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claire
20 yrs old
9th dec
cps.nygh.njcian.nus life sci
drama fan
outdoor gal
beginner chef
looking for a goal in life

things i wanna do

~~picnic~~
steamboat
go for a spin
~~kite flying~~
ride the singapore flyer
a night stay in a local hotel
dress up my hamsters
wardrobe makeover

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OMG!!! i just broke a bed!... my friend's bed...

i didnt jump onto it. but it broke. :( am i really that heavy? did the bed have to protest in such an extreme way. oh crap...

a few days ago, my friend broke the toilet door lock. now the door cannot be locked at all...

ooh my goodness.. the whole house is breaking into pieces...

soon, the roof is going to collapse too...ahhhh...

(thruthisglass.com)

-posted @ 11.46pm

i saw FARENHEIT LIVE. lol. my family and i were at IMM. when we were heading to the carpark, we met a group of people escorted by many security guards. we only realise they were fei lun hai when some girls shouted their names from behind. my dad even asked who are they.?. lol.. i think they look skinnier in person. that was really the surprise of the day. coolness :)

-posted @ 12.08pm

I am finally recharged.

This year's night hike was great. At least i enjoyed myself. Seeing familiar faces, being around oacians made me feel nostalgic...

This year's night hike was slightly different from 2007 hike. the route was slightly different. the storyline was different. the stations were different. i can definitely see some originality. I got to know some juniors(those that were in my group) and i've got to say that i see some hope in our cca. they are definitely an enthusiastic bunch. The night was spent trudging through the forest, at some point in time getting lost. thank goodness there was jillian to tell us which right path to take. she got lost at the same places too, so we could ask her for directions. I really admire her courage, she guided the whole group and when they got lost, she was the only one who figured how to get back onto the right track. No one else was with her. If it was me or kaiting, we would have freaked out, especially if your team isnt really helpful or enthusiastic about the hike.

during the hike, i walked into quite a lot of spiderwebs... and that made me think of the 2007 night hike.. mervyn was leading the group and he was also clearing the spiderwebs for the rest of the team.(he kept walking into the spiderwebs.. haha) when we were walking in the bukit panjang area, especially when we were in the park, i remembered how jinxian led us around...walking in circles as we could not find our way. and to think that he said that he had lived in this area for a very long time...through the hike, i also kept on wondering why shuning felt that night hike was the most memorable activity in her two years of oac. Although i wasnt as mentally tired as the previous hike(probably due to the 2 cups of coffee + 1 cup of Crysanthemun tea), i must say that it was still physically tiring. my legs died when we had to climb up 21 floors in the shortest time possible nearing the end of the hike. (that was one of the last few stations. after the climb, we are suppose to solve a sudoku puzzle.) i am really ageing, time to exercise more often....

It was a pity i didnt get to have breakfast with the oacians. but i did manage to get some updates about the cca.. and perhaps some gossips about its people....

shuning was right. i was dead tired when i reached home. there was no way i could meet them in the afternoon to shop at jurong point. that's crazy. the lack of sleep and the exhaustion made me a little cranky that morning.

i managed to CUT my hair though. my head feels lighter now :)

oh and i managed to buy a new handphone! YAY!!!! my dream phone:) I know its features are not exactly superb, esp the camera... but i really love the design. why i bought the phone: 70% is because it is a flip phone(the celebrities in the drama serials are always using flipphones, it looks cool); 10% is because of the 8GB internal memory(can store up to 8000 songs); 15% is because it looks sleek(at least to me); 5% is because it is a walkman phone

conclusion: it seems that i am a rather superficial person. :( am i?

last weekend was an eventful one. if only every weekend was that eventful.. lol

coming up next: my first practical driving lesson on this coming tuesday. wish me luck :)

-posted @ 9.27am

Last night, xj and gang and i went to dine at prego using mei kwan's voucher. At first we thought it was a $500 voucher, so we happily took our seats and started munching on the bread they served. Before the meal, we were joking about the voucher, asking mei kwan what would she do if the voucher was invalid. true enough, when we asked the waiter to check out the validity of the voucher, he said it was only $50. Oh crap, we were thinking: should we stay or not?

we decided to stay and have dinner though.. i wanted to eat meat at first(which was more expensive..) but ended up with pasta(coz pasta is much cheaper). Each of us ordered a different dish. The names of the dish were really long, and hard to pronounce. we had no idea what some of the dishes were even though they had a short description of each dish on the menu.(for a moment, i felt like i was mr bean, ordering something that is the cheapest, but not knowing what it is... thank goodness i didnt end up with raw food..:D)

When we got sick of our own dish, we swopped dishes and tried each others' food. I thought for fine dining, the portion of food they serve would be very small, but that wasnt the case. there was so much food, we had to force ourselves to finish them. for all you know, you could be paying 50 cents for a piece of macaroni.

