pam is being very irritating. as usual. we should just watch the movie at cathay laaa. lido is so smelly and expensive. cathay is cheaper, and even though it's only $1.50 cheaper, stillllll.

and i can't go to glori's house to eat dinner!! siann. why? coz i'm out with pam lor. and i'm now sitting at starbucks ATTEMPTING to do my risk proposal while waiting for her to finish reading her macro econs. i think she'd take forever. hmm. and i can't quite start on my part for risk coz i need to read mingjian's part first, and he's not replying me on msn. sighhh.

uh oh.. labtop batt dying. 37mins left and no power socket available =( sad.

cny this year is hmm normal. i just experienced the most awkward situation any young adult could have experienced. my dad's friends came over and yar i had to hide from them; i've been avoiding such old pple gatherings for a few years now. bleh. well, i just find it really weird when they stare at you and wonder who u are, and it's only when my parents intro me as their daughter that they start saying lame stuff like 'oh so big already ah' or 'oh your sister is so much taller than you'. sigh. how do they expect me to react? i'm not being anti-social, but i just feel weird to hang around with old pple. and my mum was wearing this bright red chinese top, so she seemed like a walking hongbao. i really hope my parents don't invite their friends over again. or maybe they can ask them over for dinner coz it's really a bit difficult for me to escape if they come over for lunch. hiding in my room is not really an option coz my dad would keep shouting for me to go down and greet everyone. SIGH. there was one year i refused to go down and he was SO PISSED he didn't wanna talk to me, he said i didn't give him any face. sigh. well i was wearing my sleeping clothes, so how on earth did he expect me to go down and greet everyone else who was wearing nice cny clothes?? sian.

and i find it really scary how old pple can make so much noice. either that or my house is really echo-ey. their laughter is resounding and they seem to be talking at the top of their voices and laughing hysterically at every small little thing. i think it happens with age. yikes. i hope i don't become like that in about 30years time.

i think cny is over-rated. family gatherings get slightly less akward as we grow older coz all the cousins feel less childish and we kinda make small chat. well compared to our younger years when we'd just sit behind our parents and hope the hour hand would swoosh past. but now, yea we're more independent and somehow have more common topics.

kristin said i cannot be so lazy. yes i know i'm lazy. well i guess i need a worthy competitor. competition pushes me to do better. otherwise yea.. as zong says, i'm very lum nua. sigh. perhaps i was a sloth in my previous life.

i feel like drinking the avocado shake at orange lantern! missing it~
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here are some pics that sq took at my house the other day when we cooked stuff. a very commendable feat =) we made focaccia, brownies, mushroom soup and smoothies!



yummy focaccia!



brownies!


the cutest pic of oakey yet~~~


oak bit off the corner of our recipe lol
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the past 3 mornings were rather scary. i woke up with no voice at all and finally understood how it felt like to be a mute. you open ur mouth, but nothing comes out. the throat feels dry and irritated. sorethroat. and it's only until 1 hour later with 3 glasses of water that i start sounding a little squeaky, but at least i'm audible.

today's marketing class was kinda messy, especially the grouping part. it's kinda the first time grouping seemed so problematic. but oh well, as what prof khoo said, we'd have to stick to it through thick and thin. lol. i don't know why i'm so worried about marketing, maybe coz there are some pple who..... this is so bad. but nvm, i know myself too well, i'd be over it by the time i wake up tmr. chillax dude.

bleh my throat is dry. cough cough cough. i really need to get well soon, otherwise all my participation marks would fly away. crap i better go sleep.

i feel like watching a movie~ sigh but too ill to go out. i need to get well before cny!! omg bakwa and pineapple tarts, what would i do without them??
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i read sumiko tan's article today and i like a sentence that she wrote:

"when things don't work out the way I want them to, I will keep my cool and go with the flow"

it should come in handy haha

anyway i think i look nicer in black hair. can't wait to dye it back some time this year haha
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i'm so tired. i think i really need a good rest, so i'm really glad the weekend is finally here and i'm going to stay in and recuperate. hk was not bad, bought some clothes, ate good stuff and of course, walked a million miles with my poor aching feet. yea then after i came back, my temperature fluctuated around 37.C over the past week and i had occassional sore throats, flu and blocked nose. effectively, yea i was a little ill, but i was still fit enough to meet kyna and co for dinner on tues, and anna and ky for dinner just now. the rest of my time at home was spent sleeping and i still don't think it's enough.

anyway, i realised that i haven't been a really easy dining customer haha. well, i didn't deliberately make things difficult for the restaurants, just that somehow the food and service didn't come across very right. but what i can conclude is that waraku and the korean restaurant at the fareast basement have very good service! =) i highly recommend to anyone who enjoys good service to dine there! on the other hand, this other famous icecream restaurant has really bad service. i better not say the name lest i get sued. but yea it's the really famous family one la.

school has started and as usual, the first week is always a little rough even though it's already my 4th sem in ntu. i was super blur la, i conveniently assumed mon's mkting lec was cancelled coz i had this impression that year 1s were having orientation on the first day of school! lol yea so embarrassing, i'm living in the past haha. i presume this sem would be kinda busy, with much more time spent on the mrt, sian. why dun they have seminars on wed?? anyway, i'm quite happy with my project groups so far, at least i haven't been teamed up with slackers or irritating pple.. there's only marketing grp that has yet to be formed. but with zhilin and yanxiu in it, it can't be that bad =)
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