Monday, February 27, 2006
After The Mid-Term Break - Tests, Essays, Projects!Just took my Hist. Variation test today... after the paper Cheryl & I were so dejected we did not stay on for the 2nd half of the lecture... and i was just scolded by my fren for being so slack in uni, say I in uni machiam not in uni liddat. Haha... but the test was really bad la... next time I'll remember to bring a dictionary in... because they have all the funny cheam terms that I dun understand, but maybe if I'd known those terms I would've been able to answer the paper... so yea... dictionary...
Very soon my soci of family and historical var. essays will be due... and I haven even started. I'm so going to die again... and the projects! Dun get me started on the projects man... but one lucky thing abt my elang projects is that I'm doing them with my fav proj grp, so we can kinda get thro it together... instead of me facing it alone, and most prob, drown as a result.
There's so many things I wan to do... I wan to go for a great shopping spree, even better if it's one overseas... (hint: Gwen & YY.... u heard me~~). I wan to go for sushi buffet with Tab, but we gotta wait till we finish all those nonsense sch stuff. I wan to go ktv!!! I wan to go watch Brokeback! But for Brokeback it's not dat bad cos Jo's watching it with me this thurs! Eh woman if u dare back out of it I swear I'll kill u ok...
And finally... I want this sem to end!!!
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Saturday, February 25, 2006
Fiew-Piang!!!Wad an eye-catching title rite... courtesy of Cheryl Tan. She taught us this new word today, which was came up with by her fren. Basically this word refers to those kind of weak and fragile kind of girl. "
Fiew" stands for the sounds the wind makes when it blows, then "
Piang" stands for the sound of glass breaking. So when put together it means that when the wind blows, this kind of girl will just shatter like glass. SO COOL RITE?? I've been telling everyone abt this word today la! And this is what happened in the bus:
Cheryl T: "I like painting my nails black... hehe. "(Looks at my nails, which are painted baby pink) "Painting that colour makes u a
'fiew-piang" u noe?"
Me: "Huh?"
-Paused there thinking for 3 seconds-
Me: "OEI! I where got
'fiew-piang'!?!"
Anyway for those who are considering going to watch the movie Munich, just because it's directed by Steven Spielberg... DON'T! Unless u have 2 hrs and 45 mins to spare and is SUPER DUPER bored, and of cos, have alot of patience... otherwise, pls dun! I spent one quarter of the time sleeping, another quarter of the time yawning, and the remaining half of the time stoning. Great recommendation man... what did I always say?
Guys dunno anything.
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Friday, February 24, 2006
Happy 21st Bday Dear Jo!!!
This is our Bday girl Jo, who just turned 21. So pretty rite... haha!
Then that's me and her at Coffee Bean... was planning to go shop before meeting the rest but cos both of us were in high high heels, we juz gave up and went sit down and talk until the rest arrives...
We went Bakerzin for dinner, and for cakes, we ordered 4 cute cakes to represent the bday cake! Had alot of fun choosing the cakes, we were just like pointing to this and that and only after that we realised that they dun exactly come cheap. Haha! But come on la... they really look good lor...
Our common favourite. It's just so sweet rite... oh man I'll melt if some guy gives me this cake man. And it's juz SO chocolaty and sinful... hahaha...
Candid shot of the Catas babes trying to take the perfect photo of the cakes, either using digicam or their camera phones... so funny...
And then we just sat arnd taking photos... with all combinations and poses possible.
The Catas babes! All gathered to celebrate Jo's step into adulthood!
Me and Jo with the Durian as our background...
Took this artpiece in the Esplanade... great photgraphy skills by Cryst... haha. Or should I say it's nice cos of professional models posing for it?
Just some random shots I took...
Can u imagine the added shades for the Merlion!?! Hahaha...
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
My Nohari Window!Ok here it is!
http://kevan.org/nohari?name=xuanwanGo ahead and bash me... let me know my flaws... hehe...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Thanks YY, for letting me shout at u on the phone. I swear I would have thrown my hp on the floor if u took any longer to call me back! And you already promised that u'll be there to let me shout at when I need to k... must keep it hor! And for goodness sake dun take an hour to bathe k?? Half an hour can?
