i'm so PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i'm so pissed now i can't sleep.

i should have known sth was amiss when i woke up this morning and realised that i'd scratched my face while i was sleeping. yes there's a red scratch mark on my face now. self-inflicted without my dog's help.

i shall go lie on my bed and ATTEMPT to sleep. sq's coming over to cook tmr. she has ambitious plans =S
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so much for being 'grounded'. well, it didn't really work and i still went out all the same. haha. and yea.. i still bought stuff. but i really tried really really hard to cut it down. like on tues i went out with my sis, out of 3 nice bags i saw, i only bought 1 and i didn't buy the ipanema slippers even though i was super tempted to. and i'm glad i didn't get those stuff coz on hindsight, i don't need them at all. needs VS wants!

i think i should have done enough restoration work to my cupboard for now. i was quite depressed the other day when i stared at my half full cupboard, and it didn't help much that my sister's cupboard was exploding. my sis says i was being fussy about what clothes i wanted in my cupboard, well, i should say that my sis is just very receptive to all my random clothes.

btw i bought quite a few skirts this hols, and i might consider wearing them to school next sem since so many pple keep asking me why i don't wear skirts/dresses. sigh. shorts and berms are nice mah. haha

k anyway, i shall continue to be on 'broke' mode and i did myself proud yesterday when i only went out with $50 and not a single card. shall do that till school starts. it's really a very clever way to curb my spending habit. no money = no talk.

and who says there's a recession now?? kristin and i felt like the only pple who felt the recession (aka broke pple) when we were at orchard yesterday. pple were grabbing the clothes as though it was free and kristin was super shocked coz the clothes were still quite ex even after the discount! and the isetan queue was disgusting. when i got to gelatissimo, i felt so swarmed and completely grossed out, i had to get away from shaw. the crowd was really overwhelming. the rest of orchard wasn't that bad, but it's still really hard to believe there's a recession if you don't listen to the financial news.

and this week, i bumped into lotsa pple while i was out. and that's really weird coz usually i don't see anyone i know when i'm out. and what's even weirder is that tchs-hc guys are actually becoming more hip by frequenting town! can't believe it. just yesterday, i met 2 grps of guys from my year (but i don't know their names though.. just thought that they looked familiar) and of course there is CHAOQUN whom i suspect is stalking me!! i've alr met him 3 times this hols alone and if i'm not wrong, i bumped into him twice earlier this year. scary laaaaaaaa. and there's 72 gathering later, so i'd still see him.

oh btw... erm i'm gg to hk next week, 1-5 Jan. yes i know, but it's a really last minute spontaneous decision. my mum decided that she didn't mind going to hk, so yup, we booked the tix on xmas day. i can tell my mum's really excited coz she insisted on planning the itinerary last night. haha. alright, so i shall try my best to guide them ard. and I MUST I MUST go to H&M!!
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i'm so broke =(

no more eating out(including supper), movies, kbox.

i shall ground myself till further notice. sian. i'm going to need lotsa determination.
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my parents are back. no more nonsensical carefree freedom. but the past 10 days had been great anyway haha. but i'm glad they're back =) hmm but looking at the way they spent in china, i think i better insist on following on their next getaway. they went with 4 bags, and came back with 9 bags!! 1 aunty and 1 uncle really make a scary duo.

and naat is over! they told us it'd take abt 1-2 weeks, but we finished it in a day. haha, so that gives me lotsa time on hand now. hmm i wouldn't say the auditing part was fun la, but the pple there were really nice =)

oh and today i'm gg to post a little photo entry of my darling oakey! from the first day we got him to today; he's about 8 months now btw.

at the pet shop on the day we got him. he's so tinyy

first time oak and clover meet

oakey at abt 4mths sleeping on his new bed

oakey and his fav kitchen cloth

my bro and mum bringing oak for his first few walks

oak and me when he was 4 mths

scgs dog at 5 mths

oakey going to dog school

oakey napping while accompanying me. btw his blanket was my old shirt lol

oak and i last week!

oakey lying on his fav kitchen spot. see how much he's grown!

darling oakey! jia commented he looks shuai in this pic lol. yea he gets that a lot when he takes his daily walks =)

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yesterday was truly a great day! =) i didn't really do anything out of the ordinary, but sometimes doing life's simple things can be quite fulfilling!

the day started of with naat. went back to school to give a crash course to the year 1 students, i guess i was quite lucky coz simon wasn't ard to shoot me any difficult questions when i was presenting haha. the naat pple are really nice, so that's a really big bonus

then after that, i played an excellent game of squash with br! we played for about an hour, but we kinda rested every 10-15 mins hahaha. super unfit. but my sister told me that squash burns the most calories coz u need to run the full court, so i guess that explains why we got so breathless after each set. but nevertheless i had great fun! and to treat myself after exercising, i bought 2 cups of fruit juice! but cant 2's drink stall seriously cheats money la.

kk then after that i went grocery shopping with my bro. hahaha and it was great too coz we ended up buying a whole trolley of stuff we THINK we'd use. i think it's really uncanny coz i couldn't quite recognise the brands of household items i use at home despite the fact i go to ntuc with my mum quite often. haha so yesterday i was starring at an assortment of bread and macaroni and wondering which brand my mum buys.. i shall make it a point to take more notice or hang around the kitchen more.

right so after shopping, my maid and i took my darling oakey for a car ride around the estate. he was so thrilled! =) actually i wanted to post a photo of oak and i, but sq says i look like some ah ma and strongly discouraged me to commit social suicide aiyaa. kk shall take a nice nice pic with baby oak soon.

then i took oak for his daily walk. my calves were aching like mad but i still insisted on walking him for about 45 minutes =) he's just so cuteeeeeee

and today was course registration. i'm not sure why, but i couldn't quite sleep last night. but the good news is, i managed to get all my planned course =) there's a trick to this whole system actually. i really dun think clicking furiously on the 29th minute would do any good. oh well, but diff pple have diff methods. haha. hmm but it's kinda sad ap didn't manage to get most of our planned slots.. hopefully she can add-drop back in

ohh, then just when today's 2pm mango sale seemed bleak when i found out yesterday, it turned out to be a wonderful shopping experience! i finished registering by ard 10+, so i called my sis and went shopping with her. haha. yup my sis' friend had 2 mango cards, so we went for the members preview sale. nice. my feet are still aching. calves especially.. i really hope i dun develop calf muscles.

anyway there's naat again tmr. shall come home immedately to rest after that. so tired.

BTW did u all know there's a new mall at marina bay?????
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alright, actually i realised that this holiday is very short since naat is already taking up 2 weeks and xmas and new year are back-to-back. anyway i've made 2 holiday resolutions. i think holiday resolutions would probably be more achievable than new year resolutions coz usually by the time it's cny, i'm quite positive most pple can't rmb what they had set out to achieve. anyway i took the first step yesterday when pam called me so i guess i'm up to a good start haha.

here's my very short list of resolutions:
1) no no
2) play badminton/squash once a week since supper is really making me F A T

and what really made my day yesterday was that now i know how i wanna celebrate my 21st! that day br was telling me she alr started planning for hers (her bday is in sep btw!!), so i thought that maybe i should give mine some thought too! since it's a supposedly very impt day, i'd wanna spend it in a very special way! i just hope nothing clashes with it and it'd materialise though yippee!

BTW i cut my hair short again =(
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