Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Brought my camera to take photos with my yoga teacher today. She was estatic as usual and posed for the shots. Even though she appeared happy-go-lucky, life wasn't that kind to her. She had 2 divorces and her daughter left her for America. Fortunately, she still has a son living with her. Guess life isn't a cupcake but you could still add toppings to it.
I promise that I will be with my family forever. No matter how dysfunctional a family might be, you'll realise they are the people you can trust.
Met up with maddie after yoga and went to the airport with her. Her baggage weighed 35kg(not including hand carry items) and she had to pay 120 dollars fine!!! She wasn't taxed on her way from china to singapore though.sigh...can't people just take pity on a struggling backpacking student.
Sorry for missing out on the details. Writer's block.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Did a personality test today and got this result.
My Personal Dna Report Go and take a look! Pretty interesting!!!! Didn't know I'm so masculine.hehehe
Monday, January 29, 2007
Once upon a time, a pair of soccer cleats fell apart during a frisbee league game. The owner had to tape the soles on with black tape, while the rubber cleats were gone.(must have been stuck in the mud) She slipped and fell into oily yucky puddles as she ran and the pair of shoes splitted again. So the poor owner ended up recording statistics for the team instead of playing a bigger part in the team's victory. Thereafter, she headed home to wash her muddy belongings and herself and headed out again to catch hoobastank's concert.(courtesty of amanda yap who got 4 tix free!!!) Amanda, Yi Sin, ***(oops can't rem) and me became loyal groupie of the band and shook and swayed to the beat. We even stayed to get autographs like ditsy bimbos.Gosh! But I have real fun! it's good to remove your inhibitions whenever appropriate.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Time seems to be passing so fast. I'm leaving 2 weeks later!!! And I'm feeling so drained and tired now. Spending every moment doing something. Ironically I wish to coop myself at home for a few days. haha. But I guess I'll regret soon enough. Crashed medicine lecture and practical on fri and I got to hold a brain in my hand and scrutinized preserved cadavers.'Thanks HL for inviting me!!!I had so much fun. Aftter which, I spent my vouchers at Takashimaya(courtesy of my dearest yoge teacher lilian) and met my with qi for coffee. Had a meet-up session with people from the NZ merlion club later and went home exhausted.As for today, i had ballet at SDT and took a train to kovan. Headed to my grandparents'place in the rain with a sweater over my head like a cape. I must have looked really silly. League tomorrow and Hoobastank concert at night(courtesy of mad amanda). Drifting to sleep as I write.I must be muttering nonsense now.blah bblah blah...oyasumi
Monday, January 22, 2007
WE won our first game!!!!!! Score of 15-2! WOOHOO!!! But I've got to practise more.Most of them are weathered and tough players who know their stuff, I have to admit that I didn't contribute much to our score.*sheepish grin*
Sadly and with much regret, I can only participate in 3 of the league games before I leave!!!!!ARRGGGHHH...
I'm now baked to perfection by the blazing sun.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Completed a non-fiction novel within 3 days. My mom commented that it shows how bored I am. That's only partially true though, since I've planned to embark on numerous projects but have not made any progress. Those need immense creativity you see and I'm not feeling very innovative these couple of days.
Back from the digression, this book by Torey Hayden is mainly about this innocuous 6-year-old, Sheila, who was placed in a special class because she set fire to a 3-year-old tied to a tree. Torey was a teacher of this special class. All her students have gone through severe traumas that affected their behaviours. Peter, a boy who spoke tactlessly, unfortunately reminds me of a classmate.(hehehe...) Sheila was incooperative initially; She used a pencil to gorge out the eyes of the class's pet goldfishes as well as trampled on the pet gerbils. Yet, Torey managed to tame her, like what Little Prince did to the fox and discovered her incredibly high IQ. As a child, Sheila faced abandonement, condemnation as welll as sexual abuse. Torey made her see through her bitterness and hatred and saved her from ending up in the state hospital---meant for mental patients.
But what exactly constitutes normality? Does conforming to what everyone thinks make you a sane and normal person? Is autism another state of mind or is it plain mental disorder? Was Vincent Van Gough suffering from depression when he chopped off his ear? I sure don't know what is normal since it's so intangible.
I used to be fascinated with Edgar Degas's sketchings of graceful ballerinas in his signature broken strokes. Though still infatuated with the pretty ballet dancers, I've another new love---Andy Warhol. Ooooh... Those bright prints are driving me nuts!
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
—The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; from A to B and back again, 1975, ISBN 0-15-671720-4
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
I feel stifled. Need more sunshine, dance sessions and runs in the field. Need more knowledge to satiate my starving brain. I guitily admit that I can't wait to leave Singapore. Hope that doesn't render me heartless and selfish.( my mom think so) Currently, I 'm living life like the jobless. It's no longer a vacation.
