July 2011
1 post
My mother is a hoooooot! Seriously! I don’t remember when she became so unconsciously funny, or maybe I’m very easily tickled.
So last night she was hanging out in her bedroom with a blue bucket of water and a dirty rag and wiping down the furniture and window grills (don’t ask me why she was doing that at 8pm). I started talking to her and don’t remember what I said...
June 2011
3 posts
So my best friend @ work is the toilet cleaning lady. She has an awesomely toothless grin and darts around with bird-like nimbleness despite her trolley of Swiffer Wet Jet Mops and trash bags and Mama Lemon detergent. We discuss in-depth topics such as the rising hawker food prices, how salty the food outisde is, what we have for teabreak (Milo and Skyflakes biscuits!!), and my miserable 20$/day...
5 weeks left of this toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot ISP. It’s gonna be funkayyyyy.
Next week is an exciting one; 20 months will be mapped out on Monday @ Wilkie Road so cheers to that. I a
So my 22nd birthday starts off with me squirting olive oil based ear drops into my ears and awkwardly tilting my head so the oil doesn’t drip back out.
Why am I being so retarded when I’m already so old, one may ask!
Here’s why: I’ve got giant pieces of hardened was stuck in my ear canals which has been causing temporal but significant hearing loss. And as a bonus,...
May 2011
3 posts
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a...”
– Albert Einstein
SICK SICK SICK seems to be a perennial theme whenever I come back home. Why??!! Not being able to function like an active person really sucks big time; I’m either overheating or freezing in our sub arctic malls..blahhhhhhhh
COKE SOBRIETY STREAK HAS BEEN WRECKED!!
simply could not resist the burning fizziness against my throat. thanks normi for bringing over that tantalizing carton of evil black stuff…
i got so bored with studying i went on zappos and got myself a pair of low black pumps in 5.5 they arrived today and…either
1) people’s feet have grown really fat and shoemakers are making 5.5...
April 2011
3 posts
“What does it take for one to be completely vulnerable to the public eye, to...”
the most useful thing i have learned this semester:
one can pour leftover food garbage into the toilet bowl, flush and TADA!!!!
clean sink, clean trash can, clean kitchen, clean everything..why didn’t i think of it sooner! i had to wait 21 years of my life before genius birgit taught me
the toilet is really the best invention ever. life should really come up with some kind of flushing...
March 2011
3 posts
i really want to go for a run but i left my sportschuhe in the car which is with ted right now. my legs are so itchy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :S maybe i should run in my laopok flat sneakers?? it’s a bad idea and i’m just inviting trouble for my knees but i am in desperate need for some form of sweat-inducing physical activity.
walking 10min to schnuks does NOT count.
you know what...
beautiful strumming sounds of the guitar are coming from the courtyard cafe. the beat pulses, the chords are deliciously stacked atop a drone and the singer’s voice is smooth and silky soft like a fluffy white marshmallow. ahhh music my longtime friend, maybe it’s time we get reacquainted
not being unsociable or what..but his is a beautifully written poem that was made into an even more beautiful and affecting video on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs i am always very enthralled by how people can translate fleeting thoughts so gracefully yet succinctly into words, and then into moving pictures across a screen.
HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis If you are at...
February 2011
5 posts
cooking is so damn exhausting!!!!! i spent the whole morning making only…TWO DISHES AND RICE (in a rice cooker la). i think i’m a very inefficient cook and being a stickler for cleanliness, i wash my hands WITH SANITIZING SOAP after every single step.
i.e. cut onion, wash hands.
open can of vegetables, wash hands.
put frozen chicken in water, wash hands.
slice chicken,...
the air is filled with the smell of spring; moist air, rain puddles, overcast skies and nostalgic smelling wind that doesn’t sting your face. a little warmer and it would be perfect running weather; ipod in ears, no sunshine, raindrops splattering on your skin mixed with warm salty sweat.
it almost feels like singapore. almost, but not quite. i feel a little homesick. my thoughts are...
WE CAN HAS DOUBLE DIGIT WEATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
for the first time in WEEKS, i am not cold.
thats all for now folks. my mood is exponentially related to the increase in daily temperatures so i can safely say that although i am shit tired from much work, i’m overjoyed!!!!!!
juno is stuck in the fucking snow with his backside sticking into awkwardly into the neighboring carpark and in front of the dumpster. it’s so late and i’m too tired to move him and hoping the snow around will melt tomorrow and all will be well…
HA IN MY DREAMS. PROBABLY GET TOWED. OR GET A HATE NOTE ON THE WINDSHIELD LIKE THE ONE I GOT LAST TIME
and the king’s speech...
OH GAWD LOOK AT THIS SNOW AND SHIT AND ICY STONES FALLING..WHERE ARE THE ROADS?? WHERE ARE THE PAVEMENTS??? I WALK AND SUDDENLY IM LIKE WHERE ARE MY FEET AND LEGS I DONT SEE OR FEEL THEM ANYMORE. WTF IS GOING ON????!
thanks mother nature for blessing us with this monstrosity of a storm.
