i wish i was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

"yunie, here's a video of a nice girl singing a nice song. " and then my friend showed me this link.
;)



and i found the song that ive always liked.



adibah supports my decision in quitting law sch and becoming a travelling musician.

art outside my window

last night i think i saw my neighbours(if im not wrong they're ex students of central st martins) doing some art thingy on the pavement just outside my place. ;) i felt so privileged to have witnessed it from my window. basically they stenciled in the words 'nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely' - in water. i just thought it was pretty ingenious. in less than two hours (it was an exceptionally windy night) the words disappeared. and i felt so inspired;)

ive been thinking back on my original intentions in coming to london to study; the words a senior said to me when i first got here 'its very easy to be lured by the big money' and my easy dismissal of her words; my friend when he said 'its all based on the assumption that i derive greater value in money than spending time with my famliy and friends'. so true, so true.

and 'the golden path' from channel 8 is really not too bad a show. :)

and im starving myself for dimsum later;)

a rainy afternoon with jane austen

so i got home today and it started to rain really heavily. its been quite a cold day today, so i thought, well why not. made some tea, plopped down on my bed and started on karen joy fowler's 'the jane austen book club'.

i love reading books - its a cheap escape out of the real world. i feel like my world is widened with one more book read; then i wish that my whole life is all about reading books, and that i'd never stop. id just keep escaping into their little worlds.

and so on this random cold afternoon i feel a strong sense of wanting. wanting to go back to whats familiar, what defined me, who loves me, where id always have breakfasts in the mornings, and where the radio doesnt play alicia's keys' 'no one' ten thousand times over.
:)

nutella woes

my bed broke. its broken. one of the wooden planks, is snapped, in half, hole, in my bed.

i knew we should have had so many bottles of nutella!!

ミスター味っ子 aka 伙頭智多星

cant get the youtube video to embed in here, but heres the link ;)

and here are the videos, so you guys know what my childhood tv is like ; ) 伙頭智多星
i kinda think my mum will be watching them..

im quite happy staying under my covers watching the glorious foods fill up my stomach ;) katsu don and ramen! argh.
right okay back to my second essay sigh

new things in my room

a new food corner (and the snacks just seems to be piling up although i havent been buying anythg!), my guitar, gymball, and of course, george clooney on my family wall. ;)

hellooo 2008

now its really back to school, back to a normal life of a student in london which i am almost tempted to say "bah, boring" but hey im glad i had a great holiday (i love all of you) but 2008 isnt looking to be all that bad ;)

firstly i bought a gym ball, so i dont have to go outside into the blithering cold just to move my ass. and by cold i mean coooolllddd.

then i bought a 3/4 guitar *shrieks* and im really excited about it. yay! my sis was helping me tune it, now that shes gone i tune it myself. well the strings are in tune with each other i just dont know if they're the right notes :) haha. but they sound alright when i strum it. so yay! i can finally be cool and play the guitar.

i cleaned up my room today (no more sis' stuff around my room ;( and got down to doing a bit of work. (stress: abit)

anw im glad my sis came down. ;) i really miss her silly presence. and now i have coffee in my house and no one will drink it! ;( but well girl, im glad you're happy. love you lots :)

ps. george clooney's picture has made it to my wall of family and friend pictures. ahha now he's family! :)

and im starting to miss everyone back home ;)

happy new year pull your ear

(my dad used to say that all the time. heck, he says it even now! :)

anw my holidays have been great so far. italy was very beautiful: rome is very rich in history, and the structures and buildings are all very huge; venice is unique in the water sense but other than that maybe it was a little too cold to feel the romanticness of the place. ;)

and i love rachel. (: (: (:

yeah. well. and that too. ;) we had loads of fun and i think poor sis deserves a medal for being around us three very loud and noisy girls for ten days. applause!

so a very happy new year to one and all;) much love from london!

one fine day

and so this marks the end of the michaelmas term. ;) what was meant to be a shopping trip to primark again (and my initial plans of *gasp* wanting to go crush) went down as a lazing around in front of my tv together with dearest shimmie. we were such couch potatoes i think we watched what three movies? and friends and charmed in between. and curled our hair in between with the new curling tong i got for her;) it was the first time shimmie got to see the song 'i wanna grow old with you' in the movie itself so she was shrieking throughout and i just felt quite high as well. its an incredibly sweet scene and i just love those two when they do films together. i just need to stop mixing up adam sandler and ben stiller ahah.

