Fast forward.

Some photos that I was lazy to upload to fb.

Soho area, I think. One of my favorite parts of NY

A quiet night in Toronto. We were just missing a beer

Hump-back whale in the Atlantic. And no, it is not possible to take a full shot because unlike dolphins they don’t jump into the air for you to capture a shot! Lol.

Boston piano in Pennsylvania, a direct bloodline of the Steinway. I could feel electricity-like-waves running through me as I play (hahaha)

Connecticut. Is it a real state or just a state of mind (ya’ noe, imaginery..) ? haha

2 days into my holiday and I am getting bored. Waking up to an empty house, cooking lunch for 1, even the gym is empty! And the rain just means a no-no to swimming. Tmr (wed night) is going to be a stay home for me. Going to watch more movies and read some books!

I pray that I would get a temp job soon! They called me, but is still unconfirmed because I can’t start next week due to big 4 interviews. So that would kill off the 3 months.

Things to do
1) Birthday plans – Its great turning 21 (delusional)
2) Christmas season! Family & cell group Can’t wait for the BBQ!

Bed time! Goodnight world

Someday we’ll know, if love can move a mountain
Someday we’ll know, why the sky is blue
Someday we’ll know, why I wasn’t meant for you….

Wanderlust

I’m recharged after my 7 hour nap. Saturday was a very long day, though I did have fun and managed to catch up with some of my friends. No more late nights, they’re just so bad for the health. And I have no voice now!

I was observing the pianist during the mandarin service, trying to remember all the procedures. I haven’t touch the piano in 3 weeks and I need stamina to play. I better start practising again. Hanon everyday man. After the mandarin service, I decided to go down for the English service because there was a very good speaker – Dr Tan Lai Yong. He was in the papers a few months back after serving as a missionary doctor for 15 years in China. He successfully trained a handful of barefoot doctors to provide basic healthcare to the villagers. RESPECT. I was really inspired by what he shared.

He talked about how diarrhea is a leading cause of death in China especially among infants. A simple cure would be an Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) that can be made using ingredients/resources in the villages like water, sugar and salt. An ORS made correctly, should tastes like tears. He hosts many doctors from around the world who come down to China to provide medical treatment. When they are taught how to make the ORS the simple way and that QC is that it have to taste like tears, they are confused. (“What do you mean taste like tears?”) On the other hand, when it is imparted to to the villages, 9 in 10 of them understand when you tell them the ORS they make have to taste like tears.

Coming from a management school, being selfish is acceptable. And I don’t mean selfish as in the unwillingness to help one another. I think people are still nice to one another. But we become selfish-beings the moment we don’t look beyond the high walls of our corporate world and turn a blind eye to poverty. We permit ourselves to be cast into thinking wealth should be our only care. I can’t really say for sure, what ought to be, because I entangle myself in conflicted arguments trying to figure it out.

haha okay time to lighten up. Had my 1030am ritual brunch with my dad – porridge with yu sheng! Both of us finished the big plate. I wonder when I will ever stop eating it. I have eaten it almost every Sunday for the past decade.

After some grocery shopping, I totally crashed. Woke up in the evening and went for a nice seafood dinner by the beach – the usuals crabs, mussels, drunken prawns. Life is gooood. Though as a family I think we kind of worry about our cholestorol because of our weakness for seafood.

And I realize I am particularly mean and sarcastic to people from a certain profession. I like to think that my sarcasm stems from my cantonese roots, but thats just a poor excuse for bad behavior. Got to change my attitude! Be nice be nice be nice.

I miss Andrea I can’t get a cat/dog because I don’t think I would have time to play with it! Maybe a hamtaro? But don’t think I would be able to find a hamster as awesome as my albino pudding (type of hamster breed). Haha. I can spend time building a hamtaro wonderland with a sand bath, a fun wheel for naps and exercise, tunnels to play catch……

Wonder me.

Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there…

I can’t wait to unwind on the 26th of november 11am!! Back to work!

Suits me.

