wahaha today is really slacker fest cos next to nobody's around on my side of the office plus i've kind of finished my stuff. i mean, i guess i could draw more graphs but i'm not sure she wants them. haha. i'll do them later. must leave some work lar.
and i just walked around my office. for the first time. luckily no one else much was around.. seems like the whole 23rd floor houses managers! k that sounds weird but nvm. i shall go down to 22nd floor and walk around later haha. this is fun.
and yay! if the papers are correct chow yun fat will be in the sequel for pirates.. 2 fav actors in there whee! ok i'm going a bit mad. time for lunchy lunch soon:D and i shall go buy my stuff frm bras basah too.
ooh. just watched the thomas crown affair. cool show. rather exciting! haha. the way he confused all the police at the end was quite amusing.
anyway. i took a super long lunch break today oops:s and then i left 10mins early haha:p oops. but if i rush everyth today i'll have nothing to do tmr! not that i mind lar but well. have to leave =some= stuff to do;D maybe i'll sew my handphone pouch rofl. then i'm sure to get work from the rest. but well, the luxury of having all the managers off at the seminar. haha:D
and they changed my laptop to a huge computer today! i mean a normal pc but it's huge compared to the laptop. ah well. the only problem is that it obstructs my view. and i think the whole world can see my screen even more clearly now. not that i care.
oh! there's this cute french guy in my company haha. not cute as in good-looking but boy-cute. he's always so happy and cheerful and polite. but i've no idea wat his name is. ah well.
okies i better go finish my forms and get more sleep. today i felt like sleeping at 3pm again. it must be inborn instinct. and i shall go design my pouch! whee~ making stuff is fun. haha. i think i must be a maniac. all the mood swings.
haha i think i must've complained too much on my blog. but thanks to everyone who sympathised with me abt hating my job lar haha. i feel loads better now! it must be the disney movie. i think disney movies have a feel good factor. k this sounds suspiciously like mr chan ty on our bio prelim paper but shuddup clar, no more things abt exams.
lala. k i have been asking pple to eat lunch/dinner w me. so i won't feel lonely anymore! k i sound super deprived. but anyway yeah miss pple loads.
this stupid lizard keeps coming out everyday and making me scream. it's as if it owns the house!grr. whack it. anyway, hopefully my good mood persists. or prolongs itself. whichever. lalala.
oh! i forgot to write about the eating-at-mrt station incident. actually there were 2 lar. once at eunos.. was waiting for aud ting pam to come and for jiahui to change.. and was eating dinner (bread) while looking at the map to figure out where the cc was so we'd noe how to walk there. then this attendant or watever u call him came up to me and said "no eating in the station" and told me to move to the entrance of the mrt (which was like maybe 3 metres away). super spastic. i'm sure i'm going to pluck off bits of bread and fling them around.
and then another day in the morning i was eating pineapple tarts in the car.. so i was still eating when i reached the bukit batok mrt.. so i stuffed the rest of the tart into my mouth and fished my wallet out and went in. and then unless i heard wrongly or sth, the guy told me to eat slowly. was rather amused:p
i think i've become a horrible person. hmm. or maybe over-perfectionistic. or over-critical. or over-demanding. yeah that sounds about right. anyway. i was thinking about this last night. or maybe this morning. dunno lar. suddenly remembered the quote (i have no idea where it's from) : eyes are the window to one's soul. really? i don't seem to agree. or maybe i'm just not discerning enough.
it's so weird. i feel like i haven't seen my friends in ages when i just met them on monday. hmm. and suddenly feel lonely. like nobody wants to talk to me. or i don't want to talk to pple. funny huh. maybe staying at home and sleeping 11hrs on both days does something to you.
i also think my lethargy has reached new levels. my determination seems to be at an all-time low! either that or work saps all my energy (convenient excuse huh). all i end up doing is lie on the bed and read and read and read. and i haven't finished half the books i read last year. aiyoh. wat a real pig.
oh! and my mom told me that my aunt and her colleagues say my hair's v untidy! they work 18 floors below me, and apparently can recognise me even though I only went to her office once. weird pple. oh wait there was this other time when they said i'm always smsing or sth. i'm really most bemused. the way people gossip is scandalous. i hope i don't do that. like gossip about pple i don't even know and criticise all sorts of things.
wonder what cny will be like this year. same old boring stuff. i wonder how my lil cousin's finding nygh haha. that'll be interesting at least. maybe she'll have some funny things to tell me:) somehow i think my family's quite isolated. or maybe that's just what i think.
