a variety of whimsical verse

not in heart

2012-02-06T17:05:00.000+08:00

only in distance

LA FAMILIA / MEGAPOST

2012-01-20T15:53:00.003+08:00

Question: How do parents know to love kids the way they do when they don't actually know the children? You have no idea what your child is going to be like. How they're going to turn out. In fact at the very beginning, you don't know their habits nor their behavior nor anything at all that would constitute their character - which is the very basis on how most people judge other people right?

I don't get it...

But I've fallen prey to it. Hard.

What I'm trying to say is: LOOK AT MY NEPHEW AND MY NIECE ARE THEY NOT THE CUTEST MUNCHKINS YOU HAVE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE I JUST LOVE THEM WITH ALL THAT I HAVE AND MORE THAT I DON'T AND AND AND AND HERE LET ME SHOW YOU A HUNDRED MILLION TRILLION PHOTOS OF THEM WHEN THEY WERE HOME VISITING IN NOVEMBER!!111!!!

cousins!

I present to you,

my prince & princess

the fam looking very regal

I shall end this post with some ipod touch photos of my beautiful, amazing sister (who will forever look 15) and my nephew (who has a huge chunk of my heart and probably doesn't know it.)

i miss you!

but the butter

2011-11-13T00:11:00.001+08:00

Mondays off make for such magnificent Sunday nights.
(well candy apple lips, tekweela and fantastic company add splendidly to the equation too.)

my best ❥ ☼

diabolical d.

2011-11-06T11:13:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I find myself harboring more hatred than I care to admit. Hating something, someone so vehemently doesn't just go away. It doesn't just stop, just stop - like I've been told to do time and time again. I would, you know, if I could. It's tiring. It physically hurts to have your skin crawl from detestation, to have your heart pound relentlessly fron repugnance, to have the hair on the back of your neck stand on end from disgust.

But you're so lovely to everyone else.

Well, thanks. For that halfway backhanded compliment. It's been 20 years people, it's not going to change.

Maybe we can all wish my antipathy away.

enamored

2011-11-03T17:31:00.002+08:00

slow down. hurry up, slowpoke. but look at that dress that shirt oh my goodness those shoes. you're behaving like such a tourist. well you're carrying a murse, anything you say is invalid. do i really need to remind you that 90% of what is in here is yours? shut up. hurry up and hold my hand you embarrassing hick.

fine.

completely incomplete

2011-10-29T05:40:00.000+08:00

It's 5:36AM, my niece is bawling in the next room after coming home to a foreign room in what seems like a strange and overly humid country and I'm about to fall asleep with that smile on my face that only shows itself once a year when my family is finally, finally complete.

awakening

2011-10-15T20:21:00.002+08:00

denise ho - 癡情司

to do androgyny like denise ho is to do it right. 15 years in the industry and she just keeps getting better. i don’t think i will ever tire of her voice - thick with emotion, with stories untold, with hearts quietly broken and even more quietly mended, like a swig of nikka in the dead of winter. it's always a pleasure to listen to her. always.

love note to tumblr

2011-09-24T22:06:00.001+08:00

You know what I love? Tumblr.

Is this ethical? To wax lyrical about how much I love another (newer, younger) blogging platform on my rickety 8 year old home base? But Tumblr's just like the awesome new girl on the block. She waltzes in with her effortlessly pretty hair. She doesn't ask for commitment but she gives you just what you need. She doesn't need any sweet talking or any talking at all, really. (A visual character, this one.) She accommodates and appreciates your short attention span - as a matter of a fact, she's constantly trying to come up with fresh moves to keep you interested. She's kind of the perfect girlfriend, isn't she?

Oh Tumblr. I just love how easy it is to find high quality edits and gifs at my fingertips for my flavor of the month (or in my case, year). You make me so happy ^^

hbd, kkb

2011-09-23T16:14:00.003+08:00

happy 20th, kibum ♡

welcome to the 20s, little one. you embody all that is wonderful in my universe, in any universe.

i don't want to pepper this with embellishments or too much frou frou, but just know that i adore you. you inspire me. and i am incredibly grateful for this day 20 years ago when you decided to grace us plebeians with your arrival.

happy birthday kibum. may the year ahead bring you everything you want and much, much more. i wish i could give you the world.

fan-account - SHINee THE 1ST CONCERT IN SINGAPORE 2011

2011-09-14T10:58:00.000+08:00

this past saturday, i managed to watch 5 of my favorite underage korean boys perform and it was nothing short of magical. here lies my experience in 3000 words as copied from tumblr aka my cesspit of korean pop idolatry.

barely edited and quite raw (and therefore immensely fangirly and potentially embarrassing but i feel a-okay about that. i love these boys and i cannot lie)

it was incredible. decidedly underwhelming, but incredible nevertheless. jill and i concluded that it was because we've seen so many fancams of all the other swc's that even though we were thrilled (beyond imaginable belief), nothing surprised us. which really is our fault so damn us for being such avid fancam stalkers. but it was just such an incredible (there that word is again) feeling to see the boys in real life. the boys i spend far too much time dissecting and analyzing and poring over. in real life. in front of my eyes. singing and dancing the same songs i've heard far too many times and seen performed far too many times in various fancams from countries spanning far and wide.

i actually came away with a large sense of sadness for the boys. because they looked exhausted. particularly onew and taemin - there was a good part of the concert when they were kind of... not all there? onew sang at least 3 songs with his eyes closed about 80% of the time. and it wasn't "oh i'm really getting into the song" but more "i would rather be anywhere but here."

it made me sad :"( you could hear it in his weakened voice that he was so tired. and tae performed amazingly but for the first time ever, i saw him half-ass some of his dance moves. anyone that knows SHINee knows that tae doesn't do that - but he did (albeit just for a couple of songs! but he did.) there were times when it really felt like they were just going with the motion and they weren't feeling it at all. they seemed to get better halfway through, say after a-yo, which was only a tiny bit reassuring.

i went on and on about that OKAY ON TO THE BETTER STUFF AKA MY CHANCE TO WRITE A THESIS ON KIBUM!!

this be kibum.

SHINee are beautiful. every bit as beautiful, nay, they are even more beautiful in real life. in particular, key is an angel. he is a flawless porcelain doll. his skin is perfectly milky white and it really felt like he was putting in extra effort cos he knew that the others were so tired. he is flat out amazing. spot on dance moves and fanservice from here to seoul. he was just. so. SMILEY. and WAVEY. and can we just talk about his english for a bit here. we've all heard him speak it. but it is like a zillion times more melodious in real life. it is PERFECT. like you could dump him on the streets of new york and boy would be fine. we got lucky cos key came over to our side of the stage a whole bunch of times so i could see him in all his glory so many times. and it never ceased to impress me. (IS MY BIAS SHOWING YET) (note: pre-concert, my bias was a very greedy ontaekey. this concert has shown me where my heart lies.)

this is going to turn into a dissertation about key. but he is poetry in motion. the way he walks, talks, moves, laughs. it's like a chorus of angels decided to put on their best show for the world to see. there's something in the way he carries himself that is so damn freaking charismatic. it's undoubtedly effeminate, but so uniquely kibum. it just makes my toes curl in delight thinking about him.

he is the perfect mix of cottony soft and steely goodness. watching him laugh (you know how he throws his head back and then his whole body into his laughs) and kick it with the rest of the boys in real life was one of the biggest highlights of the night because watching them be them was... priceless. in all honesty though, i would pay good money to watch key fold origami. do anything. glare at the top of my head. wipe down a table. i don't even care.

