diaper days

2012-01-30T15:22:00.001+08:00

i'd go crawling down the avenue

you know there's nothing that i would not do

to make you feel my love

salutations! sitting in MRB now waiting to go for facial
10am classes are quite friendly but i always feel like apart from
the friends that i already know .. everyone else is weird conversations
are contrived and filled with the twiddling of thumbs awkward ums and ohs.
not to mention all the stupid questions and people who have no filter between
their brains and their mouths. hohum.

chinese new year was really fun felt quite bad since eugene ong was
the sole loser last night. his luck was very good last year so we assumed it would be
the same and ate as much abalone as we could to make our moneys worth .. haha.
in one weeks time loon and hh will be far far away in poland and only
four of us will be left, at least alvin definitly definitely coming home the holidays
not sure how much of him we'll see but HURRAY.

alrighty 8 photos before i go back to my readings, so many speeches but at least
they're easy to read ciaobella!

at greenwood after mojo's 21st

DOGGEHWOGGEH!

behbeee has a 'get me out of here'

shogute

almost exactly one week ago

doggehboy!

modified pacifier

ok time to go blog soon .. like when i graduate

or when we submit our fyp report can't wait for it to be an ovary!

2012-01-27T12:05:00.000+08:00

listening to someone's itunes playlist via the nus network
i think i'm in (L)-(L)ove

2012-01-25T18:06:00.000+08:00

my chinese new year brain is outta energizer bunnies

FINAL FYP presentation tomorrow

hopefully it will be MEGUSTA

going to ahma's for the favorite meal in my life

please no traffic jam please no traffic jam

2012-01-22T00:44:00.000+08:00

where'd you go

i miss you so

seems like its been forever

since you've been gone

please come back home

salutations! its one day before chinese new year and its been a lovely evening
woke up at 9 very sorely (sore because i did fart legs the other day) and went to
play touch rugby only i'm not very good at it so its more like .. running around
and blocking people accidentally but it was fun, went for delicious thai food after
followed by salted caramel and my favorite mahjong combination of friends

went down to talk to my parents for awhile and came up to find eugene ong and loon
on the bed and hh on the floor, looks like they need to attend some gentleman training classes..
went for mojo's 21st and then to mount faber to break some rules, came back home
about to bathe after this .. banana!

dinner from last saturday with hui, li and nic

tea came with your own teapot

the club is amazing and new and OOOH

best flats ever!

roadside squats

nice looking creepers through a fence

reflection by the river

welcome home with a white streak in the sky

yellow diamond in the sky

OMNOMNOM

hello behbee!

back to school!

hello and goodbye jingle!

take care and enjoy work

FYP SUCCESS

lunch from awhile back

right after my final interview

we love peranakan food

house parties are always fun

what a purdy flower

digital hand held cameras can be quite cool

my favorite! who is getting slightly rude

SUCH A CUTE BOY

alrighty, goodnight! and HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

2012-01-20T01:43:00.000+08:00

no more pencils

no more books

no more teachers' dirty looks!

does anyone remember the barenstain bears?

i certainly do .. i also remember malory towers, the twins at st.clair

the five find-outers and buster + mr.goon ALL OF ENID BLYTONs books

ladybird books ah, i loved reading as a kind (except the silly animorph books that nick liked)

i also liked the horrible histories series it makes learning so interesting

all schools should use it! what other books. ohyes roald dahl henry sugar was awesome

some of his short stories that were recently repackaged and republished are kinda disturbing

but you won't know any better as a kid so i guess its all right

photo from the first day of school, cher with the backpack we got her

(isn't it cute) and bala with a star on her head .. i only have 4 modules this semester

school is on monday, tuesday and wednesday .. what a way to end my studies

FOR GOOD hopefully (at least for now) alrighty bed time CP meeting

today was so great but i'm so tired goodnight!

2012-01-17T23:15:00.004+08:00

how i wish, how i wish you were here

we're just two lost souls

swimming in a fish bowl

year after year running over the same old ground

what have we found?

hello! its been awhile since i've had time to do nothing
and i do love doing nothing because nothing involves
photoshop and grey's anatomy with 20 minute showers
school has started! today's class was very interesting but
i need to do lots of reading my general knowledge is ..
close to nothing compared to the people in class haha

woke up at 8:20 and made it to school by 9, managed
to .. wash my face but only with water and brush my teeth
not bad, thank god for good traffic i think road accidents are
stupid there's this rule that they shouldn't move till the cops come
to document the scene but i think thats a downright stupid rule
two cars were blocking the ENTIRE sliproad exit from CTE
and there were tons of cars just stuck behind. ok that was quite
an extreme case ..this applies to simple accidents as well
cars should always try to move to the shoulders because there are
SO MANY CARS in the morning..silly drivers and rules.

photo time bananas! lots of nice photos with my new camera!
you can see water and i feel like a pro photographer now

chinese new year plants!

photo from my ma's birthday

fambly sing-along time

delly daphne and i

singing tra-la-la!

hpbd to me!

photo of some electrical control box when i went for my walk

SPANKS SPUTNIKS

more hpbd to me with eugene ong

eating all the crabs

3M going strong!

hi girls

lana cake, they spelt it as gary initially

good thing the lady spotted it because

i wouldn't have ..its cursive

huis' KINDLE!!!

so fun e-ink is really quite amazing

apple of whose eye?