and i dunno why i'm suddenly getting worried about results all over again. sigh. maybe it's the time to wallow in self misery so everyth that comes to mind is nothing happy.
oh yes and one night i had this super weird dream that i suddenly had another sister (slightly older than me) whom i knew next to nothing about, and was typing in her income data or sth into the computer. result of combination of work & listening to frens' stories abt rich pple.
mixed-up me. nevermind, maybe tmr'll be better if i don't have some other weird dream. haha. oh! i forgot if i sed this, i want to watch finding neverland! i hope it wins lots of awards haha. (and johnny depp of cos). raving johnny depp fan here. k lar i only like pirates and probably this show too but well. oh and racing stripes looks cute, but the voicing over seems quite.. dunno. doesn't really fit what I thought it would be like. from the clips i watched. nvm, having the horse-racing in is probably good enough haha.
warning: do not read if you don't want to hear me whine. a lot.
i'm busy wallowing in self pity now cos i hate my job. it's undescribably monotonous. and unbelievable mind-numbing (and finger-numbing too i might add). i have 5 more graphs to draw manually. and 2 more to do w the computer. i hate the sight of computers now. wails. and i couldn't find myself any nice and cheap food to eat!:( the curry puff wasn't nice. i must go find nicer curry puffs. i miss the rj muslim stall one:(
anyway, yes, and i am totally sick of excel files, and anything remotely to do with lubricants, whether automotive or industrial. and the HR manager seems to have this knack of walking out when I'm doing something not work-related. oops. heck, they had better pay me my 1000 bucks. or more, if i work more than a month. grr.
let me see what else i can complain about. and sick of doing formulas for summing stuff and taking weighted averages. and oh! yes. i'm quite convinced i got the carpal tunnel syndrome (okay lar today my right hand doesn't hurt so maybe i'm well already haha) thanks to their work. feel like sueing them. click click click click. growl.
and they don't even have nice things in the pantry. ah. my train of thought has derailed cos ser came online to save me haha. the only thing vaguely interesting i got to do was to do name tags haha. the cutting's actually quite fun:p k yeah i'm deprived, i noe. but really, when u're stuck with excel and graphs on powerpoint, you start to appreciate little things a lot more.
ah! yesterday i was v sad cos there was no bed and i wanted a nap. (sleeping at 2 doesn't really make u feel v awake in the afternoon) and then when i told my parents that last night they were so amused. but really! i was so tired and wanted to sleep and there was nowhere comfy:(
i think my brain cells are being depleted by this. more damages to claim. haha. if only.
k well back to stupid graphs. i keep forgetting wat i was going to say.
oh wait i just remembered sth. this office is so freaking cold it's like winter. if i stayed here any longer i'd become a snowman. or ice queen. crazy lar. dunno why they need the aircon to be so cold. i mean like fine, performances like cirque du soleil, the performers might sweat and that's quite dangerous so they need lower temps but here?? ....
quotes of the day from peiying. cos they're the only 2 i remembered
lyd talks about her pay, and how she spends it on clothes and all that.
peiying: nxt time when pple ask u where's your pay? answer = "i'm wearing it"
chris: oh.. u noe.. shining and her boyfren are in paris!
peiying: i don't know shining. but i know paris!
anyway, dinner was funny.. trust chris to dump the ice cream in knowing that the chocolate'd overflow.. shud've taken a photo of that haha. and also trust lydia to refuse anyth with the slightest trace of ice cream inside:p and lijia's peas on the table, and attempts to cover them using the paper/plate (oh no! the waitress cleared the plate!) and tissue. and the great overturning pizza. it was really good seeing everyone again:) smaller groups work better.
although i must admit i was in a terrible mood while i was walking there. everyone knew my phone wasn't working. yet at 7.15 i called chris, no answer. called joon. "we were waiting for u to call" "ur phone really can't call ah?" & before that "ok 7 at giordanos so u wun have any problems later". after i msged everyone and set the time and place and everything and at 7pm, nobody is to be seen. k i'm probably over-reacting as usual but anyway, at that moment i was quite annoyed. but, at least everyone else decided where to eat earlier if not we'd waste more time deciding. and i didn't say anyth at dinner cos i didn't want to spoil everyth. figured it's quite stupid to organise something and ruin it. plus it's hard to stay mad at such lovely pple haha. anyway, it's over. and not a big thing.. just that i wasn't in a gd mood to begin with so got rather grumpy.
