ich liebe dich

2012-01-23T23:14:00.003+08:00

恭喜发财！龙年行大运！
Happy Chinese New year! especially to all the dragon babies out there! :)

this chinese new year only made me realize that i cannot imagine new year without my grandmother.

she is the glue that holds everyone in the family together and cny won't be cny without her.

i know that she won't be here for every cny in my life, but i will treasure every new year with her.

2012-01-02T01:49:00.009+08:00

this is wayyyyy overdue, but to sum up 2011...

2011 Debrief Report

Highlights

MEXICO! :):) reunited with my mexican family and friends. :)
Cancun!
I had my first REAL pets!! (not counting the couple of goldfishes and terrapins i used to own haha) my rabbits duraznita and manguito!
Graduation, which marked the end of my studying career for now.
Phuket vacation, awesome time!
Celebrated Birthday in Singapore after 2 years away!
Started PR internship, got paid!
entered relationship

Lowlights

period of unemployment and uncertainty. sending my CV and cover letters to different companies and job searching sure wasn't easy.
ended relationship

Recommendations for 2012

lose weight!
think about what i really want to do and if PR is really for me
learn Zumba! and if time and money permits, start salsa-ing again
start practicing German again! so sad that i hardly get to use it now and i dread the day where i forget it totally :(
Live life to the fullest!, before the end of the world in december 2012. hahah = travel! i really want to go to brazil and cuba!

Event photos

Mexico- Guanajuato!

with ricardo and carla at favourite place, Wings Army! monday and thursday is one for one on all local beer=SGD 2.70 for 2 coronas! and the awesome spicy buffalo wings

my first pets, manguito and duraznita :)

with marce!

my mexican family, we were celebrating marce's grandma's 97th birthday!

Cancun! free flow of margaritas, mojitos, beer, pina coladas, daiquiris... in the pool bar

cancun- view from hotel room

graduation!!!

this cake made me come back to Singapore :P thank you jia min!!

Phuket and phi phi island! :)

work!

and whatever/whoever else sweet and colorful and delicious in my life, thank you all for the awesome 2011!

Popeyes has delivery!

2011-11-22T22:48:00.002+08:00

Popeyes has delivery services now!!!! and my area happens to be on their delivery route, which is ironic since the closer you stay to a popeyes outlet, the greater the chance of having popeyes delivered to your house.

but anyway, what greater time to have popeyes than now, when grandma is out on holiday in thailand and we have no food for the week. we being my sister and i. oh and in today's case, sister's boyfriend too. got off work late today so by the time i got home, saw the popeyes delivery man leaving and there was popeyes when i got home!

when i saw the bread biscuit and the jam, couldn't help thinking about that time jo and i bought maple syrup to changi airport just because we didn't like the jam they gave. haha talk about desperate. i must say that popeyes is the fast food that brings back the most memories, having eaten it so over the years with different people.

sadly, as i grow up, the chicken seems to have lost its appeal and i dunno if its just me or the standard of popeyes. i just don't feel as excited over the chicken anymore. its the same thing with macs and other fast food. since the taste of macs food couldn't have changed so much, guess its part and parcel of growing up, that fast food is no longer as appealing. its kind of sad cos

1. it makes me feel bloody old. when i was young i used to think my parents and aunties were crazy for hating macs. now i dun understand why anyone will eat macs if they have a choice.

2. compared to some of the places we eat at now, fast food is cheap. so i am paying a lot more to have the same satisfaction i have eating food than when i was younger and eating fast food gave me such satisfaction.

3. i don't want to grow up :(

oh wells. i have no idea why i wrote this post. about popeyes. guess i am really bored :S

2011-10-05T19:38:00.001+08:00

is it?

2011-09-23T01:36:00.001+08:00

dont think i can ever find a job
and october is looming..
i am a loser!!!!!!!!!!! :(

2011-09-21T00:12:00.006+08:00

Duraznita gave birth a while ago, so that makes me the proud grandmother of 12!!!!!! though its amazing how a brown and a white rabbit can have 5 black rabbitchen.. hahaha..the wonders of rabbit genes :D

them huddling together because of the cold!

multi- racial siblings ... on their way to starting their first marathon..

<3

miniature sized version of mommy!

the black beauties!

hello there cutie!

he is literally da tou :p

2011-09-03T01:05:00.002+08:00

how come i am always at such a loss of words nowadays :S

2011-08-26T12:42:00.002+08:00

somehow today feels like a bad day for an interview :S
sky's overcast, and last night i had to have the worst case of insomnia i ever had, laying awake till close to 7 am. :S and now i am cranky and pms-y and ready to snap at everyone and anyone.

not a good feeling yooooooooooooo :(

2011-08-24T21:16:00.002+08:00

i am really happy that everyone has found employment, esp for omela and evon who have gotten the jobs that they wanted.

but at the same time, cant help feeling crappy that the future still looks bleak for me.. havent had any decent reply and the only interview i have is with mindef and if that blows i wont know what to do... been at home and its driving me nuts and super angsty :S doesnt help that everyone has been talking abt employment lately and i feeel so lousyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. :(

pre emplyment jitters

2011-08-17T20:57:00.003+08:00

so i guess at age 23, its finally not acceptable to say that you dont know what you want to do in your life. just wish someone will come up to me and tell me where i will be in 5/10/15/20 years time so i will stop thinking/worrying so much. certainly feels scary now that the schooling days are over and its no longer studying just so you can get into university. question now is, what happens next?

i am scared, scared that i wont like my first job, scared that whatever i do will get me nowhere in future, scared that i hate my job but i will be too scared to move on, scared that i have horrible colleagues who hate/bitch about me, scared that i would never find a job that i love. scared that i will never have enough money to support anyone even myself :S

or maybe i should just go to a fortune teller.. if he tells me i am going to land a rich husband who will provide for me all my life, maybe i can stop worrying so much hahahaha

2011-07-23T23:19:00.002+08:00

I AM BORED OUT OF MY MIND.
:(

arghhhhhhhhh life is getting frustrating. :S

who says shopping cant make you happy? :)

2011-03-31T04:10:00.003+08:00

:D :D

2011-03-24T06:18:00.004+08:00

si

quiero ser tu novia :)

mis love :)

2011-03-23T15:10:00.002+08:00

when there were babies :) so tiny they could fit in a normal person's palm.not mine though.. mine are too small. hahaah. growing at a exponential rate nonetheless and spoiling them with carrots. and they refuse to go back to cheap rabbit food ><

meet manguito (mango)

and duraznita (peach)

:):):)

2011-01-10T20:22:00.002+08:00

now i finally understand emotional/mental fatigue.

2011 hasnt been going great at all. first day of the year started with trip to SGH and waiting in the A&E. emotional roller coaster from call abt father's heart attack to waiting while he had his surgery. then physical tireness from hospital visits. having a sick patient at home hasnt been easy too. then when i thought things were getting better, he had to be admitted again. then now doctors want to do more tests on his lungs.

i pray to God its not cancer. otherwise i think i will really hate him. and i think both our hearts cant take this anymore. and it seems like everyone at home is bitching, meno-pausing, stressed, pissed in some way or another.

really really need to go away again. i cant deal with everything at home. call it running away but i might sink into a permanent state of heavy heartedness if i stay here. :(

2010-12-28T01:02:00.001+08:00

its new year. i am not going to cry.

fuck.

just the way you are

2010-11-17T02:51:00.002+08:00

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

omg such a feel good pop song that is overplayed.
but its sweeetttttttt.. and sometimes you cant help but believe the lyrics. that the guy truly means every word he sings.

i promise to marry the guy who sings me this song! hahahahah damn. why do i feel like a 'i am waiting for my prince charming and one true love" teenager :S ????

