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Yea! New Updates!

2010-01-28T14:39:00.002+08:00

Wow,

Seems I haven't been as consistent as i though I would've been! Anyways, it's been real fun recently, we've some stars check in.. but they're really old-school so not much people recognise them anymore...

Working at AYS (At-your-service) can sometimes be sooooo tongue-tangling! I have to greet the entire sentence before the guest says anything and sometimes they hang up on me!!! :( However, I do love working at the back coz i won't have to greet some real grumpy guests face to face early in the morning. Nonetheless, I'm so grateful that work has been pleasant and I'm getting along with my colleagues real good!

Working in the US has really made me realise the working cultural differences. Over here they empower you to do whatever you feel is appropriate to appease the guest but back in our Asian society, whatever "freebies" you give you have to sought your manager's approval, and sometimes this take several managers to approve before finally it can be done. It totally reminds me of the Fann Wong and Gurmit Singh movie - "Just follow law". OMG, I laughed my ass off when I watched that movie! Just to borrow a fan, she had to write in, CC here, CC there, just like how you need all the approvals to get something down. Over here it feels kinda awkward right now to use my authority but slowly I think I'm getting the hang of it. I wonder if I can adapt to the different working style back home in SG when I return!

Oh, on a side note, great news for anyone who's reading my blog. I've got another internship offer in Seattle. It's also in the Marriott. It's at the downtown Waterfront Marriott. It's real great and it's also 18 months - but the title is not for a FO position. It's the Housekeeping Supervisor Trainee title. Housekeeping sounds unattractive but I assure you, Marriott's benefits are real good! Also, I think this is a fantastic opportunity for anyone who's looking to build some solid ground in the hospitality industry. With Marriott as your referral, your future opportunities are definitely expanded. Any interested takers please email me asap for more info.

There's been plenty of politics that go on in the office. Well I guess politics occur everywhere you go. It's just how you handle them and how to avoid people that'll get you into trouble. Moreover, besides my roomie and myself, there isn't anyone else for us to depend on! We've got to hang in there and look out for one another's backs! Not that people here are back-stabbing one another..but you'd never know. I do appreciate my manager having regular rap sessions with me (not the rap kinda rap..more like small discussions) on anything interesting going on...any issues I have with anyone... it makes me feel really appreciated and well taken care of here. Thank you guys!

Awww it's only my 2nd month and I have a line of visitors coming to visit me! I'm so blessed. Let me just announce who they are:

1. Gene - my travel friend whom i met in japan and who's based in US coming down today! (27-jan) to visit Seattle and have a little catch up with me :)

2. Li Hui - My childhood friend's gf whom I'm getting to know better :) She's a darling and she's bringing 4 other friends to Seattle for a little getaway! Hopefully I can be a good guide! =P

3. Jasmine - My bestest friend in the entire world. She's already applied for leave in July to go somewhere with me. Hopefully I can get my offs!!

4. WHO WANTS TO BE IN THIS SLOT? :) haha. Waiting for more people to sign up and meet me here!

oh yes, can i just totally brag about how great my hotel's gym is? I love it! it's 24 hours and there's a LCD attached to most of the machines (like treadmill, cycles..) and I totally love doing long inclining walks on the treadmill watching basketball matches. It's awesome!!!!

Sigh, I wana go to a theme park. I wana sit on a rollercoaster. Sky-dive! yes! I'm gona do that some day but i haven't found someone brave enough to attempt it with me. Any takers? :)

My HR manager heard about my sky-dive ambition and was so motivated to print me a quote she saw online and I think it's so perfect for me! Let me just list it down here:

"Life's not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming: WOW, what a ride!"

Awesome? I think it's so correct. I want to lead that kinda life. With no regrets! and of course, with lots of thrills, bumps and experiences along the way.

Gotta go, have belated orientation tomorrow at the downtown property :)

Cheers,
Amanda

Happy Birthday roomie!

2010-01-19T03:27:00.002+08:00

Today is the 18th. The sun's out and I'm currently typing this entry from the balcony, out in the cold, and yes, bathing in the sun.
Nothing feels better than to bathe in the sun once in a while! I really need the Vitamin D :)

So, today is Joelhey's birthday (yes my roomie!) yea~~ we're celebrating by cooking a feast! Supposedly for our colleagues coming over but somehow I can predict than less than 5 will be here :(

Wanted to watch Avatar today with my colleagues too but one of them last minute can't make it so i'm a little disappointed. Don't know whether the other one will be able to make or not. If not I'll just watch it by myself :(

Work has been... interesting. A group of cosplayers came in and they were dressed in goth and some very revealing clothes - till the extent where i had a guest ask me whether they're having an AV (Adult video) convention. i was like O_O"

So, besides this, there's really nothing much to update now. Oh, hopefully gene will be able come and visit me and teach me how to drive!!! Come gene! I'll bring you to nice places! I promise!

Ok dokes, I'm gona go prepare for lunch now! Tschüss!

Amanda Panda

2010-01-12T13:43:00.002+08:00

So,

Today marks the official 1 month since i've been here. Things are going well, the hotel occupancy is picking up and the weather is still as sucky as ever. Still, I love Seattle. It may not be the MOST happening city in the whole of US, but it has a special charm to it. AND, not to mention I think i can seriously live here for 1.5 years. I could even live forever. Ok, maybe not, coz i'd miss my family and friends too much but seriously, there's so much things to see and do here! The rainforest is awesome and i love exploring olympic national park!

Recent activites i did include:

1. Trip to the famous Twilight town of FORKS, to LA PUSH (where to native wolves are from), to Port Angeles, to the almighty HOR rainforest... and to the pier, where I took the ferry to Bainbridge Island. The ride was awesome, and I could just stare at the sky and sea the whole day. Yes i'd die of hypothermia but hey, the view's awesome. You don't get such views in SG!

I was so glad that Kelvin came by to visit me! Finally I've got friends in town that can accompany me to field trips, to go shopping... but 5 days was over in just a blink of an eye. The farewell was sad and the man who took the last pic at the departure gate said to me: "You're not going?" and when i heard that, i was so upset :( I wana go LA! Kel says the weather is 21 degrees and it's all sunny. WOW. I need sun!!!

Finally, Comcast installed internet and cable tv in my room. Fantastic, now i spend my off days at home resting, eating, sleeping, watching headline news, and surfing the internet. Days pass so fast that i think maybe this 1.5 years will also be over in a blink of an eye!

Besides work, there's nothing else really interesting in my life at this time... I hope there would be. Well i'm sure there are alot more interesting things happening around the world now. I'm still planning how i can make my stay here alot more eventful and filled with itineraries so that by the time i leave i won't have any regrets, unlike the time i spent in swiss. I regret not paragliding nor skiing nor sky diving there. I should've been more daring and taken more initiative!!

Alrighty, time to go for a bathe. After that, it's time to sleep! Work next day at 6.45am. Seriously, who in the hospitality doesn't have dark eye rings? I've got pimples popping out like wild flowers in spring and it's irritating the hell outta me. 5 layers of moisturizers ain't helping! Argh! Maybe someone should send me OXY :)

Have a great you all!
Amanda Panda

New Year Resolutions!

2010-01-01T15:14:00.002+08:00

It has been some time since I last blogged about my happenings. Mainly because I haven't gotten my internet installed and they're only coming on 5th jan. OMG. So I have to live with sucky internet connection that I've been piggy-backing on others for the next few days!

So....

My apartment so far is great!
Got my bills all set up for electricity and gas...next up if for the cable tv and internet! Whee! With the first bill i receive that is under my name, i can apply for the washington ID! Of course, the washington ID is like that of a driving license, it's valid like a passport so when you travel interstate you won't have to bring your passport! :) So convenient!

Work has been real exciting. Oh well, to a certain extent! We've got some serious cases that involved the police as well. Well it's America?! What do you expect? But like I mentioned before, everyone's is real nice and friendly, and i admit i've made quite a number of mistakes...so it's quite embarrassing too :( especially when i'm working at the back as a "at your service agent" and i talk too fast or too incoherently that i can't even understand myself sometimes. ARGH! Need to practise more!

"Good (time of the day), thank you for calling the Seattle Airport Marriott. How may I direct your call?"

Just this sentence is enough to tangle my tongue! O_O

Oh, I've discovered a new hobby of mine - grocery shopping! WHEE!!!! food food and more food!
Seriously, with the money i get, i'm gona spend it most on grocery shopping. Besides, the stuff here are so bloody expensive! I just went to this local japanese supermart called Uwajimaya, and may i say i had to refrain myself from getting a whole bunch of stuff for the following reasons:

1. I have no car
2. The prices are real expensive! (E.g: 1 packet of SHIN Ramen costs USD 1.10) (oh yea, i know it's about the same in Swiss but it's still ex!!!!)

I think I'll wait for kel to come then ask him to rent a car for a day then we can go grocery shopping! muaahahahaah :)

Anyway it's the new years in 30 min and i'm gona wait for my roomie to come home so we can count down together! yea!!!
and I've got work on 1st jan at 6.45AM OMG.

Sigh, this year has been by far the most eventful so far! I've been to... 5 countries in 1 year! and stayed in 2 countries for an extended period of time!

1. Swiss (1st jan - mid jun)
2. Italy (during my stay in swiss)
3. Malaysia (with parents for hols)
4. Taiwan (transit for 4 days before heading to the US)
5. Seattle - Home for the next year and half!

Phew! What a year! Hopefully this year (yes! it's 12.19am now!) will be better!

Take care all,
I wish you all the best and success in this very exciting year!

Amanda Panda

Exciting updates!

2009-12-15T13:49:00.002+08:00

HelllloO~~~~ Ok this is gona be shorter than my previous post. I gotta go bathe and sleep early! Start work at 6.45am in the morning! Actually I love morning shifts, I get to end work early too! :)

So, since my last update, I've....

1. Met my brother at the airport and picked up a 20kg suitcase from him (which contained all my MUST-HAVES) such as instant noodles, fried rice condiments, LKK chilli sauce... blah blah FOOD basically.

2. Met family friend Paul who works at Microsoft (so cool!) and had lunch with his gf @ downtown BOKA restaurant...not bad! They're servings are really HUGE.

3. Walked almost the entire Seattle downtown in an afternoon!!! Well, it's not THAT big, just a lot of uphill and downhills...tiring!

4. Started work on today, Monday and met almost everyone in the hotel. They're sooooo nice and friendly! And! my FO manager is really young too! :) 還真的滿帥的！哈哈~ Actually, so are all my other friendly colleagues, they're a bunch of young hard working people!

5. Got my US number! Thanks to bro who bought the prepaid card for me!

6. Ate dinner at PF Chang's and it was great!!! Not that cheap though, 2 people we ate about 40 USD. Oh well, it's Henry's last night in Seattle, and I will miss him!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST! Lovely brother gave me a COACH xmas edition clutch!!! AWESOME!!! You're the best bro! :) Just don't pinch me so much ok? haha

oh yea, i'll be moving out of the hotel soon so when i get my keys to my apartment i'll update u all on the address!

Cheers and take care all!
Amanda

Times in Taipei and Day 1 in Seattle

2009-12-12T14:07:00.002+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

How should I start this.
I'm tired from the plane journey. From SG - Taipei things were ok. I was kinda bored on the first night. Luckily Scott was able to take off and accompany me go shopping! Yes, we went to the usual places, Ximending, Shilin Night market. Luckily Scott mentioned that there was a place in Wanli for people to paraglide and I was totally excited over it, thinking that I could finally have a chance to paraglide! (since I didn't get to do it in Swiss)

So, while day 2 was spent with Scott and later in the evening my grandparents treated both Scott and I to a TRULY SUMPTUOUS meal at MITSUI Japanese Restaurant. I've never been to such a high class japanese restaurant much less have a 8-course meal which lasted 3 hours! We had....

1. Sashimi platter (ok i didn't have this but i had simmered fresh abalone while Scott & my grandfather had sashimi coz i didn't dare to eat sashimi... so stupid yea?)
2. Fresh Japanese Snow Crab Salad (is it snow crab? Anyway the crab meat was huge and juicy and sweet! Heavenly~
3. Fish liver with Japanese ponzu sauce
4. Freshly fried Ebi Tempura using Live Prawn (hence the entire body could be eaten... the head was especially delicious!)
4. Salt-roasted Crab (AWESOME)... must add a dash of lemon juice!
5. Salt-roasted Fish (EVEN MORE AWESOME!) For those who know me well, you know I hate eating fish. However, this fish is Exceptional! I could eat this for breakfast, lunch and dinner! It has almost no fish bones, no fishy taste, it was tender and flavorful because they used premium japanese sea salt!
6. BBQ Lamb shoulder (Wow, very very juicy, flavoured with Japanese teriyaki sauce, and no weird smell! Thumbs up!)
7. Seafood steamboat with miso base (Fresh seafood, including crab again! WHOO!!!) you could imagine how wonderfully LIGHT and sweet the soup was! AWESOMEEEEEE
8. Dessert, which was Japanese red bean soup (Zenzai) and a slice of Rockmelon

And don't get me wrong, the portions are NOT SMALL. They serve generous portions and their freshness is uncomparable! No wonder they charge so much! What's more interresting was, when Scott and I took a cab there, the driver didn't know the address we said, but the moment we said "Mitsui japanese restaurant" he was like :"Oh! ok i know already". I bet they must be really famous in Taipei! Thanks Ah gong Ah ma! Hugs and Kisses!!!!

3rd Day - Met Aunt who brought me to have lotsa food like Ba-khi, pig's intestine, then xiao long bao for lunch. Wah, so stuffed I thought I would puke on the bus. Later met Scott at noon to travel to Wanli, about 45 min from Taipei main station, and alighted at the foot of the mountain. The paragliding coach came to pick us up in a VERY VERY lok kok van. BELIEVE me, when i say lok kok, it's SO BAD that while he was driving up the mountain, black smoke was coming out of the engines. I was wondering why it suddenly got so smoggy, and there was this awful burnt smell... awwww i thought the van was gona fall apart!!! but it was really quite funny. haha

Ok. Let's get on to the paragliding part. Hey, I'm all for exciting adrenaline pumping activities. BUT, fun does indeed come with a price. In my case, luckily Scott brought the camera and I didn't so he went first, WHICH WAS GOOD, coz if not he would have taken videos and pictures of me PK-ing and dragged literally by the parachute for 20 metres or so. I fell TWICE. First time, I was already running like crazy but somehow the wind pulled the parachute in the wrong direction (either that or I felt the instructor's weight on me too) so as I was running to take off i felt my knees buckle, and then WHAM! I was sweeping through the grass bushes, mud all over my pants. DARN it!

Second time take off. Seriously, What in the world is wrong? Well, in my case, everything could be wrong. The second time my shoe fell out. YES! My Golden Adidas shoe!! (the left shoe, just in case you're curious) And then the same thing happened - I felt my knees buckle as the weight of the parachute was pressing on me and WHAM! second time launch failure. I stayed immobile with my hands grasping onto the long grass for life as we were already on the steepest part of the slope. My instructor's friends all laughed at our misery and my instructor said: "Wah! you're very lucky ah, pay NT1000 but you get to take off 3 times!" and i was like WTF?! Falling twice is NOT counted as taking off at all! I'd rather take off once and pay 1000NT than fall twice! Anyway, when we finally took off on the 3rd time, I no longer felt scared. Instead, I was just sweaty, badly cut by the grass, (yes, about 20 cuts! Serious! visible ones!) and wanting to get the launch over and DONE WITH!

Oh boy, paragliding is fun! but, it's not as exciting as sky diving or taking a rollercoaster, coz you have an instructor with you and you're seated on the straps so it feels that you're more secured than other activities. Or maybe it's coz my adrenaline was all used up coz I fell flat on my face twice.

Overall, the experience was definitely a memorable one. Not one that I would expect though, but if given a chance, I'd try it again. It only took 2 minutes or less to get to the ground (coz the wind wasn't strong...) but I would definitely wana try it in Swiss!

After paragliding and then shopping for a while again at Ximending, I met my cousin at Shilin while Scott visited his grandparents at Gongguan. I do love girls' time together. It's so fun shopping together, buying crazily, eating... and catching up with one another. I bought so much stuff that night! O_O

OK, so on the last day my uncle and aunt brought me to eat chou tou fu and italian pasta, yu yuan, etc. and it would be so tiring to list down everything! I'm badly deprived of sleep. Why? Continue reading....

So, for my flight from Taipei to Seattle, I was seated next to a Vietnamese elderly couple. I smiled to them, thinking it's nice to be friendly since we're gona be sitting next to one another for the next 11 hours. To my utter horror, the woman who sat next to me (ok, not very elderly, around 50s) stuck her foot right up to the seat infront, in plain sight of me! Worse still, she'd extend her feet to my area and she already has much more space than I do! :(

Then, 4 hours into the flight I felt a sudden nudge. I was asleep and opened my eyes, and found the old man seated inside trying to cross my seat with his leg already on top of mine! OH MY! imagine the horror! At least you could have the courtesy to wake me up and tell me you wana go out, not try to attempt acrobatic tricks when you're already 60 and putting your entire leg on someone else's!!!

Sigh, and every time I was trying to sleep the lady next to me would suddenly extend her legs to my area (hey, she's like 155cm! and I'm like 175cm!) who needs more leg room! YOU tell me!

Oh well, customs at Seattle was soooo tedious. You have to claim your luggage twice! ARGH! Let me explain.