oh yes, my phone! i wanted to lodge a complaint but apparently it's not really their fault either so i can't. darn. anyway, yes. finally, on saturday, after visiting samsung shop at centrepoint to check out why i can't enable wap, we found out i have to change my sim card. (here i'm already wondering wat kind of service singtel is giving but apparently a few pple had to change card too, so watever). so, went to the hello shop at westmall and the guy says, tuesday the new sim card will be activated.. around noon u can't use the old card to call out. so, fine, i'll just remember to bring the card on tues to change. but taadaa! today, at 12-sth, when i try to msg ser to ask her abt her bag, my phone doesn't work. -alarm bells go off-. well done, singtel. congratulations on your efficiency. but you have also succeeded in inconveniencing me for the rest of the day. i wouldn't have really cared if i were at home, just switch the card. but u wudn't expect me to carry the card around w me everywhere when they said tuesday!
anyway, on a happier note, i got my cd! wahaha:) haven't had time to listen yet though. and i finally settled two very long-belated bday presents:s now for the next 2 haha. i feel poor. where's my pay?? aah. time to sleep. so so tired.
ah.i should've followed my instincts on friday night and not gone. but again, it wasn't really instincts. i think? anyway pity we din get to kayak aft all cos fuzzy din call them earlier to ask or sth like tt.. and jiahui was still sick, and pam cancelled for dunno wat reason.
so ended up watching aviator. wasn't exactly my cup of tea (plus it was super long). n we shud've read the synopsis before going haha was a bit lost there. i did feel like watching a movie but nothing really appealed yest.
nvm, i've found nice movies to watch: finding neverland and racing stripes! haha it looks super cute.. saw it in australia:) i hope it's nice! lala. and actually i'm only watching finding neverland cos there's johnny depp haha. i sound like a groupie. and the show's supposed to be good anyway. and i shall get my cd tmr. once i can decide which cd and where to buy it from haha.
and i made konnyaku jelly today! a bit too sweet and a bit too soft.. nvm still got 2 more packets to experiment with haha. and drove today. illegally i mite add. but well i think i'm getting the hang of it. there's an awful lot of things to remember. why's it so tedious.. it goes for everything lar. except for maybe piano or sth, i dunno.
*yawns* i took a 2 hr nap and am still tired. i shud stop being so lazy:( nvm tmr's dinner should be gd:) yumyumyum .but i foresee feeling rather poorer aft that.
haha. 2nd day i have dinner at home. lala. i'm wondering if i shud go kayak tmr. mmm.
anyway. yeah let's complain about work a bit more. it's so stupid! haha. k i dunno why i suddenly became so anti-work.. but after i drew like 10 graphs manually i had enough. oh no! i drew 11! yes. got so angry and irritated. grumpy clar. but really.. temps do all the stupid things. like kahli told me today she had to "carry boxes. or key in millions of small data for them. i should sue them for eyesight damage". haha good old glad. anyway my sentiments exactly! bleah. as quoted frm her sms in the morning.
oh yes i had enough and i walked to bras basah to buy sth and took half an hour:D as it is i was in a bad enough mood. i wonder why. maybe it was cos i cudn't decide wat cd to buy haha (and still haven't decided even now heh). or it was bcos of lunch!
ah yes. lunch. they tried to cheat me lar! give promotion and then charge me the usual price.. i mean okay lar the usual price one is when u get green tea as well but how was i supposed to noe.. and then the guy making sushi kept bothering me when i was flipping thru the menu.. i was like i'll look at it myself already and he -still- asked "do u want udon? or rice? or .." i was super pissed off lar. partly because b4 he asked, the waitress already asked me the same qn and i sed i'll look at the menu. like hi, if i say something, maybe i actually mean it? man. anyway, apparently the waitress didn't write down the food number correctly so cashier made a mistake. ah yes and they were all looking very sulky. don't like to serve pple then go do sth else lar! ah i seem to complain a lot today. but it's friday lar, i've survived a full work week so can't blame me haha.
i was going to talk about something else.. oh! yes. i spend my mornings thinking about where i'm going to eat lunch and what i'm going to eat. mornings as in train ride plus some part of working time haha. it's actually quite fun lar. like i was telling candice, lunch = eat nice food of own choice + go nice place also of ur own choice + shop (in an attempt to justify myself because she accused me of "succumbing to serene's witchery"). and like ting sed, the highlight of the day haha. oh and today i walked into delifrance and bought myself a mushroom quiche. so yummy! they usually slice up the mushrooms so there're only bits left? but this one was like big juicy chunks.. mm.. and creamy haha. oops. but delicious!:D
ah yes and then my boss (e guy in charge of me), upon seeing my completed graphs, decided i had a bright future. because i can plot graphs? right. and then i spent the rest of the day (actually less than 2 hours cos i went for my short shopping trip wahaha) typing out pple's names. and cutting paper. haha actually cutting paper was fun lar just that it's quite dumb. i actually think working is just another way to torture oneself. for the money. but i think i've said that before so nvm..
