shut your trap

all the public dissing

on uni students' dressing

is pure 100% unadulterated bullshit

sounds almost as if

they demand a varsity uniform

it's scary

isn't varity the place where we
stand on the cusp of adulthood
entering our prime
as active motivated intelligent individuals
so allow us to develop our own sense of dressing as well,
thank you very much.

style is an extension of your own personality

wear whatever you feel comfy

and can best reflect yourself in

fashion should always be fun

not a torture

and for heaven's sake!

there'll always be types

the nerds, jocks, glams, slacks, beachbums

been in existence

prob since the discovery of relativity

so why the fuss now?

ok let's think abt it
say if the authorities were to establish a dress code
name the hemline length, state the permitted colours
who's to monitor?

denim minis - in or out?
slippers out - hang on, what abt birks?

who's to judge that topshop is allowed but not roberto cavalli?
two ppl can be clad in lecoqsportif from head to toe
and still result in two stark different outfits
it's impossible

i'm all for free expression

if we can't even talk abt race and religion in honglim park

then the least we can do is dress freely

what a stifling country we live in.

U-phoria

just got home from unionball at ritz

showered

removed the makeup gunk from my face

and can i happily report

that it was DAMN FUN

though i was mostly blind

hahhaha

really

it has got to be the best formal social event i've ever attended

and of course

it had a lot to do with just being comfy and myself

$50 well spent

started off with me and xian at cityhall cafecartel

celebrating edna's bday

then we went off to bugis esprit for my makeup

then it was a mad dash to my place

for clothes/hair/makeup prep

everyone looked great

girls all look the same in gowns

takes a lot to stand out

of course sometimes just a good fashion eye will do

but there's always the nuisance of a budget

so was glad i wasn't wearing one

guys look terrific in suits

must be all that ns training

makes men fill up suits looking damn gorgeous

esp marc

snapped like tons of photos

loved those we took in wanling's room

and with my favourite ppl all in it!

YAY

mum questioned if shika was my bf

what a laugh my mum, she really is

and i'm proud to declare

my weight's finally in the 50s!

welcome to the 50s club baby

hahah

after a long time of hovering somewhere there

but always missing the shot

but sky's baywatch moment is NOT in the ub cd

cheaterbugs all of them

those heartless creeps at vpu edited it out

man is that footage lost forever.....

dammit

i want zzz

sore cheekbone area

droopy eyelids

sure signs of fatigue

slept over at xian's place last night

i must confess

she's a total hairstyle guru!

pure genius

and makeup skills not bad too

i'm still going esprit redearth dear

but you'll be doing my hair!

no one else

not even david gan

haha

her granny made panfried salmon for dinner again

yay my fave

grannies know best :)

and i practically swallowed their ricecooker

spent the better half of the night

watching s'pore idol

commenting and laughing at all the funny bits

ate so much i felt i could like burst

my brows got trimmed

nicely done by her sis

albeit a tad painfully long process

nonetheless a fab job thanks

finally decided on the retro dress

after much hesitation and persuasion

swayed by the 2 sisters' unaimous choice

surprisingly i slept well

deep and sweet

until i missed my alarm

and my 8am elang lect too

hahha

thanks for everything

xian and family

all the more you were damn shagged

with only 4 bloody hours sleep over 2 days!

skating agm was all a bit of a blur

nice ppl though

one said i have a NICE voice! *wolfwhistles

alone

i miss my friends
wen/xian/ling
seems like ages since i last seen ling
though we attend the same weekly soci/elang lects
and i'm seeing her later so yay

wen!
i wonder how are ya in smu
eating your daily proper veggies intake and stuff?
doing ok?
still being the same old motherly auntie to all
i miss our talks
when i'd fret and whine and gush over my latest crush
complain abt the incessant irritants in my life
bitch abt other lousy friends
and wonder why they're still in our lives
while you'll nod knowingly
(ok, nth time jane's saying this...)
with a sympathetic gaze
and at the same time poking fun at me!
:)

xiano chimo
our future industrial/graphic/teeshirt designer
my shopping consultant/fashionista queen
stuck in her studio sketching drawing colouring
doing god knows what
SIGH
you never have time for me now!
harrumph.

