prayers answered (:

thank the cranes? (:

whatever it is, i hope they will continue to bless sarah (:

continue to stay strong on your road to recovery!

happy niu year!!

have an ox-picious year people! =)

went around visiting for the past two days. great to see the relatives uncles aunties cousins nephews nieces again! haha, and not to forget the happy new year - collect hongbao routine :P pigged out on a lot of chinese new year goodies - pork floss roll (my fave!), kueh bualu, peanut puff/biscuit etc. bak gua and pineapple tarts are not on my list of faves haha. gambled a little too, been on a losing streak this time. haha, biggest win was during human jackpot. funny game. played only blackjack though. i wanna play mahjong, dai di, and bridge! haha x) kidding kidding

lots of conversations going on, and it gets very noisy at times. haha. my cousin is getting married this end may! woohoo! i lovee weddings! heh. anw, had a fun time playing with the little ones! super cute and adorable already, cannot stand it. haha. my favourite is Jyan, 5 years olds i think. he was super high yesterday! haha, he loves playing scissors paper stones, and came up with a water version?! haha. he can talk more now, so can communicate better also. ahh, i dun wan him to grow up! haha

my niece Clarice is very cute also. haha, she's fasinated by the dog, and goes around shouting 'baby where, where baby'. 2 years plus, thus her voice is very cute! i think the one that looks best is my cousin Andrew, 3 years old. he just gets cuter and cuter lol. just that he is quite antisocial lar, so can't play with him much.

children are just so cute!! haha my vocab is stuck at the word cute :P any other words that is synonymous to it?

met my cousin Matthew as well. hmm, didn't see him in a longg while. wanted to take a photo with him, but didn't get a chance too. didn't talk much either, like ask how's he doing and stuff. hope to see him again, this sat maybe.


ok, the festive period is like over already, even though it's only chu san. got lots of new year goodies left. lol. bring some to work? haha see how.


and oh guess wat! i was reliving my childhood just last week by watching the Lion King Series! i like totally forgot the story already. anw i love Lion King 1 and 2! awesome disney classics! the plot, characters, songs are all nice! and i realised it is only as you grow older, that you will understand the movie better, and when everything will make more sense. nonetheless, i should recommend it to the cute little ones! HAHA

shall share some nice music videos from the movie :)

Lion King 1 - Circle of Life



Lion King 1 - Can You Feel The Love Tonight



Lion King 2 - We Are One

1 week into work!

started work at OFS this monday! and for the first time in my life, i'm officially working and earning my own pocket money! lol. am hoping now that i will receive my first pay at the end of the month. haha x)

anyway, work so far is rather ok la. this week i basically had to help out with archiving of the students' records. apparently, they wanted all the records to be digitalised (accessible via the database in computer), instead of having to draw out and refer to the hardcopy all the time. so we are tasked with the duty of scanning all the data, page by page, and save them in the computer. lol. and i think i scanned about 30/40 files this week? maybe more la, since i am soo hardworking (ahem :P) anyway, scanning is boring la, but it allows one to refer to other sources of entertainment while working! like chatting online on msn (esp with kz, he's working also, and chatting like me, haha), watching movies/drama online, playing games etc. while enjoying music from 98.7 FM streaming from the internet. haha, quite slack la. then everyday, have to go down for bus duty, leading the students onto the bus. this one i like. lol. hmm for a day, i was posted to the kindergarten office to help out the secretary there. learnt quite a bit of the job there. this one cannot slack, but is more interesting then scanning, albeit more stressful too. haha.

so that's 1 week of work for me! my collegues/friends are pretty nice people. easy to get along (about the same age), so good for me :) haha. then for lunch, we either lunch at canteen (only once this week), or dine outside. let's see. i lunched at the coffee club in taka (mon), food court at lucky plaza (tues), canteen (wed), long john silver at cine (thurs), food court at taka (fri). how interesting lol. haha i am amazed at how they find their way around orchard. i am still directionless when it comes to orchard. must start committing to memory manz.

yay! long holiday up ahead! and i only start work on thurs! we are almost done with the scanning of files. and i hope that we don't have to scan anymore! cos i am sick of the computer. lol! btw, the whole school uses mac desktops O.O

okk, chinese new year is coming up! going for reunion dinner later tonight with the paternal side of my family. which means i can't go for class dinner =/ ah well, bad timing.

ohh stella found a job at moe this week! and she started work already too! haha happy for her :)

Save You - Simple Plan

Take a breath
I pull myself together
Just another step till I reach the door
You'll never know the way it tears me up inside to see you
I wish that I could tell you something
To take it all away

Sometimes I wish I could save you
And there're so many things that I want you to know
I won't give up till it's over
If it takes you forever I want you to know

When I hear your voice
It's drowning in a whisper
You're just skin and bones
There's nothing left to take
And no matter what I do I can't make you feel better
If only I could find the answer
To help me understand

Sometimes I wish I could save you
And there're so many things that I want you to know
I wont give up till it's over
If it takes you forever I want you to know

That if you fall, stumble down
I'll pick you up off the ground
If you lose faith in you
I'll give you strength to pull through
Tell me you won't give up cause I'll be waiting if you fall
Oh you know I'll be there for you

If only I could find the answer
To take it all away

Sometimes i wish i could save you
And there're so many things that I want you to know
I wont give up till it's over
If it takes you forever I want you to know
(Oh)
I wish I could save you
I want you to know
(Ohohh)
I wish I could save you (oh)

Hamsters =)

my experience with the cutest and most lovely pet one can have! haha =)

(all pictures are from internet btw, 'cos either my photos then were taken with outdated phone cameras that do not have brains to connect to the computers, or that i didn't bother taking. haha)

-PART 1 -

i had my very first hamster when i was in p6/ sec 1 i think. hmm, it was a brown and white Syrian breed (male).

