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Entries from December 2008

Last day of 2008.

December 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Some of my best moments in life <3:

Lying in bed listening to the rain outside the window with a hot chocolate at the bedside.

A long drive down a calm road with windows down and favorite music playing out loud.

Getting out of shower during winter and jumping into the arm of my loved one for warmth.

Finding money in my old jeans just when I need it.

Giggling over silly jokes for endless hours.

Seeing the one I love happy.

Wearing the shirt of the person I love and smelling his “smell”.

Watching the sunset on a cruise with wind in my hair.

Holding hands with a friend.

Getting a hug from someone who loves me.

The moment my eyes fill with tears after a big thunderous laugh and when my stomach hurts from laughing.

Listening to a song that reminds me of an important person in my life.

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What about your best moments? Are these your best moments too?

Wishing all of you these moments in your life always! =)

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!

Categories: New Years

Happy New Year 2009!

December 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Last Year

*I’m damn cheap like that using trial version so you can see the trial version message on top haha wtf

Last year’s countdown is in a pub near Pier 39 and then spent the night playing Guitar Hero with 2 person I absolutely loved. It was  extremely fun despite the fact that I was damn polite and quiet that night la if you know me, that’s the last thing you would imagine happening to someone crazy like me. NOrmally I would be very adventurous and will run around discovering the new place and keep ordering liquor and dance the whole night away and end up puking whole night wtf. Kevin was a pussy that day cause he refused to drink anything! GAY! I had to practically force him to drink coz WE’RE COUNTING DOWN A NEW YEAR AT SAN FRANCISCO FOR GOD’S SAKE DRINK LA WTF

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#1 2007: Me being very healthy going all red lobster after drinking a bit wtf. The drink damn nice la shit I forgot what drink is it I think Vodka something Vodka rainbow? haih I’m supposed to remember it so I can order it everywhere I go coz damn nice wey trust me very sweet

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#2 2007: Hello! We’re taking photos to send to Shu through MMS at that time eheh but I think she didn’t get it. I heard there’s some kind of pill where you take and it will decrease the redness when you take liquor hmph let me find out and try the pill out.

This Year

This year I’m not in that pub in Pier 39 even though I could.

But that doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying everything around me because all is fine. I’ve talked to a lot of people through MSN this couple of days. I don’t know whats up with end of the year that makes people more reflective about their life. In general most of them have been nothing but gloomy and miserable and have been complaining about 2008 and how the year has been really disastrous for them.

Let me be frank with you.

I’ve never been so impatient, never been so eager to start the new year. I have been waiting wishfully. Initially I’ve written an extremely long wordy piece of entry titled “What happened in 2008.”. I end up deleting the entry because I think it’s totally pointless to look back at the past and dwell on unhappiness or thinking about why this happened and why that happened or finding every sort of excuse for everything that did NOT happen.

Instead, I have a long list of things that I need to do and want to accomplish in 2009. And for the first time, I’m looking forward to everything. I wanted to start doing them right away and eager to taste the sense of triumph. There’s really so much I have to do on my own and I’ve never been so positive and optimistic in my life. So much have happened in 2008 and have changed in the last few months of 2008, changing me into a person I never thought I would become, accepting a lot of things I never thought I would accept, forgiving everything I never thought I would forgive. I learnt to put everything down, to remember and love everything that had happened. I’m sure in every unfortunate thing that happened, there’s something worthy of love and remembrance. Isn’t that so?

My advise to everyone, don’t look back, forget things that did not go well and smile. Don’t remember all the things that did not happen and be sad.

SO HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 EVERYONE!<3 MAY THE NEW YEAR BRING YOU LOTS AND LOTS OF LUCK <3

*throws party confetti in the air*

Categories: Loved Ones · New Years

PDC Hollywood Night 2008

December 24, 2008 · 3 Comments

*~*~*~*~*~*MERRY XMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*~*~*~*

Hello. Let me blog before I go out and countdown for Christmas okay folks. Coz I just found a set of photos and if I don’t blog about it then I’ll totally forget about this already. These were taken eons ago. Before I leave Penang that is. A good start to my photo uploading effort eh?

You can roll your mouse over some of the photos to see the original size. I lazy to upload all so only some got lar u sendiri roll over and check it out.

*Warning: the entry is going to load really slowly because of the picture links to the original sizes.

Our PDC Department Dinner 2008.

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#1 Porny and Me in the car on the way there.

