Tuesday, January 24, 2006
CNY is coming!!!
My favourite festival of the year :)) The ang bao plays a crucial role ( ok i think ive written too many history essays recently) but among what i love are also the family reunions (not with my paternal side of relatives though), the festive mood when everyone is happy, and best of all is CHINATOWN! before i yak about my trip to Chinatown with steven last saturday.. i must explain why i detest gathering with my paternal side of relatives. I tell you, i can describe them in one word: DULL. Capitalized and bolded. It's true. Well my paternal grandmother is senile, was never close to her, my paternal grandfather only speaks Hokkien which i can hardly converse in ( except for stuff like DIAM LA KB :X).. i'd love to talk to him sometimes, ask him abt his health etc, but it's hard when we cant conmmunicate. and well. he hates lee kuan yew : ( as for my aunt/uncles and their families, i honestly suspect they haven stepped into orchard road properly dressed for the past 5 years. I dun mean to be rude, but well they just strike me as that kinda people who coop themselves up at home all the time. they aint poor, they just scrimp; i heard that my aunt actually has tens of thousands in her bank. you know it's dreary to be with them on such festive occasions because they hardly ever smile, let alone laugh. They are SUPER quiet as though my presence is very intimidating.. Their eyes lack lustre, i mean it. Like those fishes in shengshiong. dead ones i mean. Then when we all sit around a table to have reunion dinner, it seems like only my family has learned the art of conversing, but because everyone else often stares back at you, you learn to keep quiet too. or maybe they're just trying to say, "shut up and eat ur food". i dunno. ive never, i repeat, NEVER had a conversation with any of my paternal relatives in my 17 years of being related to them.
It's hard to explain why this is unfortunately so, the simplest and most basic would perhaps be that my father is an adopted son unlike the rest of them. so technically we aint related at all. well thank goodness cos i dont wanna have their characteristic. maybe i seem like im exaggerating, but trust me, even my mum resents it so much she doesnt feel like going this year too. which of cos i disapprove cos i think we shld all gather at least for the sake of my grandparents.
so this year if we do have a reunion meal, im gonna bring my history notes to read or something. usually i talk to my sister, but it can get awkward when you realize there's only my family talking to each other or to my grandpa while the rest just watch tv (even if its commercials their eyes still stay glued to it la) or mumble among themselves. I haven even seen them laugh before at some private joke or whatever. weirdos.
okie enuff ranting i shall talk abt my Chinatown trip : ))
it was so fun! hell lotta people, you squeeze and especially at junctions you squeeze even more and you smell people's (esp guys) smelly hair those sweaty pigs and people step on your shoes but it's well worth it cos the ambience is great.. a lot of stalls selling CNY goods, so you can always conveniently stretch out your hands and grab some melon seeds etc.. theres no sign that says "NO SAMPLING" :)) dont buy the stupid "magic ice cream" though, it costs 80 cents for a stupid "ice cream" that doesnt have cream. it's made just by pouring flavoured drinks like green tea, root beer etc and frozen into a popsicle. its like, one 1.5 litres bottle of green tea costs $1.25 and it can make more than 100 'green tea' popsicles la. cheater. what a cheater. more like make your money magically disappear.
ooh anyway the gourds (is that what they're called? hu lu in chinese) are pretty cute.. but i dunno if its for decorative purposes or its edible.. haha maybe i shld get one and use it as a water bottle.. you know those ancient chinese shows the "masters" always use gourds to contain water... like Ji Gong.. lol..
there's lotsa pretty flowers too, like the ones that my sweetheart bought for me.. we were walking (or rather being pushed along by the crowd) den he suddenly tell the uncle he wanted 3 stalks... here they are!
they're really cool cos you spray water on them and the petals will open up..
and here are some pics taken at chinatown just in case you cant be bothered to go! : )
haha i like this picture most.. they guy isnt covering his face, he was in fact telling my mum that she had to pay $5 to take his picture LOL...
