Just reached home after a visit to my cousin's house. It was fun mingling around with her friends. And the best thing is one of her friends is a vet:D:D:D Hahaaha, while the other sound really like an animal lover:) How nice! And I found out where a particular celebrity live.
I feel so lazy to update about cny. hhHAHA. maybe I'll do it on monday.
I want to upload photos too, but blogger's really slow. I shall update on monday. yes I will.
Cause after that I think I'll be bogged down by my studies. Prelims coming. Exams near too. You can do it, kaiting!

Why am I not getting replies for my enquiries?? Arghs. I'm beginning to think maybe there's something wrong with my email. Gosh. I seriously hope not. Perhaps tomorrow I'll get the replies? perhaps.
Meanwhile, I've been diligently reading up on my ibm notes for 1 chapter. And the newspapers. The newspapers are much more interesting than the notes though. Well.
Past 2 days of cny celebration were awesome! Just that I'm lazy to elaborate about things here.
Angpaos were good too i suppose, at least for me and my cousins:)
Ok, I'm back to my ibm notes. Really need to catch up. Will update soon.
And I hope I have enough time to spare to go watch the 2 movies.

It's the eve of the golden ox year today. Sounds good doesn't it? The word golden gives it such a special feeling. I just came back from a dinner outside. No, your eyes aren't playing tricks with you. I went out with my parents and my dad's brother(uncle) for reunion dinner. The restaurant which we went to served really delicious food. We had a 6 course meal, which included yu sheng too. Haha, i only ate the raw fish and crackers in the yu sheng. The other dishes were wonderful. But at the end of dinner, I didn't feel full so we went to hagen daas to have ice-cream!
Oh, I went back to RV to visit my ex-teachers:) The CNY programme was super good, especially the riddle part and the dance part:) Talked a little to li lao shi, huang lao shi, ling lao shi, jiang lao shi, ms goh chay hian(jj chem teacher who transferred to rv:D), mr ng, mr choy. Too bad li lao shi was so busy so actually we didn't really had the time to catch up with each other. And mrs chak was on maternity leave so I didn't get to see her either.

I heard the sounds of firecrackers just now coming from outside the window so I went to take a look. It really was firecrackers. Oh my god. Aren't firecrackers banned in Singapore? How could anyone play with that? It's dangerous to play with it when the blocks of flats are so near to each other.
Anyway, I can't wait for the channel 8 variety countdown! It's in 25 minutes time! I feel the excitement.

Hehs. Then tomorrow I'll be going to my grandma's house and probably "gambling" with my aunts and cousins if there's time. The best thing in the past couple of years is that I've stopped going to my paternal side relatives' houses. They're really a weird bunch of people. I don't even want to talk to them. Anyway, don't want to talk about those stupid people. Just happy that I'll be with my maternal side relatives for chinese new year for the years to come:)
Wearing new clothes and new make-up tomorrow! I hope nothing goes wrong with my face. As in no pimples or anything. Haha!
I just realised that this is the 2nd chinese new year I'm spending with Sunny(my pet bird). Wow, time passes so quickly. I didn't even realise it slipping away. In about a month plus, I'll be heading to the number 2 age club already. Totally can't believe that I've been on earth for so long.

Golden Ox, I can't wait for your arrival:D I hope you'll bring strength, perserverance, determination to me through my 3 years degree course. And provide opportunities in my chosen career direction. I'll keep the burning passion going on definitely.

GONG XI FA CAI EVERYONE! HAVE A HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND OX-PICIOUS NEW YEAR! :)

