ASSignments

TSK.
Why do our professors look so high upon us all the time?
Do they ever realise that we are human too and giving us assignments so near to exams is basically suicide?
OMG
I wanna die.
.argh.

倪安东《第一课》Anthony Neely, Lesson One

倪安东 《第一课》

I've been listening to a lot of songs recently. A LOT.
But nothing can be as addictive as this one here.
倪安东 (Anthony Neely), an American-Chinese mixed.
First showed the world his amazing singing talent (and cute looks) in singing competition, One Million Stars 〈超级星光大道〉. First person to score a whopping 33 points out of 25 in the singing competition, becoming an overnight sensation.
First album, First Lesson 《第一课》, debuted on 19th Nov 2010.

The first time I saw Neely sing on One Million Stars, I was telling myself how this ang moh will definitely make it even if he sang the most distasteful songs in the music scene, because his selling point is not his vocals, but his looks. One smile is all that it takes to kill. His ability is sing is just an added bonus to that gorgeous face. Call me superficial, well, I am (in this case).
Okay, before judging Neely as a himbo here, I will justify and credit him for this album, unbiased.
Contributing lyrics to two tracks and co-composing melody for one in his first album shows that Neely is not just a sugar-coated candy, but someone with the substance and the ability.
In a terribly KPOP saturated environment we are in now, we really something fresh and different, and Neely fills in nicely.
Being a power-packed newbie in this music scene, Anthony Neely is here to leave an indelible ink, a lasting impact.

Recommended tracks: Sorry That I Loved You, 末日快乐，散场的拥抱，绅士

A great memory.

The Great Escape and Splash water Kingdom, Queensbury, NY. 

Suddenly, I miss this place a lot :(
A place of fun, laughter and joy. A place where my heart misses till it aches.
It was so real, it was so awesome, it was really A GREAT ESCAPE.
Now everything seems so surreal, now everything seems so dead, I wonder what's left there.
Winter is here to visit, people are loving it. Who would remember the happiness that Summer brought?
I will, of course. Because of this, I've learnt that life is more than what it is; there are opportunities out there.
There's still love, fun, happiness and joy out there, anywhere, everywhere.
It's good to have learnt. It's good to remember. It's good that I've been where I've been and done what I've done :)

Dinner with Agnes :)

Went out for dinner with Agnes last Wednesday at Parkway and we went to Awfully Chocolate for deserts. This is what best friends do when we meet up for dinner, put chocolate all over our teeth and take unglam and fugly pictures of ourselves. HAHAHA.
AGNES CHEW SI QI, THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO YOU. 
Thanks for being so bo liao and finding time to meet and htht once in a while :) 
Who would have guessed that we have been friends since sec 1?! People all think we're sisters! HAHAHA.  I want a 'STUDY TOGETHER MEETUP' leh. Hurry go plan and tell me ahhh. heehee.


Haha, seriously, I haven't been blogging for the longest time already, and I feel myself brain-drained.
I don't have the time to blog too, life has been too busy for me. I feel it slipping through my fingers all too soon :(
I need some time away from society, just some time to relax.
Hmm, maybe a getaway would be good.

What I'm listening to recently...

Haven't done this in a long time, so long so that I feel myself distant from it.
There's just no time. No time even to listen to an album without distractions.
Anyhow, here's what I'm listening to recently:

林宇中 《新娘》

Olivia Ong's 《夏夜晚风 LIVE》

吴克群 《寄生》

飞轮海 《太热》

Happiness by HURTS

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

Marie Digby's Breathing Underwater

Not exactly new, not exactly hits, but definitely worth a listen.

If I have the time, I'll prolly do proper reviews for these.

What I am cracking my brains and losing sleep over now:

SOUND WAVES.

and this is how technical it gets. social scientists gotta get a left brain too eh.

Gender of Numbers and Alphabets?

I was watching videos on youtube about Synesthesia, a condition where someone's senses are mixed up. Like, when they hear things, they tend to 'see' the sounds in terms of colours. I'm explaining this in really simple terms, before I start to confuse. Anyway, the idea of this condition is that people with Synethesia have special abilities such as seeing music in colour, taste music, see colours in numbers and alphabets, etc. Sounds confusing? Yes, totally. The senses have basically crossed-paths with one another. Read up more about on Wikipedia: Synethesia if you want, cos' that's not really the point I'm focusing about. HAHA.

