had a little talk wif mom this morning on her life before marriage...

i learnt that my grandpa was a crazy old man... after the WW2, shophouses that were unoccupied were going for sale at S$30 per shophouse. S$30!!! grandma was pestering grandpa to get one of it... cos the shophouses there were not like wad they are now... lemme see...

1 former day shopshouse = 6 present day shophouse

how does that sound? wads worst is that grandpa said we dun need such a huge house... for God's sake. its $30!!! yu can only get 10 plates of chicken rice with $30 in present day singapore. if he had agreed to buy... we might haf been bi-zillionaires by now... and mom needn't marry my shitty dad and she would haf been a highly educated career minded woman... and hadnt gotten married, and i wouldnt haf existed. hmm.

christina seet... a very special Virgoan.

you are deeply perceptive. remember the story of the Princess and the Pea? you can detect a lentil under a million mattresses. do not understand that you spend your time looking for things to criticise. far from it, you go out of your way to avoid finding fault. it's just that faults have a way of finding you. it is as if they walk up to you and tap you on the shoulder saying "christina, look at me. cant you see how badly made\designed\organised i am? please put me out of my misery. for heavens' sake let someone know what is wrong with me and tell them how to put me right!" you are a kind, sympathetic person who is always willing to help. how can you resist such a request? reluctantly, for you know it will cause controversy and you hate any form of conflict, you will come bravely to the aid of this poor little problem.

or so, at least thats how it seems to be. you are a Virgo and all Virgos find themselves, for some inexplicable reason, being labelled 'fussy.' you, though is actually very broad minded, tolerant and far sighted. you can forgive a thousand transgressions and excuse a multitude of mistakes. anyone can take advantage of your endless good nature and generally abuse your willingness to be friendly without ever hearing so much as a word of complaint. if, though, as anyone walk all over christina anyone can commit the cardinal sin of leaving their shoelaces undone, they will soon hear sharp words of complaint. there is though, a reason why you are so often easy going, restrained, and liable to take the blame for things which are not your fault. given your impeccable eye for detail, your infallible insight into other people, and your accurate good judgement you can soon end up ruling the world. to ensure that others have at least a fighting chance nature has imbued you with a small handicap in the shape of a mild (and totally inappropriate) inferiority complex.

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"you no need to buy lantern liao arh."

hahaha... my last moments as a newly 18 yr old...
my diet plans haf just *poof*... gone.
i was having TYS (tom yam steamboat) until i buay dong...
woohoo.
presents gotten are numberous... big and small...

i feel like a happy little bird today... sweet 18!
got a HUGE surprise from all the presents...
thank you ALL!
G3, F4, M4... the whole class...
friends in the sch... haha i feel so wonderful.
really shocked to get birthday notes frm seriously unexpected pple...
HAHAHA!
later still got steamboat at suz's...
ahhh...

its my birthday! now i haf ard 364 days and 20mins to do everything i ever wanted to...
mom says its my most "beautiful" year of my life... gotta complete all my reesolutions!
happy birthday to me!

"gentlemen, good night. ladies, good morning."

still cant finish my PC. kate chopin, kate chopin, kate chopin... if only yu were still alive...
why write such a story? yu truly amaze me...

im supposed to go for my second try for a gold at napfa re-test tml.
am i able to grow stronger biceps in less than 24 hrs?
i swore i felt them growing last week.

anyway i just had steamboat mom prepared... and tml im supposed to haf steamboat at suz's.

oh God. i seriously need a diet.

now to log off and finish up my the story of an hour by kate chopin.

wow... its damn true.


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i wonder wad happened to me.
the world is still beautiful...

yesterday had a hell lot of fun wif the huiguan whole gang. we went for a karaoke bash in chinatown...
ex ex ex!!! warning to all: dun go there!
weiyuan was all raring to go and really CRAZEE!
EVERYBODY was snatching the mike and all... lol!!!!!

there were: tingbin and his gf, tinghan, me, linhui, qinrui, liting, rouxin, shiya, miaojuan who met at the chinatown mrt station first. then later clara came, xiukun and weiyuan at the macs, liren, weifen and yinghao who met us in room, and yingwen who arrived wif my cake! which i managed to cut so carefully that everyone had a piece! but the fruits were all mutilated by me trying to divide the fruits equally...

