects (?) and out of season stuff from other places and sell them there so everything's really cheap. and in good condition actually. so yay for another pair of new shoes tomorrow.
timothy's leaving for switzerland tomorrow too. so soon!!! but sounds very exciting. he'll be staying at a hotel or something? not sure. but the school's supposedly in a hotel, which is extremely cool. he needs to send me pictures. will miss you timothy- pre cal buddy/lizzy/star/NPFF!!!

goodnight!

how do you life your life?

2006-06-14T23:15:00.000+08:00

apparently, this is how i life my life!

How You Life Your Life

You seem to be straight forward, but you keep a lot inside.
You're laid back and chill, but sometimes you care too much about what others think.
You're open to new people and friends, which makes you a pretty popular person.
You tend to always dream of things within reach - and you usually get them.

How Do You Live Your Life?

Your Band Name is:

The Crispy Elves

Band Name Generator

You Are Socks!

Cozy and warm... but easily lost.
You make a good puppet.

What Crappy Christmas Gift Are You?

What Your Brown Outfit Means

You're not too classic, not too funky - just up on the latest trends.
You know what looks good on you, and you love to shop!
You project a smart sense of style, which makes people see you as competent.

Designer match: Rebecca Beeson

Signature accessory: A slim leather belt

What Does Your Favorite Outfit Say About You?

You are Milk Chocolate

A total dreamer, you spend most of your time with your head in the clouds.
You often think of the future, and you are always working toward your ideal life.
Also nostelgic, you rarely forget a meaningful moment... even those from long ago.

What Kind of Chocolate Are You?

i just entered my name and tadah! i got my ben and jerry's flavor. riiight.

You Are Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream

A classic and an original, no wonder everyone snakes your style!

What Flavor Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Are You?

anyways, i was in a quizzy mood.

i ran for 7 minutes today hahaha that almost killed me. i'm okay while i'm actually running, but then when i stop, i'm all hyperventilating and everything. okay not that bad, but its quite evident that my stamina is pretty low right now. and then when i came back, i cut up some oranges for myself, so i felt so healthy :)
i'll probably go again tomorrow, and do more art in the church office.
i made my own deviant art account, and put up some of my art so go see!

thousands and thousands of pixels

2006-06-11T19:18:00.000+08:00

pictures from last day of school and clouds and lovely pavlovas.

me and nathan! so silly.

pavlova from cedele depot! only 4 bucks! it was really, really sweeet.

cloud + esplanade shot taken by nathan.

more clooooooouds (taken by me!):

through the window next to our old lockers.

puffy cloud+old ics campus

me, maria, and aric, and sam with the knight.

me and leeza!

stuuuupid lice-carrying pigeons hopping around outside my window.

the clouds have been looking sooo sooo pretty recently. so my camera's ended up having tons of cloud shots. i LOVE clouds!
anyway, i also ended up spending 40 dollars on art supplies today. i really want to paint this summer, and hopefully sell some of them. ruth and i will open a store at a flea market (either in clarke quay or tanglin mall) so i could try and sell them then... hahahaha ah, what to paint what to paint. i thought i was just gonna buy some cheap paintbrushes and cheap paint, but noooo, art friend has too much artsy stuff. i couldn't help it, i bought turpentine, two palletes (which were under a dollar), drawing block (a dollar!), plain postcards (i could make my own postcards!), ummmmm what else. oh a paintbrush case thingy. the most expensive thing i got was a big paintbrush which cost like ten bucks. paint brushes are sooo expensive... but they are definitely a good investment. i can't wait to start using them.
isaku's in the philippines now. i miss him!
so, about the night safari.
it was so so fun. nick, daniel, me, and two mongolian guys went. we watched the night safari show thingy first; that was really cute. these little mongoose looking rodents picked up the trash the racoons scattered and dumped them in the right recycling bin (cans, bottles, and something else). and there was a rope going over the audiences heads where these fat furry rodents (i really don't know the animal's names individually) walked on. so you could see them right above you. sooooo cute.
but the best part was the tram ride. we got this really seductive tram ride guide. she wasn't dressed scantily or anything, it was dark anyways; it was her voice. she put on this really seductive voice. nick and i couldn't stop cracking up. ooh it was soo funny.
but besides that, it was so cool cuz we were driven through the 8 subregions of the world (or something like that) and saw all these animals indigenous to each region. the hippos were HUGE. and the giraffes were so pretty. and there were deer roaming around the road, some of them 3 feet away from you/the tram.

and i've decided, i really cannot describe the GTT in words. the whole week was just really really awesome, and i learned so much. and being there made me want to go to the nations more. people (mainly leaders) from relating churches in china, hong kong, india, philippines, indonesia, mongolia, cambodia etc. were there. i took lots of pictures and i wish i could put them up here too but, it turns out photobucket doesn't allow other people to view albums i created. grrrr.

#

2006-06-09T23:11:00.000+08:00

hellyoooo again.
i just got back from the night safari. it was SOOO FUN!
but don't have time to go on about it now. post more later :)

goodnight!

back!

2006-06-09T17:47:00.000+08:00

hello everybody!
how has your summer been?
i just got back from JB, and i'm feeling rather exhausted but still alive enough to take two mongolian guys to the night safari. nick, daniel, and i get to show them around and stuff. plus i get to eat ben and jerrry's there. and its not too far away from my house so why not.
so.
i had soooo much fun in JB. i mean, there isn't much to do in JB, but really, its the people that matters most. i got to share a suite with 4 other girls- rach, ruth, bonnie and skye. so that was really fun. the suite was really nice, cuz it was like an apartment, it had a kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room and everything. so i shared a bedroom with rach. we had so much fun. the first night, one of the lamps on rach's side of the bed wouldn't turn off. and we spent about 5 minutes trying to flick or twist this little knob thingy in any way possible (except to the right) so i ended up having to put my shirt over the lamp shade. the next night, we figured out we just had to use a little extra strength to twist the knob to the right to turn it off. psshhhhhhhhh. oh well. and one of the nights, we had to baby sit a 7 year old girl, sarah. that was really fun too. cuz rach and i tried making her baby sit us instead. we were really sleepy, and wanted to go to bed, so we were like, "tell us a bed time story!!!" "give us a little back scratch!" in our british accents. "sing us a song!" heheheh.
ooooh kay i need go or i'll be late for night safari. i hope i see pat too (bubble tea!)
i'll post more later, and put up lots of pictures.
bye!

