Friday, August 19, 2005 0 comments Post a Comment On my flight, Its SQ 0826 (Terminal 2) 25th August (Coming Thurs). My flight is at 0805 AM. (yes. AM.) I should enter the gates by 7 AM. So i should be at the airport at 6 AM or so. Okay. I'm not saying ANYTHING. (I really hate this feeling.) Don't come cos its terribly early, trust me, if it was a 9pm flight, i'll be bringing attendance lists and doing rollcalls. But its 6 am, so its REAAAALLY (cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die ) OKAY. I'm trying to be understanding in a very ZY manner. Don't bitch. I'm like that. (DOESN'T HELP TT U COME N TELL ME " WAH LAU. SO EARLY. " I know its early, thats why im tuning my expectations down. *growl*) You have been warned. Nothing more shall be said on this matter (at least not on a public basis). ~ With regards to my blog, i think i'm keeping with blogspot. All the other inferior blogsites have restrictions on templates or are plain silly. The nicest one i could find was this china blogsite which had this pretty cool goatskin background (don't ask). I'll use that if i get tired of not being able to see my own blog. The problem with China and blogspot , is that i will be unable to view my own blog and thus : a) not be able to read my comments b) not be able to spot problems in my captions for photos or photos etc c) have big problems trying to load new songs Other than that, no big sh*t. So i might employ some help from anyone i see online to help me check my blog when i have a new entry (don't worry fjj, i need people wth genuine pikpikpiakpiak english. :P ) So don't complain if you're the random chosen one. UNLESS YOU DON'T WANT TO READ MY BLOG AND BE UPDATED WITH MY LIFE. *glares around* (thanks zhao for offering! good zhao!) yep. i might change the address to make it well..more private. will inform the necessary people. thanks people for all the support. blogging will stop after i fly and should only resume in about a week after my arrival at shanghai. ~ Packing starts this sunday. Got my checklist out. Have been doing some simple accounts. Must get used to keeping receipts and sticking them on nice big jotter books for reference when i'm over there. And will have to do quite some fund transfer from my account to my dad's cos he paid for air tics, air taxes and laptop for me. Adele will be back on tues, i must give her an afternoon. IF she spares me her precious time. *roll eyes*. ~ Had a pile-up-the-friends day today. Met JJ for a mini-competition between each of our favourite prawn mees (my AMOY street dry prawn mee versus his LITTLE INDIA AH HWEY prawn mee with soup). Well the result was predictable : we insisted on our own choice being the better of the 2. typical obstinance. tsk. MINE'S REALLY GOOD. bleah. Then JJ joined me to meet melet and zhao at Kuriya so zhao could use up his $30 voucher (and the 2 of them could still spend $14 each). We proceeded on to Royal Copenhagen which is just a tai-tai's 6-star cafe at taka lar. I wonder how melet knows bout such high class places. Its just... unexpected of her! haha. Us Outside Royal Copenhagen We had hot date sticky pudding with strawberries and grapes (melet's), a really plain green tea sponge cake (mine :< ), a blueberry cheesecake which was light and rich at the same time! (zhao's) and a pair of fat scones with jam,butter and cream. OUR CAKES Then the 4 of us went for blazer/suit/jacket testing at Zara. haha. It was a mini-garment-crash course, with funny words like tweet? sueze? corduroy? velvet? coming out. I used to see these words on books or magazines and never knew what they meant. oh well. i still don't remember but at least melet tried. Then huili joined us and we hung out for quite awhile, went to help her choose a crumpler bag for her sis. But i was protesting loudly against crumpler bags, COMMONPLACE! SU2! terrible. and just to prove my point, we did a minor investigation. In less than 3 hrs, we spotted more than 27 crumpler bags in takashimaya. Goodness. Can it be any more Yong1 Su2. Im sorry if anyone of you have it but..... SHAME ON YOU! Carrying the exact same bag as everyone else on the street. But oh well, i guess if the quality of the bag is worth its RIDICULOUSLY STEEP price and its MEDIOCRE design, then so be it. *snorts* (sorry lili, now i know you really won't want to buy the bag for your sister but i really feel you shouldn't commonify her. haha. 'commonify' ) Anyway, lao po was really sweet. Oh well, i guess i was a LITTLE bit grumpy and upset cos of the impending departure and she wanted to get me something. And knowing her, she makes really impulsive buys when she likes sth herself. So she got me this puma jacket! I know its the typical adidas lookalike jacket but hoho, i love the colour and its POSER! I like acting poser at times. but i suck at it. So i'm the unsuccessful poser that just turns out to be awkward and adorable , i guess... (crazy grin) So both of us love it and i'm supposed to wear it *small voice* 24/7 but its reallly quiiite hot in sg? *imitates melet's timid look* heh. but i guess i can manage it in late summer or early spring in shanghai. oh well! I dun even know if fudan has airconditioned lecture theatres (hohoho) cos i remember beida not having them! (or am i mistaken?) I'll bring it to shangai anyway lao po! Thanks alot! Its really too ke4 qi4.. i don't really know why there's a need for farewell gifts but oh well, i DO like free and chio stuff! *wide toothy grin* I realised i don't look very me in such a bright coloured sporty jacket. haha. I DUN CARE ANYWAY! Me and my Puma Jacket and NZ Natural Ice Cream (sth's up w my hairdo) Lili and Me and OUR Puma Jacket (she loves it alot too) Some things we learnt today : 1) JJ can't spell encyclopaedia and giraffe 2) Lili and I can't spell accommodation 3) Everyone thinks i have ugly handwriting (Jap, Chi or Eng) : *glum look* 4) Amoy street prawn mee is SIMPLY SUPERIOR. ~ In 6 days. Change approaches. I know leaving was by choice, but i can never visualise the whirlpool of an infinite number of changes that comes with it. Maybe that's why i've been feeling a void inside. A certain aimlessness and helplessness. Don't mind me. 8/19/2005 11:22:00 PM Wednesday, August 17, 2005 0 comments Post a Comment It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here, It stays pretty green. I'm gonna make a lot of money And I'm gonna quit this crazy scene Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on. I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me He put me at ease He loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I'm so hard to handle I'm selfish and I'm sad Now I've gone and lost the best baby That I've ever had Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye - Joni Mitchell "River" I am insanely in love with this song. Like how i usually do when i fall in love with anything. Brief but apocalyptic. Its my blog song now, do put your volume up for awhile and give it a listen. 3 overseas calls in a week, uncle agony for 5 friends in a day, emails to reply, appointments to catch, family meals, late and long night-phonecalls, 1 more jab left, claims and accounts to be done, 1/5 through my 1st chi book in a long while, packing awaits, goodbyes to be said, over and over again. My braincells are going lemming - i stayed up all night yesterday for another mj session with *nudges to right* them and i haven't caught a wink of sleep for almost 34 hours already. I feel like death. but oh well, i won quite a bit. so i'm not complaining. *pats jj's head* A week left, my heart is so empty and full at the same time, i hardly have room for simple anticipation. its just occupied by short-term objectives. 1230s @ orchard mrts and 6ams @ changi airport and back-home-by-4-pms. I suddenly wondered if Shanghai is preparing herself for my arrival. ~ boy can you let things go. 8/17/2005 06:20:00 PM

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