yah... hahaha... guess wad? out of my 12 years in huiguan, this is the first time celebrating wif them my bdae...

we sang a zillion songs... MOST memorable was the song by matilda tao "jie jie mei mei zhan qi lai". me and liren were SCREAMING into the mikes when the chorus started everytime... until we actually STOOD up and shouted at each other pointing at each other as if we were in this mad hot blooded battle... the rest were laughing till they were choking on their honey water. not forgetting to mention the honey water cost a whopping $8.00 per glass.

had to leave early cos it was 10.30 already... boohoo. liren offered to send me to the mrt station but we walked past SMITH STREET!!!
so yinghao and liren couldnt control their hunger anymore cos they hadnt eaten their dinner after their rugby match.
so the plan changed to liren sending me HOME! yay!
so me, xiukun, liren, yinghao, weifen and weiyuan munched up some food and off we went...

yu CANNOT believe how liren drives. it was soooooo SHIOK! he threatened to buang here and there and did stunts like round-abouts in max speed and he drove the OPPOSITE direction of a one way street, until this ah peh in a taxi woke up frm his doze and stared at our truck.

we stopped at the old huiguan.
beautiful. marvellous. FA-BU-LU-SO!
its a totally diff place frm the last time we had... looking at the 8 storey building that looked so magnificent, who can believe it was once a 4 storey, tiny stepped, non-elevated, cemented floor, gloomy staged (suz shld know this... she was freaked out that time she was there), heavy curtained, dust infested, shatter-prone glass windows and doors, but cosy, homey, memorable classrooms...

i teared.

then liren and me were suggesting so many ideals that can be done if only the adminstration building can accomodate us an area as a theatre exclusive to us... wif comfy seats. so we wun need to go thru so many shit to get a chaat place in that stoopid building that limits our every move.
maybe... someday...

den liren went to fill his petrol at esso... and i proudly announce i know how to fill oil now! thanks to yesterday's teaching, hahaha...
frm 10.30pm... the journey home was so fantasic. i forced yinghao to exchange seats so i can sit at the front. good view!

ZOOOOOOMMMMMMM.... *screechhhhh* the smell of burning tires. everyone's hair was standing up. except mine. i kept screaming WOOHOO!!!!!
im addicted to liren's RECKLESS driving!!!

"xiling, i tell yu. cannot everytime anyhow drive one. *sharp turn* later yu buang arh. if yu lucky, yu die. if unlucky, EVERYONE die. *brakes*"

mom was waiting downstairs. it was 12.30am. she couldnt believe that her daughter came home in a LORRY.
bathed. went thru wif mom a little of her english homework. slept.

making contacts later... finally a REAL pair. shld i add my astig? hmm.
meeting G3 later after contacts. ahhh.

"now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me. cos we need a little controversy, cos it feels so empty without me."

pon GP today and went cartel wif suz and hy. ate till i burst. this time no yuckky pasta/cheese! xp where are yu??? miss ya loads.

the ribs reminded me of degradation back to old civilisation where hunters roast their hunts on spits and tear down the ribs with their clumsily over-sharpened little knives.

overslept on 12 AGAIN. decided to take a look in the national library... finally read the 25th book of the celestial zone! quite nice... but there's celestial zone2 coming! then i came across this book... "a smart girl's guide to boys"... found this page abt changing interests quite apt:

"rx for an ailing friendship"
if yu haf a bf (or want one) and yr friend doesnt:

1.dun ask the boy to come along every single time yu go somewhere wif yr friend. SAVE TIME just for her.

2.dun break a date wif yr friend bcos the boy asked yu to do something else. its rude and annoying.

3.dun try to convince her that she shld like boys too. telling a friend she's slow or backward or uncool is not a smart move if yu wanna stay friends. (i dun really see much of this though)

4.dun talk to yr friend abt this boy all the time. at best, it'll bore her. it may also make her feel jealous and left out.

tml's last essay test for human geog on population...
i'll go study now.

"can't you see? she's not breathing."