I am on a coke drip to stay awake. I want to run so badly, but I feel guilty expensing energy on exercising rather than memorizing.

I want to do so many things and I can’t wait for the exams to be over!

And somehow HIMYM is just getting from bad to worse. Apparently Robin gets pregnant? Anyway I haven’t watch it yet, but my brother was spoiling (intentionally) the whole thing.

So true…

It turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you
Wishing I’d realized what I had when you were mine
I go back to December, turn around and make it alright
I go back to December all the time

December is coming Its times like that I wish I know how to play the guitar! Wonder if I should attempt a sing-along for christmas. HAHA Okay enough of this airy-fairy stuff. Time for part 2 of mugging.

Zesty.

Today was such an unproductive day. I am such a sloth. Sloth. ;)

Congrats M for getting the internship. Now I’ll look forward to being kept up to date on the latest iphone Apps. I mean can you believe it. There is even an iphone App to let you know if there is a traffic police/Fatimah near your illegally parked car. haha!

My friend ask me to go Korea in Jan. Very tempting considering that there is Pinkberry, but its so cold. I still reminisce the sunny afternoons at Harvard Square with Pinkberry topped with mangos, strawberries and chocopops! And I still think the normal size for Asians is the mini or small, not the medium. *Ahem* Now all the Singapore rip-off of frozen yoghurt taste like crap. Should I travel or save money. hmmm….

Okay got to head back to the books. Correction, I have to head to the books. (Not “back”, because I wasn’t even there).

He will come for me after he is done figuring out his own life. Whoever he is.

Fly me to the moon
And let me sing among the stars
Let me see what’s spring is like on Jupiter & Mars…

Time to jazz up my night with some Julie London (& corp finance)

Almost there.

Today’s paper was… I was pretty numb and nonchalent about the whole thing. Heh.

Can’t wait for the exams to be over. I can’t believe the cheapo tickets for the Liszt piano concertos are sold out. I am definitely not paying $50 to get the same effect as I would with a $20+ ticket. $50 or $20, I will still feel larger than life for that good hour or so. 

Nothing much to watch this year… Well I was excited about Wicked. I listened to their album numerous times throughout this semester but I think I prefer more classical musicals like the Phantom of the opera rather than contempory musicals. Yup, I’m a 50 year old stuck in the body of a 20 something. Too bad wisdom did not come with it

Argh still coughing. Maybe I’ll go for a run tomorrow after I am done studying for my paper and editing (one last round of the project)

Its amazing how fast time has past. Though on hindsight I feel at times, that I should have taken a gap year prior to college… but you live by the decisions you make, and I live by mine. Nothing exceptionally bad happened to me, there were tough times especially the start of 2010. Come next june, this chapter of college life will come to a close, and what hold us (friends etc) together would be the memories we had.

I love the balloons! And her shoes!

Okay bed time. The effects of red bull has run down substantially.

Goodnight!

Enlightened.

I am on the brink of tears. After 3 weeks, I finally understand what GDP 11 is talking about. What up. Bazinga. I kept thinking value relevance was some sort of strange theory hovering in another realm. Actually all the answers were in the article. haha. Should have read it a long time back. I have to speed up my revision!

I was sitting in my chair studying hard and the image of koi bubble tea popped into my mind. I felt sad because I felt like drinking it but I can’t have it coz’ the nearest store is at parkway Who would have thought… My sister walked into the room and place a cup on my table.

So last the big 4 finally called… I really wonder which one would take me in. I just need a big 4 to execute my 3 year plan and then… Get married and be a tai tai.

I’m kidding.

I will marry a guy and he will be the tai tai.

Still kidding.

Well depends. If I do meet someone, I will follow him where ever he goes. (AWWW) If I don’t, I will TRY to get a job in another continent. If I can’t, I might get out of audit and do something else, maybe be a teacher – mould lives and futures. (I’m still kidding, don’t want to be bad influence to the young tender minds of Singapore)

well no one knows. And a 3 year plan may become a 3 months plan or a 23 year plan. Only God knows. All I hope for is  that X number of years from now, I will be as happy as I am right now.