Ok and I shall listen to u and be more patient, and tunggu, tunggu, tunggu.
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Monday, February 20, 2006
My Interactive Johari WindowThe results are kinda disturbing... the one trait u pple have said abt me that is leading in the race is
idealistic. Is it that obvious!?! Was studying with Jo today, and I was reading my soci of family textbook, and whatever interesting stuff I read in it that I repeated to Jo, the conversation will always lead back to me being too idealistic.
"You dun complain abt being single, who ask u to be so idealistic?"On another note, I realised that 4 frens mentioned that I'm
sentimental, one of the traits I did choose for myself. And out of these 4 frens, 3 I'd known since sec sch, Ning YY and Tab, while the last one is Ting, my first 3 months buddy. Apparently my sentimental side had mellowed as years gone by... or maybe because I'd became more practical and realistic than to go all sentimental over a guy anymore? Haha...
Life is so boring nowadays I got nothing new to blog abt... bleah bleah bleah...
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Saturday, February 18, 2006
This Is So Fun!!!Got this from YY and it's so cool! So to all my dear friends, this is the perfect time to let me know what kind of person I am. Dun dare to let me know my flaws all the while? Do it now! Thanks a million! And I still tink this thing is so cool!
http://kevan.org/johari?name=xuanwan
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
Chloe aka Little PigletWhy little piglet? Cos this little missy has been piling on the fats since the last time we visited her! Today my proj mates and I seem to be going for a workout session together... she's like a little dumbell now... we need to take turns to carry her cos ur arms will really ache after just abt 5 mins! But she's still the same smiley and and cheery baby... so easy to make her laugh! Here's darling Chloe for u!
Rion stole this little missy's first kiss and we told him he gotta take responsibility for it! Haha...
Chloe is like super greedy now and was frantically putting everything and anything into her mouth just now... she tried to eat Rion's fingers, Cheryl Ho's hand, her bib, and kueh lapis her great-granny brought out for us!
Look at the fatty cheeks! OMG!
Dun u just love it when she's all smiles like now? She's such a happy baby I feel so ashamed of myself being a crying baby when I was young...
One of her fav gestures... 2nd to the gesture of using her fingers to flip her ears...
"
someone is going to offer her hand to me for a snack soon! come nearer now...."
"
she's falling into my trap!"
Totally scheming baby... I dun have a pic of wad happened after the last pic, but I can describe it. That was Cheryl Ho's hands if I din rem wrongly, and when the hands got close enough to tickle her, this little missy grabbed the hands and tried to stuff them into her mouth super super quickly it's scary! Someone likened her to the black widow spider... trapping all her victims... haha!
And I'm SO damn tired now... reached home at arnd 8pm. Long journey home plus an afternoon of lifting weights equals to a 3/4 dead me... the last 1/4 is to finish off this entry now... ZzZzZzz...
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@ |2/16/2006 09:43:00 PM|
What Do You Wish To Remember?Juz read my fren's blog (sorry I always use my frens' encounters and experiences for my blogging topics... hehe... inspiration just pops out when I can actually see an issue in their experiences mah...), and it really made me wonder abt the question abt what do you wish to remember? What I got frm the beginning of the blog entry:
"Well, I decided to record down the whole story between me and my 1st love. Just in case I grow senile and die eh."Let me say something abt this fren of mine... he's currently single and even though he dated a couple of girls after his first love, the most memorable one is still his first love and maybe, until now, the only girl he really loved? Ok that was my assumption... hey, dun kill me for distorting facts k. Anw they broke up cos the girl still couldn't forget her ex (just like the way he cant forget her?). And so he blogged this entire entry abt how they first met, got to know each other better etc etc... a very detailed account of everything... really sweet entry... but well, that was the beginning part la, he haven posted the later part when things start to go wrong.
