I turned 19 on December 13 this year.
When I was 18, I had new experiences.
I got my first job. (Relief teaching)
I was the top arts student. (Tyco)
I got 2 scholarship rejections.
I had stomach flu for the first time. (I don't wanna keep vomiting like a Merlion EVER AGAIN!)
I got into NUS. (Uni life is so different!)
I went overseas with my friends for the first time. (School trips not counted)
I went to KL/ Langkawi/ Genting/ Cameron Highlands for the first time.
I went to JB/ Hong Kong not for the first time, but the first time in a long time. (I can't remember overseas trips I had with my family when I was little)
I gave private tuition for the first time.
I survived on my own money and did not have an allowance for the first time. (Until I became seasonally unemployed).
I think that's it. I liked being 18!
Been going out almost everyday during my birthday month. Exhausted but joyful.
Edit: People keep telling me that they smsed me to wish my happy birthday but if I didn't reply, it means that I didn't receive your message because I was in KL. Thanks to those who tried to sms me anyway! Let me know if you did so that I can thank you personally as well!
Monday, December 26, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Yayyy
Off to Cameron Highlands later! Then to KL after we're done with the farms there! Can't wait!!!
You should all remember to wish me a happy birthday even though I won't be in Singapore!
8/12: Met Michelle at Orchard! Yeap, I went to town again, but this time it was to shop! Took 190 there and along the highway it rained and suddenly it stopped. Random weather. We were supposed to meet at Far East Plaza and when I reached it wasn't raining yet, but it started pouring when she reached so she was stuck at Orchard MRT! I took a bus to join her there. After having lunch we were about to go shopping when she heard about this rumour that SNSD was shopping at Ion so we went all over the mall trying to look for them but to no avail. It was strange that we searched the entire place but we didn't even see a crowd of k-pop fans or anything like that, so perhaps it wasn't true. Or maybe we were just unlucky.
So I told Michelle that when a bunch of us from PJC went to Bintan on the CIP trip last year, we supposedly saw Taeyeon when we were waiting in line to board the ferry. According to the k-pop fans present at the scene who were freaking out, she was the lady wearing huge sunglasses and hiding behind a pillar. When we boarded the ferry there were not enough empty seats for all of us to be seated together, so we went around looking for seats and had to be separated. Jiaying and I got aisle seats and she sat in front of me. We sat next to strangers, whom I didn't really bother taking a look at. Again, according to the k-pop fans who came up to be after we had arrived in Singapore, they said that I sat next to Taeyeon's brother (and beside him was their little sister).
This piece of information obviously did not really excite me very much as it excited them, and they were all squealing and saying that I was very lucky.
I think Taeyeon's brother was the lucky one, since his luck allowed him to not have a hyperventilating k-pop fan sitting next to him during the ferry ride.
Speaking of k-pop, the whole issue about Adeline Chua's article, "Sick of the K-pop cult", is really amusing to me.
I digress. Anyway, Michelle was pretty fascinated with my story since she's such a fan and she told me that she was going for their concert. After our search and a bit of shopping, she went off for work at MBS and I lingered around Ion alone. Shopping alone is fun in a weird way because you can pretend to be some rich girl. At least, that's how I felt when I was approached three times by different sales assistants in a single shop, who kept asking me if I needed any help. I awkwardly left the shop after being approached by the third person, and decided to go to Ngee Ann City instead.
I finally bought some stuff there and as I stood on the escalator on the way down , I saw Lena and Xueying one level below! I knew that they were in Taka since I messaged Xy who told me that she was in town with Lena, but I didn't mean to actually meet them. I guess it was fate, and it was nice to have company anyway. The three of us walked to Far East Plaza. We went to a Thai restaurant where they had their dinner while I had a drink. KK arrived when the girls were about to leave (awesome timing), and I had dinner with him there at the same place. (Which was kinda funny because I left the restaurant and went back in almost straight away.)
Such a nice and random day ♥
You should all remember to wish me a happy birthday even though I won't be in Singapore!
8/12: Met Michelle at Orchard! Yeap, I went to town again, but this time it was to shop! Took 190 there and along the highway it rained and suddenly it stopped. Random weather. We were supposed to meet at Far East Plaza and when I reached it wasn't raining yet, but it started pouring when she reached so she was stuck at Orchard MRT! I took a bus to join her there. After having lunch we were about to go shopping when she heard about this rumour that SNSD was shopping at Ion so we went all over the mall trying to look for them but to no avail. It was strange that we searched the entire place but we didn't even see a crowd of k-pop fans or anything like that, so perhaps it wasn't true. Or maybe we were just unlucky.