After your alight from the plane, you head over to immigration counter, where there is a whole bunch of people waiting for their turn. Thankfully I'm holding Canadian passport so I get to queue with the US citizens. Still, it was quite a wait! Then, after i passed through the immigration, I had to go down and collect my luggage, go through customs (they wana make sure you aren't bringing in plants, meat, seeds...) and THEN! you go out, deposit your luggage at the belt OUTSIDE AGAIN! and then take a shuttle train to outside, where you finally collect your lugagge. Poor Joelhey, she waited for 2 hours to pick me up... thanks Joelhey, you've been such a great help!

At the hotel I met a few staff including the front office manager Phllip who assigned me to my double bed room 590 and it's great. We eat for free here and we headed off to the kitchen where he nicely asked the chef to make Joelhey and me each a Turkey club sandwich. Oh my, it was delicious! and HUGE!

Apparently according to joelhey, I'll be working at both the Marriott hotel (near the airport) and the other one in the city, called the Marriott Waterfront (yes, it's next to the sea! whee!) and what's more....you get staff rate if you were to stay over!
usually staff pay 59 USD ++ for ANY MARRIOTT hotel they stay at all over the world. However, due to the recession now, Joelhey says staff only need to pay half of the usual price! YES!!! That means 30 USD for ANY marriott hotel ALL OVER THE WORLD!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! NEW YORK here i come!!! i'm gona stay in as many marriott hotels as i possibly can while i'm here! :)

Ok, I'm tired. I need to bathe and catch a GOOD LONG sleep. Thank you for reading this lengthy post. Hope I've enlightened you on my happenings!

Love,
Amanda

Updates

2009-09-27T00:26:00.002+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

Whee! New updates! Finally.

1. Went ECP to cycle with Da jie, Winnie and Luca. Had tons of fun!

2. Brough Octa and Bro Tias around Singapore for some fun and yes! we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly! Also met up with sher, bob, yong yi, seng.. glad that everyone is well and had fun! although seng and yy keep eating and drinking and didn't play at all -_-

3. Went with Nat, lili and xj to sing @ Cash studios - FUN FUN FUN! I love finding all my fav japanese songs!

4. Got the job at Seattle Marriott! WHEE!!! HOWEVER, it's taking some time to process... so i'm scraping by with whatever i get from allowance at the mean time.

5. Jas is going to start work on Mon. HATE IT! Gona be needy when it comes to finding a bestie to accompany me!

6. Ray's started his own brand of T-shirt! FANTASTIC! way to go bro!

7. Winnie's having the time of her life working tons of OTs and experiencing the high society by mingling with the high-ups at the F1 event.

8. Da jie's busy with her free-lancing atm,

9. Luca started his job at Pan pacific i hope he's doing well!

10. Oh ya i'm back from Langkawi and IT WAS FABULOUS! Love the beach, the sand, the serenity...

11. Mr Currie's coming to town! YEAH! catching up with him most likely on Tues (29th sep) People who can make it pls rsvp me or hwee lin

12. Having German Start 1 Exam in 1 week. Nervous! Finally can get the official cert! Ich liebe Deutsch!

13. Missing Vian! (Will send her goodie bag parcel on monday!)

14. Registered for JLPT 2 exam in Seattle and in Singapore. Hope to make it to either one!

15. Grew fat munching at snacks and watching Smallville and other nonsense at home. (NEED TO PLAY MORE TENNIS!)

16. Wants to go back to Taiwan for a couple of weeks in Oct/Nov. Anyone interested to join? (TBC)

17. Wants to go on a trip to KL with jas! (when is that gona happen darling? leme see... mid oct? During Deepavali week? but it's gona be crowded!!! and the roads are gona be JAMMED.

Ya, that should be all for now.
Thanks for reading!

Manda :)

Some soul-searching

2009-08-25T21:12:00.000+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

Been doing some active soul-searching recently.

Been jobless for 2 months since I returned. Really hope that US stint works out.

Sometimes I feel...lonely I'd say. You reach this age when you see everyone progressing well, either with their studies or with their work...some with their relationships, you feel happy, yet filled with envy at the same time.

One thing I'm glad is that I have finally decided to make the initiative, to contact my classmates from Swiss that I've, somehow, fell out with over the time I was in Swiss. You see, the you adapt to the environment, not the environment adapts to fit you. Perhaps that was why I must confess, my personality had a slight change during the time I was there, and perhaps, that was why all the gossips and non-stop bitching finally drew the line between my classmates and I.

You see, recently I talked to Sher and told her about how sorry I was to have did things that made her upset. It made me upset too. I was childish and unprofessional. But some things are just beyond reconciliation. I believe that even after bits and pieces of the broken vase have been glued, cracks still remain. Still, I was glad to have made the effort to talk things out. Fortunately, she was nice about it.

Another thing I felt immensely insecure and slightly upset is...my relationship status.

Yes I think I'm most likely going to marry the first person I go out with.

Haha. What makes me say that?

Please. I'm 23. I have friends who are married. FRIENDS. not FRIEND. Plural! That means many! and of course, many are happily attached and some have been engaged, some are on the path to marriage, some...just dating seriously. Oh come on, where are all the rotten plum flowers (translated from chinese) I'm supposed to meet? Never mind about that. All the incessant watching of romance flicks aren't helping. Still, there's absolutely no harm in believing in true love! I proclaim true love to be righteous!!! and...happens once in a million years. RIGHT. I need to wake up. Hello? Miss Dreamy, I really need some Mcsteamy here!

Still, I love to lend a listening ear. I love to hear people's problems and talk to them. Perhaps I should have been a psychologist! I think helping people by listening to their problems and giving probable solutions give me great satisfaction. It really does seem I'm acting like a mother to all my little lovely cubs!

Nonetheless, I shall not fret about being jobless, being lonely, being down and all that negative stuff. I believe in optimism. I believe in my abilities. I believe I can do great things!

Therefore, I shall continue to believe in me.

I shall prevail! and of course, hope for certain miracles to happen!

Carpe Diem (used excessively, but nonetheless very descriptive of my situation),

Seize the day! :)

Cheers to all and have a nice day!

3 weeks since i got back...

2009-07-15T11:15:00.003+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

It's been 3 weeks since I returned from Swiss. Everything seems to have gone back to normal again. While dealing with unemployment and constant nagging from my mom, I can't help but wish to go back to the times when studying was my mine priority. Like wise men say, savour your studying years, because once you step into the working society, you'd wish you were back being a student again.

So, now I'm currently "helping" my dad in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh. Ok I admit I have not helped much, (ok none, actually) since I arrived on Saturday. I have been, and I confess, loafing at my dad's apartment, watching soapy heart-wrenching movies such as Sense and Sensibility, getting all hyped up and goo-gooing over Alan Rickman (who by the way is like 60 years old already!), watching Ugly Betty, still salivating over nerdy character "Henry" (as portrayed by Christopher Gorham), watching stupid Superman spinoff Smallville, and eating away 2000 (or more) carbs everyday that seem to have taken a liking into settling on my tummy.

So it seems that my career is put on hiatus until notice from either one of the 100s of companies that I sent resume to. Perhaps it's time I send them convincing letters that probably should start with:

"Dear company staff,

Please stop wasting our time. Please just make up your mind already and send me the bl**dy contract!"

Yours sincerely,

A -man - outofjob-da

Seriously? Yes, seriously. Fresh grads like us are feeling the pinch! with no job, how can i go japan in in sep?! airfares are ridiculously cheap! ANA is offering SGD482.00 2-way! taxes included already!!! but the catch is min. 2 travelling people -_-

anyway, no job = no travel = boredom = sian-ness = auto-destruction of amanda.

Sigh.
I need to get a life!! Stop day-dreaming about gorgeous men!

No. I need to get a job first.

A JOB!!!!!!!!

Jobless but still travelling!

2009-07-06T16:04:00.002+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

Sigh. Monday blues. H1N1. I just bought N95 masks today! $3 per mask! so expensive please. But then again, i'm so kiasee, i think my health is definitely worth it!

so, haven't gotten a job yet since graduation, but still around for oportunities.... Maldives and Vietnam seem like nice places to establish my ground! The downside is that these places pay us graduates extremely poor wages... (like USD 350 for trainees and USD700 for full-timers! OMG!)

Well.. i'll be off to Ho Chi Minh on the 11th and back on the 17th... then perhaps to KL in Aug for the national day holidays... (I really wanted to go Bintan or KK! *sad*) then... hopefully China in oct and then hopefully taiwan in dec.... but now, these are just plans... hoping dad and mom will finalise the schedule.

Ahhh.. i miss Vian! Da jie!!! Joce! Azmi! Come back soon! I'm sure i'll feed vian jiang like a piggy when she returns! make da jie and her put on like 10 kg each! muahahaha eat until they LST. (lao sai tor) lol.

alrighty, need to get back to clearing CDS!!! anyone interested in er... some old music cds? FREE!!! :)

Mandy

2009-07-06T16:03:00.003+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

Long time no post! Ahem* Now for some random test i did this afternoon.... here's my personality.

oh well, i think it's pretty accurate!

ESFJ - "Seller". Most sociable of all types. Nurturer of harmony. Outstanding host or hostesses. 12.3% of total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

2009-06-01T18:53:00.001+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

LOVE STORY (Taylor Swift) meets VIVA LA VIDA (Coldplay)- piano/cello - JON SCHMIDT (purchase mp3 at http://www.jonschmidt.com)

SEHR NICE!!!!!!!!

Random thoughts and self reflection

2009-04-24T08:07:00.005+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

Here I am, with the 2nd post, writing at 2.07am in Luzern. I was just having a chat with a friend who had problems with her room mate, and I must say I did some self reflection after speaking to her and understanding more about the situation.

Firstly, I understand all humans are different. We have different lifestyles and habits that may be hard to change and perhaps may be hard to accept for others. It is hard to change first impressions, and even harder to change yourself, to admit your mistakes and to apologise. Kudos to those who do have the courage to admit and repent.

Secondly, friends are the second most important thing to me in my life after my family. Who can survive without friends? I sure do not know of anyone who can! Life is all about new experiences, socialising, enjoying and sharing your joy with others. I can hardly imagine how it feels like to be ostracised. Kudos once again, to those who have suffered and yet stayed strong during those turbulent times.

Thirdly, I was really surprised with myself for opening up and talking to a certain lady whom I thought was forever going to ignore my existence due to a particular unfortunate event. Personally I admit I don't let go of grudges easily, and neither does my anger appease easily. However, with the coming of age (yes, I admit I am turning older), I realise the importance to forgive and forget. Somethings people say, are best meant to be forgotten. Perhaps it's about time I truly judge a book by its content, and not it's cover. I am beginning to understand the meaning of "better friend than foe".

Lastly, I'm a nervous wreck just thinking about my trip to Interlaken tomorrow for my in-training interview. With feedbacks from seniors I realise that I already have perceptions of how the place and experience would be like - which is tiring and challenging. I was surprised to be offered a job as a receptionist, because I can hardly converse more than 5 sentences in german! Then again, I do very much appreciate this job offer and I hope this is what I am looking for because seriously, jobs don't come by often in dire times like this, with the recession looming and unemployment rate going up.

Well, time for bed. Self reflection has been fruitful today. Still, repentance is necessary. I spent 100+ SFr on shopping for clothes with my close buddies! Oh no! All the money from the part time job.. *poof!* and gone within 3 hours. However, It's nice to know you're appreciated. It's even better to know that you have friends in the world who miss and care for you, and that you're not the least bit forgotten. You know who you are! Thank you darlings!

May I fall asleep within 2 minutes of lying on the bed,
Amanda

First post since 2007!

2009-04-08T05:55:00.002+08:00

Vuitton's blabberings of the day:

Dear all,

Thanks to Miss Swarovski aka Vian, my blog is back on track with new amendments to the layout! yeah! no more *toot* layouts and old-school formats! The pic on top is still a little dodgy tho... we all look so.... fat.. and short.

ok. first comment of the day.

Sehr Glücklich!!! (very happy!)

why? wrote 1000 words in a day. so my chap 3 has like 200-300 words more to go if i can squeeze anything else into it...

second thought:
Marketing's over! darned happy please. it was an awful journey. I'm not sure if i will score well in the exam... i hope i do. but first i'm praying that we're not the group which failed the paired work due to plagiarism.

third random thought:
yea! we're having maggi later.. say in 15 minutes! and it's 12am now!
if my mom was here, i'd be dead meat, sent for liposuction and an eternal lecture on "WHY YOU SHOULD NOT EAT AFTER 9PM"

fourth thought:
Thank you so much jasmine dear. i was soooooo glad to receive your parcel! thought i'd been forgotten.... i shall treasure the hello pandas with utmost care and eat them sparingly!! luckily it's dry and cool here so no worries about the cookies getting mouldy!

fifth thought:
Thank you Red Kitchen group! Although you guys pissed me off at times, we still pulled through and we scored an A for our action plan! thank you for your co-operation! Now we just have to show them what we've got on our execution date! fighting!!

sixth & last thought of the day:
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SEND ME 可樂果?! I am missing the snack terribly. Perhaps i shall pester my cousin tomorrow. heh. what a devil.

Well then, time to go cook some hot water for our precious noodles!

oh my god, i just totally forgot that i lost like 30 strands of hair a moment ago while showering. I can see it... i'm not only turning into a live mummy, i'm gona be bald before my 23rd birthday! !@£$%^&*~

Mom, send me instant porridge soon!!!!

Love,
Mandy

2007-11-15T14:44:00.001+08:00

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2007-08-26T15:47:00.001+08:00

You are The Lovers

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.

The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.

Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that's actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.

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What an asshole!

2007-07-31T14:40:00.000+08:00

Someone deserves a beating.

But i'd rather he be sacked.

ASSHOLE.

Some updates...

2007-07-18T17:32:00.000+08:00

This is becoming my bi-monthly update blog. Simply too lazy to do anything about it. Well, here are some updates in my life that occurred not too far in the past.

8th Jul - Won 2nd prize in the National Japanese Speaking Contest (woohoo!)LCD TV!

10th Jul - School started at Hartford Institute

Basically, school started and i WAS psyched. However, 2nd week into school term and i'm getting tired. I guess i'm just not used to the schedule. Although it may seem like a slack, the lessons are 3 hours straight! What's worse is having a lecturer that has an accent that less than 1/3 the class can understand. Hope this 3 month period will be smooth sailing...

Hmm... My classmates come mainly from S.E Asia and so far most of my friends are from Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam, India and Ukraine. It's wonderful making friends of different nationality coz' you get to broaden your contacts. Also, I get complimented alot on my English (HA HA) coz' they don't speak it that well.

Daily trips to Bugis is just so tiring. The journey takes 45 min and i have to do so twice a day! The total time adds up to 1.5 hours and that's like half my lesson time already. Luckily i'm only taking 1 semester. I seriously am considering SIM after my semester here.

Today, someone popped the question: 'Hey Amanda, are you attached?' and i was like '... No...' Hah, and my goodness was she surprised. Apparently, in my school most of the students are attached. (Ok, my bad for not having a bf) Not that i mind but suddenly she just reminded me of my biological clock - NO i don't a baby now but hey, perhaps it's time to go looking for a bf. Like my friend says, i should be the initiator. Hah. Since when am i the type to initiate to guys? That's something to think about eh?

Which brings me to the topic of very droolicious caucasian hunks. Yesterday (tues) while i was taking the mrt home, I saw (and BUMPED) into this UBER HOT caucasian. Honestly, 1 look at him and i thought my eyeballs would pop right out of my socket and not to mention i would die of a nose hemorrhage. I actually smiled STUPIDLY to myself for accidentally bumping into his shoulders (awww those delicious shoulders) *faints* Gosh, yijia tells me i will see one like that again and jas tells me that i'm crazy but hey! I think i'll never see him again and that makes me soooo depressed. Somebody, please CHEER me up!!!

Ok, i miss my poly friends, my sec sch friends and jas. Luckily darling jas is coming over to have dinner with me and make me more lively. Not to mention being my pin slave. HEH HEH. gomen ne, yan chan!

Well, time to go take a nap! can't guarantee when i'll blog again but hopefully soon!

Adios.

Deepest Fear

2007-06-27T21:34:00.000+08:00

I've found my deepest fear - and i am unable to face it.

Am i going through a phase now?

I love my Friends.

2007-06-22T00:29:00.001+08:00

Wow, it's a little late to be blogging i understand. 12.30am is not what i'd exactly call a perfect timing for my type writing skills.

Just had a hearty talk with kareeny and jia. I must say, with age i tend to be more talkative. I love hanging out with these gals. I love talking, I love gossiping. And what's more - I love piggy out and chatting at the same time.

Call it our girls' gathering or pig out day or whatever, but i really treasure such outings. Sometimes feelings build up inside of you and you just want someone to listen to you, to understand the situation... i find it so necessary to express my feelings.

Friends - they can either be your ones you cherish for life or the ones you just happen to meet and pass. I totally agree with jia that friendship requires both sides to put in effort, especially if you want to maintain it. To me, friends are just as important as my comp, my money, my bed.. haha strange relations but hey! They ARE NECESSITIES. I need them to survive!! But yea, there comes a time when we all need to take a break and think back on what we have done.

Many cracks appear in friendships that arise from the smallest matter that builds up slowly and finally erupts into an irreversible catastrophe. Ok, maybe i'm exaggerating a little - heh. Catastrophe. paiseh, perhaps disaster?

