time for a change of scenery. :)
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
muscles come to me!!!!
comeee to meeee....
COME TO MEEE......
MUSCLESSSSS (not fats) COMEEEE TO ME....
i love this chant. how nice!! :) i went to the gym today and i'm aching all over.
pain is good. i love pain. pain means no more fats. pain is good. pain makes me stronger. pain is good.
right, so zi's pain chant works. a little.hahaha i'm glad i went to the gym today. did the ski machine because my useless knee feels funny but mostly because my stamina seems to have deserted me. it's fun going to the gym with debs. she's such joy to hang out with. okay debs, keep your ego human sized. she taught me the "hang in mid air and lift your knee to your tummy" exercise. and WOAH it's good.
pain is good. i love pain. pain is good.
hahaha did some triceps pulling thing, a couple of my core exercises, skied on the ski machine, exercised my abs on the swivel ab machine and rowed on the rowing machine. wow, i'm impressed by myself. i didn't know i had actually done so much until i wrote it all down. hmm, cool. i'm so going to ache tmr.
pain is good. i love pain. pain is good.
as you can probably tell, i had some extra time on my hands today that's why i could take my time to go to the gym and well for once, i'm not complaining about quizzes and work. hur hur. well thank goodness my mid terms are all overrrrrr and done with, although i don't have a very good feeling about it but heck, no point crying over spilt milk.
sigh, but poor dear, he's having his mid terms on thursday and it's an extremely tough and DRY subject. ONLY TWO MORE DAYS!!!! you can do it!!!!! jiayou. :)))))) i went to visit him last night at his house and we watched american's next top model. it's amazing how fun it is to watch ANTM with a guy, especially when they're soooo brutally MEAN.
well, if you watched ANTM 6 last night, they had to go through a rapping test to exhibit their wit and humour. and so it was JADE's turn, surprise surprise *righttt*, she had to turn to insult to be "FUNNY". and so she "rapped" something like "furonda furonda, your face is so bumpy, you make me feel lumpy." OKAY, what better way to open the flood gates of hate mail among the girls than this? alright, it was quite a funny rhyme, albeit being utterly vicious. but no no, my dear boyfriend didn't think so, he thought it was the funniest thing said on the show and no you won't want to hear what he had to add to that. boys boys boys, how can they be so brutally mean? i guess it's just not in them to mince their words!
well, men are from mars and women are from venus. (er, i think sooo, so is it the other round?) it's what makes them different from us... :) and sometimes, it's just amusing to hear what they have to say, as long as they are not talking about you. hahahaha
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
SOO hip-pening.
I'm in school at 431pm on a Saturday afternoon.
Agenda of the day: attend the Nepal meeting, find my course reserve text in the library and do some serious MUGging.
As of 4.31pm, i've completed: erm. the meeting.
Right. So I've not exactly done what i set out to do today BUT i've got 6 hours more in school and i will DO SOME SERIOUS MUGGING.
Anyways, I was reading Jilyn's blog just now and it was SOOOOOOOOO hip-pening! (cross of hip and happening) So happy to know that she's having so much fun and experiencing so much halfway across the world!
I'm glad she started a blog!!!! at least i can get to drool and ogle over the beautiful architecture and museums and churches and gorgeous scenery she's taking in!
Alright, so maybe i know why my productivity is at absolutely rock bottom today. haha i think i should stop reading blogs. right. i will stop after the next one. i promise.
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
the best way to start a conversation
"you look tired!"
ah ha! bingo, that's the switch to the flood gates of complaints after complaints!
anyways, i got that a few times this week and true enough, it gave me a few opportunities to bitch about things.
ahh, it's finally wednesday, i just finished a blardy corporate reporting quiz this morning. if you hated accounting, and you hated finance, imagine the deadliest concoction of accounting and finance! and you get corporate reporting. blardy hell.
going for some retail therapy now. byee
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
kids.
i love how softly their hair falls on their lovely angelic faces and the way a simple smile from them can bring a smile to my face.
