Wednesday, December 31, 2003

reflections & others

small snippets first

Came back home ard 8pm though was working half day today, cos I went to have a haircut and rebond my hair. My hair had grown too thick that my ponytail is too heavy. Upon reaching home, Mum was gave a disapproving look and said we (according to chinese customs) are not supposed to cut our hair until the 49th day from grandpa's death. She never told me abt that before, and i never knew abt this "rule". But hair was already cut, can't expect me to join them back. And I wasn't xian1 zhan3 hou4 zou4.

Guessed I must be very stress, for my hairdresser found another two long strands of white hair today. I found two last week. For me, I seldom have white hair. the last time I ever had white hair is just only one strand when i was in sec 2.
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Reflections........

Last day of 2003...
recalled that "gor" mentioned to me over ICQ that I had experience quite a lot this year.

Quite true.
Let me see: 2 painful breakups, suddenly decided to change job ( i used to hate changes) and even dun mind changing to a lower paying job and involve in 2 accidents related to tail bone.

I had really achieved my 2003 New Year resolution, which was to write diary entries regularly. which I did. Besides this blog, I have a diary book which i wrote the entries in chinese .

I even tried a lot of new activities this year, rollerblading, hip hop dance, jazz dance, archery, M-16 simulation...

New Year resolution for 2004: Study hard and be able to master Heelys.

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Monday, December 29, 2003

Back to Office

Sigh.... felt so paiseh when I saw my office desk this morning.
It was filled with lots if chistmas presents from colleagues (they left the gifts on my desk last week), even though they knew I was on compassionate leave then.
These are what I received:A post pal soft toy, a keychain and scrunchie, a package from body shop, sweets and cholocates wrapped in crepe paper, a box of chocolate, a tin of chocolates, a handphone accessory, Royce chocolate and japanese sweets, japanese chocolates.......

hai... they shouldn't have given me Christmas presents, knowing that I can't give them presents as christmas is over and according to the Chinese superstitions, I can't give out any gifts during the mourning period.

There's a Chinese saying 礼上往来 (li3 shang4 wang3 lai2). Dunno when can I find an occasion to send gifts to them . Chinese New year and Valentine still falls within the 100 days mourning period.

This is the first time that I received so many Christmas presents. Cos my previous comany did not celebrate Christmas, and my close friends and i only exchange Christmas cards, not Christmas presents. the onky christmas presents I got from the previous years were from my ex-bf.

Can only receive gifts but not giving out them, so paiseh! And 遗憾 as I think this is the only chance to exchange Christmas gifts with them if i manage to get into local University next year.
But I don't blame anyone for that.

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Sunday, December 28, 2003

7th day & annual camp

Just a short one... just got back from campfire.. too tired...

Morning, wnet to bright Hill temple (or Guang1 Ming2 shan2) to pray to my grandpa, as today is what the Chinese called "tou2 qi1"-- the first 7th day from his death....
What i had learnt: according to the Chinese superstitions, the important dates to pray to a deceased are "tou qi", (1st 7th day), "san1 qi1" (3rd 7th day--21st day) , "wu3 qi1" (5th 7th day) and "qi1 qi1" (7th 7th day/ 49th day).
Actually, also went there yesteray, but was to collect grandpa's ashes. Guess grandpa must be suffering a lot during his last few months, cos his bones were very brittle. When we were told to pick up the big white pieces (bones)from the remains, we found only a few big pieces,the rest were small pieces, while we saw the other families picking up a lot of big pieces of bones from their kins. Mum said that grandpa had to eat 8 different types of medicines then... and we did saw how much difficulty he had when he walked......


Afternoon, meet up with my friends from my club to go to the club's campfire. FL was back from her exchange programme in China and bought a handphone accessor with is my last chinese name character and a bottle of Ice tea which Sun Yanzi is the spokeperson for ( got her pic on the packaging leh).