Sigh, how i'd love to hang out with my friends and foster better relationships with them! i miss them already. But, being the best of pals also means you gotta keep ur distance. By that i mean don't meet up too often! you get frictions and all that sorta nincompoopy crap and fights over the darnest things. Take things slowly, take em' easily. And remember to reciprocate other's good wills and feelings. It'll definitely be a worthwhile.

Time for beauty sleep yet again.
Good night my darling pals~

P.S: Jas, we really gotta meet again sometime soon yea!

life up till now

2007-06-04T23:42:00.000+08:00

Blogging is tiresome. But sometimes its a good way to escape from the things in life and write about all sorts of things in your mind.

Recently quite alot of things have happened since i came back from my trip. Honestly i wished i could've stayed in taiwan forever and never come back. Then again, i remembered that i have unfinished business here. what a drag.

My poly friends and i have decided on going separate paths. this is inevitable, since we all have our interests. i kinda miss school already - those days where we would just care about going home to sleep, making a ruckus, enjoying our breaks - i feel old! 21 years is quite something. finally after such a long period of time i am finally turning 21. like my pri sch friend says: " feels like a huge wave of responsibility " and i totally believe so. 2 more months, till this wave finds its way to me. wow.

Gosh i can't wait to meet new friends in hartford. i want to graduate quickly, if possible get a masters even. to think of the opportunities and possibilities that can happen in the future, gets me all excited inside.

but first, let's hope i make it thru to the finals of the japanese speech contest. i REALLY want that trip to japan. haha!

feels great to have written so much since my last post.

ahhhh~

birthday and star struck day

2007-04-08T18:54:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

GOSH. so many things to report. let's start with my grandma's birthday. Yesterday at my grandma's birthday we had to dress really fancy and posh so i wore my boots, jeans, wool jacket and also beads.. bro said i look very "song biang biang" heh heh well niwaez, my grandma invited 100 over guests and as i was seated at the main table with them, we had to go from table to table to thank guests and drink with them. then there was a guy who kept filming all of us so hahaha i was trying my very best to act demure!

Dinner consisted of 12 dishes and i have to say vegetarian food is really quite oily. despite having no meat, the chefs were brilliant at making fake sharks fin soup, fake abalone, fake sea cucumber.. blah blah..

As for entertainment we sang 3 songs for my grandma and we recorded our well wishing in front of the camera family by family. she was overjoyed and so was i.. until i heard the price for the entire dinner costed her about 5000 sing dollars -_- like OMG.

OK. now to the next interesting topic. Today, on the 8th apr, while i was on my way from taipei to taichung, we sat the high speed rail (taiwan's new train that resembled japan's shinkansen) and luckily for us my parents got us business class seats! woohoo! so happy and it was sooo spacious.

Guess what. Seating RIGHT IN FRONT of us was HO YEOW SUN and her kid and just a couple of seats further in front was milk from energy! hmm i think they were touring together... niwaez my bro and i approached the 2 of them for pics and they gladly obliged... although milk's manager was not as enthusiastic about letting me take a pic with him -_- hehe shall post the pics up when i return! WOOHOO! hehehe and we talked with ho yeow sun for a while before returning to our seats and bro was smiling throughout the journey.
(fyi my bro attends church at city harvest and the pastor there is ho yeow sun's husband that's why he was so enthusiastic...)

well well.. so much for a star struck day. Hopefully in this journey or the next we can get to see other taiwan artists! yea yea! heheh

time to go bathe. ciao!

Amanda

day 4

2007-04-06T23:00:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

i skipped day 3. coz i spent the ENTIRE day at home. ultimate boredness please. because yesterday was taiwan's national tomb sweeping day, we had tons of relatives who came by to pay respects to the ancestors and also have lunch with the family. I saw my cousins after soo long! fang jie and hao wei. gosh both of them are so tall now! and they play the cello and the violin respectively. cool man.. i was about to hao lian about my piano skills too! but too paiseh...

niwaez, so let's carry on with day 4. Today we had our family photo taking session at this really cool boutique called SOPHIA. this shop is so famous because they were the ones who took the president's daughter's wedding pictures (yea yea chen shui bian's daughter's wedding pics..)

My make up was done by my aunt who turned me into a geisha (not in a good sense according to my dad) hahaha but i was kinda satisfied with it except the foundation powder which i found it to be very irritating! haha and oh, u won't believe it! they made me took individual shots so they can make it into those sorta OMIAI (arranged marriage) pictures where you hand one party's picture over to the other side for consideration.. LOL i felt really weird having take all those individual shots.. well we'll see how it turns out to be!

dinner was at this seafood restaurant and it wasn't that too bad i was sooooo looking forward to eating gyoza and all those small taiwan eatery! T_T and i didn't get to eat my pudding today! argh gonna eat 2 of it tmr!

btw i have bloody mosquitoes bugging me now so i gtg!

cheerios!
Amanda

day 2 of taiwan

2007-04-04T22:57:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

2 Ulcers. that's what i am suffering from now. Painful, gross and unsightly. Sigh, how am i gona eat all the fried stuff like "chou dou fu", "zha ji pai" and "tian bu la"?? so sad.

niwaes, today we had breakfast at the shop near our place. i had "chong you bing" (fried onion pastry) and soy bean milk while mom had "jiu chai he zi" (chives bun) with salted soy bean milk (btw salted soy bean milk tastes marvellous!)

ah, got my IC done today. To think i look so mature in the pic.. and a beautiful girl at that too (heh, self indulging now.) but the butt is so big it can crush a fire engine truck. -_-

for lunch - we wanted to have something simple but grandma insisted that we have lunch at this really posh fancy restaurant and both my bro and i didn't know what to order coz the dishes were all so fancy and ex and not at all suitable for us. but somehow we managed to finish lunch soon so we headed out to SOGO to shop and mom got something fancy for herself! very very nice and ex tho. -_-
*note to all frens going taiwan: sogo is like takashimaya and the clothes they sell there are freaking expensive pls. so if u're looking for bargains, go to the night market intstead!

the entire afternoon was spent at the SOGO shopping and drinking coffee. Then for dinner we went to Shilin night market where we had some noodles and i drank this real delicious bitter gourd drink with honey. The sad thing is, alot of the gashapon shops we saw the other time were all gone and replaced with shops selling clothes and other accessories. there were so many people and we had difficulty trying to walk through the crowd!! i guess it's becoz tmr onwards there is a 4-day holiday coz tmr is the annual tomb sweeping day..

ok. nothing much already and tmr i gotta entertain some other family members coming back to the main house for lunch so it's cheerios now.

jya.
Amanda

In Taiwan

2007-04-03T22:43:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Hmm. Taiwan. I haven't been back since 2005 and its looking good, despite the poor weather recently. Almost freezed my butt off this evening with temperatures as low as 15 bloody degrees! Forgot my sweat pants, now wearing grannie's sweat pants and shirt (no joke!) so i'm looking like an auntie. HAH, how real.

One thing i was quite surprised - the queen size bed disappeared from the room! OMFG! yijia are u reading this? this means we have to think of another sleeping format!

Ate mee suah for dinner today. Lovely and delightful. Promised grandma i would eat 5 bowls of it but heh i only ate 2 1/2 bowls + soup + veggies blah blah and of course to top it off for dessert, i ate the "tong-yi" egg pudding! yup, the super BIG one. *grunts and snorts* now i'm so happy and contented!

Another serious thing i would like to fret and be pissed about. Of all days, my strawberry jam had to arrive today! !@#$%^&* and it hurts quite alot so hopefully a few of those ibuprofen pills can subside the blardy pain. but the pudding did its job in making me quite satisfied already. *grins widely*

Tmr i will be going to make my taiwan IC (hah, finally, after 21 years i have something to prove i am taiwanese besides the passport), following by shopping area the town area and eating at some fancy restaurant as suggested by my grandma.

Before i leave and go watch some nice tele movies/shows, leme kiss u all goodbye and goodnight as well

I better hurry coz my bro says we are leeching the neighbour's internet and i told him its illegal but he says we're not in sg but in taiwan so it's ok. LOL what nonsense.

cya!
Amanda

long time no blog.

2007-03-28T00:32:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

YO YO!! been er... quite some time since i last blogged. thot i was gona demolish this blog.. you see, maintaining a blog is so hard! and i can't really be bothered to go repeat stuff that's happened because the excitement is gone. bah, anywayz, here's some updates to my life now.

>graduated from ngee ann poly already

>applying for SIM's hotel management and tourism degree

>worked for 12 days @ science centre for mindfest (love and hate kids now)

>still working at penang place (never get sick of the food hence the wobbly fats still remain)

>going to taiwan on 3rd april for granny's bdae party

>going to tioman with poly frens on 16th april

>going to taiwan (AGAIN) with frens on 30th april

so you see, my life ain't that bad, considering i do earn what i spend. honestly, after u start working u realise that money ain't easy to get. one lunch/dinner in town and POOF! all goes down ur tummy. worse still, spend on junk stuff (ya ya.. my anime stuff) and a few days of work seem to have gone down somewhere.

ahhh i miss jasmine! haven't had lunch with her for so long. ARGH. my mom keeps nagging at me to get my study room cleaned up. i must admit it looks as if hurricane amanda just went passed and things are strewn everywhere around. also, they (my parents) threatened to throw all my precious anime stuff into the black rubbish bag or donate it! OMG.

Oh, right. About my luck this year. firstly, i must beware of my assets (not physically la! u sicko) it's my wealth. a very accurate reader said that i must be careful of what i spend on this year... and also i'll make tons of friends; males esp (true!) and i must MUST MUST be careful of a *rotten plum flower* LOL literally translated from chinese.. lan4 tao2 hua1 haha saying that i might have a relationship but it'll turn sour so i should beware. sigh.. jas! she has a bf! OMG so cool... like 3 months liao wor.. hope they stay loving n sweet!

okie, time to go zzz. tmr another day at PP.. celebrating debbie and leonard's bdae. need all the sleep i can get to tackle the customers. some of them deserve a spanking man! ROARSSSSS!!!

tata.

No longer afraid

2006-11-23T23:40:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Hey guys. It's been a while. Some news for you all - I have decided NOT to further my studies in the mean time. Plans for the future? Plenty. Right now i feel so relieved that i have seen the light at the end of the tunnel.

Thank you dad.

Thank you mom.

Thank you!

bangkok and vietnam

2006-08-31T15:30:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Yea, so i'm updating this blog again. Well it's school holidays now and everyone's starting to rush their FYP, and the same goes for me. I have to say, i have never travelled so many countries in 1 year before. This year alone, i went to UK for attachment for 3.5 months, then to Bangkok for my birthday, then to Ho chi Minh, Vietnam after my exams. Soon, i'll be going to Osaka Japan for exchange programme for 2 weeks. Fun fun fun! yea not to mention the amount of monney i will be spending there... -_-"

Then, when my grandparents come from Taiwan in dec, i expect we'll be going overseas again to celebrate christmas or something. so, there u go, 5th country in a year! woohoo!

Yawns,all that much fun and i am stuck in a office now helping my mom answer phone calls coz' one of the ladies got stomach flu/food poisoning. well, hope she gets better too coz the office is pretty hectic w/o her!

Just a side note, i dun ever think i am capable of doing office job coz' sitting here for a mere 30 min is already enough to bore me to the core!

Well, i need to go stone for a bit and wait for my next phone call!

Till the next update, buai buai

A BIG THANK-YOU

2006-08-15T22:19:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

hEYA everyone! it's exactly 2 months since i last updated. First of all, i'd like to thank everyone for making my 20th birthday so memorable.

Thank you ma and pa for bringing me to Thailand to relieve some stress from the exams, supporting me this year by funding me for the UK attachment. You know i owe you so much.

Thank you bro for all the trouble you've gone thru to re-route my flight. You've been a really supportive and helpful bro and i know i should really cherish you more.

Thank you Jasmine and Kaijun for the wonderful lunch at Tonkichi. It was so great catching up with you guys. Sometimes i really just wana have a great meal and relax and chat so much until my jaws drop. I have been treated like a princess by you guys. Thanks so much!

Thank you my gong wan kia yijia for organising my bdae dinner and ALL my classmates - val, gdine, kar, ricky, roy, ben, yvette, e-ping, aaron, jason - who pooled in to get me a wonderful necklace, "balls for her" soap, ear-rings and a notebook. Yes some of you did rip me off for the dessert but hey, i didn't mind one bit at that. haha you guys rock and i can bearly contain myself with gratitude.

Thank you to Chris who decided to give me the $60 HG toy as a 5-year birthday gift! LOL you really are something aren't ya! hahaha Thanks alot man! i had fun with it! FuuU~!!

Thank you my cousins who msged me and wished me happy birthday and asked me out. I'll get back to you guys SOON!! ^_^

Thank you Aunty Sharon and Uncle Ong for your generous ang pao!

And last but not least, all those who have sincerely wished me happy birthday!

Thank you, this was one of the best birthdays ever. Now i can't wait for my 21st! see you all at the hotel! HAHAHAHA (I'm planning to have it at Ritz Carlton... so maybe you guys wana start donating to my fund...)

Gtg study for the remaining 2 papers! Take care and i'll update soon!

Amanda *(^_^)*

going home.

2006-06-15T23:22:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Home. Home is where i belong. Yes indeed. In an blink of an eye, 3 1/2 months have passed me by. I remember the day when i started work, i was walking to school, thinking, "oh man, 3.5 months more!" Now, with just only 3 days left, i start to feel nostalgic already.

To be quite exact, i'm rather attached to this place as far as i know. I like the environment; the people are quite nice too. However to bloody darn expensive. Also, after 6pm, you'd be stoning at home wondering what you're gona do, and i'm just not the kind of 'bar' person so i end up going to BlockBuster most of the time, renting movies and laughing myself silly back at dorm.

I miss life back in sg. I miss my friends, my family, and home... and oh, my BED!!! i have taken you for granted!!! *rolls around*

Today my lab people gave me a farewell lunch party. We ate at the Marquis and coincidentally Yvette's lab mates also held her farewell lunch there. Hah. Well Dr. Julie treated me lunch; which was burger n onions, as well as a pint of coke. Everyone in the lab shared a present for me too. They gave me a univ. of leicester mug and shirt! awww i was soooo touched! i actually wanted to buy that from the student union shop but it was too ex (like both cost £20! like SGD60...) sigh.... i'm so blessed.

Mom, Dad, Henry, and all my friends, i look forward to meeting you all again soon.

Love,
Amanda

movie marathon

2006-05-31T22:22:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Ok i am back again! well this few days i have been watching so many movies! i spent so much money just renting movies from blockbuster alone.. hehe well i can't believe i rented ALADDIN to watch -_- i am so deprived.. well it was nice though... and i borrowed several films from my friends to watch... 90% i have watched b4 but just to refresh my memory i watched them again...

niwaez, i also watched TROY and oh my goodness you guys, those who haven't watched, please go watch! brad pitt is utterly hot inside please. his muscles and his features look extraordinary inside the film... must be the effects... and the make up.. hehe eric bana looked slightly less handsome than brad pitt.. hehe i am biased man! orlando bloom? forget about him... that wimp! in the show of course.. i just don't know why i prefer him in lord of the rings....

ok watched mission impossible III in a run down cinema in city centre and it cost me £3... like roughly SGD9 and that is considered CHEAP ok.. like real cheap. but OMGAWD when the movie started everything was blurry!! they didn't focus the screen porperly and the seats were so uncomfortable. the floor was sticky and when i lifted my legs to shift them abit it was like *splat* the squishy sound my wadever was there on the floor sticking to my boots... URGH...

So MI3 was not that bad... but me and my friends sorta laughed when tom cruise died and then was revived when his wife banged him so hard on the chest.... we actually laughed... how evil. oh yea, not to mention did u guys realise his reel wife sorta looks like katie holmes.. and all my friends agree lo... so hmmm

then yesterday i watched the DaVinCi Code.... seriously, i think the book would be better. The film was not as good as i thought it would be... instead i thought of it as boring! i wish i read the book instead.. but i'll read it soon... argh... wasted £5... tt's so bloody ex... and the bus fare was another £2.40 oh man... so stressed... i am spending so much here i wish i had the capabilities to earn back 3 times the amount i spent to return my mom!

well i'm so tired and i'm gona go back soon to my dorm and sleep and eat and watch more films. btw, clubbox is cool and it keeps me entertained. heh

P.s: KIM JUNG HOON is so hot!!! ^¬^ (drools)

cheers
Amanda

braveheart

2006-05-26T16:59:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Just yesterday i watched Braveheart. I was quite sure i watched it before but i can't remember the story. If i didn't go to Edinburgh (mind you, it's pronounced as 'Edinbura') i wouldn't at all be interested in William Wallace. Oh sorry, it's Sir William Wallace. He was the hero of Scotland. The true leader. I was wondering why there were so many places selling his items or people dressing up as him, offering to take pictures with tourists - but now i know why. After i watched Braveheart, i cried so much it turned into sobbing. Ok it wasn't wicked sobbing but like mild sobbing coz' i'm such a sucker for heroic films. Not to mention the music, by James Horner was soooooo inspiring.

*Note* Bro, i remember you have the OST for it so lend me!!!

Ah, for those of you who haven't watched it, here's a movie synopsis i grabbed from Bryce Summerell (emo.reunion)

The movie begins in the small town of Elderslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William's father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the English and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a English guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city's and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace's death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland's freedom. [Editors note] Original writing by poster stated that Wallace went against "The British". This is factually incorrect as the term "British" refers to the people of the Island Britain. Scotland is the northern half of Britain with England and Wales sharing the lower half. I have changed this accordingly to reflect that Wallace and Scotland were at war with England or more factually correct, the english crown.

