smashing weekend!!

wheee! another fun-filled weekend to share! wahahaha

went to the night safari with sherhan and her parents on friday night.. Been a while since i went there and nothing much changes. So old( literally too) animals that wander around chewing grass and staring as loads of tourists ooohh and ahhhh at them. i wonder what those lions and rodents are thinking.. hmm.. the pram ride was enjoyable though..i love the breeze!! hehe.. me and han had fun that night.. feels like im back to sec sch days. haha..

Sunday was the liverpool match!!! wheee... im not really a soccer fan but this is my first live match and when we got to the stadium, i was like WOW!!!!! even better then national day! hahahaha.. actually hor, at kallang mrt the whole place was swarmed with red-shirt pple liao. The air and excitement was sooo contagious inside the stadium! its like going to a quidditch match. though i haven't been to one HAHA.. took quite a few vids and pics.. they are on fb! go check it out! =D hehehehe...

LIVERPOOL

busy busy as a beee

im so dead exhausted. suddenly there's sooo much activity goiing on... Just as i wanted to create a wish list on what i want done before school reopens >.<

I can imagine Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty -- Be careful what you wish for =S

Haha.. anyway, doing stuff is better then rotting at home..

Saturday:
PLayed with Gigi and brought her to Aunty Ant's house. My lovely little cousins were there and they squealed in delight when they saw Gigi. So my duty for that evening was to keep Gigi alive. HAHAHHA.. Joy handled Gigi as though she was a little care bear keychain. And Joelle is super cute-- when she was about to go home she ran to Gigi's cage and said: 'Bye bye gigi!!!'Gigi was sleeping under all the wood shavings so she didin;t respond, so Joelle leaned into the cage and shouted at the top of her lungs :" BYYEEE BYYEE GEEE GEEEEE!!!!!" LOL.. poor gigi poked her head out and wondered who the hell interrupted her dreams. LOL LOL

See gigi the spider girl....


Joelle eating my wafer stick.. her dad took the rest. -.- LOL...


Went home at night and bathed before going to Ah xiang's house!! watched some Tv, ate junk food and got all excited about the next day;s trip to Johore!!

Sunday:
me and xiang overslept and rushed to Kranji MRT to meet the rest of the gang- Tian Lu, Hui Min , Ying Gu, Jojo and Christina. We thought we would be late but the rest were later. -.- meeting at 9.30am, but they turned up at 1030 am instead. HAha... so in the meantime me and Xiang had breakfast, twice. haha.. the trip to JB was really fun, and though the place was crowded we managed to buy some stuff WHEE!! We celebrated Tian Lu's bday at Sushi King, and the cake tasted muchhh better than all the sushi there. christina and I feel cheated by the sashimi =( it tasted horrible.. and HUi min felt the radish/cucumber at the side tasted the best among the dishes. haha..

ah bao in aviator glasses.. my handsome boi boi!


Me and Xiang rushed off in the evening to get back to Singapore.. Customs is damn sucky, and the stupid officer took his own sweet time smiling like a dork at the people in the queue. If he haven;t realized after a while, the people are not recipocrating his nonsensical grin. Cuz he is sooo bloody slow.And when it got to my turn i found out why..

Officer Dork: * smile, and look at my photo, smile, look at the photo, satisfied that i look like like the vietnamese-lookalike-girl, finally scan the passport*

Me: *try to stay friendly.. inside im thinking wtf?*

Officer Dork: " So you;re daphne right?"

Me: * obviously....* " ya, I am."

Officer Dork: * ok daphne, can you tell me your birthday?"

Me: *....................................* " 16 Jan 1989, on a bright and sunny day at 10 am plus in the morning, from my mum's vagina."

Ok ok.. i didn;t say that.. but im like, WHAT????!!!

