--cherlyn
It is officially day 3 of survey. -.- I realised something long long time ago. I stupidly went to report for survey work 1 day in advance when i cud actually have been doing something v slack. URGH. how stupid can that be right?ROAR

Anyway carried out surveys at Amoy Food Centre today. When i was slacking, just slumped myself at one empty table and TADA...!in front of my eyes was the store that was on channel u. the salvage poor business store. guess what it was selling: MUFFINS! sms my sister the entire variety of selection and once she replied me, went to buy 2 banana and 1 cheese. 1 banana each for us and cheese for my bro! (i always buy just nice amt, shouldnt overeat!).Slumped back to another empty table to try the banana 1 out.

My opinions:
1)more towards sweet side
2)slightly undercook (mayb cos its more towards soft and not fluffy sort)
3)should hav more filling. cos some banana muffin the entire inside u can see banana veins, but this one only the bottom part they chuck in moist banana.

Met my Dad for lunch. Then after lunch went to try the other store's muffin. The banner said: Butter Free. kinda gimmicky cos it actually means using hydrogenated oil for replacement la! butter if melt it also look like oil except maybe more yellow and hav white foam. but the banana and walnut muffin was not bad. it was hot from the oven. not fantastic but i wud say acceptable. hav not tasted FANTASTIC muffins for a v long. i think i will stick to being a cake person.cedele sells the best carrot cake in my opinion so far! talking about that i haven settled my cedele baked goods craving. hehe!

I'm kinda feeling down today. and when i'm down or feeling stressed up i wanna go drinking! chiiilllll what that way. chase all the nerves, pressure away!Otherwise i just wanna stay home and eat and eat and then go and sleep. corrine eat with me later!!!! pong4 please. recently keep eating durian. shiok la. dont know why into it recently. just that way i guess

Anyway i think it shud be time i really settle down with a decision that i make. sometimes it can be really confusing and i lose myself. but then again there wont be anyone who can make decisions for me! guess i gotta start being more independent and confident of myself. i really do lose myself sometimes. i can sound as though im firm and sure, but who will ever know whats behind the scene. Well, i have decided and i will stick to my decision.

Glad my sis and twan are working things out. Maintaining a relationship is really not easy. For me i always screw things up! Sometimes i feel that mayb im just not suitable for the -relationship league-. too much for me to handle i guess. i cant even handle my own issues. let alone issues involving another person which is entangled/tied/entwined with me.its just kinda a lot for to take at 19 la. But anyhow KUDOS to those couples who really and truelly can be part of one another at the end of it all.

Im tired now. Feeling satisfied from lunch. Refusing to think about the survey process. Thinking about 6pm, walking to the train station, walking home and slamming myself on the sofa. Can time pass faster! URGH. DAMN.

im off alr to continue work.

bye all!

my nose feels like a box of tissue has just been stuffed in there and i can only breathe through my mouth now. damn. post camp syndrome. last night was spent with twan who had a night out :) it was our second year anniversary! (PS. i was told about it only last night :/ ) apparently his friends all went to play some computer game called land?! yea.. not sure. but he diverged from the crowd and came to my house! hee. and later i drove him back to camp :D he was like,'' u drive faster than my mother, so fast?..." haha. typical tone of my father. my bro sat behind and the only thing he said was to speed up cos he wanna hurry go come play game -.- Lol. but i love driving at night. its so carefree.

and today marks another significant day. i drove alone for the first time to fetch my mom after her grocery shopping! haha. i dont know when i can ever do that again cos my uncle brainwashed my dad to only let me drive alone one year later. like wth? everybody else get licence then one week later hitting the roads alone alr and i still cannot. sian.

lunching out with my mom later! tentatively at PS then heading to town to clear her robinsons voucher which expires today. valid reason to shop alr :D the thought of having only a few more days of holidays is boring me even more than the fact that i have nothing much to do during holidays. hahah! doesn't make sense huh?. haha. i so dont want this to end so soon. roar!

