This is a blog, right?
It seems rather dead - like the crickets have been singing merrily here for a while. I guess this post *stamps mark* will take away the stigma of long-un-updated blog.
Welcome to the New Year, folks!
Admittedly, it's not the new year yet as I type this out; but the last day of the old year. Three cheers. I wonder how badly people are going to be partying tonight. But this is a collective blog - hence, let's talk about collective things. Serious things first.
School's in again for Reading starting January the second. Ah, there goes our late nights and mornings! Here come the various grumblings that come hand-in-hand with our days at law school!
Don't you hear the heavy trudging of feet and terrible groans from all of us? It's Asia Cafe again, or Cabana (let's flip a coin), the hot sun, tutorials and written work, and library. Bah!
Happy things.
The new year is often something people feel will bring a difference in their lives. It's like a new pair of shoes or a new pen - which will change the way your feet feel when you walk, or the way your handwriting looks when you write - same old thing but with the conscious feeling that something new has taken the place of the old. Ah, let's give ourselves a check and see how long we'll write '2007' instead of '2008' whenever the date needs writing.
And let's see how we stick to the new year's resolutions.
For a student, I imagine the need to resolve to study harder, watch less tv, and follow your timetable!
Or sleep less.
Or stop studying on the bed. Or, less Facebooking (!???!!).
And the list goes on and on.
For tonight, let's just count down the hours, minutes and seconds.
Happy New Year, Folks!!
Let the fireworks explode!
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
Oh, happenings. What else? HAPPY HOLIDAYS
It's my turn, and it's now or never.
I ain't got hols forever.
I just wanna blog while I got time,
& mood, minus guilt.
(Oh well. Where dya think this comes from?)
Saturday today, and inspiration, the zest of life, the realisation that the holidays have descended upon us, 3 weeks in succession - is truly, fully digestible.
Okay, i am making a mountain out of a molehill, you may think - but it's true that when you've worked harder than a dog for two and a little over months - the playing hard is like a windfall.
And I will give you 'my take' (quote unqoute Mr Joseph) on yesterday.
But first of all, let us give a big round of applause to out most devoted stylist of this blog - Sha-Lene!!
* Clap Clap Clap Clap*
There.
I'm sorry for the no-photo show this time, because - the USB cable is MIA.
Never mind.
You'll just have to bear with it - the USB cable, I mean.
Taylor's Open Day was running full blast yesterday. They had people selling Nestle (cornflakes going for five bucks), people handing out V-I-C-O (remember the advert?) and a bored guy beckoning towards the Nescafe. Oh man. Talk about moodless.
It was raining, and the skies were grey, that shouldn't put one off.
It was exhilarating because yesterday was the last day of college! I mean university. Law school. And after Equity and Trusts tutorial, it was just that - nada, nothing to think about except what to do with your time.
And the rain poured. I was, and had been - eyeing the Nescafe van before the tutorial - and nobody, mind you NOBODY was interested in going down with me to get a fix of it.
And then, when we finally did get down there, Rachel was sipping just as hard as me.
Next scene: In the darkness of LT7
Judge John Deed is not a menacing fellow. In fact, he's a jolly kind one. And a just one. And I might mention, a bit of a ladies' man.
Now who would have thought that of a judge?
So straight and serious.
(Most of em are men).
For all their law and order. And wigs.
We are sitting in the darkness, and suddenly, Mei Chieng wants her bag.
She's sitting in front, while her bag is on the table behind her.
Picture LT7. Stairs of seating. One table higher, one step up.
She reaches for her bag, and doesn't see the coffee cup beside it in the darkness - and whoosh, over it goes.
The table is chocolate brown.
How to clean it up?
Subie dumps her newspaper upon the offending stain.
Mei Chieng signals apologies in the dark.
We resume watching.
Later: Sunway Pyramid
Ah, the parking. The green lights marking empty lots and the red ones - occupied - intrigued us. We even waited for a it after the car emptied the lot for us to move in - simply to see whether the red would turn green.
And it did!!!
Bingo.
Sha-Lene's already talked about the movie we watched - which we rushed through lunch for.
After we called it a day for the movie, everything moved more quickly. The end drops on us, and we were just going back. In Tsu Ming's car.
Rolling, rolling, rolling in the traffic jam.
Tsu Ming does not believe in the law of attraction. And Faan Jin believes in flying cars. So when there is a traffic jam, all we have to do is not think anymore about it (lest it get worse) and try to catch a flying car instead.
Yeah baby, yeah.
It's the end of school days, after all.
Muaxxxxx.
H.A.P.P.Y. H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.S.
I ain't got hols forever.
I just wanna blog while I got time,
& mood, minus guilt.
(Oh well. Where dya think this comes from?)