Right, do you realise that most of the war films have the English portrayed as the evil side? (eg, braveheart, the patriot) haha i don't know whether history really portrayed the English as ruthless people wanting to conquer foreign lands, but the movies sure did. Anyway, i believe Braveheart is indeed one of the nest films i've ever watched so if you have the time, go rent one to watch, or maybe buy the vcd or something (it's worth it!!)

well, gtg and do my biofilm plates.

cheers
Amanda

week 11

2006-05-19T18:58:00.000+08:00

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This is based on a real story.

It's been a while since i blogged. Either i don't have the time or i simply didn't want to blog. Well, now i've the time, let me depict this story to you. It's real, and i feel so sorry for the main character. Rest assured, she's much better now.

During my 11 weeks stay at Mary Gee Houses in Leicester, I've met and made many friends. Amongst my friends i have french girls, swedish, german, hungarian etc. This story is about my french friend, whose name i had better not reveal. You see, she was this nice, sociable and engaging 23 year old undergrad studying English here in the UK. What's sad is that she's in love with this guy, my other french friend's friend back in France. She's always had this thing for asian guys, and this french-cambodian guy she liked happen to like her as well - well her body only, unfortunately. My friend, being all devoted and in love with him, decided that if she couldn't get his heart, she would get his body instead. Hence, she had sex with him even though he made it clear he didn't love her.

Having sex with the person you love is very important. Well at least that's the case for most girls yea? When she confided in me, i felt so angry, not only at him, but at her for allowing her body to be used by him. No matter how much you love a man, there's a limit to that and what you should do to get him. And how shameless of the guy, to have the guts to tell my friend straight in the face that he prefered asian girls and and his ideal date would be to drive an asian girl out and have fun. I cannot imagine how hurt my french friend felt when she heard it.

I tried to convince her, i rally did, to stop having sex with him but she was so hopelessly in love with him. In the end i lost, and she was hurting her self emotionally whenever they had sex because he refused to kiss her. She had to beg him to kiss her but he wouldn't care. How can such a man exist? Such beast! Such atrocity! If i ever see him again i would throw him out of our dorm! (he's rather small, or at least smaller than me so it'll be a piece of cake to kick his ass outta our place ^_^)

Thank goodness my friend came to her senses one day. She decided to stop it all when she couldn't bear the pain anymore and wrote him a letter telling him all her feelings. You know what he replied? He said:

"Ok, if you feel that way, i have to make it clear to you again that i don't love you, but if you still want to have sex that's fine with me."

I was like WHAT THE F**K! at least be sorry for what you have done to her you piece of SH*T! He didn't feel guilty at all. Nope, not even say sorry. My friend suffered for the next 4 days crying in her room the entire time.

The week after. They went out again. All of them, together with the other 2 french girls, to a club where they danced and drank. Instead of being sensitive, he danced with this asian girl and made out with her in front of my friend. Still, he had the nerves to tell my other french friend that he actually prefered her other asian friend. At the end, because he couldn't get to the other asian girl, he settled for the one he had originally danced with. So when they were heading home, he asked her how was she gettin back. At this point of time, there was really no way but to get back via a cab right? The stupid asian girl (sorry i'm not trying to be racist but i'm asian as well. I'm just angry for my friend) said: "I don't know how to go home" so they ended up all taking a cab home, whispering sweet nothings and giggling and making out - all these in front of my friend sitting quietly behind them all the while.

It was not until this incident that happened when my friend realised how disgusted and revolted she was with him. She realised she was no longer in love with him and is put off by his actions. I think she deserves a better man. Well at least she ain't nobody's play toy anymore, that's what i'm concerned about. I hope everything from now on goes smoothly for her. Good luck my dear friend! ^_^

As for me, i have finally met the prince charming of my dorm. GOSH. tall, brown-haired, built, wears specs, looks intelligent, charming and there's just something that's so captivating about him! Sadly, he has a girlfriend. How do i know? he was with her when we went grocery shopping. Still i couldn't help staring at him and his back all the time! ARGH!!! another one taken AGAIN!! NANDE!!!???

Well hopefully this weekend's getaway to Edinburgh and bring me something else other than hopelessly stoning and wishing for another prince charming to pop by.

what a joke.

gtg, experiment calls.

amanda.

paris, disneyland

2006-04-21T22:52:00.000+08:00

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HELLOOOOOOOOOO!! I'm back from Paris and it wassssssss fantastic! I wish u guys were there with me! ESP @ DisneyLand! i wanted to grab all of u all and teleport all of u to see the real life princesses (by the way they weren't that beautiful lol) and it was so fun takin all the rides, even if it meant standing in the queue for an hour plus, still the minute plus ride was still very very satisfactory!

We spent 2 days, not consecutively at Disneyland as it was simply too big and had too much things to see so we bought the 2 day pass to go to the Disney Studio as well~ we sat on Dumbo, spinning teacups, Aladdin's carpet ride and yea i know its kiddish but their rides weren't that exciting either except for the Space Mountain, which had a 360 deg rollarcoaster ride in the dark! woohoo! that one i took twice man... totally awesome. still i wana go Blackpool to their very acclaimed adrenaline rides to try it out for myself. hmm maybe next month, i'm too booked for this month man... week 8 report is due next week too... crap!

Apart from that, french guys are hot. i duno which naughty person brain-washed me telling me french are like dorks and they all look crappy but whoever that person is, you're totally wrong! they are hot hot and i mean HOT!!! gosh! now i'm seriously thinking of having fren-wanese (french/taiwanese) kids! hahahaa yea my dream of having (jap-wanese) kids may be in jeopardy but hey, maybe i could have fren-jap-wanese kids? that'll be cool wouldn't it? i was just chatting with yvette when she mentioned that if you truly desire to have a foreign boyfriend you would most probably get one because it happened to her sis, who didn't want to get a singaporean boyfriend and she ended up happily with a hong kong-rean and her ballet teacher who also wanted a foreign boyfriend and in the end she married an american and had beautiful kids! awwww i wish my kids would be as beautiful as that! hehe but then again, they ALSO say the things you definitely don't want happening would definitely happen to you. hence, i shall not dwell on the baby topic any longer coz i'm not even capable of earning my own living yet! hrmph...

alrighty, i will post the paris and manchester pics up as soon as i get the names sorted out (u noe, naming pics are a real CHORE) and besides i have hundreds of them! ARGHHH haha well do enjoy my post at the mean time...

btw, CONGRATS to kareen, gdine and shufang for passing the auditions! may you all excel in the cncert itself as well!

loads of love and huggies
Amandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

manchester

2006-04-11T06:42:00.000+08:00

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Hmm. Another post. What should i write? seriously, i fins it hard to condense everything that has happened these past days into 1 single entry, coz i'm sure you guys dun like to read long and boring entries right?

Anyway, i arrived at Manchester on saturday and i must say, the weather here is much worse than in leicester. First there was rain, then there was wind... then came hailing snow balls the size of a pin ball. scary eh? but i must say, today the weather rox as it was sunny the entire day! woohoo! so i went to shop around a bit, but we spent most of the day settling the train tickets and getting ourselves around the town and taking the ferris wheel! gosh, i spent most of the time in the ferris wheel taking pictures instead of listening to the person explaining about the buildings and their histories! hehehe

oh man.... i realised manchester is actually such a stressful city. sure they have nice buildings, handsome guys, gorgeous women.. but you know, i am sure glad i wasn't posted to manchester! everyday i wake up to see my room surrounded by buildings and everywhere i go its buildings after buildings! there's no scenary except for churches, ancient clock towers and although there are parks, there isn't any like that of the victoria park in leicester! (not that i know of) Stillm altho they have delicious chinese food and almost a chinese restaurant in every corner of the street, i cannot imagine myself studying there! i believe i would be more home sick and confined.

leme tell u more about the dorm. there are the pros and cons. firstly, the dorm i am staying at (so is joanna, debra and siti) is called the CONNISTON HALL located hathersage road about 45mins walk from the station. the exterior may not be grand but eh interior is very nicely decorated. breakfasts and dinner are served daily and additional lunches on weekends. the room is cozy and the bed is lovely. Also, the shower room is clean and toilets are spick and span. washing of laundry is free and also everyday they clean the room 10-11am. like EVERYDAY 10-11 so i have to get out of the room and slack around for 1 hr! arghhhhh then comes the bad part. there is actually no key for ur door! lol so anyone can just pop into ur room and steal ur things! but luckily here everyone knows one another (i think there are only 37 females living the dorm right now). then, there is a curfew! ohmygawdddd like since when is there a curfew in uk dorms? but this one has... and it's at 10.30pm so that means if you go clubbing or somewhere else and return after that time, good luck. no one will help you open the door man, you're seriously locked out for the entire night. then, next point. you also have no key for the main door. even if you're back within the allowed timing, you still need to press the bell and wait for someone to help you open the door! like rats! >_< wad if everyone is at prayer? or no one heard the bell? -_- then good luck to you also, just stand there like an idiot and wait for someone to help you open the door.. hehe but the good thing is you have to sign in and out everyday when you leave so they can keep track of who is not back at the dorm.

hah! last but not least the TV room. you know, i was so thrilled to hear that they have a tv in the resting room! but it's LOCKED. yea, locked. hahah and i heard from some dorm mate that if you wana watch tv u have to specify to them wad channel u wana watch! like OHMYGAWDDDD do they think we're gona switch to porn or something?? haha

nontheless, despite all the flaws, i've made a couple of new friends! A japanese friend, chinese friends and spanish ones! muahaha and also, during my spare time i'm gona read up some german language book i got from the newspapers and try to pick up a new language! other than that, i'm sleeping most the time... hehe

well, there goes a long entry! hope u all dun fall asleep...

the notebook

2006-04-05T04:47:00.000+08:00

It wasn't over...... and it still hasn't.

i just saw this movie - " THE NOTEBOOK" and i have to say i am distraught. I don't know whether i am sad, or i simply feel the same way about myself. Will i ever have a love like that? is there really someone out there who is willing to do this for me? even though this story maybe just fiction, it makes me wonder, ponder, think, fantasize... whatever. I look into ryan gosling's eyes and i am enchanted. perhaps i am even captured by his looks, his boyishness... you know, i fell for him back in 1999, when i was in vancouver and this show called "BREAKER HIGH" was quite a popular drama then. Since i was so bored i watched almost every single episode of it at night. I would stare and dream about him, because back then he was already so dead sexy and cute. It made me wonder if i could get a boyfriend or have a trashy love romance during the time i was in canada. sadly, none of those happened. i even embarrassed myself infront of my brother, because i replied his friend with this line after he invited us to his birthday.

"Thank you for this BEAUTIFUL night". seriously, i might have had a crush on him, but i think that line totally destroyed any chances i might have. plus, it was just a night out at the VIP box at the N'SYNC concert and i was, IN FACT the ONLY teenage girl in their VIP box. I was then wearing a really out of date wind breaker, with a TARE PANDA sling bag. oh my god. why did i even want to think i could have a boyfriend with that kind of dressing? I even had my infamous THICK hairband (which i did wear until sec 3..PLUS i had centre parting...)

Perhaps now that i am older, i keep telling myself to be more realistic. i know that my prince charming is not going to appear just because i dreamed that he would, or that anyone could love me for just the way i am. These are illusions and there are more than 4 billion people in the world. Am i supposed to believe i can find the one person, who i love, and can love me for just the way i am?

Sometimes i really wish i was an actress. If i was an actress, i could kiss all those actors i fancy when i am filming with them. I could even harbour a crush on them and have it turn real, like what katie holmes experienced. Every day i tell myself that there is some guy out there that COULD perhaps, just perhaps fancy a girl like me with so many faults and love me for who i am. Still, 19 years have passed and nothing of that sort happened. My entire life is filled of dreams, fantasies, fairy-tale like stories and dramas that i have yet to come to terms with. I need an exciting life, i need the motivation, some person to tell me to carry on with my life. I watch as my brother had a girlfriend, and then very tragically break up. He had a long distance relationship, and up till now, he refuses to tell me the reason of their break up. He emphasizes that i will only understand when i have a boyfriend. BUT HOW? WHEN will i know? What if i never find the one for me? What if i just keep missing such opportunities and remain a spinster? All i know is, when i look at the sky, day or night, the first thing that pops into my mind is to share this image with someone i love. Anything i fancy, like for example, the beautiful cherry blossoms outside my dorm, the birds singing, the sun shining and the clear cloudless sky - all of these, i want to share with the one i dearly love.

Now i am a miserable woman who is drinking orange vodka in my dorm room, blogging and starring at the screen, hoping that during the time i get drunk, maybe ryan gosling would pop out of the screen and give me a huge kiss. But then again, i may just plonk out and wake up next morning. Nevertheless, 1 thing i know for sure is that i want a true relationship. You may never know, the friend you know, that is me, could very well marry the first guy she meets. I am tired of pulling strings for everyone else other than me. I deserve something better. I need something more exciting...

But all i want right now...................................................................

is to have someone i cherish.

friends and politics

2006-04-03T23:17:00.000+08:00

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Hi all. it just seems that i have a neck for blogging while working. this ain't right! but hey, it's better than blogging in the dorm and having to put up with 56k internet dial up access!

first of all - the easter break dance party on 31st march. fantastic. the entire percy gee building (equivalent to ngee ann's atrium) + block 1 was opened to parties and a massive amount of people turned up to be one of the biggest events of the year. in fact, i had my face decorated (nah, just make up) by my hungarian friend and yvette. The strange thing was, they put purple and pink make up for my eye shadows, red rouge for my cheeks (as if me face wasn't redder than a baboon's butt already from the vodka) and mascara for the eyes. oh, i forgot to mention yvette's expensive lip gloss which costs i think SGD$24 for a 10ml tube? bloody hell! but damN its good!

So after the make up we head to the kitchen to have a mini party where i drank 2 cups of wine with fruits (i forgot the name for that) and also 1 bottle of 5% lime vodka. you can imagine what colour my face was! it was serious - PURPLE. then while i was talking to the french girls, we sorta had this nice talk about guys and stuff, when my fren claire told me about this reALLy upsetting story about her one-sided and purely physical relationship! gosh. and that guy was just sitting right next to me!! still, i didnt wana cause a ruckus so i striked up a conversation with him. so he's a cambodian and lived in france all his life. great. another target for me to practise my french with. so i can't really remember what i was gona say to him in french but i know when i did that, a HUGE blot of spit came right out with it, and of course he was obviously stunned and reacted as if larva had been spilt on him! LOL but hey, later when he replied me he spitted too! so you can imagine what kind of situation we were in man.... spitting to and fro...

we left the kitchen party slightly earlier coz we had to sign in at the sch's building to get tickets to the party. there was a chocolate fountain at the red fearn pub and we all had 1 free ticket to eat choco fondue. and my gosh, when we got there, the queue for the choco fondue was F***ing long! of course it remained that way until we went home (around 2am)

sad to say, the entire night was full of guys and girls but i only spotted 1 guy whom i thought was cute. he was dressed in this sailor uniform and he had the most gorgeous eyes ever!! like greenish sorta translucent look that could pierce thru your eyes... awwwww but he was too wasted when he approached us for a lighter for his ciggy.... but still, he was adorableeeeee~~~

during the party my hungarian fren (edina) was dancing furiously and very very (may i say) sexily so eventually me and yvette had to move away coz we were like robots there! many guys approached her to dance with her and AW GAWDDDD i could just see the LUST in their eyes when they were dancing and talking to her. NEVER in my life did i feel so disgusted with guys before!! and gosh there was this indian/arabic looking guy who was staring at her throughout her dance and he made lecherous looks at her!! i almost puked right infront of him!

The worse thing was, edina (my hungarian fren) felt the guys sucked at dancing but she did find jon (a norwegian) pretty interesting, charming and blah so she danced with him and talked with him. unknown to her, my other german friend was seriously in love with jon and was seething and freaking pissed off when they got along! well that goes for friendship within the dorm. then eventually when jon kissed edina, edina told me he had an erection! ew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *pukes a million times* and awwww u can imagine how heart-broken my german fren was!!! luckily, after a big fight later they resolved everything and they were back to being friends... they realised it wasn't worth to throw everything away for a guy! and i totally agree. no matter how much u like that guy, y throw away a friendship just for that spur of the moment?

anywayz, i dont know what i am talking about now. i dun feel well and i wana go back to sleep. i hope i am not gettin sick coz i'm going to manchester this sat!! awwww and by the way, york was fantastic! made a new korean friend called so-yeon and gosh we do hit along very well! ^_*

well now i'm going to pack and go back. cheerios~

Amanda

new song

2006-03-29T22:49:00.000+08:00

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Suffered a tragic heartbreak recently and this song is dedicated to myself.. hahaha just to tell myself he is probably "the best i ever had".... then again... maybe not.

cheers

more photos!

2006-03-24T01:09:00.000+08:00

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Hey all! short update for now.. no time to type. the pictures are all up. feel free to d/l or print out or wadever if you miss me! hehehe

as for your little souvenirs, so far i can't seem to find anything nice to bring back except chocolates. the things is, chocolates i'm afraid they get crushed, melt, or simply after when you eat them, you shit it out and forget about me. LOL

Anyway, leme know what kind of stuff you're interested in. pls, DO NOT just quote "CLOTHES" coz they have so many kinds and so many pricings.... give me a brand, a budget and i will try to get it for u. if not, wait for me and i'll decide what's nice and affordable to get back for u guys!

in the mean time, do enjoy my yahoo pics. i'll change the bg of my blog and song ASAP when i have the time...
now i gtg and rush to do my DNA prep!

cold cold!