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#2 Irredescent Organdy with Flocking & Metallic a.k.a. My Dress wtf. It’s by a local Singapore designer and I love his dresses because….they’re cheap haha. I’m cheap like that.

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#3. Hello Porny. What’s with the Peace sign. Real Man don’t make peace signs.

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#4 This is not my friend.

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#5 Alice and Me outside the hall. Both in simple blue. The beauty of style, harmony, grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity =)

We had to register for the event so they could gather the total headcount and book the tables. Me? I did not bother to register. No i’m kidding. Actually I missed the email and I didn’t even know there’s such thing as registration. SO when I reach there, the admin asked those who did not register (including Kevin Leong) to be quarantined in a room haha. Seriously they asked us to stay in a room until they get a table for us. There’re like almost 30+ who did nto register I guess. But Kevin say don’t care, just go in. And so I followed him in. =) We’re ah beng like that wtf

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#6 This is the ah Beng Kevin with his signature ah beng pose.

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#7 So I forced him to take another one. and he still give me the ah beng pose my god I dont know what to do with him anymore. Any takers? I’m willing to sell this friend off at a very affordable price wtf

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#8 YewChong. The frequent provider of my favourite Keropok.

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#9 The inside hall of Trader’s Hotel. Which in my opinion is too small for a function like ours.

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#10 3 of my favourite guys of the night. Porny, VSoon and Jeebs.

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#11 Obligatory photo with my 2 boy friends wtf

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#12 Group photo. With my ex Physical Verification team members. Now I no longer belong to them wtf.

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#13 My table mates. We initially asked FatBoySlim to book a table at the front of the stage for us since he’s there 4 hours before the dinner starts. BUT someone else taken the table he book so we had to bear with the stupid table at the side of the stage and I can barely see shit!

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#14 BORED. Half way through the event I got so bored. My god can those big shots people cut their speech short and let me have my FOOD. WHERE IS MY FOOD I WANT MY FOOD

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#15 Still bored. OBVIOUSLY. At this point I’m ready to eat Kevin Leong.

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#16 This photo is taken in memory of FatBoySlim 1960-2008 (wtf) who decided to put on hair gel for the first time in his life. NO KIDDING. According to our professor here he say putting too much hair gel can get cancer so he has never in his life put a drop of gel on his hair. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not wtf

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#17 80% of my time spent staring at Alice and YYY who sat across me.

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#18 The happily married couple who just got back from Hong Kong. They were late so we didn’t get to sit together =(

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#19 So all we can do is take a photo together when they came over.

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#20 Leng Luis.

All in all, I thought the dinner is pretty okay. Only the food portion is a bit too small. And god knows how hungry I am that night haih. Dinner hall is decorated nicely too and the hotel even had some pretty different way of introducing guests and their food and stuff.

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#21 The hotel threw in a couple of cowboys fighting.

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#22 And a peacock.

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#23 We even have Siti Nurhalize visiting. ha take that wtf

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#24 Oh don’t forget about the Mafia.

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#25 Our obligatory UTM photo. oh wait. there’s a sesat kambing from MMU on the left.

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#26 Ok now we have the real UTM knights wtf. Can u tell who is U who is T and who is M. We think Joe sucks at doing U.

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#27 So we switched Joe to do M. I think the UTM became worse actually wtf and why am I keep doing T!!!!

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#28 Ladies & Gentleman, let me present you a very UGLY photo of Me and Mr Dave. But I decided to post it up anyhow in loving memory of our 11 years friendship. YES 11 YEARS WTF HOW MANY OF YOU CAN BE FRIENDS FOR 11 YEARS WTF ya right wtf haha I would look for him for a photo everytime we have dinner but my friend here decided to fong me fei kei last year because he became very sombong of his new gf and forgot all about me /boo. And this time I forgive him because he waited at the side for me until I’m done with ALL my photos with my friends. So yah Dave I forgive you. come back here to mamma wtf.

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#29 Group photo. I actually have no idea why everyone has to squat down and take such a low photo. and even had to fit Kevin Leong’s ass into the photo.

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#30 Another group photo. I lazy to put up all names here.

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#31 The committee who wanted to quarantine me.

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#32 The best dressed boy and girl of the night. The theme of the night is Hollywood Night and we’re supposed to dress as Hollywood stars. Sort of like Halloween. So Jensen dressed up as Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. I think he’s the only who actually dress up so he really deserve the award. The girl in red…well…….when asked who she dressed up as, she said as herself. We’re not even sure how the winners are picked actually. No nominees. No voting. No catwalks.