昨日的摩登，今日的复古，或许也将会是明日的时尚。
As the chinese new year bells slowly but surely creep in, the fesetive mood gets me all hyped up. Why did I write that chinese sentence right at the start of my blog you may ask. Actually I got it from fann's blog. And this sentence, though I believe some of you may have heard it before, it really is very meaningful. Translating it into english, it says "yesterday's modernity, the tradition of today, may become tomorrow's fashion". Indeed so. This not only applies to fashion itself, but even ideas or food or how we lead our lives each day. Fann mentioned on her blog about missing the days of filming of "梦中人". Reminds me. That's one of the shows that really intrigued me. The sound and colour effects. The clothes. The way the characters were portrayed. It isn't the usual dramas you would see on tv in recent years. Just really special.
戏如人生，人生如戏。
但愿我们大家可以充分地过生活每一个和日常。但愿日没有任何地被度过惋惜。生活会是完美的。其次，会是不切实际和不可能的。是人类，我们大约始终幻想不能甚至被意识到的美丽的事情。但是当然，我们刚刚需要知道我们给了每活的日我们的最好的一个，这会是足够的。
I hope the Ox year will bring to me and everyone else Ox-picious days, wonderful memories and unlimited chances and opportunities.
Tomorrow's the eve and I can't wait for it! I can't wait to watch the live broadcast of the cny countdown on channel 8! I hope the shows after it will be good, cause I love staying up all night on the cny eve. I miss the days when mediacorp specially film 2 hour shows to broadcast after the countdown. I remember one very cute one, where the god of fortune(cai shen ye) fell from heaven, knocked into an aeroplane and fell onto earth, not knowing where he is and how he was going to get back.

Just a reminder list for myself just in case I forget anything. Especially for the undone stuff!
hair done.
nails done.
new makeup bought.
poa assignment 4 undone.
ibm do 1 more extra qns undone.
clothes bought.
stats tutorials done.

Hmm. Is that all? I don't exactly remember.
Decided not to buy a hat. I rarely use one anyway. So shall save the money:)

Anyhoodles(pearlyn's favourite word on her blog! :P) I met ashley at jp just now. She was with her mum. Haha, I actually didn't see her but just saw someone waving to me and then when I looked clearly, hey! It was ashley.
After that when I was on the way home, met michelle (wong) Hahaha. Her bag is still the typical huge bag. Hehee. Funny girl:)

I'm wondering if I should sell off some of my old storybooks.

roar! I need to go get dinner soon. From the zi-char stall opposite my house. That's like one of the only stalls there that I buy from.

Woohs. Can't wait for tomorrow. :) meeting qingyue to go rv to visit. then meeting szeyin to get a drink or something then to library to mug. Exams in may. Ain't that far away. And a non-compulsory prelims at the end of february and I think a couple of it may be online papers. Whatever it is, I want to do well in all.
Of course, the actual exams are more important. work hard kaiting! :)

Yay, the germs are going away! *pops a champange bottle*

Obama is officially sworn in as the president of united states! I watched the inauguration ceremony live broadcasted from cna and it's way cool! It was just like a gathering of past political figures of the USA. And I believe this new change will bring on new hopes to many people and definitely, high expectations!

Today has been a satisfying day. In the morning, I headed on to school though there's no classes. Well, was still kind of sick but now, I've recovered! Thanks to the century egg porridge from my school's canteen. :) Anyway, I studied quite a substantial amount of work this morning. After that, met yanqi in the school canteen to have lunch. Poor yanqi is sick.

After that, I went for my nail appointment at novena monsoon. :):) I love my nails now! So pretty!! oh my oh my! And their jasmine tea is really good tasting and great for a bad throat. I drank 2 cups. When I was there, quan yi feng was there too! Doing her hair! And she's friendly to smile to me when she came back from the _ _ _ _ _ _. :) Then after my nails were done, said hi to addy but he was really busy tending to yi feng's hair i think so didn't talk much. yup. Then kenzo took photo of my nails to be samples because most people don't do all 10 fingers. Everyone in the salon were really busy, just like how twister was yesterday. Unfortunately, they still have to work on chinese new year eve.

My nails! All 10 fingers are with nail art and each individual finger is of a different design!

I went to rebond my hair today!
And of course give it a good cut:) The fringe's significantly shorter now and more to the side. It looks nicer and of course feels lighter now! Mingxi too, went to the salon but to cut her hair.
Anyone out there have any vacancies for part time acting during the months of june till mid september? Hopefully someone from a singapore media industry out there will see this and hire me or give me part time lobangs!