2006-03-14T04:17:00.000+08:00

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Hi i'm back again!! so fun these days.... went to yvette's sis's friend's place to stay for the weekend. tt was friday night, so basically they treated us to dinner at a chinese restaurant (YESH!! FINALLY SOME CHINESE FOOD!) and it wasn't too bad at all! i even brought home the chopstick cover with the instructions.. hehe (they insisted on me taking home the chopsticks as well -_-") but it was fun!

Then we went to Tesco, the biggest supermart in UK. and boy it was big! maybe they have a bigger one somewhere else but this branch was bigger than GIANT at IMM! well bought groceries and went back to their place to watch movie and then zzz.

sat. went shopping at Loughborough (oh did i forgot to tell u the town name? yea it's called Loughborough, pronounced as "lofbrough") and we shopped and i bought jeans and t-shirts! (wah seh the jeans cost me 105 SGD but it was originally 400+ SGD) haha it was like a budget shop and yvette bought diesel jeans for 90 SGD when the original price was 300 SGD (and we confirmed tt by going to a diesel shop in another town and the price there was 240 SGD!) then tat very night we treated her sis's frens to dinner at this malaysian indonesian restaurant.. which cost us 20 pounds each.. which means 60 bucks! O_O" can u imagine how much i spent that day ALONE? like SGD200+ !!!!

Anyway, we went clubbing that very night. in fact we were invited to a so called "chinese party" at down town. LOL "chinese party" sounds really weird but we decided to give it a try. Then we went to the club at sch but it was the wrong place, so we had to go to this place called "echo" which had a BLOODY LONG queue! gosh how popular is it!? then when we thought we had to queue, the bouncer was like:" chinese party? come here~" and started waving his hands at us. LOL i almost wanted to laigh my ass off. Was this some sort of VIP function? then as i walked past, some people were staring at us. NOT GOOD, i thought to myself. but everywhere in UK there are sure racist people and the same goes for UK. but anywayz, when we went in, it was sooo weird. coz' seriously the place was filled with CHINESE people (from CHINA) and ok i have to admit some guys dressed pretty decently and looked quite good but the girls dress like wad ah lians would dress... but, they dress in BLACK. hah... and seriously, CHINESE people cannot dance!! i duno if u've been to a club where u see many good chinese dancers, but the party i went, i was practically astonished at how they dance! i stood there, mouth gaped wide open and stared at how they dance. i think chinese people have no sense of rhythm or the "kick" to dance smoothly. Me, being a chinese, verified that. When i tried to dance, i was also laughing at myself for being so rigid!

Soon our side merged with the main dance floor and i found myself in the other main dance hall where all the hotties are. there was this cute guy holding the door for us when us chinese invaded their dance floor. some simply smirked at us for entering their dance floor. still we went in, and i said "thanks" to the cute guy holding the door, at first i thought he didn't hear, but then later he turned to me and smiled!! *awwwww* almost melt away that instant!!

So off again i was, dancing like nobody's business.. i reeked of smoke and ciggies and alcohol later but i think the experience was great!! now i can't wait to go another club to see hot guys.. hahaha *oops nose bleed*

alrighty, for all those waiting for the pics i took, they are in the YAHOO photo albums and the link is on the right ----> under photos!

have fun @ attachment folks
Cheers
Amanda

1st week of UK

2006-03-09T05:04:00.000+08:00

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Hey guys!

Haven seen ya all in like 5 days and I’m missing u guys already!! *muackz* Life here is rather fun and exciting but I also feel redundant like what yijia says… I’m surrounded by all the students studying PhDs or Masters! *sobz* but everyone here is real friendly and nice! Got cute guys! Hehehehe one is nerdy the other is cool. English and greek. Hmmm.. will post pictures up another day… today I’ll just talk about my past few days here!

1st day march 4th: reached airport at 10.30am…. horrible trip from the terminal (we were at a secluded area -_-) to the immigration place. ARGH yakult and milo were confiscated from yvette’s luggage coz’ no dairy products should be brought in. DARNED! My yakult!! Anyway, left the airport and dragged luggage EVERYWHERE!! From taking heathrow express, to taking local tube access… GOSH wth man!! Do u actually BLOODY know how heavy those things ar?? And they have no lift nor escalators! F**K!! BUT, people in UK are SOOOOO nice!!! They are so many people who came to help us each and everytime we had difficulty carrying the luggage up the stairs! Yvette’s luggage was soooo BIG that 2 guys had to help her carry the luggage up! 1 of them helped me first, b4 he went back down to help her! And hey! The stairs are not just 1 single flight, they are SOOOO many of them! *pengz* ANYWAYz, I’m so grateful guys and GIRLS came to help! Even those with boyfriends help out! A couple! Can u imagine? At first the girl told her bf to help, then she herself came to help but her bf said he could manage! Soo sweet!! *awwww* so, after a gruelsome 6 hour move?about, we got to Leicester in like 10 pieces. Nah just kidding. We’re alright but we needed tons of BENGAY!

Day 2/3: stayed at stoneycroft hotel and it was… not bad. The bed however, was even smaller than my QUEEN size bed? And for 2 people? Gosh u can’t imagine me dears~~ but I love the breakfast!! It was sooo sumptuous~~ and the weather was cold but amazing!

Monday: it was a SNOWY DAY!! Wooo~~ it snowed little at first then it got rather huge… I took a mini vid but I can only upload it when I return to sg… sianz.. heheh but we went to visit our supervisors and boy were they surprised!! Turns out that the director hadn’t informed them about our early arrival unlike the last batch, which was in april. So they didn’t expect us now at all!! -_- Dr zaman, wad have u been doing? Y didn’t u contact them!?

Then, I and Yvette had to choose btw Dr. Andrew Fry and Dr. Julie Morrissey. Seriously, we couldn’t decide coz’ we weren’t too interested in either topic. Dr Fry was focused on Biochemistry while Dr. Morrissey was doing genetics and MRSA. ARGHHH reminds me of Dr. Gordon LIM!!! >_<” lol but in the end we did choose using scrap paper and drawing lots and I got Dr. Morrissey! Hahaha boy was I glad now! They’re a bunch of lively people and my lab has more guys!! *smirks* hahahahahaah and there’re 2 cute ones I observe… 1 English and the other from Greece. Fantastic yea? I’ll show u the pics another day.. oooo so exciting.. lol

Niwaez, I gtg now.. the I just destroyed a cable and I am DARN pissed about it!! Will update soon when I load the pics up!
Meanwhile, cheerios to u lovey doveys!

Amanda

another update

2006-02-26T15:03:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates: Romance FREAK.

Today is a Sunday. Last day of study before AMB exam. I was watching is fantastic love story on channel 5 called "Untamed Heart" and gosh, it was sooooo nice!! i absolutely loved the plot. first of all, marisa tomei and christian slater gave a superb performance, and the plot made me cry!!

Here's the story outline:
Caroline (Marisa Tomei) was a waitress working at a restaurant while Adam (Christian Slater) was an errand boy who did all sorts of odd jobs including dish washing, cleaning up the store... they were colleagues, and never did they interact much. However, what caroline didn't know was that Adam was a very introvert boy who didn't speak much at all, but would look at her from far away, and without her knowing, walk her home EVERYDAY at night, becoz' her night shift ends after midnight. *sweet factor!!!* rolls around~~

One day she was attacked and almost raped by 2 men while walking home after night shift when Adam came to rescue her. By then caroline had fainted and he carried her back to her place, where he waited and stood by all night till the early wee hours when she woke up, shocked to find herself back home with his jacket on her. (note: it's freakin december and snowing so imagine how cold he was!!) Anyway, when he saw that she had awoken, he hurriedly left the place. From then on, their little 'thing' began and she started to feel something for him. *YESH YESH!!* Unfortunately, adam had a congenial heart problem and could only survive not much longer... still, their love blossomed and she fell so in love with him (so did i!) that i thought everything was going well.... until the very day --- - his birthday. She brought him to a hockey match (he'd never been to one) and he was so overwhelmed and happy! gosh to think they'd end up happily ever after, he passed away in their car on the way back home. Coz' when she tried to wake up him when they reached his place, he never woke up again.

*SOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB* i am such a lovelorn person!!!

Quote by caroline and adam
adam:

I love you with all my heart.

caroline:

silly, that's just a phrase to describe. You love with your mind and your soul.

aww.

pain

2006-02-23T16:37:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates: Bear with me, this is a LONG one.

Ok, i must seriously be the slack-est person in my freakin' level of LSCT students.

I should be chiong-ing if not sleeping coz' i had too much medicine (due to toothache and "ALMOST" nasty surgery) and YET, i am blogging. Yes, it has been quite a day, and i'd like to share it with u nice people...

Morning started at 9am, everything was well... slept a wonderful 8 hours with darned dreams interrupting fantastic brain recharge a couple times during sleep. Nontheless, had a sumptous breakfast at Mac's at IMM with dear mom, before heading to 2 banks at Bukit Batok to do some necessary banking stuff. Then, headed to mom's office at around 11.30 and finally got my arse some place to do Math.

About an hour into Math, i had lunch. yummy "mee-sua" with fish slices. Superbly mouth-watering and healthy, but perhaps too much sodium. Whatever. I like salty stuff.

After lunch sped off like "Speedy gonzales" and headed to NDC for braces check-up. Dr Mimi Yow, my doctor in charge, was pretty much delighted by my teeth adjustment, until she saw my wisdom tooth. Correction, wisdom teeth - all 4, not just 1. Damn those teeth who takes up a darned lot of space and each costing more than 100 bucks to remove, i was told by my doctor that the reason why i had a toothache was because there was no room for my wisdom teeth to grow and i have to extract them. OH GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME, ALL 4? And my mom thought by having braces my teeth would be perfect. Hah, i think not. Went for a X-ray after that and Dr Yow arranged simple extraction for my lower left wisdom teeth the very same day. Hrmph, glad but hey, tomorrow is my exam for crying out loud! Right. Anyway she transferred me to Dr Danny Tan. Very nice person. Very.

When Dr Danny Tan saw me, the first thing he said (after saying Hi Amanda, have a seat) was :"How old are you?" Hmmm... what a way to start a conversation. I said :"gona be 20 this year" and he was smiling... cute doctor, but hmm. not my type. Then he rubbed some whitish paste on my wisdom tooth and was going to procede with my extracttion when he again asked :"So, are you studying now?" My reply was:" Yea, in fact tomorrow i'm having exams".

Well i'll be damned. He jumped up and shouted:" Abort! Abort! Abort!" Like there was a missile going to be fired and he had to abort the mission. Well it was a pretty shocking thing to me, cause half my mouth was numb and i was staring at him dumbfounded by his sudden outburst. Later he explained to me that it wasn't worth it, to risk my exams for my teeth. I could reschedule it anytime and he would do it for me again. Awww... boy i was touched! *^_^*

Well... to think i was going to be able to reach home ASAP but then along the way back to the MRT i was accosted by this surveyor, who very persuasively asked me about Banks and savings... GAWD, i just can't refuse anyone can i? Hmm.. even though i was already walking away, he caught up and eventually managed to stop me and boy, not for 2 mins... it was for the next 15 mins i think.

Growing up and going through so many modules and presentations has made me realise how all these experiences come in handy when i speak to a stranger. Strangely i used to reply really shyly (yes, i CAN be shy) or i would simply just nod and then get my arse away ASAP but now it seems i was actually striking a conversation with him. And no, i wasn't hitting on him if you guys happen to think that direction. Well anyways, i'm finally home now and really drowsy and groggy but i still gotta do my math. so, until perhaps exams are over and when i'm in UK i'll update again.

Cheerios and good luck to all my friends taking their exams!
Love ya all.
Amanda

good men

2006-02-20T15:37:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates: 20/2/06

Good Men.

Where in the world can i find them? You know i should really be studying for my exams now but instead i'm slacking off and watching dramas and oogling at gorgeous, good, non-existent men from movies, dramas etc. Why can't there be someone who's like them but only exist in our reality? Ah, i get it, the reason why so many prince charmings exist in stories is because there isn't one any in the world and by creating these fictional characters it gives us women a chance to believe that maybe our prince charming is somewhere out there in the world, waiting fo us. And men, while they watch, it reminds them of how gentlemen they could be, and maybe just maybe realise their part in becoming these fictional characters.

For example, i watched Bridget Jones's Diary yesterday with Jasmine and we were totally lusting over the character Mark Darcy, whom colin firth so happens to play. I have no idea how he is in real life but i'm already infatuated with him, even if he's old, not that handsome. However he does have an alluring accent and charming presence.

Then, later that night i skimmed through the movie "Love Actually" and again, i gushed all over Rodrigo Santoro, nose bleeding everytime he appears in scenes. It makes me wonder are handsome, gorgeous guys all i'm ever interested in? What happens to all those who're average looking, but down to earth, wonderful, kind guys? Like someone once said,

Never judge a Book by its Cover

hmm i wonder, because up till now, i have mostly been judging people by their looks, and rarely their personality, their character, as i have not been given the chance to get to know them better. I trust my instincts though...

Apart from all the prince charming talks and idolicity, (if tt's a word), i'm going back to studies, like my mom and all the clever people say,

You Reap what you Sow

and i don't want to reap a bunch of Zeros in my exams! Idolizing and fantasies can come later. Don't give me a man now, give me a book!

p.s: My man who's out there, you know who u are, i'll see you soon.

with gushes of love and invisible little hearts flying towards you,
A.

2006-02-15T23:59:00.000+08:00

Yijia's certainly in pain and i'm definitely in heaven.

2006-02-15T23:57:00.000+08:00

LOL This is mad-o Gdine and Smutty Kareen!

2f07 pics

2006-02-15T23:53:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Hello EVERYONE!! ESP KAREEN who keeps complaining my BLOG IS DEAD!! lol it is as a matter a fact coz' i'm soooo sianz of updating and putting up pics can be quite a chore you see... so i only put up the funniest ones... the rest i put in my yahoo photo albums where you'll find the link under PHOTOS section *right hand side please*

Hmmm... this sem has been so fun coz' we keep taking pics one one another and below are 2 pics we took on bus 7 on our way home from bugis. LOL i can laugh at this for AGES!! hahahah well yijia, we definitely DON'T look like we're having sex la so chill! LOL you er... just look in pain while i er... happen to look that i'm enjoying wadever i'm doing... hehe

anyway, lotsa gossips this sem. gdine with louis, nara la.... but HEY, nevil is mine and yijia's! LOL kareen is still smitten with her lifeguard and val is still going on strong about her crushieeeeeee... oh not to mention... our squealy piglet rebecca also got herself a bf (at least almost there liao la) dun ask me who coz' i already considered very big mouth for letting out this secret... or is it one? hmm...

Me? I'm just looking foward to days in england shagging.... oh SHIT. not shagging, i meant having fun. knowing more people, maybe meet prince harry or william.. HEH. i might as well say meet mocomichi or takeshi there!

PRac exams were a total screw up. All 3. I wonder if i'm gona get all Cs this sem. I'd be hopping around like a gigantic rabbit if i can pass IMM. Seriously, i wonder why i just can't get facts into my head the right way! However, my language on the other hand seems to be improving as it seems...too bad i can't enter the national japanese speech contest in july as i have no time to prepare whilst in england. GEEZ... but hey, consolation for me! i got *reunited* with ricky from waseda shibuya senior high and he was sooo cute and actually remembered me and jas when we went to their open house last year! i even took a pic with him! *show u in the yahoo! photo album... hehehe.....

oh ya, talking about pics ar we took abother purikura recently. very nice. will post it up on yahoo photo albums too so GUYS, BOOKMARK THAT PAGE!!!

ok now i gtg.... bathe!!
thanks for waiting for the update!
*Ahhhhh jiiii ben yaaaaaaa ala li ji babaaaaaa*
Amanda

so many things again...

2005-12-20T20:38:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Ok ok i'm updating now!! just before i go to Macau on thu... well many many things have happened once again since i last posted... eventful ones and er... others... etc

ok 1stly, home stay was a BIG BIG success. Loved everyone. I still miss them and i wana cry whenever i think of them. ARGH why can't i go japan for my OIAP?! minna san, ima aini yukimasuuuuuuuu~~~ esp *kondo kun!!!!*

2ndly, EOY sucked. i mean yea i sold stuff but BUSINESS WAS BAD. HAH actually i had myself to blame for that. I sold all the good stuff so long ago that i'm left with the remnants.... anyway, i'm so glad i had my gang of helpers and i hope they enjoyed themselves as well... oh yea, we all laughed the sh*t outta ourselves at that male version of Lacus...

3rdly, JLPT was also a success... at least that's what i think... listening was a chore though, coz' the woman's voice was so.... "sexy-wannabe" and i was very pissed at that fact i had to go through the exam using a child's table and sitting on a EXTREMELY "chitchai" chair. DAMN! but nevertheless, i'm glad it's over... now just 2 more yrs till JLPT 2..

4th, Sch term sux. I duno how i managed to hang around until now. PLS, hurry up and send me overseas!! Also, pick ME for australia! darn, why can't they send everyone to aussie? wouldn't that be more fun? stupid sch system... i best not get indonesia... coz' i'll FAINT.

