old airport road was not so fantastic. the satay was. so was the very expensive onde onde. :)

fried chempedak and the camera that makes everything look absolutely scrumptious.zek do you see familiar faces? i love girlfriend time. pizza party and silly girl talk. where our movie plans went, i have no idea. :) my sunday was lovely. how was yours?

if i only had a head to blame. being at the science centre after idontevendarecountback to the last time i was there, it was fun. :) even if it meant being there at 8.30am and staying on till 2pm.

what i did on a cold rainy saturday morning. :) promises are not meant to be broken. why do you break them everytime.

this is what a typical late night supper looks like. :) i havent had my mushroom minced pork porridge in a bit. now it's a bit more atas- dried oyster braised peanut and mushroom porridge.

when mummy works on saturdays,beach road yong tau foo is what we'd have for lunch. :) i grew up eating this. except sometimes i dont eat it anymore. i just drink the soup. time of the month doesnt make my tummy too happy. and then there's the mandatory dessert. ah balling. i think ridiculous sounding names are profitable :) mummy wanted belgium waffles today. it's crazy. they have a facebook account. hahaha. creative communication indeed.

daddy says: tummy hurts, but can eat tsp? i say: uh huh :)wouldn't you like one too? :)

so i stayed on in sch after class to wait for my friend to give me a ride out of no man's land. he was heading for northpoint so the alpha male and 4 females happily trooped along to his car and off we went! and i'm glad i did. it was pouring. TORRENTIAL rains. the thing abt staying to wait for him is that staying on campus to wait is a torture. a big torture. but today. i just didnt feel like squashing with ppl on the bus, the train. i was feeling antisocial. and kinda mean. or basically just lethargic. and grumpy. or maybe all of the above. and hungry. so i walked over to ntu to grav a cheeseburger to munch on while waiting (which explains how i am getting so fat even if i jog on weekends. such a tragedy.) love the jam, love the rain. love everything when i can doze off to sleep in the car. it took us 45 minutes to get to yishun. where i waddled through a flooded interchange and waited for a good 15 minutes before 855 came. thennnn. that starts my girlfriend night. :) we had dinner at a nondescript chinese eating place at casuarina that serves pretty decent food. yum. and because all 3 of us were brain dead from work/school, we sat immobile in the car for a good 15 minutes deciding where dessert should be. a few mad turns, a few spontaneous drive-thru traffic lights later, we ended up at the gardens. for haaaaaato. i needed a bit of heart in my life. right now i think i could possibly become stone. or am i already. black sesame/ soursop, hazelnut/lychee made our night :) girlfriend nights out aren't ever a waste of time. but sometimes, i just wish relationships weren't always the topic of choice. there're things you know you just aren't good at :)

timeout. being in sch at 740am, rushing assignment submissions till 1pm. running away from lectures. first time ever this term. okay minus the dive trip one :) you know it's bad when you start whacking your head against glass panels on the train, people next to you who look at your pointedly (i suppose i must've tilted my head dangerously close) and yawning every second. somehow sleep was never comforting for me. i think having my hair ruffled is comforting. i think being alone is comforting. i think reading the Word is comforting. but i know i need sleep. and i will go crash now :) keep at the assignments. i'm praying for each and every single one of you whom i love wery much. :)

so i had my morning run :) no faster no slower. i think we're clocking about the same time here. i didn't walk! but i jogged realllly slowly. human traffic and improper shoes. i can do something about the latter. which i will. in due course. we had lunch at beach road. yong tau foo soup and sugarcane was a comfort to the tummy on a rainy day. i like being sheltered. :) daddy and lil bro weren't so lucky though. they were caught in the rain while fishing. they came by beach road to get me and i had time for a lil nap before they wanted lunch. say hello to the family's fave chicken rice stall. freshly fried roasted chicken. complete with yummylicious chilli and tasty soup. mmm. sorry i'm not a fan of chicken rice-rice. heh. but the rice is good too. of course ;)

by the time lunch was over, i was all ready to concuss in bed. which i did. since i had to prove worthy for my second career option in the hawker centre. i cooked beehoon for 30 people. a-mazing. and everyone liked it :) the food was not lacking. in fact, it was wayy too much. a billion otahs, hotdogs, chicken wings, satays, prawns and no a billion is not because my math leaves much to be desired. it's a ballpark estimate that's pretty darn near the truth. hahaha. then there's grandma's two pots of potent chicken curry and aunt-in-law's gorgeous glutinous rice.

okay so i like taking photos. i just really like saturdays. for some reason or other. :) how was yours?

