Classmates Outing

Ok... so the pics from my Bugis b'day outing with classmates were a bit overdue...
But what the heck, I'm still gonna post them up, heh...
Thanks Mel for organising it! :o)

Had earthquake (again!) for main course... coz we had to wait for the discount time slot at Pastamania, being the cheapo penniless students we are, heh...
Initially wanted to check out Gelato, but realised it was a generic one, so off to Swensen's again... haiya dunno when i'll be able to savour their sinful waffles... soon lah...*drool*


The pharma bunch...



Steven, Mel, Kim...



Kah Leong, Ling, Sze Min...



The highlight of the day was Ling's super spicy chicken pasta, which she had so generously garnished with half a bottle of Tobasco, heh... and believe me, never underestimated its 'pedas' power just because it's not cilipadi... as proven by our heroine's more plump, luscious lips than usual, heh...


(Before) A full bottle......... (After) Half of it...*hic*



Anyway, I actually got a b'day cake (Creamy cheesecake from Breadtalk, wah lau), and a huge on that is... until we ended up lugging the box back to class to be distributed to the 'needy ones', heh...


Wishin' and hopin' ....

Not to forget the Swensen's balloon I was stuck with (yes that was in its glory days before it got all shrunken in the previous Prezzies post), which made me feel like an overgrown kid... but ah, it was worth the signatures & wishes anyway :o)

Spot the chinese characters... yes chinese!

More Tobasco on the cake, Ling?

Spring collection

You've seen rice in salt... but raw black pepper?

Thanks guys for the cake & all the fun :o)

Now if the rest of my wishes would come true... heh...

Happy B'day!!

Happy B'day dear neighbors Olea n Ophe!!

Welcome to the post-21 aging club, haha :oP
Prezzies will be arriving soon, when we're all less busy, heh...
Hope u enjoyed the pseudo-tiramisu cake, may all your wishes come true!

Hugz~~ :oD

Feel Good Bunny

Words can't describe how i'm feeling today...

Maybe it's coz the damn marketing ppt is finally over with my team unexpectedly impressing the shit out of our lecturer...

Maybe it's coz the weekend'll start tom with salsa...

yay get to try me new shoes!

Or maybe it's coz I can finally breathe a sigh of relief...

settled the things that i was supposed to... phew

Either way, today's gonna be a good... shall make the most of it :D

The Prezzies!

Yesss finally got me long-awaited dance shoes!

Ok, they aren't made in England...
But they're so chio & glam... all 2 1/2 inches of it! (And it ain't spiderman shoes lah heh) Was so excited about it tt I dragged my neighbor from her comp just to take pics of it on her bed, haha... thanks Olea!

Thanks fellow Rockers, and yes this is what you'll be paying for, heh...
Now I'll have even more motivation to salsa away, and maybe attempt memorising the rueda moves :o)

And here are the rest of the prezzies:
Bangles & earrings, iPod, Eau de toilette, and a shrunken Swensen's balloon from classmates outing, heh...

Feelin' so absolutely loved, thanks all! :o)

Intuition

What do you do...
When your instincts had always governed your life of decisions and actions...
Only to find it thrown out of the window when you observed what you thought had defied your assumptions...

Dejected, you swore never to trust those silly little intuitions again...
Did a silly thing or two to get them over your head...
When the skies cleared and you realized those intuitions were right all along in a sea of misinterpretations... but the damage had already been done...

What do you do?

23?? *Gasp*

Bday Highlights
Turned 23 last week... and feeling old and unemployed, haha...
Nevertheless, this year's one of my best bday's... never had so many ppl wishing me, nor had as many celebrations before... Friday with Aca & their "Sara" Lee cake, heh... Sat with Rockers, Sun with neighbors, & next week with classmates...

Had the best (granted) wish list this year too...syiok :o)
1. Ipod shuffle
2. Dance shoes (when I find it, haha)
3. Ipod skin (also yet to be found)
4. Adidas perfume
5. Ear rings
6. Bracelet x 2
7. Swiss choc (mmm)
8. Dinner / Lunch x 3

Now if only someone sends me a gorgeous, sexy hunk with washboard abs wrapped (only) with a ribbon, it would be perfect, ahahaha... ahem, must be the alcohol...