that is how beautiful this boy is. he glows. like seriously if all the stadium lights out went out, key and key alone could light up the entire arena. he's so fair he could easily be one of the models in those korean skincare ads and he'd be prettier than most of the models out there anyway. i've always believed this, but seeing him in real life just solidified what i thought - that he is stunning. guys, really. he is beautiful. his face is perfect. his body is perfect. so perfect it's surreal.

when he's on stage though, he's almighty key. i'm sure you know that key. he's powerful and energetic and sexy as all hell. and in real life he is even more vivacious. it may be my bias talking, but i found it so hard to tear my eyes away from him.
he is a consummate performer. breathtaking in every sense.
phew.

| notes from some of the performances:

the shinee world: GEEZ LOUISE WHEN THEY POPPED UP I WAS LIKE $%^&*(^% IS THIS REAL LIFE. AND TAEBEAR YOUR SHIRT IS OPENED SO LOW I COULD DIVE IN AND MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR BELLY BUTTON.

lushipeo: laser show ftw, yo. when they're up in the air it's like "look ma! angels! with green lasers and perfectly coiffed hair!"

obsession: this song is not played enough. it is so good live.

ready or not: was really looking forward to the jongkey in this one that was in all the other shacons. but alas, it was not to be. jjong knelt down in the middle of the stage and key was doing his own thing. drats. i was so ready.

a-yo: one of the most fun songs. they were running all over the place in their little outfits and we were all drawing circles and a-yo-ing with them. joy.

quasimodo: my favorite SHINee ballad. i just wanted to say that the boys looked flawless in their white suits and sounded beautiful.

graze: one of my favorite SHINee songs. the cheapo ikea chair dance was cute irl and it was cute cos onew stumbled a teeny bit during the dance and the boys were like chortling.

indiv performances: all lovely. though i did spend 95% of jjong's solo trying to figure out the language of the song he was singing, puppy did great. he was wailing and going falsetto like there was no tomorrow, but that's our jjongpup! and he did awesome. minho tries so hard and i love him for that. honestly, with that choreography for OMG, he did pretty damn good. also, he has 8 packs. 8. tae was immaculate during r+j. i love tae's voice. taekay during my first kiss was not as flirty as the rest of the shacons, but adorable nonetheless. onew's opera was very loud, but perfect as is the rest of him. i did spend a lot of the concert wanting to mother him and tuck him into bed though.

lullaby: i must admit i LOLed at the end when they all huddled together and hugged onew and the little boy. it was a bit cult-like.

random videos interludes: they were all... awful. and hilarious. even though kibum doing the ugly cry and onew crumbling with his flowers at the telephone booth still made my heart hurt a little.

ending + happy key day!!: highlight of the entire concert! i just love watching the boys being... the boys. even though having the water fight is staged, i just like watching them run around and acting their age. i love how goofy they get. i love when they put on random hats that (awesome) fans brought. (and how is it they look so flawless with wet hair and cartoon hats?) (and goggles and my melody hats? oh jjong.) (and too tight hats that can't be pried off your head? oh jinki.)
it was hilarious that the fans sang the birthday song in korean and the boys were singing in english. but adorable. jjong sang so loudly.

there was so much random smattering of english. it was ADORABLE. key and his perfect english. he acutally introduced himself with "WASSUP SINGAPORE THIS IS KEY!! long time no see! we've missed you!" i just about nearly had an aneurysm at his perfection at that moment.

they all went "thank you so much" multiple times. of course jjong and his "happy birthday key i love you!" and minho's "happy birthday TO YOUUU!". ugh is this what thrills me these days? rudimentary english? but it was WONDERFUL.

and omg key's dance time. SO PRICELESS. the way he naturally strutted himself to the center and let loose and shook his booty. COULD YOU BE ANY CUTER? COULD YOU?!?!? and when he wore his pink hat and smiled i really felt my entire body melting. like honestly i felt my heart at my feet he was so gorgeous.
i would pay the full ticket price all over again just to watch the ending over and over and over again. these cute life-ruiners.

| boys:

onew: i love him so much. i feel like he looked weathered? which made me think of SM's milk club and made me worry as i tend to do for SHINee. his voice was solid as usual, his eye smiles melt-worthy as usual, his sangtae lovable as always. i just wish he would be given a chance to rest. even for a week. he seems just like the sort that would carry the world on his shoulders and i felt like i saw a glimpse of it on saturday night. he still performed awesomely, but that's just what we felt. but when he smiles, when he sings... there's no defence against that. absolutely none. no one is safe from his charm okay.

jjong: jjong is a puppy. there is no other way to describe how adorable and bouncy he is. i guarantee that everyone, whether or not a shawol and/or pet lover, will want to gather jjong in your arms and just... pet him. also, he is TINY. it is so freaking cute. he is a good bit shorter than all the rest of the boys and it is just so freaking adorable. like during the lullaby they all had to wear some white satin poncho thing and his came down to his shins and tae's were like right where his knees were. hee hee.

key: need i say more about my fairy? about my wonderful angel who kissed every single plastic ball he threw to the fans? who headbanged so hard i feared bits of his brain would leak out from his ears? who waved and said "thank you" so much you'd think he was a presidential hopeful?

minho: so incredibly handsome. body like a greek god. and that's all i have *embarrassed*

taemin: TAE IS INCREDIBLY SKINNY. i know, what's new right? but his legs are the size of my arms i am not kidding you. BABY BOY! EAT!! AND RETAIN THE WEIGHT!! chub!tae is cute!tae. chopsticklegs!tae is tooskinny!tae. need i say more about taemin's dancing skills? boy's got mad skillz. such a pleasure to watch him dance irl with his signature lip-bite. he is also insanely cute especially when he's playing and running around like a 5 year old. i feel like that's the tae we all fell in love with. mint leaf on his head and all.

otp alert?: ok my otps are jongkey, onkey and minkey. and i saw jongkey onkey and minkey. i am a happy stan. also taekey. tae holding key whilst the rest of the boys sprayed him with confetti string. tae spraying copious amounts of water at key. minho helping key remove said confetti string. onew chasing key with a water bottle. jjong's "i love you". WHY ARE THEY SO EFFING ADORABLE.

and my favorite jongkey moment - when key saw jjong in his ridic getup of his my melody hat + swimming goggles and he BURST OUT laughing in his signature key laugh. made my night.

the dynamics of SHINee enthral me and i'm glad i got to witness it first hand. above all the otp shenanigans, they just look like really good friends that seem to genuinely like each other. and that makes me happy.

this 500000 word fanaccount is finally coming to a close. i love that beneath all their immense professionalism, they are the same crazy peppy boys that we fell in love with and continue to fall in love with. i adore that they still kinda suck at live interviews, and especially that key looked so bored during the local media interviews but came alive during the concert. for some reason that just made me love him more.

the boys, as they are well trained to do, thanked us profusely at the end of the concert. but thank you SHINee. you've made my world a much more dazzling place to live in.

ptb = practically the bomb

2011-09-04T20:56:00.001+08:00

| PROTECT THE BOSS |

This drama series has got me completely hooked in a way that I haven't been in far too long. Impossibly witty dialogue, perfectly developed characters and fabulous fashion sense for miles. It's just passed it's halfway mark, but it's certainly leading the pack for the best drama series of 2011.

boy got skillz

Of course, Jae and his ~~lips~~ ~~technique~~ impeccably! fitted! suits! helps the cause... A lot.

be mine?

2011-08-31T17:43:00.000+08:00

andrew english | his and hers fingerprint wedding bands
fingerprint detail hand-engraved on the inside

"I'm yours"

"Will you be mine?"