what jakarta has that we don't. that's 1 1/2 doz of glazed krispy kremes for my family, a doz for my aunt and 2 1/2 doz at grandma's. you know it's a krispy kreme when even after 2 days in the fridge, it's still got it's original chewiness. how do they do it? *shrugs

so what did i do on a bright and early saturday morning? it's been a while. a very long while taking that route. but i'm glad i did. and all by myself too :) the feeling's strange. like scary lonely jogging alone. but then when the voice of God sets in, the feelings of peace and calmness immediately take over. that's when i love being alone. it's inexplicable. and one of the main reasons why i've fallen in love with diving. it's hearing just you yourself. no one else. :) that's one of mummy's biggest worries too. :/ so i took forever on the route. it's embarrassing to say the least. but for someone who clocks zero km on a daily basis, this jogging thing was a shock to my poor system. hahaha. well, i'm alive and in one piece :)

that's not water droplets on my skin. but it's water droplets underneath my skin. i'm still in the process of peeling. so like my classmate says. it's really as if you've never been sunburnt before. well, on the contrary, i have. just never this bad and neither have i ever gone jogging after being sunburnt. it was icky. like chickenpox. but it comes off easy. just scratch and peeeeeel. i like exfoliating in a tangible way but let's not get too carried away. :)
and so after that we had our dim sum lunch. :) mmmm. i like. morning runs and dim sum days. wanton mee mummy bought for my breakfast without knowning i was going for my run. chicken wings were for dinner at toa payoh and i came home to shower after my run to start cooking lunch for the family. yong tau foo soup's my specialty- yellow soy beans, wolfberries and ikan bilis. nutritional goodness :)

yesterday was a special girl's birthday. :) it was so special. that there was a power trip in the kitchen at timbre. hahahah. live music was good. with good company- even better :) and it gives ample opportunity to just keep quiet and soak in the music. which could be deafening sometimes. almost as deafening as silence. i felt terrible. leaving my brother at home to prepare for the psle while i stayed out. but like my twin said, i have to live my own life. i can't be there each and every single step of the way. although i really wish i could. she's telepathic. i didn't say anything and i was normal in answering her. but she still knew. :) thank God for you girlfriend.

the birthday girl and i. with her pretty pink bag :) she's happy. can you tell? and then it's all worth it. :)

my heart stopped today. literally. the lil brother who is TOO stressed out by the exams, forgot to shade in his optical answer sheet. not one, not two, not three qns. but ALL the questions. i almost fainted. i was too stunned to react. i'm pretty sure my heart reacted on my behalf. i held my breath for what felt like forever then got round to calling up the sch. the general office, the staffroom, the HODs. and i still had classes to attend. when i stepped into the shower, i cried. all the things that went thru my mind... none of them were good. and i prayed. hard. very hard. but thank goodness, he has good teachers at school who bother. his discipline master rushed down to the exams board to find out what could be done. and he called to inform me that the relevant examining authorities will do the necessary and extract his answers from the booklet instead. yes, thank God that the brother wrote his answers SOMEwhere. well that was my day. too much in one day. mummy suffered insults and injustice at work. customer service. this is as bad as it ever gets.

the mid autumn i missed out on. :(and in other news:

assembling the lasagne

preparing the carbonara sauce

and eating it :)

tuesdays are? my aunt's off days. which explains why. we get to have kitchen fun. that's what we call family bonding.

the woman behind yummy sui gao soup :)

my grandmama.

tuesdays are? the best days of the week. except. that i'm only home at 4.30pm most tuesdays. except for today. and i love it. absolutely love it. what was in the kitchen? there's bubble milk tea, minced chicken lasagne, chicken mushroom carbonara, dumpling soup. should i go on further? :) it's soooo fun. loving it. honestly. and hey, it might have something to do with you too. :)

happy children's day :) i'm the candyland girl. have a go at the turn knob. and have more than just a piece of chocolate :) it's a brilliant children's day. in more ways than just candy. i couldn't help finish all the chocolate. the knob is addictive. sch's still the same. assignments aplenty. but this just made everything better. colors. i need colors. and i love your masterpiece. :)

and for all the days of my childhood with the sharity elephant newsletter, and sharity bandung ice creams, i finally got my chance for a polaroid moment. as an event organizer/ helper :) it was a lovely saturday. doing good to others is doing good for my soul. :)

and not just sharity, but the girl who's leaving for uk tmrw and the original indochine ppl. the boy who says okay to everything i bring up. soon we'll be doing dives together. i'm pretty sure of that :) and for the family who's behind me every step of the way. whampoa dinners and hokkien mee. something i'll never grow out of. when being a grown up gets hard, revisit the days when growing up was fun :)

nemo! :)

haven't been this tanned since. gb days? :) thank goodness with some amazing conditioner, my hair is salvaged from turning into grass. hahaha.

