Wednesday, July 29, 2009
sian i hate singapore. i want to get out.
it's all PAMELA LIM'S FAULT!! you horrible friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i hate school. so irritating!!!
(emilia) blogged at 4:01 PM
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Monday, July 27, 2009
sometimes i wonder if i'm too rational.
i woke up super early to send mari zong and cheese off this morning, and i couldn't help but to have that 'what-if' thought. what if i didn't change my mind? i could have been on that plane to sydney too! and today would have been a brand new chapter of my life! imagine, a life in australia and an entire slack semester!
but nope. i'm stuck in singapore. why? coz i rationalised it out.
i told myself that
1) it's way too expensive!!
2) i'd miss my family and oakey!
3) i just got a new car and it doesn't make sense to leave it parking at home
4) aussie accounting standards aren't applicable to sg
5) i can't do housework
6) i'd miss my big 4 interview (which didn't turn out to be a problem anyway)
but as i sent them off this morning, i really wished i was on that plane too! sydney is such an awesome place! and mari zong and cheese would be excellent company! well, of course it doesn't help that my trip to shanghai is cancelled and i'm STUCK IN SG THIS HOLIDAYS!!
and there's no time to go on a holiday! oh i can't find anyone to go on holiday with me! why is everyone so busy? sigh.
does anyone want to go on a holiday? i'm desperate! (i don't mind going to any
city in the world)
zong/mari/cheese, can i crash ur apartment in sydney? hmm but i'd probably live in regret after seeing ur place. aiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
(emilia) blogged at 10:36 AM
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alright, i wanted to blog about the end of the internship and my birthday celebrations. but blogspot was down for a while and i've been busy the past 2 weeks, so i've kinda forgotten what i wanted to write.
but in short. i really enjoyed my 10 weeks with ap, ww, jason and ts! it's really unthinkable how it could have been if it wasn't for them. so i'm really glad we're all going to be clsmates next sem! =D
and of course my birthday! thank you EVERYONE for the well-wishes/presents/cards etc. i really loved it and it was extremely memorable! THANKS! =D
btw in case you don't know. i've got FACEBOOK! haha my sis keeps complaining that i'm on fb 24/7. well that's coz i'm super free at home and i'm trying very hard to hit 200 friends!! yar i know it sounds pathetic, even wj said so himself. but nvm, i shall slack off from fb once i hit 200 friends. i just need 8 more friends! haha
(emilia) blogged at 10:24 AM
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Friday, July 17, 2009
when bosses and airline companies are super anal.
stress level is super high and SIAN.
i hope insurance companies are nicer.
(emilia) blogged at 12:27 PM
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Today is a great day! Haha I’m in a very good mood compared to the rest of the week. Haha. Lunch made it even better!
It was girls-lunch-out, so as usual, we wanted to be hip and adventurous, so we headed to central to eat waraku haha. Ok it’s not that hip, but compared to the usual stuff we eat, it’s considered a luxury already.
and it got even better coz we ended up eating yummy jap food at this atas restaurant (called kyomomoyama). Weiwei and I ate fresh hand made sushi while ap ate the chicken don. Weiwei said the sushi there was comparable to the ones she ate in japan! Well I didn’t eat sushi while I was in japan, but I really loved the maki =)
And the best part was, it’s only $6++! SO CHEAP!!
We’re definitely going back there again next week. Haha weiwei was very sad she didn’t bring her cam to take pics of that atas place haha.
(emilia) blogged at 5:19 PM
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
My Tribute to Michael Jackson
Alright, I’m not too sure where to start because I have never called myself an MJ fan, I didn’t even know how he looked like when he was still a black. But after I watched the MTV special on him last night, I finally understood why he was so legendary.
On the morning of 25 June 2009, while I was getting ready for work, my mum shouted across the house ‘Michael Jackson died!’ And my response to that was ‘oh ok’, the impact of his death on me was zero. I knew MJ when he was already a pop icon, and when I started taking more notice of pop music, he was already a plastic-surgery-gone-wrong pedophile; I actually found him scary-looking and I couldn’t comprehend why the whole world paid so much attention to this psycho. Even Justin Timberlake (who is about a half a decade older than me) said that he wasn’t there when Michael Jackson was performing, what more me?
I wouldn’t say Michael Jackson has excellent vocals coz he sounds a little gay, and I’m not too impressed with his songs (probably because it’s music from a different era), but I must admit, he has excellent stage presence and a very sincere voice. When I was watching his special last night, I kept telling myself ‘whoa, I’ve never seen anyone with so much stage presence. It’s obvious he’s really enjoying the music and his moves show how passionate he is about his performance’.