Dunno was it because of the recent events taht made me very tired and moody or was it that i am already too old, i dun really enjoy myself watching the programs at the campfire. Seeing young members of the club playing games really makes me feel that i am too old for that. For the past few years, I had been joining the annual camp as camp members, and was running & having a wild time when playing the camp games. But now... don't expect me to do that......

Anyway, also got a lift home from a fellow club member in his shared car-- a Mazda. Actually if I can drive and afford a car, my realistic dream car is a Toyota Soluna (but now no more, toyota changed it to Vios instead, minus the two extra "eyes" at the rear) or a Mazda.

I personally think that Mazda's curves are nice. but dunno why this Jap brand isn't as popular as Nissan and Toyota. Now that I had sat in a Mazda and spent time scrutinising its interiors, confirmed that my first choice of car is a Mazda.

talk only lah...... cos I dun even know how to drive.....
Dunno if i can manage to pass the practical exams if i do take up the driving lessons....

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Saturday, December 27, 2003

Posting for 26 Dec 2003

Actually typed this on 26 night. but just at the last sentence, my computer gave this blue screen and i had to retype all again..

All the thoughts here were scattered, cos 心好乱.After 5 days, grandpa's funeral was over......

these few days, what had happenned made me finally see why my 1st ex 's grandma wants him to get a GF of the same religion instead. The difference in religions could lead to inevitable conflicts. This i'll not mention.... besides, this is the first time my maternal side had to arrange for a funeral, so there's bound to have some minor conflicts & confusions.

Heaven was kind to us. It didn't rain during this afternoon's procession. It only rained when we got back from Guang Ming San. Also, the sun wasn't too strong even thought it was abt 12.30pm in the afternoon.

I never experienced the death of an immediate family before. it's hard to really describe what i am feeling now. All the fears, all the heartbreaking sights. Especially at the crematorium today. Didn't expect the fire to be so big. I hope it doesn't hurts (for grandpa). I cried that time, cos it really seems at that time Grandpa's leaving us to go to heaven. eveyone cried the most at that time too, even my 8yr old cousin, who was strong for the past few days. Being a matured girl, she knew what is death. fFor the past few days, she still has her childlike's innocence and took a look at Grandpa's body in the coffin and called him "Ah Gong". At that time when the coffin is pushed into the big fire, she knew what was going on and cried.

There were sightings of butterflies and moth for the past few day. onthe 3rd nite, my sis and cousin saw a big uncommon butterfly. We saw a moth on Thurs nite. And this morning, before we send Grandpa off, we saw a small black butterfly.

Mum still crying... i also dunno how to comfort here. We ( my siblings and I) were brought up with rather traditional values in the family-- no hugs and nor direct expressions of love and concern betwen the family members. I thought Daddy would comfort her, but seems not. I know i had to do something, but dunno how, or maybe don't dare to.

Right now, i have a red packet (which the priest said It meant as the $ given my grandpa) in my wallet to keep as a momento of him...Not going to use it but let it grow with me.

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用一句庸俗的话来形容傍晚所发生的事--"中码票也没那么准确!"
Tell me, what's the possibility of seeing yr two ex at the same time in a busy Orchard Rd.

this afternnon, meet up with my ex at Orchard to return him the things that have been with me for a year while he's overseas. We had a small talk and had agreed to keep in contact and remains as friends. Actually shouldn't had met him today as i was still grieving, and cried, which might make passerbys thinking that he bullied me.
Were intending to go our seperate ways at the MRT Station but was we walked up to the midway of orchard underpass, it was so congested that we cant move forward ( dunno what so happening on a weekday), so quickly u-turn back and walked to bus stop.

Chatted casually while waiting for his bus to come first before I can walk off to my bus stop further up the road. . I just took a look at the passer bys behind us and i did a double take. i saw my oher ex just abt to walk past us. Really never expect to bump into him at orchard area, as we never ever bumped into each other before.Though I admited i do keep a lookout for him whenever I passed by his area . But seeing him at this busy Qrchard rd just at the second i shift my glaze at passer-bys....... timing so accurate.....

rushed forward to called him (without knowing my hair disheveled). He was also surprised to see me in town rather then at his or my estates (guess he did know i had attended a funeral). but din talk much, cos he said he need to rush off for his appointment with friends. If that's an excuse, it's a good one. cos he really turn his write and look at his watch).
Just a conversation that lasted less than 30 seconds.
I turned and walked back to the bus stop to look for my ex to say a proper goodbye, but no sight of him. His bus came just at the time when I talked to my other ex.

