I-M-POSSIBLE

My Latest Obsession

2009-08-05T02:41:00.006+08:00

A few obsessions lately... some of which I'm gonna have. Cause Desmond has greatly blessed me with them. Plus my bro bought one heels for me too ;) Some of which have yet to be mine! Can't have everything... but i enjoy feasting on them with my eyes :D

Starting with those that I'll have soon... And I'm eager for their arrival! Hahaha

And these are what I hope to have...

Check these and more out from revolveclothing.com and gojane.com
You might just become obsessed like me! It's a girl's thing afterall :)

I need a break! I need a holiday!

2009-04-22T23:20:00.005+08:00

What a 1st quarter of 2009! I feel like so many things have happen and it's just going to get busier. Let me take a little breather here and blog some of my favorite things.

1. Desmond's Valedictorian Speech

Since I know Desmond, I've always been inspired by how God has changed him and turned his life around. From dropout, bartender, drinking 5 days a week getting drunk 3 days, smoking, cheating and hanging around drug dealers... To Dean's List, valedictorian, motivating youths, undergraduate and a future that is so bright! Only my God can do this kind of work to someone.

I'm extremely bias but this is THE best speech ever made. Hehehe.. And this guy has never failed to motivate me with his words of wisdom and the way he live his life with discipline and convictions.

2. Easter drama

It was a busy and fruitful time.
Only have 1 picture... haven't gotten the rest.

2009-01-15T01:22:00.007+08:00

Ready to flyaway

2009-01-15T00:25:00.004+08:00

SHAG

2009-01-08T14:45:00.002+08:00

I'm soooo tired from training.

Why didn't I keep fit throughout?

Or at least stay active.

So that when competition comes (Feb 18), I won't feel so bulky and unfit!

My heart is willing but my legs can't carry me.

It takes a miracle this time!

If Philip can do it, by faith I can too =D Hahaha!

Creativity

2009-01-08T14:27:00.003+08:00

I am creative.

Some people can draw well, some people make great films, others are able to write fanastic articles or put words together to form a beautiful poem. Some can sing, some can dance, and others can act.

For me, I love handicrafts. I love making cards, painting my nails & putting on make-up.

These are ways I express my creativity!

Recently, I tried to make Christmas cards... but was too lazy to complete. Opps! Half-done cards again.. Have quite a few half done cards from past Christmas. Hahaha.

I bought new make up from a make-up shop in Bangkok. Have yet to use them all... But I find myself being creative when I apply the eye shadow, blushes, foundation etc. I feel happy doing so... how I can enhance my appearance through make-up and how can I create different looks. Hmmx... maybe one day, I'll take up a course on grooming.

And did I mention, I love to paint my nails and paint nails for others. I did my first french manicure, with transparent light pink with purple tips. I tot it's going to be very challenging. It was difficult to paint my right hand, my left hand was shivering when holding the brush! But I receive quite good comments for a first timer. CNY is coming... I want to get nail stones & nail stickers to design my nails. I feel so delighted when I express my creativity in nail art!

So happy to discover these creative part of me in 2009 =D

EVERYONE is creative. Just need to find where your creativity lies, then use it and it'll just flow!

School is OUT, Fun is IN

2008-12-03T12:43:00.003+08:00

My blog is full of cobwebs now!!! I expected this when I first started my blog... cause I know I'm not so persistent in these kind of things; it's a sudden rush of passion that I started the blog. Well, in any case, I'm blogging now cause I've got quite abit of time in my hands. Exams are over! And I'm glad they are... This exam period is extremely challenging. I fell sick...very sick. Had a fever that refuse to go away for days and hit right up to 39.5 degrees. The ordeal lasted til just the day before my exams that I finally feel much much better. I've never fallen so sick for a very long time. I do catch a cold here and there but never so bad and so long! To make things worse, I can't rest because I've so much revision to do. On top of that, I didn't want to miss Asia Conference. Even though, I missed quite alot of it =(

Woooh! It was soooo stressful and I'm glad I'm having the time to rest and enjoy life this week. So to make myself happy, I did up my nails.. I'm gonna be meeting up some friends this week.. I'm gonna make x'mas cards (got inspired by the card shop at citi-link!)... And I'll be emceeing at LOUD Party @ *scape this Friday. All of these I LOVE to do. And of course, not forgetting...just bumming around to watch tv. Hahaha. After this week of indulgence in Me Myself and I (Haha!), I'll be busy doing quite a few things... Emerge! MMF?? X'mas!!!! Thanksgiving & Appreciation! Meeting new ppl, hanging out with friends! Growth! I'm looking forward for a fruitful, fun and fulfilling December. I'm excited even as I'm typing it now... I'm gonna end my year on a high note, so 2009 will begin high! Life just gets better and of course... busier! Hahaha.

2009 is going to be my best year yet!

Australia - Melbourne City

2008-09-08T14:32:00.006+08:00

Melbourne City is absolutely beautiful, it has an old english look which makes one nostalgic for the past.

