through a child's eyes

Saturday, July 23, 2005

hiyo the lazy blogger is back. dunno why but i had to whole week to laze around but just didn't feel like blogging.

anyway, some updates:

for those who don't know yet, i got into kent ridge. :) i knew it wasn't by chance that my cousin shared about that place :) plus i'm in the same block as melfy and my cousin. (sorry pris i really dunno what happened but we'll come visit you often ya?) andi's in kent ridge too so yay got lots of friends :)

i still hate nus. went down for med checkup and the nurse was so rude. blah. and the admin still thinks i'm an int'l student. oh wellus.

my earhole closed. i'm sad :( stupid infection.

please shoot me i spent more money this week on utterly un-useful stuff that i've been eyeing for very long. i (finally) bought a brown corduroy skirt and white hawaianas flipflops on my shopping spree with melfy. been spending lots of time (and money) with her of late :) we bought keds shoes too for our mommies so we have sister flipflops and our mums have sister shoes. waha. ok nvm not funny.

went for the syf band presentation. not bad i would say. i liked dhs haha and tj. but sajc please shoot yourself persis was such a disgrace. merry widow was great but how can you play persis like that??!! ok maybe it's cos the piece is so familiar after playing/hearing it billions of times but stilllll. so many details were lacking. sigh. anyway had late supper at harrys and cw was kinda right. the food wasn't great. heh. but the company and the lack of smoke was damn good.

school's starting soon. i'm moving into hall coming monday and in a way i'm not really looking forward to orientation. i just feel that i -should- go to make sure i at least know some people. i should really stop being so anti-social and apathetic. i don't want to cheer! and kr doesn't just have cheers, they have an anthem and a family song!!! argh. also, they have very suspicious looking programmes like "the dating game" oh mannnn please grow up already. and to underscore the hypothesis by melfy that nus is sponsored by sdu, the profiles of all the orientation comm members state whether they're attached or not!! i mean, is that really such an important piece of info to know?! ergh. oh well. i'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. i'll erase all doubts as to whether uni students are seriously obessessed with bgr/desperate after camp and i really really really hope that they're not. XP

ohhh and one more thing! i'm -such- a loser at gambling. i lost all my money to pris in mahjong during class stayover. my goodness we mahjonged from 12-6am then went for breakfast. (btw mahjong isn't allowed in hall...so saddd :p) sigh. oh woe is me. heh. anyway class gathering was pretty good despite the small turnout. it was actually a pretty comfortable group size esp since we were playing a 4-person game. if there had been any more of us, there would be drifters and people would be falling asleep and all. i realized i'm the ONLY one in class who's in nus fass. well done me. the rest are in nus law, smu or flying off to somewhere cool to study. mehhh. anyway, the scariest thing happened during the stayover too - when we went to pick yj up, hwee turned into the WRONG LANE and we were panicking like maddd. thank goodness there weren't any cars at that unearthly hour. but not to worry had a pretty safe journey home with her after that. thanks for the ride hwee :)

i'm not ready for school! :(

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Sunday, July 17, 2005

owwie! my right ear is infected and swollen. sigheth. you can't even see the infection but it hurts real badd. gonna see doctor tomorrow cos it's too expensive to see one on sundays. boo.

anyway, i watched batman begins and war of the worlds this week. one was really good and one kinda sucked. guess which!!!

haha. ok spielberg lost - cos the whole movie was just about running away from those weirdo tripod thingys that kept popping up everywhere. yup. no story line. it was great action but other than that it was just blah. joe said the book itself wasn't really famous but became famous cos the story was read over the radio during one of the world wars and people thought that it was true. something like that. haha. batman was great! i was so scared of the bats. (ya i'm quite a loser when it comes to things like this. i mean, i got nightmares from watching the village. :p) but it was much more intelligent than your regular action hero movie, if that's an appropriate word to use. i liked it also cos it was dark and not comic-book POW kind of action. heh. next week: charlie and the chocolate factory! i also can't wait for the lion, witch and the wardrobe to come out in december! yay. beams.