Timing so synchronised hor......as if everything was scheduled.

本想让心平静下来,
但这场偶遇却在心中掀起涟漪 。

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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

My Grandfather

now at home, going to the wake later.......

Yesterday morning, at ard 3am, my sis and I were woken up by a loud wail from my mum. Someone had called to inform that my grandfather had died.

It was rather unexpected, even though he was warded in ICU ward for lung infection and breathing difficulty. Was supposed to visit him this week, as mum had changed her mind in asking me to visit him last Sunday, as there was no one accompany me there and she had said "Looking at the condition your grandfather is in, he will be still in hospital for quite a few days."

If only I only I have the courage to put away all the fears & awkwardness then and tell my mum that I don't mind going there alone......for you can't foresee what will happen tomorrow.......

I can't say that I am very close to my grandfather (mum's father). But he was the only grandfather I had as my father's father has passed away before i was born.

My siblings and I didn't talked to our grandparents,much due to communication barriers. My grandparents are Hainanese and speak in that dialect. As we (the younger generation) don't live in with our grandparents, and due to the education system, the dialect was seldom used in our daily conversations. Our vocabulary of Hainanese are very limited. We can only say "thank you", " gong xi fa cai", "yes/"no", "eaten/ not eaten", "want/don't want" to our grandparents.

I guessed we were much closer to our grandparents when we were kids. My sister and I still remember that my grandfather, though a quiet and serious man, had shown us a cheeky side of him when we were young. During tea time, he cut away the two ends of a long french loaf and pretended to place the two pointed ends across his chest. ( if you know what that resemble) My grandma was rather embarassed then while we laughed at the joke. Of cos, he never did that again, especially years later my sis & I reached puberty.

I still remembered that when my sis and i were young, whenever visit our grandparents, we would played with my granfather. he would brought out this old soft sponge ball , and we would kicked it around. We stop playing with him when we grew older, but with the additions of 2 more kids (my brother and my cousin), he still continued playing with his grandchildren until his health deteriorates...

He was also a great cook ( that's what Hainanese had a good reputation for). My mum told us that he used to work as a chef of some sail boats. I do remember he made really nice battered prawns, and beautiful carvings on carrots.

At a lost on how to end this posting from here........

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Sunday, December 21, 2003

百感交集

This afternoon, was supposed to visit grandpa, but didn't go in the end, as just I was abt to take a shower and changed into clothings for outdoors, Mum last min asked me to go with sis next week instead (she went elsewhere today).

Dunno whether were all these fated, cos after i came out from shower, saw an sms from some number i dun recognised, saying that he is passing by Bishan MRT at 6pm and whether if i can pass him the stuff then. At first i dunno who it was, as there are two friends whom i need to pass some stuff to. Later when i called, then realise it was my ex.

To save the trouble of making him meet up again, i quickly did a Chinese New Year card, in case I am unble to send those celebration stuff anymore, though i know it's too early to send one.
when i went online, saw an email send by the chairman, telling members to be responsible . Can see he wasn't in the best of the mood. Suddenly feel so bad. Maybe my previous email asking the leaders to give me the information spurred his email. Guess we are all frustrated.....

Anyway, reached the MRT at 6pm, gave a call to Chairman first. to ask if he had been angry. Guess he seems calmer over he phone then, compared to his email.

Saw him (ex) at a few mins past 6pm. Well, what can I say, from the way he talk, he is still suave as usual. His short hairlength then had grown visibly longer. At least he didn't seem to loose a few more Kgs from his already very thin frame.