"I belong to you"

I have a friend that is vehemently against the idea of "belonging" to someone else or "ownership" of another person, if you will. She thinks it's demeaning and ridiculous that to love someone you have to 'own' them, or be willing to relinquish control of yourself to someone else. While I see where she's coming from, I cannot say I agree. For one, I'm kind of into that sorta thing. Also, isn't that a part of the (wonderfully terrifically romantic, imo) idea behind wedding rings?

As much as I know we shouldn't need a piece of jewelry to validate our relationships, there's just something very powerful about wedding bands. It speaks volumes about commitment and the willingness to announce to the world that you're taken and I don't know, it's just something I've always found terribly romantic. In an ideal world, it should be seen as an affirmative bond, a statement, a constant reminder of a promise. Not a shackle that traps you or a dirty secret you have to hide. Maybe it's social conditioning and/or my idyllist ways but I know I want to find someone who will want to put a ring on it (ha) and openly wear his commitment on his sleeves. Or his ring finger.

I think I may be a sappy, backward, traditionalist that over-romanticizes - And I'm okay with that.

in the daytime, time for celebration

2011-08-29T14:36:00.001+08:00

I know, I know. Who still posts LQ pictures anymore?

Well, blackberry users, that's who. Don't let the hard flash distract you from the copious amount of lightsticks and our general sense of joy at spending time with each other. Yes I'm a ball of mush. That's why my friends love me.

ain't no jewellery like neon jewellery!

BFF ♥

These photos are a pretty accurate representation of a daytime party we attended a couple of weekends ago. We had brunch (At 3PM, so really it was more like tea), champagne, and before we knew it the lights were dimmed and lightsticks (+ too many cheesy dance moves to count) were broken out and the party went on and on till the break of... Dusk.

Being that I'm a 70 year old in the body of a young adult, I really wish all parties were held in the day. Until this trend catches on though, I'm going to stick with texting my friends "good night and have fun girls!" as I happily tuck myself into bed at 10:30PM.

VLOG #1: 082011

2011-08-22T11:30:00.001+08:00

vlog #1/ august 2011

we were meant to be

2011-08-16T11:21:00.005+08:00

I'm not a particularly lucky person in the sense that I generally don't do well with lucky dips, pick & wins, bingo jackpots lotteries and the like. And if I misplace something, it's normally gone for good.

But this past Saturday night, lady luck took a sudden and plenty appreciated liking to me. It's story time.

I parallel parked (like a boss, might I add) along Tras St because we were doing dinner at Blue Ginger. Fast forward 2.5 hours, we left with happily stuffed stomachs and a one track mind - to head to our next destination at CQ. Sam very kindly offered to take the wheel because I'm a night blind, direction sense deficient putz so I rode shotgun, ready to assume the role of DJ. Lo and behold, after I stopped short of turning my entire purse inside out, le 3 month old ipod touch was no where to be found.

(╯︵╰,)

Rewind 2.5 hours. Now I remember being on the phone from my car to the restaurant, and noticing 5 minutes too late that my bag was hanging wide open with only one strap being on my shoulders and the other swaying loose. Damn. So I must have dropped it en route to the restaurant. Double Damn. At this point we were almost at CQ and Sam, ever helpful, was like "you wanna go back and check?"

Logically, how could my ipod still be there? I mean, it's been 3 hours. Someone must have taken it. Right?

Right?

....

(I'm failing at creating suspense, aren't I)

....

!!! WRONG !!!

We drove back and there it was, sitting pretty in my now vacated parking space, waiting for us to retrieve it. IT WAS WAITING FOR US!!!!!! It had just fallen under my car as I left it and was there throughout dinner - no one had since picked it up, no car had parked there in the 20 minutes we were gone and MY IPOD WAS RIGHT THERE WAITING FOR US!!! *hyperventilates*

Char jumped out of the car only to be glared at by a passing "mitsu-bitchy" (look at Char still being clever even when under mild duress), but that did not deter her from her mission to save my ipod. And save it she did, save it she did ♥

Basically, I'm thankful for my friends and my shining lucky stars. I mean, really. Had I been the one driving, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have driven back (night blind putz haven't you heard). Thank you for aligning, lucky stars! For reuniting ipod and Mommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay I'll reel in the hysterics just a touch.

What a long entry just to describe my jubilance. This is a good summary:

OMG GUYS CAN YOU BELIEVE I FOUND MY IPOD LIKE IT WAS JUST SITTING THERE IN THE PARKING LOT IN IT'S NEON PINK GLORY WAITING FOR ME WE ARE MEANT TO BE JUST MEANT TO BE FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER...

SAVIORS!(∩▂∩)

ain't easy

2011-08-14T10:43:00.002+08:00

相愛沒有那麼容易每個人有他的脾氣
過了愛作夢的年紀轟轟烈烈不如平靜
幸福沒有那麼容易才會特別讓人著迷
什麼都不懂的年紀
曾經最掏心所以最開心曾經
(x)

Chinese songs sure know how to get you just where it hurts, don't they?

you know i'm such a fool for you

2011-08-11T12:04:00.006+08:00

Taipei, why'd you have to be so damn perfect?

To say that I'm in love with Taipei is an understatement. I don't know what exactly it is about the city that I enjoy so much - Is it the food? (I do love the food.) The weather? (I can live without their 37D summer days tbh) The exceeding amount of tall, decent looking boys? (Yes I like that... I like that very much.) I guess it's a perfect combination of all of the above and the fact that for some reason Taipei feels both perfectly familiar and foreign at the same time.

4 days in the thick of the hottest summer Taiwan has seen in years probably wasn't the best time to visit, but we made the best of our nights and days (and crashed every night with tired bodies but racing minds). We certainly made more than enough memories to tide us over... At least until our next visit. My yearly pilgrimage is going to to continue for as long as I can manage it.

To me, Taipei's that kind of city that welcomes you with bear hugs and open arms, but yet is always itching to take you out for a spin, to show you something new. I'm probably romanticizing it a fair bit, but what can I say, that's how girls in love behave. And I'm in love. I'm definitely in love. Taipei, see you again in 2012 ♥

♡ x ∞

byebye braceface

2011-08-07T20:09:00.007+08:00

metal mouth monologues

Just plugging my last post ever on MMM - in which I 'bravely' show way too many of my very unflattering pre-surgery/ post-surgery photos. This chapter of my life is officially closed, and I'm thankful. So, thanks double jaw surgery/ bracefacery, you've made me a happier person. And you've taught me that my threshold for pain isn't as low as I thought it was. Go me.

Here's a little video I quickly put together of me right before & after I got my braces off. Told you I've kind of gotten into a love affair with amateur video editing .

taken with taipei

2011-08-05T12:35:00.009+08:00

Taipei is and probably always will be one of my favorite cities. We went for 4 crazy jam packed days 2 weeks ago, and I left a large chunk of my soul there, as I have every single time I've been there in the past 2 years. I'm pretty sure that in time to come, there'll be so many bits of my soul floating around Taipei I'd have to move there just to put them all back together. Or something.

PS. I think I might be, just might be falling in love with video editing.

(taken with taipei)

indignant is the word of the day

2011-08-02T12:55:00.003+08:00

I wonder when exactly I started responding to most things with indignation.

It's so unbecoming, so immature, but yet I find myself resorting to this petulance more than I care to admit. Have I always been this way? Probably. Should I be? Definitely not.

