many many many many

i have soooooo many things to do at hand now but i am so shagged that i can sleep a minimum of 24 hous. i have to blog about the guides' gathering a few weeks ago, my not-yet-done orienatation, national day and jiefang's departure. =( and photos and more photos before pee and my guides' frens start killing me. my entire room is in a mess once again. 4 diff types of bags are lying on my sister's bed. some orientation stuff are still everywhere. the matri fair bag is blocking my way. i am not done exploring my labtop yet. and i have some computer stuff to handle too. DAMN!!!! now, i truly understand pee's frustration when she had to go for her hal overnight camp. i should start counting my blessings since my camp is not an overnight affair. 1,2,3,4,5....

cookies Cookies COOKIES

the "dying to learn baking" jiefang came to my house a few hours ago to learn the skills from my mother, the fab baker. obviously, the first cookie she learnt was choco chips cookies since choco is our favourite!

anyway, the highlight was we (jiefang, my mother and i) are going to run a business soon!!!! what business? look at my title!!! since my mother is a fab baker, we decided to start a small business on cookies. seriously, i have not heard any negative comments about my mother's cookies from anyone who has eaten them before. i bought some cny goodies to my office this year and my colleagues simply loved them! they actually finished one box of choco chips cookies within a week and they wanted my mother's receipe. all her friends and my friends who have tried them before said the same thing too. even i myself cannot resist the temptation of my mother's cookies. jiefang and i thought of the name on her way home which is After hours. if you are interested to know why, don't wait, read her blog!

first, we shall start with our circle of friends. test the market. next, we dont really have much choices of cookies now due to the limited time we have. we just decided this whole thing an hour ago and here i am, blogging about it now. i just cant contain my excitement!!!! currently, we have only decided on chocolate chips cookies and oatmeal cookies. quantity should be around 30 to 40 in a container. you know those chinese new year transparent with a red cover container? goi asked if there is any smaller quantity. hmm... i have to discuss my fellow shareholders first. price list is not confirmed yet. sampling should not be much of a problem if i have the cookies at home and i am meeting you. so if you are interested or have any questions, just drop me a line or tag my blog! this is something you should not missed and worth trying for.

hopefully, everything will turn out fine with baker goh, baker choo and baker fat around.

BLADING despite many naggings

i overslept this morning again, as usual. luckily jiefang was unable to join us today because i woke up at the time when we were supposed to meet at our market bus stop. if not, she would have to wait for me. oops..

so, pee, peiwen and i went to bishan park to blade again despite my mum's objection. her reaction was hilarious when i told her last night. she just kept nagging and hurping on my not-fully-recovered elbow. what the crap. as long as i dont come back with a broken elbow, everything else is under control.

obviously, i fell. now i know the reason behind my injured elbow. i tend to fall on my left first. my left butt was freaking painful just now. i did not know what was wrong with the floor?! bloody hell material! i think i had triggered some pain to my on-the-path-of-recovery elbow. it is not much, just slightly like less than 1 percent.

btw, i had learnt sth new about pee today. she needed at least an hour to cut her hair and she is a STALKER!

queensway

i got my new specs! i got my new specs! but i waited a hell long time (around 2 hours) for it to be nice and safe in the shop. the delivery man was late! it was a horrible wait. i could not think of anywhere except my dear ikea to kill time.

i LOVE ikea!!!! it always make those creative bugs living inside me jump. looking at how nicely those showrooms were decorated, i want to revamp my room too!!! since my sis was married around one and a half year ago, there is this extra bed taking up space in the tiny room i have. i want to remove it. i want to redecorate my room!! if this dream is going to come true, i will have to remove all the furniture inside because my parents bought this bedroom set for us when we moved to the house. i dont want the room to look awful with a missing piece. i want a brand new room!!!

why am i acting like some stupid rich spolit kid? just a gentle reminder for myself! i am not working anymore and i only have my tuition to support me financially. what more do i want? be contented with what i have and maybe someday, my patience and tolerance will be rewarded.

just some random photos i used to take.



what did we see?



