Today's my grandpa's second death anniversary. His name is Paul Woo. Today is also the death of Paul the Octopus. Lol what coincidence.

Putting that aside, today is also one of my bestest cousin's 20th!!!!! Happy birthday Fatz Woo you know I ♥ you! Cheers to growing up & doing stupid things together!!!

Last week, I fell sick. Really sick & I was again, without my parents because I was in the school hostel. Too weak, lazy and tired to walk to the clinic and I procrastinated for a day until Pam came over to visit me. But all's good now, I'm well. My roomie and I got so much closer so much so we went to town with my two other apartment mates, Gabrielle and Elizabeth to town, got our nails painted, did a spray on tattoo, went to her beautiful home, etc....

But anyway I'm so happy this is over. Back to my home, back to my cozy little corner, back to the life with more freedom without curfews......so many more things I could say.

Did I mention we keep calling for delivery during the hostel stay! It was awesomeeee. Mcdelivery, Pizza hut, Pasta mania........Shepards pie... I think the shepards pie is awesome, gonna order it again!

HAHA and mahjong! Played it for three nights in a row, thanks to my roomie who went home to take this!

Saturday was spent celebrating my god grandpa's birthday at an authentic peranakan restaurant. Love the food! Someone bring me there again please? I think it's somewhere at Frankel Ave....

Went home to take a short catnap and off I went to celebrate Belinda's 18th!

Went to butterfact cauz we had a guest list, and club hopped to Rebel/Zirca right after cos the event there was......idk, boring?

But the night was fun.

While waiting for Kim outside butter.

My new friend said.....fishball cheeks?!

Rebel!

.......and on Sunday, I went to Mandai Crematorium to pay respects to my grandpa cos of his second death anniversary. Went there feeling like.......a zombie.

Anyway, today is my first day of school. Pretty awesome so far, and......this semester is gonna be very unpredictable. I don't know where we are all heading to but all I know is that I want good grades. I want another, or rather more, client presentations so that my record will look a tad better. Let's go A team! And not forgetting, to have fun with my awesome classmates too :) ♥

Hostel stay is pretty fun, but the expenses are way.too.high. Imagine living without my parents for a week, apart from chalets/stayover/overseas school trips, is actually quite a chore because nobody washes clothes/sweep & mop the floor/cook for me! And the reason I said why expenses are high because my group and I had to do grocery shopping. Was entirely L.O.S.T in the supermart because for the first time I had to find dishwashing soap, detergent & paraphernalia. And other expenses include settling 3 meals a day on my own and other stuff.

I could never ask for better apartment mates, I am contented just the way it is. We just clicked the moment all of us talk and it feels nice :)

Headed to Ikea to feast because it's been long since we had sometime nice to eat, and we went to Giant to get face paint just so we could draw and colour on our faces. Oh yes and my roomie suggested face threading so we went to try it out too. Quite an impromptu decision and it was painful! We still bought masks after we got our face threaded that evening!

Crashed one of my apartment mate's friend's place to do some baking for our international buffet. My group and I had to whip up some Australian cuisine so we baked lamingtons! Had that when I was in Brisbane slightly more than a month back. Looked like those malay kueh but it was definitely authentic Australian food. We are good bakers :)

My pretty roomie!

Waiting for the lamingtons to be baked

These are some pics of face painting, and the rest are on facebook!

Normal mirror shot

Today is my first official day of school.

No doubt I am still having my vacation, my heart tells me to take up this Cross Disciplinary Subject during the last two weeks of vacation so that I'll be a little bit more free next semester. More free time = more time to play + sleep + study. I'd gladly suffer this two weeks and make myself a freer being after :)

But I wouldn't say I am suffering. All's good, the hostel is pretty much spacious, with parquet flooring rooms which kinda resemble the ones at home. Sweet! I won't be homesick for sure. By the way, I'm so proud of me for mopping the floor! I never had so much initiative in my entire life because the floor was too dusty and I couldn't stand it... Right now in the master bedroom, while stoning and waiting for my hair to dry, AND, waiting for some inspiration to type out my reflective journal which will be due tomorrow morning, I decided to pop by...