Saturday today, and inspiration, the zest of life, the realisation that the holidays have descended upon us, 3 weeks in succession - is truly, fully digestible.
Okay, i am making a mountain out of a molehill, you may think - but it's true that when you've worked harder than a dog for two and a little over months - the playing hard is like a windfall.
And I will give you 'my take' (quote unqoute Mr Joseph) on yesterday.
But first of all, let us give a big round of applause to out most devoted stylist of this blog - Sha-Lene!!
* Clap Clap Clap Clap*
There.
I'm sorry for the no-photo show this time, because - the USB cable is MIA.
Never mind.
You'll just have to bear with it - the USB cable, I mean.
Taylor's Open Day was running full blast yesterday. They had people selling Nestle (cornflakes going for five bucks), people handing out V-I-C-O (remember the advert?) and a bored guy beckoning towards the Nescafe. Oh man. Talk about moodless.
It was raining, and the skies were grey, that shouldn't put one off.
It was exhilarating because yesterday was the last day of college! I mean university. Law school. And after Equity and Trusts tutorial, it was just that - nada, nothing to think about except what to do with your time.
And the rain poured. I was, and had been - eyeing the Nescafe van before the tutorial - and nobody, mind you NOBODY was interested in going down with me to get a fix of it.
And then, when we finally did get down there, Rachel was sipping just as hard as me.
Next scene: In the darkness of LT7
Judge John Deed is not a menacing fellow. In fact, he's a jolly kind one. And a just one. And I might mention, a bit of a ladies' man.
Now who would have thought that of a judge?
So straight and serious.
(Most of em are men).
For all their law and order. And wigs.
We are sitting in the darkness, and suddenly, Mei Chieng wants her bag.
She's sitting in front, while her bag is on the table behind her.
Picture LT7. Stairs of seating. One table higher, one step up.
She reaches for her bag, and doesn't see the coffee cup beside it in the darkness - and whoosh, over it goes.
The table is chocolate brown.
How to clean it up?
Subie dumps her newspaper upon the offending stain.
Mei Chieng signals apologies in the dark.
We resume watching.
Later: Sunway Pyramid
Ah, the parking. The green lights marking empty lots and the red ones - occupied - intrigued us. We even waited for a it after the car emptied the lot for us to move in - simply to see whether the red would turn green.
And it did!!!
Bingo.
Sha-Lene's already talked about the movie we watched - which we rushed through lunch for.
After we called it a day for the movie, everything moved more quickly. The end drops on us, and we were just going back. In Tsu Ming's car.
Rolling, rolling, rolling in the traffic jam.
Tsu Ming does not believe in the law of attraction. And Faan Jin believes in flying cars. So when there is a traffic jam, all we have to do is not think anymore about it (lest it get worse) and try to catch a flying car instead.
Yeah baby, yeah.
It's the end of school days, after all.
Muaxxxxx.
H.A.P.P.Y. H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.S.
"It's an alethiometer. It tells the truth." - Master of Jordan
Hullo, Darlings and friends! :]
It looks like Cheryl and Rachel have both been actively blogging, and words cannot express how delighted I am! Mei Chieng's given her word that she'll, and I quote, "definitely be blogging" -- while Faan Jin is ... bound to want to. Eventually.
;P
Today was the last day of Semester 1, and we've now officially embraced the Christmas break with arms wide open! Hahaha! A bunch of us went to celebrate [surviving half of Year 2] in Sunway Pyramid, with a lunch and a movie.
Mei Chieng (Darling #5 of this weblog group) said, "Hey I'll meet you guys there" ... but then ... FFK us at the eleventh hour! -_-" So, babe, you missed out on a great time la.
It took forever for both cars to find parking spots, and even longer to decide on a restaurant. I seriously thought I was going to start retching from the accumulated 9 hours of acidic stomach juices. In the end, we settled for Esquire Kitchen. It was a close toss between the only two decisive people in the group: Joanne for ramen noodles and Rachel for Esquire.
It is established that Rachel won. :]
After lunch, we had to super rush to the movie and .......... I didn't buy popcorn! Oh my goodness! It's such a wretchedly big deal for me, especially since my entire purpose for going to cinemas is to eat the popcorn! T_T And you know what? We were late for the movie ANYWAY. Daarrrrrn. For someone who practically preaches punctuality, I dunno why I have been successfully arriving late for every movie I've been to the cinema for, since, like, Die Hard 2.0..
The Golden Compass was absolutely brilliant! A must-watch for all fantasy lovers. Not a movie for everyone though, some people didn't enjoy it for its "illogicality" and how it "isn't real". Like I said ... for the fantasy lovers. :]
I LOVED IT.
RM10 well-spent. I've never been to a movie with Joanne, Soo Tian, and Tsu Ming before. 'Tis the experience money cannot buy. Hehe! They were fun to hang out with. :] In addition to the Equity's Darlings lah, of course.