2010-11-08T22:41:00.003+08:00

got my new belt today!
officially no longer a white belt . ok la. still white belt but with yellow tip? hehe

and i feel so tired now at 10.42pm. which is weird.WHY???
DIDNT EVEN DO MUCH TODAY OTHER THAN BEING IN SCHOOL. sigh maybe being in school itself is draining. and i feel so tired, i dun even have the strength to eat dinner. THIS IS SO ODD. since when am i too tired to eat???? :S

okok final presentation tmr! and then i can sleep and sleep and sleep and sleeep :)

2010-11-05T01:16:00.002+08:00

2010-10-03T03:29:00.002+08:00

my sister is right. my life is pathetic. i lead a life on fb :(

time to move everything offline and back to reality.

das heisst: MORE SALSA, MORE TAEKWANDO, MORE WORK, MORE READINGS, MORE STUDYING (ok dun take the last two so seriously)

LESS FACEBOOK.

as usual. easier said than done,. but GO ALYCIA!

end of recess week.

2010-09-26T01:51:00.000+08:00

end of recess week and my readings are still :S

should be worrying about how i am going to finish my readings and about my mid terms but all i am doing is wonder when he is going to come online so i can skype with him :( shouldnt have started this game with him.. now guess who is at the loosing end. :( u gave me a taste of what its like and i want more. which we all know u cant give. so guess who ends up being disappointed and hurt.

mi corazon esta colgando en tus manos. PINCHE.

anyway skyped with daniel, roberto, misael, carla, armando when they were at daniels house for fiesta latina and i never wanted to be somewhere so badly!!!!!!!! seeing them drunk, singing, dancing.. wish that i could be there so bad :( and daniel was happily announcing how there were 100 over pple at his house for the party and that a few pple outside his house were taken away by the police for some reason that i didnt catch..happening much no??? hahaha want to be in mexico now now nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

anyway had a great night with jia min ytd. beer in hand and sitting on some random steps and talking random talks. :) feels like something we will do in germany :) ok screw the weather in singapore and expensive beerrrrrrr. but oh wellls. what rockED was the company so LETS DO THIS MORE OFTEN! :)

2010-09-19T01:43:00.003+08:00

DUN BE STUPID ALYCIA!
get life in order. or maybe get priorities right. right now, they feel kind of queued up in the opposite direction :S

how to start:
go find that reading i am supposed to have read for the first week from RBR!

and and and.. i desperately need to start working. bank acct from 4 digits to 3 when i came back from mexico. and from the looks of it, and the rubbish i have been buying, dwindling down to a 2 soon. RAHHHHHHHHHHHH

and and and.. i want to learn bachata. someone told me its sensual :P

and . i need to get my ass out of the house on a sat night. its making me depressed.

2010-09-17T03:42:00.002+08:00

Esther :

i think he really wants u to go to mexico in december

hahaha

he kept going on abt u

i was like WA LAO EH.

daniel oh daniel.dun do this to me :(

Felicidades Mexico!

2010-09-17T03:30:00.007+08:00

FELICIDADES MEXICO!
BICENTENARIO CELEBRATIONS ALL OVER MEXICO! happy 200 years of independence from spain. would have loved to be back in mexico celebrating this special occasion but since we are stuck in sg, we shifted celebrations to sg :)

p.s. i still cant believe i wore the mexico t shirt to class today in commemoration of the bicentenario. LIKE I DUN REMEMBER MYSELF EVER WEARING A T SHIRT TO NUS?? but heck.. now let me think.. did i ever wore red on neational day? :P

AWESOME night meeting everyone again,eating mex food and listening to spanish songs and talking abt Mexico, times in Mex .. buuuuuuuuuuuu quiero estar en mexico :(

2010-09-09T00:38:00.003+08:00

zhen yang's advice to me at glorias birthday party: some long incoherent stuff that i didnt catch.
but the pt he was trying to make.. he wasnt looking for a gf and he landed himself with one. so seek and u shall not find.

WHAT THE FUCK. am i starting to reek of desperation??? rahhhhhhh
and on the cab..

zy:you are not evergreen right?
me: yes. i am.
zy: oh.

like ok.. thanks for making me feel like a loser once again. and reminding me of the fact that yes at 22. alycia is still evergreen :(

and as discussed with jm and omela: yes i do not want to be the rich aunty. the UNMARRIED rich aunty. :SSSSS

2010-09-08T02:38:00.001+08:00

from omela. telling me to be a woman??? and not pms???? hahhahaa ok.whatever.
you know i love you :D <3<3<3

hola conejo

2010-09-08T02:31:00.002+08:00

hola conejo.
stolen property.
dunno why i brought u back with me. should have just left you in mexico.

2010-08-16T23:54:00.002+08:00

can u please come??? :(

booooo.. need a major distraction and school's not good enough.. s$4.85 worth of readings for only the first week.. not cool at all.. and all the travelling's is making its after effect shown now.. i don't feel like/ cant study anymore.. rah.. my heart is so not into it now.. all i want is for the sem to be over. :S and its only the 2nd week :S:S:S

can we go back to tokyo disneyland???? i want pooh and mickey and minnie and the cute toy from toy story and stitch and ... AND MY HONEY POT. I WANT MY HONEY POT :(:(:(

2010-08-14T19:23:00.001+08:00

hates nights like this, when i think about u so much :(

2010-08-05T00:32:00.002+08:00

feeling ultra fat and ugly in japan..
why are japanese girls so slim and walk around immacutely dressed and made up while i walk around sweating like a dog in this 35 degree tokyo sun???

oh wells. but tokyo is awesome~ if not for the fact that everythign is so uber expensive... going broke broke broke here.. but i'm loving it~ :)

disneyland tmr!
:D:D:D:D

new york..

2010-07-30T23:49:00.003+08:00

new york is so overwhelming..
thats the only adjective i can think of now..
you step into the big apple and barely caught your breath starring up at those menacingly tall skyscrapers before you are caught in the crowd, made to move along with the thousands of people on the street, walking furiously fast, typing ferociously on their blackberry, talking on their phones..

and the subway.. maybe i am really slow.. but how can people talk to me in numbers and expect me to know where i am going.. its easy.. just go to the cross between 42nd and blah blah and whereever..no.. its freaking not easy..its like walkign aimlessly in the subway and hoping that god will be kind and bring you to the correct train.. doesnt help that super unfriendly people work behind the counters and look like they are able to bite your heads off if u even dared to ask them any questions..

its like small girl alone in big city.. everything just works so differently and everything just seems so scary..and big. everyone seems so busy and occupied.. doesnt help that i came from mexico where things go so slow and people look friendlier, stand around doing nothing.. no tall menacing buildings.. :( i need time to adjust and get used to the different city.. but i doubt one week is enough.. adjust alycia adjust! got to put mexico behind..

2010-07-21T00:31:00.002+08:00

aly are you my woxxer dice:
alycia!!
i hope u feel uber loved on ur special day k!!
miss u damn alot!

:):):) this put a smile on my birthday morning :)
talking to and missing everyone in singapore! birthday celebration when i go back! its been too long!

was upset but feeeling alot better now! :) thanks to everyone whom i am talkign to on msn now! :)

and and and.. happy birthday to myself! its my longest birthday to date.. birthday wishes across 3 continents.. at weird timings.. i like :P

tonight is going to be a good good night!!!!!!!!

2010-07-20T04:04:00.000+08:00

you cant even stay a week for me.
thanks for making me cry on my birthday.