Here's Melbourne City at night....

And Melbourne City in the day...

Electirc Trams in 21st Century modern Melbourne City!

The trucks in Australia just look so cute and toy-like. They are colourful and some even look like Transformers.

Visited the national library...

My sis and I took the City Tour Shuttle Bus and alighted at University of Melbourne. The place is absolutely "Harry-Potter"... if you know what I mean. And when I compare Melbourne Uni to NUS... hmmmx... I can't even compare to begin with.

At the background is the hostel for Melbourne Uni. And it looks that the castle which Harry Potter lived!!! Eusoff oh eusoff hall... You need a major make over!

Australia! - Philip's Island

2008-08-24T22:19:00.007+08:00

The second day in Melbourne, we went on a tour group to Philip's Island. The 1st stop for lunch is in this town called Tooradin.

We bought chicken and chips and we got a huge box of chips! Check them out! Of course...we couldn't finish and threw most of them away. Man, we were so shocked when we receive our food.

Next stop, a vineyard. Nothing spectacular...kinda boring. After which, we headed to farmyards where to my surprise, I enjoyed myself very much. For a person who is afraid and don't like animals, I guess I proved myself wrong =D

On the way to Philip's Island where the very cute and lovely penguins come on shore after 6.30pm when all is dark. It was really fun to watch the penguins walk to shore and observe their behavior. A sight to behold... but no pictures allowed! Philip's Island is very cold... especially when it's night time in winter and the wind is blowing mercilessly at you. I think it should be less than 10degrees there.

Cuties!

Australia! - Great Ocean Road

2008-07-14T14:33:00.014+08:00

I had a great time in Australia with my parents, sister and family friend. We visited many places... Here are some wonderful photos:
PS: This post is still under construction.

- Changi Airport: Mum, Aunty Doris, Me

Transfer Bus to Perth Domestic Airport: It's very cold in Perth!

In Spore, we take free Skytrain from one terminal to another. In Australia, you take transfer bus which requires you to pay. We didn't have to pay because we are Qantas passengers. Hmmx...no wonder some airports are world class and others are far from it. Hees, I very mean!

Don't my parents look so good together?! =D

Best friends!

From Changi airport, we took a flight to Perth then to Melbourne. Melbourne is the first place we went. It's beautiful! The most memorable of all is the first day when we drove down Great Ocean Road. Melbourne is in the south of Australia. It has a stretch of road a long the South Ocean (if I'm not wrong). I don't particularly like to do sight seeing during tours cause I find it boring. But GOR blew me away with it's magnificient sights and breath-taking views. As it's winter, it's very cooling...freezing in the morning and when night falls..but just cooling in the afternoon. So you can imagine...nice wind blowing at you while you're so captivated by these wonderful sights.

Breakfast

Grace made tea using this metal pail. She puts the tea powder and hot water in the pail and mixes them by swinging it. She says the gravity will cause the tea to be pushed to the bottom of the pail and it won't fall off =P Cool! Haven't tried at home yet. Haha.

1st stop after breakfast

Toilet Break

Cape Patton: just a nice place to enjoy the scenery

Look at the back! That's my house...in the future. Haha. There are many vacation houses that overlook the South Ocean. *WAH!* I don't mind owning one of those. Solution: either I become so wealthy and buy a house there, or marry someone rich and make him buy it for me as a wedding gift...haha. Wake up Gloria!!!!

We saw a few Koalas. This was the nearest and largest. The rest were high up and hiding behind the leaves. Koalas are very fragile, they either have lesser ribs or weak ribs (can't rmb which is it). But it's not good to hug or cuddle koalas. They always cling onto the branches because the type of leaves that they eat do not give them energy for activities more than clinging. Haha.

Maits Rest Rainforest

We took a walk in the rainforest and saw trees hundreds of years old.

Apostles

Big Bang

2008-05-25T00:08:00.001+08:00

three...four....five.....SIXOLOGY!

2008-05-22T01:55:00.006+08:00

These guys really blew everyone off their feet at Arena last friday!
*So glad that they won*
The team that got 2nd - Class Act - was awesome. They were in their 17/18 and yet they did a great job too. The rest of the bands...hmmx... =D

Kim: my guitar teacher. Fantastic guitarist and vocalist!

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More pictures with bernice, who's on holiday now : so gotta wait 2 more weeks..

Beijing 101

2008-05-22T01:26:00.005+08:00

I did hair extension last tuesday at city plaza, paya lebar! There are a few shops at level 2 that does this. I paid $72, Yanx paid $120..I've got too little hair. Guess that's the 1st benefit I found for having lesser hair. Hair extension is the most dramatic change I have done to my hair. I like to dye and cut my hair but very often my hair always end up looking the same after a week or two no matter how I try to cut or dye differently. This time it's a drastic change =D Good to hear compliments *phew* But it's really a chore to maintain it...especially when it's not your own hair. Washing takes 20mins, it's difficult to dry, my head can get itchy, it's distracting at times and hinders my sleeping position. Well, beauty comes with a price!