1800 tickings i endured... my temples throbbed...
the walk had never seem so long, so ardious. every single step was painful.
futile attempts to talk abt something, anything. trying to relate back to the old times.
the adjacent position made it impossible to see the features.
every sob pang into my ears and cut deep into my heart, every single one of them. cos i know it's never the same, genuine ones ive heard before.
short exchanges, little nods, faint smiles.

a shrug to end it all.

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at sch was guys galore today... the whole world was there.
utt, mehmeh (its his bdae tml!), mojo, cutecute, shuang k, EVERYONE YOU NAME IT.
btw... bazhang knows i... yah. i could feel his eyes boring hole through me in the hawker centre. dead as usual.
played the "wallet game" wif suz... its seriously very A.A...
was really fun...
can't wait for monday!

"sometimes it's better to be alone. nobody can hurt you."

i will be meeting mich and merv at changi to study tml... hopefully something productive can come outta it.
friday going to makan wif c4 xalmon silk again... kway chap?
sat making specs wif bro and meeting zhebin to spend sometime wif him before he goes back to canada.
sun evaluation for thirteen

filling up my days wif loads... weathering it down, eroding.

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friday, 8th aug 2003

shall not comment on frm 1000-1600hrs

1615hrs- met suz hy at bugis junction
1625hrs- walked into the shop wif the nice display outside the shop
1626hrs- whilst stepping into the fitting room, saw 2 stepped out wif same dress
1640hrs- started to bus stop waiting for 12 to katong sc for xp
1710hrs- reached. game 3/4 thru
1740hrs- met coldfire
1800hrs- screamed for ruzz, xp, ron and shifu
1830hrs- won 4th place. went down marina first wif nicole, dada and suz
1900hrs- waited for mandy janet shikin who lost their way in the mrt lines
1901hrs- met coldfire again at mrt
1930hrs- settled in wads-that-called steamboat area
2030hrs- silk ard marina. tried to find me, to no avail
2045hrs- coldfire msg, replied wif oily hands
2115hrs- sueann noticed tay ping hui look alike and took fotos
2130hrs- suz suffer frm indigestion
2200hrs- mrt to city hall
2230hrs- took 700
2315hrs- reached LRT station, no miss this time
2330hrs- reached home

thursday, 7th aug 2003

1230hrs- sch over. hid in library. mugged math
1300hrs- msg c4 xalmon coldfire and silk, mugged somemore
1530hrs- met c4 opp sch bus stop
1545hrs- walked ard central, settled in BK, c4 ate, pinched some fries
1600hrs- tj butch entered BK, c4 freaked out
1630hrs- left BK walked ard somemore
1700hrs- met coldfire xalmon
1715hrs- gave dirty looks to c4 for wanting to go home
1720hrs- took 14 to blk 85
1745hrs- silk arrives after first round of cheng teng, chokes on longan
1748hrs- silk goes buying $10 bah chor mee
1830hrs- no bah chor mee
1845hrs- bah chor mee comes
1900hrs- finish bah chor mee
1901hrs- joking session begins
1945hrs- craving for liew lians
2000hrs- bought 6 liew lians
2015hrs- started eating durians, made fun of banglahs and PRCs

2030hrs- finished liew lians at some void deck, chokes on durians
2045hrs- marathon walk back to sch accompanied by c4
2105hrs- grabs bag and leaves
2115hrs- gets on 12 frm back gate
2200hrs- miss stop
2230hrs- gets on 190 at stamford road
2315hrs- miss stop
0000hrs- reach home

child art- $30
flowers- $10
friendship- priceless

sometimes we fail to see the nice side of things... and focus too much on the bad side... and over do it.
why cant we just love everyone?

call me a hermit, say anything yu want. i predict i will be having a sore throat tml and i cant talk.

last day of performance. big mistake to ask elemental and C4 to go...
one word. CRAP.
nah. it wasnt that bad. quite fun actually... sorry for making yu guys wait for me for so long!
spending time with the indian community...
due to time constrain... macs was quite horrendous... sorry again!!!
den it was another set of video taking... jokes...
great day, WOO!

4th day for my performance today...
met the big boss today... miraculously after round one of bombarding wif the silly tutor's comments... nothing much happened... sigh. wads new?
mich and mervin came to watch the play today... heard that they were hanky panky-ing throughout my play!!! for God's sake its a theatre play, not a cinema!
remember i was talking abt the ayumi parody? here it is...