alrite. so i'm going kayaking after all. let's hope i still can perform normal functions with my arms on sunday. nevermind, it's a sort of exercise anyway. and i hope i dun get those fibreglass thingies:s remember claire got some splinters during obs n it was terrible:
yeah k given that i'm probably going to have to wake up at 7 (wails! my only free day and i can't wake up late! i'm going to take leave on monday man..) to get to pasir ris. sigh.
right. 4th day of work and i'm finally home for dinner (just in time to catch last episode of double happiness. haha.)
anyway, i hope they don't think i spend too much time on the phone at work haha. like i called chris yesterday n talked for some time. and today was calling up to find out abt stuff. but that didn't take v long lar. just that i had to make quite a few calls:p oh well. let's hope they gimme a pay raise. everyone else seems to be earning more than i do! grr. oh quite funky they had three galettes des rois today. i found out the big boss is an englishman! weird. i always thought the french guy was the boss oops. cos he had his own secretary. if that's what she is.
and i think temps have v sad jobs. all the boring tedious stuff gets dumped at them. but i can't imagine without a temp, they hafta do it themselves?? augh. i must really find a job that i'll like. i wonder why pple have to torture themselves like that. haha. self-inflicted misery. but again that's probably my pessimistic view. since my aunt actually enjoys her job cos she likes organising stuff.
oh actually my office has quite a good location:) btwn city hall and bugis! yeah. very convenient to buy stuff haha. just that i dun think raffles city is particularly gd for buying stuff sometimes. anyhow.. yeah.. everything's beginning.. hope my lessons are fun! and coaches are good of cos:) tho i still haven't gotten round to scholarship apps:s somehow i dunno how i'm going to get myself a scholarship. and uni apps how? :s better not to think liao ergh.
i'm so tempted to shop somemore. bleah. oh yes going to work leaves u with rather little time to do much else. rush rush rush. today's work was terrible lar. mind-numbing. at least that's done. and now i have i/o to do.. which will be worse cos there're more categories.. pray for my sanity please. and those graphs! i can't believe u've to do it manually? i must make sure i think of sth better. grr. manual graph-plotting is quite a waste of time. but maybe it's faster than thinking of alternative methods. bah. n i dun understand they refuse to gimme a log scale. none of my numbers are negative or zero! :(
oh!! yeah went back to rj to visit choir yesterday.. haha we spent like 15mins trying to find lt4! and it's really pathetic.. nobody knew where lt4 was lar. not even j2 councillors. haha. quite funny actually. ah well. anyway, talk about nostalgia. first, i remembered the music. then, i remembered the times when we had drilling and i got so sick of it. but i guess to reach the standard u hafta drill huh. hmm. i don't think i can sing anymore! no more abs:( haha.
anyway, was good to see juniors again:) silly darryl n kp.. one could video them and send it to america's funniest videos and perhaps win.. and jinjie, trying to look tanned?? i realised i hadn't seen chernise in ages.. like open house i saw most of them i think..
alrite.. let's hope tmr is a better day.. and thurs i'll get to see pam finally.. long time since i talked to that girl. and oh dear i think i was spposed to msg lyd abt dinner! oops. and i wonder when joon will decide to have dinner. heh.
woah. wat a week. or rather, end-of-week. friday's work was better i guess, but i suspect he's giving me extra stuff to do cos i'm so fast. haha. self-praise. k nvm maybe he just thought of the extra stuff that he forgot previously. but anyway, my supervisor, or watever u call him, is actually quite nice i guess. found out he has a son my age! wah. talk about coincidence.