LOOK AT MY AWESOME CAMERA

turtles and stingrays for rent at the club

chelsea wanted one but i think there might be a weight limit

not that you're fat chelps .. but we are 23 now

please don't go .. what will i blog about

for the next 6 months?

sunshine daisies buttermellow

turn that stupid fat rat yellow

facedown piak in the water

g3rzzz

splishsplash

favorite photo of the day

ong brothers looking alike

while jumping out of the pool

ALRIGHTY BED TIME (maybe)

or one more episode of greys life is so gr8

and dinner today was very nice too

I LOVE MY FRIENDZZ

2012-01-15T01:54:00.000+08:00

my love, the reason i survive

trust we'll be together soon

hello bananas! its been such a fun weekend and i'm 23

there's no difference, there's never a difference till you look back

at the past 10 years and let your chin fall to the floor as you marvel

at how we've all grown and changed

photos then bed because i need to wake up early to take care

of little p5/p6 kids and I DO LOVE LITTLE BOYS!

happy sparkly pink manicure kit

i'm becoming less and less averse to pink now adays

told you it was all a phase

post-dinner digestion meeting up with my childhood friends

is always awesome and fun played with hui's kindle

I WANT A KINDLE (surprise!)

planner the girls bought me they bought me last year's

planner as well, what useful and thoughtful friends

can you guess the meme?

eat ALL the cake!

with bobby and bala

walked around the estate the other day and befriended

every baby and dog that i met, also found this plant with heart shaped leaves

pardon the blurriness, the wind was blowing

alright goodnight, thanks for all the love

i am so blessed and happy and its time to

sleep 8-) NAITE BANANAS

2012-01-12T22:19:00.003+08:00

sometimes it lasts in love
but sometimes it hurts instead

2012-01-10T14:22:00.001+08:00

about time!

2012-01-09T01:21:00.000+08:00

when there's no getting over that rainbow

when my smallest of dreams won't come true

i can take all the madness the world has to give

but i won't last a day without you

tonight was uber fun! and everybody was very happy and excited
and it was so cosy and happy and .. my descriptive words are very limited
but SCHOOL TOMORRROW!

photo of my ma trying to blow out her un-blowable-outable candles

she was such a sport hahaha

I LOVE MY FAMBLY

goodnight! all the best in school and jesus loves you!

2012-01-08T00:42:00.001+08:00

the one with the waggedy tail

HELLO. almost bed time have to get back to normal sleeping at normal hours
woke up and went to meet ultraman today, after that we went to his house
and he made creme bruleee for us..it was very delicious and then REST WELL!
its pouring outside now, good time to sleep here are 14 more photos!

doggehwoggeh

always waiting for a belly rub

sleeping pill beauty

don't cry loon!

right after surgery

still happy and dry-eyed

tuesday!

welcome home couch potato

reaching for tuesday

dimsum dinner

omnom & orlua

english breakfast for supper at siglap

apple shooters

nice looking toiletries

are your insides happy now 8-)

GOODNIGHT JUMP INTO BED
church tomorrow ..hurray!

GOODNIGHT!!

2012-01-07T20:37:00.000+08:00

I HAS NEW TOY!!!

anyway, MY BIRTHDAY is coming & here's a list of things that will be nice

bible (mine is missing! nice carry around leather bound one with no tabs)
dog treats (dog jelly looks so nice but costs $20 a pop)
a planner (the book type to take down notes & homework and plan my year)
stationary (lost my pencil box last year, grace already got me a pencil box, but i need to fill it

that is all and of course a hand written card with a story of how we met, how i changed your life and how we'll always be friends. i have a drawer full of cards since secondary school days, PLENTY of notes written on foolscap paper dotted with hilighter ink and really silly things. but every time i open that drawer (i'll sneeze first, because its dusty) i can't help but smile at all the things we've gone through and how much more life has to throw at us.

ok going to jalan around ang mo kio now, i like lazy saturdays and sorry for being late today chelps and hh, going back to the usual sleep cycle once school starts!

2012-01-07T00:54:00.001+08:00

to be or not to be

there is a clump of hair in my shower, I HATE CLUMPS OF HAIR IN MY SHOWER. not to mention a soaked bath mat and facial wash tubes strewn all over the floor coupled with saccharine sorta sweet goosebumps inducing giggles coming from downstairs. i've picked up her hair countless times except from when i'm super grumpy and hope she will pick it up the next morning but no..never always hogging the toilet, pooping with the door open using my dental floss and having the cheek to loudly exclaim t WHERE'S the DENTAL FLOSS? through the toilet door when i packed it for my cruise. i've contributed my fair share of nasty behavior too.. like squeezing the toothpaste ABSOLUTELY dry so she has to go to work without brushing teeth (or settle with mouthwash, ya see..use my mouthwash also) or taking 1 hour showers.

not sure but how i feel is that as a new comer aliciadear should adapt, i shouldn't have to compromise ANYTHING for her i'm used to nick knowing when i'm bathing and i'm also used to using the toilet for 2 hours .. yaknow slowly take my time bathe change moisturize floss wear retainers take up contacts all while watching 2 episodes of grey's anatomy.

she's so troublesome, and not even slightly cute, no value added-ness.. she's simply toiletry diminishing and mood wrecking. i would trade you for 10 puppies, or even 1, wouldn't mind a 5 year old menopausal shar-pei or geez, even a box of mealworms (ok maybe not mealworms are really gross and smelly) point is .. no point peeling crabs for ahma when everything else behind closed doors points to the fact that you really don't give a rat's ass about anything else but yours.

photo of nick and alicia by some unknown girl on nick's facebook

yala see always scold and scream at nick

throw his handphone on the floor and control him like a puppet

that's why his face like that my brother is INCREDIBLY NICE

he may be .. lazy but he is nice and sweet and kind and if you

ever take advantage, manipulate or scream at him when i'm around i will

hmm, call my mother after screaming at you and tackling you to the ground

don't say i'm biased, i think alicia (at least she thinks since its her profile picture) thinks that

she looks absoultely gorjuss here.. haha she can only take photos on one side

i think she thinks the other side is very ugly (but not much difference anways..)

maybe when i'm taking family photographs i'll try to purposely take on her ugly side

the last time i did that she leaned away from nick towards my auntie..

and here's a photo of her smoking

HIPPOPOCRACRITE.

they've been together for 8+ months, so some things must be going right

but i really can't wait for nick to wake up and smell the roses and realize

that he shouldn't for anything in the world settle for anyone who isn't as

kind, caring, compassionate, generous, helpful (and goodlooking) like he is.

2012-01-06T15:19:00.000+08:00

on stupidity

i know i'm allergic to apple by DKNY, but after not using it for a few months i always think that maybe today it will be different. well, it is not and my nose is running like a faucet.

