It's easier to talk about shopping.

I know!

I havent been blogging at all!

Well, have had to make some decisions. And been thinking alot. And we ALL know I cant multi-task. But today I decide to update abit. Lest yáll think that this blog is discontinued..

In any event, it is easier to talk about shopping than you know.. the really important stuff..

Okay so I ramble. First up, my shopping.


Hairbands!

Been on quite a hairbanding spree - cut my hair (again) you see. It looks abit like the lion-king thingy in law school that Lum and all used to call me. Havent been in the mood to take pictures of myself, so no new pictures of me new hair.

I like me new hair bands - it's like a new look when you have something on your head and you dont.

You know? (dont know never mind)

Other accessories I bought this month include: ZEBRA earrings and green stuff!
And i bought this (as WT will say TOXIC GREEN) hand bag - which i like alot. Quite a retro shade of green dont you think? Placed here together with me new nail polish - one of it is fire engine red. LURVE IT! Don't know when i'll get the chance to wear it though..



If you think that I am talking about shopping because I dont have other things to talk about - that's where you are wrong. . it's just, easier to make small talk now.

But i CAN talk about happy stuff... and one of the REAL happy stuff that's happened in abit is the return of my BEST FRIEND!! MR WWH!


Only that he has returned to London. I have to go up whilst he is still there - free lodging huang hor? =)

Speaking of which, you know how it is difficult to have some people take pictures? My best friend here has played this silly prank on me all these years! You see the picture above like so nice and normal rite.. NOT! That's like the dunno how many picture we've taken in a row because everytime i take a picture with him.. he does this!

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SO DUMB! (People is RJ top humanities scholar in my year okay dont play play... but we know how intelligent people always have a side to them).

As evidence, take a look at these other pictures we took in previous years..


you get my point already dont you? Each time i pose nice nice and then he will make stupid face and i will only realize after..

But i am not complaining.. i miss my best friend already.. =(

Thank God for my other best friend... and she's coming right up!


You must be wondering why I am showing a picture of fake lashes right? Recently I thought that fake lashes are real cool, so i thought i should go try them.. and influenced her to do so as well... You see her here POSING with the fakies....

Posing ah. She not hiao wan. (urm. okay.. we are very hiao.. but only in the we are so vain way =D )

Over the CNY, I also met my many relatives - together with my VERY adorable niece! Her bro and her super cute lorh!


Btw, if you havent already realized, these are pictures of me with old hair.. not the new funky munks one..


So cute horh? My niece that is. =P


The other stuff i can talk about includes meeting up with the boys! (other than the scouts)..


Let's see. Vincent (guy in white) is Weethong's (GAP) classmate in RJ. Vincent is Zhiyang's (guy in brown) classmate in RI. Vincent is my CCA partner in RJ (we both go and take care of old people together every week last time). Zhiyang and Weethong and I used to stay over in school together on weekends to study for our A's and prelims. But I always say that the only one that really studied was Weethong, which makes sense, because he is the doctor now on the way to being a specialist in .... (i'll save that for when i get permission to say.. haha)


As an illustration of how we have aged! See these pictures of us that i dug up...

WT and I..
Zhi zhi and I..

I know I have posted these up before but i am trying to make a point here that 10 years is a long time.

I havent put up a picture of Vincent BECAUSE HE LOOKS THE SAME AS HE DID 10 YEARS AGO!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (he's so gonna kill me)

Zhi zhi and Vinny..

WT and I..

The ex-classmates.. Urm, the ex-classmates.. (really what! they also ex-classmates marh!)

After drinks (the doctor left early because he got to go to work early), YANDAO (i.e. Vincent, incase you were wondering... should be obvious if he is really yandao.. =P gosh vincent is soo gonna kill me.. but i really think he is yandao mah!) YANDAO and i went for supper at the chinatown porridge place that the best friend showed me before...

we look very tired because we are. . check out this picture that i accidentally took of vincent whilst he was trying to dunno do what..