One thing that strikes me, suddenly I feel so short beside him, guess it was because that I hadn't seen him for quite sometime and forgotten how tall he was.

现在才真正感觉到,我们之间, 有好大的距离.
虽然他当时就站在我面前, 但似乎离我好遥远.
与他聊几句, 有种"最熟悉的陌生人" 的感觉.

i was actually quite taken aback by his response. He greeted me with a smile and wish me a merry christmas and a happy new year, and ask what 好料(hao3 liao4) ('good stuff') i had for him (refering to the package that i was going to pass him. Given the cold way he had been treating me for pass weeks, I thought he would just said a "Hi", collect the stuff and went home.

But he didn't. he was rather diplomatic and cool when he casually ask me how's my work and said that by the look at me, could see i was stressed. Oh, did he really noticed my tired face, dark eyes circles and the break out of pimples, or was he just fu1 yan3 (dunno why can't find the chinese words in my chinese software) me.

As for me, i was so tired by recent events that i fumbled at my words. When he ask me how much i paid for each SAT test paper, i mention a thousand plus, which was actually my SAT score. then I answered "$2400+ for three papers, $800+ each.", when I should be saying "$240+ for three papers, $80+ each". Pathetic right?

One thing he mentioned which left me puzzled was that when i told him abt my company might not give us (employees) bonuses, he said "Join MediaCorp lah", which was refering to the company he's working for. True, he may had said it jokingly, but given that he had mentioned to me that we are friends now and don't have much to talk when he initiate the breakup, and he had been unwilling to remain much in contact, I dunno why he seems to be fine if i did join the same company as him.

Wouldn't he feel awkward if he was to bump into me as colleagues?
Or he is so suave and poise that if that happens, he can handle that situation with ease?

Just a meeting with him for less than 2 minutes, already left me with so many thoughts........

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Saturday, December 20, 2003

What's Your Destiny?

Tried out a personality test today on What's Your Destiny?. Think some parts rather true, But how I wish that I can be able to protect myself from politics, backstabbers...
anyway, here's the results

*your destiny is to be a Protector *

Whether you know it or not, this is the role that is most in tune with who you are at your core. As a Protector, you have an exceptional gift for guiding and comforting others when no one else is willing or able because you actually feel their pain as if it were your own. If you could insulate those you love from all hardship, you would consider that your greatest accomplishment. You offer caring and thoughtful advice that helps others heal and move in a positive direction, but you don't call attention to yourself, choosing rather to selflessly give to others in order to make the world a better place. This sense of duty and exceptional work ethic will get you far in life, however, it can lead to frustration when you don't get the appreciation you deserve. Remember to take care of yourself because if you feel good others will feel reassured by your steady, prudent, and methodical ways, and the world really will be a better place!

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19 Dec 2003 .......

Not a good day...
just got worse & worse as the day dragged on.

1) Morning, suddenly received sms from aunt that grandpa sent to hospital and is in critical condition. Unusual for aunt to break the news instead of mum. dunno whether this sms meant that if i needed to go down too. so just asked "y?". And it was uncle who replied " i say CRITICAL. Old people sickness". then i think after he cooled down, he replied "lung infection, breathing difficulty".

no choice, then ask my sis whether had she also received the news from aunt & if we were needed go go down to hospital. so she just replied , aunt say will tell us if we are needed.

What to do, already so scared....

2) Afternoon, experienced another "Tai-chi' played by my colleagues. The freelance writer had sent us picture, but this gal from art department throw back the CD R to me & said pic are low-res. What to do, the art department can't layout in time and push the blame to as is if it is my fault for not co-ordinating properly.
But I did instruct the writer to give high-res pic, & she knew that herseld and had given the same instructions to the company. I am not the sort who will push the blame to people. And I know the writer is not at fault, cos how would she know if the pictures are of high res or low res.

Later in the afternoon, the company that was supposed to sent 2 of their products boxes failed to sent the items. I did confirmed with the writer yesterday to get the company sent in the boxes today, which she confirmed. Apparently, the person-in-charge did not take action as promised.
Art department grumbled that no pictures for them to lay out. So caused delay.
Whose fault is it??
All pushed to me again.!!!!!!!