Thanks for the pics, Yanx..

This is my last hair-do (when I first emerge out of the hair salon) about 4 months ago.

hmm... why am i smiling like that? Guess I feel weird taking pictures alone.

I wouldn't have done it without Yanx. Haha.

Think I might add colourful and bright extents the next time.

*tar-da*

Isn't Yanx gorgeous?

Hehe. The back of my hair...this is really long...but this is the actual extents minus one inch!

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Relationship status

2008-05-14T14:31:00.001+08:00

[This is a long post! Hope you've the tenacity to finish if you're reading it =D]

Finally exams are over... and I've started my 3 months holiday! I reallt wanna make this holiday a fruitful and exciting one.

I have been wanting to put up this post for quite some time but have been suffering from the P-syndrome (P for procrastinating, haha). Well, facebook is the in thing now. When you look at people's profile, some people display their relationship status. You can choose your relationship status as either single, in a relationship, engaged, married, it's complicated or in an open relationship.

I was just thinking, what's the difference between a dating and a married relationship. These days the lines are so blur because so many married couples divorce and non-married couple cohabit. I don't think I wanna discuss whether divorce or cohabition is right or wrong. But there definitely are differences between dating and a marriage.

I don't think dating and marriage are on the same spectrum. You don't get married just because you've dated the person very long though dating for some time will help to make the decision to get married. Marriage is a relationship where two people have pledged themselves to each other in a manner of a husband and a wife. It requires a come-what-may commitment, through high waters and deep valleys, thick & thin kind of love and lives that are inseparably intertwined. Dating relationship has no pledge to each other. Each couple still live their separate lives and comes together on every date and parts when differences are too much to bear. I think one very important element that is missing in dating is the come-what-may commitment.

Part of a poem "I need you" said this about marriage:

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There is no longer the choice as to what we will share.
We will either share all of life or be fractured persons.
I didn't marry you out of need or to be needed
We were not driven by instincts or emptiness;
We made a choice of love

- Jerry and Barbara Cook

I really love this poem. It really depicts marriage. It's quite interesting to hear how young dating couples telling each other they wanna marry each other. I've heard the girl calling her boyfriend "lao gong" and guy calling the girl "lao po". How many of them really understand what it means to be married?

Relationship with Jesus is like a marriage. I started out by "dating" him, because I chose to let him love me and be pampered by his love. Commitment? Well, let me think about it...Didn't have to take long to make that decision cause after awhile, I realize if I "date" him (=go to church and enjoy cgm) every week, it means that sometimes during the weekends when my family has activities and my friends have gatherings, I have to make some arrangements or may occassionally forgo them. And this can sometimes be inconvenient. But I'll did it cause I decided to date him, instead of playing an open relationship or just networking (like what facebook relationship status has or like what some people do).

Then there come times when I prayed, I worked hard, I was not too bad but I didn't do so well in my studies, relationships, faced many disappointments and failure which are sometimes due to my own mistakes and because sometimes bad things just happen to anyone. So the question becomes, should I continue to "date" Jesus who is invisible to my natural eyes and who some people say if I hang out with him, everything is going to be a bed of roses? Well, I told myself...I'm in the relationship already. I'll just stick around him and see what he's got for me.

Now, I'm older. I am been greatly blessed, given many opportunites, more successful, have so many responsibilities... then I think, I have many important things to do and I like doing them. Do I still want to "date" him? Cause if I date him, means, I may have less time for things which I am now excelling in. By this time, when I look back and see how he helped me through the times when I am most down and most rejected by others. I remembered when I ignored and hurt him, he still tells me he loves me. He has been supporting, inspiring, strengthening, believing and loving me. And he just never fails to be there when I called him. How can I forsake him even though the opportunities I have in life seem so golden and hard to come by? Well, I will stay on with him. Because I don't want to go on "dating" Jesus. I prefer to give him all my commitment and love, much like a "married" relationship. Because I'm not better off without him.

We all either watched on tv or saw in real life how a spouse got tempted by an attractive individual and forsook the marriage. Or how either one person in the marriage got caught up with work as a result of pursuing ccess in career and loss the marriage. This doesn't mean we don't get married. Because marriage is more beautiful than a dating relationship. When we see an old couple walking hand in hand and strolling in the park, even a person who never wants to get married, will melt at this scene and somehow hoped that will happen to him/her. A successful marriage has the greatest joy and produces the greatest satisfaction in life. And successful marriage comes only with unconditional commitment. Commitment sounds like a huge thing and it means choices must be made. But it's worth every bit of it. And even more so when you have a perfect partner.

Thank you Jesus for your faithfulness in this "marriage" relationship that I will always want to be in.

