25 random things

there's a facebook note thingy that's been going around for awhile now.

i have nothing to blog about so therefore i'm going to attempt it

here goes: [25 random things about me]

1.when i was a kid, i used to think houses with chandeliers were damn rich. i think subconsiously still do.

2. i love food. i eat most things, the only i don't want to try is baloot [half-formed chicken foetus still in its shell] and dog meat. if i find out you fed it to me, to quote bill "I will screw u upside down till nt even ur mommy recognises you"

3. i get jealous really easily.

4. i'm loyal. i once liked a guy for 3 years

5. my first word was duck

6. i named both my sisters. my parents didn't get a say in it. funny story. ask me about it.

7. you know how when people are surprised or recieve something really sweet, it warms their heart or some crap? the spine of my lower back tingles instead. so far, only 1 person has managed to do that to me.

8. i miss albert house people. cause i feel very comfortable around them and they're accepting

9. i take pleasures in the simple things in life. like an unexpected phone call from a friend will make my day or finding a fresh flower on the ground or buying an unusual pen.

10. i loved usa07 trip with 7jam. vegas baby, vegas!

11. my K2 chinese handwriting is better than my now chinese handwriting [according to my chinese teacher anyway]

12. i was really reluctant to come to icms. its a new feeling. i was good with going to mebourne

13. my first impressions of people are generally quite accurate

14. for trinity term 3 drama, i had to say 'divorce'[DI-vorce] and i pronouce it 'DIE-vorce'. my teamates spent at least a few hours correcting me. GOD.

15. my alcohol tolerance has improved significantly during the last year. thanks for all the free whiskey!

16. i wear contact lenses at night. and take them off in the day. they're called ortho-k lenses

17. i am this age

18. [i will not do the lame thing by putting i am turning this age]. i have an extra piece of skin on my right ear. i'm impressed by people who notice it.

19. i cannot tolerate stupidity/slowness of the mind. really. its the one thing that makes me have this sudden urge to throttle their neck

20. i think whiteboards are nicer than blackboards.

21. i know how to swear in 9 languages and dialects. [english, mandarin, cantonese, hokkien, punjabi, thai, bahasa indonesian, tagalog, french.] i'm working on the korean, jap and vietnamese people to tell me. [they refuse to cause they think its bad for me. hey. if i know it in 9 languages, how's knowing a few more going to hurt?]

22. i think roses are overrated. i guess they're pretty but i don't see why they are used to express love. oh and i think a bottle of folded stars is really quite stupid. it may be sweet to some people but honestly, what can you do with it? and refer to point 19.

23. my main motivation to get rich is not that i can enjoy the good things that money can offer[that's a slight motivation] but so that i can use it to help others if the need arises cause when i was young my mum always pointed out all the charity work rich people did and always said 'that's why you must work hard, so you can give back'. i think its quite true.

24. i'm petite. not short or small or dwarfish or whatever. petite.

25. one of these facts is false. see whether you can tell which one.

____

activity!

fill in the blanks with vulgarities and obscenities
[bonus points if they're not in english]

let's go.

so, today i woke up ___ early to meet my parents at sydney mainland cause to get from sydney to manly you have take a ferry that's ___ 35 mins or drive.

and we were in a ___ rush cause i had to be in the college by 1.30

and went i reached the dock, the ferry was there.

but the ___ gate was ___ closed early. ___!

as a result, i missed my chef uniform fitting [don't laugh. i will sent my very sharp knife through your head and feed your parents cranuim a la de bambino, if i don't pwn you at cooking first...]

and so i have to go back to ___ sydney, where their shop is. like by ___ tomorrow

___.

cny and other things on my mind

i just realised i totally forgot to blog about cny 09

so, here goes:

i wasn't too excited about cny this year, for some odd reason.
i mean it was good to see my mum's side of the family, kinda rare, since i see my dad's side every single sunday for dinner.
reunion dinner food was damn good.
lohei, cold crab & suckling pig.
god. its good. cold crab <3
that was with my dad's side. like cny eve dinner. anyway, my sisters played with sparklers and stuff. i got bored and read a book. somehow, somewhere, sparklers lost their magical-ness. or maybe i lost my fascination with it.
its a pain in the arse, growing up. i wish i still retained that childlike wonder.

next morning went back to dad's side, greeted relatives whom i don't know.
and all that.
collected angpaos.
explained my education status to them
basically, small talk.
it was so clear that i'd rather be playing with my new ipod[its purple! nano! total <3] and they'd rather be sleeping/eating/doing something that's at least interesting.