B U T
they can be such brats. twitching and stomping, whining uncontrollably and indiscriminately, jumping around like an energizer bunny (and just as irritating plus with boundless energy), screaming at the top of their voices, crawling and rolling around on the dirtiest places possible (to ensure their parents will tend to them because they can't bear to wash those disgusting clothes), crying in absolute rehearsed distress and basically, just being as embarrassing as they can ever be.
alright, so i don't hate kids. i do want to have kids! unfortunately, they can be such undeniable pests. i always try to put myself in the shoes of those poor parents and wonder what i would do in their situation.
would i... slap the kid (nah, too violent) pinch him in places no one can see (hmmm, welll... nah, don't want him to look like a leopard.) give him the murderous look (definitely. on second thoughts, would it work?) drag him to the female toilet and give him a "teaching" he won't forget? (yeah, probably. they need to be taught a lesson.) talk reason to him (yeah, definitely my first choice but i have a feeling that it wouldn't work.) make him stand and stare at the wall (when i can't be bothered) let him run free and do whatever he wants (never. i hate kids who run around and make nuisances of themselves while the mums just watch on impassionately. yuck.)
sigh, but i do understand how difficult it can be with kids. come down too harsh on them and they rebel. give them too much freedom and they become devil kids.
oh no, why am i talking about kids in such a motherly manner? damn, i'm really getting old. hahaha in hokkien it just means "chao lao".
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
burnt out.
hahah i've been bugged to update my blog. yes yes i know i haven't been too regular in my blog-updating but sigh, it's week 5 of school and i'm absolutely TIRED.
i'm buried really deep in my huge pile of readings accumulated from week 1. hahaha i know i know, i should have taken my readings at bite size starting from week 1 but well, it's a display of my wonderfully powerful procrastination skills at its best.
and for someone who has been in school since 9 this morning for a blardy meeting which will be continued at 8pm tonight, i'm feeling sufficiently exhausted, at least to warrant myself some time to blog and scream about it.
anyhow, enough whining. heard enough of myself for today.
i've been trying to make a conscious effort to drag my sad sorry carcass to the gym at least twice a week now. apparently, happiness encourages food intake. and a gargantuan insatiable appetite, i must add.
exercising makes me feel good about myself, i think it's an endorphin thing but i must say that it also produces an extremely vicious cycle of exercising → eating more (because i worked for it) → exercising more → eating EVEN more (because i deserve it!!) and well, you see where this is going right? yup, a better and BIGGER me. hahaha
okay, now to happier things → so, the fact that i'm going to france has finally sunk in. to say that i'm thrilled is an understatement! wahaha, i've checked up on air tickets, on the school term and also beginning to revise my absolutely rusty french.
oh well but admist the happiness, the weight of the exchange is once again falling on my small, frail heart. this is the epitome of mixed/confused emotions. sigh just gotta take whatever drops on my plate like a lady i guess. i hope it's a huge nice succulent lobster. :)
anyways, it was munch's birthday celebration on saturday! that sweet girl treated us to vila'ge (at heeren, where the old marche was. although i can't tell the difference btw vila'ge and marche - it was such a successful copycat that i would have thought it was still marche if munch didn't point it out.) and we had such a nice selection of tasty yum yum food!!! too bad jilyn wasn't here. :( haha but good for munch la, she can save on 1 person's worth of food money. :)
after the filling YUM dinner, we proceeded to balcony for drinks and for our bitching session. hahaha it was fun. and informative of course. all the dirty secrets came spilling under the influence of the dark steamy environment and definitely because of our painfully open luk manchi. hope she had fun at her celebration! muacks munch. :))))))
ah! i was trying this picasa collage thing yesterday and i was so excited after admiring my beautiful creations. but oh, i have to warn you before you scroll down any further that it's a pretty mushy sight. haha.