World Peace

2008-04-29T03:00:00.004+08:00

It's been a long time since I've blogged. Now it's the exam period and I've been buried under books, lecture notes and lotsa information. Finally, I can resurface and take a breath before I submerge into economics and cognitive psy again. Haha. So glad to see people tagging my blog =)

Anyway, this period of time is challenging for me. More than just studying 12hours everyday...there are many areas of my life that I had to deal with and needed a breakthrough. With multiplying pressures and stress just piling up, I begin to experience panic attacks. Panic attacks are basically feeling anxious without a cause and this anxiety disrupts one's ability to do anything for a period of time. For a few nights, I will be suddenly gripped with fear and anxiety in my heart...not because I was thinking or worrying about something. But this anxiousness steals the peace in my heart without warning and can last for hours. After which I will not be able to do anything.

After battling with this for a week, I became frustrated enough to finally decide to put a stop to it. I started crying out to God in prayer and asked for peace to fill my heart. Whenever I prayed, peace and calmness enters my heart. But when I stopped praying, fear came back again. So I had to pray a few times before this anxiety stopped.

This is the 3rd week since my first panic attack started. And thank God it has left me. I realized the importance of having peace in your heart. Without peace, it's like living in a war zone. Now I truly understood why Jesus is the prince of peace and have come to gave us peace. People are trying to go on vacations to some secluded island, do meditations and listen to calming music to get serenityd tranquility. Yea, it does work and has benefits but only temporary or superficially. Thank God I've a better way to get peace that will remain and that is always available just by praying.

Ok, that's all for tonight. Needa catch some rest! Exams are going to end on 7th May. Can't wait for the 3.5months holiday. Gonna do relief teaching, learn guitar & driving, go for a holiday and have honeymoons with God =)

The Man Must Get It!

2008-03-25T21:33:00.003+08:00

I'm feeling real tired walking from the Central Library back to my hostel with 5 heavy books. On my way, I met at least 4 guys. But none offered to help. Once, I even dropped by book upon reaching the entrance of my hostel and all the guy did was to help me pick it up. I was obviously struggling with those books and as a gentleman, he could have asked if I needed help with the books.

As a girl, I help my girl friends to carry their things when I see they have much to carry. If guys don't rise up to the occassion, no wonder girls have to take over roles like opening doors, carrying things etc. I'm not sexist but you're only a male by birth and a MAN BY CHOICE!

Take responsibility guys! Serve the ladies and treat them well...then you'll be assured that your girl will adore you and submit to you willingly and wholeheartedly!

Who is he?

2008-03-14T01:36:00.003+08:00

He is very humble, even though he is very great.
He is very confident,but he is never proud.
He is very loving, in fact he is love.
He calls all to come, and rejects none.
He gives to everyone, without reservation. And yes! Even his life...
Can't find anyone better. Can't find anyone that can even come close.
Everyone wants to find a person who they can give their lives to. That's why people get married, that's why people have friendships. But he is better than anyone or anything you have.
He loves me even before I know him.
He loves me even when I don't love him.
He loves me even when I make him sad.
He loves me even when I don't trust him.
He loves me even when I make mistakes.
He loves me even when I'm not lovable.
Can't get any better huh...
After all these, I can't help but to love him.
He's all that I want and all that I need.
And he's the one you're looking for too...

His name is Jesus.

Grasspower!

2008-02-18T17:31:00.003+08:00

I bought wheatgrass drink today. Haven't had it for sometime. It taste really great after you put it into the freezer (but without it being frozen)! It gives me a little of the effect of what bubble tea gives to me. Can be a substitute for bubble tea as happy food when I can't find bubble tea or had too much of it. Hahaha!
Still remember there was once I had dinner with Desmond, Mingyao and Jason(I think!)... Desmond laughed when I ordered wheatgrass from the Uncle who came to our table to take our drink orders. I was very surprised to hear him say that wheatgrass are for old people! Man, my sister and I enjoy that drink. And he said Fei Yu Qing advertizes for "Grasspower", the brand of the wheatgrass drink. He sent me this picture when I told him I was drinking xiao mai cao.

It's not girlpower anymore... It's GRASSPOWER!

CNY at Sam's house

2008-02-18T00:13:00.001+08:00

Leaders' Appreciation Night

2008-02-18T00:04:00.002+08:00

Savoring School Life

2008-01-23T18:18:00.000+08:00

School has started for 10 days and I am really enjoying it. I love holidays! But being a student is one of the best thing to be. Must relish the times as a student. It's such a short period of time compared to working life and has a "critical period". Meaning, that we can only be students the first 2 decades or so of our lives. Because anything way more than that is really challenging as society and people has certain expectations for us and we need to fulfill certain roles (like a father providing for his family, a daughter giving her parents monthly allowances and a self-sufficient individual). So I really treasure the opportunity I am able to be educated and be empowered to accomplish my dreams.

I've never felt so happy studying. Mainly because I am feeling the empowerment from the knowledge I learnt to face challenges in society, with people and in life. And very importantly, I'm studying what I like - Psychology, the study of people's behavior and cognition.