So I told Michelle that when a bunch of us from PJC went to Bintan on the CIP trip last year, we supposedly saw Taeyeon when we were waiting in line to board the ferry. According to the k-pop fans present at the scene who were freaking out, she was the lady wearing huge sunglasses and hiding behind a pillar. When we boarded the ferry there were not enough empty seats for all of us to be seated together, so we went around looking for seats and had to be separated. Jiaying and I got aisle seats and she sat in front of me. We sat next to strangers, whom I didn't really bother taking a look at. Again, according to the k-pop fans who came up to be after we had arrived in Singapore, they said that I sat next to Taeyeon's brother (and beside him was their little sister).
This piece of information obviously did not really excite me very much as it excited them, and they were all squealing and saying that I was very lucky.
I think Taeyeon's brother was the lucky one, since his luck allowed him to not have a hyperventilating k-pop fan sitting next to him during the ferry ride.
Speaking of k-pop, the whole issue about Adeline Chua's article, "Sick of the K-pop cult", is really amusing to me.
I digress. Anyway, Michelle was pretty fascinated with my story since she's such a fan and she told me that she was going for their concert. After our search and a bit of shopping, she went off for work at MBS and I lingered around Ion alone. Shopping alone is fun in a weird way because you can pretend to be some rich girl. At least, that's how I felt when I was approached three times by different sales assistants in a single shop, who kept asking me if I needed any help. I awkwardly left the shop after being approached by the third person, and decided to go to Ngee Ann City instead.
I finally bought some stuff there and as I stood on the escalator on the way down , I saw Lena and Xueying one level below! I knew that they were in Taka since I messaged Xy who told me that she was in town with Lena, but I didn't mean to actually meet them. I guess it was fate, and it was nice to have company anyway. The three of us walked to Far East Plaza. We went to a Thai restaurant where they had their dinner while I had a drink. KK arrived when the girls were about to leave (awesome timing), and I had dinner with him there at the same place. (Which was kinda funny because I left the restaurant and went back in almost straight away.)
Such a nice and random day ♥
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Town, Movies, Marathon
Post exam activities!!
30/11: Watched You Are the Apple of My Eye/ 那些年，我们一起追的女孩 with KK! Super nice!
1/12: Went to collect KK's race pack. Had to wait in line for an hour at MBS. Met the clique (Yingwei, Xueying, Elena and Justin) straight after. Ate at MOF. Watched Puss in Boots at Marina Square. SO CUTE! I love all the cute cats at the cat bar!!! Oh yeah and Yingwei spelt Puss in Boots as Piss in Butt HAHAHA so funny!^^
3/12: Had PastaMania for lunch. Watched Breaking Dawn with Shiya and Ama at Cineleisure. The movie was so lame!! Hahaha we were laughing in the cinema especially at the end. We had nothing to do after buying stuff at Muji so I suggested that we could go to the library since I was planning to drop by on the way home. Borrowed two books from CCK library.
4/12: Watched You Are the Apple of My Eye again! This time on YouTube at home and with my sister. We watched it until 2am. Since I wasn't sleeping that night, it was a great way to keep me awake! It also ended just in time for me to prepare and leave the house before 3am. Accompanied KK to Orchard where the start of the Standard Chartered Marathon was.
After that it was just a matter of waiting. Which was why I had brought my library books to read but after a while I couldn't take it anymore so I fell asleep. Then I went to wait for KK and his friend at the finishing line which was at the Padang. They took a little longer than expected, resulting in a suntan for me. I know I've always wanted a tan, but I didn't think I'd get a tan in this way. A lot of strangers came to talk to me as well, which was kinda weird. Like, why is everyone so nice and friendly? So unlike in NUS. Anyway, I was glad that he completed his 42km run. Had lunch together before going home to sleep like a pig.
While waiting I explored the empty Ion Orchard and thought of how easy it was to steal. Then I realised that what I had just thought of was exactly what Fleur Talbot thought of in Loitering With Intent. That amused me. But it was fun loitering around Orchard by myself, and of course I didn't steal. I just thought that if I were some kind of shopaholic, I would be tempted to break the glass of certain branded shops to steal. But I wasn't a shopaholic and I wasn't a fan of branded goods. Actually, when I thought of how easy it was to steal, it was because at the first level of Ion I paused in front of cute Christmas decorations, thinking of how easily I could steal the ornaments left on display. But I didn't steal them because it was wrong; they just looked cute and I had no use for them. Anyway there probably were cameras and it would be lame to get caught just for stealing a cute little angel or something.
Nah, I'm kidding. It's just wrong to steal.
I've been to town so many times that perhaps it would be easier if I could just live there.
Anyway, I've been hibernating in my cave ever since the marathon. I'm about to leave the cave in order to return this library book that's due today. I had used for my lit essay which, sadly, did not get me an A. But it is a very useful book: The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin.
30/11: Watched You Are the Apple of My Eye/ 那些年，我们一起追的女孩 with KK! Super nice!