This really only occurred to me yesterday as I was driving home from work in peak hour traffic with some of my fellow impatient Singaporeans. I turned out to the main road from my office building, and narrowly missed hitting a bicyclist that sped by. You'd think my first thought would be "HOLY SHIZ THANK GOODNESS I DIDN'T HIT HIM", right? But that only came after my immediate reaction which was more along the lines of:

"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A BICYCLIST DOING ON A BUSY INTERSECTION DURING PEAK HOUR. DOES HE HAVE A DEATH WISH OR SOMETHING WHY IS HE TEMPTING FATE AND BEING AN ANNOYING BICYCLIST ON OUR ROADS?!?!?!?!? THIS IS SINGAPORE NOT A ROMANTIC STREET IN PARIS AND WHY IS HE STARING AT ME AS HE PASSES ME BY HELLO I SHOULD GIVE YOU THE DIRTY LOOK OKAY GET OFF YOUR FREAKIN BIKE AND ON THE BUS OR SOMETHING!!!!! "

Yup, it went something like that.

But my indignation! How appallingly righteous I was being and by how naturally it came to me. Fortunately, 7PM traffic (jams) gave me plenty of time to expound internally about the multitude of situations in which I've reacted equally indignantly. Unfortunately, I came to the realization that it's actually become my default reaction for too many things in my life. Perhaps it's typical of the people in my generation. It's just easier to blame things that don't go your way on every other element except yourself. When life gives you lemons, why CURSE AND SWEAR AND KICK AND SCREAM of course.

That can't be right.

I'm not sure how I intend to use my 'revelation' to better myself, but I hope being aware of my attitude issue will benefit me somehow. At the very least, I have to remember that when life gives me lemons, I just have to ~~add vodka~~ bake lemon cheesecake.

e11even

2011-08-01T10:06:00.002+08:00

Yes, it's true that there is absolutely nothing noteworthy worth recording in my little stomping ground here on the internet - but hey it's not like I cared about that in 2005, right? Why should 'growing up' (I use that term very, very loosely here. I should probably amend that to 'growing older') change what I want to record down in the depths of internet history? So I've convinced myself that even though it's 2011, and even though yes technically I'm well into adulthood, I should blog about the mundanity of my everyday life with pride. Or at least without shame. We'll settle for without shame.

So I'll kick off my return to blogging with 11 random facts about me. Because that makes total sense and all.

GO SHORTY
As plenty of small kids were, I was actually quite tall as a kid. I remember being 12 and average height and bam 14 and littler than everyone else. I don't, however, have a complex about it. At 5'1/ 155cm, I'm not that small, and the jokes roll off my back. Want to use me as an elbow rest? That's a-okay with me.
BERRY DELIGHT
Ribena has been my favorite drink for 20 years. I've had it every day without fail for.. Yup - about that long. Save for the 4 college years I spent in the US and random vacations and breaks, I've had a glass every single day. What can I say, I'm devoted.
THE GOOD OL DAYS
Nostalgia consumes me sometimes. Weird, considering I'm 24, but I honestly feel like I'll never find happier days then 2000-2003 i.e. years in secondary school.
JAWS
One of my biggest physical complexes was my underbite. I became acutely aware of it when I was about 14 when my Mom looked at me, held my chin and said "Hmm.. Why is your face like this?" (She hasn't quite mastered tact.) Since that fateful day ~10 years ago, it's been something that's bothered me to the point where 2 years ago I got myself braces and then jaw surgery 1 year ago. Read all about it here. I am now much, much happier.
AZN PRYDE
I take a lot of pride in being in Asian, and even though I rag on Singapore more than necessary, I'm proud of being Singaporean too. Asian culture, Asian people, Asian everything. AzN pRydE.
RICE ROCKET
Rice truly makes a meal for me. I sometimes feel like a meal without rice is filling but most of the time, unsatisfying. I know, how Asian.
NANNY STATE
I was effectively raised by my nanny, who still works with us till this day. I call her Grandma (in dialect), and I treat her as such too. She is one of the people I love most in this entire world and I am so very lucky to have her in my life.
FOOTY
My friends make fun of my toes sometimes. I don't blame them, because they're not the prettiest things. My third toe is ever so slightly bent, so it looks like it wants to duck behind my fourth toe (attractive!), which is why one particular friend labelled that toe "shy". I choose to think it was my premature birth that led to the underdevelopment of my toes. I'm sticking with that story.
BLAME IT ON THE ALCOHOL
I have ridiculously low tolerance for alcohol. I take the Asian Glow to new heights - Think... Asian Maine Lobster. I also don't enjoy alcohol so it doesn't matter much but I not so secretly envy my friends who can go out, drink and have a good time when I go out, drink, and get hit by dizzy spells. How baller.
ROMANCE ME
I think I still have this weird idealistic view on relationships. I haven't been in very many, but the few that I've been in have spoiled me quite monumentally. I'm not sure I should keep holding on to that or if I should keep holding out for that one sweep me off my feet romance - but only time will tell I guess...
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE
I tend to be fairly obsessive. Over the course of about 15 years, I've gone through phase after phase after phase. Honestly, I think it's an effective escape from real life so I'm quite happy to be in my obsessive cocoon a lot of the time.

Here, have a gratuitous picture of me throwing up deuces in taipei last week. Or rather, flaunting my Asian peace sign.

hb, evmw

2011-05-28T15:46:00.002+08:00

| 24 |

i got stripes

2011-05-11T21:14:00.002+08:00

i got stripes

dazed days

2011-04-20T17:46:00.001+08:00

◆ DAZED DAYS ◆

outfit of the day #1: i love my clunky shoes and my bag and it ain't no lie
outfit of the day #2: mom and i preparing to head out for a wedding dinner

home cooked meal of the day #1: bodae jigae
home cooked meal of the day #2: japanese cucumber salad

group photo of the day: dem girls ♥

cheese (ball) of the day: hi ms. c!

cheese dish of the day: burata that could launch a thousand ships

excessive dairy consumption of the day: RISOTTO. IN CHEESE RIND. I DIE.

beef part of the day: beef tongue come to mommy

dinosaur shaped food item of the day: tiramisu at l'operetta

April came in the blink of an eye and frankly I'm afraid to blink again because before we all know it it's going to be September and then it'll be 2012 and we'll all be gone. I'm taking the cheese rind with me when Armageddon hits.

otk my ot3

2011-04-10T22:57:00.004+08:00

Sometimes I get angry, get sad, get so indignant I want to punch a hole in my wall but when I return to my cocoon of kpop, I'm reminded again of all that is right in the world. Don't we all love our everyday dose of escapism?

i know i do ♥

kisses for bliss

2011-04-01T20:59:00.001+08:00

i miss ms. bliss

riding hard on the last ledge of every lie

2011-03-29T15:40:00.009+08:00

Am I actually going to start updating this thing or what?

There's definitely a reason why so many poets seem depressed, writers despondent and songwriters halfway suicidal. The urge to express yourself is so much stronger when everything seems almost barren and desolate and the world is in 40 shades of black and gray.

#melodramatic #firstworldproblems

2011 has been throwing me curve ball after curve ball and I just don't know where to hide or how to dodge anymore. C'mon now, we all know I've never been much of an athlete. I guess it's the powers that be telling me "GRRRRL STOP DODGING. (WO)MAN UP AND DEAL WITH ALL THIS ISH STRAIGHT UP STRAIGHT ON." I don't think I realized how relevant this would be to me 10 months after.

I've always felt that karma would have a way of delivering poetic justice to those who deserve it. But if reality isn't on the same page and the elusive karma never hits then how am I supposed to know who to believe or how to believe? When your beliefs are held hostage, what else do you have to hold on to?