went to my mum's side for dinner
totally love them.like the 9 jamers and the 2nd cousins and my uncles who are barely 10 years older than me [one was on his honeymoon]
gambled with uncle gerald. lost $10 playing tai di. [not me, all of us 9 jamers]
that was so fun.
took a photo with my fav. grandaunt mary.
as well as a lot of people.
got new additions to the family this year.

collected a few more ang paos the next day and that kind of sums it up.
:D

anyway, on a side note, i've been working on my family tree for 3 years now and some parts i still haven't sorted out. but i have a lot of grandaunties and uncles so yeah.
it'll have to be put on hold until i get back again

i have no idea what i'm doing
i shifted from an environment i've been in for practically my whole life [mg 10 years, gb 9 years, chinese tuition 12 years, started when i was in K1, singapore 16 years]
then i shifted from melbourne, where i was just getting comfortable.
to manly. and i can safely say i dislike this place.

i'm one of the few south east asians around here.
i feel so out of place.
there's like 60% aussies and 10% americans
and the majority of the minority are like swedish, norway, uk people.
God, help me.

greetings from manly

anyway, I'M IN SYDNEY!
woohoo. in manly.

extract from an email i sent cause i'm too lazy to type what i already typed again :D
:

i'm typing this from the com lab & god i love my room.

its like the closest to the stairs, bathroom & com lab, as well as one of the bigger ones. YAY

HAHA

its [the campus] really pretty and its quite multi-racial. as i speak i have a german next to me and there's an aussie in front of me and a hk guy showed us in.
apparently, its 50% aussie, 20% korean[this part i don't know how true cause it was another year person saying this] and the 30% are a mix.

i hope there are a few sg and malaysians here.
it would be a lot more comforting.

manly is quite a nice place, holiday destination beach type.
its also super ex
$16 for pasta. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.. and my bank account, along the way. please?

nicole kidman and keith urban got married here[YAY, liwen said hopefully they'll renew their vows soon. omg! how cool would that look on my resume:

graduate of trinity college, university of melbourne [2008]
graduate of ICMS-Macquarie University [20something]

served at renewation of Keith Urban & Nicold Kidman's wedding vows [20something]

HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! definitely not more awesome than me though. :D

i was exploring the place and there's a wedding going on here now. as well as this tree stump thingy which has all these directions of the different countries nailed to it.

i found singapore, 6000 km ++ away, pointing northish.

i blew a kiss in the direction it indicated singapore was in.
for maddy and marianne
for the 9jamers
for the muskeeters
for the friendships made and pleasures shared.
for you

change

last day in sg

met up with kit yeng
glad to know some things haven't changed

yelled at juniors to do drill
glad to know some things haven't changed

met up with sunday school people, tried to bribe them to drink a gross melissa-made concoction
glad to know some things haven't changed

talked to relatives during cny and collect ang pows
glad to know some things haven't changed

and a lot will change next year
i saved a year by doing trinity
...


but did i miss out on a year?

hmmm.

watching House now
the relatives always over react
or i'm just cold blooded

which my temperature doesn't indicate

jan so far

“You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” - Anonymous

so far, jan has been nice for me. lots of meetings, greetings and gossip, from the source itself no less....

so. i've learnt much, told my story more times than i wanted to and basically seen everybody that matter to me. except for a few who have UBER-busy.

jan 09:

-sun sch meeting
-bangkok trip <3
-lunch with liwen. haha. hopefully you'll be known soon as justice Foo. & i still say you should go to warwick
-dinner with shri. thanks for listening as always. :) don't worry too much and STUDY.
-breakfast, lunch & dinner with hoe. with cherm, kaii, liwen. went to see ahma. stupid hoe meet at 9.30. anyway, dinner was good. and it was really nice seeing all of you together. p.s. happy birthday hoe. old already!
-dinner with rachel and family :)
-lunch with lesley and sean gwee. somehow you'll always be sean gwee. anyway, hope your plan succeeds. and ms sia, be good
-lunch with kaii and cherm. the women is a good chick flick.
-threaded eyebrows
-dinner with grace and eunice. :D

lie, lying, lies

when you've got a hundred years to live, how do you want to spend that precious amount of time?

lies are a lot easier on the ears. and the heart
there's so many things i'd prefer to hear than what i'm hearing now.
i don't think there's an intention to hurt but it sure does. hurts like hell.

haha
there's a bit of irony: truth hurts like hell.

