Graduate Eileen

I am so done. big thanks to those who made the effort to come and congratulate me. super thanks to my mama, papa, kor kor and my boy. i am what i am today because of you all and my dear chingus!!

day

what a cool dad-daugh date i had!

btw, commencement is in 2 days time. i’m gaining fats day by day, and brunt of the super late nights are surfacing on my face… geez..

oh, and please friends reading this, i have a fantatically working TV ready for sale. so if you or noe someone who is interested, please direct them to me. Thanks!

we met chin chin and ah chew

The first hawker-zi-char fare I had after I returned!

It was yummy. Thanks, my bro+da sao!

I had a great time with my fam!

Sound pollution

I am under constant discomfort and distress caused by the sound pollution around me. There’s this stupidest group of (–) boys playing void deck football at my opposite block. They are doing the very sinful and illegal things like kicking hard at the ball to hit the metal door to the pipes and against the wall, and screaming whatever dialect or language vulgarities they know.

And then, there are like minor renovation works going around, either at the blocks surrounding mine, or somewhere in one of the units of my block. As it’s an estate, these noises are like surround system (and maybe even contained, that’s why). If there are not renovation works, there will be some little knocking sounds, maybe trying to fix a nail to hang up some pictures, or whatever. And yes, they travel through the concrete slabs and walls, and the steel structure.

[Plus my mum’s singing and her ever-so-loud TV programmes playing]

(-_-) irritated by sound pollution

i am already thinking about winter in australia….  i wanna get my fresh bucks and butt!

Michael Jackson

The very first words I heard shortly after I woke up (nicely at 11am) from my mum were “this person died”. And I opened my eyes wider and looked into the tv, that person is Michael Jackson. I was surprised and later sad… he’s a legend, though I dun really know his works, but I know he charmed in his earlier days and that charm has their set of reasons. Anyways, I hope he rests in peace, and his children can get over the grief quickly and remember their father with those fond memories.

peanuts..

Hey all!

I am still very busy! I dun know why, but those nitty gritty stuff and some tidying up stuff and playing with my fam keeps me fully-packed!

Alrighty, Japan trip was really cool and totally experience-ful. In a short time of 28 days, we got ourselves into many different situations to experience Japan as well as its culture and people. The city, the home, the hotel, the hostel, the traditional inn, the country side, the duper ulu rural area, and touristy spots, the tranquail nature trail, the homeless area, the swanky poshy town, the down-to-earth Japanese heartland, the fish market, the daily grocery shops, and many many more. And people wise, we met even more different kinds, in terms of nationality, religious background and hence diet, age group, rebelliousness, smarty pants/school leavers, kiddos and babies, nature lover, travel lovers etc. we lived with them, talked long time with them, and did work with them and learnt many things from them.

It’s hard to interpret so many meaningful moments into words to truly describe what I received from this trip. Nevertheless, it is a duper cool and good one. I will say more when the pictures are available to me…

Maybe I can start off with one thing. One important thing I’d learned from this trip is that cooking is such an amazing thing. I realized that cooking is much more about thinking and being creative rather than being skillful at it per se. I mean anyone can cook up a delicious and healthy meal; it is just the matter of whether effort has been put into the planning and creative departments. In fact, I actually mean more than just this. Cooking itself is also about nutrition, about what ingredients you use and in what ways can they come together to become a healthy and yummy dish. This is a simple yet a little mind-laborious job, but still, it’s all about the thinking process. If effort was put into thinking, leftovers can easily become a wonderful dish for the next meal/day, and no matter how humble your ingredients are (and maybe with an extra little cash to top up with some other ingredients), they can still turn out to be a proper dish/meal.

Anyways, I am going to try it out and see what turns out eventually.

Btw,

Twilight struck me

Itching returns, arms too this time.

[watch out for the new tab dedicated to this!]

HOMED

hey people!

I am back from my 1 month graduation trip!!! I had enough of foreign air, and Singapore air (or rather anything of Singapore) makes me feel so much better.

For thIS very first post after I’d returned, I would sum up the trip as a very enjoyable and full of different experiences one, but on the other hand, it is surely a tiring one too. I will say more about this trip soon in the upcoming posts. For now, I have several important things to do first…keep me thinking and working since the minute I reached home. Unpacking, sorting souvenirs, making new dish for my family, worrying about and finding jobs, explaining the trip’s pictures to my family, catching up with Singapore news and changes in my home, getting used to the higher temperature here, cuddling mickey and abby the cat, meowing around in the house, doing quite a bit of writing – I mean typing, talking to my baby, arranging a couple of appointmment– and many many more…

Alrighty, for now, I would like to bring u guys’ attention to a little advert on the right column. hehe do contact me if u have peepz wanting to buy it. thanks!