2012-01-06T12:36:00.000+08:00

oldschool2000

late nights don't go that well with me watched the girl with the dragon tattoo

my whole body aches because the show was intense, creepy and mysterious throughout

and my spine was slumped into the seat for the entire 2.5 hour duration with my

palms covering my face for about 20% of the movie or whenever creepy music played

kept trying to imagine that the creepy music was just an act for some acrobatic show

its R21 but like in a disturbing gross way .. ended the night in geylang so that was

quite cool, never been there at night!

time for school SEE YOU BANANAs

2012-01-05T17:29:00.001+08:00

won't let you get away

if we ever meet again

HELLOYELLOPOMELOS! where do we start, its the second last day

before school starts for real! oh need to check on my bidding be back in abit

shucks, 2A closed at 1pm hope my 897 points are enough to get the DNA module

EAT THAT POOR YEAR 1S, we've all been there before .. smirk

i had so much fun last night, like whoohoo and your hands in the air

ok less typing, i have to pack my room and remove 3.5 years of notes

scribbles and textbooks from my floor, its so cluttered i don't know what it

feels like to fully stretch out my legs under my desk

lunch with handsome loon at ikea

before going for a ferry ride

where is my brada loon

class gathering last week

KFC and pizza hut overload

i think there's still coleslaw in the fridge

remember jiawei?

he's all grown up now with plucked eyebrows

looks nicer that it tastes

but it looks pretty good

how sweet it is to be loved by you

HNG?

le sweet couple

outside thai noodle house that was closed

so we went .. somewhere else and got ripped

thai food before our cook out

vons and chelps at cold storage

while the boys went on a splurging spree

waiting for the ask car to come home

ENTER the kitchen

lava-cake to be

girls doing all the work as usual

with loon observing

OMNOMLAVACAKE DELICIOUS

it was the best ever!

bokeh christmas tree plus the little reindeer

that loonpa brought back from korea

our all time favorite taboo

played 3 times but the girls won all the time

gaulf

with an excited little golfer

WELCOME HOME VAL

alrighty time to clean up! keep safe ong eugee and chelpbomb

reunited on saturday night!

2012-01-05T05:16:00.001+08:00

I HAVE THE BEST FRIENDS EVER

2012-01-04T00:05:00.000+08:00

If you're lost you can look--and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you--I'll be waiting
Time after time

We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. “How he’s grown!” we exclaim, “How time flies!” as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal.

A wish may lead to false beliefs, granted. But what does the existence of the wish suggest? At one time I was much impressed by Arnold’s line, “Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.” But surely, tho’ it doesn’t prove that one particular man will get food, it does prove that there is such a thing as food! i.e. if we were a species that didn’t normally eat, weren’t designed to eat, would we feel hungry? You say the materialist universe is “ugly.” I wonder how you discovered that! If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there? Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Of if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. (“How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up & married! I can hardly believe it!”) In heaven’s name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal. --C.S Lewis

That's not really how I would like to think of life, we're always fed and ingrained with thoughts of leaving a legacy. We grew up with plaque paved walls bearing the names of outstanding and valedictorian-ish students from yesteryear. Founders, philanthropists and visionaries are remembered through effigies, building names and roads. When someone important dies, flags all over the world are flown at half mast...but at the end of the day everything is forgotten. History can reveal what happened in the 15th century, paint a sketch of what happened in the 11th and hazard a guess at what life was like during the first millennium but nothing is truly eternal, nothing but you of course...

2012-01-02T22:27:00.000+08:00

HELLO EVERYBODY! finally caught mission impossible IV which was quite cool, didn't get quite the adrenaline rush when Tom Cruise was rappelling down the Burj Khalifa but i thought that the twist at the end was quite awesome. gotta catch up on this backlog of movies so its Sherlock Holmes next. Eugene also fixed up the PlayOnDVR! Player so we've been having lots of fun watching everything in BluRay.. well that's about it. bidding resumes tomorrow and i think that school is starting too soon. BAJILLION POSTS worth of photos, but work beckons! BBANANA

2012-01-01T02:44:00.000+08:00

no turning back

hello! spent the new year snoozing on loon's sofa and woke up to
own the boys at taboom, spend the whole afternoon and evening
slicing, dicing marinating and chopping to prepare for our very
sumptuous dinner. met for thai food in the afternoon and ohya woke up
early to go down to boon lay to buy wholesale beef

this year has been so very wonderful with a myriad of ups and downs
even though i may be slightly scared of what is to come i'm mostly
excited and can't wait for the new year to begin, what a mixed year 2012 will be
with half of it spent on studying (for possibly the last time ever!) and the other half
working and engaging in grown-up activity like paying for bills and filing taxes

photos from christmas then its time for bed
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

from our boxing day party

too much pizza and kfc leftover in the fridge

game master lois explaining the rules of the game

that were duly ignored when the boys decided to use

their water reserves to drench us completely

pass the parcel

you're doing it right!

its been a great year, and you wont' leave me ever again

because we're done with exchanges!

GOODNIGHT!

2011-12-31T01:08:00.001+08:00

2011-12-30T00:10:00.000+08:00

God is good, all the time

he put a song of praise

in this heart of mine!

hello there millionaires I have tons of photos and stories to tell

and I realize how important the opinion of my friends are to me

and I'm kinda over the moon that my mum gave me the go-ahead

on something that I've been thinking about for quite awhile

had a fun day with jiawei as we explored three different hangouts

for food, coffee and more food its quite a luxury to sit by the river

and just drink iced-chocolate for 3 hours with nothing to rush to

caught margin call which was quite interesting, wonder if banks

really operate that way, with special helicopters and fire fighting meetings

held in the wee hours of the morning.

had a WONDERFUL time of HTHT with loonja & ongbak last night

who would have taught poor anti-socially-awkward gerry could ever

achieve that 5 years back, and look! i even have big eugene and we've been

together for 4 years now (short of 15 days). life really does surprise me

but sometimes its not a surprise or a stroke of luck .. sometimes you've just

got to know that .. everything in life is .. somewhat, divine.

