how to make instant pasta look... i was really stressed this morning at 2.30am and this was what i had. :) i needed something hot, cheesy and absolutely erm. motivational. hahah. san remo's pasta. mmm-mmm. too many assignments too lil time. and then there's dive homework to be completed too. whatever did i get myself into this time. hahaha. and because i had to go pick up my dive homework, we had lunch at outram. the sense of familiarity was too close for comfort. we ate there when you had to leave for your dive trip. and this is why when the pedagogical principles underlying the teaching of children emphasize on schemas, i wonder if schemas always prove as useful as they ought to be. as if everything gets easier when they're organized as a collection of specific events or facts that are related to one another in a meaningful way.

i have not ordered char siew rice on my own at a hawker centre. like there are just certain food items i just don't ever order on my own. i'm a boring girl, i like my porridge, mee hoon kuey and hokkien mee and the occassional hor fun. my little brother and his kwey pie tee. :) what would i do without them. i don't go out on saturdays anymore. mummy says. i do. with family :)

just because my aunt was on leave, mummy took leave too. and asked daddy to apply for leave as well. so on a weekday when everyone takes leave? out of the country we must go! mm. the tower of dim sum we had on a wednesday morning. not me. i like looking at big baos. i even like to nibble at them. i just dont like to consume them all by myself. that's probably the issue with most foods. it's a bad thing. to want to share. 'cos what happens when you don't have someone to share with. so it was a day of shopping. and approval for exciting diving plans. hahaha. *hops. daddy loves me. so does mummy. and i'm thankful that every year for the past two years, i've been allowed to leave on a whim. sometimes. you just need to. and my parents understand that. they just try hard to make allowances to understand it :) i'm always scared when i leave alone. but it's the leaving part. it progressively gets better from then on. hopefully this time it will too! and after the brother got home from his visit to four farms with the school, i left for bible study at church. therapeutic. everytime. and i'm thankful. but i also feel bad. for putting my mentor out like that. :/ then i ran off for dinner. helllllo girlfriends! :) yongs and eve love the sushi place. it's really quiet. and the food's decent. decent to yummy. mmm. and we even had time for dessert. red bean ice tower? or some random name. it's basically red bean milkshake. and it's goood! zek remember this? it's at the hongkong cafe along the novena stretch. let's go back there to get it when you come home!

and all that made me a happy girl on wednesday :) more of this please.

today i finally got down to sewing my new quiet time notebook :) if only hearts were so easily sewn into a whole. to dive or not to dive. that is the question. everyone's on leave tmrw! :)

Technically no school this week because it's e-learning week. and the posters say keep off campus! but. i have a class on thurs. just because they can't seem to make up their mind about their silly initiatives. so hello to a truckload of assignments due the week after. i've completed one and there's too many more to go. so on sunday i cooked dinner. main service was ironically long this week. and i had to get myself to park mall to let my girlfriend try her wedding dress. then it was lunch/ tunch with the church people at cafe cartel. :) it's been a while since i had the viking and the rock. and it was good! it always is. when you're sharing with people :) andrew martha melvin. and then there's the rest of the long table with the other 9 people. hahah. i got home at 5.45. went to bed till 630pm and got up to cook. i am a sleepy chef. but i do not compromise on quality of my food! so it was fried beehoon and yong tau foo soup. the beehoon has stewed pork, luncheon meat, baby bok choy and 6 fried eggs to one and a half packets of beehoon. hahaha. and then there's yong tau foo with well, the usual stuffs. daddy liked dinner. :) and that's important. since he's the one who's not so well and ought to be watching his diet. even mummy had a second helping :) and the brothers? oh they had two to three helpings. hahaha. that made my sunday. :) how did your sunday go? :)

lunch made me a happy girl. i'm uniquely singaporean. i do -not- shy away from queues. erm. not this one anyway. porridge and raw fish worth every bit of the wait :) and the hum chim pangs. remember waiting forty five mins for these?

and then we trooped over to choose our photos from the studio shoot a while back. because my daddy has too happy a smile here, his eyes are too tiny. :) my cute happy papa yeo. i'm not a smart girl. but dragging myself through 4 years just to see them proud of me, if only for a moment. is more than enough for me. :)

and because i am who i am, i'm happy to present to you an unglam photo of me. just so happened that the chicken wing was on the wrong side of the cheek. like my face isn't fat enough to begin with, i positively look like a pau here! ahhaha. oh well. whatever it takes to taste juicy bbq chicken wings. :) and because the hokkien mee stall auntie loves me, she shows it with the amount of chilli she gives. hahaha. it's actually to be shared between two plates with my mummy. that's some good peanut chilli. it's yummy without being too overly spicy. and it complements the taste of the noodles. mmm. family saturdays.