went for choc buffet at fullerton with the dbs gang - oh mann it was super jelat. everything - as in seriously, EVERYTHING was chocolate, right down to the drinks. and there were only 3 small tables of buffet (but then again if there were more, i think we would have died of choc poisoning if there's such a thing) haha. yup. and it cost so muchh! haha but the company was great. grinne. it was worth the time and effort to get down there to meet them again. yup, effort, because 36 made a huuuuge round around town cos ndp just HAD to be held in the heart of the city. i was so stressed cos the bus kept making weird turns to nowhere and i didn't know where i was. thank goodness doreen was with me - i might have just lost it and panicked. heh. anyway, we had fun playing lame games haha. yup, looking back i think working at dbs when these guys were still around was one of the best places you could be. at least there're people to talk/complain/gossip/laugh with. :) meet again at amoy okay? haha i miss the teh peng a bit and the low low prices A LOT. haha.

going for band finals this tues :) yay.

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Friday, July 15, 2005

i'm burnt. and going to peel soon. i can FEEL it.

(pris! pris! aiyarh why do you have to be so far away? nobody to help me peel my skin now haha)

yup. cooked at wild wild wet on wednesday with jas and melf. i can't sleep on my back now cos it really hurts. argh. please let this flaming die down soon. anyway, wild wild wet isn't half as exciting as it sounds but being the small kids we were, we had fun anyway :) i wanna do that V thingy again! it was so scary but so shiok! haha.

went shopping with melf yesterday. heh. bought a new pair of shoes and slippers - cos my poor toe was in distress after being dragged on some nus gravel. my bank account is quickly dwindling. mope.

i'm happy. God's great. He really works things out for me even though i am often guilty of not wholly trusting in Him. He even worked out tiny details like this sat's schedule for me. i was happily awaiting the day of the choc buffet with the dbs gang to finally arrive. then i realised - die. i have rehearsal on the same night! but He moved the rehearsal up to 330 so all's fine now. yay. even in the face of my wavering belief that He is the greatest God, He showed Himself true and stayed faithful. so i'm really gonna leave the whole accommodation thingy to Him. even though i do still secretly wish to go to KR (had a dream last night of my cousin pinning up the updated list of room allocation in KR and melf and i were in neighbouring rooms! ha.), i'll leave it in His hands. not that i can actually do anything about it but hope and pray :)

i don't feel prepared for uni. i don't know what's going on.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

to all who tagged: thanks for your encouragement! it really brightened up my day. heh. considering i had quite a horrid morning but things are turning out a little better.

went down to nus today and i really really don't like the place. this is probably the 1086378th time i've mentioned it but yeah. it was raining when i got there (ooh bad omen) and i don't know whether i'm jinxed or whether it was just plain bad luck or if it was nus (ha!) but i slipped/tripped at least 6 times there today! and i even fell once on my bum. how unglam. good thing no one saw me (but then again, here i am telling the whole world that i bruised my derriere). got lost inside too. it's just so complicated and everything is in it's own little hard-to-find spot.

but good news: jits, iso and huiyuan are taking french too! whee...but i couldn't get into their lecture group cos it was full already. aiyarh you guys never tell me...haha. and yingxin too! but you're taking german...ha.

submitted my kr appeal letter too. thanks to my wonderful cousin for the advice and stuff - apparently they have space reserved for year 1 appeals so i'm keeping my fingers crossed. but as much as i want it, i think i'm quite prepared to accept staying in pgp if He really doesn't want me to be in kent ridge. so, anything goes now. :)

my new laptop + free 3-in-1 printer + free digicam just arrived! whee!

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Monday, July 11, 2005

i ate so much last week i think i really should start starving myself this week. (heh. kiddin.) but really. after that food outing thingy, i went out with melf, had a great pasta 1-for-1 dinner at menotti's and a HILARIOUS time at coffee bean (ok la mel. i won't rat on you. grinne.) plus venezia gelato and beard papa cream puffs.

then on sat was mummy's birthday so another heavy dinner at jack's place - there was some promotion thingy that my mum had vouchers for, plus it was her birthday so we ended up with 4 main courses + soup + dessert + drinks for 3 people. it didn't help that we were not fantastically big eaters (haha who am i trying to kid? i could've eaten an elephant if not for the past two days spent stuffing my face.) yup then on sunday i had pasta AGAIN with joel and venezia gelato for the THIRD TIME in 4 days.

