Monday, December 12, 2005
incredibly long time since i blogged. i figured i only come here when i'm uber bored. it's only 1030am and i'm feeling lost and undirected thinking about what i should do for the rest of the day. waiting for pple to reply me, but obviously there's something wrong with their body clock. just done reading Q&A - everyone should go read it cos it's damn good. it's hard to find a good read nowadays.
well anyway post-prom days are here. not that fun at all. went for interview at chua swee keng & co yesterday morning. job: personal assistant to a lawyer. job description: clerical admin stuff, type documents, run personal errands, send jacket for dry cleaning. interview was okay, wasn't fantastic though. i thought i could easily strike the impression that i am an arrogant brat. well i'll just wait and see how it goes - either they want me or they don't. simple as that.
after that was lunch at suntec and perhaps love. pardon me, but perhaps love was quite a disappointment. i'd be better off watching some bollywood movie with more singing and dancing - at least there'd be more entertainment eh? well dinner sucked. haha, much to our dismay. the big o should just stick to serving desserts. rather than chinese-looking dishes with french names and beef rendang passing off as stew. highlight of the day was muddy mudpie at coffee club. now we're talking (: sorry blogging mood no longer exists - so long.
12/12/2005 06:23:00 PM.[rui]
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
hmm things are not looking very well for yours truly these days. i can feel that everything is slipping away from me. my confidence level is declining, im losing my sense of security, im getting paranoid blah blah blah. yeah and im getting really competitive, though not outwardly showing though. i've known for a fact that i never did like to lose, but it was all a matter of how i took the failure. so anyway, i tried to do some thinking and soul-searching on my own but somehow it never fails to come back to square one. and so i turn to my new source of inspiration: the purpose-driven life. not that it wasnt useful...but i just couldnt concentrate on the reading. there is an imperative need to make myself happy once more.
on a lighter note, i went shopping today with chuan at queensway. we were actually getting his birthday present which i am quite ashamed to say its a pair of shoes, considering what he got for me for my birthday. i know he wouldnt mind, but well, im doing the best i can. it was nice to take some time off, and to see him do some speed shopping. i can never understand how guys can buy clothes without trying them on. i bet if i werent there he'd probably not try on the shoes as well. so after that we headed to ikea to satisfy our grumbling stomachs. we ate sooo much i swear i could burst anytime and the thought of having to eat dinner in less than 2 hours wasnt helping either. nevertheless it was a great meal and a pleasant time out. ------->OUT
8/16/2005 07:58:00 AM.[rui]
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Friday, August 12, 2005
sighh. feeling like crap. well dont ask me why, probably a serious bout of pms. though thats really just an excuse anyway. its the time again when i reflect upon my life and think its unbelievably messed up. and being the great egotistical proud arrogant person that i am, i find no necessity in divulging anything here. pardon my outrage. ------>OUT
8/12/2005 05:21:00 AM.[rui]
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Saturday, August 06, 2005
"sunday morning rain is falling, steal some covers share some skin..."its not a bad sunday morning, or rather, its a not-bad sunday morning. im having good rest at home! this week has been quite a long a dreary one so i totally deserve all the rest i can have =) lets see - on wednesday headed down to town with teh and geri for a belated birthday celebration. went to fish & co at wheelock to chomp down on good food, i was damn hungry then. the place there was new, and it was cool. different from the usual glasshouse or the normal fish & co i always go to. so there we were, half eating and half talking about things that really dont concern us but had an affinity for (aka gossiping). and we were waiting for ruth to join us but the poor girl got held up in school (as usual). thought she wasnt going to come after all but she did! yay its been awhile since the four of us caught up, and although it was evident that we were all drained and tired from school, i guess we all enjoyed each others' company =) so we walked around, ruth got bread from sunmoulin and we decided to rest at mcCafe at shaw house. it was a nice place though there were too much smoke and stairs haha. teh and ruth sneakily went off to get "coffee" and i figured something was not right. and halfway i remembered that teh doesnt drink coffee! yeah eventually they came back with 4 slices of cake! haha so we began pigging out again and had a picture taking frenzy. oh well it was a nice night out and i miss my friends. -_-
