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August 29, 2008
Looking back, this is probably the worst and busiest month for me in 2008. Meeting assignment deadlines, studying for exams, preparing and running training courses, blah blah blah…
Somebody save me please!!!
There are many times when I feel extremely exhausted and have the urge to give up. But thoughts like “My colleagues could juggle between their studies and work, why can’t I?” will fill up my head and I do not want to admit defeat so easily, especially since I am completing my studies soon (just 4 more months to go).
Finally my exams are over for this semester. YaHoo~!!! I am now on a one-week term break before school starts again on first week of September. Need to recuperate for the last dash. Regina Go Go!!! 加油!!! 화이팅!!! 頑張って!!!
July 27, 2008
Sorry but if you have been keeping up with my blog, I have ‘disappeared’ for quite some time. From this post onwards, I will be backdating a few entries.
26 July
Dinner gathering with Yiling, Ruyin, Edeline and Adeline (my ex-korean class friends) at Awon Korean Restaurant, Excelsior Hotel. Anyway, we had buffet there for nearly 2 hours! Food was quite good. At least we all agreed that the side condiments are delicious because we kept asking for second servings. ^^ Throughout the dinner, besides updating one another on our lives, we were also busy ‘fangirling’. Ahem. (心知肚明) Haha! Some photos we took that evening:
July 6, 2008
It’s been nearly a month since I last blogged and the reason’s mainly laziness. Haha!!!*_* Another contributing factor is I stayed home almost everyday. There wasn’t much to mention about.
29 June
Jess and I went cycling at East Coast. I ended up with muscle ache and ass pain for the next 2 days. That was how pathetic I was. After cycling, Jess suggested having dinner at Ichiban but without knowing that there is an outlet at Parkway, we decided to have western food at Astons (opposite Katong Mall) instead. The queue was long. We had to wait for about 20 mins till we had a table. Though Jess recommended the food there, we both agreed that our food served was not fantastic that day. Food prepared hastily usually do not meet expectations. Feeling unsatisfied, we stopped at Ice Cream Chefs for dessert. Something special about the ice cream at this place was how it was mixed with condiments. I ordered mocha ice cream with Loackers and Jess had honeydew ice cream mixed with Famous Amos.
Apologies for the ‘unglam’ photo
Ice Cream Chefs should pay me for the publicity LOL
5 July
Arashi’s riida Ohno finally plays the lead role in a drama series!!! I have just finished watching episode 1 of Maou(魔王) and I was really captivated by the wit portrayed in the murder and the chemistry between Ohno and Ikuta Toma. Thumbs up for riida! Another new drama that I am also currently catching is Code Blue, starring Yamashita Tomohisa and Aragaki Yui. This drama talks about 4 young trainee doctors working for DoctorHeli, saving lives and coping with pressure and their own individual problems. Japanese viewership actually reached 21% for the first episode. Amazing!
June 12, 2008
我不能决定生命的长度，但我可以增加它的深度；
I can’t decide the length of my life, but I can increase its depth
我不能左右天气，但我可以掌握心情；
I can’t control the weather, but I can manage my feelings
我不能改变容貌，但我可以展露笑容；
I can’t change my appearance, but I can put on a smile
我不能控制别人，但我可以主管自己；
I can’t control others, but I can take charge of myself
我不能预知明天，但我可以把握今天；
I can’t predict my tomorrow, but I can fully utilise my today
我不能样样第一，但我可以事事尽力。
I can’t be number 1 in all things, but I can try my best in everything
June 4, 2008
David Archuleta singing John Lennon’s Imagine. Beautiful vocal and I thought the judges’ comments were funny, especially Randy.
June 3, 2008
I should be in bed but instead I am blogging now. Been down with a fever since yesterday and sleeping non-stop. I felt so ’sian’ from all the napping so decided to come online. Anyway, here’s a little backtrack of some stuff I did over the weekend.
Last Saturday (3 days ago), I met up with Di, Sharon, Shixin and Allyssa for ktv at Peace Centre. It was then that we realised that I have not seen Sharon and Shixin for half a year! *Gals, we should catch up more often!* Ktv was fun. We spent 6 hours singing and dancing/acting along with the songs. Classic scenes: Shixin’s “Money Money Money” and all of us doing Singapore Workout in slow motion when I was singing S.H.E’s 我爱你.
After ktv, Shixin and Ally left whereas the 3 of us went to meet Jess for dinner at TCC. Jess had just come back from holiday at L.A. and Macau. Our conversation that evening basically revolved around her trip, Di’s trip to HK and other nonsense. Haha!
I had a sleepover at Di’s place. Initially, we planned to make a gift for each other. Well, that plan was postponed and we ended up watching 我猜 and American Idol 7 clips together. Di and I were very impressed with David Archuleta’s voice (plus his smile) and searched for his competition clips on youtube. I wanna adopt him too!!! Lol.
