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anw.. this is my current fave hotspot:
www.flowerpod.org

shocking!

after i got my bday money i thot i was rich.. and i could now spend without blinking.. (or thinking) but well... I WAS WRONG! it's now the end of january.. and after abt 7 weeks of 'thoughtless' expenditure, i decided to check my account balance.. (well, i never do draw cash from the ATM, and so i only get to check my a/c bal online..)

i jus did.. and lo and behold!
i'm like close to $1000 poorer!!

i'm SHOCKED..

to give myself some credit, i gotta say i paid for all my petrol bills myself.. and that $147 hair coloring was self-sponsored too.. (usually my mom pays for my haircuts)

well i wouldn't be so shocked if i didn't have to pay for the 7270 myself.. kow... that is so gonna deplete my savings man.. maybe i shld forget about the phone for the time being..

(and hey! phone prices still haven't dropped? why why why?)

oh i just realised chinese new yr is coming.. ha.. gdgd...
this will help me top my a/c...

*anticipation*

bad hair..

i colored my hair on saturday.. asked for the red highlight that i've been wanting ever since dunno when.. but instead of the usual normal base plus colored highlight, my hairdresser was suggesting a 3-tone coloring.. 2 highlights plus one lowlight(ie the base).. picks for highlight were: red and light brown (somewhat blondish), and lowlight was this dark colored thing with a purple tint.. ooh... sounded exotic i thought.. and i was just eager to see what my red highlights would look like..
but ugh... after a 4 hr butt-numbing wait, all i saw was brown! the lowlight looked like dark brown, the red looked like dark brown too.. and the only thing i could see was the blondish highlight which only came in a few strips.. and being v disappointed, and with the hairdresser explaining that RED red can only be seen if I bleach my hair, I also had to part with $147 which was after a 20% discount.. kow.. i think i could've achieved the same effect jus by highlighting my hair with that blond color... and save myself maybe half the cost..

but on the bright side, for the past 2 days of hair washing, the water's been turning red.. which means the dye is still coming off... so maybe the red will show up soon... (but then again, most ppl with red dye usually end up with brown hair... i hope that will only come to me later on..)

so i'll continue washing my hair and wait for my red to show up..

and while i wait, i'll just look at the red font of this post and hope..

Dare to Dream

I have a dream
A dream of peace and harmony

We share your dream
We dare to dream
The dream of peace and harmony

Open up your heart
Let the warmth shine in
Come rain or shine
Take it in your stride
Be it troubles or sorrows
Wipe away your tears
Let the rain wash away your fears

You are not alone
Who's in the rain?
Hold my hand
And we'll brave the storm
Form the waves of passion
Pulsating with Life
Tis the ocean of humanity

We have a dream of peace and harmony
Reach beyond yourself
Advance towards your dream

We have a dream of peace and harmony
To touch each human heart and bring
Hope to all the world

怀着理想
投入生命的海洋
勇敢去启航
开创新世纪

怀着理想
投入生命的海洋
触动每个心灵
燃起未来的希望

We have a dream of peace and harmony
Reach beyond yourself
Let's join our hands together as one

Fulfil our dream
We dare to dream!

e face problem is back!

after like a month or so of rather ok complexion... i've to sadly say that the zit attack has returned! sigh.. i do think my face condition is directly correlated to the state of my health.. haven't been feeling v gd lately.. late nights, cough, sore throat, wat haf u.. and my face totally reflects that.. it's a state of *undescribable*
looking at it jus makes me feel sad... hey msP... wat were u saying about Booboo's sister's facials? I wanna try too! got improvement not?
ah.. and i thought my face was curing... looks like it isn't... so sad...
and maybe i shld jus go off to sleep hoping that my face will heal..

thot i'll write sth..

hmm.. after writing the title, realised that ppl DO get influenced by things they see repeatedly.. wat do i mean? the word "sth" is actually an abbreviation for "something" (if u dun already know..) and i've always thot that "sth" was a WEIRD way to abbreviate it.. never thot it looked presentable enough.. (come on! wat's with 3 consonants and no vowel??) but here I am.. using it.. for convenience's sake i suppose.. and i actually picked this up from the he2 zi3..

anw, (ah.. yet another abbrev that i picked up fr him..) i've recently watched the aviator.. last thurs, to be exact.. and i hear it's recently won some golden globe awards.. ah.. that's what i call value-for-money.. haha..