nice ya? i love it. hahaha and don't ask me why i put that kissing photo in front or what i was doing with my mouth wide open. *shy*
i will post more collages once i've got the time to do more. :) alrighty, till the next update.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Watershock on 2nd sept
ho ho ho. our pretty sailing booth! :)
munch the monkey! hugging me early in the morning. hahaha too bad i didn't catch a photo of her and her auntie pouch she was lugging around the whole day. hahaha so cute.
the laser picos we loaned! too bad i didn't get to sail in them. what a waste!
fiona! our dearest baby rabbit! :)
DEBS and AMAN! ahhhh check out our tan. hahahah where's ZIIII?
the GIRLS. ladies. babes. droolsome dears. :) it all applies. :)
i'm writing this post to prove that i have NOT been abducted.
argh, but my dearest laptop has been. and i have not seen it for close to a month now.
arGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. hate it when technology screws itself up and blows up in my face. (okay, not literally here, don't worry) absolutely detest this hollow feeling i get without my darling laptop. haha
it's almost the 4th week of school and already i've got a quiz coming up on monday. that's fast isn't it? argh, the absolute drag of inertia is slowing me down so much i feel like a snail running a marathon. oh well, hopefully i won't be crushed by anyone along my loooonnng journey to the finishing.
OH MY! how could i leave this out!?!! I'M DEFINITELY GOING ON EXCHANGE!
my application to France, ESC - Rouen has been accepted! Hail the people who said yes to my application! WOOT!
i'm absolutely THRILLED about it. the prospect of roaming the streets of one of the most romantic countries in the world, the excitement of taking in all the history of this old yet undeniably fashionable country and the wonderful idea of living in a foreign country is making me go GAGA just thinking about it.
furious planning is definitely needed - ho ho ho and i mean travel plans! WHOOPEE...
but oh well, with everything good comes something bad. and the bad thing comes in the form of my dearest boy. all of a sudden, an exchange means more than just an opportunity of a lifetime. it's a test of our relationship - it could very well go either way.
so, admist the flurry of happiness about my exchange, a tinge or maybe a huge chunk of regret/worry/sadness lingers in the background. well, i guess we can see it as a test. it's definitely not going to be easy to be away from him for a full 5 months!
anyways, i'm glad i'm going to be surrounded by some of my dearest friends in France! :) sin's going to be in paris, so will debra. alvi, ivy and louis will be with me at Rouen, and hopefully rong cos she's still in the midst of deciding. it'll no doubt be a wonderful wonderful exchange! i can envision it now already. it's time for some revisioning of FRENCH. oui oui oui!
sigh, i miss jilyn tan and miss ng. it's bad enough not having a good friend around to announce the good news to and now both of them are so far awayyyy. sigh! and miss NG! please do come online or check your higgley mail. i've been awaiting your grand presence on msn!!!
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
silly me.
I was told that on the 27th of August 2006 1230am, Mars will make a once-in-our-lifetime, remarkably close approach to Earth.
and well, being me, on the pretext that 27th August is already, without that interesting piece of information, supposed to be a special day (our 3rd month), i gladly took in the news.
thinking it would be an extremely special day considering the coincidence of these 2 special events, him and i decided to meet earlier on 26th August to camp out at East Coast Park for a romantic viewing of the "red moon".
yes, from the tone of my post, you can probably tell that we saw nothing. well, being the gullible me, i thought it was the blardy clouds that marred my romantic 3rd month. so, i googled it. :) guess what i found.
RIGHT! it was a hoax. TMD. thank goodness we didn't go through a lot of trouble just to catch the moon. hahaha alright, let me shed some light on this matter, considering the bewildered look you've got on your faces now.
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Claim: The planet Mars will make a once-in-our-lifetimes, remarkably close approach to Earth on 27 August 2006.
Status: False.
Examples: [Collected on the Internet, 2003 and 2006] this was the email message i received! imagine my excitment and glee when i thought this was real. -_-" The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.
The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.
