I was born a month too late.

=xIu= TrEAsURE tHe pPl aRd u bEfOrE iT's tOo lAte.. says:
my dad said i will get a share on the government GST package issued in july
loretta. ` live. love. believe. says:
i won't right
=xIu= TrEAsURE tHe pPl aRd u bEfOrE iT's tOo lAte.. says:
cos i turned 21 in may
=xIu= TrEAsURE tHe pPl aRd u bEfOrE iT's tOo lAte.. says:
hahahhahaa
loretta. ` live. love. believe. says:
damn

Happy Lunar New Year!

I'm having a fantastic start to the new year.

Presently i'm having a blocked nose, breathing difficulties, and a bad stomach. The only reason i'm here now though i'm pretty tired is because i can't breathe while i'm lying down. Oh and my dog bit me earlier on. My skin came off but hey, at least there wasn't any blood.

Please give me good luck for the rest of the year following a horrible start, thank you.

Aww.

The result of typing in 'cute games' in Google:

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

If you're looking for something simple, cute and tranquil over the Chinese New Year, here's something for you. No weapons, no monster killing, no levelling, and most importantly there's no need to download. Of course, that means that it's really quite simple [or boring, if you must], but yeah, you might still like it.

Shiiiet.

Awesome. I'm not talking about the singing though.

When i was playing Neopets several years ago, it was a trend to have midis [yes, MIDIs, not mp3s] on our pet profiles/pages/shops/guilds/whatever. The most popular ones were those from Final Fantasy. But the one i really fell in love with was something different.

Yes it's the one above. But the un-remixed version, of course. And now several years later i manage to find it, remixed by Daishi Dance some more. Awesome shit.

It turned up under my recommended videos on Youtube. I have absolutely no idea why.

:D

Feeling the sun on my back while i'm sleeping on the train on the way home is great :D

I think i'm like a plant; i thrive in sunlight. While i was walking home just now i was tempted to go to Changi Beach. Everything looks so pretty when it's not all dark and stuff. It almost feels like a holiday.

Yeah after two weeks of returning home close to midnight.

Life's beautiful :)

Talk about a waste of time.

I'm in school from 8.30am to 9.30pm. That makes 13 hours. Out of this 13 hours, 7 aren't spent in lessons. Only 6 are. I spend 1h 45min to come to school and another 1h 45min to get back home. That makes 3.5 hours spent on travelling.

I've wasted 10.5 hours out of my 24 hours.

So you see, if i spent any more time on sleep, i'd be cutting into productive time. After all, i have at least 3 hours a day to sleep on public transport.


Anytheway. Today a few of my new classmates and I discovered how small the world was. I was with one of them after we had gotten our food and were heading back to our table, when i caught sight of my secondary school friend/basketball teammate sitting at another table. Both of us stopped there.

"Eh hi! Hi! Huh you know her? You know each other?"

Oh and everyone seems to know Yuan Bin and Jian Hui -.- When i went for the ambassador interview thingy, my group leader knew them. And now the classmate i mentioned above also knows the both of them. And when we added each other on Facebook, it turns out that we also have another friend in common who's my poly friend, who happens to know the both of them as well.

The trigger word is Popping and Locking.

"So what CCA are you in?"

"Erh. Dance."

"What kind of dance?"

"Popping and Locking."

Which leads to two outcomes:
1. -blank stare-
2. "Popping and Locking? OHH! You know so-and-so?/So you can do this -does some robotic thing-?"

I digress.

So now classmate R has 5 friends in common with me, including Yuan Bin, Jian Hui, a poly friend and two secondary school friends. Classmate J is good friends with my boyfriend's friend. I don't know why it seems so little now when i write it down than when we were talking about it earlier on, but it is.

I'm bored. 2 more hours to kill.

So, um, yeah.

Kinda tired from all the Soul Funky stuff. Practices till late at night, then there's also admin stuff to do. Guess it'll get better after February.

I'm actually more mentally tired la. I didn't do much today. Spent like 3 hours in front of the school computer and had my brain fried. Should've gone somewhere to sleep instead. I was dumb enough to bring my Econs textbook instead of my Stats, for which i need to complete my tutorial later. Very sian ah.

A lil tired. A lil afraid. I need a break.

Bored.

I was sooo tempted to skip my lecture this morning just so i didn't have to go to school at 8.30am -.- Particularly since i have to stay until i-don't-know-what-time tonight because of Soul Funky training. Wanted to go home, but had a long lunch with my classmates and now i'm slacking in the lab and falling asleep in front of the computer.

