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* Monday, May 19, 2008 *

the past few days since i came back from melbourne.

everyone who met me online or in person would ask only 2 questions:

"how's ur australia trip!"
"starting work very soon horz? how u feeling abt it?"

australia trip was fantastic, to say the least... i've got really really good company with me for the whole 8 days... =))

i'll blog abt it soon okay! complete with itinery and loads of photos! SOON! by soon, i prob meant weekend lar. haha... i didnt noe so many ppl are interested in my melbourne trip.

i'm starting work TOMORROW! as of tml, i am officially not a student anymore. and my evil frens are all gleeful abt it, esp those frens who are in YEAR 3.
NEXT YEAR I WILL LAUGH AT ALL OF YOU. wahhaha... =P

anyway tml's first day of work and i'm damn freaking nervous and scared. and tat's prob an understatement. i noe i've been complaining alot abt starting work, but somehow everytime i complain and whine on my blog, typing everything out, it makes me feel much better. soo wat the heck.

i juz hope i get great great colleagues! hee...

speaking of colleagues, something absurd happened juz now. this guy from my company asked me out for an after-work movie tml, even before i start work -_-'''

it's a long story how come he got to noe me. i juz hope he dun come lookin for me tml on my first day, coz it'll make me damn pai seh.

ANYWAYS! i bought a blazer for S$39 juz now!!!! and mind you, it's a freaking nice one okay!
everywhere's on sale, and i'm so broke after aussie trip. all the humongous red "SALE" signs are screaming at me, and killing me.

i haf officially S$80 in my bank, aft aussie trip and donating money to the china earthquake so i'm poorer den any of u out there. -_-''

speaking of the china earthquake, i've got lots of things to say abt it, but i've decided to keep everythin to myself, coz it's sad enuff reading abt it in newspapers and seeing the photos, and there's no need to add to the sadness with words.

i'll say, optimism and faith will bring everyone thru this. =)

wish me luck for work tml!

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* Saturday, May 17, 2008 *

I'm back from lovely cooling Melbourne. and it has been a fantastic 8-days trip with lester, complete with a cosy beautifully-furnished hostel, scouring around for good food and whining to each other how poor we have become after each meal, meeting up with his frens in melbourne and getting nice deserty treats, drinking at pubs complete with nice american/australian music and cheap CHEAP beers which totally reminds me of USA, shopping for cosmetics clothes comics and watnots, and of coz some really sweet alone time with him =)

i had a hate-hate relationship with the weather in melbourne, tho the weather is usually the primary reason why ppl love to go there, but i have an EXTREMELY low tolerance for cold and i absolutely loves the sun. but this relationship is turning into a love-love relationship after last nite when i came back home and were absolutely sweating and had to shower twice in the span of a few hrs. -_-'''

now that i'm back in spore, i feel lost and disoriented, with the impending frighteningly near date of my first day at work - 20th May 2008.

it's scary and it felt like i've got tons of things to do and settle, and as u can see, i'm definitely not getting down to it yet.

lester says i worry too much, which i think is true but i cant help it. it's a whole new environment, with NO ONE i already know working inside, or even entering the company together with me. NO ONE. frens are surprised when i say this coz i think they always assume it was easy for me, but i absolutely HATE the process of making new frens. i love HAVING new frens of coz, but i juz hate the process. ditto.

i kept thinking wat if the ppl inside are on totally diff freqs as me?
wat if my manager or my colleagues dun like me?
wat if i cant find anyone to eat lunch tgt with me?
wat if i make so much mistakes on my job during the first month tat they fire me?
wat if i dun even have a clue on how to go abt doing my job?
wat if all those above make me lose my self-confidence and self-esteem so much i become quiet?

see... the list can go on and on. and i'm so ready to tear every single strand of hair out of my head now. -_-''

and i dun have enuff working clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! arghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i kept wanting to go work for 1 week to take a look at how formal/casual the ppl inside dress before i decide wat kinda working clothes i shd buy so tat i dun dress too formally/casually... and now i realise i dun haf enuff working clothes to last me 1 week, unless of coz i go work in a mini-skirt and blazer, which of coz my boss will prob kill me. and oh wait... i dun haf a blazer. ROARSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

it's like a totally new phase of life, and reading the blogs of my frens who haf already been working for 1 year doesnt help either. coz all i see is whinings and complainings and grumblings and unhappiness and frustration and exhaustion, that it makes me feel pessimistic abt work even before i started on it.

arghhh!

several things i've to settle b4 the horrid start of my new life:

1) urine test for the medical checkup for the company
2) rearrange my wardrobe and give away clothes tat i have worn for eons, coz my wardrobe is abt to collapse.
3) spring-cleaned my room and study table which totally looked like war zones and i cant find my stuff!
4) take up savings plan before i proceed to spend every single penny i have to my name.
5) book the bloody driving lessons for the next few months before those kiasu singaporeans take every single slot of weekends away
6) meet up with the various frens who have smsed me today to meet up and i promised to
7) change the sizes for the grad gown i've ordered coz apparently i'm not as big as i think i am wahahha
8) not eat for a month to compensate for the weight i've put on in the past 8 days in melbourne
9) sit down and meditate to prepare myself for the upcoming working life

and of coz i'll blog abt the MELBOURNE TRIP soon! =D

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* Friday, May 9, 2008 *

Went to meet the Rolex ppl for Chongqing Huo Guo for dinner!

somehow, i love that steamboat place alot, and i dun even noe why. its good to say the least, but not exactly the best. their peanut sauce is superb tho!

we ate and talked for near 2 hrs, and it's so superb. the only reason why i love buffets soooo much, besides the fact tat u juz need to pay a certain amt and u can eat as much as u want, is tat u can stay so long in the restaurant juz eating and chatting with ur frens. it juz feels so good. =)

and it was nice meeting up with them aft so long, and esp on the day before me and les flies off.

ching, yew lee, jun and me went to a pub (i forgot the name -_-) along millenia walk for drinks, and i love the place! their decor is really nice and there was a band playing at tat time.





that's the stage which is juz above the bar counter.

the place is brimming with working adults, and i think we were the youngest there haha... or at least, we looked the youngest there.

bought 2 0.5L of beer to share. and tho the prices are a tad steep, their housepours are really nice!



ching with her cheeks and beer haha



yew lee and ching and the 2 0.5L beer we ordered!



the gers =))


we had a mini gers talk in the toilet, which made me feel a tad better aft tat. so thanks!!!! let's meet up one day without the guys and go tanning in sentosa! haha...



jun and the yew lee, who's ever trying to be funny haha



us and our boyfrens who were not there (haha!)



all of us (minus lester and wilson)


speaking of wilson, hope ur knee gets better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hurry recover it so tat u can go taiwan and havoc next week haha...

flying off in 19hrs! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

i nearly forgot aust has krispy kreme until lester mentioned tat day.

so yaaaaaaaaaayssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!! here i come, krispy kremes! and kangaroos! and cold cold weather! brrrrrr...

AND! i'll take loads of photos of the inside of terminal 3, which i bet many many many of u haven visited! not terminal 3, but the INSIDE of terminal 3. u noe, the area where u need an air ticket to enter? wahhahaha... i'm so excited to take SIA and fly fr terminal 3. wheeeeeeeee!

and during the last 5 days since the last day of exams, i've been doing the following!

1) clubbing
2) sentosa
3) mahjong
4) KTV-ing
5) watching movies
6) meeting up with frens for dinner
7) pubbing
8) eating stingrays
9) eating Jap food
10) eating ma la huo guo

so basically i squeezed everything i wanted to do in the whole entire holiday into 5 days and i'm a happy happy ger now! all ready for AUSSSSSSIIIIIEEEE! =)

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* Thursday, May 8, 2008 *

6th May was lester's last day of exams.

like, finally!!!!!!! okie lar, i noe there are ppl still having exams now actually, but considering how i onli haf 2 papers and i end on 3rd, 6th still sound pretty late to me haha...

anyway! tat was oso the day when i ended all my tuitions! for GOOD. (except for one, which i'm goin to try to continue teaching even when i start work, to fund my pretty pretty clothes and shoes and bags. wahahha)

anyway, we went to the Jap restaurant place at Raffles Shopping Centre called Shokudo! it has the same concept as Marche, except all the food inside is Jap-style (duh!).





i like their decor! it's pretty pretty pretty and kinda zen-ish too.

we went at near 9pm on a weekday, so there werent many ppl there, which is good coz the food gets ready really fast den!



salmon sashimi :: raw salmon maki



salmon with onions egg omelette :: teriyaki tofu steak



grilled prawns wrapped in bacon, and teriyaki grilled squid :: grilled eel with asparagus and cheese pizza


we spent abt $25 per person and it's so worth it can! the food is how good, and despite them looking like they cant even fill one person's stomach, we were both damn bloated aft the meal.

wah lao looking at the photos make me hungry lar...

we watched IRON MAN! i think everyone has raved enuff abt it, so i'm not goin to do it again. bottomline: WATCH IT!

i love marvel movies coz they're action packed, and yet not overdoing it, coz they always have a dash of humor and a dash of romance all thrown in together, coz their plot is always fantastic.

so this is no exception =)
and according to lester, the marvel geek (hee), this is the best marvel movie he has watched. so u all better watch it. hahaha...

we took a walk around esplanade. have i ever mentioned how much i love tat place, and how beautiful i always think it is? it looked even more beautiful at nite without ppl crowding tat place and polluting it with their cigarettes.





okie, i noe my eye bags are huge and supadupa obvious. i'm goin to buy tat bioessence eyelift or watever it's called. SOON.

we went ard wanting to find a place to drink to celeb his end of exams, but even Harry's at esplanade was sooooo quiet. i haven been out on a weekday nite till so late for a long time, i almost forgot there's no nite life during weekdays.