Where's my real life deus ex machina?

how dramatic

2011-03-29T14:48:00.003+08:00

I know I can't expect a spandex clad super hero to swoop in and save the day but that doesn't stop me from hoping, from wishing, from looking up every once in a while to check and see.

to the shores of freedom

2011-03-28T16:36:00.005+08:00

Sometime mid-February, I hauled my sizable butt to Dallas.

Indulge me and let me talk about the weather for a second. The weather was marvelous. No seriously the weather was so pleasant I'm actually pulling out old school words like marvelous. I arrived to a very nippy (but expected) 35F so I was prepared for 2 weeks of frigidity and snow boots. Much to my surprise, it started to warm up and by day 3 it was all easy breezy 75F and sunny skies all day errrday. In Mid-February! Time to break out the ~~party~~ sun hats!

Anyhoo. One of my biggest goals for my trip was to get Bryce to finally call me 小姨. Yes, I'm that annoying Aunt that refuses to let her nephew call her 'Aunty' because it makes me sound old. AND IT DOES. I'M HOLDING ON TO MY LAST SHRED OF YOUTH JUST LET ME BE WON'T YOU.

Ahem.

So one morning our big B comes traipsing down the stairs and his chirpy voice goes "Mommy!" to my sister. He proceeds to look at me and I swear a knowing look came over his face and I just knew it I just knew this was the moment my little nephew was going to put 2 and 2 together and call me....

"Sally!"

......

Not quite what I was hoping for but it was close enough. This ~~sally~~ 小姨 was pleased as punch.

B fascinated by the gumball machines

happy 3rd month bliss!
(please note bryce - who was well into strawberry #2 that we used to decorate the cake)

bryce & marissa after lunch

well worth all the 30 hour journeys in the world ♥ ♥ ♥

小姨 had some trouble trying to pacify lil B...

family time with the Chuas

let it be known that the mass of hair bliss is smiling at is me
SHE LOVES ME *desperate whimper*

Amidst all the training to be a good wife, I also did an absurd amount of shopping. I bought more makeup than I care to admit and I still don't know how I ended up with 5 bottles of handwash..... The photographs (thankfully) tell the story of a diligent sister that traveled 9,727 miles to spend time with the people she holds nearest and dearest but the bank account tells a very different story.

Double ahem.

Did I mention we cooked? Because boy, did we ever.

hainanese chicken rice | wontons
yusang | chocolate cake for bliss' 3rd month bday
prepwork for zucchini lasagna | completed lasagna
prepwork for carrot cake | completed carrot cake ^_^

We actually prepared a lot more food but we didn't get to capture most of it on camera. You'll just have to take my word for it that for 10 days, I felt like I was possessed by Giada herself. Sans the heaving chesticles and random peppering of Italian words of course.

It feels like the world is ripping apart at the seams these days and now, more than ever, our fragility is so frighteningly apparent. What else is there to do but appreciate what we have now? To be thankful for what we've been blessed with and cross our fingers and hearts?

makes everything worthwhile ♥

2011-03-26T19:09:00.001+08:00

Everything changes with time. Everything.

no future in nostalgia

2011-03-17T19:50:00.001+08:00

there is no love
no future in nostalgia
no blessing in brokenness
only feelings to be guilty of
but i'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong

there is no love - charlie lim

pretty place

2011-03-07T15:34:00.003+08:00

My favorite place on the internet
aka landing ground for everything i love:

[evmw@tumblr]

2011-03-02T07:44:00.000+08:00

but to live doesn't mean you're alive

notes from +214

2011-02-12T18:58:00.000+08:00

!hello!

2b = ♥

2011-02-11T04:14:00.003+08:00

After announcing my arrival into the land of the free, we proceeded to discuss the weather. Of course.

Me: "Jie the weather in LA is really really nice! It's warm!"
Sister Dearest: "Well that's California... It's 0 degrees celsius in Dallas."

Well then.

-_________-""

For now I'm going to enjoy being in the west coast sun and push the thought of wintry desolation far far far away. At least for the next 3 hours. Until I have to brave it head on.

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the unbearable lightness of being shallow

2011-02-04T23:13:00.000+08:00

who needs ruby slippers?

tokki new year

2011-02-02T22:44:00.001+08:00

!happy lunar new year!

me + my derpy face + queen amidala zits send our best wishes

Even though it apparently bodes badly for us bunnies, I'm actually quite pleased it's the year of the rabbit. Yay us. And because I'm incredibly proud of my Chinese heritage, I'm going to honor the new year in my own way and that's to make resolutions! I didn't quite succeed in making them when Jan 1st 2011 rolled around but I think this works pretty dang well too. Here we go:

Be more conscientious with my money
Show more gratitude
Decide on future scholastic possibilities
Be a better listener
Be more conscious of what I eat
Get started on seriously learning Korean kamsahamnida
Write more
Read more
~~Start a fitness program~~ HAHA OK LET'S GET REAL THIS IS NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

Wish me luck but more than that wish me diligence and perseverance. The year of the rabbit awaits!

desktop version dongswoon

2011-01-20T21:49:00.003+08:00

Should I be more than a little ashamed? Probably.
Am I? Not the least freakin' bit ♡

2011-01-18T10:11:00.001+08:00

I guess I was wrong when I thought you had more self-value than that.

STORY OF MY LIFE

2011-01-17T18:59:00.001+08:00

hb, cmy

2010-12-28T14:35:00.000+08:00

happy birthday baby
12 years and counting

We had dinner at Osvaldo's to celebrate M's birthday! Hot tamales I cannot believe it's been exactly 1 year since she's been home. This means it's been almost 2 since I have. (!!!!!) It is just frightening how time is rocketing by.

And okay this whole adulthood thing is seriously no fun. We had to rush to get to dinner after a long day at work and leave for home right after because the next day was a work day. Pffft.

with you right here i'm a rocketeer
let's fly-y-y-y-y

we be classy

girlfriends ♥

Yummy food, good company and pretty dresses. A good combination by any standards! Sigh you guys, the last of us has turned 23. Now we're (reluctantly) trudging on to our 24th. Our youth is slipping away and we're only succumbing to it by LETTING IT. WE'RE LETTING OURSELVES MOVE INTO THE MID 20S WITH NARY A STRUGGLE COME ON LET'S FIGHT THE DEMON THAT IS AGING! LET'S GO OUT AND PARTY WITH THE YOUNG UNS! LET'S.... Take a nap first. Yes everything after my afternoon nap.

Updates on my current sitch at (metal mouth monologues)

BEAMING CHINESE BABY

2010-12-23T22:10:00.002+08:00

blissy missy

i'm weak in the niece

appropriate

2010-12-20T15:43:00.001+08:00

"I realized though that I’m not nostalgic because the past was better but because in the past I believed the future would be better — for the fiction I wanted to become reality. I am nostalgic for the audacity to hope."
- sarah z.

lee jinki, you are impeccable

2010-12-17T19:26:00.003+08:00

I AM SWOLLEN
I AM IN PAIN
MY FACE FEELS LIKE IT MIGHT EXPLODE

BUT FOR 2:20
I FORGOT IT ALL

2010, thank you for bringing kpop into my life.

the fatty profatssor

2010-12-15T20:56:00.004+08:00

Besides the fact that I'm an Asian Female under 25... This is pretty much me right now.

Bespectacled and all.

annnnd she's safe!

2010-12-15T08:55:00.007+08:00

So this is me 2 days post surgery! I'm all bandaged up and more swollen than pictured.. Yes I deviously turned the flash off so I wouldn't look as enormous.

I'm feeling surprisingly fine *knocks on wood* and I pretty much expected all the stiffness and jaw immobility so that's probably why I'm dealing with it okay. Truth be told? I just really, really want to go home and take a bath right now. Ew.