happy cny to all : )
cheers,
ching
My favourite festival of the year :)) The ang bao plays a crucial role ( ok i think ive written too many history essays recently) but among what i love are also the family reunions (not with my paternal side of relatives though), the festive mood when everyone is happy, and best of all is CHINATOWN! before i yak about my trip to Chinatown with steven last saturday.. i must explain why i detest gathering with my paternal side of relatives. I tell you, i can describe them in one word: DULL. Capitalized and bolded. It's true. Well my paternal grandmother is senile, was never close to her, my paternal grandfather only speaks Hokkien which i can hardly converse in ( except for stuff like DIAM LA KB :X).. i'd love to talk to him sometimes, ask him abt his health etc, but it's hard when we cant conmmunicate. and well. he hates lee kuan yew : ( as for my aunt/uncles and their families, i honestly suspect they haven stepped into orchard road properly dressed for the past 5 years. I dun mean to be rude, but well they just strike me as that kinda people who coop themselves up at home all the time. they aint poor, they just scrimp; i heard that my aunt actually has tens of thousands in her bank. you know it's dreary to be with them on such festive occasions because they hardly ever smile, let alone laugh. They are SUPER quiet as though my presence is very intimidating.. Their eyes lack lustre, i mean it. Like those fishes in shengshiong. dead ones i mean. Then when we all sit around a table to have reunion dinner, it seems like only my family has learned the art of conversing, but because everyone else often stares back at you, you learn to keep quiet too. or maybe they're just trying to say, "shut up and eat ur food". i dunno. ive never, i repeat, NEVER had a conversation with any of my paternal relatives in my 17 years of being related to them.
It's hard to explain why this is unfortunately so, the simplest and most basic would perhaps be that my father is an adopted son unlike the rest of them. so technically we aint related at all. well thank goodness cos i dont wanna have their characteristic. maybe i seem like im exaggerating, but trust me, even my mum resents it so much she doesnt feel like going this year too. which of cos i disapprove cos i think we shld all gather at least for the sake of my grandparents.
so this year if we do have a reunion meal, im gonna bring my history notes to read or something. usually i talk to my sister, but it can get awkward when you realize there's only my family talking to each other or to my grandpa while the rest just watch tv (even if its commercials their eyes still stay glued to it la) or mumble among themselves. I haven even seen them laugh before at some private joke or whatever. weirdos.
okie enuff ranting i shall talk abt my Chinatown trip : ))
it was so fun! hell lotta people, you squeeze and especially at junctions you squeeze even more and you smell people's (esp guys) smelly hair those sweaty pigs and people step on your shoes but it's well worth it cos the ambience is great.. a lot of stalls selling CNY goods, so you can always conveniently stretch out your hands and grab some melon seeds etc.. theres no sign that says "NO SAMPLING" :)) dont buy the stupid "magic ice cream" though, it costs 80 cents for a stupid "ice cream" that doesnt have cream. it's made just by pouring flavoured drinks like green tea, root beer etc and frozen into a popsicle. its like, one 1.5 litres bottle of green tea costs $1.25 and it can make more than 100 'green tea' popsicles la. cheater. what a cheater. more like make your money magically disappear.
ooh anyway the gourds (is that what they're called? hu lu in chinese) are pretty cute.. but i dunno if its for decorative purposes or its edible.. haha maybe i shld get one and use it as a water bottle.. you know those ancient chinese shows the "masters" always use gourds to contain water... like Ji Gong.. lol..
there's lotsa pretty flowers too, like the ones that my sweetheart bought for me.. we were walking (or rather being pushed along by the crowd) den he suddenly tell the uncle he wanted 3 stalks... here they are!
they're really cool cos you spray water on them and the petals will open up..
and here are some pics taken at chinatown just in case you cant be bothered to go! : )
haha i like this picture most.. they guy isnt covering his face, he was in fact telling my mum that she had to pay $5 to take his picture LOL...happy cny to all : )
cheers,
ching
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
Post-Studying rants.
There are very little ways of dividing the world's population into two. The most straightforward method is of course, to divide people according to their gender i.e. male or female. Because so many aspects of life varies, there often exists a neutral or middle class, hence besides the above mentioned method there is practically no other way of dividing the world's population into exactly two (well good for you if you can think of another one cos my brain is fried). Well ignoring what i jsut typed in the brackets, my brain is fried, but before it was totally fried and "well done", i was enlightened! ive discovered a sure-fire way of dividing the world into two groups. as in the people.
by categorizing them under a) loves egg yolk (as in the gross liquid-ish one) OR b) hates egg yolk! *beams*
Well there you go aint i a genius. I for one belong to the smarter group, that is, group b. All those belonging in category b should take our egg yolks and fling them at those in group a who will savour the disgusting egg yolks. the raw stench and the stickiness of yolks... *shivers in disgust*
ok bye. time to sleep. its 12: 44am. 5 more hours left to sleep. it's not that bad, but im really tired from studying for more than 12 hours.