Neighbor's outing:
Sadly, only so few of us turned up, due to the last min changes, sorry! Poor Ole & Lynn fell victim to the flu bug too, glad their alrite now... :o)
Had to work even on my b'day, singing a Destiny's Child's medley for The Magnets (Acappella) workshop... Oklar it was worth it thrashing Sheares & getting the Magnets all excited with our tubes & err, Beyonce -like shakes, haha....

Anyways, had dinner at the Crustacean... superb desserts, esp. the choc cake, definitely worth the 20min wait! And thanks lots Liyi & Ophe for waiting hours for us to rush back from town... at least I got my candle blown by midnight heh... & we still enjoyed ourselves bitching & gossiping from crushes to Felie's adventures with the auntie from hell... heh... we'll have another outing soon yeah? :o) Maybe for my next hair show? hee...

Me and my lil' bday cake :o)

Rockers outing:
Had dinner at Swensen's... Earthquake was marvellous (sooo sinful, but I dun caaaarreeee).... Took some photos with Ah Lim's big-ass camera...

The list...
Yes I can be that anal even with a gathering, haha...
(Ok my bad, Lin & Pam were supposed to be on the left column too, oops)...

The senior babes... *preen* *smile* *pose*

Soon everyone started snatching Lin's huge uncle specs to pose in them...
Supermodel no. 1...
Supermodel no. 2...
And err... Ah pek no. 3?

Then Ah Leem decided that he should prove he has professional skills worthy of his big-ass camera...
Guess which shot was his...

Rape of the earthquakes... noooooo~~~
(Vic & Ah Leem: muahahahha... *drool*)

As guilt on the 2 earthquakes settled in, we decided to embrace the healthy lifestyle of walking (yes walk!) from Millennia Walk to Clarke Quay...
30 mins later, after many detours, moanings and complaints... we collapsed at the MRT...

"9 lil Rockers, hangin on a wall..."

Finally we reached Blue Bar Bistro...
13 people happily squeezed in a corner to some booze and great music from the 2 bands (Parking lot pimps, and what's the other Filipino band again?)
And yup I agree the walk was worth the harmony & skills of both bands... glad we stayed to catch their rendition of Kiss from a rose, Stars & Heaven knows...

The Rocker babes...

Nope, I ain't high... *hic* *hugs glass of martini*

And lastly off to Shah Alam (wuuttttt??) mamak behind Boat Quay...
Sweet Laremy was so thoughtful to join us all the way from Bishan... touched!
The highlight was of course Ah pek Vic's classic devouring of sup tulang, complete with bone knocking, horrifying sucking noises, and gravy-covered hands (hands, not just fingers)...

As proof, I included a pic of traumatised Ben...
You'll never look at Ah pek Vic the same way ever again...

Mmm... *slurp slurrrrrp* *burrrrp* *more drool*

Anyway, thanks so much guys for coming down...
Had a great time! Feelin' so loved, hehe...



Goodbye Wingyee!
Checked out LADC's salsa social night a few weeks ago...
Quite a quaint little shophouse with a romantic, classy ambience for dancing.. Tho I spend most of my time gaping since the dancefloor was covered with experienced & skilled couples it just puts me to shame... sigh...

Hung out with some of them at Mac's & caught The Maid (damn, wasn't as scary as I expected... tho it was entertaining watching it with one nodding away and three squeaming about, heh)...
The rest of the pics are by Porshee... dammit, I wanna get a digital SLR too, really good stuff!

Porshee, Eddie & Alison...

Adeline & I...

A couple of weeks ago was Wingyee's last lesson at Jitterbugs before she flew off to the UK... had a farewell outing with supper at Newton Circus (too bad Keith couldn't join us, had to work at Barcelona as usual)... the guys made her guzzle down a bottle of beer, which she hated, poor thing... then adjourned to Porshee's for more overnight drinking & dancing (salsa, hiphop & goodness knows wat, haha)... Eventually everyone got knocked out on the floor at 6am... Had to drag ourselves to breakfast & back home...
A crazy fun time nevertheless with this bunch of wacky ppl, heh...
Keep in touch gal! Dun go too crazy over there ya? :o)

Farewell present: a few smooches...