(jaw surgery blog!)

i wear shades indoors and i cannot lie

2010-12-13T11:07:00.000+08:00

SEE YOU ON THE OTHER BITE!

(jaw surgery blog)

preparing for surgery!

2010-12-10T11:25:00.002+08:00

getting ready for many many weeks of mushy food.

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let's fly

2010-12-03T10:13:00.000+08:00

clara chung - rocketeer (cover)

What a pleasure to wake up to this.

kibummy is so yummy

2010-11-25T11:33:00.002+08:00

Lifted straight from tumblr.

i’ve replayed this an embarrassing number of times but no shame baby no shame. the way he goes bitch, “please” and “how bout a round of applause” with his YEA WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY headtilt is like yeah that’s right. you tell em’ bb.

key be takin fierce to a whole new level in kpop.

hi self it's me

2010-11-21T11:19:00.002+08:00

I guess I never quite realized how important it is to like yourself. I mean, dang. I'm stuck with me for the rest of my life, aren't I?

sleeping b-eauty

2010-11-18T12:24:00.002+08:00

QUEEN B ♚

!@#$%^&*(&^%$

Coherence eludes me.
Right now I just want to shout gibberish from a mountaintop and proclaim my undying love and adoration for this little munchkin masquerading as a human burrito. WHY ARE YOU SO PRECIOUS. WHYYYYYY. *runs around flailing like the insane aunt that i am*

rollin with the homies

2010-11-16T08:40:00.005+08:00

[XXIII]

Out to the open waters we journeyed to celebrate Stephie's 23rd! Call me a country bumpkin but I think I was picturing us on a sailboat more than anything. Clearly I didn't quite stop to think how a sailboat would accommodate 20 people but oh well it all worked out because.......

It was a freakin' house. On water. With three storeys. And a range of household appliances that would easily rival harvey norman and his high-tech brethren. A family actually lives on this thing when it's not being rented out to rowdy young kids celebrating yet another unimportant birthday. They live on it. Like live on it. I think you get my point but as pretty and as well-furnished as it was, I can't see myself living on a water vessel for long periods of time. Let's just say I wasn't exactly dragging my feet to meet with solid ground after 8 hours on the thing. It was more like "OH CEMENT OH MY GAWD SOLID GROUND I HAVE MISSED YOU."

!AHOY!

We ate, we drank, we made merry. Sam and I took a westward hike to QB foods the day before to pick up our beautiful, glorious meats and Sam (TGFS - Thank God For Sam) was our designated chef on the day of. She handled the barbeque like the pro that she is but too much food went to waste though because the youngsters were too busy playing beer pong and drinking out of their beer bong. I shed some very real tears for all the uneaten beef.

A lot of our fellow party goers were pretty smashed by 1PM which started out being entertaining (OH YEAH WAKE UP YEAH x 1894168) until it got kind of crazy and kind of out of control and before we knew it, people were kind of holding on to foam noodles for dear life, kind of speaking about 10x louder than necessary and kind of giving nary a care about personal space. Kiiiinda.

The party had it all. An almost fight, not-so almost tears, ridiculously raucous laughter, grade A US prime rib and extremely delicious cupcakes. I would like to autonomously declare it a ~success~!

turning 23 with a 

big splash 

happy birthday s ♥

bliss chua

2010-11-13T09:39:00.005+08:00

bundle of bliss
welcome to this big bad world little missynot even a day old and you're already the #1 princess in my cold hardened heart(bonus!: big bro bryce on day 1)

if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it

2010-11-06T22:20:00.006+08:00

This has nothing to do with anything other than my penchant for movement hindering rings.

I mean.. THEY'RE SO PUR-DAY. And they look like CAN-DAY.

(billy bride jewelry)

i want to go to there

2010-11-02T12:03:00.004+08:00

ETSY HQ
NYC

(source)

Not only do they have a fulltime chef (!), they also bought all their furniture and decoration off Etsy. What struck me is that their office is a 100% true to their brand. The office maintains the handmade feel of the products they carry. Impressive.

- swissmiss

i da naaa

2010-10-31T21:25:00.001+08:00

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS

2010-10-28T16:36:00.005+08:00

T-~6ish weeks to orthognathic (fancy word for sawing open my jaw) surgery!

6
FRICKIN
WEEKS.

OH MA GAD.

Yo diet I'm officially letting go of you for the next 6 weeks. Ain't nothin comin between me and my good food excuse me while I go stuff my face in fear and excitement but mainly fear.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

va goes to a va lon

2010-10-22T23:54:00.004+08:00

Some weeks ago, I crawled out of my shell to attend this.

Because we're dyslexic and don't/ can't read, we were surprised when we realized YO AVALON IS NOT A CLUB IT'S A GIANT WAREHOUSE THAT HAPPENS TO BE MBS' CONVENTION HALL. Apparently though, Avalon is a club set to be open at MBS but Avalon @ Large was an event set not only to capture the F1 party-going crowd with big wig DJs but also to mislead well meaning excited folk who thought they (we) were going to be the first to see the bombest club to hit Singapore!!!!! (We were excited.) Sadly, it was not to be. To add some insult to borderline injury, the "premium" area (seriously: a) it went for a premium price; b) inverted commas have never been so appropriately used) consisted of mini high tables draped with bloack cloth (WITHOUT ANY SEATING MIND YOU) and random couches lining the sides. WHAT THE WHAT????

I should compose myself. It didn't actually incense us all that much. But it's getting late and I think I'm too excited for Steph's birthday party tomorrow that all the excitement is coursing through my veins and out of my fingers onto my keyboard and tadah.

CHAMPAGNE IN PLASTIC CUPS.
We be classy.

All in all though, we had a pretty good time. Even with all the complaining we did, even with all the leopard print clad drunk youngsters (leodrunksters) throwing themselves on our couch, even with the party falling on a work day, even with the Mumm in plastic drinkware - I did enjoy my first indoor multi dj party. Most of us didn't manage to make it to the last set, but til next time girlfriends, till next time.

NEORAGO

2010-10-18T17:25:00.013+08:00

Anybody who knows me, even a little bit, knows I am nothing if not completely totally wholeheartedly obsessive. Maybe not clinically so but let's just say I enjoy obsessing. Yessir I do.

So when I like a song, I REALLY REALLY LIKE IT and then I replay it relentlessly and frankly I'm surprised my ipod hasn't revolted and exploded into a million tiny pieces because it wants to play something else ffs and ok what i'm tryna say is these songs be niiiiice suited up pretty asian boys dancing in synchronization be very, very niiiice. Annnnd I just want to embed these here so I'll have easier access to them and yes i'll stop talking now.

(excuse the screaming in this one but:
1) this song was released in 2008
2) in 2008, they were (looked more like) fetuses. fetus ogling is not okay.
3) therefore embedding videos of fetuses is not right.
3) plus they are hot as heck in 2010.)

I may or may not be in my quarter 20's I may or may not like these songs because kpop may or may not have taken over my world and I may ~~or may not~~ be okay with that

blink twice and then you're gone

2010-10-11T11:09:00.007+08:00

Because it's my blog and my blog misses my face... (Just go with it), here are some random and exceedingly large photos from the past couple of months.

Many a post-work/ weekend mirrored rendezvous with my girlfriends when we bitched mercilessly about well, merciless spouses and reminded each other that the only merciless (enough of this word now) people we needed in our lives were each other.