Grr.. anyway me and xiang sprung off the bus at kranji station and started running immediately the moment the bus door opens. cuz we had a competition to see who can reach the mrt cotrol station first.. HAHA... people in the bus must have thought we were runnning away from the polive or something. Reached Orchard in time and rushed to Shaw, Lido for the harry potter movie with my girls! the movie was good, thought poor xiang had a hard time keeping his pee in. haha.. and on the way back in the train, Yi fang and Bix caught this man trying to take a picture/video of them. gasp.. pervert!!!! Yfang was quite traumatized.. so she kept hugging her bag to her chest. haha.. me and xiang had mantou for supper before we fell asleep on the bed. damn shagged.

Monday:
Met hanney at Bugis at 1pm( supposed to be 12 but oh well. we are always taking turns to be late. hahahah) and had a whole girly day to ourselves! accompnied her to the temple to pray and draw lots. that funny girl kept dropping 5-10 sticks on the carpet when she was suppposed to get only one stick out. haha.. donated a chunk of her remaining savings to the temple before we went to Taka to get her stuff.. and then we sat at the benches like aunties having juice and sashimi. wheee! went off to Sub ordinate courts next and I saw my SMU classmate in the legal advice room.-.- hmm... anyway, she made an appointment and then we went off to vivo for dinner!! MArche standard is dropping =( and we had a sashimi supper.. after touring the whole of Giant looking for sushi. all we got were huge, raw fishes on sales.. and han actually wanted to buy the huge piece of salmon and cut it up. hahah.. It was nice hanging out with my dear girlfriend of almost 8 years.. loved the bitching, moaning and snuggling =)

Tuesday:
Got up bright and early to clean the kitties! then met ah xiang at city hall.. while i was at J.Co donuts', xiang was reading the men's health magazine and he was so cute, he was reading the *ahem* section and his eyes widen at whatever he was reading. then he looked up and smiled at me. I wonder what that means. hahahaha.. crawled to suntec and had our swensen's 1-for-1 lunch and lazed there while waiting for his AIA thingy to start. i was sooooo sleeepppyy... we got gigi her bath sand and a bathroom and the went home. so sad, gigi didin;t want to bathe!!! so ah xiang held her legs and dragged her across the sand. hahaha..and then gigi ran away and got lost. -.- sigh.... me, nick and xiang had to search all over the house, under sofa, behind tv and everywhere to find that naughty girl. SO i lay out food and waited for that girl to appear. true enough, she came out from her hiding place after 15 mins of frustration and i whacked her. naughty girl. Grr. ah xiang was a nice cuddley papa and sayang-ed her till he left the house. but gigi is soooooooo active, she ran out of her cage and then fell down 2 feet to the ground.>.< i sure hope she didn;t have any internal injuries.. she's quite subdued now. sobs.

WEdnesday:
Went back to AJC with xiang!! hehehe...The PE head master saw us then say:' aiyah.. come back also dunnid so lovey dovery righttt...." HAHAHAH.... cuz i was gripping ah xiang;s arm at that point in time.. then we went to the bookshop and the uncle looks the same after all these years. and his price for photocopying still the same. haha.. xiang went to his darling auntie at the canteen and she immdediately say" wahhhhh finally come back ah... u mei liang xing lei....hehe' hahah... she gave us quite a big portion after that.. xiang used to go into her kitchen and cook the chicken for himself, that joker.. haha... we walked to the PE department for a while and tried the equipment ( its been ages since i did standing board jump sia...) and then went back home. ahhh... i miss AJ...

yawn. im so sleepy and tired. buuuhh.

its friday night.. lets boogie woogie!

wheee today is a day we meet people. and dogs!! and maybe some hantu that i walk into and walk through. HAHA... anyway i woke up at 1pm( man, im getting better.. used to e 3pm) and ah xiang da bao burger king and Macs over to my house. Mummy was asking if they have burgers without cheese.-.- hmm and we watched hitch on mioTV! despite ah xiang getting restless after 15 mins. LOl.. so he took gigi out of her cage and she watched TV with us on her pillow. except... a hamster doesn't know how to watch tv. so the whole time Gigi was trying to get off the pillow and crawl into the tiny space between the sofa cushions.. argh....