We ended the dinner with tiramisu. even though it cost $14 for a cup of tiramisu, i had to try it because all the reviews i read about the restaurant, recommended the tiramisu. I thought it was not bad. the cream part was good, i wasnt sick of it even after a few mouthfuls of it. The pasta was slightly overated though. It tasted like the usual pasta. But i guess it was an interesting experience. We were the youngest customers they had that night. lol, i definitely enjoyed the company though. On the whole, it was a good dinner. with the $50 voucher, we paid about $20plus per person. not bad for a fine dining experience :)

-posted @ 8.52am

Photo taken during last weekend outing with ailin and shuning.

the thai food was good. anyone interested in thai ala carte buffet? it is $15.80++ per person. There are 42 dishes available. not to mention it's alfresco dining:) the ambience is great. lol, i wonder how much the restaurant is paying me to advertise for them...

i think this photo looks good. really good....

-posted @ 1.57pm

poor nong. a few nights ago, when we were playing with the hamster, we realised that one of its toes were missing. the thought of it gross me out. where did that hamster toe go? rotting somewhere in my house or in the cage? eew.. the poor hamster is still alive and kicking though. we reckon that she lost her toe when she was jumping around in the cage. maybe it got stuck somewhere... now the hamster reminds me of scabbers from harry potter.. maybe nong isnt really a hamster, maybe she is an animagus... i should try kissing it and see if it turns into a princess right? lol

anyway, tonight i am meeting xj and gang and lari and pat for dinner. we are using the voucher mk won at grad night. the voucher sounds too good to be true. i hope it's usable.

-posted @ 9.12am

i am very very sleepy.. how ahh. my eyes are shutting... droopy eyelids. crap man. i tried eating sour preserved fruit(eg. orange peel) but no use... i tried drinking 2 cups of coffee.. but that was useless too. any other solutions? listening to music makes me even sleepier. i think i am gonna die this weekend. i am going for night hike right after a day of work. on sat morning, i am going to cut my hair, and then in the afternoon i am meeting shuning, ailin and carrot. i will only get too sleep on sat night. but must wake up early the next morn because i am giving tuition in the morning. there's not much of a weekend left, right?

and.. my stupid hair is getting into my way. it is too long. i want to cut it now. right now. real soon!

ZZZZzzzzZZZZZZzzzzZZZZZ

-posted @ 3.57pm

I think my expression in this photo is priceless. my disgusting colleague, always trying to take advantage of me.. haha (we are just fooling around)

-posted @ 10.20pm

I realised the video's a bit dark and slow. if you couldn't figure out what was going on in the video, here's a summary. haha.. the hamster is running on the wheel thing. the wheel spinned too fast. the centrifugal force threw the hamster out of the wheel..

i think the hamster is so blessed, because the whole family's attention is on it. i am jealous. haha..

我在吃hamster的醋. lol...juz kidding

-posted @ 10.13pm

Nong's funny moments.....

by the way, we speak hainanese to the hamster.. lol.. i dont think it understands what we are trying to say though... :D it's such a cute little thing...

-posted @ 10.02pm

Newest addition to the family....

I decided to play around with photoscape...

-posted @ 9.55pm

hey is anyone interested in joining me for oac night hike? i just wanted to be around oacians, so i volunteered to tag along someone's group... i guess no one would be as crazy as me.. right?

i have been rejected by a lot of people lately.T_T i'm not going to organise any outing anymore cause i am always disappointed by the response. this sucs. anyone interested in night cycling?

a few weeks ago, i made a list. there were a lot of things i wanted to do this holiday. what happened to it? as expected, i dont think i started on anyone of them at all. stop procrastinating man... oh wait i think i did start on one of them. the exercising plan. i ran 3.5 km last week. :) a good start? i hope i dont give up halfway.. because i am accumulating fats everyday. rate of output < rate of input = FAT :X

another thing to look forward to:
i'm going for a holiday before school starts :)
i can already imagine myself at the airport, clad in t-shirt and jeans, carrying a backpack, wearing flip flops.. = an adventurous backpacker :D

i'm gonna have dinner with pauline later! double yays!!!!!

