--cherlyn

I am finally updating!!!! Apologise for the massive MIA-ness. This will be quite a massive post. i promise. First and for most...i hate taking pictures alone. but while i was in christchurch...i had to take pictures solo most of the time. boring!

Me up at cashmere hill.. this place looks like a castle right?? it is actually a restaurant.



just beside this cross thingy there is this little cafe where auntie asmah and husband and me had tea. i had carrot cake which was so huge but more towards the light side. it was heated up and so yum!




ok these are pictures from queenstown! it was a good thing that my friend took control of the camera cos otherwise i wont even be bothered to take any pictures.

shen... the in charge

me...waiting for the rest to get their skiing gear

the girls' skii gear. we had to carry this shit stuff from bottom of mountain to top of mountain...fortunately there was a bus to send us up.

the place where the guys rented their snowboarding stuff

shen and nicole having packed smoked salmon sandwich and subway respectively before heading off to skii

group photo: jo, shen, joon, christina and nicole

matt adelyn and tony.






me and adelyn...the only person that i knew out of the entire group!!!! the whole bunch of people were so energeticcccc! i feel like an old lady















this is the thing that brings people up to higher mountains to skii or snowboard down

this is the starting point where i skiied the whole time.







evidence that i skiied and not bumming around...!

i must say that i enjoyed my holidays shit loads. being in auntie asmah's place is so homely like crazy that it made me feel weird! then queenstown was like holidaying with a bunch of strangers whom i got to know better (they made me feel old). lively bunch. all thanks to adelyn... she's such an awesome girl la. nothing else to say about her but she's just v nice.

the place that we stayed in at queenstown had a glass window smack in the living room with the view of mountains and the kitchen washing area also had glass mirrors. my ideal kitchen. v pretty place we stayed in. loved it lots!

ok the good part ends here. while in queenstown having my nice and relaxing holiday... i received a call from my friend who was suppose to flat with me together with her other friend. GUESS WHAT... just because another 3 girls needed 2 more pple to sign the lease for a station apartment...(five room only)...she just pang sei me and went ahead with the three other pple. gosh... this feels like being so dumped although i have not been dumped by a guy before. but it feels so shitty. we kinda made a pact that we wud be flatting next year and just cos the three girls are need 2 more pple to close the deal then join them? like wth...the two of them are not even close to the three of them. just neutral kinda thing. guess finding a place is more important than who they live with, im kinda mad but i appear to be ok... zzz!

just glad that my friends actually stood up for me. so the plan now is that i either find a studio apartment and live by myself or staying with another bunch of pple. the thing about me is that im kinda fussy with food with cleanliness stuff...so i wud rather live by myself than go live with complete strangers who r short of a flatmate...oh wells these kinda things cant really be explained unless u are in the situation urself. its just not that easy to live with people because everyone is different and have different habits and stuff? so many shit stuff involved.

its times like this where i just wanna live with corrine ho!!! i mean like if i were to cook like almost anythin..i know she will still say it is nice. but seriously...whatever i portray myself eating is not usual for everyone here. its just abnormal. i feel weird and like a big alien. my friend kinda assured me that it is just me. thats just me. seriously...the food i cook is sometimes quite bland but i find it acceptable. im going for brown rice of which most people will freak out. im gonna explore a lot of veg stuff but mayb less of meat and thats gonna freak people out too. whats wrong with brown rice and veg??? ok i will do meat but i really dont know how to cook nice meat which taste good? the only thing i can rmbr is boiling breast meat in water? thats like the only thing in my vocab? arghh...and thats freakish to pple too..apparently. i dont knowww...im not gonna like eating beef bologniase spaghetti and oily stuff everyday right? and like weird oily stuff with weird stuff... (flat cooking). like people will cook stuff that i dont like and i just wont eat it. pardon my brattishness...but seriously...5 mths of cumby and having to eat whatever is presented on my plate even though its shit stuff .....IM DONE WITH IT alright. i cant stand the food at all but i have to eat it. otherwise i will be hungry. so... next year i wanna be in control of what i wan and feel like eating. i dont wanna be obliged to eat what is presented in front of me. unless of cos someone cooks relatively healthy food for me then i will be sweet... so yeh. pardon my whininess.

so now i donno whats gonna happen. and did i mention that im kinda clean kitchen freak? cant stand like food sediments and unwashed dishes lying ard. its just so disgusting. so yeh... im seriously an alien. URGH. will see how things go....