So I was thinking, if they din end up together, and this r/s had such an impact on him that he could not move on properly to new ones, then why issit that he would actually want to remember every single detail of it? Wun it pose as a bigger hurdle for him to really move on? Another fren of ours said that to see it in another way, maybe it would actually help him to write it all out, as a form of release and letting go of what was penned up in him all these years?
Maybe I do not actually make an effort to actually remember such details, or maybe I do, just that I can also forget them very easily. When pple asked me abt my first r/s, I would give the same standard answer, "crap". And then if they continue to ask abt what exactly happened... I would have to really dig very inside my brain to try to get some faint memory of it, but even then, it'll be super vague. Wouldn't it be v painful and tiring to remember everything that happened in ur head? If something din end well isn't it better to let that part of ur memory go?
Seriously... I couldn't remember abt all the crushes I had since sec sch which used to be such an enjoyable experience, something which seemed so serious at that time. If someone ask me now why did I have a crush on so and so at that time... most prob my reply will be, "I dunno?"
Some things... are just not worth remembering.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Man Tou... aka 3-Pin Plug
Went to sing ktv with PZ and Carin today... well but technically only me and PZ sang while Carin ate up the titbits and made unnecessary remarks abt the mtvs and the singers and the songs etc etc. I have a video of Carin singing the "Bu Pa Bu Pa" song, but it's damn embarassing la... so it shall go into the file in my comp used for future blackmail. Anw fotos of Man Tou will suffice to maintain the viewership for my blog... hahaha...
That's me and Man Tou - I look so like a mother!!!
Aww... him lying comfortably in PZ... cant u juz feel the auntie-nephew bond juz frm this?
Ok this one shld be more obvious...
And then he started crying and PZ gotta go use spoon to scoop the apple pulp to let this little greedy thing eat... but because he's SO greedy, he is not satisfied to just eat the pulp, he wants to gobble up the entire apple...
See... Someone should tell him in baby language that he dun even have teeth, dun be so ambitious to want to eat the entire apple...
You greedy baby!!!
That's him focusing on my camera... and my fren asked how come he look lyk he "kok-eye", I said obviously cos I held the camera so close to his face? Haha...
And that's him sleeping soundly when I left... awwwww.... if u notice his tongue is half sticking out... I told PZ dat he must be dreaming of chicken drumstick...
Anw for dinner...
Black Ink Seafood Pasta anyone?? Haha...
Happy Vday To All My Darlings! Love You All !
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@ |2/14/2006 11:47:00 PM|
Greener Pastures.... Behind?I noticed this phenomenon recently... that pple seem to always be looking backwards for a significant other but not forward? As in, everytime when I meet up with my JC clique, I could hear stuff lyk, "do u noe that that girl frm blah blah blah class is together with that guy frm blah blah blah class?", or something lyk "I cant believe this person is together with that person now!", and all those are pple of the same batch as us in JC. So the thing is, why issit that people always go back to finding a bf/gf frm ur "past", ie. pri / sec / jc ? Why issit that people do not try to look for one at present (uni) or the future (work)?
Anw I swear I'm not making this up k... I really have heard of and known of real-life examples of pple doing that. What is it abt pple frm our schooling time that attracts us? Maybe because we actually shared a few years together in the same class day in day out, so that we actually know the person better... or maybe cos u actually know them as frens first, meaning u'd seen both the good and bad sides of them, compared to guys u meet now, whom are interested in u, and only shows u the angelic side of him.
The thing abt how uni works (especially NUS), is that there is absolutely no chance for u to get to know someone the way u noe ur classmates in the "past", maybe that's why my conception of uni guys is so bad... cos they seem to juz "I see this girl, I think I like her, I chase her" without even knowing how this girl is really like. Sometimes we cant blame them la... there's absolutely no chance for pple to get to know pple the way they used to be able to in their pri/sec/jc days. But isn't it a bit far-fetched to go all the way back to dating ur pri/sec sch fren? I tink JC still not as bad cos at least it's juz a few years ago... but still, what happened to the saying "greener pastures ahead"? Guess it no longer stands...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006
Happy & Jealous At The Same TimeDear Dul juz came to talk to me on msn... she wanted to share her joy and excitement with someone. She juz gotten the letter or acceptance frm MOE! She's confirm going to be a teacher! I could almost see her grinning behind her monitor screen, just as I was grinning behind my monitor screen! So happy and excited for her... and yet, I am also so jealous of her cos she can be a teacher soon! I feel like going for the interview now, but I'm not even on my last year in uni! This is SO upsetting can!?!
