you're hot then you're cold
you're yes then you're no
you're in then you're out
you're up then you're down down down down....

on a different note.. crazy is one of my favoritest songs of all times esp when you watch the super fun music video.. theres sth just so sexy about alicia silverstone.

odio cuando estoy cudre.

Edward Monkton is a genius :)

the way we speak is indeed influenced by the people around us.

Angry like fire!
Sad like wilted flower.

Younger children tend to get along in the world better – a trait known as “agreeableness” in the Big Five Personality Trait

ie.narrow minded pple. annoy me. like hell.

According to Emily, tomorrow is Hug a Short Person day!

But today we celebrate a different 'holiday' -

so everyone pls Have a very merry deep-voiced Jz-lookalike day :))

interestingly enough Jz's bday is 2 days away...

ryan reynolds is YUM!

This is not an ad.

After months of not using it because my lips experience more moisture here than in Europe, I decided to open a fresh stick and I was surprised how a tiny whiff of it, brought back memories of Valencia. So odd! Still remember the first time buying it from the farmacia opposite our apartment when sya introduced it to me.. n how we were trying to gesture to the pharmacist what the hell we were looking for hahaha.. is it odd that I can still remember where I bought each stick and how many I've bought so far? 1 in vlc. 1 in vienna. 1 in Sg that I lost earlier this yr. and just the latest one at the airport haha.

well in any case, its the best lipbalm ive used so far! altho the Mango Victoria's Secret that Jayne bought moisturises and tastes pretty goood hahaha

Notes.

last 2 work days have been productive busy. i like.

brisk walking in heels is very painful for the ankles.

It's not smart to use spanish words learnt from watching football in Spanish class because its more often than not an insult/expletive.

spanish friend is so adorably sweet!

tcc plays spanish songs. only realised when spanish friend pointed it out.

starrynite this yr was too loud

crashed an smu project mtg. no idea why.

definitely a good spontaneous friday night.

meaningful and friendly late night chat.

Have I said.. how much I looooovee Chuck Bass!? He's so mature and all cool-advice dispensing this season... very machoooo. yum :)

Chuck: What the hell is wrong with you?
Serena: Right now? Thirst. I need a drink. She called me a prostitute.
Chuck: Why do you think she did that?
Serena: I'm not sleeping with Patrick. You of all people know what a prostitute does.

---

Chuck: The reason Blair attacked you is because she misses you. After 18 years, you can't read Waldorf subtext?
Serena: I shouldn't have to. If that's how she feels then she should just tell me. It's the mature thing to do.
Chuck: This coming from someone who just pushed their best friend into a cake.

---

Chuck: Look, you think your friendship is going to take care of itself. You're not kids anymore. You can't say you hate each other and then make up an hour later on the MET steps.
Serena: You tell her that.
Chuck: I'm telling you. And you should be careful. Because one day you're gonna find yourself telling people about Blair Waldorf. The girl who used to be your best friend.

is bitchy bitchy.. and likes it that way...

hmms. its terrible but i do think that its too boring being nice all the time :)

You know class is going to be good when it starts with -

A: Yea I know alot of Brazillians in Singapore
B: young ones?
A: Yea they are working here as models....... (stops listening... starts daydreaming..)

oh.. and today officially marks my first Airport Celebrity arrival sighting.. although I REALLY would like to forget it.. why? Because its the legendary..... Sharifah Aini.. aahhhhhh... - shriek can be interpreted however one chooses... in awe or in dismay...

Mariano Rivera FTW!

Four weeks shy of his 40^th birthday, the Panamanian right-hander is a major reason why the Yankees are on the brink of a record 27^th World Series title and their first since 2000.

WHy couldnt they have played the game only on weekends!? Will be glued to the tweeter updates for live match updates!

I keep getting surrounded by people who are married with kids and who arent too far off from my age. It gets a little tiring when conversation keeps hovering around kids n how cute they are.. sorry. my tolerance level for kids is about 5mins. After that, I tell my nieces and nephews to go entertain themselves hehe.

sigh. I wonder.. Am I in need of a major social life overhaul?

woohoo! Nasri's back!

Paris Fashion Week

Clean chic with Isabel Marant

Loved Collette Dinnigan's silver/white dresses

Chanel was romping through the barnyard with pretty pieces

Love the pretty party dresses from Azzaro

Sg-born designer, Andrew Gn

Chuck Bass is so narcissistically awesome

Blair: Chuck, NYU is not the Upper East Side. They don't care about Constance, or social hierarchy. They don't care that I'm Blair Waldorf! It's over.
Chuck: How can you do this to me?
Blair: What are you talking about?
Chuck: I'm Chuck Bass. And I told you I love you. You're saying I'm easier to win over than a bunch of pseudo-intellectual homesick malcontents. You really insult me like that?
Blair: That's not how it is.
Chuck: It's exactly how it is. The next time you forget you're Blair Waldorf, remember I'm Chuck Bass. And I love you.