Gigi: *sniffs around on the pillow, and stares down into the dark, dark space at the sofa...*

Me and xiang: * holds our breath...*

Gigi: * moves forward and smacks head-first over the pillow and into the space, while her hind legs are spread wide apart in the air*

Xiang: * giggles and starts tossing her around on his palm*

Me:* wonders if she will vomit from all that turbulence*

Poor Gigi. I hope that little activity doesn't get her too stressed. Did a nose mask and exfoliated Ah xiang's face.. that boy can actually fall asleep while i ripped off the hardened mud strip on his nose.. i think his nose doesn't have nerves. I was crying and tearing as i slowly ripped off my own mask cuz it bloody hurts!!! >.<

Went for my JC class gathering at NYDC Wheelock place and cam whored with Cheryn and the girls and the mud pie wahaha.. and ran into Parker and his family at the toilet.Lol.. what a smallll world.. Parker is my primary friend and we used to go home together( both woodlanders) and fuss over Chinese homework. hahahaha.. as the whole world probably know by now, my china is CMI and so is parker's. Cuz he's half Hawaiian half chinese. lol.. and his younger sis is me and xiang's junior at AJC! singapore is wayyyyy too small.. rushed off after an hour to meet xiang and his sec 2clique.. and it was damnnn funny. cuz we were all supposed to meet at 8pm at Lakeside or something, but at 8pm Wee Kiat and Elsa were at Serangoon Mrt, Yu Qian was still at home and I was still on the train towards woodlands. Talk about being late... and the venue was Jalan Kayu. -.- hahahahaha... in the end we all kena lost, and reached this ulu eating place called Sunset Grill at 9.45pm plus. LOL LOL LOL.DInner was fun though, despite us having to make do with whatever the kitchen has got left at that hour. Ordered 24 mini burgers ( 24, so u can guess that we didn;t finish it haha), butter mushroom buttons, breaded prawn and a plate of buffalo wings. The buffalo wings was freaking hot, and it was supposed to be the 'okay any 8 year old can tahan' level. ALL OF US couldn't even tahan the first bite >.< even with the skin taken off.. poor sharlene lost her appetite after that i think. and Benjamin and Ce Jin had a competition to see who can eat 1 wing without drinking water. haha... Ben's Jack Russell-Blossom- is soooo cute! I like it when she shitted then went onto ah xiang's lap.hahahahahha.... ben the sly.. brought the dog out so that the chio bu come over and pat the dog and talk to him.. wahahahahahha... Wee kiat drove us to the bus stop at 1145pm plus and me and xiang finally got on our way home.

Came home to shit-digging again. hahahaah.. gigi you little monster...

welcome home gigi!

wheeeeee. my cough is finally getting better. mummy says i will get better when i die coughing.
............

i think what she meant was, when the cough dies out. -.- lol... and the past few days im finally able to run about singapore.. haha.. the NDP NE show was a blast, with the heavy rain during finale and the cold that follows as we bloody froze inside marina square. And the best part of this week is the arrival of our lovely daughter into our lives! ah xiang and mama had breakfast together at Mac while I cleaned up the cat and rabbit shelther at the SPCA. and one stuuupid idiotic rabbit bit me while i tried to get it out. dammit. It was so URGHHH!!!! hello Mr.Dummy Ears, im trying to CLEAN your BLOODY CAGE and give u food.. and u bite me. FINE. anyway i showed mummy around and as expected, she stayed at least one metre away from the cages. She didn't even dared touch the door and gates that opens to the compound. -.- talk about paranoid.. ah well.Mum, I hope u realize your daughter actually STICKS her head and elbows into 20 over cages each week cleaning shit and diarrhoea and furballs. yes, some old cats are balding and its not surprising to see balls of fur rlling about in the cage. hmm. maybe CLEAR should think about introducing a range of anti-dandruff shampoo for the kitties. heh. anyway, after my shift was done, me and xiang went to choose our hamster to adopt.Our initial 2 choices were some other greyish hamsters, but the SPCA officer advised me to adopt another one ( i wonder why.. hehehe) and so she was really nice and passed me the key to take out ALL the cages and look at all of the hamsters before deciding. And thats when i saw Gigi and as I hesitated for a while, the lady opened up Gigi's cage and placed Gigi on top of the cage. Ah xiang and I looked at her and after playing with her for a while( making sure she doesn;t bite like the other 2), voila! Gigi was on her way to becoming a LIANG!! hahhahaha..

