Teeny Booper

right. we ain't getting any younger.
not any carefree teeney booper hopping around heeren/ cineleisure no more.
in fact, when i go there these days, i feel strangely out of place.
like i'm an old saggy obasan cow walking through a field of green tender grass.
been yonks since i went to take neo -prints.
wonders if they are still being called neo-prints.

anw, here it is!

am surprised we can still function neoprint machines.
hohoho!

but yeah, the machines these days are so cool. and sooo fun.
lets just say that there are much more nicer looking options and icons etc + better neoprint quality.
the pictures appear blur, because my hands were kinda unsteady when using the camera to take a pict of the prints.

anw, i went sailing on friday!
seasports have always been something i LURVED since teeny boppers days.
used to hang out at sea everyday with sec school mates loitering around the beach.
just bumming around with the sand between our toes, and salty air running through our hair.

i think i spent only an hour out at sea sailing....
and being a first timer with absolutely no knowledge of all the technical sailing terms, i was totally bewildered.
i can't recall much of what happened, but i rmb my instructor saying i'm the blurest sotong he ever taught (like, i'm a total NOOB!!! how am i supposed to know what's a jibe, tag, run, ridge blah etc? but i bet i'll be able to master sailing given more time or briefing or background. hmmph. ) and that i still had a fantastic time nevertheless.

instructor is a second year engine student who haven't sailed for 5 years (because its hard to rent sailboats- n i suspect he's working as instructor just so he could sail... p.s. cos he isn't paid for instructing at all!)
despite him name calling me the blurest sotong evar, he was really nice and patient.

sailing is fun... and confusing at the first trial.
i want to do it again.
some people felt sea sick though.
i tend to get motion sickness, but i felt nary a giddy spell.
must be because i totally LURVE the sea and sailing that i didn't feel it at all.

i only wished that i had mastered all the sea sports at a younger age. baaaah.
then i wouldn't feel so noob.
when i have a kid next time, i'm gonna teach him/her to love the sea as much as i do and let him/her learn all the sea sports!

Call of the China

woohoo~

i will be going to CHINA~
and HK~

just glad to be out of singapore..... into the warm simmering arms of summer china.

I am a sucker...

for these nice looking personality tests....

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FREE cone day

CORRECTION!!!!

free cone day is on 17th april!

Meme

heh... got tagged by richard on the "6weird things about yourself" tag...
rules are, describe 6 weird things abt ur self and then tag 6 other ppl.
am gonna tag.... joan, lene, wen, pp, christina and elaine, if u are reading. harhar.

or was i supposed to tag them in their blogs....

1. i have extreme dislike for spiders.
they freak me out big time. they have 8 eyes. 8 EYES!!! eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

2. i like sour mangoes dipped in soy sauce. yummy~

3. i am sexist and i condemn sexists.

4. i cannot tolerate doing nothing.
being free and swinging my hands like bunches of bananas makes me cranky.

5. i get very irritated when my feet is dirty when i am at home.
dirty feet at sandy beaches, fine.
muddy feet while running in the field, fine.
eeeky feet when wearing wrong shoes during rainy days, fine.
but i absolutely hate it when my feet is dusty or dirty at home.

6. when i pms, i sleep like i'm dead and unconscious for long hours and my mood swings are terrible; i'll just break down and wAAAAAAA at the slightest trigger, and i can consume bars of ritter sports rum and raisin at ease. wee~

BTW!! vivo's bnj is having a free cone day on the 14th april!!
do go down and support!

Hell?

"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"

according to EWDJ, that is hell.
summarized in a sentence.
it means..

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

AGM #1 2007

*disclaimer - this entry was taken from the blog entry of Head of Gardeners, Taiz&Co. Enterprises.:

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Couldn't resist this snapping this even though I was on the verge of running..whoops. heh




yay! xiao long bao!




how could we ever miss out joen's contacts? May I present to you...brown eyes! -_-


caught in act


where's the taitai? 20 diamonds to those who can spot her~


oh well. nice attempt though.




Ms.Gackt (will i get something out of this?)


Our pasar malam, topshop. Then what's prada/lv/gucci? mama shop.


joen's san3 gong1 tai4 li4 hai4 le, even when i take a proper shot, the photo must be blur. tsk tsk.


Not forgetting our escalator shots! (ps. still amused by the curving escalator..wahaha)


Za fuotogurafua =)


the subject of squeaking from my fellow colleagues simply because it was "Sooo ccuuutte!" and "out of stock".


Mrs.Gackt (Seriously, any prizes?)


Ms.Stripes busy transferring items from her 3-dollar-cardboard-backing-wallet to her new topshop happy orange wallet. lol


simi la..


hmm..i still prefer coffee club's mudpie. ha


conclusion: mango doesn't go with cheese.



random trying-to-be-artsy shot


let the powers of the phone combine!


random trying-to-be-artsy shot 2


my panorama that was unsuccessful..but nvrtheless...


successful trying to be artsy shot! guess who? anybody? nobody? somebody? or everybody?!




heh heh..zhong yu gei wo pai dao le!




by the basutei..


some pictures just have to be posed and taken ;)


hui jia lo!


-with compliments,
from the royal gardener."

pictures and captions extracted from Royal Head of Gardener's First 2007 Annual General Meeting Report.

SO 20sth

im not even officially 20 yet.
but gosh, i've got myself the heart of a twenty something.
absolutely love Jamie Cullums Twenty Something.

After years of expensive education,
a car full of books and anticipation,
I’m an expert on Shakespeare and that’s a hell of a lot but the world don't need scholars as much as I thought.