anyway we finally found Kim Gary Hong Kong Cafe still open at 1plus am! lifesaver.



mango shaved ice!


it's soooo humongous and sooo nice! it was nicer den i tot it'll be =)

the whole cafe was nearly empty by the time we finish tat tower. we started taking stoopid photos and lookin really idiotic coz some of the waiters were starin at us -_-


XI



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and a normal one


and he said my eyes are so small and i look so tired and haggard. so here u go.



bigger eyes!


went back to his hall and planned our melbourne trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm flying in exactly 19hrs and 30mins!

and guess wat! i'm taking SIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wah lao, it's a big deal to me can. i've always wanted to take SIA since i was young, and i onli managed to do so now, at age 22. and my frens are all callin me sua gu... -_-

and nope, me and les are not rich. we're poor as paupers. but somehow at the time when we were goin to book the air tix (which was really late, we booked during reading week), SIA came up with this superb promotion where each tix to melbourne cost S$1000 nett to and fro.

and THAT makes it the cheapest airflight to melbourne, yes cheaper den Quantas. and yes cheaper den if we had booked during Natas. so yay!

and it's flying off fr terminal 3! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! i've nvr been there either.

i cant wait! to spend 8 freaking awesome days with you and only you. =)

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KBOX-ing today with siyong and gang at clementi. i haven been to Ktv since eons eons ago. i dun even noe any of the new songs tat came out lor. -_-

we photowhored alot aft i took out my camera, which was a mistake. coz wilson THAM wei zheng cant STOP playing with it, and taking zi lian photos. wahahha...




the gers! cai, zhi yi, me!


and more photos...






den they started playing with the "Smile Shutter" function in my camera. how it works is, u juz had to activate it. and everytime someone smiles to the lens, it'll automatically snap a shot of the person WITHOUT having to press ANY button.

i tot it was an old technology alr... but they so sua gu like nvr see before liddat haha...









the whole ktv session was so funny i had no voice at the end of it. coz i laughed too much -_-



all of us!


AH YONG! organise cycling when i come back! yaaays! =))

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exams are over. uni life is over. schooling life is over.

and i'm no longer a student.

and i can tell you, tat i'm more more upset den i look, and i'm more more upset den i let on.

school life gave me so much, and i'm not talking abt academically. i'm talking abt emotionally and mentally. it helped me grow, it taught me so much more stuff outside the classroom. it brought all these wonderful frens to me. it brought lester to me. and i've experienced soooo much from schooling.

i think i missed it so much becoz i've done so much non-academic related stuff, and those are the stuff i'm missing and will miss alot.

i feel kinda disconnected now. it's like suddenly i'm being thrown into a new life tat i dun even noe how to begin. i dun really noe how to explain it, but it's sort of like a disorientated kinda feeling.

i see some frens hopping and jumping for joy the moment they're no longer a student, coz they cant wait to go out and work. and seriously, i cant really relate to tat kind of joy. u noe how some ppl say, u'll really noe how to live when u start work, coz den u can plan everything in ur life and how u wan it to be like.

but to me, i've learnt how to live when i was schooling.

CCAs taught me alot, be it in sec sch or JC, and esp in Uni. I've organised a camp for guides, campfires, taken part in numerous of them in other sec schs and tried tgt with my frens to be the most enthu company there so tat we can win the "most supportive company", i've participated in sch dance competitions, won it and performed with my class for Teachers' Day. i've organised a bash, an orientation camp, an orientation week, a big scale bazaar, a Rag-n-Flag and a pageant. I've been to USA, and lived and worked there for 3 full months, with no strings attached, but holding onto the sole purpose of juz experiencing life outside my comfort zone, living life independently and tryin to integrate into the social circle of the Americans.

will you be able to do all those when u start work?

i dun think so.

as wonderful as they are, sometimes it's hard to let go. esp when u noe u'll NEVER EVER get those days back (unless, of coz, i find some mystical pill tat allows me to go back in time when i swallow it).

but AT LEAST i have those memories. and i'm glad i do. becoz it's so easy to juz be aloof and heck care and lazy, and juz not take part in all these and not have to try to make new frens everytime u get into a new comm, but study all day and all night. and i'm glad, i didnt choose the easy way out.

who says CCAs are not impt?

i say they are the most impt thing in my whole schooling life. and they make who i am today, tgt with the frens that i make thru them. and as much as some ppl think CCAs are useless in finding a job, and tat employers onli look at degree, well, i found mine thru CCAs only (coz my grades are like how CUI).

and tat kinda summarised my 16 years of school life.

wonderful frens. superb CCAs. emotional and mental growth. and a bunchful of great memories to last me for a lifetime, or more. =))

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on a sidenote! i'm flying off to melbourne on 9th may 2008! which is EXACTLY 1 year after the day we flew off to USA (9th May 2007!).

gosh. i damn freaking miss USA. i damn freaking miss it.

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