At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30 a.m.
That's pretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month. Share this with your children and grandchildren.
NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN!
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right, anyways, moral of the story: please google such emails before getting too excited. GOOGLE rocks.
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
back with a vengence.
fret not my dear loyal friends, all is not lost and i'm back better and damnit, bigger.
the 3 months of internship did not help my heroic quest of self preservation - to lose weight. neither did getting into a relationship. argh, i guess i just lost the discipline to eat less, exercise more and worse still, to have miraculously regained my voracious appetite for food at all times of the day. damn my not-cooperating food nerve in my brain.
well, school just reopened this week.
things just seem so different, esp with all my good friends (okay, maybe not ALL. :) ), MANY of my good friends flown away to far far away lands. not just a phone call away anymore. :(
school life is definitely worth treasuring, esp having worked the whole summer, i realised the many benefits of studying. really super busy now with VIVACE (freshmen CCA orientation day) coming up on friday. yes this friday. busy meeting up with more dear friends who are going to fly to their far far away lands. busy feeling troubled and upset over stupid things that shouldn't matter. busy feeling tired and lethargic the whole of today.
this is probably not a good time to update you guys about what has happened over the last few weeks when i MIA-ed, especially when i'm in a hell of a bad mood. much less to say i'm not feeling too good myself. (jilynnn, i think we've got telepathy. :) )
alright, so till the next time.
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Sunday, August 06, 2006
this week.
it's 2.20am now.
we are 600km apart and a 7 hours drive away from each other.
i didn't quite look forward to this weekend like how i always do over the past few months. maybe because for once, you're actually not just 15km apart, 20 minutes drive away from me.
i think i'm being silly but i miss you. even though we just spent time together last night, even though it was just 24 hours ago when we last saw each other, even though we talked for 3 minutes tonight, even though i've got you smiling back at me on my room notice board.
this is how it's going to be when i leave for exchange, except we won't be seeing each other for just 4 days but 4 months. 4 long months. for the past year or so, i've been really thrilled by the prospect of living overseas, studying overseas, meeting new friends and enjoying a whole new environment. unfortunately, all these don't appear so attractive anymore. argh. if only we could be there together.
but yes, like what you said, what is the point of getting so caught up worrying about the future if you forget to live today? so i shall continue missing you terribly and go around doing the things i do.
more updates...
wednesday was a bad day for me but he made it so much better. in fact, he made it a good day. he surprised me for lunch. just having lunch and being able to unload all my unhappiness meant so much to me.
it was pouring when he called me, "is it time for lunch?"
and when we were finished, the sky was all clear and blue. the air smelled of fresh rain and the ground was still wet from the downpour.
precisely how he made me feel that day. thank you dear, for clearing the clouds that were looming so dangerously above me. i could have been electrocuted by my charge of negativity if it wasn't for you.
thursday was the day we had dinner, the 3 girls - Alvi, YR and me. we had soup bun for dinner. it wasn't particularly good, given that the soup was too salty, the skin was too thick and the noodles a tad too oily.
but the highlight of the day was the buying of a PRETTY, i must say gorgeous dress. one for each of us. i love it. can't wait to find an occasion to show case my pretty little blue dress. :)
friday - my dearest queen-of-unglam-photos jilyn has left for Sweden. flown away to the far away land of the Vikings.
i'll miss her terribly. it's strange how i start picturing her doing her flared-nostrils look at me, how i keep thinking she'll break into her favourite fei yu qing songs, how she'll try to look as hideous as possible on photos...
can't wait for you to be back and at the same time, hope you'll have the most impossibly enjoyable time in UK and Sweden. and please do take care of yourself. :)
friday was also the day before the boy left for his family holiday. it was nice going back to the place where it all began - to watch the planes zoom pass just above our heads, to listen to the soft swishing of the waves and to see the sky of stars glittering in the sky.
you never cease to amaze me with how your words always strike a cord in my heart, the way you can bring the laughter back into my life when everything just looks too impossibly grey, the way you knock sense into me when i'm worrying about nothing, how you can assure me with just that i-understand smile and how you make me feel so lucky to have you in my life.
tuesday please come quick.
