somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high

have been feeling quite sick, didnt go to school yesterday. spent the whole day sleeping and doing whatever readings i can (which really wasnt alot) and then today i woke up and felt like shit again but okay i made myself get up and went for two lectures. glad i did cos i saw mail for me!;) boy did that make my day ;)






from my sis! ;) i cant wait till she comes over for christmas! although that will mean me having to finish my applications which doesnt leave me with much time but OH wells. :) shes always been my rock, my huge pillar. i know things have changed, both for you and me, but hey i still love you and im glad your life has been better with all thats happening;) im always on your side, remember that!





from hianchuan;) haha yes big man you really do make pretty presents. i showed jon your pres and he was like 'so pretty which girlfriend of yours gave you that?' ;) but hey its a compliment okay once i saw the handwriting on the envelope i knew it was you ahah. ;) thanks alot yeah, and yup im really glad our friendship has turned out so well. hurry come join me in this grey weather!
listening to the songs now i must say its a pleasant surprise what good songs you have.
'je ne vais pas travaille!'


aand so im feeling gloomy no more ;)

where are you now my love

watching excess baggage video now;) funny how everyone looks different now. its as if we've all grown up so much in just one year in london:) sure i miss all the tiring rehearsals and the fantastic company; and its just great to sit down one lazy sunday night watching the video. thanks kelvin:) i still think we had fantastic music!

went up to cardiff yesterday with fellow victorians. i think i had fun but haha i was with my favourite people and we did our favourite activity- primark shopping!! the primark at cardiff was really organised and neat. and HUGE - they had four storeys of cheap stuff omg. ;) i nearly lost my jacket there which was rather silly. i left it on the rack cos we were trying on clothes in front of the mirror and when i was done i turned around and the coat was gone! joanne was really nice and we went around retracing our steps. well luckily for me i think a staff cleared it so he/she returned it to the customer service counter. phew! but okay we bought alot of nice stuff;) joanne rosh and i bought the same top hee.
the first picture was taken at the cardiff castle which was probably the only touristy thing we did. oh and the pub we went to at cardiff bay for dinner was really pretty- its called terra nova.

i always think its good to get away from london once in a while- away from the busy hustle bustle and mean sullen people here;) or well just an excuse to have one whole day of fun and shopping and bridge and laughter. goooo victorians!

only that i think im sick. freshers flu. it got worse and i came back home with a splitting headache. well the wonderful paul's breakfast i had with rosh the next day made me feel loads better. cant wait to see her again:)

oh haha today i felt bored while waiting for my instant porridge to cook so i googled my name. and, (hahaa) i found this blog which apparently belongs to someone from my pri sch who said i was his first ever crush. ! wonders of the internet. ;)

oui?

today's been quite an exciting day;) our toilet leaked early in the morning, and mind you it was practically raining from the ceiling so we had to call in the contractor and mayling is convinced its dirty sewage water leaking down but luckily for me i wasnt wear my specs so heck it i just went ahead and bathed and used the bathroom; i had an useless family law class (only cos we did an introductory thing again and so im one week ahead for my readings and class is two weeks behind lecture) ; went for my french interview and well i shd be doing level two french this year so please bless me with a smooth french tongue;) ; cheryl's coming over in a while to bake ginger bread man cookies (!!) ; and rosh is on her way now to londonl; and im going cardiff tmr.

and now i found the perfect ring in the universe after hours of senseless internet surfing ;) i got inspired by liyann's ring ;) isnt it the most adorable ring you've ever seen (beams!)

lullaby for a stormy night -vienna teng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu1o-Do_0LM

so i effectively slept my wednesday away. ;) i woke up to chicken rice, sweet and sour chicken wings, Friends, and strawberry cheesecake.