i love summer

2006-06-04T00:19:00.000+08:00

today was the first day of summer! so i wore my "i love summer" shirt. i love that shirt; i got it from a flea market for 2 dollars! and i got to "wake up by myself" this morning too. yay yay yay its the summer!!!!! i have absolutely noooo homework or paper or project or tests to worry about for 2 and a half months.
anyways graduation was really sad yesterday. i will miss the seniors :( and they've taught me a quite lot in subtle ways.
but i'm very excited to become a senior myself next year :D
i wanna go shop for some acrylic paint soon. or that chinese paint miss gorman let me use. then i can paint and paint and paint! it'll be sooo fun.
anyways, i should go to bed. goodnight!

talking like there's no tomorrow

2006-06-01T22:19:00.000+08:00

i was staring at the sky just now, and i remembered what eagan said a while ago. that we are staring into eternity. the sky is never ending, and it's just so hard for the mind to even grasp. the sky just NEVER ENDS! and its cool how creation is a reflection of God in many ways. and the sky really reflects how God is eternal. he created the universe to be that way. and i felt so small existing somewhere in the midst of the vast universe. existing in an eternal sphere or whatever. i don't think you can call it a sphere cuz sphere's have endings. but you know what i mean.
so that was something really cool to think about today.
and i'm really starving right now. i'm in summer mode already, wanting to stay up just for the sake of staying up. and now i wanna eat something! i realised, i ate so much junk today. i had this instant porridge thingy in the morning. i had lots of lettuce (which is pretty healthy but i need meat) and ate lots of chips with sour cream, while waiting for the bbq to work. so by the time it worked, i was too full for the yummy sausages and meat stuff. oh yeah, we had a surprise goodbye party for liz today! it was a bbq at val's house. it was raining REALLY heavily initially, but we somehow got the bbq going after it stopped raining, even though everything was wet. and i got to swim after a really long time. that was really fun. we played water polo and took lots of pictures ;) hohoho.
i'll miss liz. my leeza. *sniff*
maybe i'll just stay up the whole night. hahaha just kidding! but its odd how i'm not very sleepy right now. i'm sure my body's tired but, i'm feeling quite awake. how odd.
oh it was awesome. i came home just now, expecting to come home to my cluttered, and very unflattering/unglamorous room. BUT! i opened the door and it was all rearranged! my mom rearranged my room. and it looked sooooo good. you know how i was complaining about how my couch and bed were too squished? well, she solved that problem perfectly. i'll take a picture soon and put it up. maybe a before and after picture. but yeah, there's actually space in front of my couch now! i really love the new lay out. so i feel like sleeping now. going to my newly furnished room and sleeping in my lovely bed.

that sounds soooo good.

goodnight!

now

2006-05-31T23:19:00.000+08:00

exams are finally over!
and my most busiest high school year has practically ended too. next year will probably be busy too, but in a different way. in a non-ap art and non-pre cal way. which is a relief, esp with pre-cal, cuz that really messed with my brain. and my grades.

i am soooo sleeeepy. but i'm in the mood to stay up since i don't have school tomorrow! i might drop by to help out with the moving, except isaku said the boxes were REALLY heavy, so i might just be in the way instead of helping. but ooh well.

not much to say right now.

i'm excited about the summer! i can sleep in. i wanna rearrange my room again. my couch and bed looks too squished together. and need to make it look less cluttered. FIX UP MY CEILING LIGHT! but that can only happen after i thoroughly get rid of every bird lice remnant. the pigeons have finally flown away, so i can have my room back soon. its just frustrating, having to ditch my room for the sake of two baby pigeons!
and i wanna go to australia maybe. or maybe bangkok for 3 days. i'm going to malaysia on the 5th of june. so soon! but a good start to my summer :) earn some money by selling my junk at a flea market. produce lots of paintings, and maybe sell some (oooh).
i just reread that paragraph and realised how fragmenty it is.

BLOOD

2006-05-29T21:22:00.000+08:00

ignore my cutesy face!
the point of this picture is to show that, ruth's camera is SO cool.

oh, and that i've overcome my fear of BLOOD.

just kidding!

i still don't like blood even though i can spell it out with my hands.

BOOKS!

2006-05-29T15:23:00.000+08:00

i have sooo many books i want to buy! ever since i read blue like jazz (which has been, by far, the best book i've EVER read), i've been craving to read more books. not just any books though. books that are actually meaningful, and not just for entertainment. and blue like jazz was awesome cuz it did both. oh i loooove that book.
so right now, i want a bunch of C.S. lewis books, and donald miller (the blue like jazz author) books.

and i have another c.s. lewis book i want called reflection of the psalms but couldn't find a picture...

and just in case you wanna buy blue like jazz too (hahaha i'm sooo obsessed or something. but really, its a great book.)

other books i want to buy by other authors.

so that's 7 books! whoooaaa. where am i gonna get the money. ruth just said "you have the summer! one week one book!"

anyways, this week is exam week. and its quite unbelievable that the summer is coming in a few days! this year's gone by soooo fast. and next year, i'll be a senior, and the year will by zoom by even faster, and i'll soon be done with one huge section of my life. kind of like a rite of passage. then i'll move on to becoming a college student... and before i know it, i'll be married or something, and have kids, and be old and retired. life is indeed like a vapor.

i love these things

2006-05-25T21:05:00.000+08:00

1. Spell your name out in foods or drinks.

M-melon
E-eggs
G-ganache
U-unagi!
M-meringue
I-ice cream!

2. What song makes you cry?
some worship songs

3. What do you like to listen to before bed?
nothing

R i g h t N o w:

PANTS YOUR WEARING?
i'm wearing a skirt

WHAT SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
school uniform

WHATS ON YOUR MIND?
need to call ruth later!

WHAT SONG ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
we belong together - gavin degraw (such a good song!!)

WHAT TASTE IS IN YOUR MOUTH?
pear, i just had pear

WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE?
welll, its at night so its night weather. but there are more stars than usual

HOW ARE YOU?
tired, and a little sick

D o Y o u:

GET MOTION SICKNESS?
not as much as i used to!

Have a Bad Habit?
LOADS

GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENT(S)?
yeah, but only because they are REALLY patient people

F a v o r i t e s:

TV SHOW:
i like the travel and living channel, boyaling point (not really, just felt like typing that), america's next top model- but they don't have that anymore...
i don't watch tv anyways

MAGAZINE:
VOGUE living! (love the natural sunlight, right nick!)

H a v e Y o u:

BROKEN THE LAW:
yah

RUN AWAY FROM HOME:
nope

MADE A PRANK PHONE CALL:
yeah!

USED YOUR PARENTS' CREDIT CARD BEFORE:
they don't own one

FALLEN ASLEEP IN THE SHOWER/BATH:
no

CHILDREN:
huuuh.

YOUR CD PLAYER HAS IN IT RIGHT NOW:
don't have a CD player, but in my stereo, i think i have a burned cd.