2 lecture slide in econs lecture today reminded me of what I learnt in SOT. It was about how to produce growth in an economy. Here is what the slides wrote:
What should be done?
Investing in People
- There is a direct positive relationship between per capita real output and level of health (life expectancy, infant mortality)
- The relationship has been confirmed by analyzing historical data with help of advanced statistical procedures
- It is also found that level of education and per capita GDP are highly correlated.
- Education adds to stock of human capital (enhancing people's capacity to produce more), increases growth by stimulating innovation and new ideas, and creates high-level manpower essential for R&D activities.

And this is what Pst Meng shared in SOT: if you want your company to be successful, invest in people.

Well, the word is confirmed by science.
The logic is very simple, you make people happy, people will be willing to work their best for you. When companies improve the welfare and value of their employees, they generate loyalty and passion among employees to commit themselves to the company. The duty of managers and high ranking officers is really to show that the value and worth that the company adds to each employee (not just in terms of salary, but even psychological, personal and family well-being) is greater than the price they pay (time, effort, commitment, OT etc.) And the way managers can show it is really by love and passion for the employees. Meaning, not treating employees as people who they can manipulate and order around or just people who needs to get things done. But able to go down to their level to mingle with them, who remembers things about them and treat them as VIP, as if their service to the company has great relative importance. Relationship preceeds work. To what extent does the employee recognizes him/herself as part of the company depends on the extent of the relationship managers have with their workers.
Even as I share this, it has become a revelation and an inspiration to me. Bringing me new understanding to what I have learnt. But really, nothing is new under the sun. Sometimes, we just over look it in the pursuit for success - the underlying principles of success.

[* pardon if i have spelling and grammatical errors!!! hahaha]

Preparation for School!

2008-01-11T13:26:00.000+08:00

Year 2 Sem 2 is starting in 3 days time and I'm very excited about it! New modules and new stuff to learn. I'm shifting back to hostel too. I really look forward to this semester. I didn't do too good for last sem and I'm just ready to fight back. Not gonnna give up my 4.0 til the very end. Nothing is impossible!!!
Here are some of my preparation for school...

BIDDING!
I managed to get all the modules that I want but spend 803points on Personality and Individual differences! Now left so little points in my programme account =( It's good that my social work only used 1point. I'm minoring in human services (which actually mean social work), and I have to share my programme account with psy modules and sw modules.

Woohooo... PTL, I've all the modules that I want. If I get the tutorial slots that I want too, then I effectively have classes only from Tuesday to Thursday. It'll be long long weekend for me. LET THAT HAPPEN!!!

IKEA
Yanx & I went to ikea to shop for things to put and use in our hostel. Actually I didn't want to buy anything. I wasn't interested in decorating my room as I was afraid there will be a lot of cleaning to do. But well, I just couldn't resist to buy something.

Yanx & I wearing lamp covers =)

Gotcha!

Opps!

Hmms... -_-

I bought a dustbin because my dustbin for the previous sem were just plastic bags hanging by the window or on the floor. And got a rug. So that my floor will not look so empty.

I shall bring soft cushion or soft toys from home to put at the rug, so I'll have a cosy corner. I'm also gonna borrow a guitar and speakers. Hmmms.... I'll have more music in my room. The rug and music is inspired by Yeekiat. His room is so comfortable and cosy.
Yanx also bought the same dustbin but the white one. She also got photoframes to put my picture. Hahaha.

MAKEOVER!
I had my hair done just yesterday. I'm quite satisfied with it though it could be better. The apparently red dye that my mum bought turned out to be brown on my hair. Arrggghx... Nvm! Then I went to a hairdresser @ Far East - "IN THE SALON". Dye blonde strips and cut my hair much shorter. The process was terrible cause I thought I looked weird. The strips didn't look very nice at first. And my hair looked funny. But when all was done, I was quite satisfied.

BEFORE
This is my hair before... I don't usually take pictures by meself and most of the time it's tied up. So this is the best "before" picture. Haha.

DURING
While waiting for my dye to dry... I was so tired waiting!

AFTER

I think I look younger =D I bought a gold hairband because my fringe is shorter. I feel back in secondary school days where my friends and I always use hairband.
Well, I think the photo doesn't truly show how my hair is really like. Gotta see me in person! Hahaha

Afterwards, I went for dinner and spend the night with Joyce.

Joyce, you are special! And you are the best candidate to be yourself. I love you just the way you are.

So now, I guess I'm more or less ready for school. NUS, here I come!

HC 04S68

2008-01-08T00:02:00.002+08:00

For the first time this year and for my first time since don't know when, i attended a class gathering with my JC classmates. We had dinner @ Bukit Timah then went for ice-cream @ Serene Centre. I'm glad to catch up and chat with some of them, especially those I don't frequently hang out with. It was happy even to just see everyone doing quite well. Most of the guys have ORD and I'll see many of them in school during the later half of the year. Didn't take many pictures... but took some from facebook =D

Best wishes to all for 2008! Til we meeting again... Cheers!

Appreciation Night

2008-01-07T21:31:00.001+08:00

Celebrating the end of 2007 and welcoming 2008...

881 & HairSpray: Travelling back to the 70s!

