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Friday, July 28, 2006

Me to future me

Qi and me caught a supposedly cheesy romance at "The Cathay" today. We each bought a $15 Adidas pouch so as to get the required number of stamps for a complimentary movie ticket(worth $8). This is how silly both of us are. We got lost together, walked into mirrors together, wandered around aimlessly together and I'm sure we'll be doing more stupid stuff together. Looking forward to the next one.
"The Lake House" isn't really for those who contemplates too much as you'll spot far too many loop holes such as "Why did Sandra Bullock have recollection of the car accident when it didn't happen at all?". Yet, it contains the essence of a good romance----that is it makes you believe that true love exists, just like all those candy-coated disney princess cartoons. Even though that belief will only last for a moment before reality sets in , It is better than not having believed in it before.
I visited the movie website and found an interesting feature. We can actually send an email to our future self by setting the date we want the email to be sent. It could be as far as 30 years later. I wonder how it would feel like to receive a letter from 18 year old Angeline when i'm 48.It's scary to think about it. I have only sent one which i'll receive at the end of the year. I'm afraid i'll scare myself to death when I receive an email in 2036 from myself. I would have forgotten about the email I sent in 2006 and might get a heart attack or something.

Love, Pitza 28.7.06

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The Oprah show.

I caught a part of the Oprah show this afternoon while I was switching channels. It's about this group of middle-age ladies who gained weight tremendously after facing certain difficulties in life. Most of their problems were linked to romantic relationships with men. There was this particular lady whose fiancce cheated on her just before their marriage and she ran away.To forget her sorrows, she binged on anything she could get her hands on as she blamed herself for everything. However, the real loser isn't her at all!

Knowing such real-life situations upset me. There are a few of my friends whose parents are divorced due to marital problems such as the one above. Is being monogamous that difficult?

Love, Pitza 25.7.06

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Monday, July 24, 2006

still a walking zombie

We're having more family outings recently because my aunt and her family just got back from Japan to spend their summer vacation here. My cousins and sis decided to catch 'Pirates of the Carribean' while I joined my mom, aunts and uncles for shopping. I don't see watching movie as an ideal group activity. Why spend $9.50 to get stuck in the cinema on a sunday with chattering kids around and most importantly, you can't even interact with your cousins! That's why I prefer to rent DVDs and enjoy them on a lazy afternoon, lying/ sitting in whichever position I like while munching on snacks if I care for some. I could even pause and rewind as many times as I like. This is life! I'm definitely not being anti-social here since I do love people. Really do. But sometimes it's good to have some personal time.
My vain aunts and mom spent sooooo much time in nature's farm( health food store) and they bought so much health supplements that each got a complimentary membership! My mom bought collagen capsules and slimming pills! she claimed that the pills are for firming purposes but I know better. Maybe she's in denial or something. It contains 20% caffeine which is supposed to boost your metabolic rate and there are a few other active ingredients which are supposed to reduce fat and starch absorption.Bye bye fat soluble vitamins! I've decided not to pay too much attention to what my mom is doing . It seems like we never agree on anything nowadays. I guess it's repurcussion or something. My mom and grandma don't seem to agree quite often as well.

Love, Pitza 24.7.06

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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Keep the sunny side up!

Me and my new hair

I got a haircut yesterday. Almost half of my hair was snipped off! I'm definitely not exaggerating here. Even though my hair is still long, the thickness is way thinner and much of my curls has been snipped off. I felt kind of regretful because I really love my curls.

My phone conversation with one of the hairdresser is really amusing. I called the place up to book an appointment before going there. Here's how the conversation went:
Hairdresser: What's your name?
Me: Angeline
Hairdresser: How do you spell that?
Me: A...N...G
Hairdresser:B?
Me: No it's G
Hairdresser: B?
Me: G for giraffe
Who in the world would say G for giraffe? It sounds so unsophisticated, unglamourous and juvenile. But at least he understood.