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPIEST?
God!

WHAT'S THE NEXT CD YOU WANT?
gavin degraw, if he has a new cd. but if not, an elvis presley cd with all his good songs

LAST TIME YOU GOT AN E-MAIL:
just now from ROAF

LAST TV PROGRAM YOU WATCHED:
singapore idol!

LAST MOVIE YOU SAW AT THE THEATER:
the da vinci code

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING U ATE?
pear

Do you wish on stars?
no

Last person you spoke to on the phone?
ruuuuth

Favorite drink?
non-alcoholic: milo, water, green tea, soy bean, CARROT JUICE!, snapple, ribena, fruit punches, (sorry i think i'm in the mood to list drinks) sobe elixir, mugicha, lemonade, milk tea, mango lasi, mocha, hot chocolate...
alcoholic: dessert wine! or fruit wine? are they the same thing? i like white wine that tastes sweet and fruity.

Favorite sport to watch?
basketball, baseball, and ice skating is fun to watch sometimes

Have you ever dyed your hair?
tons of times

Do you wear contacts or glasses?
both

Any pets?
dog and fish

Favorite month?
december

Favorite food:
almost everything. but japanese food's the best. and i LOVE spicy food so much

What was the last movie you watched?
the da vinci code

Favorite day of the year?
depends

What do you do to prevent anger/fights?
be as politically correct as possible? well, sometimes i do that. but i think the best way's just to remember to love everyone.

What was your favorite toy as a child?
my doll house. it was the start of my interior designing career :) i'd spend more time furnishing it rather than playing with it

Fall or Spring?
spring, cuz i've never experienced fall

Cherry or Blueberry?
blueberry. i like purple colored cherries though. just those marachino ones are gross

What do you do in your free time?
talk on the phone, go on the computer, play my guitar, laze in my room, sing, hang out, eat, snack, watch tv?,

What is on the floor of your closet?
bags, scrabble

Who is the friend you have had the longest?
well *duhhh* who else hahaha. ruth!

What did you do last night?
went for prayer meeting

What are you afraid of?
cockroaches, and the bird lice that's infesting my room right now! *shudder*

Number of keys on your key ring?
2

How many years at your current job:
don't have a job

What's up tomorrow?
skooool lah what else lah

hallo

2006-05-18T20:03:00.000+08:00

gavin degraw has a new song! oooh its such a great song.

"we belong togetherrrr"

rach and i were talking on the way home from prayer meeting, and she was telling me about class 95, how they play old sappy love songs, at night. and how she's been tuning in. i like old sappy love songs. and it was nice being able to share that like with rach :) sappy love songs we listened to in the 90s and stuff (ooh thats when we were 10 or 12). LOVE IT!

battle of the bands tomorrow. i get to play leaving on a jet plane on my guitar, and i hope i don't mess up.

ah, i'm being chased off the computer.

BANQUET 2006!

2006-05-15T17:55:00.000+08:00

picturesssssssssss.

me! and my polkadotted clutch my momsy made.

me and ruuuth

(left) me and nathan! we won 2nd place cutest couple :) woohooo.
(right) me and tim

(left) sarah, me and mimi
(right) a bit of aric, me, and ariel

(left) me and val
(right) me and isaku

me and christina- i lovelovelooooved her dress

me and anna,
yay i'm a flapper!

more art

2006-05-15T17:03:00.000+08:00

hello! i'm talking to ruth on the phone, and somehow i was suddenly reminded that i wanted to get an elvis presley cd. since last christmas.

"i can't help falling in love with you..."

"its now or neverrrrrrr..."

and now i'm singing steve green songs :)
good songs.

visual persona

2006-05-07T17:04:00.000+08:00

halloooo.
a tub of ice cream sounds so good for a hot day like this. i still want to try the marsha marsha marshmallow.

anyways, what i should be saying right now is that ALL my AP exams are finally over!

i didn't study much for my US history but it wasn't too hard. the essay questions were good, and that's as far as i am allowed to talk about the history exam.
so after that val, nathan, mimi and i had to take our art exam, which i thought wouldn't be much. just filling out stuff, mounting our art pieces on to poster board and sticking them inside the envelopes. but it turned out to be the longest exam EVER. i don't think i should even state how long we took... all of us had never done it before, including miss gorman. so we were all guinea pigs that day. it was tedious but it was fun :) this past week's been hectic. staying til really late at school from wednesday to friday night. miss gorman let us order pizza on thursday night though. that was really sweet of her. so after about a year of stressing over our portfolios, we'll be going on as many field trips as we can. we're freeeee :D it's weird though, not having to do any art anymore for awhile. aaand i'm glad i took the class (even though i was regretting it so much when i was so far behind) cuz i never knew i could actually paint. and produce that many pieces of art in such a short amount of time. and i had been completely neglecting art before i took the class. so it's been good. it also taught me not to procrastinate.

anyways, picture time.

twas FREE CONE DAY at ben and jerry's!!!! so kiyoko and i joined the long queue and got some. and went for seconds too.
ruth and timothy went to watch 16 blocks. i would've watched it but i wasn't allowed to have a social life that week. and speaking of movies, the last movie i watched was v for vendetta! that was early march? so crazy, i used to watch movies all the time. so i can't wait for the da vinci code to come out.

the stupid pigeons that built a nest outside my window. i wouldn't mind if they didn't have lice. but the amount of lice their babies carry are deadly. it was a nightmare trying to get rid of them when they infested our kitchen. i'm just wondering why they like our windows so much... oh and you see, the pigeon's mooning me through the window. how rude.

aaand some of my latest art pieces.

banquet's coming soon, and i'm excited :) it's so fun to dress up and everything.
yes yes,
oh, i got to go to a flea market yesterday. it was cool cuz i've been wanting to go to one for the longest time, and pat suddenly called me out of the blue to tell me she's gonna be selling stuff at one, and to come shop. so that was nice. it was at some warehouse next to riverview hotel at havelock road. the place was SO CROWDED and HOT i could've passed out, but i got to buy two shirts and two bags that cost only up to a total of 24 dollars. how i love flea markets. things that people don't want that other people may want, and buying them for a cheap price, and then selling them again once you don't want it anymore, and letting it go around like a cycle. it's such a brilliant system- for shopaholics who don't have much money, and impulsive buyers who get sick of what they buy really easily. both descriptions fit me. i'm gonna sell all my junk one day.

chimneys

2006-04-26T17:47:00.000+08:00

i was looking at pictures of rooftops (for my next painting), and realised how you see chimneys everywhere in other countries. if i believed in santa, i'd feel sorry for him. i wish houses here had chimneys cuz they look cute, but too bad there's no winter. so i wish we had winter. but i don't wish there was winter here cuz i like chimneys, and knew there wil be chimneys if there was winter. but if there were chimneys, that doesn't mean there will be winter! so i guess i do wish we had winter so we could have chimneys.

lovely cloud shots

2006-04-23T19:08:00.000+08:00

aaaand... me and nick's corduroy and finch's trifle experience! it was sooooo good.

i had a really sappy thought the other day. and it's not copying a walk to remember or anything. but i realised, love is like the wind. cuz its the strongest during the storms.
hahaha

well, that's all for now

2006-04-23T19:01:00.001+08:00

for us, there's no such thing as hopelessness. because God is a living God; and in God, there is always hope.