Who says modelling reality tv shows don't work.




















2010 SRTW - walking for Andrew Gn (who is a Sg born designer) & L'Wren Scott





















2010 SRTW walking for Carolina Herrera & Derek Lam.


Ksenia Kahnovich
My favorite model of the moment.
Winner of the first season of Russia's "You are a supermodel" and I think incredibly poised and stunning.

in sec sch, our teacher asked us, what is your biggest fear? And I remembered very clearly what my answer was.

6years down the road I'm wondering if I'm forced to face it head on like some things in my life right now. I'm trying. It's trying me too. haha I guess at the very least it's strengthening my resolve. as a senior colleague puts it: relaxxx its only a job. don't need to get so stressed up. it certainly helps to be around very positive people.

the more i think about it, the more I'm pissed off because a complete stranger kept making assumptions and passed judgment over me. n this stranger was my freaking doctor. unprofessional much.

wootsss!

4 assists and 1 goal.
The only reason he wasn't involved in the last goal was because he was subbed out!!

"Cesc Fabregas produced a virtuoso display as Arsenal saw off the challenge of Blackburn at Emirates Stadium to claim a 6-2 victory.

The Gunners captain had a hand in all but one of the six goals, getting on the scoresheet himself during the second half as the home side recovered from going behind after just four minutes when Steven Nzonzi headed Rovers into a shock lead."

I was trying to remember the excerpt from Greys Anatomy Jayne put up on her blog when commencement came around cos I thought it would be pretty apt for me today.

I somehow recalled it to be along the lines of... "Welcome to the rest of your life." (with a snide innuendo of welcome to the beginning of the end) but it was actually "Today my friends our lives begin and I for one, can’t wait." hmm... it seems to be more positive sounding than I remembered it to be :)

but when I do think "Today I become accountable to the world, to the future, to all the possibilities life has to offer." it gets me all excited and tingly but lets just see...... a ver....

Milan Fashion Week

Milan's collections have been by far the most exciting, especially in comparison to London. The Italian brands sure know how to use their prints and colours well.

Luisa Beccaria - so sweet n feminine

Gabriele Colangelo

D&G - with some kind of midwest theme

Bottega Veneta - always love their collection


& then a lot more designers to choose from.

Versace & MaxMara

Emporio Armani & Blumarine

Picks from London Fashion Week.

Vivienne Westwood Red Label is more wearable

Todd Lynn's shades of grey look very comfy.

Matthew Williamson's lime green

Antonio Berardi's simple chic.

rome wasnt built in a day.

por supuesto quiero.
si poder, yo se cual
pero solo en mi suenos, tal vez.

Bliss can be found nicely snugged and bundled up in bed eating pineapple tarts on a cold Eid morning.

NY Fashion Week - just some of my favs.

Y-3 was on a football theme with an appearance by Zinedane Zidane at the end

Was loving Tommy Hilfiger's pastel metallic dresses/theme

Reem Acra always with his simple purely elegant dresses

Dennis Basso wins me over with pretty dresses

Badgley Mischka (hmm wonder how a baju kurung with that material will look like)

Gorgeous book covers of Classics that I've been trying to find/read found by BlackEiffel.
Sadly my book collection/reading has stagnated. Can't seem to get through Anna Karenina even though the binding & paper quality is very chio. Been thinking of collecting coffee table books or Classics to store a library that is both visually and intellectually pleasant. One day, I shall have them. Until then, I'll have to make do with my very messy bookshelves still filled with strategy & finance textbooks.

Just had my spanish mini test.

and im banging my head at the amt of mistakes i made. death by conjugations indeed.
especially during the oral. im pretty sure i was supposed to use a whole lot more of imperfectos (past continuous) than indefinidos. I wrote hielo instead of helado meaning I wrote that the little girl is eating an ice (cube). accks i bet the teacher is going to laugh when she reads it. its almost as bad as me mistaking suecia (switzerland) for sucio (dirty) the week before. AHHH why do my linguistic skills fail mee..

Well, there will be a new teacher from Alicante. yay to the comunidad valenciana link! Except I don't know if I will be able to tahan class after work and if I'll even make it in time. Wonder how busy I'll be in 2 weeks time onwards... A ver....

Adebayor is a major prick.

After finding the net with 10 minutes to go, the Togo international, 25, ran the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of the visiting fans, evoking a furious reaction.

"The emotion took over me," admitted an apologetic Adebayor, who cost City £25m in the summer. "Now I just have to say sorry."

Adebayor escaped punishment following the Van Persie incident, although he was booked for his inflammatory goal celebration.