Maybe I'll go travelling for a year,
finding myself or start a career.
I could work for the poor though I’m hungry for fame
we all seem so different but we're just the same.

Maybe I'll go to the gym, so I don't get fat,
aren't things more easy with a tight six pack?
Who knows the answers? Who do you trust?
I can't even separate love from lust.

Maybe I’ll move back home and pay off my loans,
working nine to five answering phones.
Don't make me live for my friday nights,
drinking eight pints and getting in fights.

I don't want to get up, just let me lie in,
leave me alone, I'm a twenty something.

Maybe I'll just fall in love that could solve it all,
philosophers say that that’s enough,
there surely must be more. Ooooh

Love ain’t the answer nor is work,
the truth eludes me so much it hurts.
But I’m still having fun and I guess that's the key,
I'm a twenty something and I'll keep being me.

doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah
doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah
doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah
doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah

I’m a twenty something.
Let me lie in, Leave me alone.
I’m a twenty something.

doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah
doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah
doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah
doh dah duh dah, do duh dah dah dah

this you tube has great audio, bad visual.
heck the audio overrides the visuals.

back in Singapore

i hate singapore for the warm humid weather.
the thought of school restarting.
baaaaaaaa.
and the food here pales in comparison.
=(

温泉

another slow relaxing day spent at another mountain, i forgot named what.
soaked in the sulphurous goodness.....
relaxing.
i love it!

ceramic town

zhen sui auntie, as ever, being the gracious host, took us for a dimsum brunch which was fantalicious.

for the rest of the day, we toured this ceramic town, i forgot whatisitname.
mundane day, recovering from the countdown excitement.

while i wasn't interested in teapots teacups and saucers....

i FOUND THIS>>

what an obese black fat cat!!!

and i found organic purple corn!

as with everything organic.... this purple is like BLEAGH compared to the common genetically modified sweet yellow corn cobs..

Pu Li Winery and Counting down at taipei101

still having motion sickness when we were on our way down from the mountain.
i 'm lousy.
i was feeling so terrible i cried at the carpark, refusing to step into the car again.
lousy me.

met up with another of my parents' friend at the pu li winery.

mother deng works there.
she gave me this power massage which blew away all my motion sickness :)
but still, i was pale like ghost.

many good wine related foodie there...
but i was too sick to eat anything or drink any of the wine.
=(

then it was time to get back to taipei...

we arrived at taipei around 6pm. after loads of rushing here and we went for a delicious korean bbq meal treated by zhen sui auntie near her place.

the usual side dishes... BIGGER serving and MORE variety than those in SG!

not to mention, FRESHER!

kimchi seafood steamboat. DA bomb. =D~~~~~


THEN we finally went to taipei 101 for the countdown concert!!!

for years, my family always tune in to the countdown concert at taipei 101 on cable tv in singapore.
and NOW we are there!!!!
didn't manage to take pictures cos my daddy didn't trust us with the camera in the crowd.
=(

the 50 000 strong crowd there was....... ho ho HOT.
really hot. in the sense of temperature.
despite the cold weather, everyone was squeezing so close to each other i reckon it was at least 30 degrees standing in the crowd.
im not a mandarin pop person so i hardly knew any song
but what the heck! the atmospehere was great!
and because of the cool dry weather, it wasn't that bad being sandwiched.
and besides, my thick winter clothings helped to cushion the falls. hoho.

then when it was time for the taipei 101 fireworks.... all i can say is that it was magnificent!



i was there!
so close to it!
i could hear it!
it seemed so close i ducked whenever the fireworks appears like its gonna burst in my face.

and then some idiot in the crowd lit a hand held firework next to me and i went deaf for a few minutes.
if u were there and u heard 2 people screaming FUCK YOU at the top of their voice, thats me and my sister.

because of the crowd, we walked back from taipei 101 to yongkang street... man... the entire walk took 1 hour plus.

we were totally shagged.

up to the highest peak

yeah so the peak of the mountain was 3600m above sea level.
i was really motion sick + altitude sick.
lousy me.

and it was like 0 degrees at the mountain... even the waterfall froze...

at the top of the mountain.
it was really beautiful standing amidst the clouds, expiring mist and shivering in the cold..

and making monkey faces..

it only snow after we descended the mountain.
although we missed the snow, Thank God for that.
the drafts of cold wind seeped into my thick clothings and nearly turned me into a popsicle already...

the pine wood cabin that we stayed in wasn't much of a place to stay in when the temperatures dipped to single digits and less...

i know it doesn't look that cold without the white snow and with the deceivingly warm sun.
trust me.

u'll leap up from the toilet seat.

up the mountain to 清境农场

清境农场

didn't know my motion sickness was that bad...
anyways, my mum says it was God's blessing that we managed to run into a kind cabbie who offered to drive us up the mountain at a cheap rate cos the bus we planned to take doesn't go high enough into the mountain where we'll be staying.

i was really having bad motion sickness....
the mountain roads were bumpy and swervy and bad for my guts. =(
and the place where we were staying was 2000m above sea level.... horrible.

i looked sickly,no?
its the altitude sickness and motion sickness... baaa
btw, the sign reads, NO CHASING AND SITTING ON SHEEP.
baaaaaa

2 mushrooms..

my parents and their honey moon again...

the smu-er does the jump. very nice photo right!!! ofcourse!i took it!!!

the fake smu-er attempts to jump....erm.... kuakuakua...
ya i JUMP UGLILY. =(

star*jump*
i land uglily too :(