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#33 Another group photo with the rest of the girls. Me, Mei Ling, Pey, PeckYee. Guys…not important wtf.

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#34 and OF COURSE photo with my girl friend Pey How can we not take photo because she brought me my favourite almond cookies <3

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#35 Compulsory toilet camwhore photo. SOrry lazy to rotate the photo.

After dinner, we dropped by Segas for drinks first. Was supposed to go Winter Warmers but they close at midnight so early! Segas close at 3 so we drink at Segas instead.

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#36 Me busy on the phone scolding FatBoySlim because he’s still not in Segas even after half an hour. Turns out he went back to Bayan Lepas which is half an hour away from Segas to drop some of our colleagues back before he drive back up to Segas to meet us. -_-” So we told him to save it and go home and sleep instead.

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#37 My male stripper colleague who loves to unbutton his shirt and my Hawaian boss. sorry I mean EX boss.

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#38 I repeat. This is not my friend.

Categories: Dept Dinner · Friends

Iz Me!

December 21, 2008 · 4 Comments

Ohai Iz Me!

I wanted to do live blogging from Hilton wtf but I’m too stingy to pay for the internet connection even for 1 hour /boo Very expensive!!!!

My birthday is overrrrrrrrrrrrr! Now i have to wait 364 days again

I have 100000 photos!!

*Update: MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Okay I probably don’t have a huge ass christmas tree or a million christmas presents waiting for me but all is well. It’s gonna be great already anyways!! I’ll give a proper update post this few days when I settle down!

Categories: Random Babbling

Irredescent Organdy With Flocking & Metallic.

December 18, 2008 · 3 Comments

I kept stepping on my own gown the whole night.But it’s a refreshing change from all my short dresses, really.

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eh WHY i have cock eye!!!! Oh…that’s because I’m staring at the camera hahahahaha can’t help it.

I know I know. Photossss..no time to download the photos yet! Maybe today…I hope.

Categories: I Love Me

Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.

December 17, 2008 · 1 Comment

My birthday wish last year was for the person who was sitting across the table at that time, of whom I became friends again. I wished we could maintain that and be in good terms for a long long time. I wished we could throw away a part of our very opinionated nature and be more patient when dealing with each other. We were both level headed and extremely stubborn  which is why all we do when we meet is fight. But then again, that’s what makes life interesting. Same sides of  magnet never stick.

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Birthday wishes don’t always come true.

But that’s okay. I have another birthday wish this year. I’ll let you know if it comes true this time next year =)

Categories: Birthdays

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December 15, 2008 · 2 Comments

Haiya can someone tell me what kind of friends do I have. When I say I have embarassing stories to tell from my last birthday in Alexandar’s, everyone msged me and asked me what is it wtf. All damn kay poh okay wanna know my sia sui stuff. Don’t fret la I say I will tell means I will la. Next few posts okay I promise

In the meantime,

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If you read my Twitter (if you notice the new bar at the right side of my blog page) which I update almost hourly..nola just joking maybe daily, then this is the said 40 inch Christmas tree with Grey’s anatomy at the back haha.

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And I had trouble to transfer the photos from my handphone because I couldn’t get the bluetooth in the new HP laptop to work :( I tried asking my friends who were online in the MSN at the time, and their response is “u turn on your bluetooth first la” WTF apparently my friend think I’m dumb like that la!

Sorry the post is done half heartedly haha coz of Grey’s haha. Later I’ll do a proper post Imma sleep nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Categories: Uncategorized

Long Winded Very Personal Post

December 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

After so many wordless posts, today I feel like giving u a full long wordy entry. I have so much to say. If you’re not up for it then you can close your browser and go away now wtf. But if you didn’t read this you’d regret it trust me wtf.

DID I TELL YOU I’M GOING TO SEE SUGAH CANDY IN LESS THAN72 HOURS WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~***~~

Okay anyway I’m just done with a major spring cleaning and I’m exhausted. The skin on my hand is starting to peel because the detergent is so strong and I couldn’t find any gloves so what the heck. The last time I actually cleaned and scrubbed a whole house is already back in February when my friend came to stay over. Truth is, I’m a really clean person. My room and bathroom are always spotless so all I have to clean is the living room and the kitchen. My sister is another clean freak. She couldn’t even stand a little bit of hair lying around haih wtf and she irons her clothes every morning before she leaves the house. Me? I just put my crumpled dress on the bed and keep flattening it with my bare hands WTF Or if the dress is really really really wrinkled then i’d wear it on and then pull the end of the skirt up on the ironing board and just iron the hemline because with a straight hemline it’ll give an impression that the dress is ironed =D trust me it really works.