-posted @ 9.19am

apparently, there are people visiting this blog. but no one ever tags. ha thank goodness i have a blog counter. maybe those are spies visiting this blog(xw, are u one of the spies?). stalkers? probably not... lol

well, the weekend was spent at the universities open houses. This year's open house was a lot more meaningful to me. i did not attend a single talk at all. neither did i take brochures from every single booth. it was fruitful because shang fei's sister(veron) brought us around nus, and xiu wen's sister(shu wen) brought us around ntu. we got to talk to the seniors. a really big thank you to the two sisters, open houses were a lot more interesting thanks to them. right now, i think i have decided on the course that i am applying.

people always say that you should pick a course that you like. it is not easy to do that though. in reality, what i like may not be what i am studying, especially with crap grades like mine, half the doors may be closed....sigh* so i am sticking to my gut feeling. ha i think i wont hate science, so i'm gonna apply for science.. i hope this is the right choice. i wounldnt want to waste 4 years of my life hating my course. that will screw my life up even more. once again, i am keeping my fingers crossed.

-posted @ 8.58am

When korean drama scenes become a reality.....

i lack a handsome korean guy to sweep me off my feet though.. haha :D
perfect lunch :) i'm definitely going back to the restaurant again. the food isnt as spicy as it seems. there's quite a lot of seasoning added to the dishes though. The chilli sauce is great too, a perfect dip for the steam tender sotong.

-posted @ 10.55pm

Drama update :)

i am currently watching these two dramas.

korean version of hana yori dango.

sypnosis:

This Japanese-manga remake has come to life with the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango! Cute and spunky Geum Jan-Di (Goo Hye-Sun) unexpectedly finds herself landing a once in a lifetime (ahem, once in a hundred lifetimes) miracle as she receives a full-ride scholarship to the Shinhwa Academy. Although she has no desire to attend this school injected with overly spoiled rich kids, her parents won't hear any of it as they forcefully make her accept the scholarship in hopes of a better life. However, life doesn't get better especially after she runs into the elite F4, the most powerful group of young men that run the school. Why? Because of their flourishing background of course. Goo Joon-Pyo (Lee Min-Ho), Yoon Ji-Hoo (Kim Hyun-Joon), So Lee-Jung (Kim Bum), and Song Woo-Bin (Kim Joon) all come from backgrounds such as the heir to the Shinhwa Corporation, the grandson of a late President, the heir of a real estate mogul, and the soon to be owner of the largest and most prestigious art museum in Korea. Jan-Di can't seem to help herself as she becomes the first person ever in the history of Shinhwa to fight back against the elitist F4! Things are about to get a little more interesting at Shinhwa...

in some angles, the curly hair guy look like mike he. i love the jap version of this drama, so when i watched this, i keep comparing them with the jap guys. i must say that oguri shun is more suited to be rui though. for the other two guys, i think the koreans look more shuai than the japanese. i guess both shows ge you qian qiu.. but i must say that this show is worth watching... it is funny and sweet. just the way i like it.. haha.. only 2 episodes of it and i am hooked.

ToGetHer

Sypnosis:

Mars is a superstar whose popularity went downhill after a series of negative publicity. His finances went into red alert and he had to find a place to live. He ended up renting a place from Mo Mo, his agoraphobic homebody landlord. He befriended her and her childhood friend Jia Sen, a swimming captain with the intelligence of an 8-year-old.

This show is funny and sweet too.It's the usual type of love story that the guy/gal will find himself/herself falling in love with the other party without even realising it. I think many people can identify with rainie's character. It's a pity that it is currently airing(every sat 9.30pm on channel U), which means that i can only watch one episode a week. It's such an agony to wait for the next episode. but still worth watching.. :)

- posted @ 9.27am

i went for my basic theory test and i passed. yay? haha i bet everyone passed that too. lol :D Yili and i were so lost about the whole driving course thing. i mean we didnt know whether we should change to school or not. and how much we have to pay.. luckily there was a staff that explained eveything in detail to us. it is so much clearer now. but the booking of the slots is really messy too. very hard to predict when i am going to be free. suddenly 7 days in a week is not enough. learning to drive is damn expensive too. i am feeling the pinch.

oh right, did i mention that i am back in my grandma house? this time, pat and i are going to try coming up with some new simple dishes. or at least try to cook dishes that we have never tried before. lol, pat's learning how to cook too. since i am kindof broke, thanks to the driving lessons, i decided to learn philipino instead of japanese. i have a free teacher at home. :)

why wont anyone reply to the sms sent out? i wanna go night cycling. but no one seems to be interested. *sigh looks like my night cycling plan is going to be shelved....

-posted @ 8.53am

Friday was a bad day. it turned out to be a really really awful day. it just totally suc.
The tension, the stress before the collection of the results. that is a sucky feeling. i hate that. not to mention hearing familiar names being called out. it was like dejavu. the situation feels like the time when i collected my o level results. but this time, i was a lot more prepared for crap results. i guess when you expect crap results, and get crap results, you wont feel that sad. and true enough i didnt feel that sad. at least at the start, the moment i knew my results. i was only overwhelmed by disappoinment when my grandfather called me.