lessons have started. statistics was boring. i have stat tutorial tmr! 2nd day of school! and biochemistry im blanking out like hell. feel v panicky alr. need to studddddyyyyyyyy!

i miss home and i wanna go homeeeeeee! wont be long... where i just have to lie in bed and dont have to plan this and that. and this weather is like freezing my ass off as well. i cant wait to get hommmmmeeeeeeeeeeeee! few more months...!!!!

today i am very ambitious and adventurous :)

i put my foot down and decided to bake pineapple tart for the FIRST TIME in my life. WITHOUT CHERLYN around. (*PS. usually cher bakes, i eat :P) That seemed really self handicapping for me when i first started. cos i was so blur, dont know the sequence of making the mix and all. omg.

at that point, i missed cherlyn so much, and i missed just staring at her bake.. few hours later got pineapple tart in my mouth alr.

hahaha! but it was a gd experience for me :)



i decided to take everything related to the baking part in my own hands.


so i basically like ordered my maid (*in a pleasant tone) to do stuff. hahaha!


the oven has not been touched for quite awhile. my mom, maid and i all gabra. cant find the user manual. actually it dropped behind the oven. gosh.


TADAAAA. colour is looking quite good


i seriously losed quite alot of calories from those 4h of baking. sweat like an oink oink man.


meticulously placed into the container


looking yummy! this container is for godma :)


my maid :) dont know what pose she doing. lol.


graduated from solo pineapple tart baking stint :)

my back is aching. i didn't know taking things in my own hands can be quite tiring. but lucky got maid to help me wash stuff and role pineapple balls. hehe.

and i have no idea why i still look so round even after losing so many calories after baking. grrr.




and honestly, i miss the good old days.







i am glad there are still photos that i can look back on. makes me reflect and appreciate what i have more :)

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oh ya! another big newsss. my parents sold the house. this is official. and we are moving out within 3 months. or if cant find house, will seek extension from the buyer.

this is another life-changing move for my family. once again, i trust that God always has a plan for us. :)

cheers!
Corrine

it is now 1 more day to the weekends.

which also means one more day to this....


i am seriously excited. you have no idea.

back trackingg...

ystd was a physically and mentally jaded day for me. i dont why but i got quite inspired by a printed phrase on my mini bag that goes : Do one thing a day that scares you.

and indeed, ystd was one of those days. woke up at like 630am and the day lasted through till 930pm when i finally offically finished 'work'.

what i mean is that tuition after work can be mentally trying for me. haha. but having experienced it. i think i am mentally strengthened. :p

even going to ntu for work 5-day a week scares me. no idea how i psychoed myself into this but it's all worth the learning experience.

for now, i am feeling weak. physically more than mentally. i so wanna jump into a pool now.

--corrine

today was well-spent with mr twan :) whoohoo. *dont ask me why he is poking my teeth but i think he wanted to poke my cheeks. heehee.

had lunch at our new found favourite chinese place--- crystal jade. to be honest i am really addicted to their char siew sou. seriously its v goood. twan and i were day-dreaming if only crystal jade offer dim-sum buffet. confirm lose $ if pple like twan goes there to eat.

haha. i ordered e-fu noodle with minced meat and beancurd. taste gd though presentation is like very brown. should put some greens to make first impression better la i feel.

twan ordered fried rice with conpoy and crab meat. it was gd too. whoo. satisfying meal. then went to check out some mp3 models. i am thinking of getting one. but kenneth giving me his 1GB memory card for my phone and told me that my phone can serve as a mp3.

but i realise i cant type sms and listen to music at the same time and the music wont auto play down the list. as in i have to click one by one after every song is done. omg. damn inconvenient. grrrrrr.

ok i am rambling too much. haha. tmr its swim--church--breakfast--tuition--work--sleep. and then 5-day work week repeats itself. but its better this time cos i have more stuff to do. haven finish my work in office yet. cos friday i only spent at most 3 h doing work-related stuff. the other 5 h was spent fretting over my timetable. gosh. so much so that when i came home i literally had bloodshot eyes.

this shows how much concentration and determination i have to make things work my way. but as usual, God will give me signs that probably, some electives are not suitable for me so he twists my fate here and there. but at the end of the day, i know he always has a plan for me :)

--corrine