then budak concert.. quite funny lar. and like i predicted, we saw mingze. with -someone-. haha. oh before that, i was going to look for some gift shop near the mrt entrance in plaza sing, and met chris n tiff! so didn't hafta call them after all:) yeah and jan gushing about her guitarist. well he is the best looking one in the bunch (which actually isn't saying much, but nvm:p) i managed to catch the bus! haha. luckily i was wearing flatter heels (actually my mom's) so could run. and the nice bus-driver kindly waited for me:) and met pingying! another coincidence! so cool:)
saturday.. i think i slept 12 hrs out of sheer lethargy. haha. i wud've woken up earlier just that i decided i deserved more rest and went back to sleep for another hour:p
and now sunday. haha i think i spent like $260 shopping in the evening. wat a record.. but i need work clothes. plus i hardly go shopping. quite funny actually, just grab stuff off the racks and try, try, try. well at least i think i'm settled for the next few months. i don't think i've ever bought so much stuff at one go. not bad! i must congratulate myself. and now i'm super tired again haha. back to work tmr. oh i got a pair of really comfy shoes!:D yay
i can well understand why pple who work don't exercise. i mean, stuck in office mon - fri, 9 - 6. who wud feel like exercising in the wee hours of the morning/at night when the sun has set? i mean like sch usually ends earlier and there's actually a track around and all that. now i wish i'd treasured sch life more, i think working life is much worse. no sch holidays! augh. whole year stuck in the office lar. i was trying to think of work which didn't involve being stuck in front of a computer/in an aircon office the whole day and pays well but nothing much came to mind. maybe i need more brainstorming sessions haha.
well.. 1st day of work.. haha i think i shud try and not yawn so much. maybe cos i'm not v used to waking up at 8 and a 45min journey to work bleargh. and some of the oil stuff was really boring.. and finance stuff was really boring.. but i'm quite thankful he explained it to me lar. he's quite a nice guy actually.. or maybe he's just nice cos i'm going to be around for a month haha. k i shudn't be so mean but i've learnt (from experience, sadly, or maybe luckily?) that one should always suspect the worst sometimes.
and actually i dun think i shud be staring at the computer somemore when i was staring at it for the whole of the afternoon (besides running off at 2.30 to pay a surprise visit to my aunt working 18 floors below me and running off again at 3.40 to get myself ice cream/fresh air.. i really felt sick k! stale aircon. bah.) and i got an extra long lunch break today haha cos my computer wasn't set up. but really, u cudn't expect me to sit around and do nothing and wait for an hour + for lunch break rite.. i could be doing more productive stuff like shopping. rofl. i need to find ser her bday present. and i still owe darryl his. oh dear.
i just remembered something and got really annoyed. there's that saying about elephants have long memories huh.. i shud be more forgiving and less like an elephant. but it's not that i didn't forgive or anyth, it's just a fact wat. its just. the injustice of someone saying something when the opposite is true. very indignant. but nevermind. hopefully it never repeats because that's something that really irked me. which hasn't happened for quite long, thankfully.
anyway, besides that. i'm kinda glad it's going to be saturday soon, i can wake up late again!:D i dunno how my dad can sleep at 2+ and still wake up at 8 in the morning and continue the cycle the next day.
i'm so tempted to bring a discman (ok, not that i possess one) to work and listen while i compile datasheets. better than getting distracted by pple talking on the phone. and tempted to buy more cds. sembawang music centre is really quite cheap, i realised. at least i think so unless hmv has a huge sale now
ow. poor feet. and eyes. my contacts don't seem to agree with my eyes v well. or maybe cos an eyelash dropped in just now.
anyway. long day tmr! sigh. actually, for the next month. i don't know why i'm getting myself into this.. i guess i feel too poor for my own comfort haha. i guess it wasn't good to be late on the 1st meeting. but at least i called up to inform them earlier rite?? augh. k. my fault. anyway, the guy in charge of me looks so stone. and looked so disapproving/sulky when i sed i was frm both raffles schs. e.g. of scenario:
guy: so.. just to understand ur situation.. u're waiting for a level results rite.. where were u from?
me: rj
guy looks slightly sulky and continues: and.. before that?
me: rgs
guy looks even more sulky
okay lar maybe i may have miscontrued his facial expressions. but he didn't look v friendly to me aft hearing those two schools. and then later when i was requesting a higher pay. but seriously! i looked at the adds and heard frm pple and all n they mostly seem to get like 6 per hour at least? ah watever.. he looked even more displeased when i was asking about it haha. too bad. it really seems bit unfair wat.
and really, i can't believe they paid poly students only $400 for the same job.. that is like exploitation. or abuse of workers. or cruelty to workers. watever. almost wanted to tell the HR manager that but luckily i shut up in time. will not do to be impolite. but my mom said i shud've told them off. haha. but that's my mom so nvm..
owch there's really sth wrong w my nose, keeps running and i keep sneezing. phantom was not bad i guess but i think musical wud be better w live music.. now it sounds a tad tweaked by the computer.. voice editing or sth? i dunno. and i also thought they exploited the sensual part a bit but maybe that's just me too.