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
sickeningly busy.
well i haven't been THAT busy.
just sick and busy.
i stayed home the whole of sat and bang seh-ed munch for her photoshoot. sorry munch! hope everything went well.
stayed home on wednesday night and missed an exciting Operation Shoes at (is it double O, butter factory or MOS?) sorry girls! for not being able to turn up for the most interesting wednesday girls' night out.
so, some updates about my life now.
it's all about work. and meeting up with friends. and sailing. and him.
work has been terribly tiring. sleeping late, waking up early has become somewhat a routine in my life. and that brings along horrible dark eye rings, perpetual fatigue (some say being constantly tired is a symptom of depression. oh no. hah but most probably not, at least not in my case. (: ), aching shoulders (caused by sailing), failing health, and finally an insatiable craving for food and wellll, some other, erm, people.
so, how's my internship coming along?
well, let's put it this way, my last day is on the 16th of August. that's 17 working days.
i'm counting down the days to when i can FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY wake up without the irritating voice of my brother ringing in my ears "WAKE UP WAKE UP!".
ah, the glorious days of having the luxury of TIME to do things i love to do. i miss sleeping, slacking, meeting up with friends without the nagging thought of having to go back to work early next morning and of course to have more than enough time on my hands to spend time, just quality, let's-do-nothing times with my loved ones.
OOH, to open my eyes slowly and leisurely to the glare of the sun shining through my window panes, with my curtains fluttering in the cool LATE morning breeze.
GAHHH, to leave the house at a time, when the pesty school kids are wallowing in despair in school, when the gan-chiong working people are busy making mountains loads of money, when the housewives are entertaining themselves in the supermarket. THIS is the time to go shopping in orchard. absolutely no crowded, ass packed shopping centres, snaking queues for the changing rooms, thunder faced cashiers (altho not subjected to queues) and squealing kids running in between your legs and through to the next row of clothes. oh don't get me wrong, i love kids! but well, much more when they're not throwing a tantrum and rolling around in sheer and definite rehearsed distress.
oh, and how can i forget this?
OOOOOOHHH, to sink into the warm comfortable sheets, wondering why it feels so exceptionally good to be in bed this morning and then waking up to "ahh no wonder i had such a nice sleep! it's raining!". instead of shielding myself from the relentless, vicious beating of the rain with my poor little crumbling yellow umbrella, trudging the familiar path to the MRT station.
but yes, my internship has not been THAT horrible. i learnt quite a bit and perhaps more than i bargained for. the hard cold facts of working life; the inevitable office politics and apple polishing, the imminent unhappiness/fear of being trapped in a job i hate and doesn't even pay well, the torture of dragging my tired carcass to work after a weekend of FUN (or at least that's what was promised) and the ultimate FEAR of being one of those with boundless potential but yet be inexplicably unfortunate in their careers.
yes i'm being really cynical and pessimistic here, so i shall tell you about the happier things wrt my internship. i made friends, not in the networking sense, but rather in the i-know-what-you're-going-through, you're-quite-a-nice-sincere person kind of sense. i learnt how to take instructions and work with deadlines that actually do affect more than just me and my grades. i learnt how to send emails after emails to give "gentle reminders", to ask for their KIND assistance, to ask for help, to answer their queries, to apologise for mistakes and oversights, to book air tickets and bus tickets, to ask for approvals from high-up-theres, to liase with people halfway across the world.
and as you can see, i really did learn something. so, despite my incessant complaining and whining, i absolutely enjoyed my summer this term.
welll, another reason why summer was so enjoyable this year - HIM.