5th: Christmas gifts.... everyone, PLS appreciate what i got for u... i went thru hell thronging the streets of orchard to find something for each of u! I HATE going to ORCHARD. oh man, like the WHOLE of singapore is shopping at orchard. EVEN on mondays for goodness sakes... don't you all have something to DO?! Arrrrr~

6th: I got a shock recently when i tried to view this clip on someone's blog when it directed me to a site where it wrote something like this:
We are sorry that we are terminating services to singapore due to the case on the Australian/vietnamnese drug trafficker and the harsh penalty singapore has given for his deed. We condemn this kind of system where regardless of countless countries' plea as well as australia's intention of bringing singapore into the international court of justice, singapore has no intention of a re-trial. We will not be providing our services to singapore until the government of singapore gives us a satisfactory reply.

something like that.... isn't that just amazing.... that what singapore has done has affected so many nations.. hmmm *ponders*

7th: my grandparents are finally here!!! so glad my japanese and taiwan dialect has improved so i can at least communicate better with them. However i was more shocked when i saw them both on wheelchairs when they came outta the belts... O_O"

8th: ok 2 more days to macau & hong kong.... gona be freezing but i LOVE IT! nothing beats chilly weather... haha and shopping paradise!! (if i know what and where to shop la....) sianz.... so $$ all gone to people's xmas gifts....

people, esp those givin me xmas gifts, i could use a nice nice wallet (long one pls) hehe and er (sophisticated one), purple jacket, ang bao (like any of you would give me liddat) and er.... maybe a free pass to Marie france bodyline... coz' i so need to lose the buoy on my thighs and tummy.... oh santa... if there's anything u can do, suck my fats away!!!!!!

ok, time for fruits, i'm too lazy to change BG and song so just chill out on these till i come back from HK.

CIAO~
Mandy~ MERRY XMAS!

bloggin... no fun anymore!

2005-11-24T16:23:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Hey hey to those who still visit my blog once in A WHILE... heh i haven't updated in like a couple of months... so busy with the new sem. Activities keep piling up!

this fri:
hosting 2 japanese students in my house

Next wed:
IMM class test which takes 5% of total marks! WTH!

Next sun:
JLPT3 exam! damn i'm gona FAIL!

not to mention now that we're rearing fishes due to our aquaculture mod, we have to clean the fish tank everyday and feed em' regardless of PH, sats and thurs (coz' thu we have no sch) ARGH!

now, i'm still slightly down with flu.. not really flu, just irritating throat and TONS of mucous. i bet my body is made up of 70% mucous. -_-

oh btw, i could have sworn that i saw daniel henney the other day at orchard. too bad i didn't have the balls to go chase after him and see if it was really him! but hey just from his back view, he was already STUNNING!! since then i keep have sensitive eyes to spot daniel henney look-alikes! hehe sadly our sch has none of those. boo boo!

ok i need to go do math tutorial... i have like freakin 50 qns to do? and i have to finish it by today! coz' i'd have no time on sat n sun to do em'... darn it!!! MOL was already so frustrating.. now tutorials?? sigh, but math is good... keeps the brain functioning... i have to admit my brain is getting old... or rather.. stagnant.. math does good for my brain as well as my reflexes... hmmm

hehe tata now
*sneezeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

Penang Place

2005-10-21T00:18:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Ah~~ To think that i'll enjoy my holidays? Er think again. I have a job now as a waitress AGAIN! but this time, it's a much more fun and enjoyable experience.Thanks to my childhood friend Jonathan, i am now working at the Penang Place Restaurant in IBP (International Business Park), just opposite Chevrons. It's kinda uluated but hey! they've got their regulars and business has been frisk since i got there. The food is great, ambience is great, the people are terrific and not to mention, this is some place where the workers are allowed to sleep during breaks!! Come on!!! they even provide pillows and blankets!! *oohhh~~*

To add on to this wonderful family, i have a boss whose wife is a terrific and excellent chef who invites us to their house every fortnightly to have dinner and have fun at their home! The last time i went, we had steak (YUM YUM!), mashed potatoes, ox tail soup and ooh, chocolate cake! thoroughly sumptous~!

If you guys are interested in coming to have lunch/dinner, give me a ring ok? These are the following fees:
Lunch (mon-fri) 11.30am-2pm - SGD$16.80++
Dinner (mon-fri) 6.30pm-9pm - SGD$18.80++

Lunch/Dinner (sat) same time as above, PLUS $2 for both sessions.

Come and try the Penang food! We've got the best char kway teow in singapore! woohoo~ (penang char kway teow of course~) and for you guys who LOVE buffet, don't worry, i'm sure you'll be satisfied!! come on noW!!!!!

hmm.... seems like i'm doing alot of publicity here...

hehe till the next time i wana update....
cheerios~

2005-09-24T16:12:00.000+08:00

From Left: Daniel Henney, Duncan & Hyun Bin (my guy must be as cool as these 3!!!) *faints from hunk-ism

2005-09-24T15:52:00.000+08:00

as cute and naive and innocent as ming dao aka DANG Oo~~ damn, freaking cute!

2005-09-24T15:51:00.000+08:00

My dream guy... as tall as Mocomichi! 180++ (he's 186cm) woot!

MING DAO!

2005-09-24T15:12:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

please use encode "Japanese Auto-select" to see this post.

OH MY GOD! 我將在這次的update用華文寫...

首先, 跟大家宣布
我已經找到了白馬王子!! 哈哈哈~ 別下一跳哦! 他就是明道. 對,王子變青蛙的那個!!
拜託,他可是帥極了耶!! 我看了那一部偶像劇之後可是做了一大堆白日夢. 果然,我還停留在幻想白馬王子當中...

怎麼想,我這個人就是看到又帥又酷的藝人就發花痴.不知為什麼壞習慣改不掉! >_< 該找個男朋友了?~~
有沒有什麼人選?? 我先註明哦,要Moco那麼高(186cm),Hyun Bin 或 Daniel那麼酷(看以上照片!),跟明道那麼可愛天真的樣子.

可以?, 拜託?, 好友們... 我的幸福就靠大家了!!!!! v(^o^)b

Ok carrying on, chinese is too tedious to continue typing with.. hehe well i'm gona put lotsa photos on yahoo albums... first i have to set em' up... so yea.. they'll be pictures of me and my friends stalking japanese boys at the waseda shibuya senior high and also the 05' natsu matsuri pics.. not alot but i'll be adding to the collection from time to time... so take a look and post your comments here yea? thanks everyone! *chu*

Brokeback Mountain

2005-09-09T17:35:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Wow this is the season of exams! shit, i haven't finished studying and i'm already lusting over the storybook called "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN" by critically acclaimed author ANNIE PROULX. Gosh the damn story is freakin nice! Recently the movie was released too. and yup, hollywood hotties HEATH LEDGER & JAKE GYLLENHAAL are in the movie directed by ANG LEE.

cast:
Heath ledger as Ennis del Mar
Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist

Spoilers: Jack dies in the end (WTH!!!) and of course, heath is heart broken. so am i.

Storyline: (BY ME~~ lol)
Ennis meets Jack for a sheperd job and both of them head for Brokeback mountain. During their stay there, they got real close to one another and intimate... following that was physical relationship. However, both of them got separated soon and for the next 4 years, both of them lived thru hell not seeing one another. Finally, when jack visited ennis the both of them were reunited with a mighty embrace, lip-lock and smashing of their bodies from head to toe. Although their relationship is a taboo, nothin stopped them from going for trips to spend time together, and of course love blossomed~ However, it was till that day... 20 years later that jack died... and how he died, well you gotta read the book man. tragic i'd say...

Wonderful excerpts:
Jack to Ennis: "I wish i knew how to quit you!"
Ennis to Jack: "This is nothin but our business"
Jack to Ennis: "I wish we could stay like this forever"
Ennis to Jack: "I love you"

Even more wonderful scenes:
1) Swapping spit btw jack & ennis
2) The continuous make out that started from night daily, to days and even in the hot sun
3) Heart-wrenching reunification
4) Ennis clutching Jack and both of them stand by the fire, with sexless hunger
5) The strong kiss that almost left Jack with a broken nose. LOL

Oh gosh, i wish singapore had this movie. BLOODY DARNED~ and the US is only airing it in DEC!! wad the! i'm gona have to rely on my contacts to get the dvd for me then.. heh... the trailer rox btw~ lalala can't wait to watch it.

well, hope you all wana watch it as much as i do~ it's a reallt sweet and sad story at the same time... gosh...hunks n all that.. what could be better?

peace out.
love heath x jake

Exams

2005-08-29T17:38:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

Hi all, i've decided not to post so frequently thesedays. It's real tiring and honestly - the phase is over. Once there was a time where everyone would get so oo~ aa~ over the blogging craze... but now, argh.... died down..

Exams are approaching soon. Thanks all loyal readers of my blog, i'll still blog of course, but be sure to check like once a month... heh unless really exciting/happening things forces me to relate it onto the net... anywayz, dun worry my frenz, i still read all your blogs frequently, so you guys continue to update yours!! change ur skin, music wadever! interest me! ^_^

Ah~ i changed music AGAIN. I can't stand the same music playing over and over again you see.... EXCECPT for [HANA] by Orange Range... heh btw you guys like this song? I love it, can play it continuously for like 10X!

Well er that isn't the POINT. heh the point is, exams are approaching and i really want to go for the overseas attachment thing and there're so many things undone here and i'm feeling like a mad woman. Also, not to mention i feel like i'm bursting into flames coz' it's so freakin hot today!

Have fun studying guys. I need to be motivated.

Amanda

tuk tuk power~!

2005-08-11T15:38:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

TUK-TUK POWER IS HERE!!!! gosh i'm so obsessed with the tuk-tuk these days! (FYI, tuk-tuk is the mini taxis in thailand, they're really cute and so is their name! MUAHAHA) well anyway after seating in the tuk-tuk, i'm totally smitten with it! Also, esp when it drives up slope, its engine goes *VROOMMMMMMMM* and i like to imitate it by going "TUK-TUK power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" it's really fun yea~

PHUKET was lovely, fantastic, superb. The seas are breath-taking, the scenary a picturesque. if tt's how u spell it. pple have been jokingly warning me of the tsunami after effects, about how dead bodies will be buried in the sands.. but what i see the purification the the natural disaster has created. the seas are once more abundant with life and the water so blue and green that i can just seat by the sea side and stare at the roaring waves splash over and over again as if it were a lullaby. I'd never be sick of the sea. It amazes me what wonder the ocean can do.

As for the town people, they're a bunch of nice people, except for those really desperate to make a living. Some are so persistent they'd grab me and hold on and keep asking me how much i'm willing to pay. "how much? u tell me how much?" keeps repeating in my mind. i'm truly sad for them but hey, thais have a special gift of arts n craft. y not make a living utilizing their skills instead of trying to earn just barely enough for the day?

Anyway, shopping at phuket was really fun, except for those treacherous nincompoops who think tourists these days have no brain. they slaughter us with huge huge prices and then when you're taking ur leave they become desperate and say "ok ok, i give u cheaper" and just when you're about to take another look, they give u just 50 baht discount (FYI, 50 baht is like 2 bucks SGD) this is ridiculous, esp when they first set their price 10 times the cost price. hey, to make a living doesn't mean you have to scare away your customers ok. we're not stupid.

We stayed at KATATHANI, just next to the KATA NOI beach. gosh altho our beach was the smallest, it was the most beautiful. the sunrise, sunsets - marvelous~ I was really surprised coz' after sun-tanning with my bro for the entire afternoon and treating ourselves to some thai-style massage, my dad came to tell me tt he received a birthday cake for me. woah~ these people really do take a second look at your birthday. i'm so glad they're such thoughtful people! My bro also got a cake on the day we left but apparently they aren't such fantastic cake bakers so we gave to cake to our driver. lol he must be wondering the cake given to him has a "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" written on it. *evil laughter*

Too bad we only went a 4d3n, there wasn't enough time for me to shop for all my friends. i'm sorry all, i promise if i ever go abroad i'll try to get u all something ^_^ i gtg now, do french!!!! later still have to go sch for french. ARGH
take careeeee~

Happy birthday to me!

2005-08-06T16:16:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

This recent week has been so hectic i hardly got to sleep more than 5 hours a day! gosh the bazaar, classes from 8-8 and all the contacting with the supplier and making trips here and there... i'm so relieved everything is over now! I was rather sad that we only made 5 bucks each for the bazaar but it was considered rather good considering our cost was high and alot of others made losses.... sigh.. what a lousy bazaar! but it was an experience tho... now i have something to write about in my IS module..

Friday night we had a class bbq and we went to west coast park at around 8+pm... it was considered rather late but the fire wasn't even started. LOL but considering the efficiency and cooperation of everyone, the result of our hard work paid off. We were all scrambling to eat the first batch of food. Practically, we're a swarm of sharks... a hungry bunch of sharks that'll devour anything served onto the plate. even semi-raw food. HAH Benji's cooking was actually really good at the beginning but hmm... it sorta took a turn towards the end of the bbq, with really rare/raw food served to us! of course everyone complained but it was just for fun... we all understand the guys' efforts to cook delicious food for us.

Dr Zaman came around 9+, which was quite late but she came from sch! Poor lecturer, so busy that she has to stay in school till so late! but we're glad she made an effort to come by anywayz. In the midst of our conversation, kenrick suddenly rushed over to me and started asking me about anime and manga stuff so we chatted really like vigorously, me being unaware of what's going around... then!...... people started singing "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU~~" i was wondering huh?! who's birthday!? until they reached the part : "Happy birthday to AMANDA~~" i was bewildered! OH!! so kenrick was sent as a decoy to distract me! LOL but aww~ i didn't really believe they'd buy a cake on tt day to celebrate for me! no wonder they were late!~! and kareen called me to make sure i was coming... LOL what nice buddies!

I'm so grateful to the guys for making this the best 19th bdae for me~ it was truly a surprise. honestly, i have never been so surprised in my life. in birthday celebration wise. my 18th bdae was a tragedy if not jasmine saved me from hell. but my last teen birthday, my 19th bdae was celebrated so joyously!! sigh* i can't thank my classmates more! esp all of them were tired out from the bazaar!

This is the list of pple who were there at the bbq and i'd like to thank them for all their effort and give them a big big hug!!! thanks guys! i'm so fortunate to be in the same class as you guys! ^_*
1) Peter "zai"
2) Roy
3) Benjamin
4) Ricky
5) Yijia
6) Valarie
7) Kareen
8) Geraldine
9) Shufang
10) Rebecca
11) Kenrick
12) Dr Zaman

Is that all? yup i think so... ehhehe awww i wana give them all a biggggggg hug!
Love ya guys, i'll make sure i bring back something from PHUKET. if not, last resort: sand from the beaches of phuket! muahahhaaa *evil*

tata~ i'll make sure i come back in 1 piece!

A big SLAP!

2005-07-14T20:35:00.000+08:00

Baka a.k.a Paboya updates:

I know this is a little too soon for an update but i have to really say something to everyone!

You know the proverb:

Know your roots?

Gosh i can't believe someone who has worked for my mom for at least 6 years don't know what that is. Come on, At LEAST be grateful for what my mom has done for you, providing you with a job, steady income. Needless to say, been a friend!

I shan't say cruel and brutal things here but i'll explain the situation. Say someone whom has been a friend and colleague suddenly says she/he wants to quit because she/he is really tired and wants a change of job. Sure, why not? At least we know you are not betraying the company or anything, it's just a personal thing. What aggravates me most is that AT LEAST he/she should have the decency to be honest! I can't believe the whole lot of horseshit created just to cover your own tracks! To be frank, i don't think a slap is enough.

This is based on a true account, my mom's colleague or once a "friend" [ my mom still treats her as a friend, even when she betrayed my mom ] This person, left the company just recently, citing reasons that she wants to work at a bookstore with her sister as she is tired of working normal office work. Ok fine. I accept. But why the hell a load of bullshit of saying after only a week that you're sick of that job and someone approached you to work at their company, as they are shorthanded? Nontheless, a company that is our company rival?! Oh *CHITCHAAAA* [that, is a korean slang i learned, heh, which means "argh" or "tsk"] Come on, even a little girl or boy knows what is going on!

Next, what more do you want? after all the ruckus you have done and all the nonsensical things you have created before you left, is it necessary to make sure your colleagues suffer? Another fellow colleague, who was already often bullied in office, still had to go through many sms harrassments from that bitch. Quoting from what my mom said, THAT woman, apparently knows that my mom knows she has "jumped" line, and she feels that she should take that job offered to her as the pay is higher, and she doesn't have to work on saturdays. MOST OF ALL, she doesn't have to clean the office. You know, i want to strangle her so badly, i can feel blood trickling down my hands. Cleaning the office, which is a weekly chore, is so BLOODY simple! Do you know how F***ing small the area is? it's like a living room for PETE's SAKES! It's all for the sake of who's health? YOUR DAMN health of course! you want to work in a filthy environment? sure, be my guest. BITCH.

There're more stuff she wrote in her smses to my mom's colleague which has droven her to tears. I shan't mention anymore. It's shortening my life. I know humans are despicable, ruthless and shameless. However, at least retain just a little bit of humanity. Right now, the angel side of me is telling myself to let you off. The devil side, however, is to wish your company collapses tomorrow and you become permanently jobless.