I realise I'm quite into writing and reading news and related stuff these days(ever since the journalism course). And how perfect it would be if I could clinch the internships I'm going to apply for during my holidays. So exciting! It's been such a pleasure reading whichever newspaper I could get hold of for the past weeks and it's been a greater pleasure reading Mr George Yeo's notes on facebook:) I can't wait for the inauguration ceremony of president elect obama on cna tonight!

My favourite maazine currently is TIMES! Reading it at the moment while typing this. I can multitask!

Can't wait for tomorrow. :D:D:D

Today's stats lecture saw me and sophia sniffing away. Me especially. Gosh. I thought I spread my germs to her man! Poor sophia caught the flu bug since yesterday morning. Get well soon alright! I wanted to update my blog yesterday but I was kind of sick and busy. Was rushing my statistics tutorial and had fever for quite a while yesterday so I was too lethargic to come online. And after my fever of 3 hours was gone, the flu bug set in till today. But at the moment, it seems like it's going away. How nice, I'm getting back my sense of smell:) Yep. Sounds funny but it's true cause I've always liked the smell of hair chemicals used for rebonding so yep my hair smells nice after rebonding. I know it's not good to smell it but it really smells great.

Ok. This is rare. I mean, blogging 2nd time in a day. Just felt like writing.
Well, I just felt like talking about the recent issue of a 70 year old man attacking one of our Singapore MPs, Mr Seng Han Thong. Even the mere mention of such an incident make it seem so unimaginable. Not only because mr seng is one of our MPs, but the act of carrying out such an assault on any being itself is plain brutal. It really irks me what our society has become. This has not been the first case of injurying another person with the cruel act of using fire here. How could anyone do such a thing? I really can't put myself into their shoes to think in the way they do. But well, I really hope our MP will have a speedy recovery.

Anway, on a side note, oh gosh. I can't believe I'm missing out on 2 celebrities events today. I literally stared at the clock a few minutes ago. One of it is Rui En going to Jurong Point to promote her new cd I think. At 5pm that is. Oh man, XinRong would have been happy to go there to see her but I think she's working and it's kind of not that possible for me cause by the time the event ends, it'll be quite late and I can't possibly tell my parents I went to watch the event. Another one is that Jia Min told me about a particular event at IMM where Fann and Christopher are going to support 10 other couples in renewing their wedding vows. Something along that line. Yes, and it is of a worse timing. 6pm at IMM. ARGHS. I feel so agitated by myself. The one with fann and christopher make me feel so helpless. I really really want to go but the time is too late and I still have to rush my stats assignment and poa assignment. Not rush actually. I have the luxury of a whole 2 weeks for poa. And 2 days for 2 questions for stats. I guess that isn't that bad. Hmm, now i'm pondering whether I should just pop by jurong point for a while since it's so near.

Just rewatched the movie "I Not Stupid". It's one of my favourite movies. In fact, the truth is that local movies have always been on the top of my movie watching list. I don't exactly watch much of english movies unless it's during my holidays when I'm not that busy. I'm sure most of you friends out there have caught the recent movie "Money Not Enough 2". Credits go to the director jack neo. His movies have always been my favourite. Maybe it's because I like movies which reflect something which is indeed happening in our society or that warms the heart, such as kinship, friendship, etc.
I want to dream big! I don't want to live in regrets. I totally agree with what nas wrote in her blog. Similarly, I have dreams too, and quite similar to hers in fact. Though some people may choose to mock at others who take the courage to dream, it will definitely not deter me. Not even the longest of working hours nor people's discouragement will deter me. I couldn't possibly let any chance slip through my fingers. I've found the direction in life and I'm going to work towards it.

I haven't exactly updated in a while. Ok, I wasn't in the mood a few days ago. Firstly, I was pissed by my mum who nagged and grumbled about the fact that I purchased the mani and pedi package. Damn. But ok, she straightened out her thoughts yesterday. suddenly. yes, suddenly. She must have gone to office and asked around those young colleagues how much do they spend on manicures and such. She came back home after work and suddenly ask me go do before cny. lol! I haven't the slightest idea what is happening! Ok, at least the whole thing is resolved. Glad that it is.