And a broken back...

Huddle huddle...

Threesome salsa...

The gang...

Blondie and the Olive Oil

Blondie Night
Didn't I say I was gonna be blonde for TGIO?
I was initially excited to be only one wearing a blonde wig... coz I thought I would be getting the kewl Roxette/Bon Jovi hair-do, until Zhonghan smirkingly tossed me this mother-of-all lion mane... Oh f**k...

2 days later, past the screams of horror & screeches of laughter from neighbors & Lynn's regular boys, I dejectedly accepted lovely role of the (assetless) Dolly Parton of the "Smelly Pink Panties" band (I still dunno how the heck they came up with that, eurgh)... since I was the only gal in the Mat Rock band... dammit... oh well, at least I had my revenge of sludging red paint across their faces haha... (great idea of Dad's... the beauty of having a hip arty dad, heh... u rock! And noooo it's not Ninja turtles k???)... and we got the crowd roaring to an 80's female medley... and of course, me fav "I'll be there for yooouuuu" :o)

Hold your breath and... EEeeeEEeeEEEkkk!!


The Smelly Pink Panties... purrrrr

Sigh, how traumatic... my first & last year performing as a blondie, which I desperately hope I wouldn't be remembered by when I graduate... not to mention the absolute entertainment I provided to my virgin groupie classmates & SMSU mates... sigh...

Oh well, at least the Rockers had their own share of wearing gigantic afro wigs, nerdy glasses or ah beng hair-dos, heh...
(For more pics, see cJaY's, aH boO's or aH liM's...)

One big mental family...



Best of all, the event itself was hosted by our very own, melodious.... OrangeMan!!

*Drumrolls*...

"B-I-N-G-O and bingo was his name ohhhh~~~"



And since I had the bird's nest stuck on my head for the rest of the night, I decided to make my 20 bucks worthwhile tasting the experience of a blonde air-head with my fav band men...

Dolly Parton & her toyboys:
Jimi hendrix & Bon jovi...
Ceena geek & Kirk hammett...

and Ah beng...
Aarrgghh... attacked by Ceena geek!


Final year performing TGIO... melancholic yet traumatised, what a mix of emotions, haha... It has been good anyway... esp. post pizza/booze supper... heh... Gonna miss this lots soon :o(

Finally lost the wig, ahhh... more bailey's... (CJ snickers: "Hee hee hee~~")

Olive Oil Virgin Experience
Yess I finally attempted cooking sth substantial for the masses! Ok, so it was Ah Lim's infamous olive oil pasta recipe, but at least I touched the ladle... and it was the first to be finished... hee
Now just gimme another 5 years or so, I would have come up with another recipe by then, ahem...

Tada... finally sth other than mudpies and apple swans...


Rockers supper at Keith's was the usual agenda...

Outdoor bingeing...

Followed by indoor boozing & movie viewing...
As usual, the girls snagged the baileys n started dunking choc ice cream into it (and yup Pam was the first to go, heh)...

And I swear I didn't get too high this time, really!

Alternative options were pool...

And mahjong...
Note the aftermath of the binging session in the foreground...
Attempted 2 games out of hours of 'observations'...apparently I didn't inherit Mum's mahjong kaki blood, still cluelessly lost...

Think I'll just stick to learning how to cook, haha...

All-in-all, it was still fun, and we enjoyed the air-con, heh...
And I swear the kois have grown much bigger...
Alrite, shall blog about the Bday & Wingyee's farewell party next...

Nooo Life~~~

Year 4 life? What life?
Aiyooo... who da devil said final year's the slackest year? Am taking like 5 mods & and fyp this sem... so my free days on mon & wed r taken up with socializing with rat brain smoothies in biopolis.... and the rest of the week peppered with weekly case studies, tests, and a ridiculous overload of project discussion for each module....haih, even skipped my 4-6 lecture (out of my 2-8pm marathon) to catch an extremely short nap....barely have time to sleep nor clean my room.... which is turning into a pigsty, far from my normally neat state....but i still love my green egg lamp lugged from home's IKEA (ok, out-of-point, haha).....sigghhh nooo liffeeeee