CH-ing 4EVA.

2006-04-20T20:10:00.000+08:00

hi!
the pictures on ruth's site are great. there are evidences of me cooking! and making scones (which didn't quite turn out as scones. oh well.). and me revealing my inner ah-lian just a little.

Яuth says: (8:03:29 PM)
sorryyy! stupid chicken game is timed

Яuth says: (8:03:29 PM)
hahhaa

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:06:38 PM)
hahaha

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:06:45 PM)
and you're transferring all your vocab skills to the stupid game

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:06:48 PM)
instead of to me!

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:06:49 PM)
:'(

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:06:51 PM)
SOBBLES

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:07:06 PM)
*sigh* is all you can say!

Яuth says: (8:07:25 PM)
hahahahhaha

Яuth says: (8:07:27 PM)
sorry!!!!

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:07:46 PM)
yeah. sure.

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:07:47 PM)
whatever.

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:07:55 PM)
go.

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:07:56 PM)
play.

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:07:57 PM)
your.

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:08:00 PM)
game.

Яuth says: (8:08:16 PM)
MEGSY DON'T BE SO DIFFICULT

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:09:38 PM)
HAHA

meg CH-ing 4eva! says: (8:09:40 PM)
okaaaaayy

its fun chatting with ruth :) even though she's playing her stupid chicken game.

anyways, i cooked dinner for myself today. hehehe. i fried potatoes and onions and cracked an egg over it as my grand finale. it was good! even though i have no idea if it is actually a dish dish.
have been having quite a lot of deep thoughts lately. it's fun just thinking sometimes. but no time to post about any of them unfortunately. i have to do my homework.
bye!

2006-04-17T15:01:00.000+08:00

long time coming

2006-04-17T14:07:00.000+08:00

hey!
it's really hard to post something consistently since school's started. but i missed school today :) i was soooo tired from an incredibly busy weekend, i didn't even wake up from the sounds of isaku getting ready for school this morning, i slept through everything, and woke up "by myself" at 11.
but anyways, the weekend was really fun in spite of its busy-ness.
happy belated easter!
nick and i got to preach yesterday, or more like share. we decided we'd just share what God had put on our hearts during the week. and he did put a lot of things on our hearts, about salvation, and having a relationship with him. and we came up with lots of analogies to go along with it. analogies are so useful. the youth took over the whole service, basically, and it went reeeaaaally well. i've just been so encouraged by how God's been working in all of us, and in his church. and also how people were encouraged by me and nick's sermon hahaha it's always nice to have good feedback.
saturday was the busiest day. the day started with worship practice, a long one, since we had a lot more songs than usual. after that, we went to nick's house to cook. we made shepherd's pie, cheesecake, and biscuits (they were supposed to be scones but....) that was sooo much fun. listening to oliver james right now is making me feel sappy though.

i'd post some more but i have to do art!

condiments condiments.

hearts are deep

2006-04-01T22:37:00.000+08:00

hey!
today was really really fun.
the day started out early again cuz nick, rach, and i decided to meet up for breakfast again. this time we met up at choupinette's. and i actually got there EARLY! 10 minutes! hahaha yay. so anyways, i had a really expensive breakfast. again. raviole's in mushroom sauce for 18 dollars! but it was really good. and i really do love the cafe. rach had the jason's set, and nick had an apple tart thingy. the portion of the raviole was TINY but i got so full from it, it's amazing. i thought i could've tried all the other yummy looking pastries. but these cafes are seriously expensive... sad to say, i don't think i could be doing this every single week :( but next week, we're targetting botanic gardens. hahaha we haven't gotten enough of it yet.
and we wanna go somewhere exotic this summer. but all we can probably afford is bali. so i hope we can go!

oh yeah, technology is funny. i was talking to ruth on the phone one time with my old samsung phone. and it beeps every few minutes or something. and it so happened that ruth was saying something something freaking something something. and the phone happened to beep at freaking. something something f*beep*ing something. i'm like HUH! ruuuth!
and isaku's leg hair is a whole other epidermis in itself. a black epidermis.

anyways,
i got to read this passage in romans 9 (in the message version) just now. it was really something interesting to think about.
" What God did in this case made it perfectly plain that his purpose is not a hit-or-miss thing dependent on what we do or don't do, but a sure thing determined by his decision, flowing steadily from his initiative."
(should read the whole chapter in context)
it really made me realise how God's sovereignty still IS always above the free will that he's given us. all of us have a free will, but he's already made decisions that will never change. and it is true that God's plans are flexible, and that what we do seem to altar or affect it, but God is sovereign above everything. he hardens people's hearts when he chooses to (like pharaoh), and allows his goodness to be evident in certain people when he chooses to. then there will be questions like, "why does God still blame us for what we do? why can't he just blame himself?"
then the passage moved onto say that we should never question God's sovereignty. a good analogy it used was with a potter and clay...
"clay doesn't talk back to the fingers that mold it saying, 'why did you shape me like this?'"
sooo in the same way, we should never question the things God does.
it was reassuring though, how God's already have fixed plans for our lives as well. nothing we do can change it. i could mess up over and over, but those plans will never change. so nice :)

well, tomorrow's the last day of spring break :(
saaad.

oh yes, greetings from japan.
uncle jonathan sent me a picture of victoria :)
it's spring now, and cherry blossoms are blooming everywhere in japan. i wish i was there! i've never seen cherry blossoms, and i know i'm missing out.

awwwww.

okay well, i better be off now.
bye!