2010-07-10T04:47:00.002+08:00

Suen

nice.. thats alot of time to party ard

haha

22:36Ich

hahhaa

hey i dun always party

22:38Suen

ya.. only when you are not asleep :p

wtf. ... btw i am totally hating the weather here now. stupid hurricane.. and now its like winter in mexico. its not nice when i only have summer clothes and one pair of jeans :( its doing nothing to lift my spirits and i am about to slip into a bout of depression :(

2010-07-09T04:32:00.002+08:00

just left Queretaro yesterday and is now with marce in mexico.
taking it more badly than i thought i will though..

i miss Queretaro, miss my host family, miss host mama, papa and mari, miss roomie, and all the awesome people i met in queretaro..

and most of all i miss you.
Y sigo esclavo de tus besos

2010-06-22T06:46:00.002+08:00

i am diagnosed with
inflammation of the stomach :(

after days of a troubling stomach and diarrhoea. finally decided to drag my ass to the doctors today and we both agreed that i have had too much cheese, milk and spicy food.. which is causing my stomach to kick up a ruckus :S hopefully the medicine works and i stop walking around with pain and a balloon in my stomach. yikes.

and i decided to be a good girl today and take the bus home instead of the taxi. and guess what.. everyone on the bus looked at me when i pressed the stop button and the driver conveniently sped past my stop :S and i looked up into the mirror to see the driver shaking his head at me to indicate that the bus wasnt stopping there! like WTF!!! and of course i didnt know why.. and i was prayign so hard for the bus to stop and it didnt and it went on for such a long time.. :S finally alighted and had no idea where i was.. so TAXI TO THE RESCUE.

lesson of the day. JUST TAKE THE DAMN TAXI HOME FROM SCHOOL.

a weekend to remember..

2010-06-21T01:15:00.002+08:00

last weekend was the best weekend ever. with marce and all the other koch thierrys in oaxaca! i dunno what anyone can ask for more... being with my bonita.. travelling with a bunch of people who were so fun loving, so friendly, attending a wedding, partying at the wedding with free flow alcohol, dancing salsa and more dancing.. being in MEXICO. ponnign two days of school was so worth it :P

with my mexican family! :)

they think that my ancestors were from mitla because i am the only one short enough to pass through all the tunnels hahaha. :P

michelada y cubano! bier and salt and lime and chilli powder.. mexican favourite :) and mine too

at the wedding with marce.. :) thank you bonita for bringing me! i enjoyed myself so so so much! i miss you all so much now! and i had such a great time travelling with u and your family that i am scared.. scared that if i stay with you more after my course, i wont be able to say good bye when the time comes :(

good day :)

2010-06-08T11:54:00.003+08:00

GOOD DAY because

1. went out of house late, next bus was packed and zoomed past, manged to wait and catch the next one and we got to school on time! :)

2. learnt about fruits and vegetables and we are going to the market tmr!:)

3. got back first assignment and my group got 100! :) (but then everyone got 100. hahahha but oh wells no bell curve! :)

4. salsa class! then shopping at zara, pull and bear and bershka! :)

5. came home to a great nice warm dinner of soup, steak and some tortilla thing.. after being starved from shopping and i didnt overeat so stomach is happy! :)

6. talked to marce abt wed, when i am finally going to meet her! and she has been calling me everyday!!!!!!!!!!! <3 her loads

7. am skypping with jo now! :)

2010-06-08T10:22:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY chua xin wei! :)

its still your birthday in mexico! :)

photos of my house in Queretaro! :)

2010-06-03T08:04:00.008+08:00

long awaited photos of my house/room in Queretaro! :)

Adventure in Queretaro

2010-06-03T08:04:00.006+08:00

took the bus home on my own today!!!!!! and i didnt miss my stop! :) feel so proud of myself..:) esther was so worried i couldnt find my way home, she actually called home and ask them to call her if i dint make it home on time! hahah

BUT I DID IT!

taking the bus in Queretaro is an adventure in itself.. there was one morning where we flagged the bus after waiting for a while and it just zoomed past us cos it was too packed.. in the end we had to walk back with a damn " ke lian" look on our face and asked host mama to call a cab for us.. hahaha this was after we assured her that we will be fine on our own and NO we do not need her to walk us to the bus stop..

and then there was another time where esther and i made a fool of ourselves on the bus, and caused everyone to stare at us,, although it wasnt like they werent doing that already.. because we were like:

esther: alycia press the bell!!! i think its our stop!
me: really really???? where are we?( tryign to look out of window) i am too far from the bell!
*gesturing to a lady to the back and pointing desperately at the bell..* por favor por favor (please)
lady: (in spanish) sth like: the bus cant stop here!! its the highway
me: omg why cant we alight??? are we past our stop ? WHERE ARE WE??? OMG!! realise at this time that i was in a highly panicky mode and everyone was looking at us..:S

bus comign to a stop after what seems like inifinity.
esther: ok get down here! its our stop!!
me : okok! *madly scramblign to the exit"

and off the bus we were, on the side of a busy road, balancing precariously on the "walkign path" and grabbing lamp posts so we dun swing off onto the road with cars rounding a corner and zooming past beside us. and crossing like 4 roads and a train track with cars zooming in all directions and frequent truck drivers looking at us and making wolf whistle ( because esther was there) and makign a din so that we will look at them..

we make our way home. counting my blessings each day that i am still alive. should totally up my insurance premium. :S

2010-06-01T11:00:00.004+08:00

my lunch that is like 2 meals in one

host mama showing us green tomatoes.. used mainly in salsa :)

Gorditas

my family in Queretaro :)

2010-06-01T07:55:00.002+08:00

crap. took the bus for the first time in Queretaro and i discovered something awful. i freaking cant reach the 'stop" bell. :S its going to be so embarrassing asking someone to press the bell for me if i want to alight! and bus system here is the best... you can board/alight anywhere along the bus route.. so u juts have to press the bell. omgggggggggggg i am so going to get lost :S looks like i cant go home alone. YET.

meanwhile mexico's been treating me well. people here are really friendly.. only complaint is the weather.. its so dry and hot :( skin's is peeling and flaking and drying up.. gross.. and it really hurts. and i am going to turn so black when i go back.. suns here really :S and there are like no air conditioned places to hide in :(

and i hate to admit this but i am really craving for Singaporean food :( esp grandma's plain porridge and prawn omelette!!!!!! :( i am totally totally sick of tacos and i think that if i have to eat another tortilla, i am gg to puke.. and mexicans eat so much cheese and they put cheese and salsa in EVERYTHING. LIKE EVERTHING! EvEN IN SOUP AND OMELETTE AND CHICKEN AND ... RAH I am so sick of cheese now! :S and it feels like every meal, i have to force myself to finish what my host mama cooked.. she gives such large servings and she thinks i eat little :S doesnt help that the other Singaporean girl finishes everythign and i look so bad for not finishing my food.. :( esp when she is skinny and all... :( i dun want host mama to think i hate the food but i really cant eat so much!!!!!!!!!! like we have soup with macoroni and to them, thats just the starters! so it comes along with potato salad and chicken cutlet...like the soup already filled me up!!! yikes...... but i shouldnt complain too much.. her food rocks though.. :)

anyway off to bed! school starts tmr!

2010-05-26T14:05:00.003+08:00

ALYCIA EN MEXICO! :D

finally reached my host family's place a few hours ago! and i am still trying to get used to the time difference.. they seem really nice and there is this other singaporean girl with me but i have my own room, complete with tv, wifi and a dvd player! :):)

the flight was horrible though, flying through all the different time zones ard 21 hours of flight and 5 hrs of transit = madness much and i am super dehydrated and woozy and not really capable of focusing :s but anyway the in flight entertainment on continental was superb! contrary to popular belief.. hehe to think i even brought books cos i was so afraid there will only be a shared entertainment system.. there was your own wide screen tv, touch screen and equipped with over 197 movies! imagine the whole bourne identity and harry potter series! like whooooooooo and they even have games like reversi and poker...:)

anyway going to sleep soon, have to get over this jet lag, and let my woozy head clear..adious!:)

2010-05-12T23:33:00.001+08:00

ALYCIA. ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt, says:
and bonita!
what do you want from singapore?

ScHamSs says:
i want youuu!!!

ALYCIA. ein Stern, der deinen Namen trägt, says:
and your family?

ScHamSs says:
i want you here forever and never go back to singapore!

