the ox beckons...

(a road sign in India)

oooh yes, it's been a while since i last posted anything. I'm really bad at this actually. I see other people's blogs and they look real nice n stuff..I'm not all savvy with decorating my blog, which is sad :(
anyways, i had a nice reunion dinner last night. I was looking forward to 'yee sang' and i got it :) it was yummy and lived up to my expectations maybe cos i only eat it once a year so i can't really tell if it tastes better or worse than last year..
I just watched Slumdog Millionaire (although I shouldn't have cos it hasn't arrived in our cinemas - not sure if it ever will..) and oh my goodness i think it dampened my new year mood. I just can't watch these type of movies and just go "oh, nice movie"
aaaahhh..i don't know.. it was really sad, but with a happy ending, but still..the things the boy went through, i don't know how he survived (yes i know its not real,but still..) i guess it's just depressing watching how different people live their lives, or at least try to survive... i haven't read the book yet but now i am gonna make sure i do. Anyway, yay i got nice angpau's from my loved ones :)
that makes me not poor again hehe.. I really gotta save up..i have so many things to buy..phone (iphone preferably =p) and music books.. I need to start teaching part time...to earn some extra money..soon.. i feel so dull today, especially after watching that movie..and unluckily, my boyfriend had to see me later and not get any attention nor reaction from me..I'm so sorry Joachim..I love you!

cold iced lemon tea

On Saturday, i hung out with my dear friend and cousin Siok Leng and Meena :) we were out for quite long, about half the day from 3pm to 12.30am! the best part was i didn't feel it at all. cos that's what happens when you're having fun :)
anyways, we had chinese dinner and then went off to meet two more friends for supper (almost right away cos we took quite awhile for dinner) to this sad little place called CoffeeMug. so we were ordering our drinks and my charming girlfriend SL asked for "iced lemon tea, please. Oh can you make it cold? (she thought she ordered hot iced lemon tea....)" i may have changed her exact words,but that was what it meant LOL i was laughing so much tears were just streaming down my face and i feared a sore throat was coming along but lo it didn't :)
On Sunday, i went to my gramma and grampa's house for lunch and also to spend time with them cos i haven't seen them in 2 weeks. i ended up sleeping after lunch for about an hour and a half. i felt so bad! then my everloving pohpoh made me tea and showed me rambutans that she picked from the tree in her garden,asking me to eat some. and then she lamented about how she couldn't pick some really ripe, nice-looking ones that were growing too high up the tree. so i decided to TRY to pick them with a stick-n-hook my grampa made (omg i tell you, he can make anything from scratch, anything to do with the outdoors just ask)
and i did manage to get a number of 'em down (yayy) it was so fun.it was my first time doing this! it was quite hard as well. it made me really happy that i could do that for my grandparents. cos most of the time i feel useless really. yeah...it was a good day. then at night i watched this show called 'Samantha Who?' it was really good :)
today, back to uni :(
peace n love,

this morning

so many things 'happened' in such a short while.

Israel is bombing gaza to feel all powerful and sh*t.

I'm reading about civilians dying. Adults AND babies. Babies are flying because of the impact of the bombs. Nail bombs. White phosphorus. Israel has some super hi-tech new weaponry stuff that's really bad. it's this thing called the micro pellet.

"Large numbers of it entering the body would destroyorgans like the brain, lungs and abdomen. You can't find the entry point because it enters by very small holes in the skin (The pellets were the size of a pin's head. A pin's head!!!)" [source: The Star, 17 January 2009]

Oh my goodness, while I was reading that...so much pain, and I'm here reading about it with breakfast, peacefully. It sucks really. I wish I could go over there with the relief organizations that people join. I think I wanna do that when i finish my degree, unless of course the war stops, then there's no point of me going is there. I haven't been reading the papers much since last year cos the paper is full of bull (hey, it rhymes) most of the time (especially about politics) so i don't bother anymore. *on a side note, notice that things/words that don't make sense usually rhyme..

That's why I feel like whoa, what the hell - Israel hasn't stopped?? I'm thinking, of course Hamas won't stop cos they're the smaller fish, they need to protect themselves. Israel should know that when they stop, Hamas will definitely stop. I can't believe the president or prime minister or whatever (of Israel) is just letting this go on..I'm really shocked actually. Aren't they supposed to be smart? I think most world leaders now are mercenaries concerned with getting more power.

Anyway, another thing is that I fear I might never get to see my beautiful niece again. But it has nothing to do with the whole Gaza conflict thing, no.

[*edit: I'm happy to say that my niece is back safely and she's an absolute angel. As for the war, it definitely hasn't stopped, last time I checked.]

peace+love

just off the top of my head today

my first real blog wow. . .
i just created this for myself to have a place to rant and here it finally is :)
one thing i hate about thoughts is that if you don't have a pen and paper with you, those thoughts might just vanish and never come back cos you were too busy thinking about them and lots more that you could not possibly remember all of what you thought about.
so, a reminder, have a pen and paper with you wherever you go. it might turn useful one day, especially if you want to let everyone know what you think about things.
anyway, that's what just happened to me today.
i had so much to say, and i was eager to get this blog thing set up and now, there's nothing much i can say. Sad really. I look forward to being back here as soon as possible to hype things up a little :)
toodles