2011-12-27T01:38:00.000+08:00

its the most wonderful time of the year

tonight was kinda fun our detailed planning for our water war game lasted for 5 minutes

also got hosed down when i tried to get back into the house .. haha anyway bed time

there's work to be done tomorrow!

if only we can do this every week ..

but next semester there'll be no loon

then there'll be no eugene

then i'll just grow fat and pasty and find no friends like them

NIGHT!

2011-12-26T01:32:00.000+08:00

chelpbomb

ongbak

loonja

longkoga

gerrysim

koko

eevee

eugenebig

ah, we need more nicknames

AND TIME FOR BEDS!

HAPPY BOXING DAY!

2011-12-25T04:10:00.000+08:00

best Christmas ever!

a great big part of my happiness comes from knowing that the ones I love are happy

thank you skypa for the wonderful year, and for everybutty that you've given me

photos when this festive season is over. MWA

2011-12-23T01:30:00.001+08:00

too tired to bathe

2011-12-23T00:36:00.000+08:00

hi there! christmas eve is tomorrow and i've been wrapping presents
and doing chores and my room is messier than ever, be back in awhile
i have 2000 surveys to analyze now CIAO

2011-12-21T01:29:00.000+08:00

there's a light in your eyes that i used to see

there's a place in your heart where i used to be

was i wrong to assume that you were waiting for me

there's a light in your eyes

did you leave that light burning for me

alohamora! its 1:05am and its almost time for bed

my laptop died yesterday so i rushed her into emergency surgery

but she's still kinda fuzzy i can't imagine using any other OS

other than a mac, looking at windows pcs makes me feel trapped

and sad whereas the mac is bright and shiny and full of possibilities

woke up and sent nick to school today, well actually he sent me to his school

and then i went for brunch with cher & bala at hatched which was very delicious

and eggy after that i circled town in search of a parking lot and ended up waiting

for 30 minutes and finally got a parking space and took a train to centerpoint

spent all our vouchers and trudged back to taka to look for my friends

sat down for a really long time at starbucks and laughed alot, walked around

and laughed more .. took a slow drive home and had dinner at famous

followed by the 9pm show that loon and hh follow very closely

played with the TV watched sherlock holmes that i taped last night

sat there and felt like a king in the recliner .. came up and here i am!

dinner today was very fun .. talked about old times, skinny times, lost times

hazy times its been 6 years since i first met loonja and learned to love his

subtle, sarcastic, funny ways. time to create a video slideshow of all our lives

(when i have the time, which is .. mm after i graduate maybe)

hope my office computer has photoshop and imovie when i start working ..

(that means i need a mac)

PHOTOTIME then bed time then send nick to school for exam time

ciaobella!

hatch's christmas menu is really cute

they also have christmas specials

kinda pricey though two soft-boiled eggs for $5!

with cherbear

(bala took the photo)

she says hi

starbucks cups have strange cliched captions

and everything is nicer ice-blended

loon & hh after they both ended work ..

at the CD shop in paragon

the paragon christmas tree has a real carousel

revolving around it

watching the 9 o'clock show

watching sherlock holmes with nickyboy

nick says .. 'draw me like one of your french girls'

christmas tree zoomed in from the couch

happy santa snowman family

alrighty, re-watching some episodes of greys its quite funny

one of the patients who passed away came back to act as a nurse

and the chief's niece is played by a different actress in season 3 and 4

so that's about it results came out today, they were a bit upsetting

and quite good at the same time .. CHRISTMAS IS COMING

WHOOHOOOBANANA!

2011-12-19T01:06:00.000+08:00

it's not time to make a change,

just sit down, take it slowly.

you're still young, that's your fault,

there's so much you have to go through.

haha eugene has never heard of cat stevens wonder what his real name is

but it doesn't matter because he sings such lovely songs let me show you!

boyzone did a cover (do you remember boyzone? haha)

anyway his real name is Yusuf Islam and he's from england

i like guys with full bearded faces

finally put up the christmas tree today! the renovations are almost done

just waiting for the bar counter to be up and for the automann to arrive

the new sofa set is very squishy but takes up lots of space not sure if zedd

is allowed on them yet so he's been hanging out on the new carpet instead

woke up went for lunch went for my godpa's birthday lunch then

to cherie's for wedding planning then to popo's for dinner then home

to finish watching the price & i i like julia stiles!PHOTO time gotta sleep school tmr!

eating b&js phish food for me and sour smelling

strawberry cheese cake for eugene

oogling at the sharpness of bluray tv

SO CUTE SIR

(i call him sir neddy now, his name really does evolve alot)

OK BYE CHRISTMAS WEEK CAN'T WAIT TO JOSTLE IN THE CROWD
to buy christmas presents BOOYA

2011-12-18T03:26:00.000+08:00

all we can do is keep breathing

late night tonight, today was the same as last week

we started off with breakfast, pool basketball, fries

lunch, abit of shopping mahjong and furniture moving

i love my friends, but things will be much quieter once

loonja & hh go on exchange .. and when they return

ahbak will be heading over to europe, at least i still have chelpbomb (:

tea with my ma, auntie sui, auntie peggy and eugene yesterday

went to chris' tea house (the one in the news) and it was gorgeous

everything was really nice and ornate! they did however have MANY

signs that said 'please do not study or nap' and 'usage of power socket costs $80 per use'

and 'please do not move the furniture' not sure if its because of the incident that

was reported of if they've always been very 'strict' about everything

nevertheless, food was delicious and tea was really enjoyable

it has a purdy

my ma laughing with auntie joyce over dinner

(no prizes for guessing where we ate)

lovsa hear you pluckin

zedd on his new favorite carpet while listening to eugene play the guitar

its quite a good camouflage haha

oil-free moisturizer that loonja brought back from korea

i think eugene ong left some seaweed here too

(not sure if he did it by accident or intentionally)

but i am thankful all the same NOM

photo from after our shower justin ong is quite cute

christmas tree decorated with fat teddybears

NA, here's your profile picture loon

BEDTIME I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME

2011-12-17T02:37:00.000+08:00

& i hope you find your freedom

eventually, for eternity

hello, i'm home and i'm sitting in front of my new tv
and its so clear its unreal i also have a new furry carpet
the sofa is coming soon but for now the barstools are quite cool
i'e had such a great and highly emotional week but for now
here are .. 19 photos and then its bed time before i meet loonja and gang
please don't rain!