love,
ching
There are very little ways of dividing the world's population into two. The most straightforward method is of course, to divide people according to their gender i.e. male or female. Because so many aspects of life varies, there often exists a neutral or middle class, hence besides the above mentioned method there is practically no other way of dividing the world's population into exactly two (well good for you if you can think of another one cos my brain is fried). Well ignoring what i jsut typed in the brackets, my brain is fried, but before it was totally fried and "well done", i was enlightened! ive discovered a sure-fire way of dividing the world into two groups. as in the people.
by categorizing them under a) loves egg yolk (as in the gross liquid-ish one) OR b) hates egg yolk! *beams*
Well there you go aint i a genius. I for one belong to the smarter group, that is, group b. All those belonging in category b should take our egg yolks and fling them at those in group a who will savour the disgusting egg yolks. the raw stench and the stickiness of yolks... *shivers in disgust*
ok bye. time to sleep. its 12: 44am. 5 more hours left to sleep. it's not that bad, but im really tired from studying for more than 12 hours.
love,
ching
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Sunday, January 15, 2006
JC2 life sucks.
that's the story man. Iim super busy nowadays uggh. Assignments. Tutorials. Essays. Readings. Research. I can just DIE. Just finished my s paper essay today after everyone else has handed in. I wont be surprised if i get kicked out of s paper class hurr. I still gotta find some material on North West Europe 1944-45 for my group mates. They're really nice peeps :)
I still haven done my Maclaurins tutorial and Mrs Ang is going through Loci tmw already. thankfully i have my "econs break" tmw. theres also Maclaurins assignment to hand in. i also haven read my Measure for Measure notes. theres also new imperialism notes to read. and theres a Cold War essay due next week.
actually i would have more time if not for the fact that i meet steven sometimes.. but well a relationship is a committment i guess i just gotta organise my time well. I know! less time online. :)
anyway i went to the East Coast beach with my darling steven on Saturday.. now i got a lovely tan which makes me look healthier cos i used to be so white. yesss im gonna tan once every 1-2 mths from now on.. heh. we saw a really reallu huge horse shoe crab on the sand! it looked like it was dying, poor thing.. so steven and i flipped it with a stick till it "rolled" back into the sea lol.. den i was kinda paranoid about going into the waters after that :x anyway i discovered that the sea sometimes makes this weird "pop" sound.. it scared the shit outta me when i first heard it cos it sounds kinda like a girl doing a "pop" sound but there was no one else nearby.. :/but well the beach was really fun! i lvoe the waters :)) i think next time we will go canoeing (or canoing?) heh.
im also my sisters gym buddy now, i go to the gym with her every sunday. also plan on hitting the gym with steven every friday so that lazy pig will not suffer like mad durinf NS lol :P think i will have to drag him there though haha. dun worry i aint hitting the gym to lose weight, im eating more and exercising for the sake of getting a more toned body.. i cant lose weight anymore if not i will fly away during this monsoon season. :/
ooh and i took several pics with my sis today.. we look so alike! :D (yeah i know ive said that a lot of times. but.. really look alike la!!) oh just that my face is fatter.
my face is so huge la.
us three sisters! from oldest to youngest.. from smartest to stupid-est.. LOL jsut kidding la. my younger sis is the smartest actually. but its definitely from the lazy to the laziest :x
ok i must go sleep now byebye!
love,
ching
that's the story man. Iim super busy nowadays uggh. Assignments. Tutorials. Essays. Readings. Research. I can just DIE. Just finished my s paper essay today after everyone else has handed in. I wont be surprised if i get kicked out of s paper class hurr. I still gotta find some material on North West Europe 1944-45 for my group mates. They're really nice peeps :)
I still haven done my Maclaurins tutorial and Mrs Ang is going through Loci tmw already. thankfully i have my "econs break" tmw. theres also Maclaurins assignment to hand in. i also haven read my Measure for Measure notes. theres also new imperialism notes to read. and theres a Cold War essay due next week.
actually i would have more time if not for the fact that i meet steven sometimes.. but well a relationship is a committment i guess i just gotta organise my time well. I know! less time online. :)
anyway i went to the East Coast beach with my darling steven on Saturday.. now i got a lovely tan which makes me look healthier cos i used to be so white. yesss im gonna tan once every 1-2 mths from now on.. heh. we saw a really reallu huge horse shoe crab on the sand! it looked like it was dying, poor thing.. so steven and i flipped it with a stick till it "rolled" back into the sea lol.. den i was kinda paranoid about going into the waters after that :x anyway i discovered that the sea sometimes makes this weird "pop" sound.. it scared the shit outta me when i first heard it cos it sounds kinda like a girl doing a "pop" sound but there was no one else nearby.. :/but well the beach was really fun! i lvoe the waters :)) i think next time we will go canoeing (or canoing?) heh.