what we always do

twisted elbow

i told you so

i am ultra bored at home today not because i do not have stuff to do. in act i have a lot of things to do but i cannot do them now. all thanks to my twisted elbow. i cant bend it at all with the huge and smelly bandage around my elbow. argH!

i was having my usual wednesday in-line skating classes right outside the sports stadium. yesterday was my second experience with roller blading. so you can imagine how 'new' i am to it. the instructor even had the cheeks to say "this ground is not good for beginners. so just bear with it". bad omen!!!!

i fell 4 times on my butt and the clever me used the same left hand to break my falls. the first time was ok. i could feel the pain after the third fall but the last fall was the ultimate. =( i thought after rubbing some chinese medicated oil, it should be okay by now but it felt worse when i woke up at 12 noon today. so i had no choice but to visit a chinese doc.

when i was in the room, the chinese doc spent quite sometime inside this inner room. i thought he was getting ready his needles to perform accuputure on me. ARGH!!!!!!!!! i dont want. i can stand tolerate the twisting and bending but strictly no needles. luckily, he just went to get some medicine for me. phew!

so i just have to be careful and more blading on sunday and wednesday!

blockbuster hit!

i caught this blockbuster movie on its opening day!!! action, adventure and definitely hilarious! it's ultra nice and i cant wait for the part 3, at world's end to be screened. i think it will only be opened somewhere in may 2007. i was very frustrated when the dead man's chest just ended like that. argH!!! i want more of it! another plus point is it is a two and an hlaf hour long show but it seriously does not seem that long to me. so please please please go and catch it and keep a look out for THEM.

taiwan!!!

BEWARE!!!!!! long entry ahead.
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i was back from my first overseas trip without any guidance and directions from adults a few weeks ago. TAIWAN!!!!!!!!!! it is a shopping paradise. i spent every single cent i brought over on clothes, meals and snacks. i even had to borrow cash from goi. imagine how poor i was for the last few days.

day 1:

i was the last to reach the airport and i made some new friends. RUTH, ruth's friend and ruth's friend's friend. what a complicated relationship! i was too dependent on the adults, aka my parents or the teacher-in-charge when i go on school overseas trips, to settle all the administration stuff at the airport. it was nevertheless a great feeling to take control and be responsible for my own stuff. we arrived at CKS international airport in the evening. the first star we saw was our local superstar, chen weilian at the customs. i thought he was there to promote his new album but i guessed i was wrong. he seemed like he was more on a holiday trip than a business trip. the temperature there was HIGH, much higher than that of Singapore's. when i was about to step out of the fully air-conditioned terminal, condensation took place immediately on my spectacles. we took the freego bus to our hotel, the royal castle.

the room was very small!!! we had to climb over one another's luggage to get from one end of the room to the other. most importantly, we could not have all our luggages open at the same time before we moved the furniture around to have the maximum optimum space we could have. it had the proper necessary facilities like the toilet and 3 proper beds despite it being a 3 stars hotel. we could not stand the hunger and dashed to the nearby pasta food outlet. it was quite a difficult task for me to order my first meal there because everything was in chinese. to make things worse, it was the traditional chinese characters. Given my sub standard chinese, my brain took even a longer time to comprehend what i saw. after having our fill, we did not know what to do with it. they had this fast food plastic tray and ceramic utensils. how were we supposed to dispose them? we even waited to observe how the taiwanese cleared their trays. pretty dumb right?

First shopping haunt was ximenting - a happening place, filled with life. it was completely different from the streets along orchard road. everywhere was crowded with people and look at the amazing number of stalls we could find in just ximenting. furthermore, each shop is unqiue in its own way. i found some shops that sold similiar items unlike those here which are duplicate of each other. one day is definitely not enough to cover the whole of ximenting.