Christmas

2007-12-30T00:34:00.000+08:00

My favourite time of the year: CHRISTMAS!

I went for a Christmas gathering with my JC gang. It's been sometime I've met some of them. Sorry for all my absence! Anyway, all of us (but 1 who went UK to study) were there. It was so cosy eating around the table. Really felt the love and warmth of Christmas from these very dear friends.
I left early, so didn't have many pictures...

Xiefiee, me & Lyd.
Accountant, Psychologist, Dentist

Xiefen made spring rolls. They tasted great! Last Christmas she made almond jelly with longan which was awesome too. Hmms... but this picture doesn't do justice to the spring roll =(

The salad that lyd and kasster made - which cause our dinner to start late. Haha. But with all honesty, it's one of the best salads I've eaten. Good things are worth the wait!

City Harvest is the best place to spend Christmas. I'm bias but I believe it's true for 51,000 people that came. Full of joy (from the drama), peace (from the candlelights) and hope (from the preaching)... elements of the Christmas Spirit.

Joyce, thanks for coming. It's great to spend xmas eve with you. So glad that we've been gr8 frens for 10years and counting... Love you always!

Bestie!

Charis (Beautiful name, it means grace) & Cindy (Sisters! They look quite alike) and Shihui.

My Dad joined my siblings & I this Christmas. We went to the Christmas fiesta where there were numerous stalls selling clothes at very low prices! Bought a Christmas gift for a friend there and a top for myself - Christmas present for myself. Hees. My sister and I tried to make our dad buy stuff for us but failed! Haha.

It was snowing at Expo... But only on Kit =D

Of course Christmas is about giving... But everyone wants to receive presents. And I have many awesome gifts from many special friends:

I absolutely love this necklace. It's a lollipop, NOT a microphone! It's cute, yet cool because of it's glitter! I'm into blink blink and shiny clothes and accessories.
Rina, thank you so much! I'm so touched by your love.

Cherry necklace. It's sweet! I plan to wear it to school. Thanks Des!

G - keychain

Angel Cookie! So beautiful and sweet...can't bear to eat it. Thanks Bestie!

I organized a Christmas gift exchange among my family members. Got everybody to write down 3 things they hope to receive on a piece of paper. Then we draw lots to see who are we giving to. Everyone was so happy to receive a gift that they want. Aunty Doris, thanks for the gift!

Another Christmas gift exchange. Got 2 tops...so in time because school is starting! New clothes for new semester. Thanks to my angel Mingyao and Marlin who help choose it!

Jessica

2007-12-29T23:55:00.000+08:00

On the 17th Dec, my NUS psy friends celebrated Jes 21st bday. It's the first time we hang outside of school and spend a wonderful day together. First time we're not together in lecture halls or canteen. Haha. And we're planning to have a bowling seesion before school starts. I really had a great time and enjoyed myself. Most importantly, the star of the day is Jes. So glad she had fun too... This is a very late post. But Happy 21st Birthday Jes!

K-BOX at Cineleisure

K-Box Session: My first time at K-box. Felt a lil' awkward at first cause I don't listen to music so I don't know how to sing the songs. But after awhile, I found some familiar song and have a great time singing. We ended the k-box session singing "Peng You" =) When a man finds a friend, he finds treasure!

After that we went to take neo-prints...haha! 20plus yr olds taking neo-prints. Hees. Being youthful again. Haven't done that for almost 3years. But it's fun and we all look gr8. Yuhui, email us the pictures!

Next is the hippo tour opposite Heeren. Toured Orchard Road on a roofless double deck bus. The wind was strong and cold. It really relaxing. Pictures are in Cheryl's camera. EMAIL THE PICS TO ME!!!

Then we had dinner at Thai Express... I really like the food at Thai Express. But I think the outlet at PS is not as good as the one at Katong.

Jiamin & Me. Jiamin looks very pretty in this picture ~ photogenic

Phadre & Jes

21 donuts for a bday cake. Special huh~ Oh! And the bday gift is a personalized shirt designed by Jiamin & Huiqi. It's cute and sweet.

May all your wishes come true!

Live the dream

2007-12-11T02:33:00.001+08:00

These are things that could stiffle you from doing great things...

1) Criticisms of others
2) Fear
3) Broken relationships
4) Financial poverty
5) A backward mindset
6) No faith, hope and love!

How then?

1) Recall previous successes... You've done it once, you can do it again! People say it's impossible, it can't be done! But adiddas says, Impossible is nothing. Know there will always be people criticizing whatever you do... so Just do it! Nike is right after all. Well, of course, there will be those darlings who will always appreciate your dreams!

2) Start having confidence. Focus on the possibilities. What you focus on will prosper (by my dad!)

3) Resotre relationships that are important.. or else just move on and be wise in who you make friends with. Hang around dream destroyers, you'll lose your dream. Hang around dream builders, you'll find yourself closer to your dream.

4) Start giving and be generous... Plant an apple seed, reap an apple tree. Plant your money, reap a money tree =D

5) Get some knowlegde that will help you achieve your dreams.

