Oh Woman

Haha what a shame thing to acknowledge; I didn't blog daily again.

During these few days staying in Singapore for settling uni matters, I spent quite alot of time to watch, watch and watch.

1. The America's Next Top Model Cycle 13

This may be not the latest cycle but this is quite interesting cycle to me. Maybe for some creative breakthrough as well as humanity purpose, Tyra decided to make it special edition for petite girls. Only 5'7" and under is accepted. Can you imagine 5' 7" models? Okay, that's the selling point.

Some touching points here are the two top finalists.

Nicole Fox, the winner, was initially quite awkward in personality. I also don't really favor her look. However, I'm awed by her progress episode by episode. It's hard to find an introverted girl could make use of light effect and correct body pose to make stunning photos. Instead of ill-speaking each other like what other girls do, she focused on how to make improvement. She also remembers tips of those fashion trainers well. And you can see she's becoming more and more extroverted at the end.

Haha, I laugh hard to imagine the reactions of her ex-classmates for this.

Bong Chandra's quote of the day:
"I believe that smart people own the past, but people who are willing to learn own the future."


Cheers, Nicole!





Photos owned by CW

I told ya TWO top finalists right? The another inspiring figure, Laura Kirkpatrick, is a cheerful girl from small town. She's pretty cool with that fact and often wear clothes made by her own grandma for the Judging Day. From start to the end of the cycle, I didn't see her badmouthing other girls.

It's good to see some pure heart like this. :)




I love this photo! It looks like ancient Greek kinda painting!

Photos owned by CW

2. Marie Antoinette

I encountered this name when I was small. There's a japanese manga revolving around this queen too titled Rose of Versailles. She was Queen of France, the figure that triggered the French Revolution and hence the end of French monarchy. What I remember from the comic is her well-known beauty, her extravagant lifestyle, and her extramarital affair. :P Her lifestyle led her to beheaded at guillitone.



Today, I watched the Marie Antoinette movie starred by Kirsten Dunst. Here's the trailer.



Although she with her extravagant lifestyle cause French commoners to suffer, somehow I feel she's quite pitiful too. The royal marriage for Austrian-origined Marie Antoinette at young age was aimed to harmonise the two countries especially after Seven Years' War. They only managed to consummate and have first children seven years after the marriage. During that seven years, Marie was under pressure of her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, to have a prince as soon as possible to direct the fate between Austria-France. From what I researched, her hubby inherited the anti-Austrian view (since Austria was once the forever enemy of French) which treated Marie so coldddddddddd. I might say, her super duper shopping hobby, her gambling habit all rooted from her hubby, Louis XVI loh.

It's quite interesting to find the ancient French wedding tradition also to observe if the wedding couple have consummation on the wedding night. That's so chinese LOL.

It's getting late!
Good night, everyone!
Girl power ya!

It's Friday - Random Post

Okay, this must be the most produtive blogging day of mine.
Just to share some thoughts:

There are some to do list for this holiday. Please remind me to do so!
Learn cooking
Make bag from my umbrella
Picnic (prepare food by myself)

It's Friday - JB-lian

I divide the post just to write different events.

The JB trip last monday was meant to assist Devin's sister bringing back her stuff to Batam. She just finished her 1-year make-up course there, gaining a diploma (which is 3 years to me T.T). Haha the main purpose was dragged to the last program of the day when I decided to join Devin there. So we went to the City Square mall for what Devin claim as big shopping mall offering nice and cheap stuffs.


We departed at 8.30 (GMT +7), and Mr Devin was enjoying his cup noodle on the sea

We were having lunch at Wong Kok Char Chan Teng. I just realised today that this restaurant also has a branch at Bugis Junction. Well nvm. The foods were reasonably cheap, huge in size and delicious. The service was pretty good which is surprisingly opposite in Singapore.


"What to eat? Seem like I can eat whole menu!"


"What to eat?" thought Devin's meimei.


