love, actually is all around

ive put off watching love actually for a really long time now, for reasons many- i had watched it too many times; kiat was synonymous with the signboards; and that i actually lost faith in the notion of love, really.

but phlegm in your throat does funny things to you, as with the spinning head and that clogged nose that threatens to upset your entire body system. rosh and i had tried to watch it last weekend, but then youku.com was acting up on us, so when i discovered that i still had it on my hard disk, i thought what better way to end my week than to watch love actually with a tin of ben's cookies, on my bed.

im glad for my shitty memory, because watching it again this time round (which must have been like my fifth time) felt like i was watching it for, almost, the first time. i knew the scenes, i knew the stories and the characters, but i still felt pleasantly surprised by the order of the scenes and little dialogues that i hadnt remembered; also the subtleties-the stories seemed richer, i could imagine a thousand different ways of what could be different; and i could identify with the places and the lovely ways of the english. and i got reminded of how much i loved this little boy and his gorgeous big eyes, and the moment he says 'whats worse than the agony of being in love?'

so perhaps i have let myself down for a long time now, and it does seem like a long time since to be picking up the pieces and collecting myself up, bit by bit. well bit by bit is just fine. ah, the wise tales of a third year student;) studying is good for your soul!

why hugh jackman is love

nothing sweet about me

all i want to do is to have a long good sleep. it seems like ive had alot on my mind- work related- and i feel like im still having a sleep debt from that night after judy's party. oxford for the weekend was a good getaway, and of course any time spent with my darling is time well spent. im still sorry for my 'poor' choice of movie, ahhaha, 'hard candy' is hardly a light jolly movie to relax into at the end of a week. besides, i think anders is traumatised for life (cue: castration segment)

i think im much happier this year. i feel im much better settled down, with school work (although i joked that 'i go to lse, sometimes'), with friends, with finding stuff to do in london, and of course, finding my way around london:) the night after judy's party i somehow ended up at westminster bridge, but thames river did not disappoint, and i am a little bewildered it took me three years to see this side of london.

another side of london that i was glad to have found- brick lane! or rather, the vintage stores around it. im glad i didnt cancel on lover even though i was really quite tired that day. i cant wait to wear my scarves, bags (yes, plural), and ooh i cant wait to go back again and just spend the whole day looking at those gorgeous (too long) dresses, running my hands through the silky scarves, or just playing with all the intricate clasps and knuckles of the old bags. i dream about my own fashion line and how vintage-inspired they'd be- oh but what a dream.

four more weeks of lent term, but with the weather warming up, and all the concerts (rachael yamagata!) and plans coming up (miss sung!) - cant wait;)

meanwhile, back to jurisprudence.

is love alive, is love.

ah my life- its been work and then nights of top gear/csi on tv. i actually forgot about last week's greys until eug spoke about it in her email;) i felt so lousy with all the work that i made a pan of betty crocker- that was last tuesday. and its still on my table, in my room. i sleep to the taste of betty in my mouth, and i wake up to the smell of it. lovely.

chap goh meh

i got reminded that its the 15th day of the lunar new year today, and this is what is supposed to happen:
im not that big into the specifics, but roughly this should be it lah. (how cool is it that i managed to find a picture of him burrowing through the crowd!) technically he should get the tangerine soon since we're only separated by the atlantic ocean.

yup.

'continued

the rest of it all. (yes this is all.)
to think after spending all that money- this was done on an expired roll of film which i bargained with the mama shop uncle for just 50pence. he was very reluctant.
and yes, the panoramic size was not intended. ;)

on the phone with jess the other day and we were just lamenting on how short this term is going to be/already is. already people are making graduation plans (by that i mean prom dress)- for me i just cant wait to be back home.

and i dont know if my mum is really afraid of me being lesbian or hiding another affair from her, but my msn nickname spelt out the first line of the song 'duet' and she promptly asked "whos the lover!??!" (exclamation marks not my own emphasis)
ah mother.

my pretty diana+

Presenting, the first (real) set of pictures from my very beautiful diana+. okay, so i wasted quite a bit of film, getting the 35mm film to work was a little tricky, and then theres the elusive sun in london which the diana loves (and needs); but i guess the efforts are worth it, although i only have a few pictures that worked(i played around with the settings alot and hence got alot of rubbish pictures)- i guess we all have to start somewhere!

in other news, im hooked on top gear. damn you shawnie.

pout, twist, and jiggle

so all the snow's melted and gone; school in full swing (once again (im not a model student)); and i recently discovered a new hobby (but theres recession so i cannot eat out/buy new grunge clothes)
fyi the grunge look isnt working very well. ive exhausted all my black/bad-attitude clothes.

being "snowed in" for two days (yay no school) was quite fun; i felt like a little kid who's constantly in marvel of the whiteness of london. i find myself yelping like a lost puppy whenever i see a new area of white london. i only wished i had charged my camera- it died on me after only taking ten shots;(
thank god for wellingtons!
(i kept trying to write 'hello sexy' on cars. hee)

then it got irritating when it all melted into ice. lover was ice-skating along the streets. funny sight, but quite poor thing lah;)

and we just watched midsummer night's dream;) im not sure how i feel about modernised plays, except for the fact that im thankful i can understand shakespearean language this way. but seeing a shakepeare play in today's clothes and jokes(which was funny!) is rather, strange.

oh joy!

alot of things to be deliriously happy about- i know, strange to be blogging so many times in a day, but:

it snowed really heavily in london :) and i got to play snowball! first was when we left cher's house, and we managed to get cher out of the house to play a bit haha. then may and i sauntered home, and the snow got heavier and heavier. we figured it was no fun playing alone, so we called all the ppl who stays near us (shame on you jerald) and we went to play snowballing at lincoln's inn. we even had a mini comrade-ish snowball fight- girl flatmates against evil boy.

AND i got to make my snow angel!

on our way back may mistook tristan for some homeless will-snatch-our-camera-and-run-away guy (haha). see what happens when you wear a beanie and look all unshaven!

then,
i finished watching slumdog millionaire. i believe its the best movie ive watched in a long time. the first half of the movie i watched it mostly with my hand over my mouth in disbelief, and shock, too. the kids are really adorable though, especially the young jamal. and of course it has a happy (romantic) ending, and even a complimentary banghra dance at the end of it;)
and i realised this isnt the first movie of the director (danny boyle) that ive watched.

ah, now im just waiting for school tmr to be cancelled :D

its that beautiful-

light, fluttering snow on a sunny winter day. and watching the snow dance around in the brightness of day from inside my warm toasty room.

seventhday

hereby marks the end of my (incredibly sinful and indulgent) chinese new year celebrations. and to mark that i woke up at 7am today, a feat that will go down in history cos i dont think id be able to repeat it anytime soon. if only you knew what time ive been waking up for the past few days..

so. i ate too much, slept too much, went out too much, and went school too little.

i had dinner with The Flatmates (smirk) last night, and i do think it was quite nice, even though it was just hare and tortoise, and may and i each brought our respective other-half; but cos we can be such a functional household sometimes it was just nice to have a meal out, together. ;) id forgive you lulu, for not even tearing at the last episode of greys.