Monday, April 28, 2008

treasures.

finally!
another TGIF (:
week after week, i look forward to FRRRIDAY.

where i can finally rest and recharge before another hectic week starts.

LONG LONG LONG SUPER LONG OVERDUE PHOTOS:

yum! look at the mudpie from Island Creamery!!

SUPER worth it! only $4.80!

Chloe's Apple Pie with (nutella??) ice cream.

Clarissa & Claire are taking such a looooong time to make up their minds Chloe and I had to camwhore to past time.

hello! i love my chunky monkey !

after a very satisfying round of desserts and bitching... ...

it's time to camwhore~

n.i.g.u.s.

spasticated


is our middle name.my dear bimbo.

love them so very much.

love my best friend. hate my hair.

making cheesecake for jiaxuan at my place (:

end of first night of work at Vivo.

love working with BFF.

boredom at work = camwhore time

pucker up ladies!

lethargic us after work.

last day.

went through many "trials and tribulations" to get Idy & Audrey (the underaged) in after Lollipop's over...

MOS toilet STINKS.
i think my life span shortened 8years after being in there for... a total of about an hour plus in the entire night?

clubbing is starting to bore me actually...

Friday, April 25, 2008

ongton: "car-here"

deng deng deng deng!
deng deng deng deng!

aye, i'm just being lame because i'm now stuck in the BizIT Library's IT Zone using the computers now.
I feel so exposed and raw, typing an entry so publicly, under the scrutiny of anyone who walks through the door. (my back is directly facing the door, which makes the screen of this computer FACING the door. i guess this is the reason why almost the whole area is full but this station is vacant. and one other bloody reason is the aircon is blowing FULL BLAST at me! *brrr*)


life's been pretty busy.
ok. make it very busy.
check out my timetable:


plus i have Diploma Plus on Mondays 530pm-830pm.
and French from 530pm-730pm on Wednesdays.
i get so drained and tired by Wednesday night I wished:
#1 I didn't take Diploma Plus and French 2
#2 I didn't need to go over to brother's place to baby-sit Kynan & have dinner there but back at home in the comfort of my own lala-land.
judging from how much i love kynan, how much i love french, and how desperately i wanted to get into Diploma Plus, you know the extent of lethargy i experience is no joke.

zzZzz


haha, but nevertheless, i must still have some fun right?
been addicted to Viwawa ever since Shunya taught me how to play on Monday. love the Wahjong and Sushido. Tried Zany Bridge and Big 2.5 last night and they were awesome toO!
great for some de-stress sessions.
the word "de-stress" reminds me of Guild House! omg. haven't played Photo Hunt and Bishi Bashi this week!
that's because this week, DBA13 didn't go Guild House at all. ):
Tuesday, during our 2hour break + 30mins early release, we wenta Jurong Point (in case the east siders (i.e. clairey neo poots) doesn't know, Jurong Point is NOT at Jurong East MRT, but Boon Lay. hahaha.) and we had Pizza Hut for lunch before heading back school for our FMA lecture.
Wednesday, during our 2hour break + 30mins early release, we went Holland Village for breakfast at Burger King! hahaha.
really glad that my class turned out to be such a fun place to be.. but weirdly enough i'm closer to the guys! hahahaha.
especially Shi Ping (it's a guy, not a girl!)
hahaha, oh wells, there's still Melissa and Kellin that I'm quite comfortable talking with.

aye. time for MR lecture soon.
tata peeps!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

double-black [addict::ion]

Phew!
(-a really BIG HUMONGOUS sigh of relief-) Term 1 Week 1 of Academic Year 2008/2009 is finally OVER.
i have to say, i've NEVER been this tired.

10apr-13apr marks another roadshow that i'll never forget.
Jia Xuan, Audrey, Shun Ya & Xiu Yi (:
it's my first time working with all of them (minus xuan)! (:
and Alan & Lawrence (Sony Vaio full-timers)
and not to forget the eccentric gang of Courts personnels, namely Gabriel, Marcus, Sean, Leon, Vince & Costa.
( and super must not forget!) Emcee, Wayne. (reason being he gave us a lunch treat on the 3rd day, plus some other *SPECIAL* reasons.. -winks-)
it's been very physically taxing, (standing from 10am-10pm EVERYDAY).
also very mentally taxing to as we were all super stressed-out, especially me.
being the most "senior" old-bird, they had very high expectations of me, and lazy Alan just dumped EVERYTHING on me whenever he could. ):
but nevertheless it was fun to work with the girlies and we shared lotsa laughters.