(ps in the second one - i don't recognize the lady in the center either. she was an annoyed sales assistant who told us photos weren't allowed AND TADAH SHE'S NOW ON MY BLAWG.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY V
♔

snazzy stache'

V's birthday picnic at marina barrage!
When we all ODed on V's nutella cupcakes and I had my first taste of monopoly deal. OH HAAAAALE NO DON'T FORCE DEAL ME BITCH.

chuckles

2 of my very favorites celebrated their 23rd with a wonderful dinner at Osvaldos and I appeared disheveled and dirty after a 12 hour shift at work. Yay real world yay adulthood how I love you so.

In other non-photographed news, my life has been status quo for the past 10 months thank you goodbye and have a nice day.

But seriously though, that's kind of how it's been. I'm settled in my life and more often than not malnourished under aged boybands and foreign language variety shows are my biggest source of joy. No shame y'all... No shame. GAMSA TO THE FRIKKIN HAMNIDAMEN.

TOW i failed to edit.... at all

2010-10-03T19:42:00.010+08:00

With all that's going on in the world right now.. It's clearer now, more than ever, how so very finite life is. We (for sure I do) get so caught up in the big things small things stupid things that we rarely stop to really think about it. Then again is that really necessary? Is thinking about how short life is going to make it any longer? As a matter of a fact wouldn't I just be wasting time I'll never get back thinking about something that I can't change? What in the world am I smoking and why am I saying all this?!

I don't know. I'm such an escapist, you know? Like, a lot of the time I can't stand (yes it's that bad) reading the news because I don't like bad news. It sounds so immature and you know.. Unworldly but alas it is what it is and I'm not proud of it. Plus when I live under my pink colored zebra patterned velvet covered rock.. It's okay. It's comforting and beautiful here. The world as I know it isn't messed up and people aren't vindictive and insane and wicked and they don't punish people for their sexuality and accidents don't kill innocent people and BAD ISH DOESN'T HAPPEN. But then again I'm living in my imaginary world. With pink colored walls and zebra patterned rugs and korean pop music and nutella and jing and GOOD ISH.

*DEEP BREATH*

I'm one step closer to being certifiably cray cray aren't I.

I don't know what's spurring me to post this at 8PM on an uneventful Sunday night but all this finality of death business is making me wonder: Should I then be making the most out of my life, being the most motivated go-getter that ever um.. Got (?) OR should I go quite the opposite route and enjoy the things, frivolous as they may be, that make me happy?

OR OPTION 3
IT DOESN'T MATTER AND IT'S TIME TO FOR ME TO GET OFF THE BLOODY SOAPBOX AND BRING THIS EPISODE OF SUNDAY SHENANIGANS WITH VA TO AN END.

I'm floating on back to kpopland where it is safe and sound and sunny and air conditioned and filled with nutella and cocktails and cocktail umbrellas and cushions and cashmere and matching outfits and underaged boys and the best kind of overzealous overanalysis. A fricking men.

what you sed, ted

2010-09-30T00:39:00.000+08:00

Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, ‘Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?’

Exactly, that’s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.

Ted Alexandro

Obsesshes confesshes

2010-09-23T16:36:00.003+08:00

I've disappeared yes but let it be known that I've fallen head over heels in love with kpop and 2PM x shinee x idol army might just be the best thing that has happened to me this year. Obsessed old fan-noona is obsessed.

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embers and envelopes

2010-09-12T21:13:00.000+08:00

TOW!

2010-09-09T18:16:00.005+08:00

◆◆ TOW I PRETEND LIKE I WRITE TITLES FOR EPISODES OF FRIENDS ◆◆

TOW WE VENTURE INTO SHANGHAI DOLLIES
(club shock-u/ sab is a photo hijacker/ what is up with the girl in the poster behind us)

TOW WE STAY UP TILL 5AM FOR WORLDCUP FINALS 2010
(gourmet burgers pt 3/ we are the ultimate band heroes/ jesus eyes jesus)

TOW ALEX & ALSA GET MARRIED
(and i look like the mother of the bride)

TOW K'S CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY
(and free flow food at KPO tyvm yes)

annyeonghaseyo!

2010-09-08T07:41:00.001+08:00

I wish I was a little less escapist a little more of a realist a little less sensitive a little more sensitive a little less sleepy a little more awake this and that here and there now and then GOOD MORNING!

pdemo

2010-08-31T02:55:00.002+08:00

Jamie: [in English] It's my favorite time of day, driving you.
Aurelia: [in Portuguese] It's the saddest part of my day, leaving you.

LYCH

2010-08-30T21:45:00.003+08:00

♫♪ OH BABY ALL MY LYCHEE FRUITIPS
I GIVE THEM TO YOU ♫♪

#karenmokreference
#candyfromhongkong
#awesome

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of parents and pringles

2010-08-23T10:37:00.006+08:00

My Mom is funny.

Fwd: FW: Hair perm chemical used in Pringles

Mae,

Noticed a tin of Pringles in the kitchen. Must have been bought by you. So this is relevant.

On that note, I　didn't buy the pringles but it's good to know I guess.. Good to know.

us at uss

2010-08-21T21:22:00.001+08:00

OH YES WE DID.

I make it sound like I did something terribly exciting or excitingly terrible.

I really didn't.

Like many others (as seen on facebook and blogs galore), we traipsed down to our very own USS some weeks ago....... Only to be met with rain, a bunch of closed rides, and ponchos with jacked up prices. (For real though, they upped the price of every poncho by 50c when it started raining. We know this because they were actually sharpieing on the new prices as they sold them. THAT'S NOT COOL, USS.)

We spent the bulk of our time there waiting in line, lugging our big heavy camera-laden bags and wielding our brollies like the closet aunties that we are. I was so bummed though.. What with BSG still being unavailable :| I had a spin on it a few months ago during a DBS event and was itching for repeats of those 52 secs but ah well. I guess we'll all have to wait a little while more.

gives you wings!

rockin the poncho

All in all, I had fun! IKR how much more generic could I be. But there really were moments where I felt like I wasn't in Singapore, which sadly... Is a compliment. That being said, I felt like I was in another SEAsian country. Which isn't quite a compliment. So make of that gibberish what you will. Nevertheless, USS came across as a pretty well oiled machine and I think it's such a symbol of Singapore's growth and what is to come for our little homeland. I mean.. Uni-freakin-versal Studios! In tiny ol' Singapore! Well at the very least I'm excited. We makin' waves people.

Hmmm highlights. I'd say highlights came in the form of popsicles in the rain (YOU KNOW THE CLASSIC LIME/ VANILLA ONE?! WHY DON'T WE EAT IT ANYMORE?! Ya I devoured mine in something like 30 seconds flat), tomyam flavored popcorn for dinner and bedtime at 8PM. Me and my baller ways.

Don't you know it.

Absence needs a sock in the gut

2010-08-15T19:56:00.002+08:00

Adages schmadades.

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Absence pisses the heart off. The heart gets angry. The heart forgets.

And that, people, is a story to tell your kids.

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lattice skies

2010-08-15T16:06:00.003+08:00

What in the world am I doing all caged up on a beautiful balmy Sunday? *crumbles dramatically*

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hey baby

2010-08-09T14:18:00.003+08:00

hey baby?
I love you ♥

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sunday mama

2010-08-08T07:43:00.003+08:00

My nanny's the cutest.

Me: (re instant mee preparation) Ok 放很多 corn hor!
Nan: 好啦好啦.. King king kong kong leh 妳

Well it made me laugh. Early Sunday morning mama mee. Yum.