friday was kind of a shitty day. i was supposed to end at 320 but from now i have econs revision after that till about 5. and having pe on that day doesnt help. having tuition at 6 obviously doesnt help too. so i was incredibly tired after econs and dragged myself to tuition. we're gonna stop tuition soon i think, and i was thinking that once that happens, i'll probably spend less time with the girls. sigh like its not sad enough already that we only have tuition to spend time together. i guess we have lots of catching up after exams ya? =) so that day after everything i was too shacked to do any work and thus i did some research on local universities. thankfully i now have a rough idea of what im going to do - narrowed down my choices to mass comm, business or sociology. i told my parents about my consideration of stopping school for a year and taking that time to really decide what i wanna do, or "find my calling", so to speak. and expectedly, they discouraged me from doing so. "what are you going to do then?" "it will kill your momentum of studying" "you'll probably not feel like going back to school once you start working" yada yada yada. i guess they have some point there... and it was just a fleeting thought for me. havent really worked out the consequences and everything. and they assured me that i could keep trying for a scholarship even after my admission into a local uni. and if i really do succeed, i could just quit what i've started here and go somewhere else to pursue my education. not a bad plan after all...oh well. shall get back to work. ------->OUT
8/06/2005 08:17:00 PM.[rui]
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Monday, August 01, 2005
its a tuesday morning (time check: 8.50am) and im at home! ta-daaaa im on mc. haha. just the normal stuff, flu and blocked nose and body ache and whatnot. but you know what, getting sick doesnt give you the excuse not to study - which is absolutely disgusting. hence its a vicious cycle, you're sick but you have to study cos you're missing out lessons, then bcos you gotta study you get more sick, and then you miss more lessons and you have to study even more! blah blah blah tsk tis' a sad world.
but talking abt happy things, i got my present from teh and geri! yayyyy finally its not belated haha. ok maybe its late by 2 days but it sure beats being late for a year! anyway they gave me a photo scrapbook with lots of cut-outs, notes and photos! haha how sweet! thanks to all who contributed =D and esp the 2 darlings who put in so much effort into the mini project. and they got me the purpose driven life by rick warren! well i guess they know i've been wanting to read it cos i kept asking geri for it. thanks anyway! oh ya and the 2 of them were scheming enough to spring me a surprise on sunday. so there i was sleeping like a log when they screamed into my ear "happy birthday becca!" or something like that, i cant remember i was still half asleep. i refused to get up but they got me out anyway. they threw me a sunflower and brought me breakfast in bed haha. so there we were, me in my most unglamourous wake-up look and my donald duck t-shirt and paddington bear shorts haha, and we just talked for awhile before they left for cell. love them lots =D
okie i shall go back to my work. oh and my tagboard's down =( -------->OUT
8/01/2005 05:33:00 PM.[rui]
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
OMG.
wait ah. im in this state of trauma. i just tored the plastic of that green box. and now im gonna open it. okay now i just slid the green box to find a white box. haha. and the white box says "designed by apple in california". ok so now i open the box (its like opening a book) and TA-DAAA! there you go, my green mini! i mean like, OMG. im so sorry i cant even synthesize exactly what i wanna say. if you know me, you'd probably know i take a damn long time to always get what i want. so its really like a dream come true when people get me what i want haha. OMG. ok its installing now and im still on a high i dont feel like sleeping yet. so i shall just post about today =)
so the day started off with me going for the scholar's choice preview. kind of a misnomer since nobody who attended was a scholar yet. yk had to pangseh me cos he thought it would be useless and boring from what he saw at the exhibition. but i went on with it since i already bought the ticket. luckily i met emm and her friend there and so they invited me to tag along haha. first they had like uk and us university application talks which were pretty useful. jotted down stuff for chuan too. yeah the second part of the seminar was supposed to help you choose your ideal scholarship or course of study but it was useless anyway. maybe cos we went in late and had to sit at the back. so then we decided to run off halfway heh.