1. He is not a professional. An emotional sportsman is not equivalent to a passionate sportmen and is not equivalent to a sporting man. He knew perfectly well what he was doing and the entire time he was running up that pitch, did he not even think for one second? If he didnt, then he is really rather brainless. If he did, then he is major asshole. Either way we're glad to be rid of him. Its so easy to do the deed and be 'apologetic' after.

2. I cannot be an unbiased party with regard to the Persie stamp but you think with such a character, he is capable of doing such a thing. After all, as he says, he is an emotional person. In that split second he thinks 'aha! my turn to get back at u!' You never know.

The thing that irks me the most out of this is that Man City has not lost. The best revenge/outcome is always to win. To show that he was stupid to have let go the chances he had at the club. It irks me even more that it shows that money can buy results and that Man City was different from Chelsea being that Chelsea had at least some kind of credentials to begin with. Man City on the other hand is made up of players who have left their own clubs willingly out of greed, where no other club wanted to them.

The world is not right. Money is the root of all evil. The sport is ruined. It isn't a matter of Arsenal losing - heck with a lineup with Diaby and Bendtner, what did u expect to get!? But that players get so caught up by the money aspect that the sport just loses its meaning, the reason they play it loses its meaning.

I want her hair. Not sure if my hair/face can take it though. Love her eyes (top) & entire outfit (bottom)

SINGAPORE: Expect higher wage increases but lower variable bonuses next year as the economy bounces back. That’s what 192 companies projected last month when surveyed about their wage, bonus and hiring plans.

Please do.

Doesn't he look like a Jap Ken Doll!? :)

!!!

Bershka opened at the ION although I have no idea when it really opened. I guess I should pay a visit soon :)

The big surprise though is that RSH limited handles retailing rights for all the Inditex brands in singapore. !!! RSH = royal sporting house? but isnt that brand not say very... uhrm.. well marketed??? I am shocked.

eee wo zhende taoyen ting..

Forgive the lousy hanyupinyins. Been watching taiwanese tv serials and trying to 'improve' my Mandarin ahah..


However, since I cannot pronounce the different tones of Mandarin I will always suck at speaking it.

Speaking of pronounciations, finally watched the Valencia edition of Grid Girls. (I swear I only watched it because of VLC) the grid girls are so fake, its embarassing and so painful. they have very limited vocabulary and please, I've been to valencia and the sights. As much I love the place and I know they are trying to hype up the place for the sake of the show, it gets a little too fake with the WOW BREATHTAKING SCENERY and AMAZING, when it was pretty obvious it wasnt. n the screaming over the eels attracted some unpleasant glares of disapproval from the locals in the background. And as much as I think Kuijien is cute, he cannot pronounce Spanish. I positively cringed when he attempted Ciudad de las artes y las ciencias. Fine.. points for trying but still, if u cant do it right, u probably shouldnt. & I would rather he just pronounce the c in valencia like any normal english C too. oh wells.

is not having a very good artistic day.

Failed at making gifts
Failed at making meringues.. spastic.. who knew whipping egg whites was more complicated than you would think.
Too tired to try and memorise 3 different types of Spanish past tenses
The only saving grace is I've finally managed to figure out how to play a new song on the piano :) yay!

I'm really not a right brainer.

Spanish Press reports that Barcelona has struck a deal for Fabregas for next season

THere are some problems to this theory

1. Why would Arsenal agree to that? Esp since he is a captain and basically one of the oldest heads in the team, by agreeing to sell him also means making it harder to buy good players who wants to be around at least SOME KIND of experience. Even Vermaelen mentioned that he is doing so well only because Gallas has been there.

2. Why is Barcelona so hard up on Fabregas? As much as I love him, he's not say on the same God-like levels as say Xavi or Messi or a money making machine like Cronaldo. I suppose after kaka, cronaldo and alonso moved to real, theres no more midfielders to poach?

However, the last few summers I have been convinced that we would buy players, big, important, strapping, handsome, lithe, possibly slightly oiled players. And it hasn't happened. So this summer I'm maintaining we'll buy nobody at all. Not one more player. - Arseblog

HAHA! exact same sentiments :)

has to

- get rid of the "nervous youngster energy" READ: jaynes blog
- stop questioning 'i'm just trying to be nice' phrases (at least with strangers)

No entiendo.

I'm seriously starting to lose faith in Arsenal & Wenger.
He sold off Adebayor, Toure and now Eboue. We ONLY bought Vermaeleen and Nasri is out for 2-3months.
HOW does he expect to compete next season!? The only experience we have is GALLAS, FABREGAS & PERSIE and a have not been playing for like a year Eduardo and ROsicky? what ridiculousness is this?

In comparison, Valencia has been having money problems and they have bought a keeper and are happily keeping Silva & Villa?

I really don't understand.

What do you want to be when u grow up?
I don't know and i don't know how to know, yknow?

- Definitely, Maybe

This show should really come out now, unless it also applies on Sept 17th... deeepreesssing

Freak!