anyway i had better get to sleep soon. foresee a super tired clar for the next month. plus i've to figure out weird powerpt graphs and dunno wat else. working doesn't seem v appealing after all. have to contend w all sorts of problems. nvm.. shall see what happens.
wow. long time since i blogged. but didn't feel like writing anything much. anyway sigh! for one glorious moment i thought i could live my dream. but that doesn't seem so possible now huh. bleah. not that i could have done anything else actually. maybe i'll still get to live it for 6 months? haha. i gave up the idea a long time ago, but when the opportunity resurfaced.. woah.. but now dunno how.
and am sadly unemployed! i figured whatever i apply for, i'll still end up doing teaching/data-entry/waitressing or something equally mundane. so what was i expecting anyway...
i think i learn too much from my brother. have started to feel very poor now. partly thanks to his influence, partly cos everyone else is working, partly cos now have to pay adult fare (groan). well at least i foresee myself being less spendthrift, hopefully. why can't i just fly? haha. dream on girl..
but on a brighter note, i think i'll get to learn loads of things in these 8 months. also hopefully. (and end up spending a lot too actually but nvm haha)
and yesterday was absolutely depressing, realised just how inept i am, maybe i was just wasting a whole lot of money applying.. how? :(
now i also don't think i have any chance of a scholarship either. what an absolutely wonderful state to be in..
ah yes sleeping beauty on ice was so good.. set, costumes, performance, music. everything! but of cos after a (long) while the routines get a teeny bit repetitive. BUT the guy playing catalabutte is superb.. i've never seen a gymnast like that! (okay maybe cirque du soleil's acrobats can rival him) and i wish they could take photos of the production on the spot and dump them in the program but i guess that's asking for the impossible. i always do. anyway the reason for that's cos the pictures in the program -never- look like what you see on stage.. the same way the mamma mia cd didn't sound like what i heard on stage either. blah.
i think i'm too idealistic.
anyway, why isn't kA's CD out? not that i could buy it actually. unless i get them to ship to my bro and ... maybe one day i'll go back to vegas just to watch another one of cirque's resident shows:) but the static in LV is horrible. augh.
oh yes one last thought, i shouldn't get so many pple hooked on pool haha. my mom doesn't even approve of me pooling in the first place. or playing cards. oops. i wish i were as pro as dasheng/shaun.
alritey. am really rested. haha. almost 12 hrs!! ugh. can't believe myself. i woke up at 8.30 initially but thought i'll sleep 1 hour more and ended up waking up at 12.15. well well. wat to do.
anyway ahh i just forgot wat i was going to say. it was something about australia though. hums. ohh!! yes sydney opera house. it isn't that wonderful really, i think esplanade is more impressive. esp the concert hall. sydney opera hse's concert hall isn't very awe-inspiring. it was quite funny though when the 2nd half started and the orchestra players all came out wearing tinsel/attaching tinsel to various parts of their instruments, and the lady behind us exclaimed very loudly between chuckles "they're being rather silly!" haha. the soprano was awesome though. first time i've ever heard actually. but yeah. wow.
and i'm so sorry to admit to abusing one of the wombats at the featherdale wildlife park to make it come out. i felt quite bad about it lar. but i really wanted to see it walk around! gah. and it still didn't come out of its hole. so i guess we din do it much harm. fat lazy things. they're supposed to graze in the day quite often even though they're nocturnal. but the echidnas were really cute though haha waddle around like sea slugs on the seabed. okay that doesn't sound v nice but when my bro sends it over to me everyone will see wat i mean.
and the koala that had bad aiming! haha. it was feeding time so the koalas were scrambling towards the eucalyptus leaves.. and one of them, when jumping from one branch to another, almost fell over. quite funny:p
saw a lot of amazing things there. mostly animal-related though haha. i should go do something related to animals huh. my dad was saying last yr i was so enchanted by the dolphins at siegfried n roy's secret garden that i wanted to bring one home, and now i want to bring a wombat home. haha. but it's so cute and fat. wish i'd been able to see a platypus though. we did get to see it in the movie but it's different when it's right in front of your face i guess.
lemme see. yes. the cow which tricked me into walking into a cobweb. the farmstay! so i was standing on the verandah and then suddenly this cow which was grazing looked up and stared at me. so i wanted to walk closer and stare at it and then ended up walking into a cobweb. grr.
and feeding the farm animals! haha. hungry cows galloping was hilarious. my brother couldn't stop laughing at their greediness. and was so appalled when the big bull licked his hand. and then brucie the pig who put her two front feet into the food trough while eating. (and then this lady who was watching told her husband "don't talk to me abt table manners nxt time!") and then brucie somehow ended up losing her balance/decided to lie down and overturned the food trough (its round-bottomed, made up of a barrel cut longitudinally) so the food spilled onto the ground.