My back and arms are still aching from the intense exercise I got on friday. Opportunely, dance lesson is cancelled for 2 weeks because the instructor has a production going on. Really wonder how would I be dancing when I can't even bring up my arms without feeling any pain.

I read somewhere that ice-cream triggers the parts of your brain that make you fell happy. I seriously need an ice-cream overload. But that would make me even more depress because my weight would be on the rise. I'll abosolutely choose thin and sad over fat and slightly less sad. Haha!

Love, Pitza 22.7.06

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Burnt!

synn tian
Was stung by jelly fishes while wake-boarding at the east coast cable wake-boarding park. It left me with a patch of rash on my left thigh! ARRGH! However, the wake-boarding part was really fun and jelly fishes will never deter me from doing it again.I mean never.
I rushed back home after that and was only left with 20 minutes before driving lesson started. Had my quickest shower ever and headed to ubi with my hair still dripping wet. I guess i must have looked pretty funny.Now I could finally slow down my pace and take things slow. Phew!
I'm too spent to type the details of my day. Another day.

Love, Pitza 20.7.06

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Enjoying the sun while it's here

Had an eventful day which is quite up to standard---my standard that is. Always love having busy bustling days where I get to do lots and have fun. Here's what I did today:
730am-10am -breakfast while reading a ya-ya sister novel as well as the newspaper
10am-10.50am-journey to doby ghaut
11am-2pm-k-box lunch with shiqi and serene
220pm-3pm-my first eyebrow tweezing @ browhaus
330pm-430pm-yoga
550pm-630pm-walk momo
8pm -10pm-badminton at stadium
Come to think of it, it isn't really eventful.Definitely more room for improvement !!!
While I was having my eyebrows tweezed, shiqi was having hers shaped as well while serene was pestered by the shop personnel to try something too. In the end, she settled for an upper lip hair threading service since she just got her brows done.Haha! She complained that it was really painful! OUCH! But it does really look great. Mine wasn't much less painful too! Those who know me must have seen my signature bushy brows.Imagine the number of strands of hair Bernie(the girl who served me) had to pull out!!! After our painful experience at browhaus, shiqi showed me something on their pamphlat.Ha! I didn't know people do threading to remove hairs on their fingers as well! Isn't that a bit extreme? I guess nobody will really pay much attention to those thin sparse hairs growing on your fingers. I sure won't.

me and my neater brows!

Shiqi and me discovered a weird looking sculpture hidden among thick bushes somewhere near raffles place yesterday. It reminds me of those sculptures that chihiro(the protagonist of spirited away) spotted as she wandered into the abode of the gods. Mysterious and surreal isn't it?

Love, Pitza 19.7.06

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Sweltering heat *

I have been really depressed these few weeks. It really makes me worry whether I would fall into depression or something. I know I might be a hypochondriac but it's really not my imagination. I guess I know I'm safe from mental illness when I suspect I have one.Usually people with problems are always in denial right?
My life has been rather unpurposeful. I wasn't spending my time as wisely as I used to. Time at home used to be spent doing craft works like jewellery making, painting, drawing and their likes.I didn't seem to want to do any of those things I enjoy doing. Today, I finally did something with my hands----I made a rack for my earrings! Does that mean that I'm washing away the sad grey mud that has engulfed me(like the mud that engulfed [Haru] はあるin "Howl's moving castle" )?I hope so. I have been busy snapping at people and I didn't laugh as much.I must be like this huge awful blob. Yuck!
I went running today as well even though it's a sweltering day. I ignored the perspiration that was trickling down profusely. I ignored the irritating car exhausts from those cars that zoomed by. Nothing mattered. I was running because I knew that I can complete the entire running route if I wanted to.I was in control and nothing can stop me.(Maybe that's why I always do well in cross country and NAFA runs) It was with that belief that I completed the run and did a few monkey bars. I went home with blisters on my palms but I felt really happy. Endorphine level must be rising.
I read a really inspiring story today about the CEO of Orangestar, a corporation in charged of the 2 budget airlines in singapore. She went to the university of Birmingham with just $6000 and got herself book and air travel sponsorship! How amazing is that! She even managed to send her younger brother there as well!This re-enforced my determination to go overseas to do vet science. People have done it and I should be able to do it too.
The guest-of-honour at yesterday's award ceremony ended by saying we must do what we like .He didn't exactly say it this way but that's the idea I got from his speech.Can't really remember the exact quote.I totally agree with him. I'll regret when I breathe my last breath if I don't do so. He also thanked several of his teachers from Hwa chong and was extremely grateful to what Hwa chong has given him . HC has certainly made me a more active individual. The physical activities that I perform daily might be more than what I did in a week while I was in high school. Ha! It's scary to think about it.