Don't think i'll end up doing my Stats tutorial for tomorrow =/

NEW YEAR GOODIES PWNZ0RZ UR SOX0RZ.

Nummeh Carrotz.

Yay!

Locking part for combined item done! :D I think in a way, doing stuff individually is a lot more efficient, but i guess if more people were involved, there would've been better ideas and probably better performance.

Jiayou Soul Funky! Particularly the committee members who've been putting so much into the upcoming stuff. Not just the choreos and practices, but all the admin stuff behind it as well.

Finally a free day tomorrow to catch up on other stuff :)

Tips for a better life.

Or at least that's what it says on a friend's Facebook note. [No i don't know who that fella is; probably one of those i added for Elven Blood invites.]

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did the previous year.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
29. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
31. The best is yet to come.
32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
33. Do the right thing!
34. Call your family often.
35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
36. Each day give something good to others.
37. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

SOUL FUNKAYYY.

Been reaching home around midnight for the past few days. It's gonna be like that for the next few weeks, probably until JDC in March. But at least i'm having fun with my friends :)

Gotta catch up with schoolwork a bit.

Livin' it all up! :D

Acceptance -> Satisfaction -> Neutrality -> Happiness :)
To be happy, first you have to want to be happy.


Edit [0149]: I found leftover curry and rice in the fridge! Yay dinner :D:D:D

:)

The rebound from a bad day is always fantastic. As they say, don't be discouraged when you hit rock bottom, at least each subsequent step you take is upwards [it sounds better in Chinese -.-]

I'm the only person separated from all my other classmates. Most of the others have at least one other ex-classmate with them; i have completely none. Yesterday i was upset, and took it as i was isolated. Now i feel much better, i guess i look at it as an opportunity to make new friends :)

I'm never in the same class as Rachel -.- Currently i'm alone in a class with some of her ex-classmates, and she's alone in a class with my ex-classmates. Wth -.-

Having a considerably better day. Will be in school until 9.30pm. Lalala.


Edit: I can't believe it. I was so happily updating about my great day in school today, and IE crashes on me. And no, since i'm editing the post, there isn't autosave. So i lost the whole long thing.

Not going to update about it again now. Too annoyed.

I can only...

Laugh. Heh.

It's just one of those bad days. The ones that life throw at me to make me feel abandoned. And it started promptly at midnight.

Only less than 12 hours to go. Soul Funky, save my soul.


Edit [1401090040]: It was pretty cool actually. I don't think i've ever felt so alone in school before.

After spending some time alone in the free access labs, i went to buy myself a sandwich and wandered aimlessly around school. Found myself sitting alone in a secluded corner near Nanyang Audi, where Soul Funky's last session was [that was only because of the hall studio mix-up]. Ate my sandwich, stared into space, then headed for my next class.

In which i knew no one. Not a single person. Everyone else already knew some others. I was so alone that i had a two-seat radius next to me on both sides. Lol. But the tutor is nice, albeit slow [she only managed to cover half the tutorial questions].

I've already spent a semester in school, and yet i still have no clique. It's not something i'd like to boast about. Had a lecture after that and sat with my classmates. Great people, love them, but i don't have a single close friend there. So pathetic that when we were choosing project groups for one of the classes, i just sat there and told the friend next to me, "I'll just sit here and wait for someone to take me."

Went for Soul Funky training after that, and was considerably happier. We went to use the stage in Nanyang Audi; it was fantastic. Felt tiny on that huge stage. We only left at like 10pm, after Lance said he heard something and we all got freaked out.

This sem's really going to be packed with dance, and i really mean packed. Probably going to be training almost every day. But in a way it's a good thing.

Since Soul Funky is more or less the only thing keeping me alive in school.

GAH.

STATS TUTORIAL.

DO NOT LIKE.

Life is a Punishment for Errant Immortals

I want to have a blog post today, but i don't know what to talk about, so here's something i wrote ages ago that means something to me.

Once upon a time, everyone lived in the large large place in the sky called Heaven. No one knew what 'Life' was, because as far as they knew, theirs never ended. There wasn't any point in naming something that meant their existence. Thus, many started taking their 'Lives' for granted, as well as those around them.

Immortals were mean to each other. They had high expectations of everyone and were never grateful for anything. Needless to say, chaos reigned and no one was ever happy. [Okay, this paragraph is exaggerated a lot.]