While my sister had the pure golden one (female)

So, being first time owners, we were elated! haha. my very first home for the 2 babies (ok, not literally) was one with a red plastice base (yes, my love for red started way back then) and a white painted coated aluminum grill like cage.

along with the cage were a yellow plastic running wheel, a yellow food bowl, and a plastic drinking bottle. other stuff bought include sawdust and food (those mixed kind i think, with nuts, dried vegetable, corn etc)

ok as for actual hamster-rearing, the biggest hurdle (i reckon) would be daring to touch and carry the hamster at ease. took me some time getting used to, and also for the hamster to get used to you! oh, and you will also have to get used to cleaning the cage! (especially troublesome when they do not cooperate, lol)

for me, i named my hamster 'Pebbles' =) can't remember what my sister named hers. anyway, i enjoy 'playing' with them! haha, it's like i would take pebbles out of the cage and let it enjoy a moment of being cage-free. opps x) stroking it, feeding it, sometimes even chatting to it! and as i became less afraid, i would cuddle it in my palms, and try to induce it to sleep. haha. sometimes playing with them cheer me up and help me relieve stress, so i would usually try to set aside some time to play with them.

now for some interesting stuff that i learnt from my first batch of hamsters.

1) haha, my very first impression of them (when i got to keep them personally that is) was that they are one greedy bunch! omg, the way they can stuff endless food in the pockets of their mouth is just unbelievable. they look like they have 2 big tumours in both cheeks! lolz

2) hamsters shit anywhere, anytime (ok, maybe not when they are sleeping), and sometimes they would 're-eat' their shit. gosh, was quite disgusted la. read up a bit online, and realised that it's their nature to consume their faeces, as it is still considered nutritious.

3) while they shit anywhere, they tend to unrinate at a fixed spot, normally at one of the corners. haha, at least they are a tad cleanliness-conscious.

4) they seem to eat almost anything. fresh veggie like cabbage, carrot, green leafy kinds also. fruits like apple, pear. staples like bread, biscuit. even junk food like potato chips! sheez, not at all fussy. lol. oh, i remembered there was a time when they had an overdose of carrots, and their shit turned out to be orange. o.o lol, poor guys.

5) hamsters cannot live without grinding their teeth. learnt again that this is to prevent their teeth from growing too long. so basically, they will climb up the cage, hang on it vertically, and start biting on the grills, producing the typical metallic sound, while at the same time chewing off the white paint (argh!) made my poor cage rusty. haha. and even after buying the grinding dough for them, they still continue eroding the grills, making them all rusty -.-

6) the toilet roll is actually a very cool playing toy for the hamsters. very, very fun! you can create a maze for it too with the rolls! haha, but it's a no no if they are afraid of the dark :P

7) hamsters love to escape. they seem to find the exploration of the world outside their home their greatest adventure. lol. it's like the moment you leave the cage unlocked, hah! out comes the adventurous hamsters! and while they are out enjoying their exploration, here i am having a headache trying to find them. haha same for my family members. it's like they can be missing for up to a day! don't understand why would they want to leave the comfort of their home. haha x)

ok, i shall recount more about the life journey of my two hamsters =)

hmm, initially when i first had them, i couldn't tell their sex. cos you know, they weren't mature yet x) haha. basically, gender can be differentiated by their, erm, buttocks? for males only, they will have 2 pink kidney shaped organs (?) at their buttocks. lol. i think it's for sperm production. anw, i realised that only after some time, when they grew older. haha.

as for the life of a hamster, i think it is at least more exciting that that of a fish or tortoise (used to keep them too, haha) besides eating and sleeping, they exercise quite a lot too! the running wheel is like one of their favourite form of entertainment cum source of keeping fit. hmm, they fight sometimes too, which is usually quite obvious from the squeaking sounds that result. and usually, it is the male that gets bullied! LOL. ok la, they may not be fighting, maybe it is their form of playing with each other as well.