Love, Pitza 17.7.06

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Cloudy for a moment

Spent the most amazing and relaxing day yesterday with 2 of my great pals. We have known each other since primary school and have been meeting up quite often recently. The weirdest thing is that we remain close even though we didn't meet that often until this year. Sad to say, we only had annual gatherings which took ages to plan. However, I hope our meetings stay as frequent as it is now. We are about to attend the same university in August and hopefully, our schedules would be somehow similar.
Things we did yetserday: swim, eat, gossip, play. We first took a dip in the freezing cold pool.( it just rained and it was still sun-less) It was a bad idea because the wind was constantly blowing and we had to move around constantly to keep ourselves warmer.Feeling cold and hungry, I was the one who initiated to get out of the pool. After which, we made our way to serangoon gardens to have our late luncheon at cafe cartel.I had the set lunch which consists of soup and bread, chicken spaghetti and english breakfast tea. I was surprised that I was so famished that I finished all my food. Never knew my appetite was that huge.
We spent the entire afternoon at Grace's place just lazing around and flipping through year books. I didn't realised till yesterday that TJC is really like a mini chung cheng. Almost everyone from my secondary school went over there!hahaha!
It is embarassing to say but we actually played at the playground before heading home!!! It's a really cool adventure playground with rope bridges and flying fox and I'll have to add that the notice stated it's meant for kids above 12. We are just 6 years older, which isn't that bad isn't it? :p
The playground reminds me of fun dazzle and quest zone(is this the name of the playground at suntec which has been taken over by a winter wear shop?). I frequented these places when I was still in primary school. I can say I have been to these places more than 10 times...or is it 20 or more...you get what i mean. It seemed as if I'll never get sick of that place. I really wonder when did I grow out of it.Sometimes I really hope I'll never grow up. Then I'll be able to enjoy as much as I want without much thoughts.

Love, Pitza 13.7.06

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Gloomy and sun-less

I intended to spend a day in the sun.
Firstly, I planned to cycle to east coast park from my place within an hour. Then, I would wakeboard at the newly-opened man-made wake-boarding arena with synn tian. However, the weather wasn't helping and we had to postpone it to next week. That's really disappointing I must say.
Instead of spending my day at home, wallowing in pain and misery, I went out to catch a 1245pm movie at Plaza Singapura. The movie is a social satire called "Thank you for smoking". It has been given a rating of M18 even though the content isn't exactly shocking. I must have looked underaged to the counter staff as she demanded to see my identification pass.Yet, I'm not surprised because I have been mistaken for a 16-year-old several times.
The satire is about a charismatic lobbyist who worked for the tobacco company. To promote smoking, he attended talk shows and gave compulsive speeches to the American audience. The scene where he faced a panel of congressmen to contest a motion of whether or not to label cigerettes packets with a skull bone must be the most entrancing part of the movie.He didn't debunk the notion that smoking is harmful for health.Yet, he argued that the number one killer in America was obesity-linked heart disease. Hence, products like artery-clogging cheese should be given the label as well. Even though it's quite a warped argument, it left the panel dumbfounded. Ha!
Really hope that the weather could be kinder.I'm missing my sunny days!

Love, Pitza 11.7.06

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