interestingly, i've recently found leo dicap and julian cheung v similar.. basically it's the v boyish look.. and the fact that they're both making appearances now.. (Leo in Aviator, and Julian in Xi Guan Da Shao)

ok back to the aviator, if u've read tay yek keak's review in Life!, he describes Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale as looking like Leo's older sisters in the show..
and i totally agree!!
Kate not so much la.. but Cate's really got this lao3 liao3.. she definitely doesn't look young, much less to be paired with babyfaced Leo.. but well.. i guess jie3-di4-lian4 is all the rage now..

and i realise i've run out of things to say.. apart from the fact that (gasp!) i've got piano tmr.. and (not surprisingly) i haven't practised enough.. ahh.. this slack skool thing is really affecting me! my whole brain is now only filled with tv, shopping, movies and food.. or should i say, tv, food, shopping, food, movies, food..

been eating too much heaty stuff.. got a sore throat now.. sux..

so i guess i shld go get some sleep since staying up is supposed to worsen it..

nitey nitez..

sighz

was going to watch tian ya xia yi just now.. but ended up the cd couldn't be read.. dunno why! there goes a perfectly gd series... sigh!

confession

Hmm.. after much deliberation I finally decided to write this entry.. (but still in a not-too-sure kinda mood which explains my choice of font color..)

Well.. I kinda had this little crush on this junior some time ago.. (which kinda explains why I came up with the shuai theory..) but well I'm glad to say that I'M OVER IT!! yay..
Well this so-called junior ain't exactly related as a junior in terms of skool or eca or whatever, but very junior in terms of age.. kowz.. flea didn't call me a PDF for nothing..

Realised I'm quite a Zi Xun Fan Nao person.. always worrying about things that haven't happened.. and things that have happened but are too small to be significant..

Ah well.. anyway I just kinda wanted to make this announcement to strengthen my resolve.. haha.. so there..

update..

actually wanted to watch an episode of 'tian ya xia yi' before i go to bed.. but decided against it.. dun wanna get hooked and consequently get panda-eyed..
before i continue... remember i said something abt lucidol sux? (the jap hairspray thing..)
well... i finally found a use for it..
it's kinda gd as a pre-blowdry spray.. so i jus spray LOTS of it onto my hair before i blow dry it.. and voila.. my hair doesn't turn frizzy.. yeah.. so that's doing some justice to it..

ok... my day today..

today was supposed to be this gathering thingy.. we all agreed to go ktv.. but ended up.. some ppl couldn't make it.. some fell sick... lunch ended up only got 5 ppl.. (out of the original 10).. and after that the ktv session only got 3!! (oh yah.. i jus remembered i'm supposed to write in proper english.. so here goes..)

Well, it's just kinda sian diao to organise a gathering which flopped almost entirely.. There was one guy who could only make it in the evening so he called us up to find out where we were.. I was like.. err... there's only me and wq here now.. so you sure you wanna come? So of course he didn't.. and I spent the rest of my day with wq.. As I've mentioned before, I've been hanging out with wq so much that we can almost be considered les.. Haha..

Dinner was at Pastamania.. Took my chances and decided to go there again today (after a first bad experience at the branch at Funan, I didn't quite dare to try it again..), this time at the Tampines Mall branch.. Well, my final conclusion: SUX TOO...
This time round I ordered a Linguine Vongole (basically pasta n clams in white wine sauce) and this chicken pizza thingy.. The pizza was roughly ok, but the pasta was.. let's just say we thought they forgot to add salt.. And my lesson from this: don't try exotic stuff at cheap places.. okay fine.. I wouldn't call this exotic, but I do think the normal tomato and cream sauces looked fine.. (Just a bit of background, at Funan I ordered this 'Prawn n Shrooms' thingy.. was supposed to be in some kinda dunno what sauce.. but turned out totally soupy and disappointing..) This time round the white wine was like totally soupy too.. Think they added too much water.. In a bid to make their white wine look like alot.. Hmm.. But I would say I'll wanna go there for at least one last time to try out the basic stuff.. Y'know, this is after all a cheap pasta place.. Pretty good for days with close-to-empty pockets..

And so after a full but not-so-satisfactory meal, I went shopping.. bought a pair of white sandals from Charles n Keith.. One of my only pairs of non-absorbent-sole-footwear.. I thought it was flat enough to prevent slipping.. And yay! finally got myself a pair of white footwear..