Oops. where was I.

Yah spring cleaning. So my other friend is coming to stay over my place now and the least I could do is to make sure the place is clean.

Someone told me I’m a very hard to please girl. Well, not only someone, is actually quite a handful of people who told me that. Really? Seriously? You really think I’m so hard to please?  If you give me 1 dollar worth of keropok lekor then you’re my best friend already wtf. I guess people said that because I’m sort of materialistic. Like if you give me expensive stuff than I’d be very happy wtf.  If you throw me a Chanel bag i’d hug you. haha vain wtf.

All this while I thought I’m a very smart person. Straight A student. Apparently not. This year I went through a couple of papers. And they suck to the max. Is it because I got out of school too long time ago hence my brain literally stopped working or I’m jusst not as smart as I think I am? To start with, I didn’t think my English is THAT bad. Like seriously. But I proved myself wrong. My infamous “today morning” haih. If you can’t tell what’s wrong with that, then your English is probably as bad as mine because the correct one should be “This Morning”. When I first said it, my sister laughed at me. Even after she laughed at me, I still didn’t know what’s wrong. In my defense, she’s always bullying me for nothing anyway. I guess I have to blame it on my English teacher Mr Quek haih wtf must be he taught me something wrong lah!

And can you tell that I’m the queen of procrastination? I actually have a lot of assignments to do but I haven’t started on anything my god seriously can someone please just give me one big slap so I’d go back to work and get everything done so I can have a peaceful Christmas?

Speaking of Christmas, the other day I went window shopping and nearly lugged home a 60 inch huge Christmas Tree. You know. like the real BIG HUGE ASS Christmas Tree that I can decorate with all sorts of bells and lights and an angel on the top of the tree so I could check under the tree every morning after I wake up for surprise Christmas presents that the Santa Clause drop off for me from the chimney. But then luckily sanity get the better of me and after thinking that I’d probably have to spend few hundred dollars on an useless tree. I walked away. Phew…

You know the amount of people around me who recently broke up? Sometimes it really pains me to see them suffering and abusing themselves. Sigh. We fight we break up we kiss we make up WTF. I’ve talked to them up to a point where I started to talk in a harsh manner more like scolding wtf because if scolding them would make them wake up and face the truth then I’d do that even if it means they’d hate me you know what I mean. When people are sad they just don’t care, they want you to be sad with them and when you scold them, they go all “aiya why u like that so inconsiderate. put yourselves in my shoes and u won’t say this” okay this? Put myself in your shoes? I have my own shoes okay. You think I’ve never gone through all of that like seriously? Have you any idea what I used to have to put up with up until the point that I get blocked from all possible communication routes and then dumped? So trust me when I say I know how it feels.

But out of the million things that you can admire me on..WTF, this is one of it, that I get out of relationship very steadily. When the first time it happens, I felt like it’s the end of the world. I couldn’t eat for almost a month, surviving on cookies and Milo that my friend make for me. Jes would remember what a useless piece of shit I was. I couldn’t remember how I got out of it. The next few time it happens, I’m okay. I didn’t know if i got used to it or something but I guess I just lost hope in people in general so I have no expectation whatsoever hence no disappointment. The last time it happened, I cried for 5 hours straight. Grace would remember that heh. Then I’m up and okay again the next day. I guess I learn to look at the bright side of things esp on a relationship. I wanted to live better after a relationship, be it for myself or for the lost significant other. I will never ever again be the girl who begs to get back together like how I did the first time. I realized that when things SHOULD happen, they WILL happen. So please, live better okay?

The other day I was chatting with Hwa on compromising. We were talking about having someone who love you more than you love him is better . Because then I wouldn’t have to spend every minute trying to please him.  I hate it when that happens. I channel all my energy pleasing that someone and then end up being someone even I myself hate. Like I would buy like 10 birthday presents for the person until I finally decided the best present to actually send out, and then threw the other 9 away. Isn’t that pathetic to start with? Or you think I’m so romantic so attentive?

Next week is Kek’s wedding. I’m so excited because I haven’t seen the girls in AGES like seriously AGES like don’t know how many YEARS okay. I didn’t have a chance to because every CNY they gathered on the 2nd day but that’s the day that I’m supposed to go over to my grandma’s so that’s why I always miss out haih I haven’t really gotten a white dress yet because Kek wanted everyone to wear white as the bridesmaid. I digged out all my dresses apparently I have sky blue dark blue black purple yellow lime green duck shit green also got wtf EXCEPT white. Okay actually I found 1 white one maybe I’ll wear just that.