Salsa
Salsa classes have been upped to twice a week, not tt I'm complaning, since it's an attempt to prove to myself tt I still sorta have some form of social life, haha.... Nope dun think my improvement is proportional to the frequency of classes, since I still seem to be clueless with the leads, heh... At least in Salsa 3, the guys are less err, desperate and genuinely passionate about dance (i.e. most probably gay), so it's way more fun to learn now :D


Hilton weekend
Anyway my 2 ex-classmates from M'sia were here for the past 2 weekends for their work attachment... So took the opportunity to gather the SMSUians for a few meals, gossips & lotsa-lotsa shopping together... then of course had the liberty to check out the Hilton's duvet and air-con facilities.... so cheapo, but oh well, was never shy, muahaha... next destination to crash: EH's condo? haha


Momo
Also finally visited Momo to see ah lim n keith play last weekend with 2 funky babes ah boo & (alicia keys) shi li and yes our dear chaffeur hanrong (who also got stuck in the line for 30 mins waiting for us to bring him in, oops)... ha see keith, said i'll drag down a few more supporters liao :P ... Anyway haven't had so much fun grooving ard for some time already... and aiyo, this alcoholic boo made us down 3 jugs lor... at least i was still walking straight, didn't blurt out embarrassing stuff, nor get violent (ahem)... just went err, prancing around like a maniac...

Halfway during the performance, Mr. Shane had a group of hot blondes screaming his name... hmm, this couldn't do... so we gals did the mock fan club screams for Ah Leem & Keith too, altho someone was too busy banging the drums away to notice, haha... oh well, another good deed done :P

The mock tai tai portrait (with new recruit Shili Keys!)...

Reverie...



Keith, Ah Leem & the Momo groupies...

More details & pics on Ah Boo's & Ah Leem's website... Checked out Reverie's fav blues/jazz haunt nearby as well... Totally awed even tho we heard only 1 song, not even sung by the regular band... gonna terrorise tt place soon... the next rockers outing maybe? :o)


Okay... back to aca & TGIO practice... can't believe I'm gonna wear tt huge blonde 80's hair... thanks to zhonghan...sigh, hope i wun make a fool of myself :S

Numerology

Hmm... does it imply tt I have potential to be a sado power-biatch?
Uh oh...
But then again, anything for me 6 series, bwahahaha.... :oP


Your Soul Number is EIGHT.

There is nothing small or modest about your ambitions and you have the drive to achieve the recognition and material success that you are aiming for. You dream of rising above the common crowd to reach the pinnacle of success, becoming a person of influence, responsibility, and power. Strong-willed and determined, you will persevere and overcome all obstacles on the way to your desired goals. You are a natural executive, possessing organizational talents and the ability to manage large-scale operations in the commercial world. You enjoy the challenge of "playing in the big league".

Your emotions and personal life generally take a back seat to your striving for professional advancement and material goals.

http://my8s.astrology.com/scripts/runisa.dll?AO.131646:NPROD:1091768513:PRTABNUM,ice=ast&tabpred,num

A Hol of Events

Yesss... finally back from blog hibernation... been busy with work, rag n everything else... well, procrastination & laziness have played a part too... so shall make it up with a substantial entry...



Part 1: The End of the Internship
Ended work 2 weeks ago with many important lessons & experiences learnt... some the fun way... some the hard way...

like handling an absolutely bitchy pharmacist (who ironically loves the sales rep instead)...
being told off for bugging a short-tempered doc...
being banned from the hospital for probing too much with my survey...
and eventually finding out tt my researched product wasn't very promising...

Nevertheless these are indeed priceless compared to taggin a hospital pharmacist for 6 weeks... and the consolation was tt the management were impressed enough with my presentation, so i shan't complain heh...

Ultimately, I was glad I had great company during my attachment... the 3 interns I could bitch with, my adorable hardworking supervisor whom I could connect with, and my dear irritating product specialist whom I could squabble with [oklah he can be really nice too heh :o) ]... in fact, we colleagues went on a trip to genting and spent the weekend being absolute tourists... foot reflexology, shopping & sauna in kl... casino, more shopping & overnight tai di in genting... haiyo i'm feeling more like a "malay-pore" by the day man, haha

Will miss this wacky bunch of ppl, hope to keep in touch wif them in years to come :o)

4 Power suits in the boardroom...



Farewell outing at Barcelona with the marketing managers...