Before going home.. there was quite a bit of inner struggle.. haha.. Well, as I said I was at Tampines Mall, and guess what? I didn't drive today.. took MRT.. so the one hour ride home was a big enough deterrent for me to even think about going home.. I should say I'm totally spoilt.. Dawdled around for quite a while before I finally decided to face my fate (no.. taxi is not a choice..) and take the train.. Turned out it wasn't too bad.. Luckily I had my bro's mp3 player with me.. The time in the train wasn't too badly spent.. So hey.. I can still take long-dist public tpt after all =)

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My long-awaited Nokia 7270 is finally out.. after like 3 months or more of waiting, it's finally in stores and awaiting my acquisition.. But ugh.. it's like $668 with a 2-yr plan.. Thought that was kinda pressurizing on my pockets.. MsP says I should wait.. Prices will drop.. My bro said that too.. but well.. he wasn't as convincing as MsP.. haha.. MsP u did a gd job! =)
Well, she said nokia prices would drop faster than other brands.. and I sure hope it does.. I'm now biding my time and hopefully it'll go below $550 before I she3 de2 part with my $$$..

Yeah so anyone who's read this, pls let me know when the prices drop! =)

so sian

just finished watching 'triumph in the skies' today.. was damn on abt it at first.. but towards the end it was realllli draggy..
and i'm now just writing something to kill time while I download another episode of another series.. which i think won't end up well.. cos they've onli got like 7 episodes up for download.. which means i'll be left hanging there again..
and i think everyone's said this liao.. that skool's so slack it's unbelievable.. in fact.. i think this one day week thing mite jus kill me.. too slack that i'll jus totally not do my work.. no momentum..
hope not..
the file download is getting slower and slower! it's like perpetually stuck at "5mins left"... first it was 105k/s.. now it's down to 74k...
ah 4get it..
anw i shall just look forward to the ktv session on sat.. haven't gone to karaoke in ages... hopefully i won't be too embarrassed to sing my guts out... haha...

heh.. jus remembered

my third consecutive entry.. ahh.. my memory is really failing me.. i keep forgetting stuff.. esp when i'm thinking about something.. i'll jus get lost in that train of thots and forget er... the rest of the train..
well... wat i initially wanted to say was... i'm starting my piano lessons again tmr!!
finally..
but guess what? i'm kinda apprehensive.. a little scared.. cos.. i dunno.. but i get stressed from it even though it's supposed to be a leisure activity.. sometimes i think i'm like paying money to stress myself..
but welll.. i always freak out when i dun have time to practise.. i dun like going for lessons unprepared, nor show my tutor that i can't play.. but at the same time, i can't practise for too long cos i'll either get v bored, or v frustrated by the fact that i've been at it for so long but i still can't get it right..
aargh.. sometimes i think i shld jus quit and save myself the trouble.. wth..

kow my english sux..

i was just reading someone else's blog after i finished writing mine.. and hence the title..
really wonder why i jus can't write something decent sounding... all my blogs just sound like random thoughts and sentence constructions.. i guess maybe i should omit the ellipses and possibly start sounding a little bit more serious.. discuss a bit more current affairs (so as to cover up my lack of brains and awareness), and i do suppose, use more intelligent vocabulary (which i've this tremendous lack of), and etc. (well.. the word etc is extremely useful when u've run out of ideas but u still wanna look like u still have a bucketful of them..)

and aargh.. i just hate current affairs.. i haven't watched or read the news in 2 weeks.. and the only reason why i know about the tsunami is because my mom is talking about it.. why in the world am i so ignorant?? it'll be nice if there was a way to jus know things without having to spend time trying to find out about them.. heh..

i think i need a brain upgrade...

hmmm

well, i'm so supposed to be sleeping early today.. but it's still too early; and i dun wanna get myself hooked on tv, so here i am.. wasting away my time..
well.. tried swensen's new banana crumble today.. not bad.. but i think the crumble could do with a little bit of improvement.. how? i dunno.. all i can say is that it needs a lil bit more something..

had a few mini discussion topics today.. so i'll pen down some of the thoughts i remember..
well firstly, i was just saying that i think it'll actually be hard to even start a relationship if u start bringing in marriage factors.. not trying to say that the relationship shouldn't be based on the hope that marriage will result, but sometimes, being too practical really can kill off certain things..
but as wat msP says, when u're really into it, u won't be able to be so rational.. haha..

next, msN was just saying that she'll get married when she finds the perfect guy.. yeah.. i guess we all will.. as in.. get married.. when we find one.. and yeah.. important point brought up being that everyone being different, the perfect one for you mite not be the perfect one for me.. GREAT! i hate competition.. and i guess that's how it's possible for so many women to keep thinking that they are the happiest woman in the world.. nice..

hmm.. and that's about all that i remember of what happened today.. really short-term memory that i've got here..

and now, let's take a moment of silence to mourn for the death of my goldman sachs chance... i haven't called them.. they haven't called me.. ok.. so byebye for real.. for real.. for real..
it's really gone now..