we saw how fantastic their party world and cash box were on television. we could not resist the temptation. when we went into the building, we could not believe our eyes. i thought it was one of the posh hotels' lobby but it was actually the party world's reception. they had many levels of karaoke rooms, like 7 storeys. when the lift opened, the waiter attending to the customers at that level received us from there. GREAT SERVICE!!!! he brought us to our room. to add on to our surprises, there was a toilet inside each room!!!! i was so happy. seriously, i think their service was much better than any of those i had in spore before. we sang till 3am, the next morning and the route back to the hotel was creepy. =(

day 2:

one thing good about free and easy travelling is that you can decide on your own iternary. we woke up around 9 plus in the morning. we took their metro aka singapore's MRT to our first stop - SUN YAT SEN memorial hall. however the place was a disappointment. It was supposed to be a tourist attraction but it was deafening quiet inside. As quoted from goi, “ people used it to walk to the other side of the road”. Furthermore, the architecture was not very impressive when he was an inspiring chinese leader. It was quite meaningless for us to visit these historical sites without a tour guide because we did not know much about the history about the person involved and place. As tourists, we just snapped some photos here and there before heading to taipei 101 and NYNY shopping centre.

Taipei 101 is the highest building in the world. We would be able to see almost or the whole of taiwan when we were at the observatory level. Strangely, we did not go up. There was mister donut at NYNY shopping centre. By looking at the colourful and yummy donuts, they just brightened up my day. =) however, somewhere else made me even happier. it was wufenpu, which is the garment wholesale centre. Clothes, pants, shorts, skirts, bags, shoes, hats, caps and belts. It was also the place where i spent bulk money there. The garments were not exactly very cheap, but they were definitely cheaper than those in singapore. Besides, their customer service was superb. They would try their best to help us and they did not show us any attitude when we asked for help or we were simply browsing in their shops. What shock me most was when they refused to let us try on the clothes. Reason was they did not want us to dirty their clothes. Imagine the amount of sweat and dirt accumulated on our body after walking through crowds after crowds.

we visited our first night market – raohe night market. We did not shop much there or try a lot of the local delights because our hands were full. All 3 of us, goi, rj and i did a lot of shopping at wufenpu. We walked so much there until we had to drag ourselves to raohe. We took a ate dinner and had red bean milk ice. It was not as good as what was described in the newspaper. The ice shavings were rougher than those in singapore. I guessed we fail to taste the orginial ice monster at taipei.=(

since day 2, we started our daily night on-our-way-back-to-the-hotel routine. We would visit the nearby convenience shops, 7-11, family mart or OK la, to replenish our vitamins by having juices and preparing our breakfast.

day 3:

it was a sightseeing day. We agreed to wake up earlier but it did not happen. We must be too shagged after all the walking we had on the day before and i think goi and i stayed up to watch a world cup match. Was it the portugal vs netherlands? It was close to noon when we left for YMS national park. Stupidly, we hiked our way from the bus terminal to the visitor's centre. It did not seem to be that far on the map but it took us around 30 to 45 minutes to get there. The weather was burning hot and it definitely slowed us down by a little. When we arrived at the visitor's centre, we had came to our senses that it was impossible for us to hike the whole of YMS within a day. So, we planned our route and decided to go to the nearby juan si waterfall. It was only then when we asked for directions, we knew there were bus services within the park itself. So it just meant we had wasted our time and energy to hike to the visitor's centre. Irritating!

When we alighted at the le shui keng stop, we asked for directions again to hike to the waterfall. See, lesson learnt while traveling like this is to always ask for directions. Orientate ourselves first so we would not be lost. The directions given were “ walk across that bridge and follow the landmarks along the way”. Ok, that did not sound too tough. We walked and climbed but the road was tougher. It became narrower and more rocky. I nearly sprained my ankle when i missed my step. If i did, i did not know what would happen to us. We were very deep in the forest and we did not see any medical sites along our way. How are we going to get help? Luckily, none of the above happened. All we could hear were the calls from insects, waiting impatiently to make their first move on us. I could not hear any water sound, so we were nowhere near to the waterfall. When we finally found our dear waterfall, we were relieved and proud of our achievement. However the waterfall was far from the word “majestic”. Three 19-years-old girls ventured into the unknown grounds without any self defense but a donut and a packet of drink for brunch.