JB Ah-Lian!




Lenggang-like food


Kiwi-containing fruit juice


Juicy roasted pork


Ramen, ramen~



My sweet and sour fice rice

After lunch, we rushed to shop around from the fifth floor down. Well, what I should say is, this mall is really big. --" We spent about three hours plus but still remained at the top floor. There were a lot of 80's clothes, similar to that in SG with also similiar prices to SG (about RM 70). Too near Singapore, I guess, explains the high price.

With last ferry on 5.30 Malaysia Time, we could only wandered a while on other floors of the shopping mall before settling the real stuff.


So cute to find this telephone box out of nowhere.

We should go there for weekend, all friends in SG!

P.S. JB-lian was a nickname made by fun to a SP friend who comes from JB. Similar to Indonesian, Singaporean, etc., the suffix -lian was tagged to JB people. But perhaps, also JB ah lian? LOL!

It's Friday

Just earlier blog promised to blog daily, I broke the promise on the next day. :P Sincere apologies to all readers. There were too many things going on.

As mentioned in last blog, I went to grad ceremony on 25 May 2011, plus managed to get some cash prizes from awards won (woots, Fed, masa traktiran udah habis haha). Here are the photos!



Taking photo with Mrs Ballack and Mr Devin before entering the convention centre




Inside convention centre



Thanks to Christnerd,Lenny, Richie and Wewel for giving support and of course the flower bouquet + card!



Certificate of Diploma with Merit!



Haha sorry for keep waiting me taking photo with other friends! You must be very tired and starving that evening! Sorry to my mom too who grit the teeth wearing her wedges!



Ki siao team!



My awards!



It's not about the money, money, money~ But I still need money!





The sunflowers have teleported to Sekupang, Batam!

Sorry to those people whose photos with me are not uploaded here. There were too many of them. View fb, please.

11:44

Nothing much to blog, actually.

Are mangoes really too heaty? Those are the biggest culprit to my current coughing. Even my right soft palate (new word, the "hanging" gum forming M shape above the end of tongue) had some ulcer. Is that Vitamin C overdose?

And yeah, my grad day is waiting me in two days time. Although I foresee the packed schedule on that day, I really appreciate the thought of many Indo friends to come the grad ceremony. Thank you in advance :) Hope that I could meet many SP friends and lecturers, espec Dr Lim.

Okay, so I surfed to a website called IdiomSite.com and found some interesting idioms.

1. Put a sock in it: to tell noisy person or a group to be quiet.

Lol. What about a one-month-unwashed sock? Imagine to replace shut up by this idiom, "Hey can you please put a sock inside her mouth?

2. Tongue and cheek: humor, not to be taken serious.

Replace "just kidding" by this idiom would become, "just tongue-ing and cheek-ing" lah! (why now it becomes Singlish)

3. It takes two to tango: a two person conflict where both people are at fault.

4. Get your walking papers: get fired from a job.

Walking papers sound like iPad.

5. An arm and a leg: very expensive. A large amount of money.

Hm.. Why isn't that a kidney and a liver? Many people sell these organs.

Pending for song dictation! Will do two songs tomorrow as punishment :P

Good night all!

21

Finally!!!! I have the mood to re-live my blog.
And yes, I am now 21 years old (soon 22, but don't argue with me pls)

Life has been quite good recently. Too good, actually.

Reminiscing few months back, I was quite stressed up with:
the fact that I had to further study in four more years,
the fact that I had been 21 years old yet not financial-independent,
the fact that I was still a burden to my two parent,
the fact that most of my peers have graduated,
the uncertainty of future would hold for devin and I,
the fact that I questioned sincerity of some friends,
and the list goes on.

What I shall conclude was, I was unsure of the decision itself or even myself. And as a person with flaws, I got trapped in loop of self-pitying, self-regret.

Did I look like that to you, people? Because indeed, I did.