14apr then bench marks the start of Year 2. no more DBA/FT/1B/08.. but DBA/FT/2A/13.
skipped FMA lecture to meet xiuyi at vivocity for some shopping, and also to pass Alan the Warranty Cards for submission to HQ.
(that heartless creature! greeted me by asking me to change & get to work!)
xiuyi left early for tuition lessons, and i continued shopping around until it's time for my Dip. Plus!

Dip. Plus was a bomb. I've never had ice-breaking session like this one. How to ice-break when there's no ice in the first place? But warm fire burning all around. The kinda warmth that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy...
Lecture was awesome too because everything just sounded so intriguing.. Schizophrenia, Depression, Multi-personality Disorder, Eating Disorder etc etc.
I'm so thankful and grateful that I was given a chance to join!

15apr i headed for Orchard with yaya. shopped around at Liat Tower's Zara and she left to meet jiaxuan & fuji while i happily paid for 2tops (: (: (:
went Borders' for Paperchase but no nice notebooks ):
headed for Orchard MRT's popular, bought some stationaries, French Dictionary, met up with Xiuyi, shopped Forever21 & Cotton On & Isetan & we had dinner at Pasta Cafe & went perfume hunting!
*secret*

16apr i was rather happy that my class started to warm up more. we went SP Guild House after a long hearty breakfast at Mac, & I feel like such a mountain-tortoise because I've never been to the Guild House before!
OMG, it's like a private SP country club! we played the arcade etc to waste time away until it's time for lectures. after lectures was meet up with the DBA08 girls for lunch at KFC (:
yaya, sandra, jiaxuan, audrey & sherilyn.
talked & laughed like crazeeee.
boy, do i miss those girls ):
around 3pm, yaya & i headed for the Guild house for a game of Bishi Bashi which drives you nuts and is a really good game for de-stressing, and then we played pool till 430pm, so that yaya can go and pick Alan (not the Vaio Alan la! her bf Alan!) from the airport.

17apr is the most "torturest" day of the week, because of BLARDY GEMs. had my Psychology & Counselling GEMs from 810-9 (teacher was 10mins late, we started at 815 & ended early at 9 instead of 10) went to my bro's place and rot there with Kynan & Sis-in-law till 115pm and headed for school for 2hour lecture from 2pm-4pm.
being the FORTH consecutive 8am day, i was totally zonked out during UCCD lecture from 2-3. but was highly alert for MR lecture next because the teacher is a serious psychotic case.
went Arab St & Haji lane alone before heading home.

18apr
FINALLY! last day of school has come. i was so tired, i thought today was Thursday.
QA lecture 9-10. MR tutorial 1015-1025! (digression. it was scheduled to be 10-12. but because i was hungry, bryan, shi ping, ken, dickson, badriya & lynette accompanied me to buy nuggets from the malay stall. SO PAISEH! plus we were all such lazy bums we'd rather wait for the lifts than climb the stairs, so we were late for class.. and after taking attendance, the teacher made us do introduction of ourselves: name, hobbies, location; and that's it. we can leave! so slacker!!)
so i had brunch with the class before leaving to meet Xiuyi at Bugis at 12.
we went Arab St & Haji Lane & headed back to Bugis..
Carmen: ROAR! I WANT MY BAG & RING & BELT! (totals up to $179.90)
Xiuyi: ROAR! I WANT MY WATCH & BAG! (totals up to $156.90)
*faints*
perfume hunting was CRAZEEE. absolutely MAD & DERANGED.



blogger is driving me nuts.
i can't upload ANY photos at all, so pictures will be up soon!

Friday, April 11, 2008

I GOT IT!



so, it's a typical HK comedy 皆大欢喜 kinda ending!
do you like it?

thank you to my two besties for your constant support, love, care, concern, encouragement and without you two wonderwalls, i would have crumbled.

met shunya at Serangoon MRT control and we headed to harbourfront.
BFF boarded the same train at outram! hahaha.
met jia xuan & audrey, bought bread at BreadTalk, then headed for Courts IQ store on level 2, and i was shocked to find it closed.
only to find out from Alan that the booth's already set up at the Atrium.
so we went down and bought breakfast for the poor Courts peeps & Lawrence from Vaio and then started doing set up.
ok, i'm sorry i was a little bit edgy, but y'know what! cuz everyone was introduced by MOI to this roadshow, of course i'm edgy when u all can't even differentiate those NORMAL three-pin-plugs that we normally use from those international-plugs right?
COMMON SENSE people.
like that how to entrust u all to sell the laptops?!

ahahaha.
anyway, it's been a long day.
good job everyone!