im also my sisters gym buddy now, i go to the gym with her every sunday. also plan on hitting the gym with steven every friday so that lazy pig will not suffer like mad durinf NS lol :P think i will have to drag him there though haha. dun worry i aint hitting the gym to lose weight, im eating more and exercising for the sake of getting a more toned body.. i cant lose weight anymore if not i will fly away during this monsoon season. :/
ooh and i took several pics with my sis today.. we look so alike! :D (yeah i know ive said that a lot of times. but.. really look alike la!!) oh just that my face is fatter.
my face is so huge la.
us three sisters! from oldest to youngest.. from smartest to stupid-est.. LOL jsut kidding la. my younger sis is the smartest actually. but its definitely from the lazy to the laziest :x
ok i must go sleep now byebye!
love,
ching
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Monday, January 02, 2006
unprepared.
im so not ready for school. doubt anyone is. i feel so tired, just wanna sleep for a couple of more days. my mood's pretty bad recently. my mum keeps on picking on me, i feel like screaming at her to shut up. every 10 lines she speaks to me, 6-7 are scolding me. It's my damn fault for every thing that goes wrong in the house. she aint happy with anything i do. told her my new years resolution was to wash the toilet once every two weeks and she still complained and scolded me instead of saying "good". whenever i talk to her she just gives me that irritated face. i can even get scolded for asking a damn question like "where are we going later?" and "can i take ah han (my lil sis) out for a movie tmw?". wth man. during lunch she was watching some madarin drama and she would make comments aloud, since no one replied her i would be like "yes?" and guess wad, she ignored me and called my little sis instead. it happened twice.
and steven doesnt exactly help. our time clashes pretty badly now, cos he wakes up at 3pm everyday, sleeps again in the evening, wakes up at night, and doesnt sleep till 4am. i wake up at 10 to 11am (not like i have a choice.), wait for him to wake up, do some work, get scolded by my mum of cos, do some chores... and i gotta sleep at 12 to 1am everyday (again i have no choice. mum's orders.) we do chat over the phone but not for vv long. sigh. nvm. just let him do wad he wants since he finished his A's. i've got my own A's to worry abt.
still haven completed my hw, and i still cant be bothered. i feel like soaking in jaccuzi in the dark and sleep away. maybe if it's not too cold tonight i will do just that. my mum has convinced me that being out of the house is better den being at home. i know she's probly having menopause, but i resent the fact that she ONLY picks on me. it's like, i MUST wake up when she tells me to while my older and younger sis can go on sleeping. like wth?
im throwing a tantrum perhaps. but at least i'm doing so in words. stm ppl need a break ya know.
love,
ching.
im so not ready for school. doubt anyone is. i feel so tired, just wanna sleep for a couple of more days. my mood's pretty bad recently. my mum keeps on picking on me, i feel like screaming at her to shut up. every 10 lines she speaks to me, 6-7 are scolding me. It's my damn fault for every thing that goes wrong in the house. she aint happy with anything i do. told her my new years resolution was to wash the toilet once every two weeks and she still complained and scolded me instead of saying "good". whenever i talk to her she just gives me that irritated face. i can even get scolded for asking a damn question like "where are we going later?" and "can i take ah han (my lil sis) out for a movie tmw?". wth man. during lunch she was watching some madarin drama and she would make comments aloud, since no one replied her i would be like "yes?" and guess wad, she ignored me and called my little sis instead. it happened twice.
and steven doesnt exactly help. our time clashes pretty badly now, cos he wakes up at 3pm everyday, sleeps again in the evening, wakes up at night, and doesnt sleep till 4am. i wake up at 10 to 11am (not like i have a choice.), wait for him to wake up, do some work, get scolded by my mum of cos, do some chores... and i gotta sleep at 12 to 1am everyday (again i have no choice. mum's orders.) we do chat over the phone but not for vv long. sigh. nvm. just let him do wad he wants since he finished his A's. i've got my own A's to worry abt.
still haven completed my hw, and i still cant be bothered. i feel like soaking in jaccuzi in the dark and sleep away. maybe if it's not too cold tonight i will do just that. my mum has convinced me that being out of the house is better den being at home. i know she's probly having menopause, but i resent the fact that she ONLY picks on me. it's like, i MUST wake up when she tells me to while my older and younger sis can go on sleeping. like wth?
im throwing a tantrum perhaps. but at least i'm doing so in words. stm ppl need a break ya know.
love,
ching.
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