and because i know God cares for me. he sent gabriel home for a while. just so that things would be easier to handle :) so say hello to the boy who's taken up the past two friday nights and mornings till 2 am. last week was just a 3 and half hours of dim sum and dessert for a year's worth of you and i. tonight was an hour and a half? we're nice. we share our company. haha. and it was good! hanging out with cellgroup. my first time at al-ameen. yes. first. haha. numero uno. just because i dont live in the up class west side la. but that will not be the last time i'm going back. chicken tikka masala was mmmmm-mmm! :) the butter naan was like THE worse naan ever. like well. dough. oily dough. oily uncooked dough. that looked cooked. and oily. made my point? enough about that. and i had a horlicks dinosaur. i -heart- horlicks! :) horlickosaur. what an appetizing namesake :) the sharing tonight by a lovely man JP was inspiring. innovative. revolutionary. simplicity and risk. try it. for all the what ifs you never know you're gonna hit on the nail. and having been conferred the status of immortality. protect those who haven't heard. and protect them for all you're worth. cos if you've got Jesus Christ behind you on this. the worst case scenario is that you're getting a short-cut ticket into heaven :) not the gospel of salvation. but the gospel of the kingdom. fridays always work out good in the end. very very well in fact :)

today i had no school. but today, i still went to school. which is a feat, well, more than. considering that school is nearer to the neighbouring country than to my home. and i digress. so i was saying, i went to school today. and... i baked! :) i baked one cake and refrigerated the other. so that's not just one, but two cakes that i made today! it's not home economics. it's food and consumer science. whatever the name is. that is the place that i wanted to be! i think? well. grass always looks greener on the other side. hello chocolate mud cake and chilled oreo cheesecake. they aren't the prettiest sounding/looking cakes around but they both reminded me of you. :)

... after 3 hours of messing about in the lab (yes, it is a lab. didn't you notice those hairnets!) :)

and just because i havent had dinner at home properly for a while - stir fried chinese cabbage and baby shrimps, braised lean pork, pankofried chicken drumlets, steamed fish and tofu :) yummm.

so i went to school to take my ten mark test today. i had classmates who were freaking out about failing. and they are older than i. sigh. i guess failure gets harder to deal with age. and so that was that. it was a lovely cold stormy day. good for bad skin like mine that can't take the heat. and then there was english class. guess what the book of the day was? the ITCHY witch. omg. i almost fell off my chair. i sat there huddled in my scarf. and had the greatest urge to excuse myself from the lesson. but i stayed on. and i even read along! scritch - scratch - scritch. hahaha. hilarious really. and i thank God for providence. :) at the end of the day, i really just want someone to ruffle my head and tell me it's all gonna be okay.

it has to be bad if i'm capable of getting a two day mc. i'm diseased. head to toe. bottom of sole. hey. that rhymes :) i discover the rash in never seen before places every single day. so the predicament is bad. and waiting to be referred to the national skin centre. oh if i am to be afflicted for the rest of my life. :/ an unwanted rag doll. prayers for healing please.

this is me looking like i need lots of sleep. at the airport. waiting to entertain my cousins who're on transit from surabaya back to LA. couldn't play taboo at church. sigh. i should've just stayed. since my cousins took forever to come out from immigration. and erm. it's a warning. but dont be reading this while eating or while planning to eat.

i'm having urticaria. twice already in this week. and it's way worse than this. but this is just the beginning parts. and it's all over me. like erm. on my ears and face. not just the legs and body. sigh. please pray. thanks :) let me know if this is too scary. i'll remove it.

so that's my lovely harrods bag that i went shopping for. latest arrival, idyllic cottage picnic landscape that i sorely long for. failing which, i will just take sushi as a happy substitute. this is sushi date #3 in two days. and sushi date #5 in 12 days. an average consumption of sushi almost every -other- day. i want to move to japan. so anyway, that's my lovely girlfriend, without whom i would fail all my evening modules at nus. she offers me her bed and her snacks. i heart her very much :) over 14 plates of sushi and two sides, we had our happy mad conversations as always. :) the world is small. her mad girlfriend is my mad girlfriend at nie now! lol. there are just some people that you can just click with. well. some people even if you feel like you know them inside out, can become totally different people if they choose to. :/ gabriel came with me for cell tonight. and i liked having him back. cell's still the same people, same problems. over a supper of dim sum and mango dessert, we caught up on the past year that we missed out on in each other's lives. i'm no longer his aunt agony, he's growing up and he's learning lots on his own. but there are still some things, he's still insecure about. think long term and i'm pretty sure he can see things in a crystal clear way. but there are things, you'd rather just have them for the moment if not for eternity. i advise better than i take my own advice. but i'm learning aye. and my prayer is for healing for you tonight. :) bless,