i cant wait for a getaway;)

have yourself a merry little christmas

;) yeah okay i know its a little too early but hey singing carols with tan en today made me a feel little christmasy so i decided to share the christmas decorations in my room with everybody















and i really like how the light falls in this picture. but who would have thought that with sunlight like that its still very cold:(
okay im off to books now may complains that im too lazy :D

little child, be not afraid

VIENNA TENG
Lullaby For a Stormy Night
words and music by Vienna Teng

little child, be not afraid.
though rain pounds harshly against the glass
like an unwanted stranger, there is no danger
I am here tonight

little child, be not afraid
though thunder explodes and lightning flash
illuminates your tear-stained face
I am here tonight

and someday you'll know
that nature is so
the same rain that draws you near me
falls on rivers and land
on forests and sand
makes the beautiful world that you'll see
in the morning

little child, be not afraid
though storm clouds mask your beloved moon
and its candlelight beams, still keep pleasant dreams
I am here tonight

little child, be not afraid
though wind makes creatures of our trees
and their branches to hands, they're not real, understand
and I am here tonight

for you know, once even I was a
little child, and I was afraid
but a gentle someone always came
to dry all my tears, trade sweet sleep for fears
and to give a kiss goodnight

well now I am grown
and these years have shown
that rain's a part of how life goes
but it's dark and it's late
so I'll hold you and wait
'til your frightened eyes do close

and I hope that you'll know...

everything's fine in the morning
the rain'll be gone in the morning
but I'll still be here in the morning

**
i always think of genia when i hear this song. ;)

just a few days ago i was telling cheng that things needn't always be awkward around people that you've loved before and is now past. 'open up your heart!' i told him. but i think ill take back my words. it really isnt easy, and sometimes we're just not ready to face each other, in the context of a new relationship. at least i know for sure thats the case for me and kiat. i thought i was ready, i thought i was cool with just being friends, but im not, and im not going to try anymore. because i think its really time i move on, get over him; so i dont hate myself for not being able to be the person i should be in this new relationship, so i dont try to pretend that im happy with the way things are. ;) i might just be happier not having to worry about all these!

well im just really glad i got to spend my last few days with the people i really love ;) going out and shopping and having dimsum and going out and shopping and having macs haha. sorry mummy and daddy that i kinda burnt a hole in my pocket but hey its the mid seasons sale and things were really going for really low prices. got myself a new pair of boots (frm primark though but hey its really pretty and decent( okay i dont know bout the child labour thg okay tan en so ill just pretend i erm dont know :D) ) and lots of other stuff as well. maybe ill start dressing up for sch. these days i just wake up half an hour before sch starts, bathe, check email, pile on ugly clothes and head out in ugly grumpy face. lets hope new pretty clothes will make me happyyy
;)

two weeks of school

and im feeling quite lazy already. ;) well maybe not lazy, but some sort of a perverse rebellion to everything that everyone is doing. conversation btwn me and a friend
me: so are you continuing french this year?
fren: no im busy this year
me: huh with what
fren: apps.
me: what?
fren: applications. to companies.

well he's not the only one and honestly everyone's getting pretty uptight and stressed about applications for internships/vacation schemes/pupilage/whatnots. ive been to two company presentations and that isnt alot, but i think i have a pretty good idea where im headed towards, just that i havent actually got down to doing anything yet. everyone around me seems to have their cv up somehow, and spoken to others about opportunites and how things are going to work out and im just taking it easy. well at least trying to. its not that i dont value my future, i guess this reeks of scholarships applications again and i absolutely hated that feeling. ;) the kind of feeling that everyone is out to bite each other's tails and chew each other's heads out. grr!

on another note, school is really getting along fine. wednesday has kind of turned into a cook out day for me jerald and jon, and jon is really quite a good cook. ;) we had really nice dessert yesterday - vanilla ice cream with honey and raspberries, absolutely delicious! and hello while im at that let me share with the whole world the simple recipe for a good old seafood risotto.(courtesy of jon although haha he doesnt get any royalties)(so cool im like having my own food blog)

you'll need:
risotto
chick stock cube
garlic
seafood (sainsburys 2 for 4pounds

1. well boil the chicken stock. as in. have it in boiling water. (how do you phrase this???)
2. fry garlic and risotto in pot
3. add chicken stock broth as and when in small potions and continue stirring the risotto so that it doesnt stick to the pan/ie burn. add until it gets to the right stickiness desired.
4. add seafood!
5. SERVE.

