singaporeans are ugly. esp a certain group called the aunties. we had a roadshow for this magazine with the target grp being mums/middle-aged women, and i tell u..the aunties are very good for business. (of cos the goodie bag's very worth it). if the booth's empty, noone would come. if there are ppl arnd, the queue would be tttttttthhhhhhiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssss long. and they'll peek into other ppl's goodie bags, and ask to change flavour, change this change that. or they would buy 3 or 4 copies just for the goodie bag!?! (of cos it's business for us haha)

then there are those who board relatively empty mrt trains and they sweep like vultures to a carcass to the empty seats, and yelling to their buddies across the carriage to snatch a nearby empty seat (slaps forehead). i mean of cos, everybody wants a damn seat, but if someone gets there before me, then fine, i'll just stand. no need to shout across to your friend and let the whole world know that u want that seat, so noone else can take it.

there was this girls out loud episode i watched about people queuing up even though they dunno what it's for. they set up a covered booth (with nothing inside, but you'll just get a free pen) and said there'll be free gifts and the queue started forming. and they interviewed ppl queuing and they don't even know what it's for!!

so, moral of the story. please don't develop the auntie-complex. i'd die to find out that one day, a few decades from now, i've become an auntie myself..haha.

met a friend today after almost half a yr! and it was great just doing a short catch-up, asking what we are and will be doing. it's intriguing how our lives diverge from this point on. people take their own paths and it makes me wonder how differently we'll end up. i'm procrastinating the acceptance of offers because i don't exactly like the finality of it, how it closes off all other options and puts an end to the overseas dream.

oh well, wonder how life's gonna be like for me without work. gonna swing back to the slack life before!! but this time it'll be filled with shopping at GSS! cant wait already!!!

have been too tired to blog!

anyway, who'd think that matriculating would be such a hassle! there seems to be a lot of things to do, a lot of dates to remember (more dates to consider when planning THE holiday!)

oh, i just cant wait till i'm free from work, then i can shop till i drop at GSS!!! the thought of it excites me haha

there's this show on ch 8 called mars vs venus and it's pretty hilarious. there's this part saying how wives love to nag and guys just have to turn off and let them hit their daily quota of 6000 words. reminds me of my parents. i think my dad has mastered the art of tuning out cos my mum really nags a lot when she starts on certain topics. she just doesnt know when to stop! i mean if i were my dad i'd be angry/impatient myself. i think that's what staying at home does to u.
don't u think that generally hsewives are the ones who possess auntie characteristics? than say, working mums? firstly, i think it's cos if u stay at home all day, all u care about are the nitty gritty stuff and u go nagging abt those. but if u're working u've been burnt out at work and all u want to do when u reach home is relax.

i hope i don't morph into an auntie in future :S

went to watch spidey today and must say it was so-so lah. though i didnt watch 2. but i think it's cos there were too many funny characters around lah, that it just sort of loses focus. anyway, this is like my first movie since...since...night at the museum? damn sad. AND pirates 3 is coming! whee, i wanna catch that!

finally went to watch phantom on tue and i must say it was great. how wrong can you go with that wonderful plot and music. the stage was lovely, with gold statuettes and all.
i absolutely loved
-the props and backdrops! so sophisticated!!
-the opera managers. very very funny
-the swinging chandelier!
- the part where the phantom descended on a...thing...after their song on the roof - cool!
- the boat! curious how it actually works
- the masquerade scene! majestic

but i didn't like raoul's quacky voice. (after that i found out that it was the aussie cast actually. thot it was the original london cast. hmm, wonder if the london props are the same..)and i also prefer the point of no return set on the movie though, with the bridge and all. but all in all, nice!

my precious weekends have flown by once again. and all i've done was eat, sleep and watch tv. i think it's cos i know my work now isnt going to permanent that's why im not making the effort to try to make full use of my wkends or trying to achieve a balanced lifestyle. i won't survive this way in the long haul cos im gonna end up a big fat pig. so, conclusion? not looking forward to full time working in future! i prefer being a student, simply because there IS time to do things i want to do. like pick up a bk (and finish it), swim, play the piano, etc.