Our night activity was tamshui. We were supposed to catch the beautiful sunset but we missed it. We spent too much time hiking at YMS but it was an experience. The lover's bridge and walking along the old streets of tamshui to find the famous tie dan. It was when we had our first unfriendly encounter. Poor customer service because they treated us like dirt. FRUSTRATING! Besides their local tie dan, we bought boxes and packets of mochi. They were freshly made and yummy, esp the black sesame and peanut mochi.

Quickly, we made our way to shilin night market, the largest in taipei. It was true to its name. First, we went to the food area, where we usually see on television to buy the famous ji pai. It was delicious except for the chili powder. It was so spicy that rj and goi could not stand it. They were the people who can take spicy food. So poor karen then! We did not manage to cover much of the night market in 2 to 3 hours because we had to rush for the last metro train. So we agreed to return to shilin night market the next day.

day 4:

we went to CHIANG KAI SHEK memorial hall. It was totally different from that of SYS memorial hall. It looked like a typical chinese palace. There were 3 buildings within the compounds. Out of the 3, i only knew one was the national threate, unsure about the other 2 names. as tourists, we took many photographs again. I wanted to stay a little longer there but the heat was simply unbearable. Our second proper meal in taipei here we come!!

it did not take a very long time for us to get our seats at the main branch dintaifeng. Are you envy of me? Their streaming hot xiaolongbao is a MUST-HAVE on the table. The skin was just nice and the soup. !!!!! it was heaven for me. Once again, they had great service again. Rj said they bowed 90 degree to greet us when we entered. Uncountable welcomes were heard.

After filling our stomaches, it was time for more shopping!!! we went to yuanling street where we could find a entire street of shops selling nothing but shoes! It was not a fruitful trip because the shoes were generally more for the working class.=( after that, we went to guanhua night market, which was just opposite one of the taipei's universities. I thought i would be able to buy something there since the place was for the students but sadly, i just tried the smelly toufu and some chinese dumplings. The smelly toufu wasnt smelly at all. I am certain my nose was perfectly normal then. I will give it another shot when i travel again. Our next stop was the uncompleted shopping trip at shilin night market.

on our way back to the hotel, we saw our shooting going on just outside ximenting. so we rushed back to our hotel to put our shopping bags down and went out again to see the fliming. not sure who the stars were but they are taiwanese.

day 5:

it was our last day at taipei. We did some last minute shopping at ximenting. We bought some local delights, more mochi and plentiful of jimi collectibles. Soon, we were on our way back to singapore.

Our days seemed very packed and rush but i truly enjoy myself there. Great shopping place for me. I will be back sometime in the nest few years for another shopping spree. Great company, goi and rj. Most importantly, this trip made me realise how horrible i am in singapore. Taiwanese are very friendly and helpful when we asked for directions from any passers-by. They are very orderly people too because they actually queue behind one another automatically when boarding the metro. Something that i think we should be ashame of is they allow all the passengers to alight before boarding. Come on, learn from them. They are able to achieve it without all the constant announcements over the public address system.

Yes! I love travelling and i want to travel all my life.

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why

aiyah! i know all the fun and benefits that come with it but i am just not interested, no mood and dont feel like. i dont understand why i am so negative towards it. maybe i am sick of tired of knowing more people. and seriously, i dont think that friends made at that time will last long unless i have the chance to work and meet the person again almost everyday. nothing lasts in the world!

i can be too used to my comfort zone and refused to move my butt out of it. recall the "who moved my cheese story", karen!!!! we should be sensitive to our environment and adapt to changes. we control the change and not the other way round. why am i not applying what i have learnt? this is frustrating!

i am just a lazy bag of bones.

it's hard

it's hard to control my anger when you insist to provoke me. i know i should not be angry with you but i just angry! i cant stand people who refuse to admit their mistake and to make things worse, change the whole situation to make it looks like i am the offender. why must you always rush? cant you just slow down and find the purpose in your tasks.

but my anger has subsided.

cycling at bishan

went cycling with pee and jf at bishan park today. considering that i had not touched a bicycle for 2 years since i last learnt in sec4, it was a great achievement.