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. i love you tooo marcelaaaaaaaaaaa te quiero muchosssssssssssss you just made my day :)

2010-05-11T13:01:00.002+08:00

My shb! :) bye!!!!!!!! enjoy europe and i hope you will enjoy it as much as i did! i felt so bad cos i wanted to call u before u board the plane but i fell asleep :( in the end, aunt Maureen had to call me! but i am glad she did cos i got to speak with u all before u leave! :)

take care stay safe and have a fantastic time! :)

and what i realise.. good friends can grow old together, apart! :) we seldom get to meet nowadays but its always the same feeling catching up! love u my Shb! :)

turning 22 in may

2010-05-09T02:11:00.002+08:00

Birthday came early this year! :) thanks Ai fung, Jia min and Omela for the awesome surprise with my fav Strawberry shortcake! :):) i am sorry i wont be here to celebrate my birthday with u guys again this year, but i know u guys are excited for me because i am gg to be in mexico this year for my birthday! :)

thanks for being there and for supporting me always! <3 much!

2010-04-30T02:10:00.002+08:00

omg i saw someone who looks like chris today while waiting at the indian stall for omela's naan. like exact replica of him... and i was so expecting him to spew out German.. but then he started speaking in french and i wanted so much to tell him that he is speaking the wrong language.. like they were the exact same thinggggggggggggg.!! hahaha

anyway i juts saw someone's photo and that someone was doing his exchange in stuttgart! like where i was exactly one year ago :( and his photos were so familiar like the same kitchen the same german classroom the same parties the same place.. :( the only thing different were the pple in the photo :( I SO MISS THE PLACE. want to be there so bad. :( the feelign is so..:(

2010-04-25T10:13:00.000+08:00

hahahah its highly amusing talking to a drunk italian.

2010-04-24T01:18:00.001+08:00

rah. i hate booking air tickets. esp when its like exam period now :S

when should i return???!!!!

the magnificent bruises

2010-04-22T00:47:00.003+08:00

i asked my grandmother to rub my bruises for me.. and it was pain but shiok.. actually i dun see the need to rub the bruise to dissipate the blood as they call it.. to me, the bruise will still disappear whether you do anything to it or not.. but i guesss i like my grandmother fussing over me once in a while.. hahah :D

and call me petty if you want. but maybe i still cant get over it.

2010-04-20T16:45:00.002+08:00

two great bruises on my knees and i have to slam the toilet door on my fingers ytd. OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHH why am i so accident prone lately.. on the other hand, there is this sadistic pleasure in prodding my blue black knee and feeling the pain.. and feeling the bump. HAHAHAH

AND I JUST SUBMITTED LAST ESSAY!!!!!!!!!! :)

prawn omelette

2010-04-19T01:05:00.002+08:00

so stupid. i am laughing at the irony and and at how ridiculous this whole thing is. blehhhhhhhh :( :(:( stupid arschloch.

anyway i think omela has the hippest mum ever la!just had dinner with omela and her mummy and her brother ytd and her mum is still the first 50+mummy i met who has highlights in her hair, drives a cool BMW convertible, goes on skiing trips, goes to work out at the gym, has acrylic extension nails etc etc.. hahaha but she is also very good at avoiding the subject. poor omela was trying to hint that she wanted to come to mexico and ny to look for me and jo and her mum was casually and conveniently brushing her off by talking abt sth else altogether.. hhahahah!

and my grandma fianlly cooked prawn omelette for me! or rather i was finally home to eat whatever she cooked. and omg ITS THE ONLY THING I MISSS WHEN I AM IN GERMANY. it might not taste the best. but i love it the most. and i remember the time in germany when i missed it so much, i insisted on cooking it even though sf and zollin were trying to dissuade me cos there was only an egg left and the prawns were so expensive and they wanted to cook it with vegetables instead of letting me "play" with it.. my egg turned out to be a disaster and i was so sad :(

2010-04-19T00:50:00.003+08:00

yes. first time i was booby raped. crushed between two pairs of norwegian boobs. must say i would defintely have enjoyed it more if i were a guy.. but oh wells.. hahaa anyway FANTATSIC NIGHT OUT WITH THE NORWEGIAN GIRLS @ TIMBRE :):) have been there a few times times but this was the only time we got so high we actually stood up to dance! hahaha must be the 100 bucks(heartache now) i blew on drinks and the pizza. yikessss but it was definitely one hell of a night :P

jeg elsker deg Birgitte and Line :)

2010-04-14T02:18:00.003+08:00

freaking freaking freaking pisseddddddddddddd havent been this pissed in a long long time

took this bloody cab today cos i was late for group meeting and all it did was make me effing more pissed and frustrated.

had went into the cab hoping to have a fast smooth and comfortable journey to nus where i could also, along the way, catch some much needed sleep... but no.. I HAD TO GET INTO A CAB WITH A FREAKING DRIVER FROM CHINA WHO DOESNT KNOW HIS WAY AROUND.

so as if i were some tourist who needed to go ard singapore, he brought me onto the cte, on some unfamiliar expressway and I SAW THE EXIT SIGN FOR CHANGI . i was like omgggggggggggggg. i want to go to clementi. WHY THE HELL IS HE BRINGING ME TO THE EAST!!!

normal cab fare to school cost ard 10 plus bucks and by this time it was already ard 8 dollars and i still see no sign of being near school.. also, by that time, i expected to be in school already.. he was bringing me into traffic jams and unknown expressways and i was getting so frustrated.. asked him coldly in a very controlled voice (i wanted to cry and scream and shout at him by then) where he was going.. he was like 去NUS阿。。多一下就到了。。

and i was so exasperated and i had absolutely no idea where we were.. so i just shut up and let him drive. after driving ard for a while more.. we finally reached clementi.. and the bill was 16 dollars in total..

he knew i was pissed and offered to waive $3 off the fare. like... i couldnt be bothered to talk to him and just slammed the door. RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH can i please please please get a cab driver who knows his way next time????????????

2010-04-11T12:05:00.007+08:00

they make english fun! :) life's been hectic so far. 3 presentations on mon, tue, wed last week and 2 papers to write but its the small things in life that keeps you going! :) koi bubble tea which jia min bought for me from science , norwegian girls being their usual comical self and upsetting water on the floor, which cause disturbance in the class for a few minutes, project work meeting at jie ying's house which turned into a cam whoring and eat non-stop session, and of course the moment when we finish the presentation comes the sweetest! :) and i have been showered with sweets treats and lovely encouragement lately, LOVE ENGLISH :) JAYNE'S HOME BAKED COOKIES, EVELYN'S CHEESE MUFFINS, HENG LIANG'S CHEESE BROWNIE, MING YAN'S FERRERO ROCHER, CONSTANT SUPPLY OF MENTOS AND HARIBOS FROM NORWEGIAN GIRLS, CONSTANT SNACK SUPPLY FORM NESSA.. and i wonder why i havent lost weight from all that stresss. yikes. hahahahaha

and of course dinner with Aly and omela @ EVERYTHING WITH FRIES. much gossip and kay pohing and game to finish the mille crepe = <3<3<3

aly="curry fries
" omela=" garlic and herbs
" me="salt and vinegar" YUMMY!

P.S. MILLE CREPE = LAYERS AND LAYER OF CREPE WITH VANILLA OR NUTELLA! :p

2010-04-02T22:22:00.002+08:00

watery eyes. freaking sore throat. cold sweat.

I REFUSE TO FALL ILL NOW. I CANNOT FALL ILL NOW.

the projects and the assignments dont allow it. i can do it i can do it i can do it :(

everything is suddenly coming at me. i am not used to such pressure and so much work at such a short time. and everything seems to take longer than planned to complete, things are harder to understanding, the words juts dun come when you need them to, and i got group members who are holidaying now when the presentation is next tuesday and the project is barely started. :(

stress got so bad i actually felt like crying today when i was doing my reading. my stomach was feeling so uncomfortable and i felt so weak and tired and i couldnt understand what i was reading, which means i couldnt do the slides for it, which means i cant move on to my historical variations project which no one in my group seems to be worried abt, especially when its barely started which means i cant do my part for the essay and presentation for the society media and discourse module.. and the fact that my partner and i were still topicless for a 2500 word paper despite spending so much time discusssing is getting me doubly stressed and annoyed.