Today, Alonso was at VJC while Torres & Carragher were at Novena..

So near.. yet so farr...

I cant still yet decide if I should go to the Singapore River tomorrow to see them lol

In other footballing news, Adebayor is being a prick as any typical sore EPL player does.. Arseblog does another fine piece about it.

Adebayor goes on to say:

I was in the same position as Cesc. Every summer Barcelona tried to sign him, but the fans never turned on Cesc.

Is he really comparing himself to Cesc? A young man who has been at the club since he was 16, who has represented us brilliantly, and who, despite the vagaries of the Spanish press, about whom we know so much, has categorically denied any stories about him moving back home almost as soon as they emerged.

The reason fans never turned on Cesc is because he never acted like Adebayor.

hear ye hear ye!

'I hope they do it. I have friends there and I hope they do really well – and that they finish above Arsenal.' - (C)ashley Cole wrt Man City breaking into the top 4.


SCREW YOU!

Sometimes when I'm off learning Spanish, I wonder why I'm not as excited about Malay. I think it can be very poetic and captures the emo-nemo-ness of us all pretty well :) Much better than in English at least.

Jika mimpi masa silam bisa kusimpan dalam kaca jadi perhiasan, pasti aku abadikan zaman riang kanak-kanak.

Kejamlah dirimu andai membunuhku dengan kata-kata yang bukan dari hatimu.

Jika patah sayap rajawali, bertongkat jua kanda kemari.

Alexander Hleb is realising the grass is not greener on the other side, crying about how he should never have left Arsenal. The Barcelona bench cushion tester said:

I regret my move from London, but unfortunately nothing can be done about it now. For me, Wenger was like a father. I consider him one of the best managers in the world. For such a boss one wants to die on the pitch.

So despite feeling Wenger was like a father for whom he would die on the pitch, he still agitated for a move last summer. Yet another example of a footballer who follows the money, who believes the bubble of lies created around him by agents and advisors who care not one jot for his football career, only how much money they can make from him. He's made his bed, time for him lie in it without bleating like a baby. Suck it up, twat.

- Arseblog

wtf hleb!

The Royal Copenhagen Tea Lounge

wee! Had afternoon tea with Huifang and Dee. Reminded me alot of Liberty in London with Chris and my track seniors. :) We had scones which were decent considering how rare it is to get good scones in singapore, 'open faced' sandwiches which is apparently sandwiches without the bread.. but they were yummy yummy!!! and 2 pieces of cake which were also goood! The cakes cud be ordered separately at a price of 5.50 each which is actually quite worth it since cake shops like Canele and Bakerzinn tend to charge alot more than that. Yay to a nice place that comes closest to afternoon tea in London ~ even Huifang was missing it!

"i bought 3 rolls of digestive biscuits for 50 euro cents! score!"

hahahaha omg. that's how I only ended up spending so little in 6months. they were still yummy! so much so tine ate them all up! :)

Was deleting emails in my yahoo account and I'm always careful not to delete anything thats related to my exchange experience. Ended up opening a couple of the mails that I kept between projectmates, with mom and booking alerts. Reminds me of all the silly things I did. SO fUN! Like copying the html source code and pasting/modifying it onto ours and scoring the besttt mark. Blatantly manipulating my balance sheet because I've always been god awful at accounting. Writing the essay on Finland/Sg/Spain Education system and finally ending up 2nd top scorer in the subject ONLY because I was too lazy to attend the last practicum & had a mark deducted for the absence. But I'm actually really sad I cannot remember what I learnt, especially in computer science class! boo :( i used to know what is meant by wordlength, IP, DNS but not anymore.. shucks!

I think I have commitment phobia.

oh me oh my. hmms and I thought I was a loyalist.

When the thought of the POSSIBILITY of work everyday appears, suddenly hey, what happened to the carefree days? what about what I want to do? What DO I want to do? rar rar rar

estoy muy cansada ahora y quiero dormir. Llevia desde mi casa a las 9 de la manana y solo volver por las 10 de la noche. Pero ya he attendido clase de espanol nivel intermedio bajo 2 y recuerdo ahora que grammatica es mas dificil por mi. no puedo dicho en espanol que ya me acabo estudiar y estoy buscando por la trabajar. la horror! (horror really is the word in spanish too!)

vale, debo practico que aprender ahora - preterito imperfecto
(nunca) he/has/ha/hemos/hais/han - precipio!\

beh. muymuymuymuy odio cuando no puedo entender la profesora!

So I have commenced my life. I really did hope that the speeches at commencement were more uplifting and candid but all of them couldn't compare to last years speech made by adrian tan at NTU's marcoms convocation. Because this is the period of endings and startings, you tend to hear or pick up on the advice of being yourself, doing what you love a whole lot more. But in reality, its so much more difficult to carry it out.....I hope one day, I can be the one dispensing that advice after I've succeeded at it myself. But for now...