i was a late learner because i have a phobia for cycling. (note the tense) when i was young, i cycled in with this little red 4-wheeled bike at home. the more i cycled, the happier i was and the faster i paddled. when i was supposed to make a turn, i lost control of that bike, flew out of it and hurt my forehead. it was bloody painful, literally. end up, i had a scar on my forehead. it is not very obvious because i got it when i was young. so i guess the mark will fade as i grow older.

anyway, i got very irritated with myself half way through the route. i just could not control the direction in which the bike would go to when there were many turns and bends. my arms would straighten and i could feel the tension in my muscles but i could not relax. so i was left with the last option which was to jump off the bike. it was very frustrating when i just could not get things done in the way i want it to be. i dont understand why. i just need more practices to perfect my skills or am i still living in my nightmare?

when it was about time for us to go, i challenged myself to go through the route again and not to stop at all. i took it slow and steady. stay focus. i tried my best not to speed (pee's advice) and it did work. at least i only stopped twice. that's not bad for my standard.

so much for a cycling experience.

what's next? inline skating. =)

i need to rest!

i am ultra tired today. i did not feel like doing anything today but i had a packed schedule. considering that i slept close to 1am the night before, i should wake up close to noon to have at least 8 hours sleep. however, i had to drag myself out of my cosy bed to climb THE bloody hill to get my A levels cert. it was the last day for me to collect it so i was left with no choice. DAMN!

after that, i accompanied my mother to a traditional chinese medicine hall to get some herbs and tonics. everything was perfectly fine until the saleperson bothered me. didnt she know never to bother the customer who had the capability to doze off anywhere then. well, she obviously was not taught that IMPORTANT skill and she started promoting this bottle of so-called healthy pills to me, in front of my mother. maybe she meant well but i did not seem to appreciate her kindness. partly because of my already foul mood and i had this feeling that "i am not trying to ask you to buy" method was insincere. come on, tell the consumers the truth! i understand why you had to do this because it was part of your duties. it was such a small matter but i dont care. just give me the space to grumble.

tuition was up next. luckily, he did not give me much headaches except that he did not finish his work. that's nothing new. "i will ask for my friends for help". yaya... do i look naive to you? i was a primary school kid before.

i rushed all the way to orchard to meet up with goi and rj to plan our iternary for our taiwan trip. i will be flying off on this sunday. that's fast! as usual, i have not prepared anything yet. at least we had drafted out the places we will be going and i cant wait. hope it will be a fruitful trip. by the way, AH MENG DOES NOT DIE, and AH MENG IS A GORILLA.

good workout

i have finally moved my butts out of my house today to play badminton with my dearest friend, jiefang. i should be nice to her in this entry because i caused her to have serious back aches after the match. i dont usually play badminton because of 2 reasons. first, i cant serve for nuts. dont ask me why because i dont know. second, i have poor eye hand coordination. that can be the reason i cant serve. then why on earth did i decide to play badminton today? i refuse to go swimming now because of the unpredictable weather recently. i hate running so that is definitely out of the question. other sports? cant think of anything. so yes, badminton was my healthy workout for the day.

we met this uncle whom jiefang knows in the stadium. he is damn good in badminton. i heard he was a ex national table tennis player. his hair is almost white but he is very agile and his reaction and skills are superb. that's a good role model to stay fit and healthy regardless of age. =)

i shall slowly pick up my pace and start exercising more. cycling is on thsi friday and jiefang and i agree to fall together. so pee, dont blame us if you have to stop and wait for us frequently. we will be clowns on friday. but before that, i shall indulge in ikea meatballs tomorrow. i cant wait for that. by the way, if jiefang happens to read this, i wrote the meatball part on purpose to make you jealous. happy tuitioning tomorrow girl! we have agreed to sign up for this in-line skating course. pee, please join us okay? dont leave me alone with that sicko pinko.

so long, cya!