AND THEY STILL DONT WANT TO CLOSE SCHOOL. WHAT NONSENSE NO-CLOSING-POLICY!!!! THEY WANT US TO DIE ON THE...
January 2011
7 posts
SHYDEY BOY IS RAFFLES KID YO
another addition to the snobby-act-atas-act-smart-raffles (lol okay joking only la) school from the foo family. DENG DENG DENG my little brother!!!!!! *toss confetti* zomg that little guy is already in JC gasps. wahhhh i feel like such an old lady…the old wise sister. and i guess my older sister can be upgraded to the ancient owl hahahah
i have been having headaches that are really frequent and prolonged..not to mention nauseating. why!! is it me wearing my hair back too tight?? the cold wind coming into my ears?? the caffeine in tea and coffee??
whatever it is its not fun!!!! :( i need to carry hong you around like an old lady cos im scared i pass out in the bathroom or something :(
anyways school is slowly but surely...
today my housemate pia turned to me and very seriously said:
‘cordelia there is something strange with my brackets. when i put them on they are very strong. it is like my teeth are walking around in my mouth??’
HAHAHAHHAHAHA TEETH WALKING AROUND??? BRACKETS VERY STRONG? WTF IS THIS NONSENSE HAHAHHA
xiao de yao si
i think she was trying to say that her retainers felt very tight...
we are once again blanketed in with thick poofy white layers of snow. snow piled high on top of the dumpsters that kind. i hate to sound like some kind of vulgar grinch but omg fuck this weather seriously!!!! im getting so restless indoors and okok i know i should not complain. look at poor australia and their floods. i saw a video on cnn where the floodwaters were coming so fast and strong in...
so i finished reading ‘hector and the search for happiness’ at starbucks today and i think everyone should give this book a go. do not scorn the simple language and the ‘cheesiness’ of the title because despite the cheerfully cartooned front page, i feel that this book is wonderfully thought provoking and describes so very much with so very little. it’s like only...
i have finally fulfilled the times-square-for-new-years scenario! 8 hours of standing and we got to see that minuscule ball making its melodramatic descend on top of flashing toshiba boards and the fireworks which were actually q pathetic (such cheapskate sponsers) and the confetti which was actually the best part because millions of tiny little shiny papers were fluttering and glittering against...
December 2010
11 posts
this post is to commemorate the winning of my first lottery ever!!!! no it was not for money. i did not win a million dollars nor am i any closer to becoming a millionaire right now so don’t you all come mug me because your efforts will come to nought
anyways back to the lottery. i got 2 out of the 25 rush tickets for the Wicked musical which was abit surreal bc all the tickets were sold...
a sentimental one...
so today i made ‘choux à la crème chocolat’ with sonia and they tasted so legit. like theywas fresh out of a french bakery!!! i have a very good french pastry teacher..for free somemore hahahaha.
so i have a couple more hours before i leave the house and say bye to everyone for what will probably be the last time (other than georg manu and phillip bc we’re suppose to meet up at...
FINITO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wah i have never felt so relieved. i concluded my crazy semester w a pretty good exam for the phua chu kang class (at least i think so) which was surprising bc:
a) i was almost ready to fall asleep before the exam. my nose was -this- close to banging itself on the table. i was just so tired!
b) i felt...
i did good for the previous 3 finals, but now it’s time to tank the final 2. woe is me..i have never felt so unprepared!! okay granted, one is open book open laptop open everything but i still NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO FIND ALL THAT SHIT. it is alot of information. and the other exam is for the phua chu kang class where i know bananas
on one hand i don’t want to care but on the other...
i have my first final tomorrow. cyber friends please give me some cyber luck cos…dengdengdeng it’s that dreaded music history final. there is just…soo much stuff and sooo many disgusting latin/german/italian names and their spellings to remember. i seriously feel so sick trying to memorize them..like vomiting sick u know? i hate memorizing things!!!!!
in other news, norman...
TODAY:
did not oversleep
managed to have breakfast whoopeedoo
went for all my classes, even chemistry which was balls. i slammed professor ray and his tablet pc and ridiculously inefficient microscopic pointer on the ICES form..its a kind of evaluation form they make us do
nejmun’s mother cooked fish curry and rice for me and made her carry it to school for me. i am super touched sobs
...
i am suddenly having an bad attack of home-sickness :(
i just wanna go home to my kampong house and i dunno…speak singlish freely and be sweaty and all that u know?
le sigh
but on the other hand i wanna also be a wandering nomad u know? be like a pink plastic bag that billows with the wind and floats light as a feather to wherever it pleases. and not care so much about worldly things...
today i opened the front door of my house to….