So one fine day, the Supreme Being decided to teach these immortals a lesson. They were to be sent down to a jail called Earth, to experience what it was like to have a Life. A beginning and an end. Their stay on Earth would depend on how grave their sins of 'grantedness' were.

The worst of the lot would be granted over 100 mortal years of jail, to experience sadness, anger, pain, illness and loss throughout their Lives. Those who had a lighter sentence were able to return to Heaven after a shorter period of time, after having learnt their lessons of not taking Life for granted. There was even a chance for good immortals to take a short trip down to Earth to experience Life for a short while. These were usually sent to Earth as animals, and experienced a smaller magnitude of emotions, if any at all.

So you see, immortals who were punished with Life experienced all sorts of suffering; plagued with sickess, pain, angst, conflict, hatred, and the most painful of all, the loss of a loved one. A longer jail term meant a higher chance of experiencing the last more often during Life.

They always say good people die first. Maybe that's why.


Wrote this in my Multiply on 21 November 2007.

Oh.

Went to the eye doctor to get my eye checked yesterday. Yes, finally, after like 5 - 6 years. And he found out what's causing my tearing problem.

My yellowish eyes are caused by pigmentation; it's normal. So quit freaking out, i'm not a werewolf, and really, my eyes aren't THAT yellow. Maybe just off-white.

I've really got perfect eyesight. In fact, i'm +25, meaning that i'm actually long-sighted by a bit, which is even better. All babies are born long-sighted, and it gradually deteriorates. I guess i've still retained a bit of my baby vision -.-

The nurse put some eyedrops to make my pupils dilate, in order for them to do some check, so subsequently for a few hours everything nearby was a blur, and everything outdoors was way too bright.

Ah here's the interesting part. They gave me some painkiller drops, then the doctor put an injection into my right tear duct. He said if i tasted anything in my throat i could just swallow it.

O_O

So he injected some saline solution into my right tear duct, and I ACTUALLY FELT THE LIQUID RUNNING DOWN MY THROAT AHH GROSS. I never knew the tear duct, nose, and throat were linked.

Then he tried on my left tear duct. Nothing happened. The saline solution just came back out. That means it's blocked, and explains why i've been tearing on my left eye for ages and ages. Apparently this kind of thing usually happens to people over 40. Oh well =/ Lol. Requires a bit of surgery to fix, but don't think i'll be going for it. Spent years having this problem and i'm still fine -.-

Yay now i got fixed answer to people who ask, "Why're you crying?"

Hair.

Funny title, i know, but that's really what this post is about.

I was surfing blogshops [yes, instead of doing schoolwork], and i came across this picture. The focus is the top, of course, but the first thing i noticed was actually the hair. Probably because i've been intending to cut my fringe to look something like the picture, because otherwise i have to sweep it aside into a centre parting, which annoys Limin, and makes me look bald.

And if i don't sweep it aside, it makes me look like this:

I've kept my fringe short for ages already, but i didn't really want to now with the extensions, because i don't want to end up looking like those cutesy models in blogshops. Especially since i'm definitely not cutesy. And i don't want to spend $10 on just cutting my fringe.

Okay when grandma comes over i'll get her to help me cut -.-


Edit [1434]: I just heard a song playing on the TV outside, and recognised it as one of 信乐团's songs. Decided to go through all their songs again, because i haven't heard them for a long time. So i played all their songs on random. And the first one that came up was the one on TV -.- Coincidences.

Whoo.

Soul Funky is like... 70% of the reason why i go to school. Another 5% is because of other close friends, which probably includes only one person. I'll add another 5% when Benedict starts school in August. Maybe 10.

Runrunrun.

Random thought.

Do synesthetes see '1' and 'one' as the same colour, or are each individual letters 'o', 'n' and 'e' a different colour?

Focus.

I'm not sure if i should call them resolutions, because everytime i make them i don't ever seem to end up fulfilling them, but here are the things i want to focus on for at least the earlier bit of this year.

1. Schoolwork. I'm not very happy with the results that i got last sem, so i'm gonna be working harder. Will take advantage of the long breaks i have between lessons, and make full use [or partial use] of them.

2. CCA. Actually i'm only referring to Soul Funky; i don't have to do much for the other CCA. There's the February performances coming up really soon, and we haven't really started choreo-ing for them at all. In addition, JDC is in March, but that's still alright because we have a choreographer [PJ?].

3. Running. I said yesterday that i'd go running this morning, but as usual i didn't even wake up on time. I'm just a damn lazy person. Gotta buck up on that. 21-21 on 16/08/09!