i saw alpacas! pity they were shaved the day before we arrived though. i have a pillow at home which is made from their wool/fur/watever u call it. bought frm vegas last yr.
umm. oh i really liked the house tt we stayed on at the farm. it's so tastefully decorated. maybe cos its new.. 1 yr old only. but i got the pink room! haha. took lots of photos of the rooms cos they're all colour-themed, really pretty:) and it so happens the pink room had a queen bed so i got the whole bed to myself. but the other rooms had queen beds too lar so not much diff anyway.
the only problem was the abundance of insects around. in the houses and outside. so many flies!! ugh. got so annoyed. dirty things. and i've gone off horse-riding a bit. maybe cos i forgot most of wat i learnt last time.. got to take lessons again maybe. or maybe need the correct footwear haha.
okay i better hurry up with my uni app forms.
alright. am back. and really tired. i woke up at the singapore equivalent of 5am. augh. and watched like 3 movies in a row on the plane. SIA movie selection is really good.. plus the music.. u'll never be bored.. but not good for eyes yeah.
christine's house is so so so nice!! can compare with denise's liao. just that she doesn't have a pool table haha
i dun think my brain is working v well at the moment so i shan't attempt to say much abt my trip. besides the fact tt i'm sick of hot sun and looong drives. and that it's so fun seeing kangaroos on the road! haha. and i always appreciate spore much better aft holidays abroad heh. and it was hilarious with my crazy bro around. nobody'd believe he's 22 and i'm 18. even i don't believe it most of the time.
anyway, since serene so kindly reminded me, here is the story of the emergency lever. which i don't doubt she has told most of the world, seeing that I always find out about how she's told the whole world various events which I don't remember telling many pple.
check-in counter
guy asks my mom : how old is ur daughter?
mom : 18? why?
guy : oh.. its okay.. underaged children aren't supposed to sit next to the emergency door
mom starts getting worried : 18 isn't underage rite?
guy laughs : no.. its just that some stewardesses don't allow.. they're afraid they (children) will play with the lever..
i'm in a state of disbelief and shock. sarcastically : rite.. so i'm going to start playing with the lever later..
when i'm more free i will type more quotes. like how my bro was so fascinated by the accent that hong kong pple have when they speak english. esp the guy who was explaining opals to us.
alright. off to australia tonight.. back on 27th night. i don't suppose anyone will be writing xmas cards this year rite haha maybe i'll write new year cards or sth hmm.
heh i'm here doing last minute essays n my parents are doing last minute planning for holiday. yay.. the last minute lin family. anyway they keep talking about "coomba" which sounds so much like "kumar" haha. which reminds me he still owes me my 3 SAT books. i forgot this classic quote from the french movie on sunday.. may not be v accurate though i don't remember exactly wat happened
gal hears squeaking and scratching at night : what's tt?? -huddles in bed-
guy : i don't know, i'm not an expert on animal noises
squeaking resumes
gal gets more frightened : can u get up and see wat is it??
guy doesn't want to, wants to sleep : mouse, rat, giant roach, ...
gal shrieks in fright
guy sighs in resignation and gets up and checks under the bed : nothing. it's beneath the floorboards
gal, v agitated : but wat IS it??
guy, annoyed : bambi
gal is stunned : wat?
guy : bambi! since u want a name, i'm giving u a name..
so i was just thinking of a fawn in the floorboards. most amusing haha.
haha lunch was fun. cheukka and her "softshell crab isn't crab wat!" "oh. i thought it was something like crayfish" various other things which i forgot.. and kai with her silly jokes.. whereby the only thing that is funny about them is her laughter after every joke.
and the movie was.. well.. unexpected. i didn't know there was going to be singing in there but i was v happy haha:D opera singer! woah. so cool.. tho the actress was really fat. but that camille deveux or watever her name was looks really good.. plus good voice too.. unless that was dubbed. in which i'll feel so disillusioned.