shouldn't it be over

i find humans to be very complex creatures. even i myself do not understand myself very well. is it why there are occupations like psychologists and personality workshops and testes available for us? we change very much like the weather, unpredictable. one moment we can be in our best performance and at the next moment we can even bite the hand that feed us. sometimes, we dont even know why we behave in that manner. strange isnt?

i fail to remember the good times i had with people for long. oh ya, the movie we watched a few weeks ago was fantastic. how about a day before that outing? well, i guess my mind cant bring me to that far. i dont know if i am a person who bears grudges. one thing i am sure is that i live my life by this principle - treat people that way you want to be treated in (i may have bend the rules a little bit sometimes).

it has happened so many years ago but i cant get it out of my mind. it is very frustrating because it will building a wall when i try to connet with people. i cannot forget it and cannot forgive the destroyer. he inflicts pain on everyone. get a life! stop thinking that the whole world revolves around you. i have my own life so just get moving with yours and not mess with mine. i cannot re-accept the destroyer back into my life after what he had done to us for the past years. it is not just 1 or 2 years. it is close to a decade. continue to isolate yourself and live in self-pity. nobody is there to help you. dont crawl to me and cry on my bed because i am not willing to offer you any form of help anymore. dont blame me because i just cannot let it go.

scold me, curse me, blame me. i dont care. let the cold war begin.

i cant help it

i am blogging frequently now. is that a good sign? well, it just means that i am freaking bored and have nothing better to do at home. HA!

there is something i have always wanted to do but no progress was made. i dragged my tired legs back home from the bus stop today. i did not allow it to rest once i got off the bus. i walked through the many HDB blocks and climbed up the stairs. i want to walk aimlessly in spore, with my ipod one day. i know walking isnt the best exercise option for me but i just want to do it. i always feel peace at heart and mind whenever i take slow walks back home. it makes me think about myself and the big issue - life. i need to think and i want to walk. all i need now is a little push to start walking.

just to add on something, japan lost. DAMN!

where?

i am unemployed for almost a week and i am seriously getting sick of it. goi was so damn right. i did not accomplish much for the past few days unless making good progress with my 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle is something i should be proud of. no reading because i am busy with my puzzle. sleeping my whole cold afternoon away today. i am serious! i slept from 1330 to 1900. i wonder how did i manage to do it? jiefang just cant stand the lazy and unhealthy me anymore. she was nagging right beside me throughout the whole journey to central on thurs evening.

quick! go and exercise. when is the last time you exercise? dont you feel uneasy or uncomfortable for a day without exercising?

at most, i will die at a young age. the fat will clog out my blood vessels and i will suffer from stroke, heart attack and difficulties in breathing.

i am just so not in the exercising mood when i wake up every morning. i want to swim but the weather does not allow me to. i hate to run so you cant forget about it. cycling? i am lazy to travel all the way to the east side of spore. how about team sports? where do i get people and when? can someone just get rid of the lazy bone in me now!!!!!!

to make things worse, i have been drinking recently which is bad for health. so please, ban me from drinking for the next few weeks or months. i dont want to overwork my kidneys.

i feel like a walking dead person now. just give me some excitement and drive in life. where has my passion gone to?

japan tour 06

words later but photos first!

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japan tour 06

finally my blog is alive again!!! first on the list will be the japan trip i went with my parents sometime in mid may.

we visited 3 states in japan, osaka, kyoto and tokyo. i am definitely not going to talk about my 7 days at japan in details because i cant rmb everything for heaven sake. so here are the highlights!

first stop was the universal studio. i heard there is one at usa but i am not too usre which is better. however, one thing i am sure is the place was impressive. the terminator 3 ride, ET adventure, the spider man ride which scared my parents out of their wits, the thrilling water world performance, the family jaw ride and the night peter pan performance by the bay. all the rides play on something called fantasy. the place made me want to be with the characters. flying in the air and fighting with captain hook along with peter pan and maintaining law and order in new york city with spiderman. i want to go back there!!!