Next week is also my birthday *ehem* =D Can you believe how fast the year flew by. Only last year I’m in Santa Clara and celebrated my birthday alone in Applebee’s in a 6 person table haih wtf I don’t know why the waitress put me ALONE sitting in a 6 person table and everywhere around me, people are all seated in gangs WTF I felt so left out and lonely but I didn’t care because it’s MY birthday and I ordered Oreo blended, Babyback Ribs and Mushroom soup. The waitress asked me if I’m sure with my order because they’re kind of huge and I answered sombongly No Problem I can Finish it but end up I left 3 quarter of my babybackribs and untouched mushroom soup on the table but I fninished my Oreo blended YUMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. haih. I didn’t tell them it’s my birthday just in case they bring me a slice of cake and sing me birthday song when I’m sitting ALONE in a 6 PERSON table with the whole restaurant staring at me WTF can u imagine that??! On the real US birthday day (wtf I celebrated once Msian time and once US time wtf so kiasu) I went fine dining at Alexander’s Steakhouse in Cupertino with my then significant other. Eh that’s my first fine dining in US okay don play play wtf but of course I made a fool of myself tons of times hopefully nobody realize..haha I think nobody realize lar but I’ll blog about that maybe later in another entry coz it deserves a whole entry to itself so you can laugh at me wtf because I’m such a dork WTF!!!

Seriously When I think of all the stupid things I did that day in Alexander’s I’m laughing to myself right now YOU CAN NEVER IMAGINE WHAT A KAMPUNG GIRL I AM YA ALLAH AHAHAHAHA MALUNYA AHAHAHA

Categories: Birthdays · Christmas · Loved Ones · Random Babbling · Stupid things I did · USA

Feliz Navidad

December 8, 2008 · 1 Comment

I bought the shorts at 30 dollars just to get myself in the Christmas mood =D expensive? yes but what do you know. It’s cute okay.

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Next up I need to find the Santarina dress for Christmas parties!

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HhHAHAHaHHAHAHA Okay maybe not. I guess Santarinas don’t wear that *cough

See. Everyone says my Canon Ixus 5MP sucks. But still it manage to take this at 8pm at night okay! HMPH! WHO SAY MY CAMERA IS LOUSY HMPH

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…….MAT YEH LEI GEH so blur!………………OK LAH Maybe it is really that bad but what to do. My Ixus is like my most expensive asset already wtf and unless absolutely necessary I don’t think I’ll waste money buying these gadgets. Everybody already know what a frugal person I am anyway.

OMG I have plenty more photos to uploadddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Speaking of which, my friend forced me to login to facebook and accept her friend request. and guess what, I forgot my password and had to reset it coz I haven’t logged in since what…June? Sometimes i really don’t understand why these people really do update their facebook status like “XXX is feeling sleepy” “ZZZ is not sure what to eat for lunch” “AAA has Monday blues” LIKE WTF??!!!! I felt so funny like seriously people, whats with all the status updates man AHAHAHAHA siao wan. I’m finding trouble to even login and people have been updating their status everyday heh. I guess the next time i login will be what…2009 June? I HATE FACEBOOK. Yah I really do. duh.

Categories: Christmas

Lucky

December 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Okay I’m breaking my own bet of writing once a week on Sunday. A bet with myself wtf because I have a zillion serious thigns to do but I’ve been putting them off so I’m limiting myself to the amount of time I can spend doing meaningless things like this. (No actually blogging is not meaningless but if you know what I’ve been putting off so I could blog you’d think blogging is shit wtf)

BUT THEN AGAIN I really wanted to share this with you guys!

This is a reaaaally cute video of rafael and cathy doing my FAVOURITE song LUCKY =D Listen to it you won’t regret it I promise! Plus I think Cathy’s really adorable and she sings so well!

 

Boy I hear you in my dreams 
I feel your whisper across the sea 
I keep you with me in my heart 
You make it easier when life gets hard 

They don’t know how long it takes 
Waiting for a love like this 
Every time we say goodbye 
I wish we had one more kiss 
I’ll wait for you I promise you

I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend 
Lucky to have been where I have been 
Lucky to be coming home again

LA LA LA ~

anyway, baybeh, this is the original. ENjoy..

Jason Mraz & Colbie Cailat – Lucky

Categories: Music Box