Hah, what a joke.

the thinking day

2005-07-13T23:23:00.000+08:00

COUCH POTATO

For the whole of today i watched tear jacker korean drama "GLASS SHOES". Indeed, i sat on my couch, watched from 11am until 8pm. NON STOP. I was out of my mind, and though the show was too draggy, i just HAD to know the plot. Not to mention i found another cutie in the show. heh i'll post his pic up tomorrow. I wasn't crying as much as yijia predicted i should, but i did cry during the 1st few cds and the last few cds. Just 3 more discs to completion. I feel lousy today, not because i watched tv all day, but because i was remembered of the "1 month to 19" quote, from many of my friends.

My family fortune teller said i'll settle down and start studying this year, which so far yes i have been consciously working towards, and that i'll meet my benefactor cum life saver, which i did as well. I'm not a person who is so into superstitious things but i believe all things happen for a reason. Still, i can't bring myself to the prophecy that i have 1 month to get a bf. hah ridiculous indeed. you know what? when i told my parents they were rolling on the floor. practically. i think it's time to cut down on "gorgeous men" related stuff, coz' it's really gotten me thinking hard.

MY ASPIRATIONS

I had another life aspiration talk with my parents tonight. When i communicate, and i mean we really sit down, have a nice long chat about everything, i feel at ease. Not only do i feel happiness, i also feel safe and grateful for everything i have. My parents have finally come to a decision, which is to grant my wish to study and pursue my life in japan. I so was thrilled! however, i need to complete my basic japanese foundation here in singapore, within the 2 years i have left till graduation. Just you see, i'll make it.

Now my goal is set, i have no more worries and doubts about my life. Whether i graduate with merit or no merit, i shall do my best to study another culture, another kind of life and breaking through communication barriers. Nothing is impossible in this world. I really wish 1 day after i meet my goals i can provide everything for my parents. It's about time i carry out my actions instead of planning any further.

From now on, i'll be counting to my 25th birthday. I hope i will be where i want to be, in 6 years. As my folks say :

Society looks at not only your degree cert, they also want multi talented people. With additional skills, additional certs, it can do you no harm but provide you a better future.

Thanks ma, pa, loveeeee ya~
p.s: to the scary beetle behind my back which i have been peeping every 5 secs to see if it has moved, pls do not bother me and start buzzing around like mad. i'll go mad instead. just stay there k?

*chu*

Reflection on this week

2005-07-07T23:10:00.000+08:00

This week was rather bleek. Boring. Sick, not the sick as in disgusting but sick as i was sick. yea just a couple of days. bad sore throat but luckily my remedy of drinking plenty of water and sucking lozenges worked out just fine. The lemon did its miracles too. Now my bro's sick too. poor fella, i hope i wasn't the one who passed it to him.

recently i came across quite a number of older generation people using acessories, bags that belong to their kids. not that they can't afford to get new ones, but they are the ones that truly believe in REDUCE, RECYCLE and REUSE. gosh it must take quite some courage to carry a "XX Pri/Sec" bag when you are like 50 yrs. but seriously, i admit i have so much admiration for our older generation people. even my mom uses my old files, blah.... my old pencil box... everything tt's usable. I'm gettin more and more materialistic and i know that, so i'm just trying to curb my spending amount coz' i wana get my bro something real nice coz' i missed out on his 21st bdae... which is like something a sister shouldn't DO AT ALL! my bad, i'm such a lousy sis, but hey, i still love my bro!

Also, this week i had my french test which really sucked coz' it was an utter failure. I was kinda stunned when i saw the paper coz' i think i was too nervous i just went blank. I envy people like may lin who's half french coz' she naturally has a french dad to aid her and her interest in french is much more vigorous. i think i better stick to one language at 1 time or my plan will collapse eventually or i'd die of exhaustion. either that, i don't wana screw up my life so early.

Another irking thing is our IS project. Difficulty in finding a supplier is no trouble for me, coz' we could always fork out money to buy. the thing that's troubling me is the meetings and stuff. our mentor wants to have a meeting with us this week but COME ON! we're so busy we can't even prepare for our common tests! THAT can definitely WAIT. Argh. we haven't called MEIDI-YA but yea i sorta agree with the rest that it isn't gona be optimistic. but now is not the time to fret, i need to get myself together, coz' if i dun i have a feeling the entire thing is gona collpase. and since ben isn't always so enthu about our plans, my gut tells me he wans to change plan.

ok, i'm a little long today but this is the reflection based on this past week. Cosfest is coming up in 3 days. I've gotten all my things to sell. have yet to pack them but i will soon. tmr i'd be doing it with yijia. well anywayz, i hope i make a good sale and dont lose too much money coz the profit ain't that much u knoe.... business esp. with anime is horrible, since the stuff are ex and the ppl who know about anime in singapore is so pathetically little!

ok time to go sleep. eye bags showing and pimples are popping out like popcorns.
love you all~

p.s: thanks soushi, i've received your postcard. it's lovely. i'll email you soon!

Orange Range's Hana

2005-07-01T23:09:00.000+08:00

This is a real nice song. After watching Be With you, i find this song so nice and soothing to hear! i think i heard this song 10x today! lol >_<" well the PV is nicer! well enjoy the song n the new pics!

*runs off to watch some nonsense helium thing..*

2005-07-01T23:06:00.000+08:00

Yi jia and her burger... yummy! see how big the burger is!! it's like 3/4 her face!! some more her face quite round alreadi... muahaha paiseh yijia >_<" hehehe ^_* it costs $7.90 ALONE for the burger tho... it's damn nice...

2005-07-01T23:04:00.000+08:00

Dinner at Carl's Jr. Yummy double bacon burger.. er forgot the bloody full name.. -_-"

FUCK!

2005-06-23T16:10:00.000+08:00

Would anyone want to bang you? by phobia
Name:
Favorite Food:
Wants to Bang you:
This many times:	52

Quiz created with MemeGen!

WOOHOO!!! you guys cannot believe this! i was so bloody shocked man! 52 times! just 1 time can send me to heaven.... woohoo~ now i'm in good spirits....

freakin funny

2005-06-23T15:58:00.000+08:00

Dude, check this out. It's the funniest thing EVER.

Your Johnny's Jr. (k8, kat-tun, news, t&t) family by symeyha
Name
Age
Mother	Ueda Tatsuya
Father	Akanishi Jin
Sister	Ueda Tatsuya
Brother	Nishikido Ryo
Best friend	Koyama Keiichiro
Boyfriend	Kusano Hironori
Pet	Nakamaru Yuichi

Quiz created with MemeGen!

blogthings

2005-06-22T21:43:00.000+08:00

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to obedience and warmth.

In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved.

You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic.

Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything... no secrets.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.

In this moment, you think of love as something you can get or discard anytime. You're feeling self centered.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

new pic, new music

2005-06-19T22:15:00.000+08:00

New music, new pic.

Enjoy!

*runs off drooling and lusting over Hugue from Trinity Blood....*

The Pain

2005-06-14T23:24:00.000+08:00

The nervousness, the anxiety, all the adrenaline that was flowing through my blood the entire night...

I'm not a good writer. Neither can i express myself very strongly. However, something happened to me recently that made me change a perspective view of life. We all have rights. Even slaves. To all my close friends in school, outside, you all know what happened. It may not be something of that great importance, but to me hurting someone is truly a stab to my heart. I could never turn back the time where i actually succumbed to my parents' decision. I knew that would forever change her life. Everyone was relieved. I wasn't.

Help me, i'm feeling afraid.

This was what i was thinking back then, after their decision was announced. If only i had spoken for her more persuasively, if only my mother wasn't so dependent on the agent, if only... if only time would reverse, i wouldn't have to cry through the entire night to my mother.

For the past few days i couldn't sleep, i was mostly stoning or trying to divert myself from the distractions going on in my head. I'm guilt stricken, and the pain isn't the usual superficial, it's a seed that's extending its roots everytime i have a flashback. I remember the day - the last time i saw her, was when i was going to school. This is the 1st time in my entire life, that saying goodbye could be such a heart-wrenching situation. She didn't know that it was the last time she would ever meet me again. Still, she smiled happily, sending me off as she always did, everyday.

As i'm typing this entry, i feel tears welling up. I have a tofu heart, that's what my mom tells me. No, it can't be defined that way. I just feel that everyone deserves to know things that concern them. That's what humanity is about. The moment i heard from my mom in school that she was sent away, my world shattered. Maybe not that exaggerating, but that pain in the heart that sticks around for the rest of your life, that's something i never want to experience again. Never shall i commit such guilty sins, nor shall i not stand up for what i believe in.

I don't know what to say to her if i had the chance to see her. Maybe say i'm sorry or just cry in front of her. But, what i can do now, is perhaps dedicate a song to her.

I'm sorry.

Really.

2005-06-11T16:56:00.000+08:00

MUAHAHA! this was when she tried to escape through the back but ended up falling on him and kissing him!! look at his adorable expression!! *awww~*

2005-06-11T16:55:00.000+08:00

Standing ever so cool-ly outside the school waiting for her....... to KILL HER.... hah.. nah, it's to make her go with him to a disco..

2005-06-11T16:54:00.000+08:00

his gang... they're cool too dude...

2005-06-11T16:53:00.000+08:00

The Movie poster.... he's so cool!! i'm nose bleeding!

Business Venture

2005-06-11T16:37:00.000+08:00

And so it begins.

With a new sch term comes new tasks, new syllabus and a new timetable. Of course not to mention projects. However, this semester's IS module - ENTREPRENEUR is actually rather fun.

You see, we still can't get it enough of taiwan's food products, that's why we're venturing into the F&B sector. Slowly dude, one step by one, starting with NGEE ANN. Let's hope our little dream is realised.

Ok, so i'm in charge of handling the imports of the food products, which is really chim. come on man, you've got the AVA and the license to think about! oh yea, not to mention $$$ *KA CHING!* no money = no food.

I just emailed Uni-President (the brand that makes excellent foodstuffs in taiwan) regarding our little venture. Hopefully they'll help us with what we need and agree to deliver us the food!! Muahahahaa~~

Btw, i just watched this korean movie called "HE WAS COOL" and boy, was he cool man!!! i was practically nose bleeding throughout the show coz' he was so cool! "HE", refers to SONG SEUNG HEON, the guy from Autumn in my Heart. I used to dislike him until this show!! gosh i watched it 3 times already! Now i have to wait for jas to come back so i can watch with her again! yea!! JAS!! hurry come back! i miss u already!!!! ^_^

The following pic above is a screenshot from the movie.

Ah~~~~hottie hottie hottie!
=Amanda OUT=
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2005-06-02T22:03:00.000+08:00

At the Shi-lin gashapon house we always go to... and we got real friendly with her so we took a pic for memory's sake!

2005-06-02T22:02:00.000+08:00

my fav pic from jas's collection. val looks so delighted while i look sooooo buay song. heh evillllll~

2005-06-02T22:00:00.001+08:00

me with my darling takeshi!! whom i recently dumped for mocomichi.... oops... *shuts mouth*

2005-06-02T22:00:00.000+08:00

3 totally drenched guys who yelled too much "MORE!!" so they got what they deserved - a tsunami.

2005-06-02T21:58:00.000+08:00

I say~~ feel your breeze, anytime anywhere in my heart~~

2005-06-02T21:57:00.000+08:00

Everyone smile for the cam onboard the yacht at Danshui! ^o^

2005-06-02T21:55:00.000+08:00

Reunion at NYDC! Swiss Cottagians rulez!

NEW PICS!! ^_^

2005-06-02T21:44:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone!!
updated new pics again!!!!!!!!! woohoo... the bottom one of the new pics i added is the SCPS reunion at NYDC! it was shaun's bdae, so we decided to have a reunion at heerens which was great! coz' i organised it... heh heh ^_^v

After that all those pics were taken in taiwan. sooooo much fun! i love the one which i look so buay song..... coz' val looks so amused and i'm totally different. hah well enjoy all the pics yea? coz' i enjoyed them very much too! ok, gotta go burn them for my TEAM TAIWAN mates! ciao

Groovin'
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2005-05-23T17:42:00.000+08:00

At Taichung's Macs. Look at the spread! You think it's delicious? Uh uh~ it's not as good as you think it is, also they're kinda stingy in giving us various sauces... boo boo!

2005-05-23T17:40:00.000+08:00

We're Taiwanese Mountain People! Naruwannn~~ [ Note: tt's a greeting] So, do we look cool or just weird? personally i think i look bald and the guys look like malayan warlords to me. *LOL*

2005-05-23T17:39:00.000+08:00

oo!!!! SHUAI GE!! HOT HOT HOT! u should've seen him dancing!! *nosebleeds and drops dead.* he's short tho, but HOT!!!! sorry i was looking totally messed up here coz' of the millions of bugs that were sucking my blood.

2005-05-23T17:37:00.000+08:00

At "Jiu Zhu" "Nine Tribal Playworld" in the countryside. We're on a cable car and we were all screaming, "NARUWANnn~~~" hah

2005-05-23T17:36:00.000+08:00

WOOHOO! Movie Poster of the year! Wait till you see the guys' one, theirs are cool too! oh, this was taken at "Danshui" 's Fishermen Port.

2005-05-23T17:34:00.000+08:00

AT JOGOYA, a treat from my 2nd and 3rd Aunts. Simply Fantastic.

2005-05-23T17:33:00.001+08:00

Group Shot at the top of the mountain. Superb view and it was HOT baby!

2005-05-23T17:33:00.000+08:00

At "jiu fen"'s CONDOM WORLD!

2005-05-23T17:31:00.000+08:00

All gathered at Changi Airport to send us off! sankyu kareen and shufang! *chu*

I'm Back!!

2005-05-22T21:56:00.000+08:00

WOohOO!!! i'm back from taiwan!! gosh the trip was sooo great~! love it soo much! tho 17 days is indeed long (hey, 1/2 a month!) i still miss there very much... even when i just came back 2 days ago!! sobz.... miss my parents too coz' none of them are at home. i'm home alone!! someone come save me from watching too much vcds and anime!~!!

School's gona start in er 2 days and i'm still slacking. Room's a mess coz' i refuse to put things into order.... i think my mom's gona strangle me when she sees the house like this. can't blame me, i was too engrossed in drooling over odagiri joe and hayami mocomichi. I was truly traumatised today when i saw mocomichi smoked on screen in the movie with takeguchi yutaka (er i forgot how to spell his name.. he's the guy that acted in BEACH BOYS) Anyway, i think most actors smoke for the sake of their roles. Still, atashi wa sugokku shitsubou da. argh, means i'm disappointed!! >_<

hmm, what did i do in taiwan?
well, there's simply too much things to write about which i already wrote in my journal. i'll post pics instead. but not now. wait till i gather all pics from all 7 parties then i'll post the best ones! maybe vid clips as well! wait for it dudes!

in the mean time, i'll go catch up on some anime i've missed....

Naruwan~~
(^_^)\(^o^)/(^^)v(-_-)"(O_O)|||

Day before departure

2005-05-03T21:46:00.001+08:00

Having my hair trimmed at SANDSTORM @ Jurong Point

3pm.

Had my hair trimmed there but before that, some guy washed my hair. At first i thought he was quite nice and seemed pretty good. My opinion changed when he started washing my head. He didn't do the regular massage for my head, he didn't do the normal "scratch the scalp" procedure and when we got to the part where he washed my hair, i actually thought i'd forgive him for his past doings coz' his technique with washing my hair was rather sastifying. However, that bast*** left my hair wet and unblown after he washed my hair! Plus, usually a normal hairdresser would coat your hair with conditioner and rub it into your hair, but this guy was totally proposterous. He just coated my hair with little conditioner and then washed it off straight away! like WTF! I paid (no, my mom did) for a creative director haircut and i get some lousy washing from a normal senior hairstylist? Fark him, i was shivering coz' the air con was rather cold and my mom had to tell the salon hair director that her poor child is suffering, then they finally sent someone to blow dry my hair! Anywayz my new haircut is non too different from the old one, just a little shorter. I wanted something longer so the creative director told me to keep my hair for another 2-3 months. i guess nice haircuts need nice & long hair.

7.30pm - Dinner at IMM Yunnan Chinese Restaurant

I must say this is by far the WORST chinese restaurants EVER! i wonder how they survived 7 years of business. geez. i pity my mom coz' it's actually a pre-mother's day dinner as only my bro would be around to accompany her during that eventful day. Well anyway we ordered 1) steamed cod fish, 2) braised bean curd, 3) garlic spinach, 4) an entire roast duck - eaten 2 ways; the skin wrapped with sweet bean curd skin and the other way diced duck meat with cabbage leaves. THAT, was the only dish edible. The cod fish was UNFRESH, the spinach had SAND in them (so my mom had it changed to kailan) and the beancurd was just plain and unappetizing (considering i'm a beancurd fanatic, i judge every bean-made stuff i eat)
Total cost was: $90+
Ambience: sucked (with chinese karaoke at the bg)
Service: Average
I pity my mom. I seriously. i'm glad we paid for the meal, not her. she keeps telling us she's so pitiful coz' we're all leaving her and she'll be all alone sobbing and wasting time by watching tv... sigh* i love my mom, and i know i'll call her every now and then from taiwan!

Here's a tribute to the greatest mom ever! (mine) ^_^
I love you mom! Happy pre-Mothers' Day!!!

For the greatest mom that ever lived,
you brighten up each and every day of my life,
without you i would have never been born.
What more can i say and express,
but from using a simple yet clear way of saying,
Thank you mom.

mama wan shui!! woohoo!! banzai!!!
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New song! woohoo!