Anw she was initially posted to teach in a sec sch, but cos she's afraid of them posting her to a neighbourhood sch with those problematic kids, she actually requested to teach in a pri sch instead. And surprisingly they actually allow her cos she's a maths major, and graduates who majors in a teaching subj usually have to teach in a sec sch... which means, THANK GOODNESS I chose to major in elang over soci last year... or else I'll be teaching in a pri sch next time! I so want to teach in a sec sch... and I want to teach in a neighbourhood sec sch! I know it sounds damn ridiculous for wanting to do that, seeing all those terrible news on how incorrigible and atrocious sec sch kids are nowdays... but I guess no one will understand this desire more than my relief teaching frens Xin, Min and Jes. Ever since I went Cedar, I swore that I'll want to go back there to teach in future... until I relief taught in a neighbourhood sch. It's juz so different...
Shit now I even more wish I can go for interview now... I mean, what if MOE dun want me? I really wun noe wad to do... cos I'd already set my heart and mind into going into teaching. Everyone says I have a teacher look, everyone says I'll make a good teacher, everyone says they can sense my passion for teaching, but the MOE interviewers dun! Shit man... now I'm panicking over something that is not quite going to happen soon... someone pls help me get back into "student mode" and out of the "teacher mode"!!!
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
The 2 Imps Outside AS6...YES YOU 2! You know who I'm talking abt... bleah bleah bleah. Finished lecture today at 4... and was preparing to go home and SLEEP, but cos I need to meet a fren at comp centre to get back my book, I had to walk past AS6 first. Then I saw the 2 imps frm my Elang proj grp, said hi happily and went off to meet my fren. Then when I was walking back through the same path, the 2 imps were still there and one of them (the more imp-ish looking one) gave me this damn cheeky look and pointed to this guy sitting on the bench behind them, saying to me, "eh want to know him anot?" Then at first I din get it, so I said, "Huh?". And the 2nd imp joined in and repeated what imp 1 said. My eyes got so big and I said in a rather loud tone, "Why would I want to know him!?!" And imp 1 said, "cos u looking for a guy mah..."
I cant believe it... now I'm not only subjected to my family relatives' questioning on why am I not looking for my life partner in uni now (which they, for that matter, assume has a wide pool of super single and eligible guys for me to choose from), my frens are trying to set me up with just anybody they can find! NO!!!!! It was so embarrassing just now I tell u... will be seeing the 2 imps on friday to visit our baby Chloe...
u 2 just watch out!
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@ |2/08/2006 11:05:00 PM|
What's With My Skepticism?Was chatting with my fren juz now on msn... ok actually I'm still chatting with her but her typing skills is so slow I can actually blog at the same time. She was telling me abt this guy who's very eligible, smart, good looking, good character, dun smoke, and everyone who saw him told her that he'll make a good bf. So I asked her is that guy attached, and she said no. And I asked her if he was attached before, since they were sec sch frens... and she said no. My immediate reaction is... "impossible! how can he not be attached!?" and so I came up with more vices and for all, she said he dun possess any of them. How can that be!?! He sounds lyk a total eligible and perfect guy. So in the end I told her, that he must be gay... confirm.
Then I start to wonder... wad's with my skepticism? Why issit impossible for a very eligible guy to still be single? Because in my dictionary... all eligible guys are either attached or gays, and since he's not the first, he muz be the second. It's hard to ask me to change my mindset... I still cant believe that a perfect guy can be single. And guess wad... my fren is telling me that there's another guy in the pic and she cant decide btw them now. Now I know why my frens are always scolding me... I'm starting to see things frm their point of view. But because it is 1am now, and my brain stopped functioning, and that I have sch early tmr, I shall stop here... and of course, finish listening to her on msn first...