So farnee right! Like movie all.. so i ask him to do again when i take picture again...
HAHAHAHAHAA!!! The Yandao, my buddy. =)
(yuarh he really looks the same as he did 10 years ago. lol)

I've come to the end of my long post about nothing... Am trying to keep my chin up folks! Here's a sunny picture of bestie and me in Botanical gardens.... Yes! that every day would be so sunny..

What can i say? The dear Lord shine on us hereafter!

Till I can blog again folks!

Where is Budapest?

Is this even real?

Amazing! And she isnt even that pretty!

Raffles Marina

i am mildly amused by the fact that the bruise is in the shape of a yacht.

i will not be amused if there is a scar, shape of a yacht or otherwise.

So loser

I'm having dinner and scalded my hand against the lamp. It's very burnt! This is after icing and 2 rounds of oinment. Sob. Pray it doesnt scar! Else i should consider suing TCC under occupier's liability!

Exercising, kinda.

Yes.

I went crazy on Saturday and bought 8 dresses and 3 shirts under 5 hours. The day was spent with one of them BF, so it was a most good day. I cant wait for the other BF to be home.

I just realized that BF seems to be what it is not.

BF is best friend okay. NOT boyfriend. Cannot have more than one BOYFRIEND, that is zhek-ark.. which i am not. =)

I also bought:

1. A dress last week (one of which you see above);
2. New Specs (which you see below);
3. A huge-ass gym bag;
4. A pair of sandals (both iii and iv i din take pictures of).

I also bought a pair of earrings but the cost of that is negligible so i din put it in the list. And i still have to get shoes for new year / work.

I think I shouldnt be shopping anymore for a long long time.

I am alive!

Yes.

To all that were asking. I am alive.

People (even me) don't always feel like talkin wan okay. Like even now. But just so you know I am alive. Here's a picture of me that doesnt look like me with my new specs and new hair (minus the new hair colour that was done later).. i look super alot like someone horhhh...

So any votes for me specs? This pair is new..

On this day

Some of you may know that when I was much younger (like ten years ago), I used to participate in Toast-master competitions. One of the components entail the speaker weaving a whole story or some entertaining speech based on a word or sentence provided by the organizers.

Some samples of the questions I got before are:

a. What do you on a bad date?

I kid you not. This was actually during my law school days. I was first-runner up. The judge of the competition, some prominent partner of a prominent firm, actually leaned over to whisper in my ear whilst handing over the trophy - "we are giving this to you because we thought you made good of a difficult topic".

I can't remember very much of what I said except that alot of people were laughing, then again, when do people not laugh at what I say (hurhur). Something about remembering why you went on the date in the first place and taking off clothes. Hahaa.


b. "Naked" and "Island"

I kid you not again. This was the topic that I got in Secondary Four. I think I was second runner-up in the Nationals. I cant remember exactly the topic already, apart from the words above. But I do remember thinking I was the only one trying to crack a joke out of what I got. The others were all too serious, but the judges seemed to like that.

Funny what we remember when we intentionally call things to mind.

Anyhows, why am I talking about this?

I have been thinking, thinking, thinking.

And I guess I remember these competitions of old because:

i. in those days, i had to weave random ideas into a story from a word or theme that was given to me. A story that the audience would like. It made me happy that people found my throwing of ideas together entertaining. Being random helped.

ii. these days, i have to weave values and truths and reconcile them into a belief system. I guess we really live (as opposed to waking up and just living today because you didnt die in your sleep and you are just carrying on where you left off when you fell asleep yesterday) when we are forced to articulate and make coherent what makes your belief system - your own. And it is not easy.

But. Real growth comes when we have to grapple with new truths and ideas and face the possibility of changes to our belief system. Or development. Or depth to it, whatever you may want to call non-status quo. That, is not easy. Hahaa. Which is why some people grow and some people dont.

Being a source of entertainment doesnt feature so much now, though I do think I can still amuse.

So what would one say of the word, "Dreams"?