then we watched my all-time favourite, one fine day! i cant seem to find a big photo but this will do cos i think this is the nicest scene in the whole movie;) what better movie than one with george clooney michelle pfeiffer and two really adorable kids. i think one fine day trumps all other favourite movies at this point of time;)

then we gradually dissolved into a lump of fat as we ate fish n chips frm fryers delight(oh by then we already had a tub of ben n jerrys) and stared into the black box until entrapment finished and we concluded that catherine zeta jones had the daddy complex in that show cos sean connery is way too old for her.

what better way to spend the last day of term;)

getting old

conversation between me and bra
bra: hey sorry i was afk when you pst me
me:??
bra: you noob(or smthg like that)
me: yeah im getting too old for your lingo
bra: yeah me and yj and shawn on the vent now
me: (gives up)

am i really getting too old for lingos? who the hell says afk and pst??

work it, girl!

i had a crazy time for the past few days just thinking bout the amount of work i have before the term is up. but actually ive been having a great time, which sounds really ironic since im supposed to be head buried in work, but whatever;) did some christmas shopping, then had my first floorball prac since forever and it was gd fun walking around rainy london in shorts and everyone around us was just like 'arent you cold??'. aiyah we wanted to run to sch and then head back alr mah didnt know we would feel like having lunch and walking around brunswick.
then there were the ocf outreach where i thought the choir sounded really good;) and i really liked the play. and the food. and i think malaysians are really funny people. and mayling's primark scarf is pretty!
then of course there was cheryl's birthday party (happy birthdayy hun!) where i think was the first time i spoke to so many singaporeans, at such length, for the first time here. anw it was fun just hanging out and drinking punch (i refused alcohol see so responsible ian is evil) but after the main crowd left we started camwhoring and thats when we got quite high ahha. cheryl's house is one diva house;) i think we watch too much america's next top model haha we were all trying to be jay alexander(is that her name) :"work it girl! come on give me more face!" sonya had really funny commentary on our fashion runway shows "tourist, or international spy?" omg hilarious.

:)
and now i have a mini christmas tree from may as i am feeling quite festive already. explains the lack of work done!

dances around in holiday mood

you get high watching them play! i love alison krauss, really wish i can get my hands on her album soon. too bad my fav song of hers isng famous at all. its some weird song called stars but hey that was the first i heard of her and i really liked her for that. then cold mountain came along and i fell in love with her music;)

anw this is prob the first nght i have free. well pretty much by chance cos i was planning on doing work tonight until i realised my textbook doesnt have what i needed to read up on. so too badddd. i prob shd be doing something useful ;) since greys isnt up yet i guess i shall return to work then!

oh breathe, just breathe

was supposed to be writing my european law essay, but ive read my articles and i have pen and paper and all my materials in front of me. ive bathed, in my pjs, with a bowl of granny smith apples drizzled with sugar and cinnamon (muaha) and the choc cake is still on my table. the things i put into my body:)

i have a confession to make.

oprah makes me cry;) whenver i watch her show id be so inspired or moved or just feeling so thankful that she's there making all the difference in this world. well minus the drama whenver she gives out all the (oh gloriously expensive) presents, she really is an inspiration!
today's episode was about heroes and how people saved other people. there was this mother who used her body to shield her two boys from a tornado. broke her back and is now paralysed, but her little kids were so adorable 'my mum is my hero'. and the marines who returned from iraq war after 7 months, and when oprah says 'whether we support the war or not, we're grateful for those soldiers who are out there protecting you and me' she makes so much sense in such simple words.

i am a woman when i say i love watching oprah!

keep breathing

shimmie introed me to this song, but what she didnt know is that i already know this song;) am rewatching greys, and well i think this is really the last of rewatching greys. you know its too much when you know for sure what happens next, when the more memorable lines, punchlines, come in. ;)


then i koped this from yann's blog. i normally dont like scrubs, but this is really sweet;)


whoever says tv is bad for the soul??