Deanna came over to visit me this evening!!! Heee.

Shall start on my journal already. Byeeee~

I was at home one afternoon and I decided to do some simple packing. While packing, I found the most practical, interesting and cutest wedding gift I've received among all the other weddings I have attended. So these are very meaningful measuring spoons!

A pinch of joy, a dash of tenderness, a spoonful of affection and a heap of love.
Maybe that's all I need for now to see that bit of change in me.....

Yesterday was a epic day spent with my classmates. Had lunch @ Swensens with Pamela and Jocelyn!

and we caught The Other Guys, which was really funny!!!!

Then I went out for dinner with my parents again, got home and received a call and asked if I wanted to hang out cos my secondary school classmate Joel just got his driving license less than 48 hours ago. Why not right!!!! How often do I have friends my age that can drive.....? Actually, none. He's the first I know to get the license! That is a plus point for the January babies. Cafe Cartel for supper and he drove us round.

Went to Jiajun's place, did all the funny little crazy things and headed for another session of supper. And I got home at 3ish?

Can't wait to spend time with them again :)

Change

Change is inevitable.

Lately I have been pondering why am I so angsty/hot tempered/more straightforward these days. Hmm well I do not really need people to point out to me for me to realize that I've changed drastically. Not appearance, duh, I meant character & personality wise. Actually I have long ago felt that I changed already, but that period of time, was the busiest period of my life rushing through deadlines after deadlines, tests after tests and assignments after assignments. Now that I have been spending me-time lately, I begin to reflect and think how much I have changed. Quite a lot actually, and this is actually bothering me. I have changed so much, I cannot actually remember how timid and passive I used to be.

I blamed the projects, my tests, my assignments, the late nights, the people around me that pissed me off constantly till no end and many other things for the change in me. Till now, as much as I would like to blame the things around me, I actually have myself to blame too. I think I have been too caught up with all the things around me....that I actually neglected how I feel, by bottling up everything and exploding all at once like an erupted volcano, which so far, has yet to be tamed.

I finally decided to put my blog up on my twitter because I think there is no point hiding? I mean, I don't like the attention. The more I hide, the more people want to know. This blog was actually set up like urm, six years ago to update my friends bout my life and thoughts but it ended up..... :S

That being said, I also need my space. For the umpteenth time, I do not like people to tell me "Oh hey, 'shit' is a bad word, don't you dare say it." or "You went clubbing, you've changed." I probably did the former because sometimes, I just blurt out without much thought when I'm angry (who doesn't?) and for the latter, clubbing, I was doing it in the name of fun... I am so not a hardcore clubber getting wasted 100% of the time. In fact, I've been protecting my friends, and going home SOBER because I know my limits. And just so you know, socializing is of paramount importance, and it plays a big part in our poly lives and it is definitely of no harm hanging out with my friends. In fact, I am blessed to have my Year 2 classmates and they are really a nice bunch of people I know.

I'm still Mummy's and Daddy's girl. I don't go against them, I don't do drugs, I don't smoke, I don't loiter around and come back in the wee hours of the morning every day, I don't argue back, I don't.......I could probably name a thousand other things to prove it.

Back to the point, that being said, I need my space. I doubt I can type how I feel about certain things openly anymore, let alone my livejournal. All I need is my close friends namely the Spaz Girls and Venus; my channel to pour out my frustrations, my anger, my sadness, joy, everything, knowing that my thoughts will be safe with them.

The people who have been hanging with me every now and then and who are close to me definitely have the rights to tell me I have changed, if I did, which I actually did. But for the people who have probably last seen or talked to me light years ago have no say, really. I don't like to be judged like that by my pictures and stuffs. Tell me, who likes to be judged? Let's just say.....you're attending a birthday party and you're taking some photos with your friends and it happens that you forgot to turn the camera's flash off so when it flashes you looked like half your eyes are closed in the picture. So can I conclude you're really wasted, which is comparable to a drunkard puking like a merlion?! Sometimes it's just pure misinterpretation, so before you actually come to a point whereby you have to judge me, please do clarify first. By the way, that was just an analogy.