God please help me :(

2010-03-27T03:04:00.001+08:00

and since its officially 27 march 2010 already,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA!!!!!!!! :):)

2010-03-26T18:46:00.003+08:00

I LOVE SHIRLEY KOH!!! hahahaha

she nominated me for the summer program in mexico even though i told her i failed two mods in Germany. did nobody actually applied for the summer program in Mexico? and to think i wrote such a crappy 500 word essay on why i wanted to go and how i think the program will benefit me and future students because i only did it in the night before the deadline of the submission and i was so sure i wasnt going to get it.. just wanted to TRY MY LUCK because the thought of mexico was so appealing..

so now its all up to the IRO to decide if i actually get to go to mexico.. and following that.. my aunt gets to decide if i actually get to go to mexico FINANCIALLY. its going to cost a hefty 3000 excluding personal expenses and also.. the thought that i could actually go to europe and Germany with that amount is unsettling me. BUT MEXICO sounds fun tooo. and there is marce and jo(maybe) to look forward to if i do get to go to MEXICO.. :)

oh wells.. but now is prob a bad time to think about SUMMER. 5 core mods= crazy times and the looming deadlines are actually causing a decent amount of stress here.. i only pray i make it through the next few weeks..

EL 2211 historical variations in English Grp presentation 6/4/10
EL 2211 historical variation in English Grp report 6/4/10
EL 3201 Morphology and Syntax squib presentation 12/4/10
EL 3211 language in Contact 5 page research article 13/4/10
EL 3254 Media society and discourse Grp presentation 14/4/10
EL 3254 Media society and discourse 4000 word grp paper 14/4/10
EL 3204 discourse structure 2500 word resear article 12/4/10
EL 3201 morphology and syntax 8 page squib paper 30/4/10

RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH I WILL SURVIVE. (I HOPE)

2010-03-18T00:06:00.002+08:00

meine Augen fallen fast zu

Good night world. i will wake up tomorrow feeling like its going to be a good day! :)

WELL DONE FOOD!

2010-03-12T03:41:00.002+08:00

FINALLY FINISHED THE PRESENTATION FOR DISCOURSE STRUCTURE!:):)
WELL DONE GIRLS!!!! to serene and my favourite girls from norway! Land of salmon and salmon juiceee.. hahaha

i was so nervous before the presentation and line and birgitte tried their best to calm my nerves by telling me about their friend in norway, who never attended any presentation without having downed alcohol. hahaha. thinking that a beer would definitely make me talk more and feel more relaxed providing i do not od on the beer.. :P

2010-03-06T20:24:00.001+08:00

i like this..

Graceix says:
i miss all those CRAZY STUFF....DRAMA, ROMANCE, GETTING DRUNK, etc... things that make me feel alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aptly put grace!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-05T13:48:00.002+08:00

appointments with Dr house has been getting a little emotional lately. all those talk about cancer and death has been leaving me in tears.

but all the crying has been rather therapeutic . maybe because they mark the end of hell week.! yay mid terms are all over! been feeling so stressed and staying up to study.. feeling so mentally and physically drained. but app with the doctors been good and i guesss i am ready to go again! discourse struture and syntax presentation next week, individual essay for historial variations due, and presentation on jeff's siegels paper week after next.

when is may coming?????

one year ago

2010-02-25T00:52:00.003+08:00

exactly one year ago, i bade farewell to this group of friends. i still remembered the fear, the anticipation and the feeling where i didnt know what to expect and apprehension at being alone in a big foreign land. after all, it was my first time going to europe. still remember crying on the bus, after farewell dinner at the fairytaly restaurant in tanglin mall, and i was feeling so stupid for wanting to go to germany, and was really really scared.

BUT i am really glad i dint back out of it. for the next 6 months of my exchange life was definitely unforgettable and most memorable. come to think of it. i was really lucky.there are so many things that could have gone wrong. i am lucky i have singaporeans( baobei, swee foo, zolin, rez, stacey, joan,sharmila) with me, so i dun suffer so much homesickness and there are people who understands my somewhat mumbled and somewhat chinese sounding english.. i am lucky i got arthur as a buddy ( which was a blessing in disguise, cos through him i met marcela, emma, debby and orhun as well as julien) :) and i am lucky i got 5 wonderful german neighbours(mikel, chris, stephan, franz,adrian) who made life so much more interesting where i could easily have landed up with 5 nasty neighbours who will steal my food and leave the toilet dirty. and i am lucky there were so many parties such that i met so many awesome people( too many to name).

one year ago. i cannot turn back time. but THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES. :)

2010-02-22T00:11:00.002+08:00

loves surprise phone call from canada! :)
and u had to make me jealous with your snowball fights and dog sleighing! hahahaha but glad you had fun in quebec josephine wong yu wen!!

studying in school on a sunday sucksssssssssss. but had the great company of Alison li jia min so (lets just pretend we are studying in ulmenweg, mannheim ya??) hahahah i realise the study lounge is as cold as your room! wahahahahah i need my pink socks and gloves and sweater! ;)

2010-02-10T21:24:00.003+08:00

rahh. feeling so crap and fat nowadays. cant stop eating!!!!! and this is perpetuating a vicious cycle!

fat=sad
sad=eat
eat=fat
fat=sad

i dun like seeing a ball when i look in the mirror! :(:(:(

and next week is chinese new year. this ball is going to explode.

2010-02-05T01:30:00.001+08:00

i laughed till i cried today. and finally knows someone who shitted in her pants.

omggggggggg. readings are killing killing me.

2010-02-02T23:55:00.002+08:00

jia min told me someone told her it takes a sem to get over one's sep. but when i heard the flieger lied, komm hol das lasso raus, das geht ab, viva colonia today LOUD, i was so overwhelmed with this longing, and nostalgia and i really miss the times in germany alot. its like hearing the songs transported me back to those times we were crazy jumping on the benches at the fest, with our 1 litre mugs. and getting high over every single thing. wanted to turn back time so much and go back there, i almost cried.

i dunno why its so hard for me to get over everything in germany. esp when it seems like everyone has pretty much moved on. maybe because it was such an eye opener, so many first times, so many people, so much party, and so much fun. things that are never part of my life in singapore.its not like i am unhappy here. but its more like quiet satisfaction compared to the crazy high in germany. over here, life works in a routinised schedule, while in germany, life as an exchange student is always exciting, full of unexpected surprises. i dun even remember when was the last time i really laugh out loud in singapore. or maybe over there, you forget all the troubles, all the unhappy things you ever wanted to forget in singapore.

or maybe, you just want what you cant have.

2010-01-29T01:39:00.003+08:00

sigh. so somtimes its really life unexpected.
instead of having a real snowball fight, we end up having one on facebook.
happy/sad? i dunno. i guess now its more of indifference.

life unexpected. teenage girl wants to be emancipated.

Danke Schön

2010-01-24T03:07:00.010+08:00

cant say that things turn out exactly as expected and there were disappointments along the way, but in retrospect, things could have been a lot worst. i was unexpectedly lucky too to have met certain people who made the trip all worth it, and who made sure that i wasnt alone and sad in the freezing winter. i guess when God takes some things away from you, he compensates with others...so thank you everyone for the wonderful time and for making sure that Germany still has that special place in my heart.

my personal guardian angel must have been with me all the time :) and lovely snow. its the only things that guarantees a smile on my face every morning.

the people at mannheim. thanks for making my first christmas overseas such a great and memorable one. thank you so much jia min, sukh, freda, sami and waku :)

thanks for santa, chocolate, candles and everythings that made christmas so magical :)

saad! thanks for so graciously hosting me and touring cologne with me and cooking so many delicious arabian dishes for me! :)

thank you mr Loo for making sure that i wasnt sleeping in the hbf on nye and making arrangements with your landlord for me. for picking me up at the hbf, for buying the champagne cos you knew i was coming, for spending nye with me so i wont be counting down alone,for going out with me in the freezing cold when i know you would much rather stay at home and for making Berlin more fantastic that i could ask for! :)

thank you Berlin for the wondrous thick snow and the beautiful sceneries and the marvellous time :)

need i say more? hahah ,muchas gracias espanola alicia,laura, vanessa y espanol joaquin, pablo. te queiro muchos! and also to deutscher und deutsche christof , julia and martin. thanks for accompanying me to the stuttgart chrsitmas market and for the delicious meals and the happy times! zum wohl to the gluehwein! :):)

laura! whoa i dun think i can even list down all the things she did for me because its just too many. but to quote you laura, distance is no obstacle to friendship and i feel so lucky that i met a friend like you in my exchange. what you did for me far surpass my imagination and you taught me many things about being a friend. muchas muchas gracias bonita. besitosssssss!