Korean Food Fest II – sweaty and accomplished!

same as the first time, preparation was really time consuming and tiring… i was chopping things up till 2am… geezz. but it really saved me from lotsa work this morning, but still, lunch was late and my dad was cryingly hungry…

i dun dare to ask him how this taste for him. my boy and mum agreed that this was decent and nice, and i’m closing my ears after that. haha. anyways, really hope that my dad’s lunch was really okay for him…

Seasoned bean sprouts

Spicy seafood stew

Grilled pork chops

Yangpun Bimbimbap

still very busy, and a little sick…

hey all~ geez i’m neglecting my blog, even though i’m not crushed under books!

it’s really getting busier as we’re having real intensive planning for grad trip. i mean from morning till late evening, with just around an hour break for lunch. dinner will be around 8pm until we get home… anyways, packing isn’t yet done, and i’m so not-feel-like doing it, can’t i just hop on the plane and pop myself in japan? so much beforehand work… even though sometimes planning can be exciting, it’s really brain exhausting and we’re like so crushed…

playing with mama is so fun! but it kinda makes me feel bad, cuz during sch term, i’ll not playing hard enuff with her, and during holidays, i’ll either go abroad or away from home, leaving her all alone (as my bro n dad don’t play with her..). left with just a few days, hopefully, we can make better use of this time…

got my head, hmm i mean hair, done today. it’s freaking long time~ partly due to the things that i’m doing, but the main drag was coming from my stylist working on another stupid oh-i-think-i-am-so-pretty-and-young fat and old (alright, she’s middle age-y) lady. while we were having our hair washed at the same time at the wash point, she was talking so loudly that she’s going clubbing today at zouk and she likes to club blah blah blah then she went on talking about buying branded stuff in KL, praising KL’s collection is much better than singapore and stuff~ n plus she drove in and stayed at westin hotel, blah blah blah… i mean ok lar, keep braggin asif anyone of us would like think you’re such a queen, bit in fact we dun give a shit about u, and deep inside we NOE that u’re braggin. the main prob of her is that she’s soooo pricky~! she’s just styling her hair and the position of her curls, fringe and whatsoever, she’s so particular about them! omg, it’s not like when u get down to the club, ur fringe and curls won’t barge any at all..

and tmr is Korean Food Fest II (KFF II), and i’m just done with the preparation. so tired! look at the time! haha!

too busy post exam

i must say that the tiredness in post exam days are no worse than the schooling and exam days… i’m almost crumpling right now, legs and body and hands are so soft!

but most importantly, i’m happily enjoying this tiredness, i feel so worthwhile living at this moment.for all the education, friends and many others unaccountable experiences and knowledge and social capital, i wholeheartedly thank whoever and whatever that make them all happen in my past long years of studying.

“things got blank out and i was blind and deaf for a short moment. you’re always my eyes and ears, and i repay you with my heart.”

tmr is mother’s day. i luv my mother, mother nature and also guan yin ma. i’m gonna give you flower soon, wait for me! =)

one last one to go

yea~! we did well for our japanese studies’ project on internet suicide!!! thanks and huggies to my fellow group members who had put in the EFFORT!!!

JS paper today: temp taking, when is swine flu going away? i dun wan these complications when i’m goin on a trip. geez~ if i were to catch a fever or something not because of swine flu, i wouldn’t be getting to and back from japan! that sucks!

i’ve watched quite a bit of tv after getting home from the paper. sipping McCafe gives me joy in my veins. hehe and TV is really creeping into my life

my brain hurts now. gotta sleep before it’s overheated.

i’m this close to giving up eco-development, which i’d hardly studied except for 1 chapter outta the whole module. that’s very very true.

what should i do on the very second after the examiner says “Please stop writing now” on Thursday?? Answer: i will smile to myself. and then clear my library debts.

i smell party…

i so miss this place…

yellow watermelon

school is doing some temperature checks before allowing students into exam halls. dear fellow school mates, please note that you have to arrive at the exam venue about 1 hour before the start of the paper to get these procedures settled.

something is growing in my eye. it’s quite irritatingly painful when i blink. it’s somewhere near to the inner eye, under but very near the edge of my eye lid. hopefully it will not disfigure me when i leave my home for exams…

mama is coming home today! yeah!

i’m duper slow on my revision progress. rather, it’s life-threatening slow. i’m think of McCafe now. should i walk to into the blazing sun to buy a cuppa?

the gannan guni-s at my place are really irritating! we just dun have so much rubbish for so many of you! u’re disturbing us! despite (maybe) ur intention of greening the earth via recycling
[NOTE: Ecologism is intended more towards reducing and recycling. recycling, mostly promoted by environmentalists, is a process itself that consumers resources and energy. From an ecological perspective, there is limitation to how much the Earth can handle and manage. Hence, reduction is the solution, however, this is not to discredit recycling totally, but to emphasize the fundamental crux behind the mission of saving the earth!]

here’s way thta you can contribute to saving the earth!

Ecofont is a free font which, thanks to its holes, uses 20% less ink than standard fonts. See, it’s so simple to put in a little effort to consume LESS! (n even save $ at the same time!)

Click on the image to proceed with understanding more bout this amazing font that doesn’t reduce readibility but reduce ink! it’s free to download!

rushed to check my airticket…

Channels 10, 11, 12 on my remote are haunting me big time… it’s either some dubious mythical creatures roaming around in our world, biting or eating us up, or some deadliest venomous animals within our scientific knowledge melting our bones, flesh and eventually killing us, or some unholy deaths in accidents that will leave the perished last moments of their life horrified and in unthinkable fear and pain.

High Art

Unexpected ending. but it really is romantic. plot is simple yet quite intriguing.

my mum left me at home, again… i guess till exams’ are done. anyways, ima gonna hit the club on the very last day!!