Monday, January 15, 2007
I felt so alive, running haphazardly in the rain and jumping into puddles of murky water. Today was the pre- winter league clinic for newbies like me who hadn't really grasp the rules of the game. We started off with 2 rounds of jogging around the field(Yes it was raining) and ended with a single-gender game(Yes it was raining still, maybe heavier). My one and only pair of track shoes was sodden and I felt wet, yucky and sticky---exactly like how I felt after every canoe training in the past. But I enjoyed the game.I don't mind diving into mud puddles just to catch hold of the silly plastic disc.
I was told that ultimate is huge in NZ and found a team in my college. Could I join Ultimate and dance as well as work and study at the same time? Angeline you shall have to do it. You have to! Hate to give up things i love. Maybe I could milk cows in the morning.I definitely don't mind getting up early. Then I would have the evenings free as well as the precious weekends. Participating in things I like would definitely give me less time to miss my family and friends. I hope it's possible.(fingers crossed)
Can't wait for the real league! Got to get a pair of boots before that. Kim recommended me kids boots from queensway since you could get one below 50 dollars. Luckily my feet are small. Hehe. The perk of being short.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
OOPSie daisy!!!! Forgot to mention my sweet and spunky ex-colleagues who did an incredible thing for me on 21 DEC 2006. We had a great escapade at the airport! How cool is that?! How lunch time was extended from an hour to an hour and 30 min. Jo strolled back to T1, leanne headed home while chevaun and moi sneaked back surreptitiously. I passed her my belongings and she sauntered calmly to her promotion cupboard and stufffed everything in. So we just pretended that we have been back a long time ago and went about to do our job. I got the adrenaline-rush so you know how scary it was. Who's not afraid of the "penguin" who shot a picture of me talking as evidence to make me stop talking. :P
And back to our luncheon fit for a king, I ordered a chicken mushroom burger(Yummy!). While I was cutting up and savouring my juicy burger, I realised that Chevaun and me seemed to be having kids meal as compared to the rest. She had fish and chips!!! Haha. Jo had crayfish pasta and leanne had sambal fish, the much more "adultish" choices. After which, a rock hard chocolate ice cream cake came along. Surprise surprise! And following that, another birthday sundae came!!!! I thought I had an overdose of ice cream and wouldn't touch it for a few months, but for a sweet tooth like me, that will never ever happen.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
OOPS!!!! Forgot to mention MOMO! Here's a tribute to my BFF, my loyal and playful companion who never fail to come up with silly antics. May you live long and prosper! :)
A mysterious yellow envelope addressed to me arrived in my letter box today. I ripped it open and found a birthday card---my birthday is 13 days ago!!! It's from my missing "angel", a senior who was my angel when we played the customory "Angel and Mortal" in JC. I wrote to him about 6 months back and he finally replied! It's great to know that people think of you once in a while, that you make a difference to their life.
Had luncheon with Hui Xian and Shan mei and we were as chatty as always.WE have been arranging to meet up since a looooooong time ago and we finally did! Three cheers for HX who took the trouble to arrange it! Thanks pal! HX and me used to be really close in secondary school. She's a hardworking, undemanding, amicable, mild tempered, compromising and intelligent person who puts up with the demanding and insensitive me all this while.
I've declared these few weeks before I leave as "Meeting up Weeks" and will try my best to spend as much time with family and friends. I wonder how would I survive without all these people. I wouldn't receive so many surprises, life would be so much more uneventful and boring, and I would be grouchy all day long.HEEE... Can't wait to meet Sher, Grace and Shwu tomorrow. It's kinda unbelievable that we are still so comfortable with each other despite not being in the same school for 7 years----that's right, we knew each other since primary school. I love being around them because we can blabber all we want and nobody cares. I can say we accept each other, warts and all. Sleepover any time?
And to my newest good friend synn tian, I guess we are similar in many ways.If not for our love for animals, outdoor activities and dance, we would never have met and spent so much time together.Sometimes I do wonder if you should be the one who's given the chance to do vet science.What if we both knew each other better earlier and found a cheaper alternative to do vet science? Would that make us happier? But I'm sure you'll make a good dentist. You said you do well because of luck yet I don't agree. You might have some hidden abilities waiting to be discovered.(Don't get too smug though! Hee...Finally a compliment from me!)
Qi and Ser, I'll be eternally grateful to both of you. I copied notes from them during lectures, got photocopied exam papers from them before A levels, and annoyed them with my incessant chattering.They gave me a memorable birthday and many other enjoyable moments.My JC life would be so dull without both of you.ARRRGH... the thought of not having both of you in HC makes me cringe in fear!
Virginia, Lishan and Xiang min made my few days in architecture worthwhile while my colleagues at DFS and Animal Clinic made working something to look forward to.
Here's a BIG FAT GARGANGTUAN THANK YOU to all of you who have made mundane stuff so much more beareable and fun stuff so much more pleasurable!:P I have lost a friend and gain many more companions. So here's to all my friends! CHEERS!!!!!!