God, you do have a warped sense of humour you know that?

love, your child.

bangkok

i am back from bangkok

I LOVE THAT PLACE.

the stuff is dirt cheap
seriously.

bags cost S$8, dresses S$12.
nice.

anyway, i bought a LOT and this is an extract of my list:

-2 bags [for school]
-2 bags [for going out]
-5 t-shirts
-5 tops
-4 dresses
-6 hairbands
-2 necklaces
-2 belts

and other random things like cool colour changing clocks and underwear. and my very pretty manicure. :D

anyway, since it was a shopping trip, just me and mum, we didn't see much of bangkok except for the interiors of shopping malls but this is what i observed

- the people love the king. like seriously. there's posters of him everywhere and this taxi driver put up a bumper sticker that said long live the king when he could have earned money by advertising some company.
- food is value for money. the tom yum soup was filled with prawns[very fresh], mussels and other seafood and it was like damn cheap. we paid S$12 for the meal which in ying thai[melb.] would have cost at least double that.
-shopping is good. international brands are equally expensive but local brands like lingerie company Wacoal [made in thailand] the price is lowered alot. like S$20 for the most ex. design. Heck lot of fakes at street shops and shopping malls. and piracy seems to be legal there. pirated dvds own proper shops in reputable malls. its like WTH??!! anyway, there's this place called platinum wholesale centre. its REALLY wholesale. people will go there with trolley bags and order 20 pieces of the same design and sell it elsewhere. it is crazy, comparable to a wetmarket in the morning. oh. and the best thing is they give discount if you buy 3 pieces from an individual stall. so for once, my mum is telling me buy more! instead of stop spending your parents' money can?
-i only saw 4 transversites there. well, they're very pretty and tall and omg, you would NEVER guess that they were once men. and the way they dress is very tasteful.
-and there should be a term for thai girls who like caucasians only. like SPG but in a thai context. cause there's so many of them

and that sums up my 4day 3 night stay in bangkok, thailand. Land of a thousand smiles. :D

p.s. there's no fbts there!!! since fbt stands for football thailand, why is there no fbts?! where are they coming from?! *looks at the fbts i'm wearing and wondering about its heritag.. oh. its made in thailand. so why is it not sold there?!?!

p.p.s. the thais are conning us. the best rice, they keep for themselves.

p.p.p.s. i sneaked a look at the price of condoms cause it reminded me of something posted on talkingcock.com:

One day, our beloved Senior Minister went to Thailand and had lobster for dinner with the Thai King. After SM had finished, he asked the King....

SM: Your Highness, what can you do with this lobster shell?
King : We cannot do anything with it, we just throw it away.
SM: Oh, no. In our country, we send it to the factory and produce prawn crackers.

Then SM had an orange. After he had finished, he asked the King.
SM: What can you do with the orange skin?
King : We cannot do anything. We just throw it away.
SM: Oh, no. In Singapore, we send it to the factory and produce orange jam.

Then SM asked for some chewing gum. After he had finished, he put it on the plate and asked the King.
SM: What can you do with the chewing gum?
King: Oh, no. We just throw it away.
SM: In Singapore, we send it to the factory to produce condoms and then send it to Thailand.

SM was about to leave but then the King asked him...
King: What do you do with the condom when you finish using it?
SM: We cannot do anything. We just throw it away.
King: In Thailand, when we finish using the condom, we send it to the factory to produce chewing gum and then send it back to Singapore!!!

And that is the reason why chewing gum is banned in Singapore.

anyway, back to the price of comdoms, its S$2. So does that mean its recycled?! because i check online and the price is like $5. so maybe that's why its so cheap!

dec 08

personally, i don't see what's so great about this but: happy new year.

anyway, i've done the following during the holiday:[so far]

dec 08:[chronological order]
-watch season 1 of prison break
-meet up with kaii, cherm and kor for lunch
-see optometrist
-dinner with grandparents [hanabi has gotten worse. not worth $ now]
-renew passport at US embassy. [they are freakin paranoid and dumb. the bloody thing is a fortress with bulletproof glass and walls so damn thick, but they couldn't detect that my dad was carrying his handphone when he passed through the metal detector.]
-meet up with manda [seoul garden]
-look for my sister's outfit for uncle's wedding
-dinner + sleepover with auntie esther
-see everyone at church
-lunch with rachel + hunt for $20 dress [LOVE IT]
-met up with THE FOUR MUSKEETERS and watched manda carol & drew our wishes on balloons & sakae sushi buffet
-christmas dinner with cousins.[uber-unglam photos are on facebook. sigh]
-attended uncle barry's wedding[very nice wedding and isabella's dress was really nice]
the girls took alot of pictures and i guess it was nice to see all the extended family. we're all so big now. i mean, most of the cousins are taller than me and its nice i guess, to see that we still can talk so much even though i see them only once a year.
-see parent's friends
basically sleep, eat and use computer.