April was like a magic month. Seems like the happy-ever-after ending of fairytale stories, some problems sorted out themselves.
And the hardwork finally beared the fruit.

I managed to get distinction for my FYP
I managed to get some awards for my poly study

and the peak was...

I managed to get nutrition degree offer, the programme that NTU and NUS even don't offer and hence disappoints me,
to be completed within two years instead of four years,
with a scholarship that finally would solve most of my problems

!!!!

My 21 soon will end but I hope this would mark the beginning of new me.

The current free time would be the best for me to pick up many things that I have abandoned for years. I had believed many and one of them is, things that you fear, escape, or abandon will always haunt you back until you overcome them.

First, gym for me to regain the health losses over these years; to rebuild my body that is now so prone to cough, which I don't understand why.

Second, to master back the proper English (not Singlish) for my uni course that would mostly be delivered by British lecturers.

Third, to reopen my heart to people.

I have therefore assigned myself several tasks:

1. One blog daily (at least during this holiday time) containing:
One new English idiom daily.
Five new vocabs daily.

2. Listen to new song daily as dictation.

3. Gym, self-explanatory.


Thanks for your patience in reading this.

P.S. I have chosen this new background because it reminds me of my favorite Flower by Kenzo perfume.

I would blog again soon!

I'm Still Young OKAY

Happy moment is always so fast to pass by and there goes my 20th bdae...

Feeling so happy yesterday. Even without my thalink by my side, the strength of friendship also made this bdae moment so enjoyable. Haha...

Yesterday those SP fellows (over a dozen: Li Ting, Eileen, Brian, Boon Hao, Darwin, Surya,Ming Hui, Jian Wei, TBR, Terence, MC)pretended to forget my bdae, they never sent any bdae greeting in the morning n up to afternoon (OK, they greeted me after other friends said to me happy bdae. Li Ting still pretended to ask me why wear so nicely LOL.Boon Hao called me n said he forget to pass on bdae presents to me, and he would pass to me today. Not only him, Brian also pretended to go out with his friends.

Thus, only left Lan Li, King, n Xiao Wen that were going to celebrate bdae by dinner on FC 4 as usual. When the time reached 6, Lan Li, Kheng Hoe, and Xiao Wen pretended to change their mind n said to celebrate on ION orchard. We walked around first until 7.30 pm and then went to Japanese restaurant called WATAMI (did I remember wrongly?). Otw to Watami, actually I spotted on Surya, MC, and Terence lol...

So there they were... Planning to give a surprise bdae dinner :D although a bit not surprise alrdy lol... Becauseeeee..........................hahaha u noe I noe... during lesson, saw them pass on the colorful papers, even Terence which dun have same lesson with us.

Btw, the food there are very nice n quite cheap compared to normal Japanese restaurant. During the dinner, Brian did several seducive poses, I will post later on! haha...

Ah, then Lan Li passed on the DIY scrap book made by her. There were my photos with them as well as the bdae greetings from them n some other classmates... Thanks for so sincere bdae present :)

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Brian read those bdae greetings n up to one point, that was so funny until I cry due to overlaughter lol..

After eating the food, we continue on the cake. The cake was delicious as well!

What really surprised me was that I was challenged to hug with 20 strangers (5 females, 15 males) on Orchard road before I can get the present. Well, received quite a lot of blessing from those strangers as well. Thank you!



The handmade poster by Darwin, Ming Hui and Boon Hao for me to beg 20 hugs


N jreng jreng, the gift time is coming! I was quite surprised because there were quite a lot of presents, u noe.. N all of them are so nice, except for the L-XL stocking :/ why XL? haha!



It started with HUNDREDPLAST bdae lol





Cup n the Metal Box from Lanli, Kheng, Xiao Wen, n Yen Hsien



Vintage baggie

Wallet



Black stocking



Outwear!


TBR's water bottles presents


Total gifts

THANKS TO U ALL GUYS! domou arigatou gozaimashu~