tmr, CHIONG AH!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

question mark

and so, Mr. Ng called me today, at an unearthly hour (at least for me) of 9:06am, where i was still happily deep asleep.
you see, Monday was Virus's "just-for-fun" chalet at Costa Sands Pasir Ris.
people invited were:
raphael, rara, hong xiang, ai hui, li hui, jia xuan, audrey and me.
we BBQ-ed and played games, and drank white wine & red wine for forfeits.
I had a dose too much of laughter, my sides hurt.
the games went on till wee hours of Tuesday morning, where we sang Happy Birthday Song for Jia Xuan at 12midnight.
after more games and some "talking" session, Jia Xuan went delirious and went around forcing people to drink Vodkha + 7up. ("because she's the birthday girl, everyone has to drink with her" quote xuan.)
having downed 2 cups before this and many forfeits, I was goner after another 2cups.
Hong Xiang was the most pitiful guy because Xuan was mad enough to serve him Vodkha neat.
ONE CUP. ALMOST FULL TO THE BRIM.

goner as in my world couldn't stop spinning and i really couldn't walk straight and i had a strange urge to go around hugging people (but thankfully i was still resilient enough to restrict myself from hugging anyone) and i was rather high and talking loudly and laughing sillily and i looked like i put 2 dose of blusher on the apples of my cheeks.
after loitering around the chalet and going in and out of the chalet, (i dno what i was doing but i just kept walking around) I went to the toilet and tried to puke but nothing came out.
just as i was washing my hands in the basin, everything lolled out of my mouth into the sink.
OOPS!
yes i'm the guilty culprit. i'm so sorry people i stinked up the toilet. and nobody knew who the culprit was.
stumbled up the stairs to the bedroom and i nearly crumbled jia xuan when i hugged her for support.
(funny i'm still so aware what i was doing. i just have no control but i'm VERY aware of what i was doing. )
slept on the matresses on the floor with Virus cuz there were no more "lots" on the 2 beds.
woke up at 930 am to find rara, li hui & ai hui already gone.
the rest woke up one by one and raphael was super high he made me laugh till my tears wet the pillow.

1035 we finally all crawled out of bed and washed up and cleared up & checked out at 1130.
cabbed home with hong xiang and i didn't sleep a wink till 12plus, which explains why i only woke up at 11 today.


alright, back to Mr. Ng.
he called again at 1136, when I was still lolling around in bed, unwilling to wake up..

mumbled, "Hello?"

"Hi is this Carmen?"

"Yes, speaking."

"Hi Carmen, this is Mr. Ng. Hmm, how are you?"

astounded, i blanked out. but thankfully this time my brain could revive on its own and said, "I'm fine?" (shd i have said thank you???)

"Ok, that's good. Have you received any letters from us? Letter of Notification?"

heart thumping, i replied, "No, I didn't receive any."

"Oh, ok. Earlier I asked the admin to send some things to you, but I guess they haven't. I think it's because they're very busy with the registrations going on."

"Oh, ok.." (i was wondering what's the "some things")

"Just want to check with you if you're being offered a place, would you take up the offer immediately?"

"Ya, of course."

"Ok then, I'll go and check with the admin side."

"Oh, ok. Thanks. Bye."

"Bye!"

funny it is, that after being aroused from my deep sleep, i "dreamt" of school reopen and my brother asking me why i didn't enroll the Dip. Plus.
and for fear that he would be disappointed in me, i tried to cook up some lame excuses to cover up.
and the ache was creeping up, eating me inside, but i pushed it back away and consoled myself that it was "no big deal". like what Claire and Mr. Ng said to comfort me, I can always take up similar courses outside SP.
and Mr. Ng called.
coincidence? fate? destiny? the play of God's hands?
the truth is, there was so much ambiguity in the phone call, i think i was only happy for about, a milisecond. make that nanosecond.
i think i've consoled and "hypnotised" myself so successfully, i've managed to lock it up in a treasure box somewhere deep down.
and all the work and activities i had kept me busy enough to forget about it.
only occasionally, would i be reminded of it, and then twinge in pain & guilt for awhile.
drowning myself in self-pity.
before i dry myself up and lock everything back in once again.

what lies ahead then?
is it a typical HK Comedy ending?
or a Korean you-cant-help-but-weep-soap ending?
i really don't know.
it's a big question mark.

don't tell me i got it.
because to me, from the conversation, it seems ambiguous.
there's no certainty there.
spare me from the pain of having my hopes and dreams dashed. again.

i will only tear with joy when i receive the letter.
that's my only guarantee chop.

working tomorrow at VIVOCITY! (to monk: read! VIVOCITY! i dare you to forget again.)
i'm so psyched because Virus said i'll be the most "senior" there and no full-timers are coming. Kinda scared though cuz i'm NO IT PRO.
another thing to be psyched about is that i'll be working with 4 other girlies:
jia xuan, audrey, shun ya and guess who? WONG XIUYI!
hahaha.
ok. better go sleep cuz we're supposed to report for work at blardy 930am!