Will you trade everything you have, for that one person that blows your mind?

I don’t know whether I would. I just know that I want a beer.

Good night everybody..

The young and free.

Terrible cough, but Im glad the worse of the flu is over.

I am quite devastated that Chanel did not reply me! I applied for a temporary position, but then again without any retail experience, a degree won’t even help. But then again, I am fine with any vacation job haha! Maybe I’ll work with J for fun hehe.

All I know is that I need to make my own money to buy christmas presents. I know my aunty already bought me my favorite Nantucket Crabtree and Evelyn shower gel. I smell like a friggin’ awesome flower after I use it Really. Its that awesome.

Contemplating going HK for a short trip, probably in Feb. But I don’t know whether I should go HK then or later because I want to go with my sister when she auditions. I’ll bring my pom poms and open cans of red bull for her. And its been pretty obvious that she really wants to do dance in that HK school. But I think its really the shopping she wants lol. Can’t imagine her leaving =/ But if she doesn’t get in, its NAFA I guess. haha. Singapore why you so cui.

So cozy. Wish I was the kitty!

Omg. Everyone is flying home in November.. Neighbour is coming home and staying till Feb =D Awesome……. time to go back to work.  

Take care dearies! <3 <3

PS: 6 months have passed, and after substantial pondering, wondering, I conclude… I am indeed a I-love-you slut. haha Love ya all!

A beautiful day…

Not. I am sorry if I sound angsty, but I honestly don’t get what is with the 11.11.11. It was quite a bad day. Only Daniel Powter will know how I feel. Anyway I thought I was recovering from the flu, seems like its going to take some time. Especially after the super gao gelato which was one-for-one along citylink. Do not.

My airways are pretty clogged and I had a nose bleed HAHA. Hilarious.

And I need to see my dermatologist so badly. I remembered during my last appointment, he said to me, “Why you don’t have time to see me?” Isn’t it a tragedy? The whole of 2011 he is the only guy who said this to me. ahaha.

I wonder if there is a caramel malt beer ice cream, or a white wine ice cream.. Well maybe I can generate that in my dreams. Bed time!

I want a tattoo too! The temporary ones. And paint my nails black. I want to try gothic!

Good night my lovelies

When in doubt, place your hope in the Lord
He has no plans to fail you, but only to prosper you

Lets make a deal: 6 macdonald’s nuggets for tuning my violin

The irrationality

The week was getting from bad to worse and finally there was slight rebound today. Lets get started with the bad.

I think my group really made a mess of the AT presentation. We misunderstood the meaning of the arrows and permitted ourselves alot of free-styling in terms of linkages. To top it all, I was having a fever during the presentation and my brain was functioning at a pace so slow I was close to concluding it was downsizing. =’( I haven’t decided what was worse- the sadist located at my 1 O’Clock tearing up our arrows (and I gave him top 5 for class part, oh well its the truth), the prof criticizing us, people sniggering at us, or the fact that I am pretty screwed for my finals. I think it would be the latter as it is looming possibility, as whatever that preceeds that is an unchangeable fact.

But I guess now I have to curb my worries, and translate the negative energy into a push to get me to the end. And honestly I can’t do it without God. Sometimes I wonder, is it better to be smart and not having to rely on God (or other people), or is one better off to be weak and to see the acts of God. This would render intelligence a questionable blessing (and a smart person would classify me as a case of sour grapes). And sometimes I wished why genetic lottery at conception could not permit me a higher IQ and information absorption. haha.

But I think its when a really excruciating module to study like AT that comes along, you’re on a bended knee. And how apt is this quote:

One who kneels before God can stand before any man

Placing anxiety aside. I’ll do my best and let God do the rest.

Well the best part of this week was someone dropping by for a visit today….. Even though we only watched TV and munched on fattening mac delievered nuggets (inspired by the oompa loompa like characters from Despicable me)

 

 

 

A pretty carousel to connote bad week that ended with a beautiful note. Good night world!