oh

2006-03-31T12:41:00.000+08:00

hello!
this morning, i decided to make the egg toast thing v made for natalie portman. i had no idea how to make it but i tried anyways. the result was absolutely disgusting! crispy bread emersed in oil, i felt so unhealthy. but the process of making it was a lot of fun :) i like the sound of oil sizzling in the frying pan. so i ended up making two sunny side ups. but isaku wakes up, comes into the kitchen and decides to rub it in that i really can't cook. he professionally adds WATER into the frying pan to make his sunny side ups. the result: puffier and nicer looking eggs. i didn't know you had to add water! oh well, the next move he made wasn't very smart though. he broke a chopstick trying to open a soy sauce bottle.
and i'm so shocked by the amount of toe hair he has! throughout all these years, i never knew about the vast amount of hair sprouting out from his two big toes until church camp one night. i was so amazed, i fell asleep thinking about it.
china team's coming back tomorrow! woohoo. hope they had an awesome time and are ready for the hot singapore weather. it's been so hot.
so last night, i was lying in bed and thinking. thinking about how God wants the best for every single person on this earth, and how he has a plan for all of them. but how the world's still so messed up. so that made me really realise how sooooo many of us aren't going along with the "best" God wants. like, i saw madonna on tv, and it's so obvious she isn't doing what God wants her to do... imagine how almost-perfect the world would be if every single person sought out the "best" God wanted and lived by it. we all know that God wants the best for us, but we need to seek it. it'd be sad leaving this earth and not have experienced the BEST. as ruth says, "mediocrity is the KILLER."
and bitterness is one thing you really don't want to have creep into your life. bitterness blinds you from all the good things. bitterness turns something good into something horrible. and you don't even know it! life becomes a pain when you have bitterness. don't let bitterness rob you from happiness :(

so now that i've said everything that i've wanted to say,
it's time for art! :D

click!

2006-03-30T22:08:00.000+08:00

some weird johari thingy.

hola!

2006-03-30T15:22:00.000+08:00

i finally finished my first big piece :D

it evolved from this photo i took. i haven't had time to be running around singapore taking cooler pictures :(

so now that i'm done with my first piece, i'm gonna avoid art for awhile! i need a break! i've been working all day yesterday (except at night when we had prayer meeting) and all morning and afternoon today. but i've realised how much i love painting. it makes me wonder why i don't ever paint. and why my easel's become a makeshift belt hanger in my room...
i'm definitely gonna want a little studio type thing in my house next time. a room where i can shut myself out from the outside world and PAINT. and i could have a jukebox like v and play some lovely jazz. and i still wish i could play jazz. i think jazz is just the coolest music genre ever. and the hardest to learn of course. do i have the determination to learn? people who have gone a loooong way to be really good at what they do- i really admire them. i admire my brother for spending hours on his electric guitar. laziness is one of the worst things to have here. but determination and perseverance is a good thing to have. but i guess some people are just happy at being where they are. not because of laziness. just happy. i'm not happy! well, i am, but you know what i mean. i still haven't had time to try making steak even. time is another good thing to have i guess. and it's cool how every single person on earth has the exact same amount of time, but they all use it so differently. which is good cuz the bathrooms would be flooded if not for that. and a lot of other things. but one thing i really want right now is.. to.. go.. shopping!
the pigeon never came back after my dad chased it away. my 50 cent ant float's doing a good job at covering the corner of my window where the birdy's collected twigs for its nest. the person who made the ant float would never have thought it would serve such a purpose.
half of spring break has already gone, but i feel like i haven't gone to school in a very long time. and i'm not wanting to go back! as nick put it, i have been able to wake up by myself. meaning, waking up when i actually wake up. without the help of an alarm clock, or my mom.
i can't wait til the summer!
and i'm thinking. i think one of the best parts of your life would be your honeymoon. at least for me i think it will be :) cuz i'll get to go places and not worry about anything else but being happy. and being happy with the person you're gonna spend the rest of your life with. hahaha i think i'm thinking too far ahead.
i'm looking forward to tomorrow. well, tomorrow night. i'll finally get to go out of this house and chillax at pac coffee! haven't been there in awhile. and tomorrow, kiyoko's coming over to work on the banquet poster. i'll show her the wonders of a mac computer, and what indesign can do. yay!
this morning, i made pancakes. i've been craving pancakes for the last 2 mornings, but always ended up finding hawker food on the table. i do love hawker food, but pancakes for breakfast! mmm! it's totally different. so i woke up this morning and happily found nothing on the table. so yay! i thought i'd make some pancakes, but realised i had no idea how to make them! :( i didn't know how to make pancakes! so i called my mom at work and asked her. one egg, a cup of milk, and flour. i mixed them up and poured the mixture into the frying pan. the first pancake looked really gross but i ate it anyways. i looked nothing like a pancake. it didn't have that lovely brown color. i ended up making 3, but none of them turned out brown! so disappointing. so i gave the 2 other pancakes to my brother, and resorted to having scrambled eggs instead. scrambled eggs are so good :)

anyways, back to arty fart.

,

2006-03-29T11:55:00.000+08:00

got this from timothy's site :) i'm waiting for my dad to print out pictures for my art stuff anyways, so i've got time to KILL.

1. What time is it? 11:48 am
2. Name- Megumi
4. If you were a skittle,what color would it be? orange!
5. male or female: female
6. zodiac sign: -
7. Hair color: dark brown
8. Eye color: dark brown
9. Height: 167cm
10. Favorite Color(s): orange
11. Glasses, contacts or neither: both
12. Shoe Size: 8
13. Piercing/tattoos? pierced ears
14. Birthplace: singapooore
16. Siblings names: isaku

******HAVE YOU EVER*****
17. Cut your own hair?: tons of times
21. Skipped school?: yes
22. Bungee jumped?: no
23. Went to a concert?: yeah! avril and franz ferdinand
24. Kissed the same sex not related to you? eww no
25. Kissed a stranger?: no
26. Stared at the stars for hours?: don't think so. that'd be nice though
27. TP'd someone's house?: huh?
28. Won something?: yeah (haha timothy i remember your umbrella) we would've won a free t-shirt if we went to hardrock last night.
30. Been rejected?: in a asking a guy out sense? nope.
31. Been to a funeral?: yeah. rach's dad and my grandfather
32. Used a lighter?: yeah but only for birthday cakes, my messed up stove, and sparklers
33. Been on stage?: yeah loads of times

******FAVORITE*****
35. Food: i have soooo many. where do i begin. japanese food's the best definitely. and the healthiest. indian food, peranakan, thai, nick's cooking, seafood.. haha i'm being so general, but that's how much i like food.
36. Ice cream flavor: chunky monkey and strawberry cheesecake for ben and jerry's, soy chocolate obsession for gelare, and tartufo for venezia.
38. School subject(s): i'd still say art. and bible.
39. Breakfast cereal: starwberry blasted honey comb or froot loops!
40. Number(s): 2, 26
41. Book(s): bible, matchstick men, used to be the shopaholic series, but they are sooo shallow. i want to start reading some GOOD books.
42. Movie(s): matchstick men, 13 going on 30, raise your voice (right ruth), LOTR, legally blonde (ooooh love it), zoolander, dodgeball, FATHER OF THE BRIDE!! cheaper by the dozen (both 1 and 2) and lots more.
44. Drink: sobe elixir, heaven and earth green tea, mango smoothies
45. State: it's gonna be new york!! woohoo, just kidding, i've never been to any state... :(
46. Place: my home, the beach, the mountains, the mall, the botanic gardens.
48. Sport like to play: basketball, soccer, softball
49. Fav type of music: i like different kinds. i listen mostly to solo singers who can either play the guitar or piano.
50. Letter(s): umm.. i've never thought of that. A for a grade :)
51. Fast food: pasta mania
52. Cartoon Character: i dunno. i used to love doraemon.
53. Holiday: christmas
54. Name for a son: elvis? haha what about george! my dad would be so proud.
55. Name for a daughter: natasha maybe. i really don't know.