Anyway, as I was watching the videos, I noticed how the people with Synethesia would associate specific colours to numbers and alphabets, such as Yellow to '1' and Green to 'S', and so on. Then I remembered how I used to see numbers and alphabets as little creatures that have specific genders to them. Get me?
Let me explain. To me, the number 1 is a male. 2 is a female, 3 is a male, 4 is a female, 5 is a male, 6 and 7 are females, 8 is a male, while 9 and 0 are females. 10 would then be a male(1) standing next to a female(0) and so on and so forth.

And, for alphabets:
A-Female
B-Male
C-Male
D-Male
E-Female
F-Female
G-Female
H- Male
I-Male
J-Male
K-Male
L-Male
M-Male
N-Male
O-Male
P-Male
Q-Female
R-Male
S-Male
T-Male
U-Female
V-Female
W-Male
X-Male
Y-Female
Z-Female

Yea, no kidding, I REALLY do see my numbers and alphabets in the own specific genders. And, they will always be in THAT specific gender they are in no matter when and in what context.

I have no idea why I have such associations of genders to my numbers and alphabets, I always thought it was just me being overly bored and having nothing better to do. But having watched videos of people who have the Synethesia condition, I can't help but wonder if my weird habit of giving a gender to numbers and alphabets have got anything to do with it, or maybe some other weirdo psychotic or cognitive condition.

Printer FAIL.

Tricia and I went to buy those DIY printer ink and wanted to fix them at home ourselves. I thought I was smart enough to assemble those ink myself. (Key word here: THOUGHT).

Apparently, my printer is smarter than me. Or, probably, the whole world is smarter than me.
Tricia told me her's came out good. I thought mine would be the same. (Key word here: THOUGHT).

I was really engrossed in injecting the ink into my ink cartridge, doing it slowly, trying not to make a mess out of anything. And I did. I even ignored mum's callings for me to go have dinner.

In the end, this is what I got:

 Extremely RED pictures. (Maybe my printer is an old-school kid and has a fetish for sepia.)

No idea what went wrong, but all my printer could print was RED and BLACK.

They were supposed to look like these:

 HAIZ. 

LOSER TTM.

Silly Bandz

These things are so cool

I know it cos' I've seen how cool they are. 

Don't ask me what they are for though, cos' I have no idea too. 

HAHA.

See? Cool right? 

Amazing.

刘力扬 at NTU.

I think Lizzie so hates me right now, but I'm still gonna post this picture up! 

HAHAHAHAHAHA. 

YEP! Group photo with Li Yang and the people from her fan club. 

She was in NTU yesterday for Olivia Ong's concert, and we went to support her. 

Amazing or what, we managed to catch her before she left and even took a group picture with her (with my camera!)

HAHAHA. 

Lizzie pok, eat that!

刘力扬's autograph session

 Lizzie and I went to 刘力扬's autograph session at Bukit Panjang Plaza yesterday. That part of the island is really not very convenient, and what's worse is that the trains had to be disrupted today. HOOOOO. 

Anyway, it was an awesome experience being able to see her so CLOSE and UPFRONT. 

 Some pictures:

 

 

Here's a priced possesion. 

Lizzie pok was in luck today, managed to get a polariod picture of Li Yang.

That's all. Until tomorrow. :)

Just like that.

This is how lazy I am.
Neglecting my blog after simple joys like breathing the humid air and eating McSpicy fulfill me.
I love it how Singapore is so very small and brainlessly accessible.
Feel like I've pound up even more weight since I came back from the States.
FATTEST ME EVER.
Hmm, school's been a joke so far. Travelling up and down this little island for some hours of lessons that never did leave any imprints on my brain. Maybe I've left my thinking hats in the Big Apple. Maybe I never had any.
Ha, so be it, life is more that.
Oh Weekends, how I love you. Even more time to laze around, and simply feel good in doing so.
:)

Last day at work...

It was my last day of work at The Great Escape yesterday, and everything seemed so surreal.
Time never could have past faster, ten working weeks have past just like that.
I was just getting the hang of work, and time's up for me here.
Wonderful people I've met, wonderful times I've had, all will be etched deeply in my memory.
Thank you all who has made my days here at The Great Escape a fun and superbly awesome one!
Hope that everyone at The Great Escape will have a great time (even when we are no longer working there) and all the best to them!

With Anthony, Pamela and Tricia

With Nilufer and Tricia

With the Yummy cooks, Blake and Colin

Landscaping! Harry, June and Carol

With Kaila at Dippin' Dots

With Casey, whom we all know better as 'Nick Jonas look-alike'

Jerry! My first supervisor at Yummy Yummy!

With Missy, worked with her at Papa John's SWK.