Saturday, April 05, 2008

300

this is my 300th post!
am currently working for this online company, IMovators, as a freelance data entry / admin.
and i just caught the contact person, Patricia on TV. hahaha.
it was a coincidence because i was flicking through channels and i happen to see a re-run of Just Shoot on Channel U, which was on the issue of blogging and blogosphere.
Steven Lim, (yucks. i remember the last visit to his website was a tremendous torture to me, so think QUINCE before clicking.) Xiaxue and Patricia were the guests of that episode.

so after watching the show i went to visit Particia's blog, and tried this typing test and this is my results!
65 words

Speedtest



try it! it's quite fun and accurate.

after working one whole day yesterday, it really tested my typing patience.
i was just this close *thumb and index pinching together* to banging the keyboard.

Friday, April 04, 2008

uncertainties.

i NEED somewhere to write everything down.
ohMANN i need my ORGANISER desperately.
& i need to SMS tons of pple to confirm about anything & everything!

*find time to search for GOOD GEMs time slot in the midst of all these*
*and complete tedious research cum data entry by 6th which is SUNDAY! omg*

-friday:
morning go cut hair!
afternoon go shopping with aihui. yes no?
at night is m****** scout-ing. for the CHEAPEST one.

-saturday:
(abcdefg - shhh. secret!)
xuan's be-early bday bbq

-sunday
prawn mee "brunch" with nigus

-monday
meet lihui go sim lim yes no?
virus' chalet yes no?

-tuesday
monk's back in SG!
xuan's bday

-wednesday
ladies' night yes no?



and amidst all these, i still have lotsa things on my mind.
like...

shd i buy the Miss Sunshine tube?
http://cheez06.livejournal.com/37153.html
$26 is a little teeny bit ex? (in yaya's opinion)

shd i get the earphones?
http://community.livejournal.com/_spreee/2033574.html
i think the black with pink crystals would go so well with my tyty (iTouch)

shd i get these cute pens?
http://community.livejournal.com/spreehouse/1233400.html
i think i'm most probably getting them. 10pc set.

shd i get the stockings???
http://community.livejournal.com/_spreee/2043959.html
which colours? i'm thinking
scarlet red/dark fuschia/rose but i am having doubts if i'll ever wear them.
no more deep purple ):
i already have a pair of black.
how about royal blue? charcoal?
(-.-)

I WANT TO GET MY CRYSTALS!
http://community.livejournal.com/_spreee/2039247.html
they're CHEAAAP! quite a fair bit cheaper from buying at Arab Street.

but then..



I NEED MONEY LA.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

just photos. [edited]

been catching up on my sleep and watchin HEROES.
i'm almost done with the season 2.
I NEED SEASON 3!

Suntec's IT Finale Roadshow, fooling around with the TZ series' in-built camera..

long ago, at Bugis' Sakae

The Loof with Xuan

The Others at The Loof

Sunny Sunny Sunshine at Funan (:

xuan act emo

Buy Sony Vaio!

erm, sorry we weren't interested in the Courts guy. He just happened to be there. WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME.

Rara & Xuan

Me & Rara

Kbox after Kpool

look at the LOVELORN Raphael. He is so sick he keeps molesting Rara! *give you bleeding love!* (internal code haha)

very very tired us who were craving for VSOP.

finally, a nice picture with Li hui! (:

and a solo one with Ai Hui (:

Check this out!





Hello there, my love.
only slept for 4 hours before going to Da Sao's place to babysit this little fella. (which explains the horrible complexion & horrible dark circles & horrible eyebags)
HIS EXPRESSION IS SO ADORABLE LA. makes up for the horrible me in the picture.



i love my lumix.
but then! i think i need something better.
because its flaws is irritating me:
i.e. cannot take pictures without flash at dark places. when the viewing mode everything is perfectly visible, but once you press the shutter everything turns DARK. which annoys me tremendously.
and #2, even with flash, the flash-ed photo is not very nice either. (colour wise)
otherwise it is a pretty good camera. especially when taking group photos.
people from DHSCOGY shd know. HAHAHA!

I WANT MY SONY CYBERSHOT T300 larh!



[edited]
down with the blog bug.
just randomly feel like blogging.
maybe it's because i have no life and have been rotting my days away at home the past 2 days watching HEROES & surfing the net.
but yet i have NOTHING to blog about.
about my mundane life.
GEMs slot tmr GEMs slot tmr.
i still don't know what to choose.
i shall probably sleep EARLY tonight so I won't oversleep tmr morning..
my timeslot's 930-10! omg. den imma get ready & go out with ****.
and then meet nigus for dinner.

as you grow older, you think more.
*sigh*
i don't wanna grow older!
and i'm thinking ALOT lately.