zeddybear! he has a new rug to lie on

accompanying nick for late night mahjong

delicious dirty vanilla cake i had with pwk

the cake is in the pot so cute right!

nothing like a parasitical friend on a lazy saturday morning

loveyouchelpbomb

my favorite

always take photos here because its nice

waiting for the lunar eclipse

SO HAPPY

greetings from the ground

my dad on our short cruise

MEET SKINNY HEALTHY TIMMY

he lost 40 kg in 3 months all you fatties out there

go and learn from him! he just worked out at the gym on the ship

in this photo

if you work out you can pig out

YEAHHH

walking around the ship its quite good because you run into

everyone eventually and i also lived right below the casino

jason my cousin twice removed he's timmy's dad's sister's son

and they flew over to join us quite fun making him try everything

things like orlua, charkwayteow, popiah, rojak .. he always said everything

was REALLY GOOD but .. haha he was just being polite

trying to look for something they would eat on the chinese menu

ship docked at phuket so we got off for 6 hours

IT WAS SO HOT

just sitting and waiting

we did lots of waiting since we were a big group of 11

nice compact toilet

while waiting to disembark

rainbow on the way in

is that bukom?

ALRIGHTY NIGHTYNIGHT!

2011-12-15T22:01:00.000+08:00

i've been .. very blessed but sometimes having too many options can be a bad thing. first you compare then you start to think that you can have everything but may eventually end up with nothing. lots of photos when all this is over and i can tell you about it. but for now its .. happy birthday again and sorry for being lousy and sleepy when you're 24

2011-12-15T02:54:00.001+08:00

hi guys i'm home! with lots of photos!
happy birthday to you!!

2011-12-08T23:37:00.000+08:00

my song

this cornerstone this solid ground,
firm through the fiercest draught and storm
what heights of love, what depths of peace
when fears are stilled, when striving cease
my comforter my all in all.
here in the Christ of love I stand.

i grew up thinking i'll be great and amazing and go to harvard law school
like elle woods in legally blonde. but as i grow and age, everything
i do, everything i am becomes more limited and painfully normal.
i don't think anyone ever strives to be completely and utterly normal
but we always give ourselves some leeway we have to be special in SOME WAY
don't we? sometimes my mediocrity and unsurprising performance in everything
in life really .. makes me feel sad and normal

i also think that my parents haven't been proud of me in a long time, they're really
really supportive in everything, but ever since primary school i've been just
floating along in my mediocre and average ways .. giving them odd surprises
that always more than often turn into disappointments. HM.

things that make me do feel special, despite the SHEER ordinari-ness of my being

making people laugh (by giving, hugging, make-funning)
being loved by you

sometimes i just can't wrap my head around how i can be loved in all my normal-ness

how you pick me aside to tell me that you have a plan for my seemingly unexceptional life

a plan that isn't haphazard or a jumble of bits that everyone else doesn't want

but instead a plan that was crafted and moulded with love and understanding for me

i may not see things now, but i'm pretty sure i'll figure things out in retrospect

(i'm quite good at joining the dots) hope you liked the song .. owlcity ftw!

till he returns, or calls me home

here in the power of christ i stand

2011-12-07T22:41:00.001+08:00

Every memory of looking out the back door

I have the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor

It's hard to say it, time to say it

Goodbye, goodbye

hello, its 10:30 and an early night for me

too lazy/not enough photos to warrant a photo upload

so we'll just take a walk down memory lane .. and things from the past

that are lined with nostalgia, zits and good times.

self-timed shots on a lamp post ftw

it still looks the same bla

TAKE care down under!

whaddanoob.

dead sea scrolls exhibit.

only 5 bits of dead sea scrolls to look at

churning out essays from dusk till dawn with my favorite balaji

that's me!

and me!

d'aww

d'aww x 8 (rotate this by 90 degrees)

pass driving test on first try face

haha .. pass driving test on ..

this was the ris low period

boomz.

ZEDDYBEAR

three christmases ago?

with my dad's piggybank present

the night lois told me she was in a relationship with a girl

just because he's cute

& i miss you all

baby sheralyn

OK BEDS!

wish i had something more to say

i'm out of encouragement but i do have some pretty chandeliers!

2011-12-07T01:32:00.000+08:00

today i was home alone .. and it wasn't even my house..haha
i'm abit tired of having no TV or common lazing area downstairs
i've taken to lying on the floor with zedd on my back but its kinda cold
also the medicine that i've been taking makes my stomach feel
empty and hollow eventhough i ate alot for dinner

its 1:32 in one weeks time i'll be .. not in singapore
banana

2011-12-04T02:22:00.000+08:00

i'll be out of my mind

& you'll be out of ideas pretty soon

so let's spend the afternoon in a cold hot air balloon

hello! it's 2:09am church in awhile and i'm starving

i've been eating soft foods for a really long time and maybe

they just digest more quickly and well anyway i'm hungry now

lots of photos! and my mouth is healing fine, need to shower soon..

flowers in amsterdam from one year ago!

so purply and happy HELLO

omnomnom with chelpbomb on a grass patch

everywhere is a postcard in europe

cycled out from windmills

lots of coins that still line my bags

need to get that sorted out soon

i miss cooking rice i was such an awesome rice cooker

PERFECTLY FLUFFY WHITE RICE

from halloween last year, hooded kevin, jason and me!

oh wow, a picture of EV before I knew her

taken just as we were sailing past one bridge

chilling on the deck after perspiring from all the jumping

istanbul! exchange has been .. well it was fun

but I LOVSA life now all the same

one for one festive drinks from starbucks

toffee nut latte tastes like .. gula melaka

so glad my swelling has gone down got my wisdom teeth extracted by ruth

it was quite an experience!

ahbak

at the line, you can get a 40% discount if you book online!

face abit fat had mushroom soup for dinner wasn't very filling

or satisfying since everyone was eating lots of .. other things

the other side of the table

tall chelpbomb

short chelpbomb

candylicious can make ANYONE happy

LOVE CHOCOLATE especially

christmas chocolate!

down to starbucks check out loon's new handbag

a teary eyed loon after watching

'you are the apple of my eye'

happy birthday julius!

last night at barbar

such a mix of expressions

welcome home chuck!

d'awwww

eugene brought McDelivery

eugene & mark at cell today

CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATE

attendance

OK shower time, where is my McDelivery

I'M STARVING!