With Gulzada, who came to say goodbye :)

Yummy crew'2010

Now that I'm done with the WORK part, it's getting down to the TRAVEL part! :D

Arica Hia :)

 Say hello to Arica, my newborn niece :)

So adorable, and so chubby! Haha. 3.5kg is not light la. My cousin must have ate a lot when pregnant with Arica. Hehheh.
Ah!! I want to see baby A so badly! Another one month and ten days, and I will be able to see my newborn niece!
Oh and, I think she looks EXACTLY like her older sis, Avril. Don't believe? Here's proof:

This is a picture of Avril when she was a newborn.

TOTALLY ALIKE la!

Same blanket too!

HAHA.

-Picture stolen shamelessly from Daphne Koh's FB    :P

我就是我 是颜色不一样的烟火……

Happy Independence Day.

Summer, the season of flies

Today marks the first day of summer here and the weather was already mad hot since yesterday. The park had close to ten thousand visitors yesterday, mostly families who came in to celebrate Father's Day.
Happy Belated Father's Day to papa! Although I've sms-ed him to wish him already, heehee.
Another 2 more months and I'll be back in the comfort of my own home. Although I don't feel as home sick as what I feel staying in hall, I do miss food back in Singapore a lot. Food in America is basically CRAP and too unhealthy to be consumed. I weighed myself two days ago and found out that I've gained 3kgs! Kanasai.
Even bugs and insects here are fatter than usual. Mosquitoes here are mega huge and fat, and their bites are the nastiest things ever! There are like so many of them, and they're forever hungry, sucking mercilessly on us and leaving us with ugly itchy bites.
Argh, stupis bugs!

I've been here for 1 month already!?

Sunny Lake George

I've been enjoying myself so far in USA. This fun will come to a temporary halt soon as the park will be opened everyday starting next week. Yep, Summer break is starting and kids will be having their holidays real soon.

The weather here is pretty screwed, just when you thought that it's all-ready to wear your shorts to hit the streets, the rain comes and brings the winter back.

It has been mad cold here for the last few days, and I hate to wake up early in the morning and walking to work in the cold. That indescribable feeling simply sucks.

I am here for a month already, time flew in a flash. I'm afraid that this will end all too quickly, and before I realise, I must go back to school. Too fast, all is happening too fast.

I want what's that left to be enjoyable and memorable, and I believe it will be.

:)

same same, but different.

Check out these two pictures.

I know I'll sound super thick skin when I say this, but seriously, SO CUTE RIGHT?

Haha, we're both holding on to Coke cans. Addiction starts from young, Avril better be careful. Haha!

"没有地图人生只能凭著手上的梦想~"

劉若英 [ 繼續-給十五歲的自己 ]

知道吗我总是惦记十五岁不快乐的你

我多想把哭泣的你搂进我怀里

不确定自己的形状动不动就和世界碰撞

那些伤我终於为你都一一抚平

那一年最难的习题

也不过短短的几行笔记

现在我却总爱回忆

回忆当时不服输的你

天空会不会雨停会不会放晴

会不会幸福在终点等著我和你

会不会是我忘记还能勇敢地去淋雨

我们继续走下去继续往前进

继续走向期待中的未知旅行

感觉累了的时候抱著我们的真心

静静好好地休息

这些年我还算可以至少都对得起自己

谢谢你是你的单纯给了我指引

遇见过很多很多人完成了一些些事情

你一定还无法想像多精彩过瘾

谁说人生是公平的

它才不管我们想要怎样

很感激你那麼倔强

我才能变成今天这样

我们继续走下去继续往前进

看这条路肯让我们走到哪里

我们想去的地方一定也有人很想去

我们都不要放弃都别说灰心

永远听从刻在心中那些声音

感觉累了的时候请你把我的手握紧

没有地图人生只能凭著手上的梦想Oh~

循著它的光曲折转弯找到有光的地方

LalalaLalalaLalala 那年的梦想

LalalaLalalaLalala 人要有梦想

勇敢的梦想 疯狂的梦想

继续走下去继续往前进

路旁有花 心中有歌 天上有星

我们要去的那里一定有最美丽的风景

Oh~都不要放弃都别说灰心

不要辜负心里那个干净的自己

痛到想哭的时候就让泪水洗掉委屈

我们要相信自己永远都相信

来到这个世界不是没有意义

我们做过的事情都会留在人心里

会被回忆而珍惜

有一天我将会老去希望你会觉得满意

我没有对不起那个十五岁的自己

 

 

Original Track: [手紙 ～拝啓 十五の君へ～] by Angela Aki

Credits: binmusictaipei and pearl0830

Tired!

Im too tired to blog, too tired.
So let's have a quick update on my all too fantastic life now (hehheh).