I wish I din have to go sch tmr... bleah... but then again... haha...
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Friday, February 03, 2006
Teachers Reunion!Met up with my relief teacher buddies for dinner today... got 4 hrs in btw to rot, and luckily Tab was kind enough to accompany me for the 4 hrs! Anw... I was quite surprised that during the gathering, it was as if we had not met up only for a short period of time, cos it just felt so natural... no awkwardness no dead silence... when in actual fact, they alerted me that because I missed the last meet-up, I'd not seen them for almost a year alr... especially Min since I still see Xin and Jes arnd in sch! Wow...
And it's really weird when Min was telling us abt bumping into some of our ex-students a while ago... and her comment abt them was, "They're
so big now!" Yea... they were sec 2 when we taught them... and now, they're sec 4 alr, going to sit for their N'Levels end of this year... can u believe it!?! And following her comment, I said," And we're
so old now!" It's amazing... time passes so quickly... and if u never take time to think about all these things in the past, you'll not even notice that time has already gone by before your eyes...
This is what we had for dinner, mine is the Ginseng Chicken Soup, which I seriously dun understand why the rest would just laugh everytime I repeat my order. They say I'm still as tai-tai-ish as ever, that the ginseng chicken soup is for me to nourish myself... where got!?! I ordered that cos I'm so damn bloody full after a late lunch with Tab, and eating a medium cup of the Yami Yogurt after I met SK ok... In the first place I'm not even tai-tai-ish! Xin says everyday when I go to sch it's lyk a fashion show... but that's not true darling... u only happen to see me on the days I dress up for sch. Bleah...
That's the 4 of us!
From left, clockwise - Siew Kuang, the Art & Eng teacher. Xin Yi, the Eng & Music teacher. Min Yu, the A & E Maths teacher. Me, the Science & Maths teacher.
So cool rite?
Anw it was a great meet-up... had fun listening to one of them telling her entire story abt how she met this almost perfect guy. (In between pauses you would see the other 3 of us exchanging glances with raised eyebrows and mischievious smiles... haha!) But the person whom the story belongs to was smart enough to realise that it may just become research material for my next blog entry, and she reminded me not to blog abt it cos u never noe who may chance upon it... so ya... *zip*
It's greating meeting u guys... next meet-up... Xin & Min's concert? And then Jes's 21st bday party which I'll be gg as a geisha!!! Woooooh!!!
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
The Silent UpdatesWas in school at 7.40am, an unearthly timing for just anybody... and my lect is not even at 8... bleah. So I was sitting at one of the benches outside the Arts Club Room trying to speed-read the remainder of my lect readings, when suddenly this figure plunked herself on the bench opp me, staring at me. I looked up at her and paused for almost 5 sec before I realised she's my sec sch fren... someone whom I'd not talked to for lyk... very very VERY long? (Damn weird... do u even go say Hi to someone whom you've not talked to since sec sch? I usually just walk past lyk I never see the person... haha... anti-social)
So she was talking to me, asking me what I'm majoring in. And when I told her Elang, she said, "Oh ya... *** told me that you're in one of her elang lects." And for some reason... that comment felt weird. Imagine someone you've not been in contact with at all for these years, actually being kept updated abt ur life? And someone who's in the same lect as you, but never talked to u in lects, actually telling someone else something abt u? Well anyway it was the same case for her, cos altho we'd not talked for years, I actually know that she'd recently broke up with her bf frm sec sch... I knew the reason why they broke up, and I know what is she doing now in NUS.
Damn freaky rite???I dun tink that when she was talking to me, she would ever imagine that I would know all the current updates abt her life! Her rather personal life somemore... So for all you know, maybe frens whom you've not spoken to for a long long time are actually pretty updated about what's going on in your life.
With a common group of frens, it is highly possible that everyone knows everything about everyone.
That's so freaky......
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