SNOWY MONSTROSITY
my love-hate relationship with snow never ebbs. today it was intense hatred because..
1) i overslept and had to waste more time pulling out appropriate attire for snowy weather
2) i took a picture of the snow covered lawn WHICH CAUSED ME TO MISS THE GOLD BUS because i had to tread precariously on crunchy snow and the...
November 2010
9 posts
oh home sweet home its good to be back!!!!! hello normal ceiling heights hahaha
anyways besides the headache i had a good time in good old el paso. lunch/dinner was yummilicious with turkey, gravy, cranberry, stuffing (this was so so so good), green beans & blue cheese, cumin cauliflower, fettucini, baked beans, mashed potatoes, peas and mini onions, nine freaking pies from blueberry to...
im in karel’s room now and having the world’s most awful headache fml
i think its the overly scented room. or maybe her pet mice and cockatoo and their shit are adding to the funny smell. its making me wanna throw up urgh =/ but i dont wanna insult her by complaining to i guess i have to ren3
oh jeeebers
wow i am truly bored. i guess i could start doing work…
i think i’m so restless and antsy cos the people i usually talk crap with in the house are gone. only sonia and phillipe are left and well, sonia’s always busy with her computer science stuff and has been going to uni every single day and phillipe is well…let’s say it’s better not to be so buddy buddy...
my long awaited holidays finally arrived last friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! altho today is the first real day since the beginning of break that i have no obligations to meet and nothing planned and boy does it feel good!!! i had a really packed weekend which i was a little annoyed with at first..u know that evil little voice in your head that chimes ‘why can’t people...
FF..
..for funny friday. what else could that stand for anyways. right? haha
today in TAM class i was seriously tortured because i was trying SO HARD to prevent myself from exploding into maniac laughter. i swear my whole body was convulsing cos i had to ‘gek’ my laughter..i bet the guy sitting behind me must have thought i was having fits or something
prof starzewski: blahblahblah...
so i almost put ‘320 sucks balls’ on my gchat status and then i suddenly remembered that the prof is in my gchat list omg
lucky i remembered!! else it would be super embarrassing. not to mention q mean cos its really not his fault the material does not stimulate any thinking whatsoever
however. he IS being an asshole for not postponing the midterm to thursday. i am so majorly...
oh and i forgot to mention funny thing #xxx that happened at the roundtable house meeting ytd
somehow we could around to talking how old georg (austrian pronounciation: gay-org, im not kidding) was
me: are u 86? 87??
georg: no..
me: 88??
georg: EIGHTY FOUR
jane aka xiaofang: OMG U R BORN IN EIGHT FOUR U SHOULD TOTALLY BE MARRIED ALREADY!
hahahhahahah
in context georg is someone you would...
320 is being a pain in the ass. im literally churning out a paper that is 1% substance 99% fancy words and cryptic sentences so that i appear as if i know what im talking about
when i think the bulk of the paper is actually BS
doesn’t help that i do not like my 320 group cos everyone is just so annoyingly stiff and bad group dynamics with zero chemistry…omg lighten up people....
ugly moment: when a person’s true colors are accidentally revealed
> accidentally
in bold because then its like the person was trying to hide it all along. it is x10 more disappointing to find out an ugly character on accident then it is to discover it straight up
ya of course i know im not perfect. just sayin’…
October 2010
10 posts
best halloween ever!!
i am going to be so sad when everyone leaves next year because it just isn’t going to be the same
you know what i think about life? it has so many different phases and stages you encounter and each phase has a pre-destined and designated lifespan and it’ll culminate with the bestest feelings and experiences before suddenly vanishing, just like that. and all you...
testament to me becoming weak and sissy:
today was only 5 degree Celsius and i really felt like perishing while walking across engineering quad (200’..MAX) for classes. every square inch of me felt cold!!! despite wearing the furriest of sweaters and clutching at a hot thermos of green tea (totally useless..wasted my 1.96 @ espresso royale) my bones and teeth were chilled like somebody...
i ate so much this weekend!!!!! i must have put on like 10 pounds but wadeva….im really lucky to have friends who appreciate my company and buy me meals! for no good reason somemore..so paiseh. why is everyone suddenly being so nice! must remember to pay good deeds forward
so after months of eating my tasteless steamed combo (efforts to save money, stay healthy, and avoid washing up after cooking)…i finally caved in and treated myself to lunch at the union ballroom and so happens that they are having totally awesome food today. i am rocking the menu man. there’s HONEY GLAZED SALMON (NOMNOMNOMNOM), cold shrimp pasta salad, RATAUTOUILLE (i have been...
i take back what i said about hating pumpkin soup. michael made this huge vat of pumpkin soup from scratch..it was like he was cooking for an entire orphanage or something!! economic masters students seriously have too much free time of their hands. he spent a whole afternoon dicing up a pumpkin twice the size of my head, and a couple more hours watching over the soup and seasoning it. i dunno...