I've been reading through my archives on LJ. Lots of interesting stuff, heh.

I don't like my timetable ):

Actually it all turned out better than i thought it'd be; i have one class with most of my old classmates, another class with one of my Ayden friends and two of my old classmates, and another with the same Ayden friend. It's only one class in which i don't know anyone at all, which seems pretty okay because i don't need to do projects for it :)

Only a few people noticed my hair today lol. The rest either didn't realise, or just didn't want to ask. I think the latter. Lol. I think it's a bit obvious if someone's hair just suddenly becomes twice the length within a few weeks.

The main reason why i don't like my timetable this sem is because i can't get any electives. I'm only intending to do my prescribed electives because i'm saving the unrestricted elective credits for Psych, which i ALSO cannot take yet because i need to take yet another pre-requisite module which completely clashes with my current timetable.

Gah. Like 90% of the prescribed electives clash with my timetable zzz. And the rest have odd timings or are on Thursday, which is my free day.

Oh yes, that's another reason why i don't like my timetable. AND the four-hour break i have on Wednesday.

Nah, things aren't really very bad =/


I miss Jer Hsuan. Nothing la i just happened to be surfing Facebook.


Need to train for my run. Tomorrow morning :)

Of fishing, birds, and fishing birds.

Went to Changi Beach for a walk and dinner with my mom and brother. Just felt like i wanted to go there one more time before my holidays end. It was high tide, and pretty windy, and just lovely :D

While we were on the boardwalk, we caught sight of this eagle/kite swooping down into the water, and it emerged with a fish in its talons. And it's not a small fish k. The kite wasn't that small itself either. Pretty cool :) I didn't manage to capture it on camera though.

After dinner we came back, and the first thing we saw upon stepping into the house was a young mynah perched on our ceiling lights, staring back at us.

We moved chairs around, took out the ladder and a whole bunch of fishing nets, and even toilet spray [Justin claims it'll irritate the bird out of its hiding place - i'm not sure about the bird, but Kinty sneezed]. After some time, we managed to get the bird to fly into Mom's net, and just as it was flapping itself out of the net, Mom reached out and grabbed it by the legs.

I swear it was effing hilarious to watch.

This is the silly bird that flew into our house.

Last bit of fun before school starts again tomorrow. Time to print notes ):

Remember.

=S

Because everyone i've met since i did my hair extensions has been going, "ZOMGLOLWTF?!" [not necessarily with the LOL], i'm now sick of answering the same question over and over. Particularly since i don't have a proper answer besides, "Impulse decision."

So i'm trying to come up with witty/stupid responses to questions regarding my hair.

1. "Yeah, i know! It's like, i woke up this morning, and WOAH."
2. "I bought a 2x EXP card, but it came with the side effect of 2x hair length."
3. "It IS my hair, i just dyed it back from 'invisible'."
4. "It IS my hair, i just had it stashed in a corner of my head."
5. "What do you mean long hair-" *widens eyes and starts rasping like Exorcist*
6. *crawls out of TV*
7. "Someone told me a Bedtime Story about Rapunzel."
8. "All the better to whip you with."
9. "And next year, it'll be purple!"
10. "Yes... it's been a year since i last saw you."

Clairessence

"Smell is your sixth sense. Also called clairessence (clear essence), you are a person who's very in tune with scent, from perfumes to flowers to toxic fumes. A person gifted with clairessence will often smell certain aromas even when the source cannot be found. Or you will associate certain people with certain scents. For example, if you are easily annoyed by a certain someone (ahem, younger sib?) you may pick up an unpleasant odor when he/she is around. Now, this might be due to some stinky laundry, but often it's something that's intuitive and only you can experience. Some even say that a clairessence will smell roses when a person has died or recovered from a bad illness. Hmm..."

Got this from some Facebook 'What is your sixth sense' quiz. Although of course, it's just a for-fun thing. But yes, i'm quite in tune with scent more than others. Like how some smells make me feel afraid, or excited. Don't know if it happens to everyone else as well though.

...Yeah.

No, not a single part of the photo was photoshopped.

It cost me $120 [i'm talking about HAIR EXTENSIONS, not the top zzz], and it wasn't what i was actually going for [i actually just wanted coloured streaks], but it just happened. What can i say, the movie 'Yes Man' taught me to lead a dynamic, spontaneous, and unpredictable life.

I really have to thank Samantha and Geraldine for sitting beside me like security guards throughout the entire thing, and making me feel a lot less apprehensive and freaked out by the whole experience.

Oh, it lasts 6 months.