the facebook photos say it all...

i am really happy at this point in time, but it feels surreal to have him back here, with me. it even borders on strange. because we are used to having so much freedom, coming and going as we please, and doing whatever we want. it's a whole new environment and culture. but it doesn't matter, i think we can work it out somehow.

had a lovely dinner at PS Cafe, where the food and service were great, the prices as usual a little steep. and since when are we not allowed to take photos of our food?? sighhh. his black pepper pork cutlet was a real piece of (food as) art. it was followed by oosh, where the service is still sub par although they seem to be trying. they did change the dessert menu and trimmed it down...there isn't anything vaguely interesting now save for the mango panna cotta with fruit coulis that we had. i do have to mention that their dessert portions are puny. i miss huge serving portions!!!

a long day awaits tomorrow, off to bed now.

Labels: love, nosh

1:46 AM



slapping my forehead right now. apparently the new nuggets of information i received are newsy and of human interest. (this after consulting with my lecturer)

and hence, major rewriting is in order.

this better be good!!!

sigh...and everytime i am under duress, i turn to retail therapy. it is an expensive habit, given my penchant for beautiful things.

and i am presently satisfying my chocolate craving...how timely that in the big box full of goodies i received yesterday, there was a packet of strawberry kit kats.

one more day till he comes back!!

okay now back to work. *pouts*



11:06 PM



i'm making some progress with school work!

although i will most definitely exceed the word limit and will have to do major chopping later. and my lead is not catchy at all.

but now i have almost all the information i need to write a complete article. phew.

i woke up with killer cramps this morning - almost couldn't get out of bed.

drank warm water and made myself cups of hot tea and took the prerequisite painkillers...after a few hours i was oddly happy and hyper.

a pretty bag and cameos i bought off etsy were delivered to me this afternoon- nothing like receiving online purchases to brighten up my day!

tuition in the afternoon, and now i'm back home giving my full attention to work.

no more procrastination. gambatte!



9:37 PM



it's only gonna be two days but already i miss him like crazy.

sigh...i miss texting him throughout the day, i will definitely miss hearing his voice before i go to bed and having him give me a wake up call in the morning.

:(

anyway. the hols have been really unproductive so far...i've been having headaches the past 2 days and i gave myself the monday off to just relax. genny and i met up and went for lunch at the royal copenhagen tea lounge before heading to cineleisure to catch the movie 'waitress'. overall i thought it was a good movie although there were some parts that were silly and didn't do the movie any good. i liked the concept and the plot and well, its deeper meaning, to put it in a cliched manner.

i spent almost the entire tuesday in bed because i woke up to find myself inhaling paint fumes - my estate is currently being repainted so hence the unpleasant odor. i was supposed to do some work then but i was having such a bad headache and i couldn't think of a lead to write for my feature article.

this afternoon i finally met up with angela for lunch and we had a good catch up session at dome. i was so stuffed from the penne pasta and pecan tart that i could barely eat my dinner. i'm trying to write my article now but at this point it seems like such a trial having to put everything together. ARGH. that's the worst feeling ever because i want to complete it way before the sunday deadline.

and i'm craving for chocolate which can only mean one thing.



10:13 PM



doing internship-related stuff is such a drag. not what i want to think about now. things like updating student data sheets, writing resumes and cover letters, selecting organizations...it's all coming up and i'm not ready. i don't even know what i want yet.

ARGH.

one of those times where i wish life had signposts. i just hope i don't end up doing something i'm not into for 24 whole weeks!

these days, all i seem to care about are the frivolous and hedonistic.



10:59 PM



i feel tired, but its more of an emotional exhaustion than a physical one, since i obviously haven't been moving around much.

it's term break, but no longer will i be able to make short trips to oregon or vancouver.

those were the days.

sigh.

i've gotten used to him not being here, but in a week he will be by my side for a brief period...i wonder how that will be like.

i guess it's hard nowadays for things to stay constant and to have some semblance of normalcy in our lives.



10:50 PM



term break started early for me. i woke up this morning feeling drowsy from last night's cold medication and i couldn't bear the thought of traipsing down to school in that state. so here i am.

i really need this break, even though i have a habit of taking off from school whenever i feel like it and declaring self-imposed day-offs, and even though there is still work to be done and a presentation/quiz after the break to prepare for...knowing myself i won't work too hard.

shall start by getting some novels to read later.