i think hostel life will give me a whole new perspective of myself and make me treasure simple things that i often take for granted. i dont know what i'll become. i'm swaying towards the slackey side of me, not joining much activities and being unable to clock enough points to stay in hall. i'm degenerating! help! haha. and the thought of cherlyn going overseas is surreal but yet very real. reality will hit some day. i'll just treasure what's left and live with it.

pple that keep me sane...




yup the round twin :) somebody to come home for :) sisterhood rocks. anw she owes me one for helping her queue for 1.5 hours to book driving lessons. the moment she arrived at the centre immediately her turn to book. how shiok can that be? other pple queue number 90 plus and they were only at 30 somethin?! lol!... had ginko nut dessert treat so slightly appeased :D hehe!



didn't give up on me throughout the two years despite hectic training and study schedule. actually i've come to realise that our first year was so busy that we hardly had time for each other. any normal guy wld just break off with me by then but not him. hopefully everything will work out for the better despite the rockiness. takes two hands to clap.

--corrine--

its funny how i can endure through a marathon but not a camp. :/
two days of hall camp and here i am back home...
had fever when i woke up this morning so decided to head home to recuperate before uni starts.

i feel so at ease now... anw, slept quite well in hostel during the camp despite being alone... olivia, annabel and my roommate chin pei all mia... haha! hopefully can adapt well to hostel life. i got my timetable! 9 AUs, which leaves my wednesday free.. but the rest of the days only have classes in the morning... no idea what i'm gotta do for the rest of the day. but i heard gotta take up electives so that i can clear modules. shall do just that ;)

ok back to the topic of how healthy corrine fell sick. i ALSO DONT KNOW. gosh.. came to camp... thraot starting cocking up... wet dry wet dry situation.... soaked in sauces and cereal and syrup for god knows how many hours... yea... so that sums up events leading to corrine falling ill :/ first time got tekan by seniors man. haha! eye-opener.

drinking some cooling agent to soothe my throat. haha. i'm off. takecare peeps

--corrine--

--cherlyn

driving lesson today aft a v long time. realised that i hav no idea how to control speed when turning. guess not used to it. but my braking improved slightly. surprising.

the other half of the day was spent at tiong bahru food centre carrying out surveys regarding food and nutrition. was recieving a range of different responses. from those who offered me coffee/tea to those who were simply not interested to do the survey. came to a point when i was quite sian so i chat with this guy aft he did e survey. but aft a while he seem like he didnt want to talk to me and i think i was talking too much!, so i made myself scarce! hehe! aiya but i like to chat with pple aft they do the survey. friendly a bit lor. if not v monotonous! rah. to be continued tmr... ... ... same place. this time breakfast crowd

Im glad that they are part of my life:)

--cherlyn

tired

confused.

--cherlyn
Looking at corrine's post, it made me realise that I AM GOING TO HAVE THE WHOLE ROOM TO MYSELF VERY SOON! it will be very weird. no more :" first and last warning", "eh bring this down later", "eh clear this", "eh close the window", eh put this away", "eh off the com, i wanna sleep alr", "eh go away i wanna use the com". But anway the hostel room looks pretty ok except there is no aircon? (corrine always wants aircon but most of the time i do not want aircon cos its too cold causing me to randomly wake up several times at night + comforter not thick enough so its very cold at 23 degrees celsius!) corrine is so gonna get it from using fan everyday! HAHA!

anw gonna be lonely lonely and more lonely without corrine at home! oh wells. guess i have to start to learn how to be by myself but as for independence wise i can still rely on my maid and parents for now!

currently at work now. im not used to normal working hours!!!!! the good part is that i have no choice but to wake up at a specific time to exercise. no excuse on that part. plus no sun:) besides that, once i enter office at sit at my desk, the number 6 keeps on ringing at the back of my head. its always the same number everyday! very monotonous dont u think so?that means shift work is more for me? back in prev job i kinda like the afternoon shift while others hated it a lot. mayb it affects their evening plans, but for me im really v ok with it. just that evening calls more complainy. cos u know parents come back from work. children mayb go tuition or haven come back home. then they sit at dining table and open hp bills. get a big shock(many reasons why). since no one talk to so call in. billing dept close. so call and get "those" calls.very zzz. thats the ZZZ part but other then that it leaves the morning free and easy. shiok. can sleep slightly longer and watch all the morning talk shows.