And, that day at jurong point, it was quite a big pool of mess. A mass of people. Because they had this programme where "cai shen ye" gives the predictions for the year up ahead and after which, give out angpaos with cash in it. So yup, which explained why so many people were there.

Took a photo of the "cai shen ye"

Oh, today i went to school to study in the library even though I don't have class today. Studied quite a lot of accounting today. Yay. effective studying is good. Hehs, like what my econs lecturer said, "it's good for health cos then you won't be so stressed later." Which is really really true!

And after that, I met up with mingxi for a while to eat. Then, we met shaun chen. haha. So being the braver one, I was the one who asked him to take photo with us. And he immediately agreed:) Whee!

Me with shaun! :):) 2nd photo is better!

And that's mingxi with shaun!

As I fall into a deep slumber,
my mind started to wander off.
Into this perfectly dreamy place,
where everything was peaceful and serene.
I thought to myself, "Is this real?"
then another thought, "will I be jolted out of this wonderful haven?"
Dreams aren't all that untrue,
neither will they never come true.
Just dare to dream
and dream to the best.
One day it might just come true.

Oh my gosh. I'm so afraid that I'll gain weight during this chinese new year. I'm having the strong urge to go to the track near my house to run everyday. I even want to stretch my legs so much that I once again feel the muscle strain. oh my god, this sounds so perverse. Ok, I'm not perverse. I want to be more flexible! And just felt like exercising to make sure my tummy doesn't suddenly bulge out. Haha.
And I've been trying to do my work as promised. Did not visit facebook for so long today...just came online to update my blog and to hop around a few blogs that's all. I'm even lazy to upload photos I took yesterday.
My pimples are getting better by the day. Quite satisfied after trying means to improve the frustrating situation. Thanks toner and pimple cream!
Ate at dian xiao er at jurong point yesterday. Nice food:)
And I just remembered that I have an ibm assignment undone.
OOOooh, I can't wait for next week(not this upcoming week)! Kind of busy schedule but it really looks like a blast just looking through my appointments for the week. And of course, can't wait to go back rv to visit during the chinese new year celebrations! Going with qingyue. Woohs!
Oh yes oh yes, 22nd dec there'll be a new movie coming up. Ahh, I want to go watch! Yes, it's another one of jack neo's films. Who wants to watch it?
Anyway, on a side note, bedtime stories seems nice too. maybe I should go watch that too.
Ok, suddenly it seems like quite a number of movies worth watching...though I'm not that willing to spend on movies except for the local productions like jack neo's and there's one more with fann and christopher in it. Gosh! :D
I heard there's this safari zoo run. I'm so tempted to go for it!! oh no. but it's in february which spells that prelims are near. And exams aren't that far away either. Ok, maybe I won't go for it. I just want to go for the halloween next year. hehee:)
And chinese new year means sentosa flowers is coming up! Well, I'm not working for sf this year but I'm definitely going to head down to see the flowers, esp when there's exhibitioin at palawan too. More flowers for my eyes! And not forgetting beautiful photos that I'll be able to capture! Sounds so wonderful:):)
This entry seems so jumpy. As in it's in no particular order. Jumping here and there on details. Whatever comes to mind just goes down on the laptop. Haha.
And I haven't had my lunch yet. Don't know what to eat. Maybe I should have a korean rice meal:) or maybe I should just go on a diet and not eat at all.
Anyway, I read something online that isn't that pleasant. ARGHS. It's affecting my emotions. Roar! Lips are zipped. Don't bother asking. It's not about me nor from any of my friends' blogs.
I hope the tv programmes for cny will be good. Sighs, it's all the overseas shows again. I prefer local ones. Especiall on cny eve, I usually am too high to sleep immediately after watching the channel8 countdown. I vivdly remember there used to be local programmes on tv after that countdown but now it's always overseas shows, which are in fact quite a bore.
I've got some things I really need to buy. But can't spend so much money already. Ahhh! And to make it worse, those things cost a bomb!
Alright, I'm going off to chill for the afternoon! Will update with photos soon!