1/12: Went to collect KK's race pack. Had to wait in line for an hour at MBS. Met the clique (Yingwei, Xueying, Elena and Justin) straight after. Ate at MOF. Watched Puss in Boots at Marina Square. SO CUTE! I love all the cute cats at the cat bar!!! Oh yeah and Yingwei spelt Puss in Boots as Piss in Butt HAHAHA so funny!^^
3/12: Had PastaMania for lunch. Watched Breaking Dawn with Shiya and Ama at Cineleisure. The movie was so lame!! Hahaha we were laughing in the cinema especially at the end. We had nothing to do after buying stuff at Muji so I suggested that we could go to the library since I was planning to drop by on the way home. Borrowed two books from CCK library.
4/12: Watched You Are the Apple of My Eye again! This time on YouTube at home and with my sister. We watched it until 2am. Since I wasn't sleeping that night, it was a great way to keep me awake! It also ended just in time for me to prepare and leave the house before 3am. Accompanied KK to Orchard where the start of the Standard Chartered Marathon was.
After that it was just a matter of waiting. Which was why I had brought my library books to read but after a while I couldn't take it anymore so I fell asleep. Then I went to wait for KK and his friend at the finishing line which was at the Padang. They took a little longer than expected, resulting in a suntan for me. I know I've always wanted a tan, but I didn't think I'd get a tan in this way. A lot of strangers came to talk to me as well, which was kinda weird. Like, why is everyone so nice and friendly? So unlike in NUS. Anyway, I was glad that he completed his 42km run. Had lunch together before going home to sleep like a pig.
While waiting I explored the empty Ion Orchard and thought of how easy it was to steal. Then I realised that what I had just thought of was exactly what Fleur Talbot thought of in Loitering With Intent. That amused me. But it was fun loitering around Orchard by myself, and of course I didn't steal. I just thought that if I were some kind of shopaholic, I would be tempted to break the glass of certain branded shops to steal. But I wasn't a shopaholic and I wasn't a fan of branded goods. Actually, when I thought of how easy it was to steal, it was because at the first level of Ion I paused in front of cute Christmas decorations, thinking of how easily I could steal the ornaments left on display. But I didn't steal them because it was wrong; they just looked cute and I had no use for them. Anyway there probably were cameras and it would be lame to get caught just for stealing a cute little angel or something.
Nah, I'm kidding. It's just wrong to steal.
I've been to town so many times that perhaps it would be easier if I could just live there.
Anyway, I've been hibernating in my cave ever since the marathon. I'm about to leave the cave in order to return this library book that's due today. I had used for my lit essay which, sadly, did not get me an A. But it is a very useful book: The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin.
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Sad but
yay it's December! My favourite month because exams are always over by this time, so there's always no school! And there's my birthday, Christmas, a brand new year to look forward to.
Some lyrics to suit my mood!
This post makes no sense but who cares.
Everything doesn't make sense to me now. Come to think of it, in the past I was accused of being a hardhearted person just because perhaps I didn't show my sadness and I could control my emotions better. And I kept the fact that I was supposedly in a relationship with a guy from my parents. So they didn't know and because they didn't know they couldn't care. But now I somehow can't do that anymore and suddenly I'm more like a crybaby. And my family knows and they do care, but in the most annoying and stupid way (especially my mum) because they don't know anything other than the fact that I'm in a relationship. It's so stupid. I'd rather be seen as an unemotional human being than to be annoyed with my own emotions and tears and family. I don't know how to go back to being like that, though.
Some lyrics to suit my mood!
Maybe it's just me, couldn't you believe- Maybe, by Secondhand Serenade
That everything I said and did wasn't just deceiving?
And the tear in your eye and your calm hard face
Makes me wish that I was never brought into this place
Is it me? Am I so complicated?
Is it me? Or is love over-rated?
Is it me? 'Cause I don't quite understand
Why it never turns out how I thought I planned
Is it me? Am I too independent?- Is It Me, by Stacie Orrico
Is it me? Not ready for commitment?
Is it me? 'Cause it doesn't seem to last
And it's the only question that I never asked
This post makes no sense but who cares.
Everything doesn't make sense to me now. Come to think of it, in the past I was accused of being a hardhearted person just because perhaps I didn't show my sadness and I could control my emotions better. And I kept the fact that I was supposedly in a relationship with a guy from my parents. So they didn't know and because they didn't know they couldn't care. But now I somehow can't do that anymore and suddenly I'm more like a crybaby. And my family knows and they do care, but in the most annoying and stupid way (especially my mum) because they don't know anything other than the fact that I'm in a relationship. It's so stupid. I'd rather be seen as an unemotional human being than to be annoyed with my own emotions and tears and family. I don't know how to go back to being like that, though.
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