anw lately i have been doing different things and from my schedule, i will be under different supervisors. presently alr know 2 of them and they are REALLY nice! The option of being bitchy is definitely open to them but they are taking the other route:) peik ching and sean. sean just offered cadbury chocolate cos he has a sore throat. virus in the office alert!haha! super cold here man.

darren's coming back from camp tonight! my dad bought lotsa ice cream for him (and himself of cos). and i am instructed to buy breakfast for him tmr cos my parents are away in malacca currently. corrine please go with me! fried bee hoon with gui diao and fried carrot cake white. noted.

ok im off for lunch now alr

take care pple!

ystd was spent spring cleaning my hostel. went with olivia but our roommates abandoned us and we had to do everything ourselves. reflection of the day : its not easy to be a maid. seriously. gosh... olivia and i were feeling drowsy after the whole stint and didn't talk much during the bus ride back. haha! but anw, got most things settled except for the bulky things that i've yet to bring over.

more photos of my living condidtion when school term starts ;)


chin pei's bed. they call it side B.


side A which is mine side. yea.. according to the rules, we're not suppose to cross sides. gosh. haha!




full viewww


thats the wardrobe there. i didn't realise its existence when i came in.. whoops.

anw, the common toilet quite cool la. lucky i'm sharing toilet with somebody i know. its like a connecting room kinda thing. i realise that i've been toooo reliant on my maid. but ain't most pple with maid like me? haha! independance... bring it on ;)

--corrine--

--cherlyn
12 min before work ends! enough time to post

work has officially started for me!

this place is very quiet with occasional murmuring of health terms! I think the lady in the cubicle next to mine is in charge of mental health, no idea about the one behind me. but all i can say is that i have a lot of privacy!!! in like no one will spring a sudden attack on me from the back

anw things done lately at work:
-source out nutrients info and compile
-translate survey from english to chinese (-.-)
-carry out survey in dental dept which means chatting up parents who are waiting for their kids who are recieving dental treatment
-food tasting
-media talk

tmr have to go great world city cold storage to source for more items in the list and to verify if the data is correct. quite sai gang man. oh wells!

had lunch with my dad today. he came all the way from tanjong pagar. next time will be my turn to go there. all set for amoy food centre and good food! guess what, DAD bought CEDELE BREAD again. love it like crazy i promise. gonna chomp it down later after dinner like totally!

1mth to gooooo! whoosh:)

ok time to knock off from work alr

bye all:)

HSS orientation camp :) quite a blast except for the fact that my energy level was rather low during cheering sessions and after about hmmmm 11pm? yea.. haha! but overall, Eldar rocks.

i'm so going to treaure my official last week of holiday. next week its vooom vooom to hall camp and then school starts. it's gonna take place in the blink of an eye man.

---corrine---

--cherlyn

Sometimes i do find it hard to say NO. The difficult part is not about saying the word "no" but the "pre-saying no" build up effect, it really can drive me crazy. I do hope this is not something any different from any girls. Girls in general do not like conflict. By saying no, it sparks off unhappiness to some extent. There can be many reasons for saying "no" and bottomline is that in the end i will still stick to "NO" because the fear of not able to fulfil promises or obligations is simply too heavy to bear. Just some advice for girls out there, dont be afraid to say " no". Gotta think further and weigh the pros and cons:)

Anw you must be guessing what the hell am i referring to! My godma called to offer me some research job and she will get her friend to call me. Her friend indeed called and was really nice, polite and respectful. She needed me tomorrow (which is today). Job = im desperate for it! BUT i have driving lessons. That point already drove me insane. Then she continued by saying she needs me even after tomorrow and i said i alr have a 1 mth job. so everything cumulated to a "no" but anyway i took down her number just in case. AH.