guess i'm writing all this sappy mush
cos i've not really found my footing in nus yet
still feel lost in the sea of faces
littering the corridors and aisles of lts and classrooms
friends we see are all "hi... gotta run, bye!" acquaintances
they don't give a shit abt you
whether you sink or swim
how very superficial.

going for tutorials alone
is just abt the loneliest thing you can do
with no friends
you fidget outside restlessly
while you seek out any familiar face you can find
almost desperate i suppose
pathetic eh

is this what being independent is all abt
everyone seeking their own path
no matter how arduous it is
you've only got yourself

devoting quite a bit of time to bizcom
not sure if that's a wise move on my part
since not like i'm gonna run for presidency
all that politics is irksome
to the core

i've always believe
life is too short to waste on doing things you hate
seems like i've not been applying it much
and i hate myself for it
that passivity
go along with the flow with your peers
not good not good

there's unionball
which i am going for
deciding factor being redearth's friendly gorgeous makeup service
and the fact that this is MY year
you're only a freshie once.
(plus the union camp cd!)
and i'm damn guilty
having fun when i should be working hard
as students our first priority is to study
rmb that jane.

i wish

sometimes i do wish

i stay in hall

be a pgp geek or a temasek sports freak

whatever

so long as i get to stay within 50 m radius of nus campus

i hate it

shuttling back and forth

and forever being cooped up in as7

printing the latest bloody notes

with almost no privacy

given the huge screens

i appreciate it, but we're not blind

but hall life does mean

transporting my gargantuan wardrobe of clothes

across to the other end of the island

missing mum's yummy homey food

lousy canteen food

hmm nah not so appealing after all

went with xian to get her nice dress

guess we're gonna be retro babes for unionball :)

and discovered this shop with cheap FRENCH manicures!

bladed with chin later on

FUN

missed blading... loads!

and found out that farrer park swimming pool

is reopening

sept 4

oh goody!

everyone seems so busy

noone's blogging anymore... humph

ok dearies

be giving ya each a copy of my timetable

keep in touch yeah?

times like this i wish

i have that harrypotter map

shows everyone's locations in sch

then i can keep track of shika's movements!

*cackles*

ooh

can't wait for mon's bizcom agm and tues megasale!

an incredible guy

went for bizcom chalet over the weekend

it was fun only at the last bits

stuck to the sirius ppl
most of the time

bizcom cake was yummy

tasted like choc of a thousand leaves

well, almost.

staying up late til 530 am playing silly games

with ron/chin/joyce/gary/gladys and a couple more

funny seeing gary getting drunk on vodka

doing silly actions and basically screwing up

slept a few hours before heading to wildwildwet

sat on 4 rides for 12.50 bucks

how pathetic

but slideup! is damn fun

a must-try

hmmm

the seniors are all driven, focused and responsible

with a knack for business and marketing

coming up with fresh ideas for ventures (that i can do)

but the rest, all of which i am not

leaves me wondering why i'm in it the first place

sigh.

but i met the most incredible guy

gentle, kind, funny and has the coolest hair

lazy voice with the eyes to match

ultra sweet to kids

disciplined, forthright and committed

unfortunately only to bizcom and his studies

complexities and contradictions

too bad he doesn't know how incredible i am too

hahhaa.

and i totally dig him

am having the hugest crush

and yeah, siberian's history

*grins

as7

hey!

at comlab now printing notes

with chin and joyce

say hi, chin!