we just celebrated our 2nd monthsary. :) he bought me a bouquet of flowers which he painstakingly hid in a huge ugly green plastic bag, for reasons i can only guess. altho i know he's just shy to hold a big bouquet of flowers (he thinks it's udderly unmanly), i prefer to believe that he's just trying to surprise me, which i think could be one of the many reasons my flowers were trapped in the green plastic bag the whole night. haha but yes, i do appreciate his sweet intentions. thanks YOU.
i shdn't kill all of you with the sordid details of my love life because you guys would probably just die from an extreme case of goose-pimples. haha so moving on, SAILING.
i never knew i loved the sea so much and how awe-inspiring and magnificent nature can be. words just fail to describe the amazing sensation of riding the waves and working together as a team to feel the boat fly across the water.
"nothing is stronger than the wind." i will never forget that underlying sense of respect i felt in the words of my senior.
but of course, i guess i have not really taken into account my terrible bruises, cuts and hideous tan lines from sailing. well, to me, at least for now, is not as important as perfecting our teamwork on the boat and learning to be a better sailor. :)
so that's about it. for the lack of updates for the past few weeks, this is a superbly LONG post. :) till the next "few weeks later".
i lack chlorophyll ♥
7/23/2006 09:20:00 PM link to post
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remember i was asking for kind hearted, theatre-loving samaritans to sponsor my theatre addiction?
wellll, i got it! but of course not without any strings attached.
if anyone is interested in joining me to be a FOH volunteer for the plays at the Singapore Theatre Festival, please do drop me a note on my tagboard! by being a FOH volunteer, you can get free tickets or CIP hours!! how fun is that?! :))))))))
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7/19/2006 09:33:00 PM link to post
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i'm glad i've got you.
i was obviously upset last night, as you can probably tell from my depressing, bleak, hateful post yesterday.
thank you for rushing to my house just to hear me whine and bitch and complain about it. thank you for coming down all the way just to stay for 45mins. but most importantly, to be there to hold me when i was so down.
i'm really glad i've got you.
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
reciprocity.
it is always chilling to know that someone so close can be so callous and so unforgiving to you, to find out the hard way that reciprocity is the least common relationship among humans.
it is just too painful to realise that it's absolutely naive and dumb to ever hope that people will do what you do for them, to think for you the way you think for them, to understand your actions the way you always do for them, to love you the way you love them, to forgive you the way your heart always does for them.
all these are just too hard for me to comprehend and to accept.
maybe that's why i always get upset when these people don't even come close to how i treat them.
i guess i'm just too idealistic to believe that they understand and that they will ever care to understand.
that is just what life delivers - the cold hard facts, a harsh yet telling lesson; something i have to keep reminding myself. don't expect too much because you just end up falling from a greater height.
i lack chlorophyll ♥
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Singapore Theatre Festival!
It's the Singapore Theatre Festival!
Many good shows to watch out for!
I'm particularly interested in HOMESICK and the last one about JBJ and SALSA and the kitten one.
hey, wait a minute, that's everything i posted here. argh. that's the problem with me. i just can't decide. so many good shows, so little money. any good theatre loving samaritan would like to sponsor me? :D
Alfian Sa'at's HOMESICK
WORLD PREMIERE
The year is 2003, at the peak of the SARS crisis.
The Koh family, scattered across the globe, is forced to reunite when the patriarch falls ill. They have not spoken to each other for years, and are compelled to confront various unresolved issues - sibling rivalries, desertions and betrayals.
Suddenly, Pa is diagnosed as a suspected SARS case, and a home quarantine order is slapped on the household. For the next ten days, there is no avoiding one another! Rooms are occupied, lines are drawn, but the house they grew up in is crowded with memories. What did they leave behind to seek out their new lives in foreign lands? What now returns to haunt them?
What does it mean to belong to a family? Or to a country? How do the bonds that hold them back also hold them together? After all, a family that quits together, stays together...