ooh i like my new phone haha. tho i felt rather guilty buying it. hope it'll serve me (and my bro, i assume) well. explorer has conked out on me. grr. now for essays. esp stanford. aargh
ah. 5 hour sleep. but somehow it was a little fragmented. and woke up feeling a bit achey. anyway.. chalet was quite fun. though a lot of stuff could have been done better lar could've thought about food and etc beforehand? but really must thank andrew for coordinating everyth.. esp when u've a class which is as laidback as ours. maybe not laidback but hmm can't be bothered? think slightly more than half the class appeared which is not bad. now to wonder when to have that combined bbq.. aahh. maybe i'll call everyone and ask when they're free. quite difficult lar sigh
anyway ohh yeah pity the weather only cleared up today morning.. past two days was like light drizzle all the time.. quite cold. okay. cool. so ended up playing a lot of bridge. must get changmou to teach more card games.. just that i wun remember how to play them if he's not around haha. that sheepheads thing or watever was really confusing tho i dun blame siewjin for needing a calculator to keep track of points cos i needed one too haha:p maybe dinos are lousy at mental calculations oops
hmm let's see.. oh pool on monday night was rather sad haha kept fouling all over the place.. was really horrendous. at least i think i redeemed myself on tues. i suppose i've gd and bad days. anyway the charge was really crazy.. i wun have gone on monday actually but since everyone went then just go lar.. then second night dun care about the charge already. shud really learn to spend $$ more wisely. n i shud've learnt frm chorale camp that food always gets left over. ah well will try to remember nxt time.
pity didn't get to swim.. apparently the jacuzzi was v nice. and it was nice rooming with aud:) and funny when i woke siewjin up for her soccer match. she mumbled some stuff which i cudn't hear. and i was so puzzled. and ended up asking me " 4 1 2?" or sth like that. was most queer. and amusing.
wait i was going to say sth.. ohh yes really pity shaun haha come to chalet just to get diaoed by all the guys -and- ser. i think the latter is the worst. dasheng probably will agree haha. and we met ms jeanne tan in the downtown east carpark. her take on it? "i thought i saw familiar faces but the guys were acting so childishly so i wasn't sure.." haha.
various quotes. i can't remember other various funny things dasheng said tho.
ser "every morning i eat a piece of milk"
ser on m dremaux her sec 4 french tcher "ses oreilles bleues" [his blue ears. she meant to say his blue eyes]
dasheng, explaining why he was still quite awake at 2sth am even tho he only slept 2 hrs the night before "took a shower then okay already lor"
and apparently he wasn't supposed to sleep yesterday night
so candice suggested he take 40 minute interval showers
dasheng "wah then i'll become a prune lar"
oh and the cat invading our compound. i bet it thought we were trepassing on its territory. so dasheng threatened to strangle it. so when i told mrs cheong she sed "tell dasheng that he may not be able to pay for dead cat" haha. cos he has nets card and was supposed to pay for any damages. rather amusing.
ah i think this is long enough already. shall start worrying about essays again. it was nice to forget abt all that for a while and just slack:) days of mugging seem far behind. tho possibly unforgettable anyway.
i think i've less than an hour before i've to go off again. haha. and my eyes are still half closed. don't think i'll wear contacts today liao. so tired:s now i realise having stayovers consecutively isn't a v smart idea.. oh well. but was quite fun lar haha lots of amusement..
wah and yesterday full day frm 9am to almost 12 is really too much. and still went out walking around aft tt couldn't walk straight anymore. ohh the food at the tea session was the best yet haha. tho i'm still not v tempted to apply to join saf. it was good seeing cheukka tho:p although the hair was shocking. and found 2 nice shops at raffles city! tho i probably can't afford/bear to buy anyth frm there actually. but well. nice to look at.
then grad nite. haha i'm so glad pam was prom queen:) tho now she'd better treat me n chris for standing us up partly to sew her gown. and everyone looked so glad. i half wished i went to do my hair properly too but actually no time also.. i like tiff's curls! haha. but they've disappeared already so sad. and it was quite surprising i ended up taking photos w pple i haven't spoken to for the past 2 years but at least we did lar. quite nice after all. food was okay didn't really like it that much.. but i'm picky. and the deejay's not bad. albeit mean at times. quite happening..
ah i'm too tired to type anymore and i've to pack. and think of wat to get mrs cheong. i hope there's no more mascara left *frowns* although i think i've washed my face like 5 times. the trouble with make-up.
ohh! i forgot to talk about incredibles on .. saturday. haha jack jack is so funny. at the end of the show he scared the bad guy and the family all din noe wat was going on. i was saying violet's lucky cos she has 2 powers [and they seem to be the more useful ones] while the rest have only 1 but maybe tts to make up for her self-esteem heh. and it's somewhat like x-men. powers and fighting bad guys who have powers too. and the machine thingy is like the octavarian guy or watever his name is in spiderman 2. but besides tt it was quite fun:)
arrh i think i'll fall asleep in the car on the way there. gnite zzzzzzzzz.