met some of my class pple so we left to walk around, helping mz to find his present for joy. then we had the big problem of deciding where to eat...as usual. eventually we decided for pizza hut but had to wait for quite long for seats so we went up to the arcade haha. played bishi bashi like we always do and then most of the time i was just looking in awe at the drummania pple haha. so then when we finally we got seats (it was already 8) the funny dinner started. first i got damn high, mostly cos of the mini i got. and i made the waiter damn confused and amused at the same time. i think he thinks im crazy or drunk. then we were talking abt how it isnt compulsory to pay service charge if you think the service was lousy. so we started counting the number of times they presented lousy service. 1. they forgot to add an extra table for us 2. the clumsy/amused/confused waiter toppled the bowls on our table 3. the waitress gave us an irritated look while serving us 4. err...i cant remember anymore haha. but i guess these were offset by the fact that gordon broke a pitcher towards the end of dinner haha. oh and we were admiring the box of godivas i got haha. a taste of high class living eh? its dark chocolate, 85% cocoa and way too bitter haha. but the packaging's damn nice and fel couldnt resist taking photos of them. and i got a red western lawn! OMG. =D anyway i was getting damn high during dinner and kept saying stupid stuff haha. like offering myself as dessert to everyone. oh well, at least i think everyone seemed to enjoy dinner. esp yk who looked quite down these few days but glad he came to have a good time =)
and sweet sweet felyna called at midnight to sing me the birthday song! even bernard got me a gift though i dont really talk to him hahaha. thank God for the special darlings out there who gave me more than what i could have asked for. and especially chuan who's done so much for me =D well, have a good rest everyone. good night, world. ------>OUT
7/30/2005 09:07:00 AM.[rui]
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Sunday, July 24, 2005
just came back from a swim. i always liked swimming alone - it gives me this incredible sense of tranquility and peacefulness. i guess i like spending time with myself occasionally. helps me to recollect my thoughts.
went for zpop concert yesterday! with chuan, ck, grace, wq and oli. haha felt a little silly initially cos it seemed as though we were following in the footsteps of those crazy fans. but i mean, the tics were free and worth 20 bucks and you get live music and performance, not a bad deal i suppose. ck suggested us selling all our tics and using the money to go for a good meal. quite a brilliant idea, pity it was illegal. so there we were, inside the huge empty hall with NO seats. so we found a spot and settled ourselves in. and i amused everyone with my cute foldable binoculars which my parents made me bring =s. so first came this home-grown chinese rock band ( well actually, everything was in chinese). i found them surprisingly good, despite their diction was like crap. well then came along various other local performers who werent exactly supposed to be singers and we were getting bored so chuan and i went to get cards for them to play. haha it was quite stupid cos we werent actually watching the performance attentively. we couldnt even see the stage properly and had to look at the big screen so it felt like watching a gigantic tv at home. so the guys played cards and me and grace indulged in the magazine we bought, and occasionally wq would drool over some overly sweet performer like some chinese newbie. and oliver remained straight faced throughout until i told him i saw this girl who looked like him hahaha. ck was waiting for gigi to come out. and chuan was waiting for jj. i was waiting for amei, and unfortunately since she's supposed to be the star of the event she had to come out LAST. jj's performance was very entertaining, never knew singapore could have such a talent. but i guess you can never find the perfect talent in singapore. if you sing well you're never good-looking. vice versa haha.
anyway it was scholarship day in school last friday, and since i "missed" the invitation to the talk i went to the exhibition instead haha. was pretty inspired by all the stuff around and got motivated to search for an internship this hols. wish me luck! =) ------>OUT
7/24/2005 03:59:00 AM.[rui]
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