11:21 AM



no way jose!!!

so i'm sure we all heard the news that jose mourinho has parted ways with chelsea. they're using all kindsa benign terms out there when we all know it wasn't a mutual thing.

anyway as much as i dislike chelsea and jose's blustery/cocky ways are really annoying, one has to admit that with him gone the premier league (i hate the new acronym!!!) is gonna be a little more staid...i mean it's one of those can't live with him can't live without him kinda scenarios. the guy brought colour to the game, upped the competitiveness, started feisty feuds with the other clubs, sent tempers flaring..he was quite a character. and (this is coming from a man u fan)...i must admit his presence will be missed.

Labels: musings, sports

11:51 PM



ever since i woke up this morning, till now

my nose has been blocked.

i can't even begin to tell you how much of a frustration and annoyance that is

to have your nasal passages (and what feels like an entire cranium) clogged up

such that you can't smell anything (and even if you smell bad, god forbid, you wouldn't know)

to be constantly sniffling into tissues and using an absurd amount

on a day when, for the first time on a thursday, you diligently decide to attend all your classes from noon to 4.30pm with no lunch break in between, followed by tuition after school till 7pm.

geez. i am hoping that this nasty sinus doesn't bug me at some unceremonious moment like during an internship interview. oh the horror.



10:38 PM



it is way too hot here.

i love online retail therapy in air-conditioned comfort and talking to my sweets, who will be back soon, who puts up with my daily ramblings on our terribly expensive phone conversations, and who helps me save on shipping by checking out the shops for me!

*beams*



10:07 PM



i stepped into the kitchen for some grub last night

turned on the lights

and my heart jumped

when a lizard fell from the ceiling to the floor

and scampered away

i don't exactly like the look of them

and lizards don't scare me

'cept when they pull shit like that on me



4:55 PM



time to get cracking and do some work...

thing is i'm feeling so unmotivated and totally disinclined to get started

a li'l apprehensive following past setbacks

and worried that i won't have a good story

i felt like i haven't written a fabulous one in awhile

i had so much fun with narrative journ at the uw

it's totally the opposite here

but anyway once i get started i'm hoping my feelings will change

and i won't dread it so much

today i was a good girl, and went to all my classes

my biz finance lecture was over in all of 45 minutes when it was supposed to be 1.5 hours long

props to the prof for making it short and sweet (most profs love belaboring a point), although i didn't catch most of what he said due to his thick accent

his case studies were interesting and funny though

then i went for tuition, and came home

it wasn't such a bad day after all.



9:24 PM



argh i am going crazy!!!

i am tired of being prematurely woken up practically every morning

of not being able to fall asleep because my nose is blocked (or it's too noisy downstairs)

of waking up in the middle of the night because it's so stuffy (and the air-con is on!)

of people barging into my room to get stuff when i am taking a nap

it's times like these that i wish i were back in seattle

where life was hella good.



5:06 PM



on the internship: i'm so uncertain about where i want to go next year. so many choices but we can only list down two for the first phase.

on everything else: nothing much going on in my life at the moment. i'm mostly at home, i spend a minimal amount of time at school, and 6 hours of tuition a week. i haven't really gone out much yet. in a way i'm content with not having that full a plate, but yet unhappy that there seems to be something big missing in my life and there's some kinda emptiness that needs to be filled.



10:24 PM



finance presentation went well today. i've got some horrible stomach bug which is leaving me a little worse for wear but i'll survive. i can't stop thinking of all the good food that have me looking forward to the weekends because that's the only time i can stock up on them.

i am still addicted to etsy as i uncover more oodles of pretty goodies that i can't resist. and i am hungry now but i don't know what to eat.

one more presentation tomorrow and no more assignments till after the term break!