Besides being a cashier at Yummy Yummy Cafe in The Great Escape, I'm also doing Landscaping stuff in the park to earn more $$. It's no easy job watering plants too, the hose is so heavy and you'l get all dirty and messy from the soil and dirt. But it's a good experience, money is not easy to be earned leh!

I'm really tired now, my eyelids are falling down. Byebye.


-9:26pm, USA.

Customers are always right. Yes Sir, I'll settle their crap.

What are some people thinking of?

I had one customer who came up to me and ask 'You charge 4 freaking dollars for one regular soda?'
What am I supposed to say? Yes Madam, we charge 4 freaking dollars for a regular soda.

Then, when I suggested to her to get the value cup which has free-refills the entire day, she exclaimed 'I'm not gonna pay $12.99 for a plastic cup.'

Then when she finally decided to get a regular soda, she complained why didn't the cup have a lid. My supervisor nicely explained that we go lid-less due to green awareness, she exclaimed again, 'I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!'

I should be the one who can't believe it. Some people just love to complain.

Another customer requested for a refund for the chicken strips he ordered just because the strips were in dinosaur shaped instead of regular chicken strips.
Hello? Aren't they all just chicken? You mean chicken in shapes of dinosaurs taste like dinosaurs instead of chicken?

Some people are more than unreasonable.

Terrible.

yummy yummy cafe :)

This is dumb.
I finally have time to update my blog, and the reason to why I have time is because I left my key in the room before I left for work and am now locked outside my own room.
Thankfully there's a kitchen that is always open and there's wifi around, or else I'll really go bonkers waiting for my roommates to come back in this mad hot temperature.
Well let's talk about today at work. It's my first cashiering day and it's really not so good. I did tell them that I'm not good at counting but they still put me at the counter anyway. I had a hard time familiarising myself to the cash register and had an equally hard time counting those pennies, nickel and dimes. Whoo, thankfully the supervisor is really nice and helped me out whenever I needed help (which was almost the whole time!). Then, halfway through my shift, they said they needed people to clean up the looney tunes cafe, so they sent me and this cook named Colin down. We were practically cleaning through inches thick dust and dirt! How gross! though it was really tiring and messy, it was fun and really interesting and I did really enjoy myself today.
The only thing that I'm hoping for now is that my roommates to return fast and open the door for me, or else I'll have to sit in the kitchen and be an extra while people are busy cooking their dinner!
:P

Signing out at 5.32pm, USA.

:D

Haven't been blogging much, not because I don't want to, but because Blogger is a bummer and it's running super slowly and taking forever to load a photo. I waited and waited until my eyelids fall, and not a single photo is being uploaded, what is this?

Anyway, life is simply too exciting to be wasted in front of the laptop now. There's so many things out there for me to see and experience! Yeah!

So, see you Internet, hello life!

I'm lovin' it... just that there's no Internet.

Waddup yo!!!

I've been in America for around 5 days already! Everything has been great besides from the crazy weather, the lack of Internet and no proper meals... Sounds bad? NO!

This country is nice, people are friendly, and I'm loving Walmart!

Woohoo!

Internet is dying soon, so I'm gonna go offline already.

Till then:):):)

Excitement fills me:)

Woooooo! I'm all excited for my trip to the States! It's going to be a three-month period away from home, but I'll be fine! Home is always a phone call away! Hmmm.. Just wondering what would it be like to spend more than a day on the plane... Will my butt be numb from sitting? Hahaha. I'll update my blog as frequently as I can! (hoping there's wifi around!) heehee :D

Woots!

...and we eat and eat and eat :)

Have been busy these days meeting up with friends, preparing for my trip and eating (I know I'm a glutton, but I don't care).

Met up with Berlyn and Nanxin yesterday, ate dinner at a Thai restaurant near Bedok interchange. It's called Nakhon Kitchen, and serves authentic Thai food. Even the drinks they have are from Thailand, the glass Coke bottles and Thai Soya Milk from Thailand. Shiok shiok.

Then today, I met up with Wei Lin and Cheryl after making a pact to eat French cuisine after the exams.

We ate at Canelé at Paragon.

They gave me a belated birthday present too!!!

It's a musical jewellery box with a spinning ballerina.

Although it's not a very ME thing, I still like it a lot. It's pretty :) Hopefully I'll make full use of this jewellery box and keep my jewelleries neatly organised. Hehheh.

  :)

 FOOD!

Desserts! 

Black forest cake. 

So sinful! But NICE:) 

Macaroons 

YUMMY:) 

Hmm, maybe like what Melissa said, I should come up with a FOOD BLOG, since I'm always eating and always so fascinated with what I eat. Haha.

A bientot:)