japan has another theme park which cannot be missed. it is the disneyland theme park. the only disappointment was the castle was under renovation so i could catch a glimpse on how beautiful it is. this time round, there were not many action heros in disneyland as compared to universal studio. it plays on your imagination. space mountain ride brought me to the star glaxary, the parade relived my childhood dreams, the luxary steam train and boat ride made me feel like a rich girl, the haunted mansion was peanuts and more more MORE!!! despite disneyland having many rides, the best attraction was the parade - moving on! the costumes the participants put on cheered me up. being able to look at my childhood playmates, the cindrella, alice in the wonderland face to face was a dream come true.

i missed these 2 theme parks although all the instructions were given in japanese. quite sad. but i want to go back and have fun again. let me appeal to all my dear friends out there. let's start saving now and go japan again!

i took a hot spring bath too. the feeling was wonderful. i seriously felt much better after the dip. the aches and tiredness from all the travelling were miraculously gone. how i hope there is one in spore. just let me live in my dreams for a few seconds can you?

yesyes!!!! i ate a lot of jap food there. i did not really enjoy the meals because i am not a fan of jap food to start with. i always have horrible experience after eating jap food. it is either food poisoning or stomache or feels bloated or vomitting. i was not spared this time round too. i had no idea what happened. i am confident that i do NOT suffer from motion sickness. however, i felt like puking after sitting a close to 6 hours of bus ride. the moment i got off the coach and went into the hotel room, i dashed into the toilet. and guess what, i vomitted. i took some pills and thought everything would be fine but i was naive. i did eat much for my dinner and after an hour since i vomitted, i did it again!!!! my stomach was practically empty and i could not stand it anymore. i forgo the shopping trip after the dinner and went up to the room to rest. while resting on the bed, i vomitted again. damn! i seriously dont know what was wrong with my digestive system that day.

my family extended our stay at japan to visit my mum's ex japanese colleague. she had just given birth to a healthy and heavy little boy. her family was very friendly and accomdating towards us. although we could not speak each other's language, we were able to understand each other and enjoy our stay there. i just recieved a gift from them. it is a most wanted item i want to lay my hands on it. haha... it is the japan jersey. yeah!!! although the sleeves are a little long for me, i am never going to give that to my brother. yes! i am a selfish pig.

so much about japan, let;s get back to spore.

i am finally unemployed. strange isnt? but anyway, i will be available and free most of my time. so what did i learn from this job? well, my job duties were pretty dumb and stupid, even a kid can manage. anyway, the great company made each of my working day did not seem like a dreadful day for me. communcation is very important to avoid unncessary misunderstandings and conflicts. i still find myself a rather biased person. first impression counts for me and sometimes i will use that to judge someone whom i am not close with. so just beware of me.

my taiwan trip is up next.

back

i am BACK!

HOLIDAYS!

i have not prepared anything yet. bags are unpacked although i have taken out the clothes and placed them nicely on my sister's bed only. the bags are lying around in the room, making the room looks so much smaller than before. instructions from my parents are not carried out yet. no list has been made yet. oops... this is so unlike me! all i know is that a long and well deserved break is awaiting for me. yeah!!!!

judgement day is tomorrow. i have not thought of a foolproof method to break the news to his mum. just wish me luck! i know it is very irresponsible of me to dump me halfway through the journey but it irritates me more when i know his parents and my efforts are not appreciated. so stop wasting your money on me monthly.

happy weekends!

"face challenges with a open mind"

thought provoking

this long weekend had been a blast!

from the previous entry, you should know that i am reading "the rape of nanjing". a few hours ago, i was watching "the pianist", the movie i have been searching for. both based on historical facts. dry? boring? NO! i love all of them. they provoke me to think. if i were in that situation, would i choose to live or die? i could try to fight for any chance of survival even if it required me to beg for mercy from my oppressors. however, would i be happy? i had to bear with the pain of witnessing the death of my countrymen alone and lived in constant fear and insecurity. on the other hand, i could just throw myself to the oppressors to seek an easier way out of misery. just gave me a shot in my head or i would jump off the building.

catching up with friends old and new. staying out late outside has become a once in a blue moon affair. i want more of it because i am getting hook on it.

TV time for the wise karen. =)