2011-12-03T21:14:00.000+08:00

hi guys!

haha sorry for the emptyness, had my toofs extracted so i've been milking it
by getting people to cut up my food for me and rolling around in pain.
ok kidding about that, but submitted my ISM and i've been busy going out
and buying things for the house. christmas is WAFTING through every bit
of air i smell. (could be better phrased) but BOOYA. report back with photos
in 3 hours maybe!

2011-12-02T03:09:00.002+08:00

ALL TIME FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG

plus a few others but they're so cute!

2011-12-02T01:56:00.001+08:00

you are the apple of my eye is so sweet OMT.
go watch if you haven't it is so awesome!

2011-11-30T01:44:00.001+08:00

toenail on the brink of dropping off
koga this is floorball's fault!
no open toed shoes for a long time then

2011-11-28T22:57:00.000+08:00

TOLDJOO USP people are weird. here's a post from 'The Club'
and how amazingly rude this David person can be.

David Tan
Since it's now acceptable to eat durians in Chatterbox, would it be possible for me to cultivate Amorphophallus titanum and Rafflesia plants on a lush bed of horse manure in all the common lounges?

· · · Yesterday at 21:53 near Singapore

Alwyn Ng and Davin Choo like this.
- Alwyn Ng Rafflesia! (Y)
  Yesterday at 21:57 ·
- Nic Wong Make sure you use a proper pot or container to prevent the soil from damaging the carpet.
  Yesterday at 22:01 ·
- David Tan I was actually thinking of covering the carpet in a nice thick layer of mangrove mud and add some sulfur-digesting bacteria. That should come close to approximating the durian smell that's permeating the entirety of chatterbox right now
  Yesterday at 22:02 · · 1
- David Tan What do you think, Ian Gan?
  Yesterday at 22:33 ·
- Ian Gan it was a mistake on my part and I have already apologised to you. I'm airing chatter now.
  Yesterday at 22:55 · · 7
- Ian Gan just to clarify it was a box of puffs and not a whole durian
  23 hours ago ·
- David Tan Of course... and durian puffs smell nothing like durians. In fact, they reek of the lovely odours of bullshit
  23 hours ago ·
- David Tan If I may add, saying
  
  "i apologise for not recognizing that you hated durians"
  
  rather quite misses the point by a few miles, does it not? So if people in the room had no problems with durians, you'd gladly permeate the room with its lovely malodours, ignoring of course the fact that other people may walk in who do not partake of its sweet aroma? Pathetic
  23 hours ago ·
- Ng Yong Hao let live, David. it will come back to you. even if you don't believe that, at lest be gracious. let. the. incident. go.
  23 hours ago · · 3
- Shawn Quek ‎David Tan, regarding who's at fault, can take this offline ya? Ian Gan already apologized and is airing the room.
  
  Food, and fruits, are allowed in our common areas so durians are always going to be that 'grey area' as to whether people can consume them..
  23 hours ago ·
- David Tan ‎Yong Hao: Kindly elaborate on what you mean when you say "it will come back to you". I don't quite understand what you meant by saying that. Karmic retribution for taking offence at the smell of people eating durians?
  
  Shawn: So I suppose you're implying that people SHOULD be allowed to eat durians and generally generate offensive odours in public places since it's not expressly forbidden despite it clearly going against established rules of public decorum? So if I were to fling food particles all over the place in your common lounge I'd be firmly within a 'grey area' since there are no express rules forbidding it? Don't be stupid
  22 hours ago ·
- David Tan So... moral of the story:
  
  1. Non-apologies do actually count as apologies
  2. Durian puffs and durians smell totally different
  3. Durians fall within a grey area within public spaces, much like taking a shit in a common lounge would be since some people are clearly shiteaters.
  22 hours ago ·
- Ng Xin Zhao ‎Ng Yong Hao it's ok. One has to reap one's own Karma.
  22 hours ago · · 1
- David Tan And here comes Siddartha Gautama to dispense his sagely wisdom from the bottom of the bodhi tree.
  22 hours ago · · 3
- Ng Xin Zhao Thank you.
  22 hours ago · · 13
- Ng Yong Hao We can argue till the cows come home about statement: "it will come back to you". However that is not what I am driving at. And you chose to look at that statement only.
  
  As I said, if you don't believe that it is fine. I am asking you to be gracious about the wrongdoings of others, regardless the person has apologized from your perspective.
  
  let. the. incident. go. ok?
  22 hours ago · · 1
- Alwyn Ng See here, if you redact David's argument in the following manner:
  
  "So I suppose you're implying that people SHOULD be allowed to _____ and generally generate offensive _____ in public places since it's not expressly forbidden despite it clearly going against established rules of public decorum? So if I were to fling _____ all over the place in your _____ I'd be firmly within a 'grey area' since there are no express rules forbidding it? Don't be stupid"
  22 hours ago ·
- David Cheah David, I don't quite partake the sweet aroma of this negativity. I think you might owe me an apology for the negativity permeating this wall at the moment... So please take this offline and all will be forgiven. We live in the RC for a reason, and that's certainly not so that we can grow more distant by not talking to people directly.
  22 hours ago · · 3
- Ng Xin Zhao Indeed. No one likes too much negativity.
  22 hours ago ·
- David Tan Hi David, I apologise for not realising you're sensitive to negativity. Kindly accept my apologies by finding the nearest durian and shoving it up your righteous arse.
  