the most adorable strawberries

they all look incredibly cute. they're really small and they all look so perfect. every single one looked like a little heart shape if you hold them upright and they all had a perfectly symmetrical leafy thing on top. but of course i finished them in one sitting - with sugar drizzled on top :) just the perfect way to eat your strawberries!

had a very productive night - and wound up with gu ice cream and greys, again. not being able to wash my hair is a good excuse to not exercise! but then again i do wish my wound would heal faster so that i can do normal stuff again (i.e. wash my hair)


and jerald just threatened me to stop skipping school cos he doesnt want to lend me anymore notes. oops;) it was just one weeeekk and now i have loads to catch up on. but its okay i kinda like what im learning now in year two (except property, i still dont like property theres something wrong with what we're studyingg)

time flies and i only have two more weeks left of school, then after christmas break i only have ten more weeks of school and its the end of my second year at LSE. i know maybe its become i spend alot of time lazing around and having a good time, but its just scary to know that so soon, so near, id be done with my studies and id start my life as a working adult.
cant wait;)

two mornings after feliz navidad

the concert was really fun;) well minus the fact that the fuse for the mics blew just minutes before we were about to start which gave us all a mini panic attack, we were fine. ;) I honestly thought we pulled everything off (and i pulled off singing angel phew) and well i think in the end we all enjoyed ourselves. ;)


and so that night after the really late supper and the really cold walk back home, i took out a tub of hagen daaz double chocolate and cookie dough ice cream, and ate it while watching greys, before falling asleep on a very comfortable airbed.
life is good;)

the london way

well so today i did nothing but dealt with stuff concerning the bump on my head.

went to my gp to get my stitches taken out, and the nurse was rough. like, tackling a rugby ball. it was painful i kid you not. i was quite close to crying which says alot. and then she started getting annoyed that she couldnt find my stitches (cos they were black, which i agree, is quite dumb) so well. I had 7 stitches, and she only took out 6. and then it started bleeding again and she had to dress it so now i have a dressing plastered to my hair (which is going to cost me more hair..) and now im really quite afraid of moving my head too much. she wanted to send me back to the hospital that did this to me but i said well the hospital is quite far so she agreed to see me again tmr.

i also went to the citizens advice bureau but the lady just told me what everyone has been telling - which is to get a lawyer. so then we were watching tv and the advert for those claims stuff came up and well i entered my details into their website and they got back to me so now im just waiting for them to get back to me again. the lady at CAB did say i might not have a case since there werent any permanent damage- and i know i sound like i really want the money or something, but it just seems wrong that i got hit on the head for fault not my own and they get away scot free. they are under a general obligation to make it safe for people to walk on the pavements, and they didnt do it well enough.
although its been hard to justify my loss. "er, missing school, having to rest at home because its too cold and rainy outside and i didnt want anything to get into my hair, traumatised whenever i see scaffoldings, missing essay deadlines..."

oh wells! i just want to get the last stitch out of my head;)

concert day tomorrow;) if you havent gotten a ticket and are still thinking bout it, well stop thinking and come! i do think its going to be a great concert;) anw its for charity so if you've been holing yourself up reading the financial times and thinking bout yourself and applications, take some time off tomorrow evening and just let your hair down for one night. :)

"in the end, only kindness matters." -hands, jewel.

oh what an experience!