so on monday i was a diseased girl. urticaria. the worst ever. it was really scary. but having settled that, i was back at fish and co. on thurs night. so let's start over. the problem about having just one free day in a week- which will cease to exist from next week onwards, is that everything has to be done on that free day. so this thursday's agenda was: haircut, lunch with gf, bible study, dental, shopping and dinner. and in between there was supposed to be time to breathe. but btw the haircut and dental, there were no times when i wasn't rushing to the next item on the agenda. :/ i left the house at 930 for my haircut at 10am. but because i was dreaming, i missed the bus and had to wait for the next one which took forever but there were no cabs in sight for the longest time. so my haircut lasted from 1030 till 1pm. i really have the most perfect hairstyle in the world. we're speaking proportion and length symmetry. the style itself is like crap. oops. hahaha. well. he spent lots of time on me. i shouldnt be mean. lunch was supposed to be at 1230 so i cabbed down and got there an hour late. my poor girlfriend. and we had an hour's lunch before i had to run off to taka for my bible study which i was late for by 15 minutes. we finished at 1555, 5 minutes to get to mount eliz for my dental. my dental was till 1710 and cost me a grand total of? 200. to get what done? just cleaning and taking an opg of my mouth. for a wisdom tooth i have no want to extract till later. MUCH later. rarrr. so my friend was supposed to meet me at 1700 but he only arrived at 1815. so meanwhile, i went shopping for a harrods tote bag :) tonnes of things i want to buy from town! but after my dental bill? i should be eating grass for the next month :p so the boys finally got together and we sat down for dinner at... 8pm. at my lovely fish and co. these boys are my project group mates for a marketing class we took together in nus. there are some friends i've made in four years. just. some :) and because we wanted to just laze around and talk, we went over to sakae to have my kakiage. sakae part #2 for just one day itself. i was fed. stuffed. full and happy. i stayed out for 13 hours and got home at 11am. amazing. i loved my day out. aside for the jawdropping dental bill and random waiting for boys, the company was faaaantastic. thanks for stuffing me till i'm full sunshine! boys who bring me out and treat me like an 11 year old princess. ;)

just because i have a chocolate cake. :)

it's at times like these i don't mind being academically challenged. as long as i put good food on the table and i know their tummies are all taken care of when there are happy smiles on their faces :) mummy says she's lucky to have a daughter who cooks. it's something i'll always smile at with humility. i'm just glad the food is palatable. :) how to tell a fish is cooked? when it's eyes turn white and of course when the meat comes off easily. it was a huge golden promfret. the longest i've ever taken to steam a fish. and it's been a while since i had steamed fish. fried eggs (six eggs. boys. haha) with preserved radish, au naturel chicken soup (boiled with scallops, dried abalone edges, wolfberries and black mushrooms), crunchy stir fried dou miao with an assortment of fishballs/fishcakes. and that's dinner for five on a saturday night. from my home to yours, wherever you may be :)

and just because my mummy loves us, she takes on the fruit store holder's ranks when daddy leaves for work overseas. which is just too often. :/and just because mummy loves me? :) peanut pancakes! mmm.

what i love. yesterday was fun filled. the plan was to go home and stay home after cell. since i wasn't meeting any of the boys for supper i thought i'd spend friday night at home. but noooo, half way through cell i got a phone call asking if i'd like to meet my aunts at mustafa. it couldn't have been anything but blessed. but of course that'd be my preferred friday night itinerary. :) so mustafa for mad crazy shopping it was :) my aunt leaves for jakarta monday early morning and my other aunt has been caught up in the travel frenzy that i hardly see her home anymore :( so mad shopping aside (we took turns in giving away a substantial portion of our income to the chocolate section of mustafa ahah) we just HAD to drop in at swee choon. we're talking about the family next door to my grandma in days of yore. when they still lived at 129 desker road. no we do not get free dim sum and no they do not charge us less. we have no qualms about paying. we frequent that place a lil too much for the standard of food that's being served. but don't ask me for a favour and ask my aunts to try desserts that you make and expect us to pay for that dessert. even professionally, it's unethical. ugh. sorry. i'm asian deep down inside. people relations are something i hold pride in. aside from the fact that trusting people is sadly bordering on the impossible nowadays. so at least my carrot cake was nice and fluffy. the ones i ordered for take away leave much to be desired- blackened and half the original size) the rest? mediocre. hahahah.
going back there for dim sum is just one of the idiosyncratic things we can't explain for. sometimes you just long for things to be just as they used to and then you realise that the places might still be around but the people have changed too much to ever be the same again. it's one of the things that i put too much thought into- bringing people to places that i love. anyhow, it was friday night and i got home past the hour of twelve. but being no princess, nothing bad happened. i got home and had to start clearing out and restocking the cupboards. yay daddy's home from bangkok! :) hellllllo PRETZ.