haha yay!

theres something in your eyes, makes me want to lose myself

feels like home by chantel kreviazuk
my second food- baked pasta! the weather today has been horrible; its been raining really heavily the whole day. so when i got home after my lectures i just felt like i wanna make something today. and since ive been looking at recipes online for baked pasta i decided to try my hand at it although ive already had my leftover fried rice for lunch. and look what turned out :) a delicious pan of baked cheesy pasta enough i reckon to feed 6 people;) but hey we're all hungry people here in london (except for may who eats one spoonful of porridge for lunch) so this should last us for er, two meals? ;)

went for allen & overy presentation after that and well im feeling the motivation to study and do well in my life. i think its really smart that they got our seniors to talk to us because as naeem said, we'll look at them and think 'hey that can be me' and yes i do think that way now so i studied abit when i got home. i dont think im going to turn into those overzealous people but i guess i shouldnt be laidback as well. i do wanna end up somewhere in my life. ;)

then of course i caught the second episode of greys on the all wonderful alluc.org. this episode was about addictions in life and moving on from there. it all sounds very familiar to me and really becoming the central theme in my life right now. not one day goes by where i dont think about what im going to do with my life;) that scene where christina went back to her apartment and all the wedding gifts had been cleared; i think i know how she feels. its that sense of longing and the sense of wanting to move on. it clashes, but somehow you feel both at the same time. its, all just very strange. ;)
and yes izzie still irritates the hell out of me. poor callie HELLO shes the suffering wife. bad george!

Amie, come sit on my wall.

:)Damien Rice concert at London Wembley, the arena.

okay i gotta confess, ive always written him off as a singer whos too sad and erm boring for my liking. but hey the ticket wasnt too expensive so i went with andre to see maybe ill change my opinion about him;)
and man am i a changed woman.

i never knew i could like sad songs so much:) he's very raw so it makes you wanna go up to him, and give him a big bear hug. but yeah listening to his songs for the first time as an audience in a live concert really makes me wonder how this guy managed to write all these songs. has he lived that much?






but my favourite song is still 'amie', and the effects for that song was really dreamy;)











even though he kinda made it awkward (i thought) by bringing in burma's political situation and brought in burmese refugees and brought up the peaceful riot the monks did in the concert itself, ie making the crowd chant the same words the monks did in response to aung san suu kyi's house arrest(personally i felt slightly used) but hey it shows he's bringing awareness. cos i chanted too :D at least now(according to andre) you can tell people you were involved in a political rally!

i can bake!

hahaa okay im gonna write two posts because i think they both deserve an entry on its own.
firstly, not only did i cook dinner for may, i baked for serene's birthday party! happy 21st dear;)

alright so cheryl did most of the stuff but hey i was her main helper okay.plus the ians for errands and washing up :) everyone liked what we did so im really happy















introducing tiramisu and chocolate tart,the latter which i also did for jessica's housewarming :D im so proud of myself

pics of new room!

as promised ;) although i realised it wasnt very clear nor as pretty as i thought they looked on my camera. ;) but i gave adibah a webcam tour of my room ahah that was fun :D






































told you my room is pink. ;) well thats all to my room really, except theres this purple rug so we can sit there and watch tv :) oh and my wonderful kitchen and toilet which i decided against putting up cos well, whos interested in them?? anw just fyi, we forgot to take out the trash yesterday so we have to wait till sunday to take it out again, and flies are raiding our kitchen;(
other than that, staying out has been really fun! and goooood.
OH and i cooked dinner tonight (muaha) AND IT WAS GOOD. may ate everything ;) see it isnt really that hard to cook haha. even though we made crappy carbonara and i burnt my omelette but hey ;) all's well.

sch's starting soon ;(