besides the fact that it stops me from having a life, work has been pretty good. and i must say i am really lucky to be here at the right time. it's qt an experience for me, with fun events to boot. i think work has allowed me to meet ppl beyond my community and see that there are actually a lot of people out there who take different paths from us and makes me see that we are really a lucky bunch. i mean, within our circle of friends, we're more or less the same, we've more or less been through the same paths, going to be taking the same paths. so it's pretty nice to jump out of our own little circle to know of different people and circumstances.

i really don't have a life. i had wanted to watch so many movies and just never did, and now they're not running anymore. my last movie was..uh...night at the museum? and the thing is i choose not to watch wkend movies cos they are just too pricey.

i havent blogged in ages. work really deprives me of the time for any other kind of activities (including exercising *feels flabs*). anyway, i'm officially employed. yippee. i can see the glorious numbers in my account alrdy (ka-ching!)
anyway, supposedly the tremors could be felt from my hse!! (haha, my mum thought she was giddy or sth till she heard the news) but i was probably on a bus or sth so i didn't feel it. usually the tremors only affect the east so i was qt surprised that the west was affected.
i feel like im having a fever cos im like emitting heat and having a headache..but my temperature's normal! im sorta hoping im sick so i can sleep in...haha.

anyway i really miss school :( tehpings, and squeezing into lifts, GEOG, and i even miss lessons lah. so, it felt qt surreal that last friday was the final fullstop to the rj chapter of my life. 2 years were too fleeting. i could have more geog lessons for the rest of my life, (my dad actually asked if i wanted to do geog in uni, but when we were talking abt career options and reached teaching, we both "haha-ed")

i finally finished pride and prejudice. and i think i'm prepared for more jane austen after managing to get arnd the language and all. it really makes it much easier to read after watching the movie cos at least i know what's going on even though sometimes i get lost among their arguments. but it gets better along the way. anyway, it's a really nice bk and mr darcy is so sweet.

my drama serial just ended :( its a really nice show man, it's not like some of those cheesy taiwan period dramas with act cute actresses, this (hk one) is really different, and the ending was damn sad, but somehow, the best ending possible for the characters too.
once i start a show, i must watch it till the end. so i better don't start a new one.

anyway, i watched turn left turn right yest (with who else but the bloody hot takeshi). though i think the ending is a bit uh...anti-climax (an earthqk breaks down the wall between them), i think it's a very touching film! and it makes you sort of wonder if there's someone who's really in such close proximity to you but you've never noticed/cross paths. anyway, takeshi looks as if he really could play the violin (i like! +1000 points). at least if he doesnt know he LOOKED like he could. not like cheesy mediacorp actors (in the show the peak, which just ended recently) -this 2 guys were supposed to know how to play violin but they didnt even bother to move their freaking left hands! now tell me how does the music come out. damn fake can!! i couldn't stand to watch that scene (which was unnecessarily long btw). yes, so now we know why sg dramas are not that successful. and i cant begin to describe how hot takeshi is. period.

i am looking for tuition kids in bukit timah! if you have any lobang PLEEEAASSSEE tell me. Prrmary school all subs, sec sch geog and maths. PLEASE tell me if you have lobang thanks

i rmb i didnt have things i really wished for for my last bday, but now, though my nxt bday is like 8 months away, i have a long list alrdy ahha, mainly scents!

i want
-D&G Light Blue <3<3
-Kenzo Flower (or summer? cant decide)
-Lanvin Eclat D'Arpege
-Elizabeth Arden 5th Ave
-Gucci Envy Me
-Jin Zhi Yu Nie vcd set (its worth re-watching man. i cant miss a single minute of it i tell u)
-da chang jin vcd set? (haha, feel like rewatching it for some parts that i've missed)
-Silence Shen Qing Mi Ma OST (oh...my favourite chinese idol drama by far. so so nice. i rmb those days when i spent most of my day watching it from youtube!!!!)
-Gu Lian Hua OST
-A nice bossa nova cd
-a nice waltz/tango music cd

im blogging from work and am extremely free. most of the people are out on appointments and the rest here are rather free and openly slacking in a way...me and the other intern at least ahha. many ppl chat on msn, except those who sit right in front in full view of the director's office (though she's really nice too). its only 4.40 and i've already started slacking since 4. checked my mails, tried to book a driving slot (but the horror the horror! all feb slots are BOOKED!!!) and i guess i can only start driving again in march...or when someone drops a slot. and i just had to change to the new version of blogger since they forced me to. and i had to spend an extra 3 sec trying to rmb my new gmail acct.