Holly: All I know is, if you don't figure out this something, you'll just stay ordinary, and it doesn't matter if its a work of art or a taco, or a pair of socks! Just create something... new, and there it is, and its you, out in the world, out side of you and you can look at it, or hear it, or read it, or feel it... and you know a little more about... you. A little bit more than anyone else does... Does that make any sense at all?
Gerry: Yea.. It sounds like you want to paint socks
Holly: Maybe!
--PS I love you

I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy. After all, it's calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.

Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free. The most important is this: do not work. Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.

(this was my favorite quote because I actually was in Aucshwitz a couple of mths just before I read the speech and saw the sign)

People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.

Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

-- NTU Convo Speech 2008

Color me Katie's most important rules to live by:
1. Be Creative
2. Don't Grow Up
3. Break your routine
4. Be optimistic
5. Give yourself a gift everyday
6. Be yourself

& PS I love you's soundtrack: I love you till the end..

M: I've got nothing. nobody wants me. nobody's calling. I wanted it so much and I worked so hard
B: You would. They should know that.
M: You're right. if they are going to reject me, then they have to tell me why.

_________________________________________________________________

B: what we had was amazing and exciting probably because you were my first love probably because it felt so impossible

H: I don't know if I'm going to ever feel this way about anyone else
B: me neither
H: so what do we do
B: well, i guess i just have to accept that i am always going to be a little bit in love with u. thats ok. as long as it doesn't stop us from moving on.

H: so this is goodbye again?
B: I guess so.

ahhhH!!!!!

VALENCIA CF v ARSENAL
SATURDAY 8TH AUGUST 2009
Mestalla Stadium, Valencia
Kick-off: TBC

Yay finally managed to upload pictures :)
Starting from Top Left
Lau Pa Sat Satay Dinner with Keppelites sans Sil / Full Keppelites Supper @ Jln Kayu where Sil & Dza bought my favoritest Choc Cake from Rive Gauche / 412 gals fooling around @ Upper Pierce Resevoir after Birthday B'fast at Casuarina

Posing with Christina, the other birthday Keppelite with our yummy cake / Greeting Area of Filza's Wedding (love the font!) / Posing with the bride & groom & other JC-mates / Posing at sunset with floorball kakis after floorball at Punggol Jetty

& that sums up a pretty good week despite being rather grumpy often

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But I had a great birthday, funnily enough, among most of friends through life. sec sch-jc-uni. wow even in the right order. it wasnt even really planned.. all sort of happened. so much for wnating to be a hermit.

But when the fun subsides and reality strikes, I'm back to square one. But hopefully, the fun gives a new lease on life. a new hope and strength.

Today,
I feel like being a hermit forever.
wee.

Been playing Jamlegends to get my guitar hero fix these days..

and it's a pretty good place to get your music known. Been humming to the tunes of 2 bands since then...

1. I fight dragons
- The Faster The Treadmill - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btm9EVRsLzI
- Money


2.Billy Boy on Poison
- Happy Valentine's Day - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51gk31c5LX0
- On My Way

Everytime I think I'm going to dread meeting people, it surprises me how much more I get out of it.

Thank you my friends. I need all the support I can get.

sleepy.annoyed.disgruntled.frustrated.

Status Quo.

It's something I say when someone asks me the typical question when one has just graduated - or in my case graduated for some time. I say it because its the least amount of words I need to muster to tell you how disappointed I am. So please don't judge me because I am already quite miserable about it. I am trying to strike a balance between applying for things I like and simply applying for everything. I refuse to settle for something I know I am not going to enjoy or something I know I don't want my career to be. Maybe I'm being a stubborn Gen Y who thinks too highly of herself but it's unfair for me to settle on my dreams. I've definitely made mistakes. I'm definitely not the most able person around but I'm determined to make something out of myself so please, all I need is some support and it can come by just NOT asking me. and Not asking me what I've been doing with my time. Instead, offer me something. Suggest something for me. I am looking for something. anything. to make this life a little more worthwhile.

At age 6, my teacher wrote, an unassuming girl on my report card. I can't help but feel that 17 years on, I'm still being judged that way.

Ever since, we've been to Europe, I've been keeping tabs on the weather for fun. & what I realise is.. we need better metereological equipment... Lie. lie. lie. it has NOT been thunderstormy! its been sweltering heat!!

Birthday
Wedding
Independence Day
Last Game of the Season
NK's Next Possible Missile Test Launch

4th july sure is special

After a very musical visit to Yvonne's house (playing guitar hero & the piano).. decided to learn... Mozart's the Turkish March



Only have conquered up to 0.50.... well technically I've probably learnt more than half of the song since its so repetitive but I'm stumped by the fingers going everywhere without a pattern I can discern just yet! Which reminds me of the Flight of the Bumblebee... Found a video on youtube that made me quite scared watching it being played...i dont know if its because of the picture quality that the fingers actually look like bumbleebees flying ard.. or gives me an image at least! I do find this version a little more interesting than Maksim's original tho..