Singaporeans!!!!!!!!!! :) thanks joseph for the herbal soup and sweet sour fish, stir fried vege, chicken rice, and magnum :) for bringing me to the porsche museum. it dosnt feel that bad knowing i am not the only singaporean in stuttgart, and for being able to speak normally and singlish to.. thanks joseph and pei zhi! :)

HAHAHAHAH. danke schoen franz for the starbucks treat, for making mikel set up a fb account for stuffing snow in my face for letting me go to your new home and for sending me home when there was so much snow on the roads :) and danke schoen mikel for your radler and for just being you and making me laugh so much. :)

and daniel!!!!! thanks so much for being there in straussi and being my temporary neighbour! i would have been so bored and lonely if not for you! for being so intersted in Singapore. i really enjoyed talking to you. if there was an award for being the best neighbour, it would definitely have gone to you! thanks for the apfelschorle and for letting me use your com even when you are not at home and for bringing me sleighing and snowball fighting!!!!!!!!

and martin. the little sunshine. :) ice skating with you was the best! you look so cute with the penguin! hehe thanks for bringing me out when u knew i was bored! hahah :)

well there wasnt christopher but along came christof :) i wouldnt have managed to drag my lugguage all the way to the s bahn station in the thick snow had it not been for your help!! thank you thank you so much for being so kind. i shall forgive you for dunking my face in the snow and for makign me eat so much ice..hahahhaha

thank you DEUTSCHLAND :)

stuttgart. always my favouritest place in germany :)

2009-12-25T14:01:00.006+08:00

with moe taking a walk at our favourite lake! :)

breakfast that moe prepared for me! :)

her room. which is so damn warm and nice and comfortable. she has the world atlas on one side with europe maginified and all the countried she has been to! i am so damn god jealous!!!and her architecture project blue prints on the other. how cool is that...

moe preparing pasta for me!!!! super delicioussssss

mitfahren- bier friends :)

2009-12-24T22:50:00.001+08:00

tried mitfahren for the frist time today! which is basically this online portal that u can go on to and find people travelling from one place to another and u sort of hitch a ride paying lesser than u would if u had taken the train.

was quite terrified at first when i saw the driver cos i thought it was a german, but it turned out to be this black guy who was driving to stuttgart. its not like i am being racist or anything, but being alone. u start to get a bit worried, but all was well and i got to stuttgart with 10 euros! :)

mitfahr back as well and it was great albeit a little cramped in the car!(above pic) met this group of germans gg to watch some concert in dresden and they were gg to mannheim too to take the train..and so we were talkoign along the way and they asked me to join them for a bier before they went off! and it was great cos i offered to pay but the guy said it was his treat! so free bier! hahah this is what happens when u live in the land of cheap bier.. :):)

2009-12-23T21:57:00.002+08:00

whirlwind tour of barcelona in one day! but sergi was the excellentest tour guide ever! essence of barcelona within less than 24 hours, thrown in with seafood soup dinner, pasta lunch,breakfast that sergi bought me and he was so sweet! he paid for the train tickets and when i offered to pay, he was like, no Aly, the only thing that i want you to pay for in barcelona is for your shopping! likee awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. i want a husband like that! too bad sergi's taken hahah but we skyped with mira and irem while i was there i still think its so sweet how they are still tgt and i saw a photo of irem in sergi's wallet! like awwwwww. so cliched but i have to say it.. ITS SO SWEETTTTTTTTT :)

his parents who couldnt speak english but they were so cute! i am starting to wonder why all spainish people can cook so well and i am definitely not gg to stay in spain because it makes me so fat!!!! :)

sergi's sisters room which was mine for a day. cosyyyyyyy and pink. i like :)

sergi's sister and me at the chrsitmas market in spain! the log thing which was supposed to shit out presents. spanish tradition.. hahah

爱心早餐 whcih sergi prepared for me. he is really so nice and hospitable! love his house and family! he knew i was gg to take ryan air and it was a long trip.. so he prepared this bag of yogurt, juice, and a baguette with jamon for me! awwww. and his sister was like, ya he doesnt even wake up ealry enought to prepare breakfast for himself.. like *heart melts* and he told me that he had an exam on the day i was leaving and so it means that the day before his exam, he was bringing me around! like whoa! if it was me, i would have said no to any visitors but ya.. he actually studied early so that he can bring me around! hahhaha like whoa! VIVA BARCELONA! VIVA SERGI!

viva madrid!

2009-12-22T21:59:00.002+08:00

love the land of come,siesta,fiesta! (eat,sleep,party!) seeing my bonitas once more was totally awesome although it was such a short trip. and anna belen and boyfriend luis were so nice to put all of us up at their place and supplied us with so much good food.

picture with everyone in toledo, a city near madrid. love the autumn feel of the picture!

the fabulous paella that luis cooked. it was delicious!!!!!!! and tasted as good as it looks. wish qiling was there too to taste it. no one else will appreciate it as much as her. ahahahaha he also cooked fat juicy salmon steak for each one of us and tortilla de patata and jamon serrano. and spanish people eat dinner at 10pm. FAT FAT FAT! but the good thing about the weather is that you get hungry so fast because of the cold and everything taste extra good :)

my favourite picture from madrid! this church stood in the middle of nowhere and is the exact image of how i imagined spain to be when i was young.

so sweet!!!!!! anna and her bf luis. somehow staying with the couple over the past few days made me realise what marriage was like. maybe its because none of my friends are living witht heir boyfriends yet so i havent really thought about it. but seeing anna and luis, how they come home from work and the other person has got their meals ready, the ocassional peck on the lips and the random holding of hands..all but leavign me feeling envious and wishign that i will find the other person soon! hahha DEAR GOD. IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE SEND SOMEONE WHO CAN COOK. THAT WILL BE LOVELY. THANK YOU.:)

2009-12-22T21:38:00.001+08:00

i am being quoted! hahaha

"its just like what alycia said about her trip to stuttgart;
even when you go back and visit, it's not the same.
the people are not there anymore.
no point going back in the future and reminiscing,
better to end things on a high note and cherish the good memories"

as quoted by freda. hahaha

ganz genau.

i walked down the s bahn station but there was no swee foo and marcela and guat sim and debby and emma wating for me to take the train to german class. i walked past the frozen pond and qiling wasnt there to get excited with me over the stupid ducks swimming in the pond or talk and bitch and gossip, and there was no singaporeans there to appreciate the beauty of the snow filled vahingen campus with me. walked past marce's old building and i couldnt pop in to chat with her and see her pink room. walked down straussaecker and couldnt go into my own home, and saw soemone obnobxiously occupying my old room :(i think my exchange is really over.

life in mannheim :)

2009-12-14T22:13:00.013+08:00

small but pretty mannheim! :) the schloss or castle that is the uni which they study in! :)

need i say more? hahahah absolutely love H&M :)

winter must haves

hahahah her countdown to the end of the exam. one nail per day :)

爱心早餐 for jia min:)

2009-12-07T08:21:00.002+08:00

super jet lagged.
slept the whole entire sunday afternoon away from ard 3pm to 11pm. yikes. now i am gg to be awake for the whole entire night. :(