Semester 2.1 have made me realize how I can be like when I am forced to be in certain situations by stretching and testing my limits such that I begin to personify someone I never thought I will be.

Change is inevitable. I am sure I will still be changing, and I'm really determined to change back to the old me. I'd rather be soft spoken and meticulous than to speak harshly without thinking which makes people think I have changed, and hurting them unknowingly. With all the determination and discipline, time will tell if I have change for the better :)

Change

We all know that Mrs Lee Kwan Yew passed away just a couple of hours ago. Frankly speaking, I did not understand and did not know how was it like to have someone dear to you departing from this world until my grandpa passed away some two years back. It is October already and speaking of which, his second death anniversary is approaching... This morning when I was doing some simple packing in the living room, I looked through some of the photos grandpa and I took together when I was much younger and I always know he liked carrying me around :')

Coming back to the topic, I think it's a very painful experience to lose someone close to you and I hope the Lee family is coping well!!!

Now putting that aside......,

Bali Trip - 20th-24th September 2010

It was definitely fun travelling with my parents and I would love to go with my friends the next time I go there! It is good to have short getaways once in a while because I'm so bored of staying in this little red dot.

Did not do much on the first day when we reached Bali because when we reached the resort, it was already nine in the evening, so we just explored the resort and the area outside it.

At T3's Changi airport before departure!

Day 2

After breakfast at the resort.

We paid to hire a tour guide just for a day, to bring us to the tourist attractions in Bali. We also got to travel around Ubud, and up north to see the places we were gonna visit.

View from the room

We visited the batik factory to see how the intricate prints were carefully made, jewelery factory outlet to see how they were being made, visited the elephant temple. We were made to wear sarongs or else we will not be able to enter their temples.

This was made up of wheat, beans, and everything else food

And this, was taken in another temple

Preparing for the full moon celebration

Mummy and Daddy

Pretty padi fields!!!!

Visited one of the plantations in Bali

Had lunch at another tourist attraction. Swear the lunch ripped us off and worse still, the food there is horrible. But the best part of it was that we had a scenic view of a volcano, and we were so high up! Pretty cooling up there, and it felt like Genting.

Proceeded to Spring water temple. This is where all the royalties in Indonesia come here once a year to have their bath because they believe that the water will cleanse their souls.

I wonder how do those ladies do it. They don't seem to have a flat head...

Mmm, no apes or humans allowed?

Moving on, the tour guide brought us to see the rice terraces which were really pretty

And the last destination for the day, the Monkey Forest, which was located somewhere in the town area in Bali. The bunch of bananas I bought....was more pricey than the entry tickets to the Monkey Forest -.- Because I was walking around holding a bunch of bananas in my hands, THE MONKEYS FREAKING ATTACKED ME. They just ran to me and snatched the bananas :( But it was definitely cute looking at them eating!

Mummy monkey breastfeeding her baby

Day 3

While waiting for the shuttle bus to fetch us to Discovery Mall and then to the beach

We were.....facebooking!

We did body surfing

Mani + Pedi + Henna tattoo. Princess treatment, me likey

Check out my henna tattoo at the bottom of the post!

Spent only half a day at Kuta beach :( I'd gladly spent all my days at the beach trying different sports if my parents didn't mind the scorching sun...

Lunch was good btw

Day 4

Did some last minute shopping and it was my brother's birthday so we celebrated at a restaurant by the beach

Btw, there was A&W over there so I had to try! Miss eating that :(

Lol, petrol in absolute vodka bottles?

Took a cab back to the resort, and preparing to head to the airport in the evening.

And on the cab, there was this brochure... I so wanna learn howta surf the next time I go there!

A baby bird in the resort was too young to fly so I picked it up

Sooooo cuteeeeee

At the airport

And check out my henna tattoo!

Haha yeah that's about it for the Bali trip! Hope I'll get to go there again :)