******DO YOU PREFER*****
56. Chocolate or Vanilla? chocolate
57. Long relationships or one night stands? long relationships
58. cat or dogs: dogs
60. Scary movies or comedies? comedies.
61. Silver or gold?: i like gold. silver looks so bad on me.
62 Croutons or bacon bits? croutons

******FIRST THINGS THAT COME TO MIND******
64. Hedgehog: isaku's stuffed animal
65. School: building
66. Green: peas
67. Cow: farm
68. Canada: maple leaf (such cliched answers haha)
69. Mouse: ugly
70. Hand: nail polish

******THE PAST 48 HOURS, HAVE YOU******
71. Watched a movie? nope. no time for that :(
72. Talked on the phone?: yeah- first thing i did when i woke up
73. Cried?: nope!
74. Threw up?: noo
75. Drank a glass of water?: no
76. Talked to one of the opposite sex?: yeah just talked to my brother
77. Read a book or magazine?: yeah. the really horrible issue of seventeen i bought the other day.
78. Watched TV?: yeah. watched some travel and living yesterday. it was on new york apartments.
79. Looked in the mirror? of course
80. Taken a shower?: yes
81. Taken a picture?: yeah for art stuff
82. Listened to music?: yeah!
83. Kissed someone? no
84. Done your HW? yeah that's what i've been doing mostly :(
85. Told someone you loved them & meant it?: yup!

***DO YOU BELIEVE IN....******
86. Heaven?: yessssssss
87. Aliens?: hahaha no
88. Fun for the entire family?: i guess..
89. Freedom of speech?: to a certain extent
90. Love?: yeah!
91. Magic?: no

*******SOME RANDOM STUFF*****
92. Last movie you saw in theaters?: v for vendetta
93. Are you listening to music right now? isaku's electric
94. What clothes are you wearing right now?: pyjama shorts and a snoopy shirt
95. Do you like your middle name? don't have one
96. What is the best thing since sliced bread?: apple products
97. What's your GPA: don't know
98. Where do you want to live when you're older? somewhere not in singapore
99. What time is it now?: 12:14pm

oooh perfect timing. my dad just finished printing the pictures.
okay time for art!

gooood morning

2006-03-29T11:36:00.000+08:00

the pigeon's back at my window again!
i thought hitting my window would be enough to scare it away.
so here's a picture i managed to take this morning.

i mean, it's so cute and everything, but i really don't want my room to be infested with mites.

art day

2006-03-28T19:53:00.000+08:00

i've been working on art all day. it's pretty tiring. and the ideas i have seem to always exceed what i am capable of. i'll have all these ideas pop into my head, but drawing them out is soooo hard. it's frustrating when your drawing doesn't match the image you have in your mind. but milo always keeps me going. "it's fantastic what milo can do for YOU!" hahaha i love milo. it's funny, my dad prefers making milo from scratch (not really scratch, but you know what i mean), than making it from 3 in 1 packs. "it's more personal," he says.
anyway.
another pigeon's decided to build a nest right outside my window, and after seeing the amount of mites that's infested our kitchen (after the first pigeon family settled their nest there), i had to shoo it away :( poor pigeon.
it's quite scary. march is ending soon, and then there'll only be two months til the summer! and after the summer, i'll be a senior. so fast so fast sooo faaast. this year's really gone by so fast. but i feel like i've been in ics for forever. and i'm very excited to graduate soon. but i need to be sure not to take my last year of high school for granted cuz it's gonna be gone forever once i graduate.
so, let me reflect back to my first day in ics. i can remember it sooo vividly. i had my hair in a ponytail, and had my dorky round glasses on. i was wearing the burgundy ics polo shirt, and navy bermudas. evie was the first one to say hey to me, and she introduced me to a bunch of people, i remember sanna being one of them. then i saw pat! she looked really flustered, so i didn't go say hey to her, but she came over anyways, going on about how dead she is. "i'm so dead! i'm sooo nervous, i'm so dead! aahh.." so she became my first friend. my homeroom was with mr. bryant. i was sooo nervous. i was experiencing major culture shock, i could barely talk. anna was the other new student who enrolled at the same time as me. her red hair was pretty shocking (cuz i had never seen red hair. or that many white people), but i loved her butterfly clips. my attempt at trying to make small talk was really sad though! "so is purple your favorite color?" cuz everything she had was purple- her binder, nail polish, pens, book covers. the lunch conversation consisted of eyebrows. a bunch of us stood outside the cafeteria and talked about how we all had different eyebrows. anyways, the day ended with me and pat having a crush on the same guy. haha what are the odds of that.
anyways,
me and ruth were talking the other night, and during our conversation, i decided that, as cliched as this might sound, we have to be really daring to always step out to find new opportunities in life (ooooooh, so cheesy!). if not, we wouldn't even know that they are there, and life gets pretty boring. and the risk of going for whatever opportunity is worth taking than not taking it at all and not knowing what you might find or get. and when i say this, i do mean it in a lot of different ways ;) so if you're hesitating to do something you really want right now, don't be scared.
well, better get back to art.
bye!

make a mountain out of it

2006-03-27T13:25:00.000+08:00

Test Your Decorating IQ
by Anne McKevitt

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Take this quiz here.