hehehe say hi to gigi everybody!!!!!! say hi to everybody gigi!!!!

the inquisitive little girl!

Gigi in her new home!

Some father-daughter bonding time...

and here our darling ah xiang plants a kiss on gigi's forehead.. except she keeps moving.. hahahaha...


That night, me and xiang blew a $$ bomb on gigi. she is one pampered gal.. went to the pet shop inside Causeway point and had fun choosing stuff for our baby.

Me: " ah bao.. shouldn't need too much recycled paper or wood shavings as her flooring right? i see the cages in the SPCA like not much inside leh..."

Ah xiang: " aiyah.. its like buying a carpet. You want your floor to have a thin one or a thick, nice cushiony one?" * goes back to deciding between the 2.5kg and 5kg bag of wood shavings*

Me: * wonders if a mere 50grams little hamster needs 5kg worth of wood shavings AND another 5kg worth of corn cobs ah xiang is getting*

in the end, me and xiang got:
1) 5kg of wood shavings
2) 5kg of corn cob
3) A bag of premium hamster food, imported from Germany ( it better taste good)
4) A house for Gigi to sleep in
5) A new water bottle thingy
6) Wood sticks for her to chew on.. something like a toothbrush i guess. hehe

We spent the whole night washing the cage and playing with her, settling her into her new cage. And ah xiang is extremely generous with our daughter.. her 'carpet' is almost 2inches thick( use your little pinky to gauge) so she has a fun time diving in and out of it.hahahha... and ME have a hard time diving my finger in and out of the 'carpet'searching for shit droppings.-.-

Just an hour ago i was shit-digging again, and oh boy.She shits a lot for someone her size.

ahhh... im so sleepy now. Went out just now with ah xiang and his clique, had dinner and now im looking forward to shopping in JB with the girls!

oooooo and here's me and Handsome, a cross breed corgi. something like a sausage dog =) hehehehe...i love him!!!




And finally,me and ah xiang, proud parents of gigi liang!!

reaching the end of summer holidays

I hope my cough goes away soon. There's about a month to go before school reopens.. and already the bidding is giving me a headache. Never imagined that i had to go to round 3 of bidding just to get the darn lesson. Damn sickening. Im paying premium fees of what, close to S$10,000 a year and here i am worrying that i can;t even get to ATTEND class. what shit.

summer holiday is coming to an end.. so sad. =( im coming up with a list of places i wanna go before i start school and exams.. some really weird ones but oh well. i just hope i get healthy enough to last half a day without dozing off. the past few bed-ridden days have been depressing. nothing much i can accomplish with a semi-conscious mind and body.. so a typical sick day is like this:

12 noon: wake up, have a banana or some bread that might turn mouldy soon
1-3pm: check emails, play games
3-6pm: eat some porridge and then sleep.and sleep.and sleep some more.
6-8pm: wake up, drink water. go back and sleep
8-10pm: watch a bit of TV, have dinner
10-1am plus: play com games, listen to songs, do some self reflection, literally in the mirror, and moan over the pimples.

what a sad life right?

hmm.. im starting to feel better. managed to go to school today to configure my laptop. Gonna go to the spca tmr for another session with the kitties..