Homesick is Alfian Sa'at new dark comedy exploring ideas of family, identity and rootless, and the global phenomenon of migration and exile. Alfian's last play Landmarks: Asian Boy's Vol.2 won the Straits Times Life! Theatre Award for Best Script in 2004 and his plays have been performed in Zurich, Berlin, London and Kuala Lumpur.
DATE 02 Aug - 06 Aug 2006 VENUE Drama Centre100 Victoria Street Level 3, National Library
W!LD RICE and TheatreWorks Writers' Lab present Wong Chen Seong's SALSA SALSA SALSA!
WORLD PREMIERE
April, May and June, three older women suddenly alone in world, had been living together for longer than they cared to remember before finally moving out two years ago for good, or so they thought.
When Anne, an old friend on her deathbed calls and asks to see them one last time, they find themselves back in Singapore, together again, and with one small problem: they don't remember who Anne is.
In the meantime, Anne has hired a salsa teacher to teach her friends to salsa, so that they can let her relive the joy of the dance through them.
Their lessons seem easy enough but the reunion become complicated as old wounds are revealed, secrets are revealed and lunacy sets in. Through it all, the beat of the dance goes on, and memory and friendships whirl and turn, as inextricable as dancers on the floor.
DATE 16 Aug - 20 Aug 2006 VENUE Drama Centre Black Box100 Victoria Street Level 5, National Library
W!LD RICE presents Ovidia Yu's THE SILENCE OF THE KITTENS
WORLD PREMIERE
Can it be wrong to do all you can to protect those you love ?
Only if you become the very thing they most need protection from...
The Silence of the Kittens is Ovidia Yu's wicked satire about creating safe, protected environments within families, relationships and nations. And about pacifiers, prejudice and Pasir Panjang.
Directed by Aidli 'Alin' Mosbit (Impenjarament, Rosnah, Ikan Cantik), and featuring a marvelous acting ensemble of Alecia Kim Chua, Helmi Fita, Timothy Nga and Esther Yap, this brand new comedy will have you thinking about cats, people who love cats, people who hate cats and the kind of fate that (in an ideal world) would befall a Minister who advocates the culling of cats...
DATE 02 Aug - 06 Aug 2006 VENUE Drama Centre Black Box100 Victoria Street Level 5, National Library
TICKET PRICE (Exclude Booking Fee) For Fri/Sat Evening Shows Standard - S$33For Wed/Thu/Sun Evening & Sat/Sun Evening Shows Standard - S$28
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W!LD RICE presents Eleanor Wong's THE CAMPAIGN TO CONFER THE PUBLIC SERVICE STAR ON JBJ
WORLD PREMIERE
David Lee (Rodney Oliveiro), NUS student and President of the Association of Students for Self Expression (ASS), takes it upon himself to launch The Campaign to confer the Public Service Star on JBJ. His plucky project takes him on an amazing adventure with both expected and surprising twists and turns.
Clara Tang (Pam Oei), rising star of the Civil Service, is tasked to exercise damage control. In the most challenging mission of her career, she finds herself navigating the maze of New Singapore and Old Constraints.
Join us for a tongue-in-cheek look at the boundaries (perceived or otherwise) of fearless expression in Singapore! This fantastical account of an unlikely petition to publicly recognise an unsung hero unfolds into a wildly imaginative "what-if" exploration of possible official reactions!
Could this ever happen in Singapore?
Remember, objects in the mirror might be closer than they appear.
Celebrated playwright and lawyer Eleanor Wong writes her first full-length play since her ground-breaking trilogy Invitation to Treat with characteristic incisiveness, boldness and razor sharp wit. Directed by Ivan Heng, and with Pam Oei and Rodney Oliveiro creating a cast of at least ten, this promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking roller coaster ride.
Audience Advisory :
"Contains whimsy, satire, parody and copious amounts of exaggerated comedy. If you are on a strict diet of literal fare or are easily offended by irreverence, please consult your MP before attending."