and just now there was a rush to look at the new march issue hot off the press! haha, why the hoo-ha? eligible bachelors. hot and single ahhah.

so. i've been working for the past 10 hrs, in a fuschia white and orange tent which i believe not many ppl spotted or bothered to look at anyway. the crowd was qt small i must say and the cleo booth sold a grand total of *drumrolls* 3 copies today. its prob the only event at work this month (nxt month got cleo eligible bachelor at st jame's power station!! i wanna go!) anyway, this rdshow is the launch of this new kenzo fragrance ( i can memorise the ingredients alrdy. blah blah, a journey through asia, blah blah, thai rice, jap cherry blossom, indon frangipani)

anyway, i think i broke my personal record of patience and perseverance cos i survived the hours of boredom. in the morn esp, i read my bk (thankfully i was smart enough to bring one) and then stoned, talked to the promoters (very nice ppl), stared arnd and read in DETAIL cleo for three times. i can memorize it alrdy. the nice thing abt it (despite the boredom) was mtg new ppl, and having my fortune read. (pretty interesting and accurate!)

why isnt there jin zhi yu nie on youtube. i wanna watch the ep i missed yest :( actually i saw the cd set at some bugis fair was so tempted to buy it! anyway, im not enjoying working life one bit. cos u go out early and come back late, after watching my 9 and 10pm dramas there can only be a 15min quick email check. no blog hopping, no surfing no chatting :( give me sch over work anytime!

i had the funniest dream last night, where my dear little aminah was getting married in the school hall or sth like that. and she was 19 and i asked her is she sure she wants to see the same guy for the next 70 years. but anyway, her 'husband' was some rich indon kid whose family owns a petrol company. haha

i suspect my mum has some cleanliness OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), which i shall call the CNY syndrome. she loves to hover around my table, i know her hands are itching to stack my things up in her way of (perceived) neatness. and she tells me that i should get a bigger box to put my smaller boxes in. which makes no sense and serves no practical purpose cos ultimately the small boxes are still there. and she loves to nag and tell me that this is her hse, she can clean it her way. yah, go ahead, i dun care what she does to the rest of the hse just leave my table alone!

so, it was chris and my first ballrm dancing lesson on friday and i must say it was pretty fun. it was quite physically straining though, with lots of tiptoe-ing. it felt like aerobics lesson to me cos by the end we had sore calfs and sore arms haha, but i enjoyed it.
i finally got down to reading pride and prejudice. finally i could get past the first chapter. the prev times i tried to read it, i always get lost esp when they argue with each other. but after watching the movie, at least ive an idea of what's going on. i also had a sudden urge one day to read chinese classics like hong lou meng. oh my, my dad would be so proud of me. haha

i went to the mega ikea at tampines with my family today and i must say it is really successful. the food is nice and cheap, the furniture are pretty, simple and affordable, and ikea always makes me feel like buying cute little things (which may be qt useless) such as their very pretty boxes, nice drinking glasses, candles, beautiful black photo frames and pictures, on impulse. see, it really works. this mega store is really big and makes me all giddy looking at the piles of things. i'd really love to decorate my own hse someday. i can picture it with nice dark wood and dark-ish walls, lots of glass, pictures in black frames. i also have this thing for drinking glasses so i'd stock up on all sorts of wine, champagne, martini glasses. i can already hear my mum complaining how difficult it is to clean. haha

i REALLY cant believe that A's are over. i mean when u think about it, it wasnt too long ago at all when we were slogging our asses off. but (admit it) our brains have probably degenerated to mush already. actually i miss having my brain in tiptop, exam- ready form. its qt depressing to flip through the math and cant rmb how to do things when they used to be 2nd nature! and im sooo bored of slacking, mainly because i really end up doing nothing without a routine. and my original intention to do lots of reading failed terribly. except reading some old magazines and 2nd hand $1 nancy drew bks from thomson plaza (i solved the case before she did HAH!).

went for the inter-jc prom pageant with chris and grace yest. it was pretty interesting and vivien told me that the winners were both ex-ph ppl! interesting. and colin is a giant. he's the tallest person i've seen thus far. maybe mr q. is that tall. saw qt a few old friends arnd, wasnt too bad! didnt stay for long though :(

my days are just endless youtube-ing and mooching around, which im starting to get sick of. so i better get my ass of my chair and do sth soon