HI!!

wah so loud

hah

felt like a dweeb just now

walking ard campus

all flustered and directionless

and the seniors had to comment so loudly,

"you're lost? wah you're a freshie izzit? ok it's very SIMPLE..."

argh

talk abt humiliation

understatement of the century

attended the first lecture of all my 5 modules

i like elit and european studies (surprise, surprise!)

elang was boring

neutral towards soci and geog

starved

getting a free kfc dinner later

courtesy of chin

yay :)

much

"i advise you, get reading straightaway. hit the books"

instructed the lit lecturer in a slight indian accent

aside from planning my tutorials

which are all still in a big bloody mess

like a jigsaw puzzle with too many slots

and little variety of time allocations

i have my soci readings

a probable weekend bizcom chalet

floorball trials on sat

epl (manu vs chelsea!)

an interview/chat with munchies monkey cafe

surprise jing at chevrons with his prezzie

jam&hop

i realise i have no decent blue ballpoint pens

just lots of colourful pens for highlights

pink, red, yellow

aarggggggggh

sad to say, contents of my pencil case has degenerated significantly

over the past 8 months

i wonder if my liquid paper still works

no ruler summore!?

but!

depressing urgent issues aside

bumped into sarah/siewhoong/shuhua at lit lect

along with their nice friends

which made me very happy :)

and siewhoong is sooo hilarious

everything she says

cracks me up.

big time

great to have her around

during elang and elit lects

hopefully tutorials too

alex will be crashing my lectures tmr

can't wait!

rmb the jc days where we used to drive each other crazy

that clumsy oaf dropping my pens all over the place

making me soo mad

me scribbling nonsense on his notes

doodling/decorating his name with pink flowers drawn all around

eliciting supremely irritating "tsk"s from him

all of which were highly gratifying

fell in love with this mango leather wallet

it's suede-like beige with a green zip almost all round

flat (i like!), rectangular

but opens up into a typical ladies wallet

those you can cram like dozens of credit cards in

and still have space for wads of notes and coins

unbelievable

the best thing is

it doesn't look like it (a typical ladies wallet)

until you unzip

and that's the beauty of that little pretty thing

happy!

my three days are up

not enuff

gimme more!

shit

and i haven't even done any of the stuff i mentioned

really wanna blade still

Pfftttttttt!

went to emmo's place yesterday

in celebration of her grand 19th bday

bought really good food from clementi

like bbq stingray hokkien mee chicken chop nasi lemak

which stayed delicious and warm

despite our arduous journey to emmo's place at holland

fraught with many perils

like slopes! argh

made frozen strawberries complete with cookies&cream filling

like the ones in mos

shiok!

ours can rival theirs man

let's start a franchise babes!

hahah

swam at her pool (in my bikini!)

in the chilling 15 deg waters

and caught the hilarious premiere of singapore idol

followed by friends

before going home

hope you like your lovely prezzies emmo dearie!

promise to pass ya mine soon k? *sheepish

it doesn't feel that much a big step

going to nus tmr

attending lects and all

for real

mum was like, "wah, you gonna be uni student tmr!"

gee, duh.

maybe cos i've been doing frequent trips there

and one more makes no diff

just fretting over what to wear

tis all

:)

plus,

i'm doing something i really really LOVE

no more chinese!

so here's my revised modules:

elit/elang/european studies/soci/geog

ploughed my remaining 591 points into en1101e

being the 67th bidder for 69 places

woke up late

made in time though. phew

all thanks to my accomodating bro

i'll be your maggi mee maker

and siberian talked to me!

that really made my national day happy

hahha

but the crush did fizzled out i guess

somehow

and jing invited me to his cispec pregrad thingy

which i really wanna go

meet up with him and stuff

but it clashes with jam&hop

and i prefer the latter

so sorry, jing

besides i'm stressed enough being his date for the night

not to mention clothes makeup yada.

"hmm dress code? dress pretty!"

*gulps

all the same

it was sweet of you to ask, dearie

really flattered.

amazed

this may come as a surprise to many

but yeah

i don't have to major in chinese. period.

to cut a long story short,

all this while i thought i had to

until i called up fashelp regarding bidding matters

and through the exhaustive chat/q&a

a nice lady audrey informed me

only some arts (mt related) students have to do 7 chi modules

taught in chinese (!!!)

under the mt bonus points scheme

even so, they don't have to major in chinese

cos these 7 modules can be put under their unrestricted electives

the rest are exempted

and i'm one of them! :) YAY

the call came during prof straughan's modular talk

i was soooo elated

already devising schemes how to drop chinese and what to bid for next!