lately this song has been playing on my head. for some reason.
< I stay in Love>
Dying inside cause I can't stand it
Make or break up
Can't take this madness
We don't even really know why
All I know is baby
I try and try so hard
To keep our love alive

If you dont' know me at this point
Then I highly doubt you ever will
I really need you to give me
That unconditional love I used to feel
It's no mistaking
We're just erasing
From our hearts and minds

And I know we said let go
But I kept on hanging on
Inside I know it's over
You're really gone
It's killing me
Cause there ain't nothing
That I can do
Baby, I stay in love with you

And I keep on telling myself
That you'll come back around
And I try to front like "Oh well"
Each time you let me down
See I can't get over you now
No matter what I do
But baby, baby
I stay in love with you

It cuts so deep
It hurts down to my soul
My friends tell me
I ain't the same no more
We still need each other
When we stumble and fall
How we gon' act
Like what we had
Ain't nothin' at all now

Hey, what I wanna do is
Ride shotgun next to you
With the top down like we used to
Hit the block
Proud in the SUV
We both know our heart is breaking
Can we learn from our mistakes
I can't last one moment alone

Although I know
We said let go
But I kept on hanging on
Inside I know it's over
You're really gone
It's killing me
Cause there ain't nothing
That I can do
Baby, I stay in love with you

I think Mariah Carey had a great voice.. if only she doesn't act so.. bimbo. haha..And i think im suffereing from dysthymia. >.< could be a side effect of being sick for sooo long.. Acck...

Flu season.. when will it ever end?

I am soooooooooooooooooo sick of falling sick. Sigh.

Took my temperature on Monday night. 37.9 C. Nick took one look at my thermometer and started making a lot of noise.. even in the bathroom i caught words such as 'quarantine', "H1N1", "spread germs".... >.< SO i took 2 panadols and went to sleep.Woke up on tuesday morning feeling good enough to walk the dogs- a hyperactive Jack Russell included-- and then went home to Zzz and play com games.

Wednesday and Thursday I was coughing and sneezing, but took some medicine and panadol again, and then on thursday night Me and xiang went to the doctor cuz we both can't take it anymore. Sigh. The doc gave us almost the same medicine, so after dinner of porridge we 2 sick loonies sat at the table and took our pills and cough syrup. Out of the 4 types of medicines prescribed,3 made me super drowsy. And its not 1 tablet, but TWO of each type so this morning i had a super super hard time getting out of bed. I felt likei was walking on clouds, and my feet seem to sway.. or was it just my vision swaying? But i went to the cat shelther anyway, and cleaned their little cages. And the cats kept grabbing my hair. sigh. Once i got home i took the medicine and went to sleep... WOke up at 8pm for dinner and i was.so.dead.tired.i could have just smacked my face into the rice. Zzzzz

Mama say the medicine is too strong.. So im gonna cut back the dosage.. else i think i will just go into coma. haha.. ARGH IM SO SLEEPY.

its a cold cold night

its so cold now... been raining the whole day while yesterday was once damn bloody hot day. No wonder people are falling sick.. Xiang is down with cough and headaches, and after tuition with nick and hanging around, xiang the super infecter has successfully passed the germs to me and nick. Lols.. SO now im smelling the very strong scent of ginger in the room, cuz mama rubbed some himalayan balm on nick to soothe his sneezes.And he smells like he bathed and soaked in 10kg worth of ginger =( AND he sleeps just inches away from me so i guess i'll smell like a ginger duck in the morning too..bleagh.