Sidetrack to yesterday:
I did my usual morning thing and was suppose to give wc a wake up call at 9 plus as we plan to swim at 10am. As usual, dragged till 10.40am then she turned up. Fortunately for me, its so near my house, i just gotta make sure i can sit on my couch as long as possible rather than to stand there at wait for her! imagine me leaving at 9.50am to realise she's gonna be there at 10.40am. i learnt alr. -always call wc when about to leave to meet her OR sms her to sms me to leave hse- IT WORKS:) The sun was non-existent while we were swimming, did some laps. oh ya wc is suffering from real bad sun burnt due to the camp that she went to. bad. It took me back to memories when my face was peeling really BAD esp aft kayaking.zzz! dont like it.

lunched. wc teaches tuition at hougang. rained. after tuition met her at kovan mrt. off to her hse for dinner. tom yam noodle. v shiok! i love spicy stuff because it has a lot of kick! Anw cable at her hse is really v entertaining. my place only has 5 8 u and cna. v boring. Most of the times in the morning, i have to resort to watching news. Depressing i must say. oh wells.

updates from corrine:
she had field and water games
the food sucks
she won a memory card reader from a lucky draw (very random)

thats about it.
life gets boring without corrine! roar. and now that darren is in army, also quite bored. left with kenneth and i.

off to watch tv!

--cherlyn

im upset now

finished 3 seasons of "how i met ur mother" which means no more shows to watch. although there's big bang theory, its too cheem for my liking. SIGH

today is day1 that corrine has gone for camp. 5 days 4 nights! roar. so sian alr without her.
cant ben and jerry's together (bought 2 flavours somemore.zzz)
no runs 2gether
no breakfast, lunch and dinner 2gether
coming to think bout it, we really do almost everything together
so: no everything together

SIGH!for this week

next week im starting work alr while corrine gets back from camp. e irony of it all.

AHHHH.

the consoling part is that i managed to book 2 more driving slots in JULY before work starts.thankfully:)

swimming with wan ching tmr. she's hyped about swimming. im not really into swimming but im just gonna do it:) hope there's not too much sun. i dont have sun block.

chatted with wong just now online. she brought back memories of NICE DIM SUM in HK. sigh. i miss GOOD dim sum. esp since yesterday night experienced 1 bad dim sum dish. seriously it just takes 1 bad experience to appreciate GOOD things. YEH. exactly.

ok im off

bye!

yes... i visited tekong today to send my brother off for BMT.

tekong seems like a nice resort to go to for a holiday cos the scenary is way cool.

can lie on the 'beach' and soak up the sun
but but but.... this place is no place for holiday man.. boys are going to transformed to men here ok...

anw, my sis and i were quite excited... cam-whored a little... hee.

on the bus to the ferry terminal.... picture defect: a guy head popped out from behind. otherwise would be picture perfect lor.. wasted.


penguin ferry... the tv rocks. i love tv fyi.




another bus to take us to their accomodation place. before entering the bus, we were given water and oreo! and some other random stuff!


dad totally high about oreo. wads going on? haha!


ok... the food lover...


the water lover ! haha!


heading to check out tekong out !!!

the army pple who organised this visit made the process quite enjoyable and efficient i must say... everything was so in order... :) anw, i still have no regrets being a girl :p


takecare darren. see ya after two weeks confinement! i wont scream in the morning when u come back or use ur computer in the meantime :p

anw, something random... complain time.. my legs are disfunctioning. roar.
HSS orientation coming this monday... monday is a double whammy day for me man... i'm so gonna pray hard on sunday night that everything falls smoothly in place... otherwise i'll be so crushed :( anw i'm hyped :) bring it on!

tmr looooonnng and lasssst driving lesson!