so i guess as most people should know, last friday i met with a really unfortunate accident. well it all began with me planning to go shopping at primark with shimmie, so we met in school and headed off in rather high spirits, because it was afterall a shopping trip:) but alas we didnt get very far. well when we got to the big sains at holborn, we were walking past these two construction workers who were removing some scaffolding, and well everything happened quite fast, but before i knew it i felt something (a scaffolding pole, the whole 80kg, really long pole) hit my head, so i fell to the floor grabbing my head (shimmie thought i tripped over something) and when i lifted my hands off my head well i saw blood on my hands, and (according to shimmie) blood was squirting out of my head, forming this puddle of blood infront of me. all i could think of was 'er this cant be happening right'
so then began the whole hysteria around me. shimmie was desperately trying to call 911 on her hp but she couldnt so she started screaming "call the ambulance!" (note: the number to call in uk is 999 :D) and then this gay guy came prancing over and lent us his scarf so we could have something to press against the wound. after a while the police and the ambulance came, i must say they didnt take too long. all i know was that there was alot of commotion around me and i was just trying to be calm and hoping that i would get to the hospital soon. (how freaky is this but mayling, who was on her way to ocf camp, actually saw the scene thingy but she couldnt see who was injured. !)
so they put me in a headbrace and strapped me to a stretcher, just in case. then they left me there for quite a bit of time cos they were trying to decide where to send me to. apparently the nearest hospital is also the busiest and they didnt want me to wait, but then again i seemed fine so they were well, just discussing. that was when i started getting really scared;) they had cornered off the area, and left me lying there in the cold, strapped, and i could see all the commotion around me and people talking about me but not to me, and shimmie wasnt anywhere nearby. i saw this guy in an apartment above the scaffolding taking pictures of the whole thing, and well i just felt really alone. so i started crying.
and even when i got on the ambulance i was crying even harder cos i telling shimmie to call my parents and i just felt so sad that they were so far away and how worried they would be to hear all these. haha shimmie was trying to get me to stop crying because it just made me bleed more and i was bleeding onto the ambulance floor which wasnt a pretty sight.
i guess everything got better when i got to the hospital. everyone seemed pretty amazed that i didnt feel alot of pain and that i was in quite a good shape. i had to wriggle my toes, tell them the colour of my socks, and wherever part of my body they pressed didnt hurt. so they stitched me up and sent me home.
nurses were pretty though (in ref to rai's qns, yes the nurses were really pretty)
by the time i made it back home my hair was a mangle of clotted blood and white blood cells. even after i shampooed my hair the first time my hair was still in tangles and shimmie had to spent another hour shampooing my hair for me. so now im not going to wash my hair for the next five days( until i take out my stitches!)
oh and i lost my wallet as well. bah.
;)
well. whenever mishaps happen to me i think of the life line on my palm, and the growing gap and the 'misfortune' that this one friend who once read my palm said to me. i did think it would be it, as morbid as it sounds, but then life's like that and i guess im just one really lucky girl.
and of course, all my awfully sweet friends ( as llewellyn was jealously telling me) who cared bout me, heres a big smooshy kiss to you guys;) esp shimmie. man this woman is my nanny! but she really did take very good care of me;) really glad you were around babe. and of course the apple crumble and gu ice cream;) and the many phone calls, albeit a tad bit expensive ones;)

alot of people had very funny response to my misfortune so, no shawn the scaffolding wasnt that short; and no adibah, im not going to forget that im from singapore and go back to china (!!); and no cheryl, i didnt forget you but i really didnt know your chinese name to begin with so thats not a valid question to ask! ;)

im really one blessed girl;)
just one small pic for those who wants to see the cleaned up wound (which according to ian, wont illicit anymore sympathy for me)

A prelude to christmas;)

Come hear us sing happy songs:)


*****
i forgot about my salmon in the oven and now i have burnt salmon. ;(

slow down!

time has been moving along, very very fast. so i escaped to oxford last weekend and i stayed there for about i think three days :D three hot nights sleeping in rosh's bed we basically spent the whole weekend doing work(seriously) shoppng at primark (Againn) and doing this beady thingy that rosh bought haha and watching mohinderr(must do the indian accent). i did like one beady thing for may as well but no one can see her name unless you hold it realllly far away but hey at least you can see your name! and we walked around cold cold oxford and stuffed ourselves with macD's( as jessica calls it) and well it was just really really nice to spend time with her. now i cant wait for rachel to come over;D in case you're wondering that rosh wearing her atas scholar gown. only those who get distinctions get to wear them. i dont get it its already oxford how much higher can you go?? but oh wells thats the english for you. I LOVE YOU ROSH. so ive been busy with work and more work and essays and law fairs and thinking about doing applications. law fairs were good and i think im wrapping my head around the idea of working here;) life is good;) im the queen of relaxing so whenever i feel like im moving too fast i slow down a little and look around. the other day i saw the autumn leaves do this little dance as the wind blew and it was just so beautiful- it was as if the sky was raining leaves. then well the cashier at primark told me i was very beautiful;) i do feel like im putting on weight again, with all the macs and kamfung ive been ingesting these days. havent had the time to cook- i dont think im even home alot these days. but thats really good i dont feel so congested when i stay in school nowadays. i think LSE is growing on me;)

so yup that sums up my life, for now;)