Me fav supervisor Sally :o)




Part 2: The Hair Show
Michael called me up to be his hair model for his toni & guy academy graduation hair show, so how couldn't I resist a free haircut & color, & a chance to prance around on the catwalk?

He stuck to red highlights (this time super bright red, too bad it was only semi-permanent... which has faded by now)... along with more bright red hair additions... so coupled with the pink haute couture dress & fishnet stockings, I looked like a kinky jap character... embarassing sia... oh well, at least it was way more fun as one of the 3 special hair-up models than modelling normal clothes... the other 2 was a hot moulin rouge look and a cool freaky veiled hair look... Michael definitely deserves his best student award :o)

Not to forget my makeup stylist, who gave me the most colorful makeup i've seen, n i still look pretty good in it, heh... reds, pinks and golds with purple eyelashes... really creative

Model wannabe...


The models & Micheal at Club Momo...


The corpse, the Lian, the Stripper, the Jap fantasy and the Pontianak...




Part 3: Centennial Rag Dance
This is the year of stripping... We poor rag dancers had to strip twice... from white flowy togas skimpy amazon warrior skirts... wah lau, never felt so exposed in my life before... haha... but I have to admit that this year's dance choreo is the best of my 4 years in hall, just too bad we didn't win the centennial shield... we really had a fighting chance... just tt maybe the costumes (tt we singlehandedly sewed ourselves, sad huh) and the makeup (which Celia & I stayed up the whole night doing) weren't impressive enough, since they were thrown together at the last minute...

For those who didn't see the dance, the theme was about a girl, Sarah... whose colorful vision of celebrated life was taken away by the Dark Prince, resulting in her blindness and the change of the float and dancers to greyscale... then the Light Prince rescues her and returns her vision back to its full color and eventually defeats the Dark Prince, albeit in a violent way (he chops the creature's head off)... not a bad idea in my opinion really... just that the execution was less than satisfactory sadly...

Oh well, last year to dance rag anyway, n I felt all nostalgic and melancholic on that sunny Saturday... especially when everyone started singing the KR family song, funny how the years flew and you're graduating soon already... and everything you do this year will be your last... so I guess I'll be treasuring every single event I can now... for the last time...


5th floor neighbors!!



On the pick-up ride...



The KR rag dancers...



The KR Raggers & float...



Ended up totally exhausted after tt of course, but didn't really have a nice long sleep since i was tossing & turning over my badly burnt left shoulder... so much for wearing togas...*ouch*...still hurts... hope it doesn't peel off in chunks...gross... (although neighbors said i look much better with a red tint and pseudo-rosy cheeks... hmm i get the point, i need a bloody tan, heh)

Anyway had weird intermittent naps... 3-8pm.... 12-5am... 9am-1pm... all these with a feverish aching body & a bad sore throat... well at least i'm feeling much better now... since i did sneaked in a few fries today... tempted... so had to counter it with a gazillion more fisherman friends and ice lemon tea, heh



Part 4: NDP
Finally on this night's NDP eve concert held for the first time at Marina (yup where ppl fly kites on a romantic afternoon)... And ironically this is the first time i've ever been to an NDP celebration since my 5 years of stay here, hehe... so yeah, I was pretty jakun and excited about the event tt I dragged my classmates out at the last min (one eventually ffk, sighhh) so I could spectate the fireworks firsthand...

The concert wasn't much... almost died listening to 2 chinese boybands (K-one & 128 club or sth) and I only caught FIR's last song Lydia (no wonder I didn't really bother going to their celebrations, but it was not tt bad lah)... and the ground was grossly muddy, got my white sandals and feet totally soiled, sighhh... but at least it was worth the fireworks lah... love the parachute-like, the morning glory & the spiral-like designs... when can m'sia ever reach tt level of precise & creative choreo? not in the near future, sadly...


http://www.ndp.org.sg/Downloads/Videos/Fireworks/highlevelfirework.avi

Fireworks @ Marina...






Anyway, happy b'day s'pore... will prob just spend tomorrow studying for thursday's test, in just week 1! sianz...