When i think about the hopes they have for me. the fact that i couldnt beat my cousin's score, the fact that everyone did well except me. the fact that many doors are shut, the fact that i dont have fabulous portfolio...the fact that over the years there was no value added to my studies at all, the fact that i dont know how i benefited from jc life, and the fact that i am probably just plain stupid.... that kindof of sums up what i am feeling when my family members call me. i think u can imagine what happen next. i must clarify a point though, crying is just not my style. and of course i wasnt that silly to commit suicide(that is such a stupid act.), if not i wouldnt be here blogging in the office.

After some time, i came to accept my results. i had to anyway, you seriously wont think that i will cry day and night just because of my results right? but i just didnt feel like going home. so i went out with some friends. Eating and chatting helped me feel better. i think i was trying to avoid reality. as in what am i going to do from now on? uni applications, more disappoinments because i cant get in to whatever course i want...etc.

i need time. to think. about my life. can someone stop the time now? it's moving too fast. i dont know what lies ahead in my life or how my life will turn out. but i am sure of one thing. it's going to be a bumpy ride from now on.. cause i dont think i have the good fortune or luck to lead a smooth-sailing life. i'm gonna cross my fingers for now, so wish me luck.

-posted @ 9.03am

TMR is THE BIG DAY. I HOPE THAT IT CAN BE THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

here's a song that describe my feelings. (at least i think the title is relevant.)

五月天-你不是真正的快乐

人群中哭着
你只想变成透明的颜色
你再也不会
梦或痛或心动了
你已经决定了
你已经决定了

你静静忍着
紧紧把昨天在拳心握着
而回忆越是甜
就是越伤人了
越是在手心留下
密密麻麻深深浅浅的刀割

(*chorus 1)你不是真正的快乐
你的笑只是你穿的保护色
你决定不恨了
也决定不爱了
把你的灵魂
关在永远锁上的躯壳

这世界笑了
於是你合群的一起笑了
当生存是规则
不是你的选择
於是你含着眼泪
飘飘荡荡跌跌撞撞的走着

*chorus 1

(*chorus 2)你不是真正的快乐
你的伤从不肯完全的愈合
我站在你左侧
却像隔着银河
难道就真的抱着遗憾
一直到老了
然后才后悔着

*chours 1

*chorus 2

你值得真正的快乐
你应该脱下你穿的保护色
为什麽失去了
还要被惩罚呢
能不能就让悲伤
全部结束在此刻
重新开始活着

-posted @ 11.43am

A random thought: My future boyfriend must be 大方 and must have 风度. :)

I think i watch too many love dramas.

Today, the company had an offsite event at a new hotel.
It was something different compared to the work i do everyday.
The venue was really beautiful. The simple furniture and the nice lightings made the place very comfortable. The ambience is just wonderful. How i wish i could dine there.....

I guess the highlight of the day for me would be the food that the hotel provides. The service and quality of food is just different.... But i think that would be the first and the last time i will visit the hotel. It's just too far from my house.

-posted @ 11.40pm

THIS NEWS IS LITERALLY SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF ME. I FEEL HORRIBLE.
I CAN FEEL A HEADACHE COMING.

OMG!!!! WHY MUST IT BE SO SOON!!!!!!!
MOE WEBSITE SAY THAT RESULTS ARE RELEASED ON 6TH MAR.
WHICH IS THIS FRI!!!
WISH ME LUCK MAN.
I THINK I AM GOING TO HAVE STOMACHACHE EVERYDAY TILL FRI. AHHHH.....
CAN SOMEONE MAKE SURE I GET GOOD RESULTS?
I AM SO DREADING THE ARRIVAL OF FRI.

- BUTTERFLIES IN MY STOMACH. POSTED @ 1.01PM

sigh. a week left and pat's going to return to Singapore. which means i will have to stay at grandma's house again. this also means that the annoying a level results are going to release soon i guess. i bet many cant wait for the results to be release. but i am not a part of that many. i dont want it to be released at all. i dont want major changes to my life. the possibility of not doing well haunts me. an examination that determines my life. eew. thats just totally gross. i dont wanna think about it. but i cant help worrying about it. especially when everyone around me is asking, when are the results released. everyone is hopeful. i am not sure if i should be a part of that everyone. 有期望就会有失望. how true is that?

will my life change for the better? i need to find a meaning in my mundane life soon. quick. right now. i have so many things i wanna do. the first thing is to get my butt off the couch and start moving.

-posted @ 8.53am