--corrine--

--cherlyn

yesterday:

went to coca restaurant for farewell dinner. darren entering ARMY! shiokness. buffet for all of us. actually we wanted ala carte but due to shrewd marketing tactics (jacking up each individual dish to a ridiculous price). so settled with buffet. was YUMMY! darren is like so neutral with army! i dont know what's up in his brain man. but i cant really be bothered. his last words before leaving home 2day was " no using the com" "dont scream in the morning and wake me up when i get home if not u all will get it from me" (so scared) oh wells. life without darren for 2 weeks straight! nonetheless, hope he can adapt there. guess the most impt thing is just NUMBING feelings and go through it. follow follow and more following of orders? do what other pple do and if possible, do even better. :)

the heating system is very efficient.

darren. very not interested to take photos.USUAL

all ready to eat:)

mum

not looking too happy!

mum and dad

chubby twin in action. thanks for peeling prawns for me the entire meal!:)

today:

whole family went to pulau tekong to send my bro off. eye opener i must say. I WAS IMPRESSED WITH ..... THE TRACK! Firstly, it has a sea view and its very scenic. ROMANTIC. saw the rooms, facilities, tried the food there for lunch.

to be honest, i dont mind the idea of doing the 3 mths bmt thing. i mean it looks kinda fun. exercising, (there's a pool there too). haih but with my character, i dont mind being ordered around to do things, but once i buay song i will just go off tangent and feel very pissed off with life. nonetheless it will be fun, especially with girls that are high and v talk kind. balance up! ideal. remember my energy v low?haha. aiya im all talk again. but well, thats what blogging is about right? hehe.

oh i realised kenneth (my oldest bro) has quite a sense of humour. no wonder he get the girls! i mean what he say is really kinda stupid and funny both at the same time.the following are statments that he made

1)ok i see needy girlfriends (excuse me mayb some guys insist their gfs came along)

2)(when we saw the bigger boys who went in 1 mth earlier doing marching) ok feel the earth tremble

3)(when we stood up in the audi for national anthem facing a screen with a flag moving along with the wind) ok this is quite stupid, shouldnt this be held outside

4)(when it reached the final part,everyone had to say their goodbyes) action time. im expecting to hear screaming (start looking around)

5) (darren had to tuck in his shirt) " ok thats where the torture starts"

6) ok darren made a new buddy. the guy on his left. ( zzz statement )

7) doesnt make sense. if im going to jail, i wont ask my gf to come send me off

dont know whats up with my bro la. he's pretty neutral yet very lame. zzz!

anw i had my first driving lesson today. the instructor was corrine's 1st lesson instructor too. he said we dont look alike. FINALLY. ya. it was ok but i was in state of panic. especially turning. i had no idea that when turn, had to wait for wheel to turn. i thought have to keep turning the wheel until i dont know when. i wanna use my left foot for break and right foot for accelerator!

currently hooked on jordin sparks: one step at a time.

-find a reason why- this phrase had an impact on me. in so many things i do, i need to find a reason why! if there's no reason. things just get very pointless. reminder for myself : before i decide on anything, i need to find a valid reason! yes cherlyn:)

ok im off to shower alr.

bye

day started with me springing out of bed & cherlyn staggering out of bed (*note the contrast, thanks :] ) for some holding exercises which was quite a killer actually :/ then proceeded to driving lesson.. first part was kinda disastrous. killer combi of 1) striking curb 2) mounting curb. how worse can that get?! i dont usually do that man. but anw, instructor corrected me and he seemed so chilled bout everything. driving test coming and all these things crop up -.- the nerves the nerves.. must be. heheh! second part was ok... i was rather calmed, got over the traumatic experience and moved on man! :)

12pm sunny sunny! met up with sis for a nice swim! totally rocks. my dream is to have a house with a private swimming pool, how cool can that get?! i don't wanna wake up from this dream... ! anw, we got high today for no rhyme or reason. didn't wanna let my sis zi high so i tagged along :D

getting way too high!


taking position.......... (twin 2)


wheeeeeee!


trying again....


level of highness- peak. checked :) haha!


taking position.... (twin 1)


whoooooooo!!!

now we attack the coconut tree! we were getting too high alr. whoops! a huge challenge for the vertically challenged one... but she tried ;)


cher wants to fly up the coconut tree and pluck some coconut for me cos i was thirsty :) very sweet of her.hehe


i was so exciteddd


and leapt with excitement....

haha. story adruptly ends cos the twins' highness level dipped rapidly. so after this we headed to the toilet to shower. hahah. sorry for the letdown:p

out.