Actually come to think of it, apart from the extremely illustrious career he had, his personal life was quite pitiful. I did a wiki search on him and I found out that he was physically and mentally abused by his dad when he was a child. And having entered showbiz at a tender age of six, he had been in this industry for 45 years! Even though MJ is somewhat past his prime, I still think he’s quite an admirable figure. The accusations he faced about his legal suits and physical changes must had been quite hell for him. Well and I am sad to admit, but I am one of those ignorant fools who believed the tabloid news about him bleaching his skin to look white. And even up till last night, I was asking myself ‘why on earth would he want to bleach his skin? He looks completely fine as a black and with his tremendous success as a black, why does he still want to be a white? Was it some childhood trauma?’. But guess what, he was actually suffering from vitiligo and lupus, which made him sensitive to sunlight, and the medication made him paler. With regard to the changes in his facial features.. I’m not too sure what struck him to do so, but I’m sorry I was too superficial and too judgemental to discredit his musical talent after seeing how he looked like. Honestly, I don’t think the change in his facial features affected his performance competence at all, his whole performance had already transcended beyond makeup and special effects (unlike jolin and aaron kwok; both of whom would probably have died long ago without makeup and special effects), the whole performance was boiled down to Michael himself. I’m not exaggerating, but he simply stands out even when there are 20-30 background dancers behind him; his moves are just too sleek and it seems to be part of him.
Another big discovery I made was that he’s the same age as my mum. I was quite stunned when I found out he was already in his 50s coz it never struck me that he was already so old. Actually.. I always thought that he only came into the entertainment industry in the 1990s. yes I’m very suagu coz his peak was in the 1980s. I saw footages of the rehearsal for his comeback concert this july, he was dancing with the agility of a man in his 20s! and it’s almost unthinkable that he’s my mum’s age. oh my.
I’m now listening to ‘You are not alone’. The MTV special on him played this song while featuring his life in the 1990s and 2000s when he was plagued by his health and legal issues.
I just want to end off by saying I’m so sorry I had dismissed you as a crazy pathetic pedophile without first realising ur musical talent and contribution to the musical industry.
I’m so sorry and be assured that you would always be remembered to be the king of pop.
(emilia) blogged at 10:09 AM
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Ok I’m feeling really poor now. Or rather, I’ve been feeling extremely poor since the holidays started. Poor and depressed. Sigh.
I don’t really go out that often, and I think that even when I go out, I spend a reasonable amount of money, but I just hate it when everything adds up. When I go through my expenses, I realized there are a lot of unnecessary expenses like eating out and movies. So I tried to cut down on these areas. But life without these things is so meaningless. And yet, these things are such a waste of money. Shopping is another thing. It’s extremely therapeutic, but it’s so transient. And no matter how many new clothes u buy, ‘enough’ is never the word to describe it. It’s an addiction. An expensive worthless addiction.
Some people get money so easily. I think I used to be like that; money had so little meaning to me since I had access to it so easily and I didn’t keep track of my expenses. Some time ago, I probably would have behaved like how Jason did this morning; he got fined $20 this morning for jaywalking and he said ‘it’s ok la, $20 only’. But now, I would actually cheat the 50cents of my parking coupon! What the shit. I think I’m rubbing off my dad’s miserly manners.
They say being thrifty and frugal is a good habit. But I think I’m getting too extreme. I think I lead a very contradicting life, I love to spend money because I find spending very therapeutic, but yet I also love to save! How can these two things co-exist?
Money is such a love-hate relationship.
Anyway the whole point of this entry wasn’t supposed to be about my personal finances. Aiya whatever la. I think I’m being too harsh on myself. Chill dude.
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Anyway we went out on sat to celebrate wen’s super belated 21st birthday haha. We were supposed to eat at this sushi bar, but wkend prices were too ex, so we’re going back there to eat another time for wkday lunch. I can’t wait seriously! =)
Alright, so we watched duplicity. Hmm it wasn’t what I expected it to be. But I thought I was still alright. But wen and chelly hated it. I think both of them geniuses felt that the protagonists were plain dumb. Lol.
Yea then later we went off to tanjong pagar to eat the jap cakes. Hmm but we got kinda lost so by the time we reached, there were only the cheese tarts left haha. I couldn’t really taste it coz my nose was blocked, but I assume it’s super nice haha. It’s supposed to be anyway.
Oh yea then after which, wen chelly and I loitered around this park that was filled with scary-looking cats. I felt like some old abandoned ah ma. So sad. I really don’t quite understand why tanjong pagar has so many old HDBs in the middle of it. it’s such prime land! Anyway we couldn’t stand the ants crawling down our backs, so we moved back to Chinatown plaza and sat on the floor like some ah lians. What a sad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Dinner at the sui restaurant was not bad. I thought the sashimi and the fried rice was good haha. Then came dessert. Lol. We went to udders to try it and I was conned! Stupid wen and chelly bluffed me that they were going to get double scoops of ice cream, so despite the fact that I was sick, I decided to get double scoops too! But guess what, they ps and bought single scoops instead! Hmm I can’t really comment how great the ice cream tasted because I couldn’t taste anything with my blocked nose. But it did taste creamy and I think it’s supposed to be very yummy coz there was a tremendously long queue squeezing into the puny shop. and guess who we saw? lol TAN YENLING! with her whole family (including ah ma hahah, so hip)
and i realised we're all related to the government in one way or another..
me: intern with agd
glori: med student, bonded to moh
chelly: jtc scholar
wen: moe scholar
sam: mfa scholar
kyna: intern at lta? lol
ok ching isn't with the gvt, but she's in far far canada anyway haha.
Oh and we’re going to have a food trail soon haha. I’m quite excited about it. hmm but I’ve been eating too much, so I’m feeling super duper fat.
*Jason just came over and saw me blogging this entry on word. Hmm he thought I was writing a children’s story =.= is my language that childish?
(emilia) blogged at 1:54 PM
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