  P.S. This post is staying right here
  22 hours ago ·
- Ng Xin Zhao Thank you for the gracious apology. Now you can have it back.
  22 hours ago ·
- Nadjad Muhd ‎@David: I think that people in 'The Club!' should just be gracious to each other. I may be wrong but I personally feel that this was a private matter between the two of you (and whoever was in the room). I think the durian smell should disappear over time given the good ventilation system in the new Chatterbox. I think Chen Show Mao said it best on the topic of PAP asking him to join their party: "it's like dating, there are some things that you shouldn't say after they're done." Ian has apologised and I'm sure that he would not do it again.
  
  I hope that there would never come a day when people in USP avoid doing things that they enjoy in Chatterbox just because of the memory of some aggressive territorial behaviour. If you've noticed, this is already happening in 'The Club!' which I think is very sad. We should be gracious people, more accomodating to each other's faults. Calling others stupid -or even using expletives for that matter- in this common space is clearly going against established rules of public decorum. I would say more so than eating Durian. But that is perhaps just me, I'm Kantian that way.
  
  Suppose you were given a choice between punching someone for calling you names in public and for eating durian (or wearing toxic perfume), which would you choose?
  
  But in reality, sometimes, do you find it appropriate to just avoid it all and walk away?
  22 hours ago · · 7
- David Tan Ahh, it's times like these when all the sanctimonious, pontificating cunt-fondlers crawl out of the woodwork. Majestic
  22 hours ago · · 1
- Nash Ng ZY Let's just drop this guys.
  22 hours ago · · 5
- Farouq Osman ah, regarding Nadjad's post, that's Chen Show Mao's response to my question. he simply refused to answer it. hehe. before that Mr Chen asked me what i won for aljunied grc's hari raya gathering lucky draw - i shook his hand while receiving the prize on stage then hehe
  22 hours ago ·
- Farouq Osman i posed him the qn during the Master's Tea session btw.
  22 hours ago ·
- Seow Wei Qiang orh.
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Darren Yeo honto...
  21 hours ago ·
- Jackie Tan Yen k
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Bernard Koh eh that time my mother in 2004 when i was JC1 also win Bishan NTUC lucky draw, small gift lah, but wong kan seng give out prize she also got shake hand
  21 hours ago · · 19
- Mel Lo yarh, when i was p6 i represented my school in national spelling bee we won first prize i got a tv for my room then hawazi daipi got shake my hand
  21 hours ago · · 10
- Bernard Koh i think it's mr wong, i can't confirm. my mom was v happy though.
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Mel Lo i was also very happy, even though all i did at the spelling bee was help to press the button so my team could answer the questions. ST call and interview me summore you all got see or not newspaper leh.
  21 hours ago · · 2
- Haresh Sivaram ‎Bernard Koh it was dr ng eng hen... i know... i was there also... but never win anything...
  21 hours ago · · 3
- Mel Lo I WON A TV HAR HAR HAR
  21 hours ago · · 10
- Jian Qi I like the old CRT tvs, those were cute.
  21 hours ago ·
- Mel Lo YEAH MINE IS LIKE THAT. but it collects dust really easily x.x
  21 hours ago ·
- Bernard Koh ‎Haresh yea, might be, my mom only has eyes for WKS so-- i don't know her lah. Mel Lo zuobo get reward still want to haolian.
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Mel Lo oi my reaction time was unparalleled.
  21 hours ago · · 8
- Jackie Tan Yen i wish i could shake someone's hand
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Mel Lo i am willing to shake hands with you so you can shake hands with hawazi daipi by proxy. Bernard Koh your mom interested or not.
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Jackie Tan Yen i will fly to tokyo just to touch you
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Jackie Tan Yen ‎*WANT
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Mel Lo ♥
  21 hours ago ·
- Bernard Koh eh Mel Lo you in Tokyo also must maintain Club decorum: who say you can say other people mother? i can say doesn't mean you can say.
  21 hours ago · · 1
- Low Zoey ‎Jackie Tan Yen wants some hand some
  21 hours ago · · 3
- Mel Lo sorry sorry sorry sorry you want i send you souvenir
  21 hours ago · · 1

2011-11-28T11:21:00.001+08:00

HAUS gonna be ready soon
let the christmas decorating BEGIN!

2011-11-27T00:53:00.000+08:00

heart beats fast colors and promises

how to be brave how can i fall in love when i'm afraid

to fall but watching you stand alone

all my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

hello friends, went to a granite yard today, it was so cool we got to select our slab
of granite! and they're huge and nice and shiny and if you ever want to make a dining table
you can ask me about it! here's a nice song .. i know its a twilight song but its still nice

i seriously have no idea what twilight is about, i just know cedric diggory is a vampire and his
wife may be pregnant (saw it in the trailer when i was at the movies, not my fault)
how does he not bite her? or how do vampires work? is there a main authority on vampires
or does each author have his/her own rules for vampires .. like i mean j.k created a WHOLE
new wizarding world so i'm not sure about vampires though they do seem more popular than
witches and wizards ..

happy birthday my happy unwilling chelps

almost .. over

haha ming ..

welcome home chuck

nommification

h4ppy f4m17y

bright lights

hanging out at del's

because she had to babysit a very pregnant oreo

oreo ice-cream cake that wasn't that fantastic

oreo is delphine's dog btw

stephanie and cecilia

they're so cute

first time eating sting ray and chilli crab

hi karen!

peeling crabs because they were very delicious

and also because cecilia had her middle finger in a cast

so we helped her out .. so cute she tried to hail a cab in hk

and the taxi driver thought she was flipping him off and pointed

his middle finger at her as he drove past

time really does fly

just yesterday i was huffing and puffing while i helped

bala re-re-arrange the furniture in her room and now she's moving out

no more saying hello just for fun, but then again

its back to rifle range BOOYA

FAMBLY DINNERs

are always fun

fraternal twins

all the .. ladies

BED TIME church then swim tomorrow

i haven't gone swimming in a long time

please don't rain .. on my parade!

2011-11-25T13:24:00.001+08:00

rewatching grey's .. izzy is so irrational i want to punch her
going to school in awhile, life is great

2011-11-25T01:23:00.000+08:00

you say good morning when its midnight

going out of my head alone in this bed

i wake up to your sunset

& its driving me mad i miss you so bad

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHELPBOMB today was so fun!
anyway photo up there from one day ago ( +/- one day)
that photo was after we ate at .. WHATS THAT PLACE CALLED?
garfunkels? ah i like simon and garfunkel anyway i had bangers and mash
i think and then we went to ..