sigh. am getting fat and flabby. haha. but i'm too lazy for my own good. always plan to go swimming but not once have i put that plan into action. i must convince myself that just thinking about exercising is not equivalent to actually working out. i have to increase the pressure and guilt factor on myself so as to spur this lazy bum to finally GET OUT THERE, BREATHE FRESH AIR AND EXERCISE! :)

meanwhile. i didn't get into kent ridge hall and i'm pretty peeved. cos everybody else did. then i called the stupid office today and this extremely rude and chingchong guy picked up the phone, only to tell me that i was put in PGP cos i'm malaysian?! argh. that's prejudice full on in my face! he said that since the hall didn't choose me, he couldn't do anything about it.

accepting the offer would probably mean that i would have less chance of transferring to kent ridge since the priority goes to those who don't even have a room yet. but on the other hand, rejecting it won't guarantee a place for me in any of the residences! what am i supposed to do?!
when i first got the offer, i really got the shock of my life - WHY did this have to happen time and time again?! first it was uni, and i'm still trying to settle with the local option cos there's a part of me that still doesn't really want to give up the fact that i could have gone overseas even though i am aware that staying here's probably better for me. now even the accommodation thingy has to be so hard!

i prayed so hard and i told God that if He really wants me to stay there, to firmly slam all doors shut in my face. i told Him i would try all ways and means to get in, but if it was not His will, dont' even open a window. i do believe that the fact that i ran into benjy kor before i went down to make payment was NOT a coincidence. i believe that the time he spent telling me about kent ridge and how it's growing, was also NOT a coincidence. then why am i being put in this situation again?!

rarr. i feel like pulling my hair out. being in PGP means being away from anyone familiar at all. i don't know ANYONE at all who's going there. plus i have to cook now (sheesh yx...i didn't expect this thingy to come to reality sigh).

please get me out of this mess.

but then again, i really don't know why i'm such a stickler for certain things. when i put my mind to it, it's really difficult to get me to budge from my decision.

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Thursday, July 07, 2005

i'm so bloated now.

just had a food outing with cheese and crys. more like a feast outing...maaan i ate till i could hardly walk. it was so weird how everything i wanted to eat just appeared right in front of my face. haha. started out whining about how i wanted to eat durian puffs and beard papa cream puffs, but we went for pizza and lasagne instead. haha. it wasn't bad but cannot compare to aussie standards la. the tiramisu dessert was good tho. then we started heading towards taka in search of 1)my mum's birthday present 2)ice cream.

but what greeted us at taka was the SINGAPORE FOOD FARE! wahaha. i spotted the durian puff stall from miles away and promptly got myself 2. :) and i honestly did not know that there was a beard papa outlet at taka food square (ya i know, i'm a suaku) so i was pleasantly surprised. like cheese said: everything i wanted to eat was just situation within 5 steps of each other. heh. but i ate soooo much! and spent so much in the process - like $25 on just lunch??!! (and this is actually a third of what we spent in total cos the 3 of us shared everything!!)

i ate:

margherita pizza

beef lasagne

tiramisu

venezia's gelato in lemon, tartufo and mint choc

some fried udon thingy

tako pachi

and drank a bottle of green tea

had to skip beard papa in the end cos i was too full (and too poor).

i'm not gonna eat dinner tonight. my digestive system needs a break. thanks guys. had fun just sitting and chatting about your lousy army days, china and everything else under the sun.

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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

some of the 9 apostles
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a scene at sovereign hill
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wombat!

us at katoomba falls at blue mountains
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my fave pic of nelson bay
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us outside hillsong church with christine
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koalas sleeping under an umbrella??!! haha
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hi all i'm back from down under. and i miss it already. the weather especially. :)

it was pretty cool. we did so many things i really don't know where to start. but i'll try. :)

melbourne:

we stayed at my sister's place in college sq, slept on the floor and became ice-people at night cos it was so COLD. even with 2 layers of clothing and 2 layers of blankets. we walked almost everywhere except when we were in a rush and i do believe i've never walked this much in my life. haha. but it was really lovely weather to walk in. cold and crisp. no matter how much you walk, you just won't sweat.

visited the great ocean road - it was spectacular. really. the view was just stunning, even though the coach ride was bumpy and the road was long and winding.