Germany

2009-12-06T18:34:00.005+08:00

special thanks my grandma, my sister, my aunt,Ai fung, Qiling, Evon, and dezmand for comign to see me off ytd! really appreciate it cos its not even my exchnage anymore and u guys still came down! :) thanks bao bei for the early christmas present and aifung for the card and aunt maureen for the lovely christmas cookies! see u guys in one months time! will miss you all here! :)

I STILL CANT BELIEVE I AM IN GERMANY NOW!!!!:):):)HALLO JIA MIN!

and as i keep telling jia min, the feeling is so surreal.one moment i was with friends in hot and humid singapore and the next, pooof, ich bin in deutschland! :) like there is an uncanny familiarity about everything. being on the ICE, askign for directions in German,being at a party where everyone is loomign over me and everthing. it seems like just last week that i left germany and its hard to belive that its been 4 months since i left already. i had this feeling too when i went back to singapore. everything in my room was in their exact location(albeit much tidier) and i sometimes even doubt if i ever left at all and if stuttgart was just a very very nice dream. definitely feels like that now.

and my head is so woozy from not sleeping. the past few days on accumulated sleep deprivation and packing till 8am on the day i left left me with very bad eye bags like very bad and random high and random lows. wanted to sleep on the plane but ended up havign a movie marathon instead. so it was harry pottter and the half blood prince, lunch, sleep for 30 min. 4 christmases, memento(very very good show and guy pearce is so bloody hot and cute)sleep for 20 min, snack, the time travellor's wife dinner, and the ugly truth. haha oh AND OMG I WAS SO BLOODY EMBARASSED! this stupid flight attendant came around before the plane took off and gave me an apple juice. i took it and was finding the cartoon on the cup strange, and looking around i realise no one else has the cup! the bloody flight attendant freaking thinks i am a kid la! and to be mistaken by a singaporean leh! wth. and at the check in counter, the woman actually asked how old i was cos she thinks i am an unaccompanied minor :(

and what better way to start this trip than with a party? haha and i am proud to say i did something that i didnt do on my exchnage. we went to the party from the train station so i literally brought my entire lugguage to a party! hahaha and first drink in De, a radler! :) yummy. and thank God it wasnt that cold. dez and ql was scaring me and i thought i will die from the cold with my pathetic useless coat. but the cold was still bearable :) so looking forward to new coat shopping! :):)

p.s. thanks jia min for welcoming me here even though its like the last month of your exchange. you dun know how grateful i am for that. and for so kindly sharing all the stuff in your room with me, even ur bed and for making it so comfortable for me! JIA MIN IS THE BEST! :)

2009-11-23T14:45:00.002+08:00

exammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

sucks.

1st december. come quick!

i need loads of shopping, food and k box! hahahaa

exam blues

2009-11-18T13:08:00.004+08:00

rahhhhhhhhhhhh. this is the period where whatever u study determine your grades. and its the time when u put down everything to study just so you can make up for lost time from the entire semester you spent not studying.

too bad the message just isnt gettign into my head. i made a stupid decision by asking aulia to transfer the entire 4 seasons of how i met your mother to me. and guess who's hooked now?? yes hooked like a drug addict to his heroine. now i all i do is tell myself lies. i am just goign to watch one episode and then i will study. *yea right. try sayign that to yoursef 4 times in a row.

and then there is the planning of the trip to spain and havign to stay up late so i can talk with emma regardign the trip. mind the 7 hours time difference.. and searchign for cheap deals on ryan air is no easy thing. trying the different date/time combi to find the cheapest deal takes way tooo longg.

factor in the usual facebook, msn,checkign of the email, more than occasional afternoon naps and voila. you get you own 24/7 distractions instead of 24/7 mugging.
sigh. and i cant even go into the library because its so packed i cant even find a seat. gosh.

GO AWAY DISTRACTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.s. i finally decided to make the extremely brave and gallant decision to ask my sister to brign my external hard disk to ntu and to leave it in her hostel until i finish my exams :) finally time to study! :) who wants my laptop???!!!!!

2009-11-12T00:12:00.002+08:00

phonetics test over!!!!!!!! :)
6 marks per question was daunting. but its over! :) hope the crap i wrote gained me some sympathy marks. but its over!

got to concentrate on bilingual report (8 to 12 pages due fri soon)
current pages:0

good game.

the only season i miss

2009-11-08T14:02:00.004+08:00

the only season i didnt get to experience in stuttgart, FALL. thanks laura for the wonderful pictures! :)

straussi in fall time! miss my pink buildings, miss my room!

really really pretty leaves.

stuttgart vahingen at its prettiest! :)

slumdog

2009-11-07T22:26:00.002+08:00

love slumdog millionaire! finally watched the show cos my lecturer was goign on about how great the cinematography was.

well didnt really pay attention to the use of flashbacks, characterisation, slow motion and the number of shots etc, but it did make me cry.. haha. it was so sweet that jamal kept on searching for latika no matter how many times they were seperated. sigh. because its destiny.

2009-11-05T01:48:00.002+08:00

rahhhhhhhh i am really scared. scared of how i am expecting too much from de #2. peple, places,i dunnooo. the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment no? and i cant stop this stupid mind from day dreaming. i hate studying!!!! it brings my mind places. hahahahhahaa

i might not even get to see whoever i want to see, and maybe nachbar will not be that happy to see me too. sigh. and i still havent decided where i am gg to stay. yikes. can i put a serious hiatus on my mind.stop it walking to places where i cant keep up???

so screwed. exams comign up and all i can think about is all this..

Alycia Chua! pioritiesssssssss!

lernen lernen lernen

notes note to Mikel: VIEL LERNEN, SEI FLEIßIG. NOTE 1,0! (CAP 5) wahahaahhahha

when the cats are away, the mice comes out to play :)

2009-11-01T02:33:00.006+08:00

IN MY CASE, MESSING UP THE KITCHEN! ;)

hamburger day!!!!!!!!! with sister cos we were home alone :)

:):) hamburgers! PROUD OF THEM! MY FIRST!

the 三菜一汤：）

chef washing up after cooking. wahahahha thanks buds.

felis compleanos guapisima!!!!!!!!!!

2009-10-27T20:11:00.002+08:00

semblance of school life. - fuel hat keeps me going.

2009-10-26T01:59:00.000+08:00

dishes. to be served. hahaha they make me wantr to go for lecture! :)

avocado milkshake!

my prof's very entertaining and cute lecture slides! although patrick brings back alot of memories :(

laksa! at arts cantten!

rare ocassion where we both are free.. althouhgt the steamboat sucks! <3 jo.

2009-10-25T01:47:00.000+08:00

me, eugenia, Grace, Ingo and ingo's friend

ipod played viva colonia todAY!!!!!! remembered oktoberfest at paulaner! the bier was so ex! sgd 33 for a litre instead of the 8 euro in germany. could onyl afford the measly half litre! :(

heard the fliegerlied and i was so excited.. the others were laughing at me cos i was the only one who knew the song and was happily doign the actions.. feeling sucks, whatever happened to everyone doign the stupid actions and singing the crappy song tgt ever so loudly?? :( miss erasmus :( and then Ingo's friend actually went to the band and asked them to play viva colonia, and they did! and it was so cool cos everyone at the table knew the song, and we were all so excited, we actually unanimously stood up on our seats and sang the songs at the top of our lungs!!!!!! :) it was quite amusign cos the band was surprise at our enthusiasm( everyone were just in their seats) and we were happily singing away. BUT IT WAS GREAT! brought back memories of the fruhlingsfest, but of course it was umcomparable.. but still...