It's such a torment trying to be rid of that couple of pimples on my face. Seems rooted in my face for well the past 2 days and though getting better, it's still there. Shoo before chinese new year alright? :P
In my opinion, I've been relaxing a bit too much for comfort for the week. Ok, it means next week I'll have to study even more before I go on a "relaxing cum spending spree" just a week before cny. POA and IBM are the ones screaming out to me. And it's a lot to cover too. I know I can do it!
And I haven't been exercising much for the past month. Seriously, skipping ballet for the coming term doesn't sound like a great idea to my body, though I'll still be keeping up with the stretching and jumping at home. I guess, for the sake of my exams in may, it's worth the while. I'll definitely make it worth the while that is.
Another thing. After the cny, I cannot spend so much already. I need to start saving again. output without input is kind of scary. And shopping is kind of addictive. So for the sake of spending after my exams, I officially announce that I'll be saving from february till end of may. Sounds absolutely fantastic, doesn't it. I believe I'll be able to keep to it. Haha, cause I'll be so busy studying so no time to spend it anyway.
I just read my times magazine. American politics is absolutely interesting. Gosh. I wonder why the sudden gush of liking towards the political world issues. Haha. I haven't the slightest idea. I guess it's the way times authors write their stories.

I went to replace my old ez-link card with the new one! I braved the snaking queue together with many others who were kind of doubtful whether it'll eventually be their turn. It felt like Great Singapore Sale.

And so far, 2009 seems a very good year to look forward to:)

Yay! I finally did my pedicure:) Hehs. Desiree and I went to monsoon hair and nail spa. She did manicure and cut her fringe while I did pedicure in preparation for the upcoming chinese new year! It's the best pedicure I did so far:D oh man, I really can't wait for cny to come quick! And I'm going back there to do my manicure just before cny. Oh and before we went there, we went to fareast to have this jap fastfood. It was nice:) But both of us ate a little only cause we had late breakfast.

The nice nails kenzo did for me!

Arghs. Frustrated by the 2 humongous pimples on my face. Horrible totally. It's painful plus irritating and getting on my nerves:( Go away both of you! I don't like you two. Shoo!

No school tomorrow. Will be revising my schoolwork though. And may go catch a movie too. I'm still undecided yet.

Just got home from my facial treatment at Mary Chia. It was painful but relaxing at the same time. Painful..why? Cause of the squeezing and twitching of the "can be squeezed" pimples and blackheads. And relaxing..why? There was massage of the face and neck and putting of mask and all...it's really worth the money. My skin's a little red from the squeezing but it'll not be so red tomorrow. Going back before the "big brother bull" announces it's arrival(chinese new year). :)

Machine used during the facial.

The facial products used during the facial.

And me after the facial, with rather messed up hair.

I'm tired from all the ibm studying for the past few days. Seriously heavy content. And still, we just received a new assignment today. Tomorrow's stats class. Going to RELC tomorrow with my friends to submit the exam fees.
Uploaded photos taken on new year's eve on facebook alr! :) But most of it are actually snapped from the tv during the countdown party.
2009. A new year yet again. I believe it'll bring new hope and wishes to me. Of course, I hope there'll be lots of excitement this year. And my exams. I must mug well to get the best results out of it. 2008 wasn't exactly a boring year cause of the last quarter of the year. :) Well, 2009 must be and I must make it more eventful and more meaningful. Which includes trying to clinch that internship...I haven't editted my resume well enough yet. I will in this couple of days. And another hope for the country is that singaporeans will spend more albeit the financial crisis so that singapore will get out of recession. Some of my resolutions(though I'm not stating down the very personal ones here) are for world peace(less brutality from terrorists), health to all(many people have been sick on and off for the past year) and a higher degree of social responsibility and civic mindedness(no more cases of tainted milk or whatsoever).