Ignore the shouts of woohoos at the back...

how do u say outrageous in spanish!? (apparently.. indignante!)

i cant believe real madrid has that much cash to splurgee! I mean the sale of kaka doesnt really bother me and cronaldo ALLTHEBETTER so i dont have to see him on epl anymore but next, david villa :( nooooooooooooo! why does valencia be so unblessed with money problems that they haveee to sell their stars. the squad is actually pretty decent but villa has been the provider of their goals and without him, itll be very very sad. Just a special affinity for the nearest 'home' club i cud ever call that makes it to the UEFA league lol.

this was cute tho..(its supposed to rhyme).. a post after one of thespecialonetv's episode
80million quid. i am cash cow, I bring my abs to Bernabeu.

more randoms

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org offers multilingual translations which is kinda fun cos they offer all the possible translations of the different languages. I was randomly throwing out malay words...

eg.

Esok - Tomorrow in Indonesian or Malay
- Also means salmon in Gaulish! (yum!)

Wiki: The Gaulish (or Gallic) language is the Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul before the Vulgar Latin of the late Roman Empire became dominant.....

sampan
Malay - small boat
Tagalog - Champagne
French/German/Polish/Swedish - sampan (????)
definition: An Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars.
Date "sampan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1929

Thanks alot Siti.

As always, I love showing off La Ciudad de las Artes y Las Ciencias to first time visitors when the sun sets.. and say WEEEE i love it when the skies go pink! & Siti had to spoil it by telling me its because of pollution... damn.. i knew my physics teacher said something about refraction, but it didnt occur to me from what... so i googled:

The color of the sky is determined by witch colors of light from the sun get scattered around the atmosphere(the air around the earth). When red light is scattered the sky looks red. When you look at the sky your eyes are sensing the light that is being scattered around the atmosphere. Blue light is normally scattered by the gases oxygen and nitrogen witch make up most of the atmosphere while red, yellow, and other mixtures of light like pink pases right through. However unlike the gases such as nitrogen and oxygen that do not scatter red and pink light, other particles such as water, pollution, and dust can and do scatter red and pink light making the sky look different shades of red or pink. So when the sun light has to pass though lots of pollution, dust, or water particles red and pink light can get scattered along with the blue making the sky look red or pink. This often happens when it is very polluted, when there is lots of water or dust in the air, or during the morning or dusk when sunlight passes though more of the atmosphere to reach us giving it more opportunities to scatter off of stuff in the air.

I've found other bloggers who share a passion for bright colors & random creativity :) because colors = big smiley face

http://www.itsprettygood.com/

plenty of high-res pictures using contrasting colors filled with cute captions that makes for a happifying 1 picture post.

http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/makes fun shadows, sticks pink hearts around town to brighten it up & has the fluffiest cat called moo that she brings everywhere (next time i shd name my cat sth like baa or woof too) ..ahh! I am so in love with this girl and all her crazy randomness.. sticking butterflies to random public things to make it seem less dreary, being a part of improv everywhere which sounds so fun!, sticking eyes on everything to give them a personality! I wanna do those stuff too but I think I would never dare. I'm not sure why.

& so coool im such a technophobe/noob that i only realised firefox will find the page for u without needing to type the www or .coms. INGENIUS! thx christina for showing tt haha

10 days of lastminute fun & tiredness

so glad i went. wud have rotted at home otherwise. travelling does make me quite happy. needs to figure out how to do it more glamly next time.

a gist for my memory

nice emirates in flight entertainment and seats. watched shopaholic/the duchess/bride wars/monsters inc on the way there and the dark knight/the incredibles/toy story2 on the way back.

met siti at heathrow. went back to her nice flat. she cooked me dinner yay n then saved energy for our trip

flight to barcelona following day. hostel near plaza catalunya. did the sights on the first day. dropped my camera kerplunk in parc guell. byebye lens. shopping n beach on 2nd day bershka/strad/zara/mango/pullnbear. barrigotic n la boqueria on 3rd.

night bus to valencia. showed siti ard vlc till 2pm n cabbed to sch to meet the boys for a bite. fede drove us to the beach with loud ahbeng music with windows down eek *hides face* windiest and cloudiest day in vlc tt day boo. visited ciudad de las artes y las ciencias to see latest additions of bridge n tennis courts. walked back to the hostel using what i remember of the place because i thought i lost the map. found it in my bag all along when in the hostel. hehe. walked a bit away from the hostel where i realised was where the library which i borrowed books from was to wait for carlos soria to pick us up. went for the feria at the turia near the alameda (which i just found out is called the bridge of uhrm... sth that is supposed to mean n be in the shape of the 'crown' that theyput on top of the traditional costume of the fallero's head) met zaira, natalia and jesus. feria ended but played at the playground with the west-coast like climbing stuff n randomly chatted till 130am. Soria sent us to bus station. said our goodbyes before getting on the 2am bus back to barcelona.