i came on the computer to find some inspiration for my 5 big pieces of art i have to do, but i found all these quizzes! fun stuff. the last one's pretty accurate cuz i looooove retro. second one's okay, i do like minimalistic, but it gets a bit boring.
anyways, my day started out early today. i've been able to manage sleeping late and getting up early, but this morning, i was sooo out of it. and i had to go to school to meet miss gorman to turn in my art pieces. so ruth and i took the same bus this morning, she got off at bestway to start her wonderful, lovely day at work- i wish i had a job too. she has an incredibly awesome job for a 17 year old. i continued my bus ride and got to school a little late (i really need to do something about my lateness! grrr.) so miss gorman made me fix some of my art pieces. i was feeling more awake then, so it was nice talking to her. nice hearing her tell me that i definitely should go to parsons :) except, the homework sounds so hard! 18 pieces in two weeks. i've done 18 in 1 semester and a half. they basically ask you to show a contrast between the words they give you, in your art works. and a lot of those words are words you've never heard of in your life maybe. but it'd really be so awesome living in new york and doing what i like.
yesterday was good. church service was really good. i realised how much we get affected by the little problems in life that don't really matter in comparison to God's purpose for us. it never really sinks in how big God's plans and purposes for us is. they are the VERY reason we are here on earth. we're so easily distracted. and i was reading ruth's HM magazine, and thought the lead guy from thrice made a really good point that a lot of christians think that their main goal is to convert people. but the first thing is to love everyone unconditionally- the rich or the poor, or the crippled, whoever. we shouldn't go out and try and convert every single person we meet, and give up on them when it doesn't work out. we should go out and just begin by loving everyone and leading them to Jesus that way.
anyways, i have so much art to do! hope everyone's having a fun spring break.
i am really craving to go on a shopping spree soon.
bye!

horsies!

2006-03-26T00:43:00.000+08:00

church camp horses

2006-03-26T00:21:00.000+08:00

2006-03-26T00:09:00.000+08:00

Sleep All Day

2006-03-25T22:45:00.000+08:00

hey!
photobucket had a new feature called "bucket strip" so i tried it out.

and the "bucket stamp"

anyways, spring break just started. good start to spring break today. nick, rach, and i met for brunch at the cellar door. we were supposed to meet at around 10 but i ended up sleeping in and waking up at 10:40. so i got there at 12. i was sooo tired from my busy week of school. i calculated, i only had 15 hours of sleep in total during the 5 days of school. and i woke up this morning with my hair looking like a pineapple. i figured out that the more tired i am before i sleep, the messier my hair is in the morning.
anyways, i think i had the most expensive breakfast ever. $16++ for two sunny side ups, sausage, baked beans, bacons, and mushrooms. it was called "the worx." i was craving something greasy and breakfasty so it was really good. but 16 bucks! hahaha but i loved the place. we also checked out choupinette which was a few shops away, and it was really nice too. so we might go eat there soon for brunch. i couldn't stop wow-ing at the pastries, and the interior of the place was so pretty. i ended up getting 5 macaroons for $7.50. my new hobby might just become "cafe-hopping."
so this spring break, i'll mostly be working on the rest of my art. i've got 6 more pieces for the slides, and 5 big ones to do. it's so much. but i've really learned that i should never, ever procrastinate.
i was thinking about it today, and i decided i want to go to new york this summer. it'd be so fun, and i could check out parsons and actually know what it's like to be there. but it's only an idea, a really expensive one... and i don't have the money for it at all. esp since i know i would wanna shop like crazy when i'm there too.

okay, i'm putting up church camp pictures!

camp horse

2006-03-18T22:12:00.000+08:00

hey what's up!
haven't blogged in ages.
anyways, just came back from church camp at cameron highlands. it was soooooooo fun, i really didn't want to leave. right now i'm still in church camp mode but i got to slowly adjust back... and i have a lot of homework to catch up on this weekend. but it's okay, it's not as much as i thought it would be.
so, we arrived at cameron highlands at around 6 am on monday morning, after a long overnight bus ride. it was FREEZING, i felt like i was in japan. there were a lot of stars out which was really nice. i don't think i've ever seen that many stars before. i like overnight bus rides a lot more than day bus rides cuz it seems a lot faster. you just sleep through it. and i love sleeping on buses! this one was fun cuz the bus had to go around and around the mountain.
the second day was the most eventful cuz we got to go on a tour around 7 different places. or 8? i can't remember. the strawberry farm, the tea plantation, the BOH tea factory, the rose garden, the bee farm, and some waterfall. we were supposed to go to a butterfly park thingy, but we weren't really interested so we skipped that. it was really fun. i took lots of pictures so i'll put them up soon.
other than that, i got to learn a lot from the sermons. but i don't have time to blog about it now so i'll save it for another time maybe. hahaha

anyways, better get back to work!

2006-02-20T19:57:00.000+08:00

it has been very awesome

sooo

2006-02-12T20:53:00.000+08:00

hey! so now i'm sitting at home, waiting for dinner. it's been a fun day filled with laughter and excitement.
the staff at pacific coffee showed us around the reddot building. it's apparently a really old building, and it used to be a police place thingy, with prison cells. so he showed us the old prison cells, and a really really nice deserted function room. the whole place was just cement. not those tacky looking function rooms with ugly carpets and curtains. this one was really nice. there were stairs on two sides of the room leading to two other rooms. big windows with light streaming in... i mean, how often do you see nice function rooms? and i am soooo excited cuz my pastor's thinking of renting it out for our church. our rent at the auditorium at bestway building is expiring, and i'd LOVE to have that function room for church! pacific coffee's right downstairs and a they're building a small museum too! or moo-zeum, as the pacific coffee guy said it. i love that place. it'd be sooo fun to have a big make over for that function room. paint the walls some crazy color and stuff. yes! i'm gonna be the next debbie travis!
and how nice, a pigeon has made a nest outside our kitchen window where we have our potted plants. so today my dad took pictures and discovered two eggs inside the nest. a few years back, another pigeon built a nest hanging from our window grill and had two chicks too, so i'm wondering if it's one of them. soooo cute.
it has been a full moon for the past few nights, and it's so nice. today, it's looking slightly orange. i wish i could take pictures of it, but it'd just look like a weird blob on my camera. sad. and i don't think i've ever seen the clouds and the sky looking as beautiful as this morning. the clouds were SO GORGEOUS. but i didn't bring my camera so i couldn't take any pictures! such a bummer. but i'm glad i saw it : )
anyways, dinner's ready.

and more!!!

2006-02-12T15:26:00.000+08:00

hahahahaaa i might die from laughter.

more! more!

2006-02-12T14:31:00.000+08:00

hehhehehehe

2006-02-12T14:30:00.000+08:00

hahahahaha!