Both of us went to bed at around 1.30am and got up at 12.30pm the following day. You can’t blame me for that as I was feeling really tired and stressed from the week’s work. I continued to stay till dinner time as Di’s mom had already prepared a feast for us. Meanwhile, we spent the entire afternoon rotting and watching TVXQ’s Star Show, EHB, music videos and other random stuff. We also tried to sing and record our voices for a korean song. It was amusing as we messed up our lyrics and laughed into the mic. Dinner was fantastic. Di’s mom cooked pork ribs soup (without using pork ribs but chicken wings), steamed fish, otak and veg. Simple yet delicious. Yummy!
I was enjoying myself one day and the next, I fell sick. I felt horrible and the medicine made me drowsy and restless. ZzzZzz
May 24, 2008
I had just finished watching 5 episodes of the HK drama, Forensic Heroes 2. This drama is similar to the CSI series. It is really impressive knowing how the investigators use Science to solve cases. Watching this drama somehow made me recall my ambitions.
When I was younger and more naive, I was easily influenced by ‘heroes’ and desired to be like them. At the age of 12, I started to read detective comics and dream of becoming one when I grew up. I thought that it is cool being a detective as you assist and work alongside the police. However, when my mum told me that this job is not practical because I have to be extremely smart and observant to be a detective and the pay is not necessarily good, I gave up.
During secondary school days, I decided to change my ambition to crime scene investigator or pathologist, not considering how tough it will be to study forensics or whether I am the ‘material’ for it. Of course, you can expect that this dream of mine only lasted a year.
Besides the above mentioned, I had some other ‘non-heroic’ ambitions too. While I was in kindergarden, my neighbour’s daughter was a flight attendant and she always brought stuff from overseas. I remembered being envious and aspired to become an air stewardess so that I can travel to other countries and bring souvenirs back. A typical ‘wanting to show-off’ spirit. That dream died off pretty soon as our family moved house and we lost contact with our neighbour and her daughter.
I studied 3 years hospitality management in TP and obviously, my ambition then was to work in a hotel. At least that dream lasted till internship. The glamorous image that I had in mind was totally erased after serving 6 months in a hotel and seeing how operations at the back office were like. Although I liked the job, it was tiring dealing with difficult requests/demands, difficult people and difficult expectations.
Well…perhaps you will find me a fickle person after reading this post but I believe that everybody will have different ambitions or dreams at different stages of their lives.
What’s yours?
May 18, 2008
Wednesday. OB gathering to celebrate Mabelline’s (Eeediort) birthday. Birthday girl could not make it last minute due to fever. The rest of us went ahead and had dinner at Sushi Tei @ Orchard. It was great meeting and catching up with one another after a long long time.
Thursday. Di departed for Hong Kong. Reminded her about my present. Haha!
Friday. I reached office at about 7.15am to prepare for a training. My best buddy, Jess, left for LA. Bon voyage pal and don’t forget about my gift. Lol. Started to sneeze nonstop for hours till I could not take it anymore and went to see a doctor in the afternoon. Diagnosis: throat infection. The medicine made me drowsy. I felt better after a nap and met Fang. Together, we headed to Qi’s place for a sleepover. Totally ignored the doc’s advice to rest at home (oops!). We did not do much at Qi’s house except watching anime and videos and sleeping.
Saturday. Fang and I left Qi’s house in the morning. Fang had a date with a guy friend (sincerely hope that things work out between her and RK) while I went home to do my laundry and rest before meeting Qi, Suxin and Jayce for ktv at Cash Studio. Cash Studio was introduced to us by Fang and it has lots of foreign language songs available. Price is reasonable and outside foods and drinks are allowed. Throughout the entire 3-hour session, we were practically singing TVXQ’s songs. Typical fangirls.
May 13, 2008
The end of days is drawing near. Acts of God are happening everywhere.
Though I am aware, I could not help but cry when I saw the news yesterday. Earthquake in China, tornadoes in US, cyclone in Myanmar and global food crisis. Every minute while I am typing this, someone may be dying. Death toll in Sichuan province has already reached 12,000 (after only 2 days) and more deaths are expected as aftershocks continue to pummel the region. Rescue works are not smooth due to the bad weather conditions.
This piece of news was not what really saddened my heart. At least, we see that the Chinese are trying to do the best they can to help with the support from other countries. What truly upset me is the Myanmar government for not accepting external aid to save their people.
Today has been the 11th day since the cyclone hit the country and the government was slow to respond. According to a local broadcasting station, 32,000 deaths were reported and it is believed that more than 100,000 are likely to be dead. Relief efforts are floundering and so far, only one-third of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the storm are helped. Outbreaks of diseases and hunger are feared because the government is taking a long time to approve visas for the relief helpers.
This is not the time for the country to be concerned about politics or other issues. What is important right now is to save as many lives as possible, isn’t it? I sincerely hope that the Myanmar government will speed up relief efforts. Otherwise, consequence will be severe.
Note: Sorry for the melancholic blog entry