6) Find unconditional love, mountain moving faith and hope. There's only one way... And I've found Him. My life was never the same again =) Thank you Jesus.

Little things that got me excited...

2007-12-06T01:33:00.001+08:00

i LOVE this pair of heels from ZARA! It's so cooool... Man! It's in my Christmas wish list! Santa, I've been good this year...give me this pair of heels! =D

Me-to-you bear. I still rmb there is a secondary school craze to give and receive this bear as a gift. I have 2 small ones at home. This is the bear I like best. But then again, I don't like soft toys. Nice to look, not nice to keep.

Of course, a baby is many times over cuter...

Rina & Ivan's little boy - Asher! He's so adorable. And his name is so cool and sounds like a hot guy's name. Hehe. Asher means happy! Great name, just like the name Gloria =)

I like digital speedometers...think it just look cool. Got my friend to drive at 7km/h so that I can capture this shot. Woohoo...

That's me by me! Haha. I was bored studying. So i stood infront of my mirror and tried to draw my portriat. Hmmzx... mmm... got potential. Hahaha

Couzs

2007-12-06T01:22:00.000+08:00

At my cousin's wedding...

Food?

2007-12-06T01:11:00.000+08:00

Baked rice from Engine canteen

Famous Indo food from Engine too!

Hall dinner... not very appetizing. But it's overly negatively rated. Food can be not bad too.

Hee! Just a new way of holding a spoon. It's quite easy and you really can eat with the chopstick holding the spoon. Ok...I'm abit boliao.

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

2007-12-06T00:58:00.000+08:00

Lotsa peeps bdays in the last few months... Here's my belated birthday message to you guys:

1) FILBERT
Happy Birtday my neighbour! Welcome to the 20 club. Sorry I couldn't make it to your birthday celebration. I had exams the next day. Anyway, here's wishing ya a very fulfilling and fun year yet ahead. You've a bright future ahead!

2) HUIQI
Sweet 20 my dear friend! Enjoy every moment in school with ya. You'll always lift up the atmosphere and it's just so much fun around you. Keep shining babe!

3) MUMMY!
My mother is the prettiest, coolest, sweetest, loveliest mum in the world. She's the role model of women. Love ya mum!

It's Party Time!

2007-12-06T00:44:00.000+08:00

Woohoo... exams over! over over over!~ Though it wasn't a good ending (cause I woke up late and was almost late for exam and was tired and couldn't think), but well it's over! 10days... xiong arhx... Now I can do so many things which I wanna do, like, hang out with friends, visit grams, shop, play, prepare for CHRISMAS!!!, buy a guitar & practise for hours... basically have fun fun fun fun and go crazy =D

Really lots of things are happening and my life is just getting more and more exciting! I love my life =) Anyway, I've a facebook. Latest IT thing that has happened in my life. Hah! Yanx helped me to create it. I went on facebook for the 1st time just a few moments ago. Add me at g_l_o_r_i_a_@hotmail.com
Apparently it's fun... but I'm not convinced yet. Perhaps I need to 'explore' it more.

To my dearest besty, Yan Lin aka Yanx, ALL THE BEST at SEA games! You rock girl! Waiting to catch ya on TV on the 10th December... In my opinion, you're Singapore's fastest female runner! Keep shining...
PS: She's the 1st runner of the women's 4x100m team. This girl flies. Her starts are like a flash!

Tomorrow I'm hanging out with my Grams. Haven't seen them for sometime... Gotta be early... -Signing out-

examexamexamEXAMexamexamexam

2007-11-24T00:32:00.000+08:00

The most exciting, heart-throbbing time of the year is here! End-of-sem exams! Woohoo... Tonight is the 1st friday night I'm staying over in hall. And I didn't even realize that until one of the D3 girl (can't rmb her name, sorry!) was surprised to see me just a few moments ago and i couldn't understand her surprise at first. Well, Saturday is here even before I knew it. I've not left school the entire week, except twice - last night i went to NTU to send bday wishes to Yueze and this morning when I had breakfast with my dad.
I don't like to have exams at this time of the year. It's so near X'mas! I should be preparing for christmas instead. Oh well, exams will be over before I know it. Feeling the pressure and heat of exams, especially when time is not on your side... I'm hard-pressed but crushed!
I've lotsa pictures in my hp to upload but that's for a much a later time. And I wanna do up a facebook! Ppl say it's fun and a good way to hook up with friends. But for now, I'm gonna finish up my final revision for psy stats. Woohoo...

Lydia!

2007-11-13T03:50:00.000+08:00

It's quite a number of days since i last posted something. Well, exams are coming and time is tight. Besides, I can only post pictures when I'm home (which is hardly) =D Yes... I need to spend more time with my family. Even my siblings are complaining now. Sorry Wongers! Give me 3 more weeks...

Here are some pictures that are taken when my HC clique went to celebrate Lydia's birthday on Nov 2nd (1 day b4 her actual bday)... Happy Birthday Girl! You're really special and a gift from heaven.