2006-02-12T14:15:00.000+08:00

pictures! pictures! we took sooo many pictures with the g5s at pacific coffee. they are sooo funny, gosh we were laughing so hard. i want a g5 too!

don't say the a-word

2006-02-12T13:51:00.000+08:00

hey!
i'm sitting at pacific coffee again. this time with ruth and rach. it has become one of my favorite places to be. it's at reddot traffic at maxwell road. i got a caesar salad and a peaches'n' cream drink for lunch. i haven't been eating properly so i kinda have to slowly adjust back to eating properly again. it stinks. i'm really weak to stress.
anyways! the lock-in's over. it was pretty fun, but i didn't get to stay up all night. ended up falling asleep at 6am and woke up at 7:30 ish?
ruth and rach are looking at the ANTM website and i'm sooo tempted to look over, but i can't cuz then i'd know who wins! my guess was jayla, but i overheard them saying she got out so.... maybe it's nicole, or bre. oh well. i don' t have anything really interesting to say so, goodbye!

hello

2006-02-08T17:35:00.000+08:00

i'm sitting at a pacific coffee near my church. probably the nicest coffee place i've been to considering the interior of the place. there are lots of couches! kudos to the interior designer of this place. starbucks should have more couches, because they only have about two and they are always taken. and kudos to nick for telling me about this place!
there's a lady sitting near me who looks soooooooooo familiar but i really can't remember where i've seen her before.
school's been stressful.

art

2006-02-05T19:39:00.000+08:00

hellooooo
just gonna show off my art a little bit!

my theme song when i only knew the first line of the chorus.

2006-02-04T22:58:00.000+08:00

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go Lyrics

Jitterbug [4X]

You put the boom-boom into my heart
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts
Jitterbug into my brain
Goes a bang-bang-bang 'til my feet do the same
But something's bugging you
Something ain't right
My best friend told me what you did last night
Left me sleepin' in my bed
I was dreaming, but I should have been with you instead.

Wake me up before you go-go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go-go
'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo
Wake me up before you go-go
Take me dancing tonight
I wanna hit that high (yeah, yeah)

You take the grey skies out of my way
You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day
Turned a bright spark into a flame
My beats per minute never been the same

'Cause you're my lady, I'm your fool
It makes me crazy when you act so cruel
Come on, baby, let's not fight
We'll go dancing, everything will be all right

Wake me up before you go-go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go-go
'Cause I'm not plannin'' on going solo
Wake me up before you go-go
Take me dancing tonight
I wanna hit that high (yeah, yeah, baby)

(Jitterbug)
(Jitterbug)

Cuddle up, baby, move in tight
We'll go dancing tomorrow night
It's cold out there, but it's warm in bed
They can dance, we'll stay home instead

(Jitterbug)

Wake me up before you go-go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go-go
'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo
Wake me up before you go-go
Take me dancing tonight
Wake me up before you go-go, don't you dare to leave me hanging on like a
yo-yo
Take me dancing

(Boom-boom-boom)

"rachel harmony!"

2006-01-28T10:24:00.000+08:00

okay, here are the pictures i said i'd put up!

this was during one of the friday's. we were watching the fountain of wealth multimedia show. and making dedications with the laser light messages. really cool!

daniel on nick's shoulder! cute.

from isaku to nick.

our dedications.

we ate at fish and co. rach, jeanne and i got the seafood platter, which was REALLY GOOD. mussels! shrimps! fish! clams! fries! calamari!

we walked to this waterfall thingy near marina square. it was really nice.

me and rach behind the waterfall: don't get it twisted!

so, gong xi fa cai :D
tonight, i'm gonna have to go to my relative's house for dinner. not something i really enjoy doing... but they are all family, and ever since aunty betty got cancer, it's hit me pretty hard that i should never take any of them for granted.
chapel yesterday was really good. was really encouraged by mike's testimonies. being a christian really isn't supposed to be boring, and it was so cool how you could really see God's love in mike as he spoke. God is so real.
and china mission trip is coming up! gotta pray about that. cuz even though i wanna go, i'm still a bit half-hearted. i dunno, if God wants me there, i'll be there!

anyways, a verse that really encouraged me this week.

Jeremiah 17:5-8
Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
He will be like a bush in the wastelands;
he will not see prosperity when it comes.
He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
in a salt land where no one lives.
But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.

and something aunty grace shared last sunday...

"when you think you're nobody, that's when God wants to use you as a somebody!"

so hope you guys have a good CNY break.

tomorrow morning

2006-01-21T23:31:00.000+08:00

hello!
it's been a while. school's been very hectic and sometimes i feel like i might go crazy but i've been surviving. this weekend, i thought i was not gonna have a life, but i got to chillax a little today hahaha yay! but i have to get huck finn reading and question-answering done mostly by tomorrow... and hopefully all my art too.
so, yes lots have been going on. my life has had its ups and downs ever since i last posted! but in everything, praise God for being with me always. i've got some interesting pictures i wanna post here but that will come later cuz right now i'm sooooo tired. don't know why but i woke up at 8:30 this morning even after partaying til 3:30am last night (not really. but i did sleep at 3:30). we had a bbq at jeanne's house last night which was really really nice. i love her house. jack johnson was playing in the background while we sat at her porch eating bbqed kebab thingies, squid, prawns, salad.. etc. all nick's work. well done! they were deliciousss. and then we ended up watching DRUMLINE which was an interesting movie... hahaha yeah. after that me, rach and jeanne washed the dishes (tons of dirty dishes) so we pretty much entertained ourselves by gettin down on da kitchen floor BOOGIE-ING. that was the most awake i felt all day, and that was around 1 am.
anyways! ruth is back from thailand! yay!
want to go to sleep now so goodnight!

lub ya foeber

2006-01-07T22:18:00.000+08:00

yay! found the url of the mp3 for jack johnson's traffic in the sky. such a great song! listen to it!

what if i told you...

2006-01-07T11:59:00.000+08:00

good morning.
i woke up with a stiff neck so i can't turn right!
anyways, watched wallace and gromit yesterday with nathan; it was soooo cute. i had ben and jerry's too. i have yet to discover what the vermonster sundae is. it costs 80 bucks! it has to be good.
then we had youth at nick's house. plan was to have pizza and watch a movie. ruth and i reached thomson plaza really early so we spent AGES in video ezy; if you asked me where a specific movie title was, i could almost immediately locate it for you. so after everyone else came, we decided on The Terminal. GREAT MOVIE. i've already watched it a few times but i still like it so much! and then, nick made 5 different types of pizza for us. it was sooooooooo good. beats any kind of pizza i've ever had. heheh you guys are missing out :)
well, have to go get ready for worship practice!

some old quotes (hahaha ruth)
"it's amazing how when you pull out one kleenex, another one comes out all by itself!"
"spinach makes me feel looooooved"
"my beautiful mimosa fellings...."

okay, have a good day everyone!

traffic in the sky

2006-01-05T15:23:00.000+08:00

hey!
some pictures from last week...

we saw a rainbow!

the sky looked sooo nice. ruth and i couldn't stop taking pictures.

we ate at charlie's corner for dinner.

thanks rach! had so much fun.

anyways. back to art. uggggghhhhh.