Seriously - movie was gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
The James Bond actor was smokin' hot, Nicole Kidman was splendidly beautiful, and the little girl was really really pretty and a pretty good actress!! :] I can't wait to watch the next two movies of the trilogy!!!!
After the movie, it was like 6pm already and almost everyone had to call it a day. So we hugged the lot goodbye and yelled out happy hols -- then Rachel and I scooted off to The Curve for Happy Hour.
It looks like Cheryl and Rachel have both been actively blogging, and words cannot express how delighted I am! Mei Chieng's given her word that she'll, and I quote, "definitely be blogging" -- while Faan Jin is ... bound to want to. Eventually.
;P
Today was the last day of Semester 1, and we've now officially embraced the Christmas break with arms wide open! Hahaha! A bunch of us went to celebrate [surviving half of Year 2] in Sunway Pyramid, with a lunch and a movie.
Mei Chieng (Darling #5 of this weblog group) said, "Hey I'll meet you guys there" ... but then ... FFK us at the eleventh hour! -_-" So, babe, you missed out on a great time la.
It took forever for both cars to find parking spots, and even longer to decide on a restaurant. I seriously thought I was going to start retching from the accumulated 9 hours of acidic stomach juices. In the end, we settled for Esquire Kitchen. It was a close toss between the only two decisive people in the group: Joanne for ramen noodles and Rachel for Esquire.
It is established that Rachel won. :]
After lunch, we had to super rush to the movie and .......... I didn't buy popcorn! Oh my goodness! It's such a wretchedly big deal for me, especially since my entire purpose for going to cinemas is to eat the popcorn! T_T And you know what? We were late for the movie ANYWAY. Daarrrrrn. For someone who practically preaches punctuality, I dunno why I have been successfully arriving late for every movie I've been to the cinema for, since, like, Die Hard 2.0..
The Golden Compass was absolutely brilliant! A must-watch for all fantasy lovers. Not a movie for everyone though, some people didn't enjoy it for its "illogicality" and how it "isn't real". Like I said ... for the fantasy lovers. :]
I LOVED IT.
RM10 well-spent. I've never been to a movie with Joanne, Soo Tian, and Tsu Ming before. 'Tis the experience money cannot buy. Hehe! They were fun to hang out with. :] In addition to the Equity's Darlings lah, of course.
Seriously - movie was gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
The James Bond actor was smokin' hot, Nicole Kidman was splendidly beautiful, and the little girl was really really pretty and a pretty good actress!! :] I can't wait to watch the next two movies of the trilogy!!!!
After the movie, it was like 6pm already and almost everyone had to call it a day. So we hugged the lot goodbye and yelled out happy hols -- then Rachel and I scooted off to The Curve for Happy Hour.
We drank a lot of alcohol and drove dangerously home. We even got DUI-ed.
I'm KIDDING LAH.
We went to The Curve and I met her parents! HAHAHA so the opposite of getting pissed. Her family was having dinner at Kim Gary's ... but by then I was too beat for Asian cuisine (personally, Hong Kong food is just ... blah~) ... so we went off to eat in another restaurant. This one called out to us in a hallelujah chorus:
We had the Three-For-All and the MOCHA MUD PIE. Effing fantastic.
The Curve is incredibly beautiful right now, and it's lined up with activities in light of the Christmas season. So, if you're feeling bored at home, you can check out some of their events!
Very, very late by the time I got home ... so late to the point that my mum called me and said, "Eh, still don't want to come home ah?" ... hahahhaha ... it's a blast to hang out with Rachel! :D
On a final note, I've finally figured out how to upload self-playing songs (see top right corner of blogging frame)!! :] Below are the lyrics in case you feel tempted to do a sing-along. :P
"Welcome To Wherever You Are"
Jon Bon Jovi
Maybe we're different, but we're still the same
We all got the blood of Eden, running through our veins
I know sometimes it's hard for you to see
You come between just who you are and who you wanna be
If you feel alone, and lost and need a friend
Remember every new beginning, is some beginning's end
[Chorus]
Welcome to wherever you are
This is your life, you made it this far
Welcome, you gotta believe
That right here right now,
you're exactly where you're supposed to be
Welcome, to wherever you are
When everybody's in, and you're left out
And you feel your drowning, in a shadow of a doubt
Everyones a miracle in their own way
Just listen to yourself, not what other people say
When it seems you're lost, alone and feeling down
Remember everybody's differentJust take a look around
[Chorus]
Be who you want to, be who you are
Everyones a hero, everyones a star
When you wanna give up, and your hearts about to break
Remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes
[Chorus]
Until next time, take care and enjoy your December! :]
xoxo, Sha-Lene
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