Lao ban niang

Harlowz! I'm back from israel! The trip wuz most good and shall blog abt it in due course! But THIS is a picture we took at Pakk's wedding with the boys. They were only 15 when i first met them. You would agree that i look like lady mafia boss!

My bags are packed i'm ready to go

I'm leaving for israel! Will be back in two weeks! Check out my new specs! Miss me and love me!

Uncle so friendly

Hs and i are havin barhchor mee and i wuz exclaiming that there isnt a picture of me on her phone. I proceeded to take a picture of myself. The barhchor mee uncle who wuz apparently watching us exclaimed that i should take a picture of him and i kindly obliged. Uncle so cute, check out his fingers. Blogging from me phone so fun =)

In the mood for some..

Dinner was with SA last night. Good time of sharing, most precious it is. Especially when you know the other person's love language is time and they are so very busy.

I am really looking forward to Israel, now to piah all the way so I can go in peace. My bosses have been real nice about my trip too. Most grateful I am.

I am trying out this new editing program. Think it rocks big time man.. check out the little stars and what not you can add on your pictures!

So kelian

It's been awhile since i left office at 2 am. The security uncle was exclaiming when he saw me. I told him upstairs still got people. He asked in astonishment if my boss was still around. I said no lar, my junior. I am actually fond of some of the security uncles, even though i dont feel very safe - how are they going to out run the bad guys with their jiggly bellies? Be that as it may, it's tough to be a security uncle. Maybe i should bless them tmw. =) Ya. Incase you're wondering, i'm bloggin from me phone. =)

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This is an addition to the post of last night. Met DCK and FMR in the lift back from Court just now and the conversation turned to how late one can stay in the office.

Me: I left at like 2 am yesterday can.

DCK: Single still can larh.

FMR: Yarh Yarh.

Me: No not single. If I staying alone I dont dare to stay so late wan. Scary.

DCK: I meant like not married with kids single.

Me: O.

Hahaa. Anyhows, we agreed that we should have a measurement of lateness for our ease of reference. Check out the email that DCK sent out after the conversation in the lift.

[QUOTE]

Dear all

Re: Graduation of lateness (for discussion)

This is a list of the suggested answers to be given when someone asks you the following question:-

"Are you staying late tonight? How late?"

6pm I'm married and expecting kids kinda late
7pm I've got a charity dinner for needy children kinda late
8pm -
8.45pm I've just come back from dinner and will be taking cab back home now kinda late
10pm -
11pm Damn late
12pm Super damn late
2am Scary late
6am Casio discovery kinda late
10am Law Soc final submissions kinda late

Please feel free to include more suggested answers.

Best regards

[UNQUOTE]

Hahaaa.

Btw, the 10 am above means work overnight. God forbid that happen to me man. Gross. =)

Saturday Night

Think my body is physically feeling the long hours, though thank God you cant see it from my face (yet). That's grace I tell you. Wasn't particularly efficient on Saturday and decided to call it a day earl(ier).

So Saturday was dinner with the best friend - you can actually be too tired to shop! (if you look carefully you can see the fatigue in my eyes below. hahaa. )

Actually, you cant larh (be too tired to shop that is).

It was then drinks with Peh, who refused to allow his picture to be taken.

Not a bad idea since he hasn't cut his hair in awhile. OOPS! heh.

Groovy Baby!

thanks bes! (check him out here)

"Do not compare sufferings"

Some definitions of "grace" in the dictionary:

a. the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God.
b. the influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them.
c. moral strength: the grace to perform a duty.

you can always tell when someone is just doing it out of pure GULAK (read: bull strength and tenacity) or out of the grace of God - in the latter the humility, gentleness and moral courage is like emanating inside out - in every word and act.

Indeed.

This video is nothing short of breath-taking.




I dont think I can utter any of my alleged grievances before this man. If I ever see him, I'll probably be like completely speechless for super long and then walk away convinced that "with God, impossible is nothing" (thats like Matthew 19:26 and Adidas, but whatever larh ah..).

In fact, right now, I think with God, impossible is nothing. Pretty sure I am :)

Amazing grace.