back in barca. left bags in locker and window shopped/find lunch and head for the airport after getting a little lost and walked like 1km each of changing freaking train lines. reached london bought instant indian food off M&S. sleeepppp

packed up next day and headed from ealing to belsize park where christina hosted me for the next leg of the trip hehe. found our way to her place from the station using siti's iphone gps thru a secret garden dragging my luggage ard. lunched at gourmet burger. sky high burgers with fries. siti went home to sleep. went with christina to regent park on a VERY hot day to meet roony & lauren to play frisbee n hear interesting tales of getting punched. ow. xtina went home. met heather and siti at tottenham court station for goood italian food at spaccanapoli - 101 Dean Street. poached salmon with avocado sauce yum! softest salmon everrrrr! only italians were the other customers.. very authentic! msged alvin to ask if he was in london. he was in italy instead. after dinner, had desserts at princi - another authentic italian dessert shop for chocolate/passionfruit/raspberry cake (separately). Left and walked thru chinatown and leiceseter square(?) to find a toilet that wasnt locked where u had to pay sth to use. tempted to go to a free entry for women club for the toilet. haha. deemed too dubious and too lazy to show id. search continues. wee a mcdonalds toilet was open. bough mineral water at grocery store next door and sat in mcdonalds for the next hour. hee.

next day. explored xtina's neighborhood. hampton heath for breakfast n crepes n carnival. took a rather exciting ride weee! afternoon headed to kew gardens in the South West. biggest botanical gardens in the world. pretty flowers but tropical glasshouses felt too much like singapore weather. eek. bees. peonies. rose garden. water lily. walked legs off. ow. went to waitrose. bought supplies for dinner. tomato filled ravioli with tomato n escarpone sauce with salad & mushrooms.

next day. made brunch with baked hasselback potatoes, caramelized carrots, salad, mushrooms and pancakes with icecream/chocolate n dulce de leche. yum! crazy crowded shopping gah at primark n h&M while xtina learnt to knit at john lewis. tea-ed (scones and berry feast) at sketch. interesting toilets. met siti n heather for dinner and a halal dimsum place. but ironically only i had dimsum. desserts at waffle house. packed.

last day boo. brunched again. this time laksa off primataste and more saladd. printed checkin ticket. cold day. slacked. lugged luggage to oxford circus. english afternoon tea-ed at liberty with xtina, heather n siti. said byebye. off to heathrow. watched last 30mins of champs league finals. yay barca. haha man u fans. get on plane. byebye london.

GRR TO THE MAX
i knew it! STH HAD to happen while i was away.. well at least its just a briefing.. in any case, do point me out to anyone who is going so i might get some info.. thanks!


RE: wth. found out its actually more than a briefing.. i was waiting for reply for over a mth and now I'm sprung with this? Is this why I was contemplating so much about going? Is this on my conscience then if theres no other oppor? Or am I simply thinking too much? sigh, sometimes my brain wastes too much neurons on things that don't matter rather than those that do.
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Hi all

Thank you for your interest in SMRT’s Management Trainee Programme 2009.

We would like to extend our special invitation to you to attend a briefing session to find out more about the Management Trainee Programme. This session will give us a chance to get to know you better, and help you to understand more about SMRT. You will also have a chance to listen to first hand accounts from our staff and current Management Trainees and discover what we have to offer for you as a Management Trainee.

Details of the briefing are as follows :

Date : Thursday, 21 May 2009

HIMYM S4 E3 Car Scene Ted & Stella

sigh.

Some excerpts from What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)

In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” Vaillant’s response: “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

pessimists seemed to suffer physically in comparison with optimists, perhaps because they’re less likely to connect with others or care for themselves.

lecture to Seligman’s graduate students on the power of positive emotions—awe, love, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy, hope, and trust (or faith). “The happiness books say, ‘Try happiness. You’ll like it a lot more than misery’—which is perfectly true,”

while negative emotions tend to be insulating, positive emotions expose us to the common elements of rejection and heartbreak.

For 30 years, Denmark has topped international happiness surveys. But Danes are hardly a sanguine bunch. Ask an American how it’s going, and you will usually hear “Really good.” Ask a Dane, and you will hear “Det kunne være værre (It could be worse).” “Danes have consistently low (and indubitably realistic) expectations for the year to come,” a team of Danish scholars concluded. “Year after year they are pleasantly surprised to find that not everything is getting more rotten in the state of Denmark.”

Perhaps in this, I thought, lies the key to the good life—not rules to follow, nor problems to avoid, but an engaged humility, an earnest acceptance of life’s pains and promises.