*silence*

but hey guess what? on the brighter side, i think it's better like that.. i prob won't make it past the interviews anyway.. so dun haf to waste my time and put unnecessary stress on myself.. and i've also stopped thinking about IB jobs.. think they dun really suit me.. i'm not that kind la.. i think all this while i've been wanting so hard to get a job in an IB only to prove that i'm not err... average..

and i've also recently come to the conclusion that u dun need to have a lot of money to be very happy.. i mean.. i used to think that i'll at least need some sorta financial depth in order to do the things i wanna do.. but after some thought, i think dun really need ba..

i was just looking at my cousin.. she was born into a quite well-to-do family.. she lived in a terrace house and stuff.. but after she got married she's now living in a flat.. but she's happy and everything..

hmm.. another thot jus came to my mind.. how would u accept someone with financial disparity? the ideal situation is always that love will make all obstacles go away.. but (oh i jus realise im being practical again) when the girl earns more than the guy, i think it's definite that problems will arise..

like msP's fren, the guy always thinks the girl kan bu qi ta.. and the girl ends up with alot of pressure.. wanna help but can't help.. hmm..

whatever.. i shan't dwell on this.. not good for my brain..

i shall continue to hope that my prince charming is rich and handsome.. haha.. and shuai of course... oh.. and for a definition of shuai, see below! =)

kungfu part2

ok so i did manage to catch kungfu in the end.. oh and since i'm on abt this, i mite as well talk abt the day's events before i forget.. the day of 1/1/05..
rather eventful day i would say..
performed the hiphop dance thing for a new year prayer mtg.. but sad to say i din do v well cos i was too nervous and forgot some steps.. (can't freaking believe why i'm still nervous after YEARS of performances..)
oh.. and i also jus saw some of the photos i took that day.. my hair sux! ah well..
so after the dance i went for lunch at mac's and there i saw some familiar faces..
after that we went hospital to visit my aunt.. had some fun with my little cousin.. like trying to force her remember my name..
and after that.. we went to watch kungfu... at PS..
met more familiar faces there too..
was queue-ing up for tickets when i saw a girl-fren.. i was like... "hey!"
interesting.. cos i dun usually meet ppl i know when i'm outside..
the queue was long..
so quite some minutes later, after we moved somewhat nearer the counter..
guess what?
another familiar face.. a guy from the dance.. again.. i was like "hey!!!"
as i was telling wq, it's really damn coincidental la.. so many ppl in one day..
btw.. post a qns: wat do u say when u meet someone familiar?
wq was saying.. she'll say "so qiao3"
but i dun use the word qiao3, i think..
english translation: coincidental..
hmmm too long a word to use..
so say what??
i jus say... heyyyyy..
which makes me feel kinda retarded.. like my brain only got one-syllable word...

yah..
ok back to kungfu.. kinda lost my focus..
after watching the whole show, thought it wasn't too bad... zhouxingchi's kinda smart..
but i won't say the show was fantastic la.. it wasn't like funny thru out..
many parts were like.. meant to be funny but i jus couldn't laugh.. more like duh..
and i thought the show was a bit slow moving la.. dunno why..
but the action scenes were not bad...
and the way spiderman, LOTR, matrix were brought in, i thought was not bad too..
yeah.. which is why i gave the show a not bad rating la..
oh did i mention the fren i met at PS was watching kungfu too.. but i won't say v qiao la.. cos everyone in the world is watching it.. so much so that i had to end up sitting in the 3rd row.. this is my 3rd movie in a row that i'm watching in the first 3 rows.. sianz! bad for my neck!

and my stupid bro jus came in to irritate me.. lost all mood to write.. sianz! shall end here then.. my mind's just blocked now.. and mind u .. it's the older one... silly rite.. so old liao still so irritating.. sighz..