TGIF :) it was a mad downpour this morning but thank goodness i got to school virtually untouched by rain. the assignments have been coming at me hard and fast. the classmates are behaving too scarily for words. *shivers. thank goodness for lunch break to digest the latest additions to the assigments pile. the healthy ytf from the stone age uncle- only a mad friend like mine would come up with such meaningfully apt nicknames. hahahah. the wrong kind of influence. we have a zi char stall at sch. mary tried salted fish fried rice. sufficiently decent. one more edible stall at sch. check! :)

and after another two hours of horrendous power pack english tutorial. i was a freeee girl! :) mmm. a few hours more before cell group started for the both of us. guess where dinner was? sakae. hahaha. zek i really feel like you now. spending every cent at sakae. hahahha. but i'm happy. for the company and the ambience. that's worth every single cent. :) notice i didnt say food. there are tonnes of better jap places around. but not every place is a 'lazy' place. i have a 'lazy' list now. for people who want to be lazy for a while. onn ray's next stop is kuriya's happy hour. and brendon's promising sashimi in the next two weeeeks. arigato gozaimasu. hai! ahahha. here's sharing some of my favourite foods at sakae. just some of them :)

i like how life's working out. yesterday i had some kickass oyster omelette at this nondescript coffee shop further up in the north. old people new ties. today i had a date with the boys. they're late, later and latest. it's tough being the only girl. hahah. it was good though. a very late lunch at 4pm. at my very familiar sakae. mix fry agemono, salmon sashimi, kakiage and my spicy salmon gunkan. a lazy hour and a half. i'm getting a little too used to this lifestyle. :)

dinner today. poor daddy's still ill. please keep him in prayer aye? he's off to thailand tmrw. i hope he'd be okay when the morning comes. it's been too long. :/ chicken fillet/prawn/golden mushroom and green leafy veggie vermicelli noodle soup. :) have a blessed sunday.

even after getting home at 430am and eventually hitting the sacks at 5am. there's us up and about for lunch at wisma :) not thaaat old.

then as adoring fans, we went early to get front row seats at indochine. which saw us showing our shameless support and spending a lovely idyllic saturday afternoon enjoying the breeze, songs and quiet company :) that. is the life.

home is where the heart is. hello toorex i have missed you much :) when a jack russell misses you much, you better make sure you're prepared for a kiss. then run to the toilet and get yourself dettol-ed. but i love him anyways. thai fish curry, fried garlic chicken, egg omelette and green veggies. i am loved.

too old for zouk, too young for st james. :) just kicking back your shoes and chilling out for a friday night. that's just dinner caught on film. two rounds and a hoarse throat. baked lagsana and a kickass sandwich. a lethally seducing lifestyle. good times :)

to start properly, today after lunch and watching too many silly propaganda videos on IT management in classrooms:
we went to grab some top notch fabric from the supplier of AC banners (at least for our batch) hahafrom the very sweet parents of sunny (who has to pick up the tab when he gets home in a year :)) - who kept their shop open till evening time on national day just so we could meet at a convenient time and find our way there together.

and sometime soon that fabric would be made into a lovely dress. for an equally lovely girl. :) hello my happy couply friend. singular. since it's 1+1=1 in their case. :)

and totally off the mark but just for the record, i'm a strawberry pocky snob. and this is what i like. :)

dinner was? chinatown dumplings and zi char from the restaurant just down the road from my house. and a very happy national day to you too. :) the significance of august the 9th has increased dramatically since being in the education business but still i havent sat through the entire national day parade screening. :/

JDC. my sesame + almond paste yun yong :)

what's cooking for lunch? minced pork, mushroom and scallop porridge. my crunchy chinese lettuce abd crispy cuttlefish. mmmm-mmm. :)

school is REALLY not that fun. can you believe? :) thank God for good girlfriends at school.