A few posts ago, I wrote...

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams" - Dr . Seuss

but till then.. I'd rather stay in my dreams. In my own imaginations. I'm always sad when I finish a tv serial, not because I get so involved with the plot (ive yet to cry for any movie) but because it means I come back to reality. This time around, I spent a good deal of it watching with the sister who I'd thought would sleep through the first episode and be completely lost thereafter, pissing me off as she always does when she talks while I'm trying to hear the dialogue. hehe.. but she surprised mee by lasting the entire way haha. now i can't wait for next week when she hopefully gets a full week MC and we can do this again :) I need recommendations of new shows though... always a sucker for romcoms..

Just finished the show below....

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

the official release of results are out.
Meaning my university transcript has been finalised.
Meaning I can actually take some semblance of pride when I go for commencement.
Very. VERY grateful.

trying.
trying to make sure I'm grateful for other things.
help me try.

oh no! How did i forget for the 2nd yr in a row!
HAVE YOURSELF A HAPPY BELATED CESC-DAY! :)
& MAY HE KICK MAN U'S ARSE TODAY!

no wonder i had a tiring good time yesterday house hopping, showing off the north to emily and swimming with the lee sisters :) to more spontaneous days ahead!

How I've spent my first week of freedom

amazed that I've discovered 1 episode of gilmore girls that ive never watched before.

playing around with a new online scrapbook/idea gatherer - notesfish.com

cool blog that compares how stars wear the fancy outfits in comparison to the models and amazed how i think they look better on the stars half the time.. especially when they are curvier..
http://let-them-rock.blogspot.com

Baked cookies

Finished up my long stitch

Deciding if I should give up my London ticket.

What.A.Joke.

Russia is on the White list of OECD approved tax standards while Singapore is on the Grey.

Cute.

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams"

Dr. Seuss

Ersatz:

• an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
• artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

You learn something new everyday! Even from comedies like the Big Bang Theory!

Leonard's mother: "You know selective mutism and an inability to separate from one's mother can stem from a pathological fear of women. It might explain why the 2 of you have created an ersatz homosexual marriage to satisfy your need for intimacy"

Howard: "Say what?"

wahhhahaah!! but of cos im not always so fancy schmancy with my jokes. I appreciate the jar jar binks references more!! :D

howard: "oh meesa think yousa lookin so so sad! Next time, don't yousa bring mama to work okeeday?"
leonard: "meesa think yousa looking pretty sad now too. betcha betcha!"

because the only way is up.. right?

"Also, I believed and still believe in (Abou) Diaby, Song and Denilson. People have reproached me for not having bought Barry or Xabi Alonso but I am a prisoner of my policies - buying Barry or Alonso is to kill Song, Diaby and Denilson." -Wenger

Song, Diaby & Denilson BETTER JOLLY WELL know how much he trusts them because at the rate they swagger on the pitch, I'd rather sell all of them in a heartbeat to get alonso.

If just we could find simple chicness like this so easily.
Or afford DKNY's 2009 Fall Collection...

& typically i don't get the appeal of this model, Vlada.. but after she turned a redhead, the colour of eyes simply pop... coollll

wooo... a portion of my behavioral finance research is apparently sth being studied n sounds very cheemm :D i hope it cheems the pants off the prof hhaha

"Financial advice from experts is commonly sought during times of uncertainty. While the field of neuroeconomics has made considerable progress in understanding the neurobiological basis of risky decision-making, the neural mechanisms through which external information, such as advice, is integrated during decision-making are poorly understood. In the current experiment, we investigated the neurobiological basis of the influence of expert advice on financial decisions under risk."

oh freak... freaky freakiest.

Its only 9am and I've done some stupid things. Behavioral Finance will be the death of me! If not directly through the report.. then through some other contorted way!

1) the vanity of people ie me inspired myself to straighten my hair today... because its getting more unruly by the day. half way on the trip TO school (beh fin), i wondered.. FREAK did i switch off my straightener??? thinkthinkthink... I must have. I always do... mull mullmull for another 1/4 journey to school. I'm prettty sure I did... AND THEN... yesterday as I was researching for my beh fin project, something about wishful thinking, I stumbled upon Julius Ceasar's quote that said "Men willingly believe what they wish" And thought GREAT it must be a sign. to stop my wishful thinking... SOOOOOO after my dad dropped off everyone at work (and I was about 10mins away from school) I drove back home

to find...
I DID switch it off... -_-'''
just as I had thought. SCREW JULIUS CEASAR!

and then i wrote a title of this post where a minute later, i saw it was the exact same nick as someone I wasn't particularly fond of on MSN....
seriously... SERIOUSLLLYY...

is this some kind of grand scheme of things to keep me from something in school?? Would I have met with some kind of calamity had I shown up in class today? WHAT!?!?!? seriously. GAH