WATCH WICKED
it was so awesome just that i fell asleep at the boring bit

when she fell out with the wizard i highly recommend wicked

watched it again when my parents went up fell asleep at the same part

but was equally spell bounded by 'gravity' and all the other parts

and its in singapore now! gogo wicked

then we went to berlin! first day there walking around

taking photos with graffiti

pretending to sleep and eventually wishing chelps a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

at midnight in our hostel that we shared with this girl that i made friends

with and invited to drinks, just that i fell asleep at the hostel bar and hannah

and chelsea had to talk to her for the rest of the night .. haha

just the berlin underground

at the rittersport shop with the cute berlin bear that was all over

photo from paris a month before while watching

roger federer and eating a 0.79euro chocolate santa/elf

our stuff on the breakfast table it was really cold

.. was hooked on sam tsui's just a dream made chelsea dance to it

and also mistook salt for sugar and had awful morning tea

all our chocolate! i brought back 20 or so bars

and had to wear all my clothes on the plane so i could

meet the weight limit for my flight .. phew

ALRIGHTY bed time, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHELPSICLES

this post has alot of CAPS because talking about people i love

makes me very EGGXITED. MWA hope you like your present

and study hardd!!!

2011-11-23T09:53:00.000+08:00

maybe i, i'm not so easily stung

maybe i, i got some love for someone

maybe i, i'm not the story for you

maybe i, i'll be the do you ought to do

good morning, yesterday was a great night
its kinda tough to say goodbye or leave with the knowledge
that you'll probably never see people that you like again
i once had a conversation with loon about goodbyes
and confessed that even when i say goodbye to my friends
that i know i will meet a bajillion times more in this lifetime
i still feel kinda sad and prefer to mumble my goodbyes and
walk away ending with a stupid high pitched comment.

and thinking about heaven also makes me kinda sad because it says
that in heaven we have no husbands so i'm assuming that also means
that we can't recognize our friends .. once heard eugene's mum say
that we'll be orbs or singing light, haha i dont' really find that THAT
attractive now but maybe someday i will or maybe she got it wrong
maybe when we're there well, all i know is that we'll be super peaceful
and happy like fat babies that have just been burped!

anyway photos before i head to school for content analysis (:

11111111111

new ice-cream place outside my house

hangout at gerry's FTW

(after the renovation is done of course .. its a battlefield outside)

best group ever

true that

p4n1ng at our debate

meeting for lunch at yusof house

lois ming & ruth came from the left middle and right respectively

and all met at the junction at the same time .. NO KIDDING

grace's candycanes ... CHRISTMAS OHBOY

cellgroup is such great fun

sorry bout the hair don't know why its triangly either

hello moshimoshi botega!

happy

birthday

SUPERSTAR

oooh hairy crabs anybutty?

i've been hanging out way too much at famous

so happy we went somwhere else instead last night

time to wash up and go,

JESUS LOVES YOU

God is our refuge and strength,

an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.
Psalms 46

2011-11-22T12:38:00.000+08:00

Jewel - Standing still [live] by Jo_Bidjoba

the good old 90s.

jewel is so awesome, and i just watched grey's anatomy so i'm exceptionally

emotional ...pastor reubens message on sunday about being uncommonly kind

oh but i'm hungry now and i'm waiting for 2pm then i'll be footloose and fancy free

if not for the 400 articles that i have to read through, life is beautiful.

2011-11-21T23:50:00.000+08:00

just helped nick set up his 27" monitor
looks like i'll be joining them for movies more often
AWESOME, watched justin bbs misteltoe to test it out
SO BIG SO FUN oh shower time brb!

2011-11-21T00:44:00.000+08:00

oh, you're staying with her

she's my wife

GOOD MORNING! don't think i've blogged on a Sunday morning
in a long long time, sleep cycle timer really works when i have the luxury
of a half hour buffer for waking up i wake up fresh and happy

haha i forgot to finish this in the morning went to church
went furniture shopping went computer shopping
came home and slept on the floor i like hanging out on my carpet
with my laptop next to me and my zzzzzz

anyway 3 photos then i'm off to bed, school may be over
but our ISM is due in .. soon

i drink too much of this

if this travels too fast it will turn white

tried to capture it but didnt' happen

on the way in a jam on saturday

meet my new chair!

dinner tonight was awesome

lovsa familysa all the best grace (L)

2011-11-17T14:56:00.000+08:00

as most of you should know (either by me rubbing it directly or snidely in your faces) haha
my exams are over. woke up at 9 today played with zeddy put on a face mask and slept till 1
took a shower ate breakfast and here i am waiting for 3pm to come.

the past 6 weeks have been eaten up by whirlwind of assignments and projects
several all-nighters and many instances of battling with my iphone alarm
tempers have been short, assignments have been impossible but at the
end of it all, we all pull through everything.

but this pulling through is not something that happens automatically
this pulling through time and time again is because .. as surely as the sun
rises and sets everyday, God answers and hears our every wish every
thought and every prayer. there have been SO many things in my life
that i tend to miss out when i evaluate what kind of person i am today
but underneath this current face and character are a TRILLION little things
that have molded me into what i am today.

I remember great valleys in my life like ... inter school competitions,
getting 3 bookings on ORA day, doing stupid things to make people angry haha..
angel leaving for perth, nat leaving for jersey, a levels, army,
but everything is ok in retrospect because God's words are a
lamp ont my feet not a floodlight into my future. AMEN.

diaper days

David TanSince it's now acceptable to eat durians in Chatterbox, would it be possible for me to cultivate Amorphophallus titanum and Rafflesia plants on a lush bed of horse manure in all the common lounges?

David Tan
Since it's now acceptable to eat durians in Chatterbox, would it be possible for me to cultivate Amorphophallus titanum and Rafflesia plants on a lush bed of horse manure in all the common lounges?