went to ballarat/sovereign hill as well and that was super cool. it's like a remake of the quaint township thingys from the old gold mining days. everyone was dressed in period costumes and really acted like they were part of that era. there were gold mining tours, panning for gold pools, all sorts of vintage shops that sold vintage goods. and a very good bakery. ha. and the play at the theatre was hilarious! pity we couldn't video it.

sydney:

the coach to sydney was bearable except for that afghanistani family sitting behind us. they were chattering away at the loudest volume possible throughout the 12 hour ride and we were soooo tempted to tell them off or slap them. esp the kids. urgh. plus there was this angmoh guy who happily chatted with them - which encouranged them to speak up even more. and the scary thing was that they chatted so casually about bin laden and how he should be making a fashion statement or something??!! i don't really see the connection but it was creepy to listen to that kind of conversation.

stayed at josh koh's place (thanks dude). he was really nice cos he was still having exams when we barged in. had a pretty badd impression of sydney on the first day there cos it rained. non stop. so we were practically chanting "i HATE sydney" as we trudged to josh's place in the rain. apparently, it hasn't rained in sydney for quite a while so we were erm, lucky. josh's place was so crowded! but that's what made it fun. haha. there was josh and andre, plus moses, caleb, serene and the 4 of us. moses is so nice to bully hehheh.

went up to the blue mountains and just stood in awe of the great view and rushing waterfalls. visited wildlife parks and jas, gill and myself were really fighting the urge to kidnap the rolling wombats and bring them home. they were so CUTE and rolypoly and i would love to hug one home. hee.

took a cruise around nelson bay and dolphin-watched! it was so enchanting even though the dolphins didn't really come near. i wanted to see a whale. but the dolphins were cool. couldn't really catch pics tho. they were too fast and too far.

moses convinced us to get off our lazy bums to go to church on sunday - we actually intended to waffle around sydney and see all the things we hadn't seen since it was our last day there. but we finally got up and went and am i glad we did. attended the service at hillsong - wow! really. joyce meyer was the speaker and i was really quite ministered to. pity we couldn't stay for the conference. maybe we'll go down in the coming years. we attended the city service cos the main hillsong building is far away in the suburbs but they video conferenced the sermon so the whole church listened to the same thing. the music was really loud (and good) there but for some reason i felt that it was more conducive for worship.

and the best thing of all: God really moved in this trip.

1. we had fantastic weather. didn't get any rain in melbourne at all even tho it rains there half the time. all the time we were there, there wasn't so much as a drop of rain. and even though it rained in sydney, it rained only for 1 miserable day. but we found out that if it hadn't rained, we would have any waterfalls to see at the blue mountains cos sydney had been experiencing drought for a while. and it so happened that the rain didn't clash with any of our sightseeing tours. God's timing is perfect!

2. on the last day - melf accidentally left her passport in the cab that took us to the airport. i had to call the cab company 3 times but to no avail. the first time i called, they kept bouncing me between lost property service and the maxicab booking thingy and that really pissed me off at one point cos we needed the passport urgently and here they were playing pass the parcel with me. then i had to hang up cos they wanted my contact number. gill's phone had my optus prepaid number in it but it was dead. jas' phone didn't have it at all. so i had to hang up to get the number. the second time i called, my optus prepaid card ran out of money! and also, the cab driver they were trying to locate could not be contacted cos he just knocked off work! ohh maaaan. and to think i actually thought of trusting the system at that time. i prayed so hard - that i would trust God instead of the system and He made it fail so that we could see His greatness. so with my sim card dead, gill's phone with no batt and jas' phone with no reception and melf close to tears, i had to use my singtel sim card = very expensive! but even as i called through and got this extremely rude operator, the cab came back! what a relief! the cab driver found the passport on the backseat when he casually checked the cab after knocking off and rushed back knowing that we would need it. we suspect that the cab company wasn't even able to reach him. THANK GOD. He's soooo great.

3. this point is quite dumb but it's a really hehheh kind of way that God worked. haha. on the coach back from sydney to melb, we heard on the news that ONE OF THE APOSTLES COLLASPED. wahaha. thank God we got to see the 9 of them (yup. it's not 12 la.) instead of 8. we're honoured :)

so that's about it for the trip. i really miss the weather there. it's so HOT here. and the food too. i have never eaten so many steak pies in my life. they were soooo good. yum. photos will come soon i hope. i'm really stupid at uploading pics. imagestation is so slow. (or maybe it's my comp)

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