--corrine-- :)

--cherlyn

i am getting really lazy because:

1) i simply would rather just eat banana loaf plain instead of spreading it (tastier when spread definitely, rmbr peanut butter and jam. jam and kaya is the new fav though)

2) im thirsty and i feel just v tired stretching out my arms to grab my water bottle which is in reachable distance.

3)im suppose to be learning to cook. and although i can smell food (which means my maid is in the midst of cooking), i cant be bothered to drag my ass downstairs to at least have a look at whats going on. haven even got to the part of helping out to cook.

4)my life now revolves around WATCHING TV. thats an extremely sedentary activity. if coupled with snacking it will be disastrous! like totally. sometimes i think about creating somethin that makes watching tv less sedentary. my mind is in a blank now. ah!

5)im kinda aching all over and refuse to move my entire body.

6)i just want to SIT DOWN!

ok this is really going no where. NEED TO START doing something! currently still waiting for the secretary to inform me when i can start! hope it's soon if not i will find it hard to climb out of this lazy routine of mine. roar. then once again its WHAT TO WEAR? can i wear jeans? ah.

wan ching dropped a text just now. undecided as to whether to go for the camp. the issue is that she alr brought all her stuff and wants to walk all the way to the end of the mrt station before deciding to hope on to the ponggol or harbour front train and then later sms me to tell me about her choice. LIKE WHAT THE HELL right? haha. she is rly quite out of her mind and feeling unstable i GUESS. glad she decided to go in the end. but its easy to advice her to go. for me honestly i cant say for sure. for me i doubt i will even start packing. i mean the idea of camps sounds really fun. meeting new people and getting high and enthu. but mayb perhaps ...i dont know. my energy level is really low now.

bye!

sunday with the slacker.... she was in this pose for quite some today. half of the time eye lids were closed -.- ... haha. btw she's lying on the bed now and mayb eyes closed too. haha!! yupp. today was spent watching lame and bimbotic shows.. legally blonde 2 and some dramatic chinese shows. love these kinda free days... :) although quite slack but it beats being stuck somewhere u dont wanna be for the sake of doing so.

awaiting dinner time. have been jabbed by the pig at least twice since i started typing this msg... gosh! save me! hahaha!

--corrine--

Darren twan says ' HI EVERYONE!' yupp.. the v cute boy is at my house now... staring at me while i'm typing this post :D ok, today was v well spent with mr twan. met for lunch at changing appetites. had yummilicious pizza while mr twan had cheese fish and chips. wierd combo to me.. hehe!


slurping super size chocolate drink... pure satisfaction ;)



looking satisfied again. haha


hanged around at marina square and suntec. was looking at Aibi rollers. driving instructor told me that it has killer effects on whole body especially abs... lethal... so i was super curious to find out how it looked like ;) anw, darren just squealed :" why you want?" -.- hahahaaaaa!!!!! (*i scared!) haha! so fierce.....

then headed back by train...



shot taken by the shortie..AKA me :( btw, i just realised that i shrank 0.6cm. from 160cm to 159.4cm. wth!



i was so depressed that i cut off his face.. he decided to cut off my face by taking over the camera... how nice :) nvm, take turns.. fairer that way :) haha!



yupp... cant see mr twan's head again. haha!


had fun today :) thanks dear :)
cant believe we've been together for almost a year. it seems like yesterday when he behaved like a wierdmo when he messaged me everyday to ask about my training and if i was feeling ok. haha, i could tell then... hahaha. although he doesn't usually shower me with all those gifts, flowers and stuff, his thoughtfulness and simple acts of love goes beyond all those. but he does buy me food :D very practical hor? haha. yea... i think so too! lol! hopefully despite army commitements and soon to come my uni commitements which take away time for the both of us... we'll stay strong :)


--corrine--