3) This year, i had spent more effort and money to make Christmas card for my friends, for fear that i might not be able to send them in the next 3 years (some chinese customs , superstitions, if u know what i mean). Today, the news regarding my grandpa make me fear even more, so quickly called the person who had not meet me up just for a minute to collect his card. He cut my line! imagine that.

Weeks ago, when the card was ready and called him, he replied, will call me back again. no reply since.

Felt so wei3 qu1,and all that stress from work and home make me break down in office.....

4) Checked my SAT results online. Bad news. down by 30 marks from previous test score. even though maths improved by 10 points, the verbal section (english), was down by 30 points...

It was already near midnight then. How much worse could the day gets..........

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Thursday, December 18, 2003

LOTR-ROTK I've seen it!

Whooooooopi. Was one of the first few Singaporeans to watch LOTR before the actual release today. yesterday (wed, 17 Dec) afternoon, my colleague was looking for someone to watch the preview of LOTR with her. She got free tickets from her cousin, who was studying medicine in University. There was this special screening just for them (the medicine students & those in health care grp).

of cos there were "terms & conditions". The screening was at West Mall ( in Bukit batok) and start at 9pm. LOTR is usually more than 3 hrs, that means it will end past 12 midinght and I will have to take cab home. (remember 50% surcharge....).
Suddenly, how I wish i could drive & have my own car..... :P
Suddenly, memories of how my ex would rent car and send me home flooded my mind .....


When I reached there, found out that our seats were at the 2nd front row. By the end of the show, our heads were strained after tilting them upwards for more than 3 hrs. Had to call a cab home and the taxi fare was $18, more than the price of 2 movie tickets.
But is it worth it? YESSSSSSS, of course!

Not to be a "spoiler", i am not going to talk abt the storyline of the movie. For girls crazy abt Legolas, ha ha, there were lesser shots of him cos the focus is on the King (Aragon) ,& of cos, the Ring.
My rating for the movie:****** out of 5 stars.
Really had to watch on big screen.Cos you can really feel the impact of the huge stones catapulting, the tower crumbling and the marching of 20000 soldiers ( including the ugly orgs, eek).

Will try to catch it for a second time some weeks later... Oh yah, must remember to check out the net for some movie-mistakes and try to spot them next time. keke.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Postings from 13-16 Dec

13 Dec 2003, Sat

In Memory of Our Rosie Fish
Well, sounds exagerating right.In the morning, my brother first found out rosie fish missing from the tank. Our big tank has a plastic divider placed in the mile, one side for the big luo han, the other for the rosie fish, 3 angel fish and a sucker fish. Our guess was that the luo han must had eaten the rosie during midnight.
Was quite sad that the rosie was gone. Cos i remembere when my Dad first bought abt 9 rosie fishes, one by one died of disease except that rosie which was had lived on for months. Guess it must be a very strong fish.
At night, the gruesome find of small bones laying at the bottom of the tank confirmed that the Luo Han ate it. we don't think the gap at the bottom of the divider was big enough for the rosie fish to get pass. But its head could poke out a bit from its side of the tank to the luo han's .
Dunno why i was feeling rather angry at the Luo han for the cruelty, even i know that it is a practical example of of "Big fish eat small fish".

14 Dec 2003, Sun

Didn't attend the last hip hop lesson of the year as I was so tired from yesterday friend's birthday celebrations and KTV session.....
Disappointed....

15 Dec 2003, Mon
Dun really feel like going to work today, as our boss will finally be back after 6 weeks of long holiays. No one misses her, even after so many weeks. Everyone was hoping she won't come today.

Sometimes, really feels so pathetic for her......

16 Dec 2003, Tue

Stupid rain, rained at ard 5pm, made us no choice but had to cancel our scheduled roller-blading session in the evening after work. I was so enthusiastic in the morn.....