VIVA COLONIA! :):)

2009-10-24T02:17:00.004+08:00

omg. sudden craving for char kway teow!
after i finally dragged myself to run today. yes the word is DRAGGED
i have a hard time understanding why people like shu hui and dorothy have the strength, passion and will-power to run marathons.. for me running is like exams.. U DREAD IT, THE PROCESS IS UNBEARABLE AND U FEEL GOOD ONLY WHEN ITS OVER.

speaking of exams. its unbelievable how time fliess. cant believe end of sem is comign already. like i thought i juts got back form Germany! but the period now is crazy and unbearable.. in these coming weeks, there are presentations, assignments, research papers, quizes and loads of studying and readings to complete.

arghhhhhhhhhhh
God help me get through this BLEAK PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i just realise jo's sister is getting married so soon! feels so surreal that she is going to be someone's wife now. SO EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!! :)

2009-10-21T01:24:00.002+08:00

screwing up my body clock for the wrong reasonsssssssssss! :(

and today's SEP sharing session was a blessing in disguise. there was no projector and so i couldnt share the many photos i picked out with everyone. just talked about stuttgart and the whole experience in general. i guess the fact that there wasnt any photos made it easier.. somehow relieving every photo and seeing everyone's faces and havin to talk about it will make me miss eveything more..

i told someone i just came back from exchange and he was like "i can tell". hahaha is it really that bad??? ;) i was just getting a teeny bit excited talking about the place that held so many great memories. he mentioned that he was like that when he came back too.. he reassured me that the kind of feelings i have for germany now will gradually die.. give it a year... oh wells. i can safely say i got over 2 months of it already.. then its germany again.. and prob another semester of getting over it.. at least i know jo will be glad she is not here to hear me whine about germany anymore..

life seems so transient nowadays. people leaving all over the place, comign back, people come people go. so mnay people i see everyday but soemhow the empty feeling wont go.. and i just want to live for the moment nowadays.. who knows if i will even survive tmr. and yes. life is already too tiring to plan long term..

i feel my brains tweaking, turning, changing.

ICH LIEBE DEUTSCHLAND! :)

2009-10-08T23:20:00.003+08:00

i love my aunt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

she asked me this morning if i really wanted to go to Germany. and i said yes..

and she was like, " ok go take my kris flyer card and we can redeem the tickets."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:):):):) Germany by SQ wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

i cant wait for december to come!!!! :)

2009-10-07T00:05:00.004+08:00

i suddenly remember this line i saw somewhere,

ich brauche kein Sex, das Leben fickt mich jeden Tag.

i dun need sex, my life fucks me every day.

not so sure about the sex part,but yes...........:'(

just got back my fucked up test today and there wasnt anyone i can cry to :(

Big Aly x 3

2009-10-05T21:16:00.005+08:00

3 consecutive days with my Big aly before she jets off to US and canada!

day #1 friday 2 oct 2009
thanks for helping me satisfy my craving for hokkien mee! hahhaha

day #2 3 oct 2009

celebrating dawn's birthday on sat! :)

day #3 4 oct 2009

mid autumn festival celebration at my place! (albeit a late one) hahaha

Das geht ab

2009-10-02T12:50:00.001+08:00

Das geht ab - Frauenarzt & Manny Marc

<3<3<3 the song!!!!!!!!!!!!! Song of the year :)

ich hab dieses gefühl ja das wird heut´n riesen dingdas ist die party des jahres ja das sagt mir mein instinkt heut´ sind alle dabei es ham sich hier alle getroffenwir feiern bis zum abwinken hier wird konfetti geschossen hebt die hände in die luftund macht die ganze nacht krachdamit auch jeder partymuffel geht weil er abkackt kackst du ab hast du verkackt denn die party geht erst loswenn die bässe richtig pumpen bis in jeden hinterhof das ist atzenmusik bei uns da brennt jeder clubes wird gefeiert wie noch nie schmeiß die hände in die luft

hey das geht ab!wie feiern die ganze nachtdie ganze..hey das geht ab!wir feiern die ganze nachtdie ganze..hey das geht abwir feirn die ganze nachtdie ganze..hey das geht ab!wir feiern die ganze nachtdie ganze nacht

heute sind wir nicht alleine heute wird nur noch gefeiert alle atzen sind dabei das ist das absolute highlight die löcher fliegen durch den käse blankenese polonaise lass die sau mal richtig rausdenn heut´ gibts keine pause deutsche party atzen machen faxen und sind laut wir sind auf jeder partyund drehn´ anlagen auf wir ham den mob mitgebracht wir toben mit in der menge wir rasten richtig aus wir schlagen voll über die strengedie fraun´ sind hier sehr freizügigsie zeigen was sie ham wir sind bekannt für wilde partysund das schon seit vielen jahren hey!

2009-10-01T12:44:00.000+08:00

ICH LIEBE DICH IMMER AUCH!!! hahahha obwohl du olli hast. hehe

2009-09-27T18:22:00.001+08:00

LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH MORE FULFILLING IF I WERE NOT SUCH A BIG FAN OF PROCRASTINATION.

RAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I WANT DECEMBER.

2009-09-25T23:37:00.002+08:00

Happy birthday dorothy!!!!!!!!! :)

anyway staying home on a friday night sucks! :( thinking about the times in Germany and it doesnt help that everything in my room reminds me of germany and the people. NOSTALGIA!

it sucks even more being on fb and everyone in Euro is annoucing on Fb statuses how they are travellign to Munich for the oktoberfest! :( DO U KNOW HOW MUCH IT SUCKSSSSSSSSSSS WHEN U WANT TO BE THERE SO BADLY AND U CANT! :(

and the cheery on the top of the pie is having mid terms next week. as well as a annotated bibliography due, which requires u to read at least 8 journal articles and summarize them all. suckiest fact is mid term is phonetics test which i have been clueless about. (who cares how many vowels there are!!! ) and that the bibliography is due on monday and i have never in my whole NUS life looked or found any journal articles before. how great.

here is to wishing me the best weekend ever.

2009-09-22T21:57:00.002+08:00

franz just sent me a msg on FB.
and he put the pic of us on his table!!! :D

2009-09-22T13:24:00.002+08:00

sleepover with bao bei! and spongebob and patrick. :) shit i hate seeing patrick!!!! makes me think of the german Nachbarn back in Deutschland. :(

i love being with my bao bei. gossiping with her about the people we met over the last few months, listening to her talk about jerrold till the cows come home, calling each other bao bei in public and inviting weird stares ( we tried to kick the habit, we tried). and having laughing fits ever so often. bao bei i think we will never stop talkign or laughing loudly huh.

hahahha and watching inglorious basterds was a cheap thrill by itself. just hearing all that italian, french and of course German and thinking of debby, emilien, maximilian, fabrizio..... and the list goes on. its a good thing we didnt hear spanish. thinking about and missing marce and emma would have been hard.

GOSH. i want to go for oktoberfest so badlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! :(

complaint letter

2009-09-13T22:00:00.002+08:00

i dunno why i am feeling so bored and restless nowadays. its not like i have nothing to do.tons of readings, presentation to prepare, tutorials to complete, rubbish to say to earn participation points on the ivle forum :(

and yet. its so hard to actually get down to doing those things and easier to complain to every single person i am bored. :( THE IRONY OF IT ALL. maybe its the thought of staying in during the weekends with no date, no activities, no nothing,no partying. why is life like thatttttt??? need to go do some serious reflection :(

schools been not so good too. tried to find someone to lunch with and ya. the feeling of gettign like 10 rejection sms one after another doesnt feel so great. no . NOT GOOD AT ALL. and staying in the central library for hours in one lonely corner by yourself, with no one to talk to can drive anyone mad. where are u aifung, jia min and omela??? :( i miss u guys so much. it really sad studying by yourself u know :( ok i do know where they are.. with boyfriend, in germany and in canada respectively :( it really sucks when u have no one to complain to after a long day of studying or lessons, no one to settle lunch with, no one to do anything with. :( u see so many people everyday, say random hi, but all u want is to see those few people. :(

guess life in germany has treated me too well too well that i cant let go. .miss having a bunch of people around u who are ready to party anytime, miss my freedom and having my own space at home, miss my room, miss going home to the 5 german guys where life is never boring. miss not getting force fed. miss my jogurt. misss EVERYTHING. :(:(:(:(