DATE 09 Aug - 13 Aug 2006 VENUE Drama Centre100 Victoria Street Level 3, National Library
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i lack chlorophyll ♥
7/13/2006 12:27:00 AM link to post
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According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem.
A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom.That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the cleaner would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the cleaner.
She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night. To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the cleaner to show the girls how much effort was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet bowl, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers.... and then there are educators.
It is an article named "'Loose' marks if you get these wrong..." by Ethel Wong.
Ethel was pointing out her top 10 peeves in the usage of the English language. Unfortunately, I regret to admit that i've committed some of the mistakes in my daily usage of the language. (thankfully, i only made 2 out of the 10 mistakes stated. and mind you, i have made them but i will NOT make them again, now that i've been educated. (: ) Let me copy what she wrote in the article.
10. Omitting the "H" when pronouncing "three".
9. "With regard to", the letter "S" is to be omitted from the word "regards". [my comment: i never knew this. :S )
8. There is no such word as "irregardless" (correct form: regardless)
7. Adding the plural usage to collective nouns: Furniture, equipment.
6. There is no such word as "weightage" [my comment: for your information, this is not true, as discovered in the next day's TODAY. There actually IS the word weightage, just not in the way we usually use it.] (correct form: weighting)
5. Unable to distinguish between "lose" and "loose". (I had a GP teacher writing in her comments in our essays that we would "loose marks for misspelling" - I nearly died laughing)
4. Not being able to distinguish between the use of "many" and "much"
3. Asking whether someone understand a piece of information: "Blah, blah, class, understood?" [my comment: well, basically, i don't see anything wrong with this. Yes, it may sound really irritating but there is nothing wrong with the sentence, no? It's more like that of a slang than a formal sentence, i must say.]
2. Spelling "a lot" as a word: Alot
1. The prounciation of "salmon": the letter "L" is silent!
i lack chlorophyll ♥
6/23/2006 09:17:00 PM link to post
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haha i wanted to ask you how's life back in m'sia?
but i realised that i had too much to ask you to tag on the tagboard. so here i am, giving you the honour of being the subject of one of my blog entries.
heeeee. so how's life growing vegetables there?
still no internet? awwwww, poor thing. i bet you're starting to appreciate singapore all that more for having the wonderful wonderful technology available everywhere.
HAVE YOU BEEN SHOPPING THERE?!!!!!!!
i want present. :)
I MISSSSS YOUUUU!!!
p.s.: please tell me what you think of the photos i posted. *wink wink* (i hope the boy will pretend not to have seen this.) *you can't see it you can't see it* i lack chlorophyll ♥
6/09/2006 11:07:00 PM link to post
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the football widows
the world cup 2006 kicks off tonight at 12am.
maybe that's why the GSS starts at around the same time. thank you SINGAPORE for providing the football widows an avenue for fun.
the boy loves football and so, within the first 2 weeks of our "attachment", i'm about to be widowed. much less to say that my competitor, no i mean competitors, come in hordes of 22 hot, sweaty, sexy men.
oh well, the boy says, "don't worry, you're my top priority. the other men can wait."
so i guess i should trust him. :)
maybe i'll even come to love football and be the best female football guru! eh hey, and maybe be good enough at predicting the scores that i can even earn some money from the matches. eh eh.. sounds good. haha but i guess i'm still a far cry from all that since i only learnt what "off side" meant 1 week ago.
and so, my first official introduction to the game of football begins tonight when i watch it with the boy. hope it'll be fun. nah, i'm SURE it'll be fun. i mean, hey look at who's watching it with him! it's the company that matters. hur hur hur.
i lack chlorophyll ♥
6/09/2006 12:57:00 AM link to post
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munch the monkey! hugging me early in the morning. hahaha too bad i didn't catch a photo of her and her auntie pouch she was lugging around the whole day. hahaha so cute. 
the main leads!
the 3 pwetty us. well, pretty at least for now. 
heh, see what i mean? ho ho ho.
deciding where to head to on this extremely HOT saturday afternoon.
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