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Thursday, December 11, 2003

Honda Stream and Holland Village

2nd last day of freeom before our editor returns from her long trip on next Monday.....

After, went along with 2 colleagues to Holland Village for lunch as 3 other colleagues were having a photoshoot at the Anthropology shop.
My colleague managed to get her dad's car today, Honda Stream, really not bad. Cos she, being a fast driver, even drove at 100km/h, yet it feel so smooth inside the car.

Had to admit that she is really good at driving, even though she speed. The way she changed lanes so quickly and smoothly really amazes me.
Lunch was at Sumo Bento. Foo average, but it is fine as the prices are cheap and no service charge.

Had to help my colleague to buy some bread from the opposite Provance bakery. My colleague wanted the sesame cream cheese bread. I also tried one and it was good ( an understatement)

yummy.......

Oopps, now then realised i still have another bread in my bag!

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Multi tasking

Ok, guess I cant multi-task as much as last time. Maybe need to upgrade PC liao.

Busy doing Christmas cards (printing, cutting and pasting) while checking emails, playing neopets and updating blog now.
Was really shocked to see 69 new emails in my regular email account.

Hmmm, really envious of Ling who sent a pic of her playing snow in Nanjing.
Me never encounter snowfall before.

Anyway, yesterday evening when to East Coast park to rollerblade with my colleagues. My 2nd attempt at rollerblading. This time, rent the blades from the rental shop.

To my horror, I really couldn't balance myself when i tried to get up. An when I starte to glided, was so scared as this time the wheels seems like rotating faster than the ones I use on my first attempt.
Then my colleague revealed that the rollerblades which i was wearing yesteray are of No. 5 wheels, which were faster than the No. 3 wheels I had last time.


As a beginner, i really feel that No. 5 wheels are too fast. I was very kan cheong when it doesn't seems to stop, even though the path is smooth an there weren't anyone blocking me. My colleagues were laughing that i was alreay so slow that if I walk, i could even be faster than i am on rollerblades.

Rained halfway. Wasted 30 mins at the pavillion, waiting for rain to stop.

Ok, at least I didn't fall while blading on normal path. I had fallen down abt thrice while learning to blade over humps. I fell because I don't have sufficient speed to cross over the hump (will drift backwards halfway and lost balance). And even though my colleagues keep asking me to bend forward, so that even if I fall, i will fall front front, which will not hurt as much if I fall backwards and hit the tail bone.

From my experience, if you are kan-cheong (panic) or scared, once you loss balance, you can't be possibly be clear enough to tell your brain and body to fall forwar.
I landed once on my back an once on my left leg. That really hurts as my left thigh bone was knocked. I had tried to fall front but no time for the reaction and landed on my left.
Manage to past the last hump successfully before returning the blades (Yes!). Don't know was it by luck.

(ZZZZZZZ too sleepy. gtg)

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Saturday, December 06, 2003

SAT on a Sat

a turbulent day............

morning, sat for SAT. really gan cheong when I found that i forgot to bring passport as identification. Luckily can use IC.

This time, dun really think can score better. Cos
1) Wasn't well prepare ( can't apply leave to study, plus my heart still not into the mood).
2) I dun have enough time to answer some questions.
3) I was careless to omit a page of question ( lucky only 2 questions)

Would be a miracle if i scored better than the May paper

Sigh.. no choice lah, think better register for the next test on the 24 Jan 04, which is the 3rd day of Chinese New year.

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After the test, since it is at Bras Basah, so i hopped down to Poular book store and then to Art Friend to buy more materials for the Christmas card. Spent another $40 on the materials (paper stamps, paper, labels, glitter glue) today. Ok ok had calculated that I spent more than $100 on Chirstmas cards.

But some of them are "assets" ok, not "consumables". I still can keep the papaper stamp for next year's use. Provide if I am going to do DIY Christmas cards again.

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Feel so bad. cos supposed to meet a friend at 4pm. but he had change the meeting time to 3.30pm and he did call and sms but i only saw them at the last minute. Think i must had forgotten to turn off the "silent mode".