celebrated with joyce at ikea cafe

swedish meatballs plus fish&chips

but was too famished

gobbled everything

and ended up with indigestion! hahaa

guess God does everything in his own time

when i had already given up and stopped asking

He was still creating a miracle for me

my (un)happy ending

watching spirited away now

it's all a bit nonsensical to me

a lot of bizarre happenings that diverts attention from the main plot

which is to save her whole family outta that magical place right?

but haku's a real nice bloke

i like him

but prefer him in dragon form

looks a bit like the 9-tailed fox in naruto

entering uni in three days

yet it still seems so distant and unreal

a thing of the future far away

yeah i'm apathetic to it now

i feel uni's an even bigger transition

as compared to sec sch or jc

i don't know

like a whole new different league by itself

maybe i've been spoonfed too much

by the tutors in tj

that sometimes i expect things to be just allocated to me

instead of hunting down info on nus website like some crazed hacker

and it feels like the whole world's at nus

all the cute guys you never knew existed

starts popping up at every nook and turn

as pleasing to the eye as it seems

it can get a little disconcerting

not to mention intimidating

you're suddenly thrown into the clubbing scene

where some friends whom you just met

smoke a fag and you had to pretend it's ok

secretly you're in extreme panic alert

cos you can't dance to the groovy beat

to save your pathetic ass

and it sucks terribly

to have a crush

on someone

who doesn't even turn up

MIA-ing half the time

and prob remembers you as some acquaintence

you don't exist in his world

hangs out with his guy dudes all the time

talking crap and saying stupid jokes

in short

a shitty guy

yeah that's the kind i'm always falling for

dear siberian

i hope i get over you soon. ASAP

you wasted enough of me.

i'm emotionally drained

and all washed out.

loads of unrequited love, xxx

drats

and i'm craving for a slice of that wonderful chocolate cake

yesh, you

coffeebean's chocolate of a thousand leaves

i want

smear all over my sticky fingers and lick 'em clean

shoppingsss!

last three days have been a series of fulfilling retail therapy sessions
:)

bugis on sunday with joyce and chin
bought our rugged canvas bags for school. zinc
and my black top from topshop
ended off with supper at the rotiprata place again

orchard was surprisingly fruiful on monday
with joyce
first stop: taka's zara
i like this $19.90 purple cotton tee
but joyce frowned on it looking the same as all my other tees
hahaa
and a pretty moss green deep plunging v-neck top
that made me look like i actually got a waist!
*gasps
a must-buy, no?
but $34.90! hmmm
second stop: mango (still taka's)
i want their $90 straight-cut denim jeans!
third stop: fox
bought their pink boardshorts
cute!
and later this giftpack from fcuk
btw wisma gusto has delicious pastas and yummy assortment of breads
good news, they're having a promotion on it too!
try the one with pork ragout... shiok.
went there just to chill from all that shopping
rest our feet and stuff
didn't expect to get my first experience with fine dining
the lady (whom was very nice) placed the table napkins on our laps when we got seated
to our pleasant delight
upon returning to our table after getting some bread,
our napkins were nicely folded on the table
(we messily discarded them on our seats at first!)
satisfied my xiaolongbao craving too at paragon
i think i shocked myself
to be able to restrict my purchases at 2 items max.

bladed at ecp with joyce today
and i fell twice
on my butt
owww
then headed to parkway parade
joyce wanted to get her preordered jay latest album
unexpectedly,
got a nice orange deuters waistpouch for 27.60 bucks
down from $46!
a bargain i feel :)
and a sleeping bag for 11.50 bucks
(xian i suspect we've got the same one!)
the extra dollar's for the silly self-inflatable air pillow
*guffaws*

i want swedish meatballs

shopped queensway with xian today

felt like we bought $50 worth of earrings

that much

but oh so pretty!

and i got a nice pair of hipster jeans for $50

the boss was kind enough to slash it down from 55 bucks.

and xian got lots of nice tops

(all of which i can't fit into. i feel like a giantess. bah)

and a army green bikini

yay for her

hahah.

and that sums up my day :)