2005-05-01T11:02:00.000+08:00

Changed blog music for the umpteen time. Love this new song... too bad no space to upload the original one, only the mix version. anywayz this song is from a new anime called Sousei no Aquarion. I believe this anime is a mixture of
1) Escaflowne - judging from the way their mecha, the darkness swallowing the darn aquarion up, oh, Atlantis... the draconians.... blah.
2) Rurouni Kenshin - just look at the darn X scar on the lead's face n u'll understand
3) Soukyuu no Fafner - DUH!! the extra machine coming out of a hole... the shape... TOTALLY Soukyuu man.
4) Gundam Series - Again, the mechas.
5) Mild shounen ai/yaoi - a guy named toma saying he loves apollonius, and that he's the only he ever loved. what do u think?!

I think the only thing nice about this story is the OP/ED and also i like it when the hero saves the day. oh, did i mention a hero with wings? ^_*

Toma: You're the only man i've ever loved, Apollonius.
Apollonius: ......
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series of rather surprising events....but, pleasant.

2005-04-26T15:31:00.000+08:00

BUTT? oh yea, i love it.

Hi well here's my 2nd post of the week. I can't help it. i keep saying i want to store up all the events but i'm afraid i get too lazy or i forgot the events. argh anyway, the 1st interesting event occurred on SUNDAY morning. around say 11.30am, while i was on my way out to meet my family friends for lunch at AKASHI, paragon outlet. there was this rather hot japanese Niigata player walking in front of me. Well he knew i was walking behind him but hello? he didn't cared whether it affected me or not. the bottom line is, he stopped walking halfway and looked towards the poolside, while pulling his pants a little down where i can see his right butt cheek, scratching it proudly. i must say naturally it's gross to have someone scratch their ass infront of u but oh my, what a cute butt he has!! so i slowed down my pace and got a GOOD look at it. LOL yea i did~~~ *slurp* woohoo!!! it was nice and firm... i guess, and i could even see his tan lines!! nice! too bad his face isn't as delicious as his butt. well anyway i continued my journey from my house to the bus stop, grinning all the way at the glorious sight i received.

MONDAY MORNING.
Talking to long lost MIA pri friends who used to be jerks then? Yes i love it too.

First tiffy was chatting with me on the msn when she added SHAUN. yea shaun was a big bad boy but a real popular guy back in pri sch. i was like WTH u gotta be kidding me! SHAUN SUTANTO TAN!? tt guy has been like MIA ever since ferdy did? (ok ferdy was also from my class back in pri sch & he was as notorious as shaun was) the last i heard of shaun was tt he was in aussie! and of course, creating chaos. now he's in SINGAPORE? and workiNG?!? like WTH! niwaez, our conversation was darn funny and tiffy kept asking him why did he repent and all sorts of nonsense till..... ferdy joined in the conversation! i was like seriously WTHHHHH all the MIA people are now in aussie, US, and SG.. so we basically had an online reunion thingy.. great eh? well i'm gona meet up with shaun after i get back from taiwan, after i get him his bdae present.. i hope he plans his bdae celebration well... otherwise i'm quite sure the girls are going to organise for him again. oh he has a girlfriend now and he's really into her so congrats shaun!! no more pimp! muahhaha

MONDAY NIGHT.

was i DARN surprised when i saw that kazuki kun entered his details for me in BEBO? YES U BET the HELL OUTTA ME THAT I WAS FREAKIN SURPIRSED.

At night. what a boring night, i had to waste time by watching FRIENDS AGAIN. oh i totally love chandler but ross's innocent face is sooo adorable! joey, u're simply too gay dude..... and phoebe, i really dislike ur "smelly cat" song! but aww u guys r great~~ ^_^
niwaez the important thing was i received a message from BEBO saying that kazuki has entered his info on my bebo list n i was THRILLED!! u see, the last time i heard from him was before he left my sch in dec 2004 for the bloody short student exchange!! i wonder whether he is much more handsome now... see, he's 16 this year, which makes me 3 yrs older than him... ah can LA!! LOL well okie... i hope to get in touch with him more often!! he's such a sweetie....... hahaha

p.s: thanks benji for u wonderful "chinese" testimonial... lol even if u only wrote the "han yu pin yin" dun worry i understand!! xcept for the amanda ______ ? huh??? well okie cya real soon~

oh i'm sorta using office time to do this so erm gtg, otherwise if my colleagues find out i'd be embarrassed!
cheerios~
ah my tummy gettin bigger n bigger from eating and sitting.....
SHAKE THAT ASS!!!!!

(^_^)\(^o^)/(^^)v(-_-)"(O_O)|||

VIRGIN post since change of template

2005-04-23T21:30:00.000+08:00

alrighty. long time since i posted anything coz' i was either too lazy or just waiting for the perfect moment when my new skin comes up. well, i was actually waiting for another skin but wth.

TEN things to do while ur parents are away n u're home ALONE.

1) Watch alot of Friends.
Yes, my bro just left me his entire collection of friends dvds which i spent watching EVERYDAY while they were away. great. now i have as much humor as chandler or i am as WOLS as phoebe. wth, i may be even as dumb as joey! not to mention i'm starting to pick up monica's habit of being ALWAYS picky n stuff.

2) Cook lunch and dinner to kill time.
Yes i have a maid but sorry i'm doing ALL the cooking. Cooking may be fun n my hobby but uh uh! i hate people who can't cook decent meals for me when i'm starving!! So get down and be armed with my apron while i chop, cook, season.

3) Be as attentive as CSI agents.
After watching CSI practically EVERYDAY on AXN or chn 5, yea i could certify as an agent. I check all the household chores have been done, mailboxes checked too.... wth, i even arrange my maid to wash n polish the car when my folks aren't around. i could be a supervisor if i'm ever retrench. or, let's not be too "NEGATIVE" as phoebe always says.

4) Burn dozens of cds
Yes, burn burn n burn. I just cleaned up 6 gigs of my comp space by burning out my anime stuff. fun n yes, thrilling for someone like me who craves for even just 100mb on my hdd. oh, i forgot to mention how exciting it is labelling each n every cd.

5) Invite best pals over to scream like mad.
me and jas were mad. ok she was. NEVER invite jas to see really hot pretty guys coz' she'd scream the ear drums outta ya. entertaining but hey, watch out for the decibal man! i think i'm gona be deaf before 50.nontheless, some gal party can't hurt u, n jas's the perfect partner to be with if it ever occurs to me i have to commit suicide coz' my family abandoned me.

6) Go out with your frens - or rather, CHEAT them into going out.
yes. CHEAT. everyone's working these days for extra bucks. i can't say i haven't been. but, in my case me n my buds r going to taiwan soon n yea, this is a chance to bluff everyone into coming out for a "discussing" session. actually guys, i just wanted company and to skip my job. nevertheless, u guys were great at entertaining me, esp roy. i'm sorry u got ur genitals mocked by us. we'll cheer u up in taiwan, no worries "little" bro. we'll try to change ur "junior" into a "magnum" hah.

7) Check mails 3 times a day and read other people's blogs
Reading other people's blogs is fun coz' u get to see what u have missed out on. oh i love to throw in a couple of comments if i'm really bored. plus, i love checking emails too. it's like i have this belief: if u check ur mails long enuff, the person u're wishing that would email u would actually do so! oh yea, i'm hallucinating again. mayebe it's coz' i just received the MOCOMICHI autobiography bk from a fren n i grinned, nose bled and laughed excessively to myself on a bus towards orchard. cheers for this lunatic man.

8) Call your parents and BUG them.
Tell them to bring back presents for u. tell them how wonderful and well behaved u were. NEVER tell them about ur results while they're away. like oh well, my poly yr 1's results just came in. having a C for chem is already a tsunami. if i EVER had a D, i think all the earthquakes would occur right then in singapore, causing tens and thousands of tsunamis that'll flood my house and needless to say, drown me. my mom would vitually, yes, thru the phone or the internet, cut my thick neck off.

9)If you're really bored, kill some ants.
i've been an insect attracter for as long as what? for the past 2 days, i got a total of 12 mosquito bites on my foot ALONE. i don't think i'll be that surprised if i ever get DENGUE. F*ck mosquitoes. i just got MOPIKO and i swear i'll slap the daylights outta those blood suckers. i pray they die coz' they sucked too much fat outta me instead.
oh, there's this ants issue recently. tons of black gigantic ants have been crawling into my bathroom recently. i'm pissed, so i'm EXTERMINATING them which my meaty index finger. i think i squashed 50 of them to death already, and tt feeling is just FANTASTIC n SASTISFYING! oh, u know what?? if u feel really bored, do this:
i spotted an ant on my bathroom ceiling while i was showering, so i splashed water onto the ceiling repeated, corner the ant and making it run towards a pearl of water, just precariously hanging by the tail on the ceiling. the next thing tt happens is that the ant gets "sucked" into the pearl of water and is trapped. WOOHOO! victory for amanda!! yea~ what a sadist i am. but nevermind that. what i do next is to wait for it to drop down together with the water, so i can squash it to death with my very finger. and guess what, I DID IT!! HA HA HA!

10) blog like me.
yes, gather many days of happenings and type them all out a one shot. like THIS. this shows how bored and deprived i am of handsome droolicious guys. i need a ice cream. someone, help.

till next time when i'm ready and stored,

adios my nachos.

couch potating,
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D-51 No more cry Lyrics

2005-02-26T22:41:00.000+08:00

++++++++++ NO MORE CRY ++++++++++

Song Name: NO MORE CRY
Artist: D-51
Comment: Theme song of Gokusen2
Translated by: Trial http://storythai.com/user/amnostrial

No more cry No more cry
Ashita e no more cry no more cry
こんなに大切な人が　近くにいることさえも　気づかずに　涙流したり
机の落書きの中に　輝いた夢のカケラ　ひとり胸に隠したり

konnani taisetsuna hito ga chikakuni iru koto saemo kizukazuni namida nagashitari
tsukue no rakukaki no naka ni kagayaita yume no kakera hitori mune ni kakushitari

そんな LONELY DAYS　繰り返すのはもう止めよう
この空の色に変えよう　Yeah
逃げ出すことに慣れていたんだ
自分だけだとすさんでたんだ
そんな昨日の僕にはサヨナラ

sonna lonely days furikaesu no wa mou yameyou
kono sora no iro ni kaeyou yeah
nigedasukotoni nareteitanda
jibun dakedato susandetanda
sonna kinou no bokuni wa sayonara

走り出すよ　NO MORE CRY　NO MORE CRY
君の手も引いてゆける
明日へ　NO MORE CRY　NO MORE CRY
悲しみじゃなく　喜びの涙を流したい

hashiridasu yo no more cry no more cry
kiminote mo hiiteyukeru
ashita e no more cry no more cry
kanashimijanaku yorokobi no namida wo nagashitai

あの日の君の優しさに　素直になれない僕は
小さな手を振り払った

anohino kimi no yasashisani sunao ni narenai boku wa
chiisana te wo furiharatta

ほどけたままの靴ヒモじゃ　走れないよ
この空を深く吸い込もう　Yeah
大切なこと　忘れてたんだ
未来から目をそらしてたんだ
そんな昨日の僕にはサヨナラ

hodoketa mama no kutsuhimo ja hashirenaiyo
kono sora wo fukaku suikomou yeah
taisetsuna koto wasuretetanda
mirai kara me wo sorashitetanda
sonna kinou no boku ni wa sayonara

走り出すよ　NO MORE CRY　NO MORE CRY
君がそばにいてくれた
笑顔で　NO MORE CRY　NO MORE CRY
何度でもやり直せる

hashiridasu yo no more cry no more cry
kimi ga soba ni ite kureta
egaode no more cry no more cry
nandodemo yarinaoseru

Talk to me about you,baby　こんなにも君を求める
いつでも　Stay with me for loving you,baby
ひとりでは生きてゆけない　きっと誰もが
凍えた指先を　触れて温めたいよ
目に映る全てを今は　抱きしめたい

talk to me about you, baby konnanimo kimi wo motomeru
itsudemo stay with me for loving you, baby
hitori dewa ikite yukenai kitto darega
kogoeta yubisaki wo furete atatametai yo
meni utsuru subete wo ima wa dakishimetai

走り出すよ　NO MORE CRY　NO MORE CRY
君の手も引いてゆける
明日へ　NO MORE CRY　NO MORE CRY
悲しみじゃなく　喜びの涙を流したい

hashiridasu yo no more cry no more cry
kiminote mo hiiteyukeru
ashita e no more cry no more cry
kanashimijanaku yorokobi no namida wo nagashitai

NO MORE CRY　NO MORE CRY
悲しみじゃなく　喜びの涙を流したい

ashita e no more cry no more cry
kanashimijanaku yorokobi no namida wo nagashitai

Searching......
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Do as Infinity Craze

2005-01-26T20:13:00.000+08:00

Recently,

I've been crazy about won bin and these following jap songs:
Rakuen - Do.as.Infinity
Tasogare Surround - Rip Slyme (been crazy about this for some time already..)
Sunday - The Babystars

I have to give all the credit to this blogger/person on the net (Garten) for posting the lyics so i sorta ripped it off and pasted here ^^" Gomen... anyway, sing along! if you need the song just tell me k?

Sunday by The Babystars
Romaji version

Tsukai furusareta "aishiteru" mo kimi wo omotte kuchi ni sureba
Konna ni suteki na hibiki ni naru kimi dake no tame ni aru kotoba
Hidamari de SUNDAY arikitari no itsumo to onaji kyou wa SUNDAY
Itsu made mo nante sotto negau soshite kimi wa shaberi tsudzukeru

Watashi no doko ga sonna ni suki na no? Ikinari nandai wo kimi ga dasu kara
Karite kita eiga hito mazu tomete maji maji to kimi wo miru yo

Mai nichi mite te mo tarinari kurai saki hokoru egao ga daisuki desu
Igaito kiyase suru gokujou bodei iu made mo naku daisuki desu

Sorette gaiken bakkari kanjin no naka mi wa dou na no yo?
Funman yarukatanai kimi ga hana ikimo araku okoru kedo
Hontou wa motto motto motto aru kedo mo
Umaku wa ienain da naa kore ga
Suki ni naru no ni ryuu wa iranai daro
Sokora hen wa nazotte koto de kanben shite

Tsukai furusareta "aishiteru" mo kimi wo omotte kuchi ni sureba
Konna ni suteki na hibiki ni naru kimi dake no tame ni aru kotoba
Hidamari de SUNDAY arikitari no itsumo to onaji kyou wa SUNDAY
Nani kenai jikan ga sugite yuku soshite futari wa nagomi tsudzukeru

Tsuyogari na kimi ga toki doki miseru hakanage na namida nya shirohata desu
Nani mo iwanakerya iwanai dake ni yoso mi nan de dekinain da yo

Kanashimi da no kushimi da no
Sorya Ikiterya yappari iro iro aru kedo
Nani genaku kimi ga iu "ganbatte" ni chikara moratteru yo
Moshi mo chiisana senaka fueru toki ni wa boku ga sugu dakishimeru kara
Mado kara mieru keshiki kawatte ittemo
Neguse so no hidoi kimi no mama de soba ni ite

Tsukai furusareta "daikirai" mo kimi ga fukurete kuchi ni sureba
Hantai no imi ni kikueru no sa boku dake no tame ni aru kotoba
Hidamari de SUNDAY arikitari no itsumo to onaji kyou wa Sunday
Aratamete iu yo kimi ni koto wo donna toki datte aishiteru

Itsumo to onaji Sunday
Arikitari no Sunday
Demo tokubetsu na Sunday

Searching......
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hmm

2005-01-15T20:14:00.000+08:00

This is strange. Amanda blogging twice in a day? yes i'm weird. tell u something weirder. the fun, crazy amanda has just suffered a breakdown. yes a huge on indeed. NEVER in my life have i felt so dependent on someone else. I know the feeling of lonliness. TRUST ME. When i need my parents, they weren't here. I was so afraid i was gona die at home, till i actually cried in my sleep. Actually, i didn't sleep at all. THANK GOD for auntie Sharon and uncle Ong, they called their friend, a doctor who rushed to my place to see how i was. The feeling of my mom not being beside me is horrible, i don't know how words can express it. Thankgod someone came to my rescue. I was beginning to have suicidal thoughts.

The doctor helped me get an inhaler. I had asthmatic cough and i was having severe diarrhoea and weight loss. I want my mom. I was going to cry again but i have to be brave. i'm 18 years old for goodness sakes! a week without mom and i'm weeping like nobody's business? i'm sure my maid is terrified. She was looking at me with her huge eyes wondering why her little mistress is crying. I couldn't help it. My mom was my world.

Thanks to rafael too, who kept me company even for just 30 min, chattin on the msn with him made me feel better. Thank you. Without you i could've sank deeper into depression and have more suicidal thoughts.

Now i'm at auntie sharon's place. Those who are looking for me, don't worry. I'm not at home and i'm safe here. There're people to keep me company. I may have broken down, i may be in depression, but as long as i'm not dead, i believe i can recover.

Hopefully, i can make it through this dark stormy period of my life.

Searching......
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...

2005-01-15T13:45:00.000+08:00

I've been sick.... still sick... still very sick. I feel light headed. I need my parents for goodness sakes!! i'm so alone! they're all in taiwan! help! i feel so lonely i could cry! do u have any idea how much medicine i have to eat? do you know i lost 5kg? do u know i can't even walk straight? i need love. where's a boyfriend when you need one? most importantly, where's the family love i need soooo desparately?!!? help me please!!!!

mommy, daddy, if only u could see this and come back early.... i don't think i can hold it out anymore.

Searching......
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