By then, he already sms that meet me another day. Dunno if he was there waiting since 3.30pm.

So sorry........
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Was feeling so moody that i decided to go Parkway Parade alone, as I heard it had revamped.

But that prove to be a bad move. Cos to go to Parkway, I had to took bus 135 at AMK bus interchange.

I really dunno why as I was walking to the AMK interchange, memories of my ex meeting me at the bus interchange to take me to Nite Safari came flooding into my eyes. And it also hit me that today, i was wearing the same pink top that I wore for that date and on the day he proposed.......

Tears started streaming down my face.
" I just couldn"t help it".

Familiar quote right? It's from the Dove ad......

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Comparing Parkway Parade revampt to Bishan Junction 8's, the former's works aren't. From what i observed, Parkway now has more alfressco dinning on teh 1st level -- Ya Kun toast and some other cafes.
Inside the buidling, guessed the foodcourt had been renovated.
I am not counting the Giant Hypermarker as it had been around there for some time..
The rest of the shops looks pretty much the same.

For Bishan J8. A lot of new shops had been blooming, and there are lots of relocation. they even made extensions on the first level.

Hmmm, thought we are still in recession?

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说我痴情也好,说我放不开也好,说我傻也好.
但我还是得承认,至今, 我还是会想起他.

甚至今天, 逛完PARKWAY 后, 我竟转搭巴士到面对他住址的公园, 然后走回家. 为的只是要知道那时他送我回家后, 走回他家庭的那条路是怎样的, 有多远......

发现原来这路程大约是20分钟...
我在想, 每当他走这条路时, 他脑海里在想些什么........

"走你走过的路,
试着寻找你曾爱我的足迹.........."

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Wednesday, December 03, 2003

accurate?

! You are most like An Emerald !
Caring, giving, - and very emotional. You're the
person
people turn to with a problem. You worry about
everybody,
and genuinely want to help - a little too much
sometimes.
As an emerald, you tend to take a more backseat to
the other
gems, but your inner beauty soon captivates those
who take
the time to get to know you.
Congratulations ... You're the selfless gem
everybody needs as a friend.


?? Which Precious Gem Are You ??
brought to you by Quizilla

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Tuesday, December 02, 2003

My Dream Car…….

Ok forgotten to add something abt yesterday.
It was said that Leos have fine, expensive tastes and are huge spenders. I doubt that cos I prefer eating at foodcourts or hawker centres to fine dining restaurants (so many things to watch out—yr language, actions, table etiquette).
I dun own a diskman, digicam, palm top or any other IT gadgets.

But seems like even though I don’t own expensive stuff, I have expensive tastes unknowingly.

Scene ONE
At Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza, there was this car road shows. So my friends and I just look around for Fun. Mazda, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, BMW……
From afar, I spot one design which I like, a silver colour car , which looks like a sports car.

When I finally got a chance to have a closer look, I was like “woah!”. Guess what brand the car was?

A Ferrari at an asking price of $588888.!!!!!!!!!

A Mazda cost $70000. See the price difference?

So that was my dream car, could only drive it in my dreams. Cos that price is something I can never afford (unless I strike it rich—in yr dreams gal!), and I don’t even have driving license… Ha Ha Ha!


Scene 2.
Was at this Moshi Moshi shop buying a replacement bracelet. While waiting for the salesgirl to wrap it, I took a look at the bangles in their showcase. Saw that the price ranges from $19 to $29. But I had an eye for one bangle placed in the middle (which the price was not shown). Like that design because of its thickness and the interesting way it twisted at the end.

Enquired its price with the salesgirl. Turn out that while the rest are silver-plated, the one I choose was plated with white gold & cost $79!!!

So it’s me who had expensive taste or just that better design stuff cost more?

Didn’t buy it in the end, though I like it very much & can afford it. It was a matter of practicability.
I don’t wear accessories often, and if I buy it, I had to eat grass for the rest of the month (exaggerating lah!).

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