a pretty neat paperbag dont you think? :) copyright yours truly. the embarrassment part, i'll live it down. just as long as no one points at me and says the tangs girl. hahaha. project runway was fun. with my girls. i count 7 ppl + me in the picture. my gesl group has 19 ppl in total. so where are the remaining 11? people have winning 11s. my group has missing 11s. i did not just say that. hahaha. ah well. that's my national day celebratory activity.

say hello to mary :) that's my twin. the one who shares peanut pancakes with me. amongst others. nie doesn't look so bad does it? :)
it was a mad rush to get out of campus, on the train, switched to another train and took the underpass to get to swensens for this. mmm. happy birthday sc! :) it's been a whole two years since we've met up. but she's still one of the sweetest persons i know. blessed. :)

the people in my life :) in no particular order. or maybe there is an order. haha. sorry you in the middle are hidden. and purposely so. you're the reason for all this mad flurry of activity. from town to the east and back to town and the west. sunday's travels.

so i got home in time to boil soup. papa yeo and mama yeo have the evil flu bug on them. simple yong tau foo yellow bean soup. it doesn't mean only chicken soup can warm the soul aye? :)and just because i'm loved, mystery girlfriend baked me some lagsana to satisfy my cravings. :) happy sunday! :)

supper after an amazing fop. :) it's been 7 years? it's been a long 7 years. and i'm glad we made it there tonight. even at the overflow. and to the main hall at the end. John 11. He won't give us problems to destroy us but they're just trials to strengthen us. trusting in His Word and not how i feel. believing that today, I'll cast my cares upon Him and because He cares for me, I am healed, i am saved and i am amazingly forgiven. hunger wasn't an issue. till we were on our way home. so casuarina prata it was. and hey, i thank God for You :)

just hazard a guess. i'm not in a restaurant that's for sure. my brother's ashamed to be part of this. hahaha. it's for my second uncle-in-law's 80th birthday in conjunction with his son's marriage with a vietnamese wife that's just one year older than me. he's erm. 43? i didn't see them much at the lunch. it was a strange lunch. but one that's distinctively hokkien. see the hokkien hae zho right on top? :) those were yummy fried oily things. hahaha.

once upon a thursday night, my daddy went out for dinner with his business associates. they went to a seafood restaurant that we love to dine at. my daddy knows that there's one thing that i really love to eat from there. well, for takeouts at least.

so one order for malay noodles. mee goreng for the food initiated. it's a small serving, takeaway and can they please hurry with the order. :) mmm. i love my camera. and it's really not about the camera. those are pink translucently fresh prawns. MMM. they are really for you. i'm more than willing to share. you just have to be at the right place at the right time. :)

To: Dear Miss Yeo!!!

Hi, Miss Yeo!!! I will giv u the address 1st!!! It`s : BLK _ between Tao Payoh Lor 1 and Lor _,Bradell Road In front the YELLOW PAGE....AND...Class Happen...When u go...ME_,_ and _...Cry le...We wish u will come back and teach us again...Haix..._,_,_ and _ still the same lor...today _ want to HIT _ But _ very good...He control his temoer and dun HIT _then they did`t fight...but_ throw all the book at the back one at the floor loh...Haix..Miss Yeo!!!! Come Back Lah!!! Can? Wish u reply soon!!! From: UR STUDENT _...AND _And _

aww. my lovely students. sigh. i do miss them. and i'm glad that i can do something other than missing them. whenever i miss someone, i'll just say it out softly and then say a prayer to ask that they be taken care of :)

'd put up my timetable but it's so sad i think i should refrain from doing it. well. maybe i'll reconsider. my lovely twin made me a color coded, nicer to look at version of that horrendous thing they call a timetable. too bad the colors don't make any difference to the timings. never in my life. have i spent 830am till 730pm on school compounds. and actually attending everything within that period of time save for a 1.5 hour break. is that crazy or is that crazy. no there is no OR option. and they don't fail to remind you that all this is because, "you signed on the dotted line", "you're being paid", "did you get your salary last month?". so? i signed on the dotted line too long ago to remember, i did get paid, i also got my salary last month. which was peanuts. since i really was underpaid. reason being? i didn't submit my degree scroll and transcript. erm okay. don't -they- have my entire biodata on their systems? sigh. would you like to be in the nuturing profession? nuturing patience. or a simply resignation to fate. as i have been told that i had signed. hahaha.