and because we have a million assignments due (and i know my math is a little terrible) to be exact, there's like 9 due in less than a month. and it's the exact that scares me. :/ so when there's too much work to do, where do we go? our favourite essential brew. :) rosebud tea, honey mustard chicken and baskets of snacks make work that much more bearable. and the worst part about it? it was the mid autumn festival and i wasn't home to see the lighting of lanterns. sigh. and this is what they call growing up.

postcard perfect.

the boys i insured myself against. hahaha. the boys i love for many reasons. definitely not for nagging at me about sandy feet though.

and the most important thing on the trip. for the both of us. :) my happy cute buddy. and the girls. the two young sweet naive ones and the relatively older ones. not that it's a bad thing. in general, they are the second most important people on the trip. :)and then there's the third. but really. not in any order of preference. since it's a group. we dive and we surface as a group. -most of the time- nothing life threatening happened. but seeing a problem with my equipment and not telling me till something really happened is just erm. bad. i cannot believe after having faulty equipment and subsequently causing me to miss a dive, someone'd actually happily say, yeah i saw tiny bubbles from her hose on the second dive already. roar. hahaha. well. there's always the good and the bad. you can't have it all at once.
and i'm just ending here. not cause i'm fuming. but cos it's 2am. :) and hello there is school tmrw. i still have my brain in check. i just need to tell my heart to listen to my head tell me to behave at school tmrw. hahaha. it's hard to leave when something tells you the time away didn't really work out the way i planned. there's things you just can't leave behind. and honestly. not that i want to :)

eat. sleep. dive.

these images are precious. about being truly genuine. i speak on part of my family. and 99.9% of the time you know they say what they mean, mean what they say. of course this would apply for both the good and the bad- positive and negative. i guess i wouldn't want to have it any other way. can you see mummy's eyes and mine? they look exactly the same when we scrunch our faces up. hahaha. :) so what made the family so happy? must be some semblance of food. happy tummies, happy people. so papa yeo went to batam for a day to check out some shipyard. and he texted me at class to ask what flavours of donuts we'd like! these jco donuts are a subsidiary of breadtalk and i have no slightest idea why they arent yet in singapore. but these are good stuff. chewy, light, and can you believe? not too sweet. :) just stay away from cream filled ones if you definitely dont appreciate the sweet. so i like most flavours, but my favourite yet- is tiramisu :) those are my bite marks. heh. hello deeelicious donuts.

so the sch week has passed in a blur and i'm already at the tail end of it. this morning was the first time i was late for classes this term. i think i'd get marks cut off for professional attitude. i was professional ok. i was early. my friend wasn't. the silly boy was still high from last night. but he was nice enough to bring me to sch. albeit a lil late. while he fell asleep in the car after and missed his classes this morning. hahaha. well. as long as i dont get letters from the fp office telling me about pay cuts. that would be ridiculous. like hello? the sch is in no man's land. even if i wanted to race to class, it'd take a while to actually get INTO campus from the main roads. i just wanted to make noise can you tell? hhaha. whee. diving this friday. 4 men room with just me and the two boys. i am NOT a man. they ought to have an optional loading on travel insurance for dubious roommates. hahaha. life's pretty awesome. but really. i'm still the same girl you knew. the same girl who loves you. :)

the wedding event of the year :) for now at least. we did what we could. and it was all good! the happy couple that makes me just wanna go aww. it's times like these when i wish i had a little romance in my life. :)

in as much as we made noise about being on the groom's side of the wedding, i think i speak for all of us when i say we had fun. and the thing about actually doing work-to put up the deco which wouldnt be possible without the amazing jas, having the best super-tired man ben, it made us all the more proud to be on rhys' guest list. efficient hard manual labourers transformed to smart looking boys and pretty princesses in literally a snap of the fingers. it would've been better if the girlfriends on ping's side were more forthcoming and rated higher on EQ scores but there was enough of us to do what we needed to do. and there's nothing like sitting around and hanging out. even zoning out. comfortable silences. the inexplicable type that you know you're cared for. even though i was tired. and i asked to be pinched to be reminded to smile (no one did that thank goodness). it was a good night out. it was a day well spent. and it's these kinds of things that you see and know for sure that there'd people looking out for you and doing everything they can possibly do for you. all you have to do is ask. or in this case. don't even ask. just agree and be stress-free :) whee! and in other pressing news: my 'healthy' tan looks positively hideous. hahaha.and nope i didn't rush home to finish my assignment. clar, andrew and i had supper at thomson prata house. hahaha. there was mee goreng, chicken masala, chicken murtabak and ice cream prata?! hahaha. and i'd do this again. anytime. :) erm. soon i mean. two weeks on a wed night aye!