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We had a nice dinner at suburbia again, but i always say it’s the company that’s more important. We had a nice room to ourselves and talked till late about religion, family and the ultimate keyword “communication”

The highlight of the day must be the blue cheese that they ate… Gawd!
Douglas actually brought me a small slice of blue cheese just to irritate me at work…

1 month down

August is filled with birthdays. The class celebrated Daryl’s bdae in the lab… so sweet. Wa, the girls have grown prettier and prettier. During class, Cherry smsed me to say she’s skipping bible studies class coz she was so tired from her marking and we went to check out the eatery at Bishan Park.

After dinner, we chilled at Gary’s place and watched the Olympics… 2 more Wii kakis. It’s nice to meet Cherry’s friends and she meets mine, so we can put a face to the name when we gossip about them… haha.

Fei Mao

I’m glad to wake up beside you.

Teachers’ Day

The semester is coming to an end, and students did their feedback on my teaching effectiveness - most of them say i’m funny, one even asked for a pay raise for me, one says i tell lame jokes…

On how to be funny, look what i do in class after presentation, i gave out choc and play “indian poker” with our draw-lot slips of paper. I bet with them 10 boxes of pocky (which i never did receive).

Our boss catered lunch for us for teachers’ day and a water bottle each.
*Cherry says i look demure dat day… haha

Animation

Awwwwwwwww…. i watched Wall-e and cried till i had a bad headache. After Finding Nemo, no other animation was able to top it but i guess Wall-e and Eve have finally managed to. Also watched Clone Wars by myself at the premiere coz andrew had to rush home.

I’m never good at staying awake at movies.
Maybe coz i was alone, i didn’t fall asleep, which means it’s a good movie.

Meet up

People i met in august … my prof who gave me guidance, my niece who took me on a slow walk to the playground i used to go, and collin…

Collin recommended me this new church, i quite like it, so may leng asked me to go find a cell group so i could grow spiritually… but dear god, i dun wanna join cell group can?

Misc

I can’t bake since my oven spoilt (but it spoilt since i didn’t bake for so long), so i decided to make no-bake desserts. I started with fruit jellies but i was too paiseh to bring to work and gobbled 8 jellies early in the morning 6 o’clock.

Papa came back with durians the other nite … yummy …

Stormy … meet homer

Xiaolan has been acting up lately, she nearly got into a few accidents and last week, she nearly ran down a China guy in NTU… all super close shave…

Anyways, time to beautify her since her bdae is near… Homer joined the stormies in their quest to watch over xiaolan.

Jokers at the zoo

3 of us went to the zoo last sun despite many signs of a heavy downpour. We only took pictures of the above animals. We were stucked in the tram as it brought us round the zoo twice, breathing each other’s carbon dioxide.

*PS: after returning a 2 missed calls, the other line goes “i can’t see you anymore” …

Ahhh… such a long time since I last sat down with them to talk.

Tekong

Well, when we are complaining about doing publicity stunts at school level, SAF also have to do their song and dance. I dragged my yr 1s to visit the “woohoo”-all-male-offshore-island. The most excitable ones have gotta be Cherry and I…

We get to see handsome officers, recruits working out under the hot sun, drivers driving their 5-tonner (*wink), another fella clearing the obstacle course effortlessly. On top of that, we get goody bags, see their “show” bunk, wear their cap, jumped on their beds and of course, tried to pick their locks…

It just spells drool….

Aiyo… I saw this pic on our site and there was just something wrong with mr cool trying to pose for the camera. Luckily I played snooker on wii to know it’s wrong… then again… it’s common sense mah.

Ask and you shall receive

Me and my thick skin asked Alastair to get me a Wii play coz mine is with Andrew. Wa, and he gave me an all brand new one… Thanks ^_^

I also accept “bribes” in the denomination of pocky and cookies… haha…

Samantha was so sweet to give me the strawberry pocky and Raudha gave me some homemade cookies. Lil perks here and there…

3 ex-designers and 1 artist

We met up last two weeks and visited the National Museum to see the Night festival before checking out the Zouk party. Zel was so excited after being cooked up at home.

Before that, I went with Cherry to Red Dot Museum to listen to this prof talking about his video installations. It’s been so long since i heard that word “semiology”. I really wanted to study Master of semiotics then.

That artsy-fartsy night really brought me loads of memories when i still called myself a designer.

Revenge of de Forrest

Nothing beats a good old wake up call from ah bui, who would meow from 6.30am, plunge his backside on my face, or stepped on my stomach, or bite my face or scratch my hands etc…
Of course this “princess” sloth wouldn’t care less until 3 hours later to feed him.

Why can’t ah bui be more demure like the strays ?!?

Mike’s birthday bash

As expected, no one would go home without feeling high. By 10pm, the room was filled with like almost 40 people. We played dai tee, and some finger game suggested by Cherry, wow… very insightful.

The bottle of cherries that wouldn’t open…

I was born with a purpose

Hey, my baptism date is around the corner. I’ve always thought that i was just another extra creation in the world, i seem so odd in the family, i seem so odd at work, i’m never particularly good at anything. Even my wii game skills is so lousy. Yup, i’m ms low, ms low self-esteem.

Collin shared a message with me during our dinner and told me that God has chosen me even before i was born. Mind blowing.

Even after i baptised, what i thought i was doing right was wrong. I need not lead an aimless life. I must have a vision! So yesterday’s message gave me some comfort that says : God specialises in minority. God is faithful and is a vision-giver. He will stand by you.

SingFest 08

Finally, finally, finally, I went to watch it. First, we had to queue 45 mins to get in, then i gotta hold my pee for almost 7hours… The crowds were just impossible to move through, * and i found a nice spot to sit and enjoy the acts. The bands were awesome, Jason Mraz was superb! Well, i dance a lil, UNTIL rick astley came on, i lost total control of my limbs. I was screaming and dancing the 80s moves.

Still thanks to * for sticking by even tho his knee hurts like mad. Neng scolded me to not watching Alicia Keys but if i waited, i scared kena stampede…

Yay… the 80s rock/ pop chick lives on…

The youngest daughter

Papa and Mummy finally brought me to Suburbia at Sentosa last week. He introduced me to the managers and waitresses ” my youngest daughter, she never come here before”.

Am i supposed to be proud that I’m the boss’ daughter or embarrassed that it’s my first time there…

Anyway, it was a nice place; nobody would have known that it was actually a monorail station. Whenever the waiter wanted to refill my wine glass, papa n mummy would say “enuff enuff… don’t pour too much”.
Then they started to squabble a lil, and my dad suddenly told me all his sufferings and sacrifice that he has made for this family.

He actually said ” ah pei, i speak the most to you tonight right? even more that all our conversations added up throughout your life, dui bu dui?” It strucked a cord. He actually knew he hasn’t been close to me. All he wanted was to ensure we have a comfortable life.

We drank and we chatted, he told me a lot of his investments, i only nodded, i actually didn’t quite understand but it’s alright, he only wanted an audience. By the end of the dinner, he was suprised that I could drink - his youngest daughter finally grew up!