ok, so after a few months of getting to know each other, and as they grew older, they fell in love and decided that it was time to have offsprings. in other words, they started mating! at first, i never knew that was how they mated. but after a while, their actions made a little more sense (bio in lower sec?) haha. and watching them mate make me feels as though i am intruding into their privacy. hah. don't think i should describe their mating process x)

they mated quite a few times i think. and apparently, the sperm did get to the egg, but i didn't realise it. so the female got pregnant la, and somehow i didn't like feel that her stomach was becoming bigger. so anyway, after some time, she gave birth! buttttt, the babyhamster was stillborn or something :( i still remember how it looks like. it was shaped like a kidney bean, and i could vaguely make out the eyes, hands and legs. ahhh so sad! i only saw one, but i'm sure she gave birth to more. but i think she ate them up! 'cos at that time, pebbles was still in the cage. or maybe pebbles ate them too! argh! but most likely the mother saw pebbles as a threat, and decided to eat up her kids to 'protect' them. quite sad :(

after the pregnancy, she was kind of weak and stuff. probably had some after pregnancy complications as well (i am guessing a lot, haha). her health deteriorated after some time, and like any life cycle, she passed on. (rip female one) :( that was casualty no. 1.

after that, pebbles was all alone on his own. i'm sure he must have been quite sad too. both living in the same home, he must have guessed his partner has left him. probably even knew that she wasn't going to make it. yea, so sad :(

so pebbles had to endure loneliness, being all alone.

butt, we decided to bring in another companion for him :) haha. and this one presented us with a huge shock, but was a pleasant surprise!

-END OF PART 1 -

my tale of the cute little furballs =)

i need a job!!!

arghh. i am still unemployed :( recruit express is no good lar. lol.

someone employ me, please! =D

anw interview today was bad lar. no comments.


and i miss my 45 cents bus and mrt rides! suxxx

goodbye 2008, and hello 2009!

happy new year!

hmm, i am not so sure if i want to enter into the year 2009. not that i have the choice, of course.


anw 2008 had been an eventful year...


as i search my short-term memory, in a somewhat chronological order, 2008


- started with anticipation (at the beginning of the year),
- got me feeling about something that i did not feel about before,
- made me feel at a loss of what to do (my dilemma),
- showed me that time flies like the wind (and so do fruit flies like banana),
- taught me that the biggest hurdle in my academic life would be the A levels,
- put my time management skills and priorities to the test,
- saw me busying myself with guitar concert preparations,
- allowed me to spend fun times with stella and wai leng during lap (which i dearly miss),
- teased me a little too much,
- got me feeling very distracted and confused over something,
- gave me 2 As,
- marked the first time (and also the last time) i failed napfa (how i ended up tearing -.-),
- saw me surviving through common tests,
- gave me a sweet, yet not so sweet 18th birthday,
- proved that guitar revolved around my life (june hols),
- made me shut down my blog temporarily,
- elated me with my first formal performance in public (guitar concert!),
- concluded that guitar is the first CCA that i truely belong to (seniors' farewell),
- led up to a disappointment,
- saw me grumbling and lamenting alot about stepping down late due to early prelims,
- caught me loving the library too much,
- tricked me into believing i could forget,
- saw me sitting for prelims,
- gave me mixed feelings during farewell assembly,
- made me study and study and study,
- built up to the ultimate 'A' levels,
- gave me a finally 'free' life,
- had grad night, which was a night worth remembering,
- got me realising that i will miss my beloved class,
- allowed me to go out more often with evelyn,
- gave me the opportunity to do more of my random stuff (haha),
- made me relieve in doing nothing,
- got me thinking that i am a coward,
- gave me a new breakthrough with cycling (lol),
- confirmed what an awesome class i have (christmas bbq),
- accused me of stoning too much (LOL, only sometimes lor),
- made me realise that i need to change,
- saw me welcoming 2009 at home (:


yup, so that's about the highlights of my year. or what that's impt anw. haha. not bad right, can remember all that has happened! haha, if only i had such a superb memory la -.- referred to my archives for reference actually x)

ok, it's time to review my sole new year resolution in 2008. haha yea, i still rmb it :P
from my archives, it says "not to do anything that i'll be regretful of in the future"
hmm, so did i fulfill it?

i figure that it is better not to think about it. afterall, regret is not something that i can gauge well. it's like, you must have a clear knowledge of all the outcomes of the various path you take, before you can truely say which is the best for you. but however, life is not a game; time cannot be reversed, and it cannot be replayed. i can't possibly say that i would be better off if i chose the other option, or if i made a different decision. so, thinking hard whether i am regretting anything or not is pointless. wrong or right decision, i shall just accept it and move on (: no regrets whatever. haha, so that concludes 2008 =D

2009 - a year of uncertainty, freedom and new experiences

it will be a great year no doubt. no longer have to go through school routine. haha x) but then, it means i need to find a job. which sucks, 'cos i haven't found one yet -.- i think i am contributing to singapore's unemployment rate of i dunno how many percent. lol. giving home tuition seems to be the only viable option now. meanwhile, i am still uncertain of which course i want to take in uni. sian.

nvm, on a brighter side, if i don't get a fixed 5 day work week job, it means i can partake in other stuff (: that's part of being free, u noe x) haha. so see how it goes i guess.

ok, new year resolution for 2009:
CHANGE (:

new year wishes:
1) for my family to stay healthy and happy always (:
2) for sarah to get better
3) to remain close to my frens (:
4) to have a great start in uni life!

ok, now i feel abit better about 2009. haha.

i'm sure it will be A HAPPY NEW YEAR! =D