10:43 PM



faux pas

i popped into a shop this afternoon after dropping by the PO because an eyelet dress in the window caught my eye.

when i finally found the dress, i was really disappointed. it was $99, was of really poor quality as in it was obviously fraying (and that wasn't intentional) and made of some thin rough fabric that apparently, can be found on alot of the clothes here (this was from a local brand).

the thing about shopping in singapore is that you pay alot for crap quality. i guess it's the same case with alot of other places but it seems rather prevalent here. i mean, the clothes aren't even reasonably priced! which pretty much explains why i don't really shop alot in singapore, or rather, find myself buying stuff from a select number of shops. i am usually willing to fork out more money if something is of good quality and would be long-lasting without colors fading or threads coming loose. not if it looks good from afar but up close, is poorly made.

and it sucks that we don't have a return policy here.



6:36 PM



this blog is in desperate need of photos! i have them, but i have either been too lazy or not in the right frame of mind to put them up. t'was a rather productive weekend but as usual passed way too fast. 2 deadlines next week and am ready for neither. met genny on saturday and we had tea at menotti's...i ordered chicken and mushroom soup assuming it was cream-based, but when it was served to me as a clear broth, i was stunned. like, who scoops a few ladles of chicken broth into a bowl, throws in pieces of chicken and mushroom, adds in some spices and herbs and serves it?!!!

after the past few weeks of practically no socializing outside of school it's nice to meet up with a friend and just be myself.

went to crystal jade la mian xiao long bao at holland v for lunch with my family. their xiao long baos are really yummy, and as the description on the place mat goes, they "burst in your mouth with a juicy explosion" - omfg.

had a pounding headache after my blocked nose this afternoon so i spent most of the evening feeling awful, but i took some panadol earlier and i'm feeling so awake right now i wish i were more productive than this.



11:55 PM



re-reading old journals - now that's something i haven't done in awhile.

i don't have exactly alot of free time on my hands, but it was only because someone whom i don't know commented on something that i wrote like, a few years ago, and i started going through my old entries.

my previous writing style's quite unlike the current one, with proper, longer sentences which are more conversational and have more details. i seemed to watch alot of tv shows (i was really into felicity and gilmore girls back then), music, shopping, food, and soccer too, as seen from my ramblings. i was preoccupied with school and BOYS *rolls eyes*. and circa 2003, i dreamed of going to faraway places, and of going overseas to study.

so finally, 4 years later, i sort of fulfilled my 16 year old dream, and grew up alot.

Labels: musings

12:37 AM



the end of a school week. i skipped 2 classes yet it feels like alot, i think it has to do with hardly doing any work. but i feel better, happier, that i didn't waste my time sitting in class wishing i were somewhere else and not absorbing anything. up next week: tutorial presentation for finance (eew) and assignment 1 presentation for visual communication (major photoshopping is in order over the weekend).



9:44 PM



my head's a mess now and it's hard to just think straight. the nose has been runny the entire day (the horror) and a pounding headache has ensued. i have terrible eyebags and undereye circles so i probably look like a terrible mess. i am trying not to though. like slathering on some delish body butter, spoiling myself silly with 3 new pairs of earrings, online (window) shopping, spending an inordinate time on etsy, sephora and anthropologie. and most probably skipping a lecture tomorrow. whatever makes me feel betta!



11:14 PM



skimmed through my readings - they are too abstract and i can't even grasp the gist of it.

i'm not feeling particularly well today - the body is kinda achey and i nearly keeled over during dinner and i don't know why. it was this sudden feeling of weakness, as though the energy was being sucked out of my body. nevertheless dinner was good - we had steak and potato salad, followed by pluots and strawberries.

left school after 45 minutes just now, during the lecture break. crazy i know, but the quiz was over, and the lecture that followed was plain boring.

yes, these days i terribly need some form of amusement/entertainment.



10:47 PM



881 - definitely one of the better local films out there. it was colourful, entertaining, humorous but at the same time, moving. very well directed. just had dinner with some of my family at ginga to celebrate my cousin's (gasp) 30th - i love japanese cuisine but this pales in comparison to the many jap places i've tried in seattle. and so i continue to miss the city more.



12:21 AM



feeling the same way all over again. sunday's drawing to a close and i'm wishing i had more time to kick back and relax. more alone time, cuz i spent most of the past 2 days with family, attempting to bring my bro out somewhere, which was short-lived, cuz it rained. then attempting to watch the ironman 70.3, which again was a failure cuz of the congestion, and the rain. then in the midst of it all, just plain missing him and the times we used to spend together. :(:(



6:49 PM