We had sushi and udon today for dinner.We made it ourselves! that persistent nick insists he MUST have his sushi so though it was pouring and cold, sick little xiang and a very grouchy duck went out with him to Cold storage to buy the ingredients. Ma gave us $50 to spend and we used $60 instead.. Gulp! ah well at least we had fun getting our hands dirtied as we made our handrolls, gunkan and some severely out-of-shape seaweed rolls. heh heh.. and we had 4 different flavours of udon in one meal! super full now.. ah xiang only ate the udon cuz the rice had vinegar in it. lol.. he is ultra sensitive to the smell of the sushi-rice.. and despite me and mummy urging him to try one, ah xiang just won't let one grain of that rice get near his mouth.. haha..nick the little king proclaimed himself the chef and used up the whole pot of rice and packet of seaweed >.< some chef.. who left his sister and her bf in the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for him >.o grrr.. naughty boy..

me and xiang went to the spca yesterday and im so happy to see xiang playing with the doggies =) poor him, kena scratched by one of the dogs and his slipper chewed on. Lucky no damage was done, phew! i think he's getting better with the doggies; some actually listen to his commands! lol lol.. i can;t wait for tuesday.. gonna walk the dogs again!

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Im such a scatterbrain. My thoughts are alllll over the place and there seems to be a million gazillion things i wanna do but can't seem to find the energy to do them.Gah. Sigh.. Im so bored.. and I dread going back to school. The sch's admin system has been cheerfully sending me reminders--all starting with 'welcome back to school!' or worse, 'Hi!Blah blah..."-- -.- since when does a computer say hi to you? Haiz. Bidding starts Monday and i have yet to decide what courses i wanna do. BUt first i neeed to find my allies. Can't imagine attending lessons with no one to bitch with(guys included) but since most people are in business course... =(

I dunno wad to make do with my last month before school. Part of me wants to secretly book another trip to bintan or tioman and get stung by jellyfish or swept away by the july tides. Maybe then i'll have a legitimate excuse not to return to school. =(

I think... I'll just go into recluse.Build my little lala-land somewhere and day dream there. Ha ha ha.

I've been thinking an awful lot lately, and sometimes I wonder if I depend too much on others for entertainment. Not in the I-am-making-use-of-you-to-pass-my-living-time-on-earth kind of meaning but in the sense that without close ones around, I start to feel unfunctionable. Have you ever felt like you want to go out for an ice-cream or a movie that you die-die wanna watch, but just because the person you wanna go out with can't make it or declines( usually in a too-polite manner), you just discard the idea of going out altogether and mop around like a loser at home? I guess its normal once in a while, but some bell at the back of my head starts ringing when the situation props out once too often. Com'on gurl, are you sooo that dependant that you can't get out of the house to pamper yourself??

Sometimes, I think i need to learn to survive without others without getting severely depressed. It just washed upon me that relationships don't often last as long as you want them to be.Friends whom you thought would be just as close even when you become bo-gay and bald and fat and lumpy will just slip away silently without you knowing it. Its like gaining weight. A little more fried chicken at a meal, the bubble tea or chocolate crfeam puff you buy with guilt, telling yourself its just a tenny weeny treat that won't hurt. Before you know it, another inch appears, and stays pretty stubbornly at your waist.Urgh. It just takes a matter of weeks and months and then years, and suddenly one day you wonder what happened that made you in the sorry state you are today. And as you get all self-pitying and whiny, you rake up plans to get things back the way they used to be originally, but....somehow you can never NEVER get it back 100%. It won't take you long to realise that some things in life are just irreversible, relationships especially. Friendships, love-love relationships, kinship... oh, and even your weight if i have to say it. Try Marie france or Mary chia for 3 months, get happy and once you're off the program, you go back to Ms.Fatty jeans. Plus, do you seriously feel happy that you lost water weight thanks to the so-called wonder machines and liposuction etc etc?

Bleagh. Maybe im being too pessimistic today. But i do think I have issues. Maybe thats why i signing up for so many sessions with the SPCA. I can almost have a heart-to-heart chat with my resident favourites. And best of all, I won't be judged. The most i get are scratches and growls, which can be inferred as anything from "im hungry, get me some food dammit!" or, 'you're stepping on my tail fatso!".

And i think i can live with that perfectly.