This is just half of my HC gang. The rest couldn't make it. Actually, most of the time I didn't make it to our gatherings. Very sorry guys! pls pardon my absence...

We went to eat at a restaurant at Novena Square - "Bungalow". I think it sells Italian or issit Spanish food?!

This is escargot in garlic herb butter. It is very delicious! Unforgettable taste... the tenderness of the escargot, mixed with cheese and olive oil and served with fresh, tasty, toasted french loaf! Man, heaven on earth!

Kass & Lyd just enjoying the escargots.

Alwyn & Filbert - High Flyers of the gang. Congrats on ORDing!

Welcome to the 20club!

Lyd's a very special friend to me.

May you have the desires of your heart. Have the most fruitful and blessed year yet!

This is desert! We want to an ice cream shop (can't rmb the name). Every of your ice cream flavour is mixed with an ingredient of your choice. For example, we added gummy bears to choc ice cream. Bad choice! The bears became rock hard. There are many ingredients you can add, like M&NMs, orea, orange peel, mashmallow... It's a fun and different way to eat ice cream. Kinda like Ben and Jerry's ice cream with its chunks. Just that now you can choose the ingredients you wanna add and of course, the ice cream aint as rich as B&J's.

Look at his tannline!!! The result of constant outdoor cycling... woohoo...

Dottiee and Mammiee

I like my blog!

2007-10-29T01:31:00.001+08:00

weekEND

2007-10-29T00:58:00.000+08:00

Sunday is over. It is yet another wonderful weekend! I see a generation rising up to take their place.
A very memorable thing I learnt this week is "If I can see it, I can have it." I always tell my TEAM if they can visualize something, they will attain it. That is why, I like to ask people what are their dreams, what do they want to become in their lives. Only people with a dream, a vision will find purpose and meaning in their life. They are the people who will progress forward, and they are the people who enjoy living.
I dream to be an educator one day... a principal of a school. The school may not be the best school. But I wanna transform it to become a school with students excellent in their academics and with great character and attitude. The wildest dream is to be the Minister of Education. Haha! I am Tharman S. successor. Well, it cost nothing to dream =D
Everyone should have a dream too. The bigger we dream, the bigger the things we will find ourselves accomplishing.

Here are some very interesting pictures I took over the weekends:

I learn this camera trick from a friend. Nice huh... Desmond drinking a huge cup of coffee!

Hehe.

This photo shows my friends imitating a very funny thing that we saw: A girlfriend was locking arms with her boyfriend, while another girl locked arms with the girlfriend. But this picture shows an even more complex relationship... fivesome! =))

Xueni (pink), Valerie (green) and myself (yellow) went to topshop at Bugis because I wanted to check out the stuff that are on sale. We saw this neon coloured 4-inch thick heeled shoes and tried them on. Unfortunately, after taking this picture, the saleswoman stopped us from taking anymore pictures. How I wish I took more before I was stopped. Haha!

I got to start doing my HW 5 for math which is due tomorrow. John and intelligent friends of yours, I need your help!
I'm also gonna return to my very neat, relatively clean but rather empty room in Eusoff. Well, it looks more 'presentable' and 'livable' than my room at home =D

This bear is given by Siew Leng on my SOT graduation day.

Frenz from School

2007-10-26T23:10:00.000+08:00

Here are some pictures of very wonderful friends I have at school.

This is Jessica. One of the two friends I made when I first came to NUS. We've known each other for a year. And she's an awesome girl. I love to hang out with her. She is a friend who will be there to support you all the way. Love you girl!

Yuhui - a very sweet and nice girl.

Me, Huiqi and her new haircut. Nice cut... She's the livewire of my 'gang'. A great girl to hang out with. Fun Fun Fun!

My Lab Partner: Jiamin. A fun and lovely person! But we're always lost during stats lab.

Rongming in stats lect. He was looking exceptionally tired that day. Actually, we all are!

A beautiful singer. Valerie and her band are on their way to stardom!

Two very awesome guitarist from Eusoff Hall. Yeekiat & Kim. Rockers!

YeeKiat & Kim's band... if you can spot them...

I was having supper with Eusoffians at the BACK. And the uncle gave Yeekiat 2 spoons for his noodles. Smart!

The Golden Girl... My besty - Yanx is going SEA games running the lst leg for 4x100m. You go girl!

John aka JJ from my math class. He's really funny and looks so young! He looks like Wee Teck (HC tracker)! If not for him and his friends, I don't think I'm gonna make it for my math module. Thanks guys.

My good old brother! He's in dentistry now. He was on his way to play soccer and I was on my way to run. Our monday routine...

First

2007-10-26T01:06:00.000+08:00

After much contemplating, i decided to create a blog so that I can post pictures I take with my 1 month old SAMSUNG handphone. So I can have excuses to take pictures of people, which I kinda enjoy doing so. Capture the moment!

Well, I am going to head back to my books after uploading some pictures. Exams are drawing near... !!!