美人兒阿美人兒

2010-08-06T14:49:00.002+08:00

你是唯一

2010-08-01T03:59:00.002+08:00

how else can i prove my love and narcissism if not for photobooth?
and i realize that 3 copies are kind of a crappy way to show love
but you know
qlty nt qntty!

what's my age again

2010-07-31T18:18:00.002+08:00

#relevant.
#14again

GOOD JOB EVMW

2010-07-29T19:38:00.001+08:00

hb, cyky

2010-07-26T15:48:00.003+08:00

Been actively MIA (oxymoron alert) for the past couple of weeks for very valid reasons but I'm back to documenting events in and of my life. Even though:

Most blog fodder is most probably dated at least 5 weeks prior
There really..... Isn't all that much going on.

I mean seriously. No one wants to read about the air-conditioning in the office (it's trippin on acid) nor my watery eyes (never thought I'd ever want to escape from the glare of the computer monitor) so you know. There. Explains the lack of activity AND OMG I AM BLABBERING LET'S MOVE ON.

▷▷ CHAR TURNS TWENTY THREE ▷▷

To celebrate, we did dinner at Table 66! We were rowdy, raucous and ravenous so I think we made for pretty good dinner guests. Maybe the neighboring tables didn't quite think so but in our defence there was another table full of patrons who burst into song (Title unknown but they all knew the lyrics so maybe it's some sort of folk traditional birthday song?) at the beginning (we didn't get it either. plus there was no song when the birthday cake was brought out) of their dinner so I'm thinking they were our people. They got us. Our backs were had. By them. Cha mean.

What was I saying again?

Right Char's birthday. I got carried away again sorry.

ANYWAY dinner was pretty good and conversations were hilarious as usual. They ran the gamut from in-depth (i use that term lightly) discussions on whether bisexuals were worth dating and yacht purchases and a lot of humming and do-do-doing (in a bid to figure out the title of a certain song Marns had stuck in her head.)

♡♡♡

Although this marks the end of photos from the night, the charlebration actually went on for a good 8 hours after. From:

Germany v Argentina at The Marriott, to
Chary v Flaming Lambo at Bar None, to
Yogs & I v Take Home Tub of Peach Yami Yogurt, to
Chary v Flaming Lambo Comes Back Up in Va's Sink
Spain v Netherlands at Home, to
Yogs v Work at 10AM

Good times.. Good times. We love you Char and I'm glad your sexy raspy voice is in my life. Bisous bisous bisous.

feeding myself like a 12 year old

2010-07-25T14:37:00.002+08:00

A WEEKEND OF..... SODIUM.

whole can of tuna
mama tomyum instant mee
red rock sweet chili/ sour cream chips

saturday's breakfast + lunch
sunday's breakfast
sunday's lunch

BRB BLUBBERING

2010-07-21T11:53:00.001+08:00

(ontd)

I DON'T EVEN
I CAN'T EVEN
*(&$)#$&(@#*^a@$*&

It's raining it's pouring

2010-07-18T15:30:00.002+08:00

... And I'm getting drenched at Universal Studios Rainyspore. K It doesn't rhyme but all this rain is dampening (chortle!) any poetic spirit I might otherwise have.

PS. Come back with our high fashion clear plastic ponchos soon PDeebs!!

Sent via BlackBerry from SingTel!

Reason 283252 not to tell your parents anything

2010-07-15T14:01:00.002+08:00

They're never, ever, ever supportive.

True story.

so i don't forget

2010-07-09T16:58:00.001+08:00

mishmash from the past monthschmonth

mom's brrthday

weekly dinner with the grrls

nandos + koi + mahj with my flavorite pair

fam dinner at clare's

scrambling for scramble2 @ happy daze

for the strongest pdb ever

2010-07-07T12:20:00.001+08:00

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”

Mary Anne Radmacher

atta girl thatta girl

2010-07-05T10:28:00.009+08:00

for being the best bad liar there is
(srsly though,
your complete inability to lie is ridiculously adorable)
for the guarded you who is only set free by music
for your endearing nervous fidgeting
for your insecurities
for your laughter
for your dreams
for your beliefs

for you...
for you?

everything.

backjack

2010-07-01T20:32:00.004+08:00

#excusethefleshparade
#butsrsly
#chinesemasseursareBRUTAL

#ow

i will save myself

2010-06-29T09:42:00.005+08:00

Most people don't understand.

They can't fathom the magnitude the immensity and the reasons behind the revulsion but they don't know what I know and as it is I'm sure I don't know the worst of it. For as long as I can remember I've been this way. Felt this way. This is what I've always believed and as I've gotten older it's only gotten worse. As the tint of childhood faded away, it only revealed so much more with such unbelievably frightening clarity.

The resentment the exasperation the pure unadulterated hatred has been mounting for well over 2 decades and it hasn't slowed down one bit. It's not just my friends who respond to my words in disbelief because frankly even I sometimes can't believe I'm capable of feeling such intense profound disgust and my how it only multiplies each day.

But I hope this only serves to propel me. I hope and pray that through all this negativity that I can't help but breed, I will find my own peace. Armed with the knowledge and the thorough understanding and acceptance that I don't need it I simply don't need any of it..... I will be better. I will find peace. And I will make it on my own.

Patience is strength.

像輪胎用了太久　沒氣了　所以
原諒我　想消失幾週
每個人都在選好的軌道奔走
講真的　我想要呼救

BRYTHE!

2010-06-28T11:11:00.003+08:00

Caught him in a good mood a couple of days ago.. And this 小姨 was pleased as a pitcher of fruit punch adorned with zillions of colorful mini umbrellas ♥ (btw it's Bryce)

sand gets in your eyes

2010-06-24T21:30:00.005+08:00

yup 2:13 onwards - that's the jing we know and adore ♥

... Especially when aforementioned sum of parts seem to lead to um skank central. But not with Jing because it seems like the greatest love of all? Is irrational wonderful beautiful idolove.

kiss kiss bang bang

2010-06-23T18:19:00.001+08:00

Bullets and all that jazz:

Ortho says 8 more months of bracefacery before surgery. 8 MONTHS? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom: "Feels like you've had braces forever."

Yea Mom, tell me about it. My straight talkin ortho tells me "Evaaa. Even if you come see me every day it won't change things. If your teeth don't move, they don't move." I was half expecting him to bust out finger guns and go "capiche?" Clearly he was skiving in Tact 101 in dental school. Especially the class where the lecture was about dealing with patients with hearts made of intricate blown glass. *crumbles dramatically x2*

As it is I'm starting to have problems with my S'es and Sh'es. The next 8 months are not going to be purrdy.
LAST FRIENDS.
om freaking g. Yes it's very 2008 but honestly have Japanese drama serials always been this good?! And hard hitting? The last time I remember being so invested in a Japanese drama serial, I think it was My Boss My Hero. Or HYD but &)$#&$)$* FLAILLLLLL LAST FRIENDS FLAAILLLL. Every episode I was yelling. Be it in disgust or glee I was screaming cringing crying at some point in every single episode. What can I say - I tend to get invested.

I might have started watching for Ueno Juri (Ruka picspam necessary in future blog post), but within the first 15 minutes of the first episode, I could not have been more hooked.
Flakes. Not a fan.
Family. Back in the country for 2 weeks! Birthday celebrations (jie & bryce) galore. Going to use up my family dinner quota for the year in just these 14 short days. Current count in the past 6 days alone: 4.
A/C in the office is going through a severe identity crisis. Apparently, it thinks it's an industrial meat chiller.
#jing. (what's new)
Eagerly counting down to July 9th.
I smell like durians.
I have a huge neon pink piece of velcro holding up my bangs.
Bullet points are fun!

hate fool

2010-06-22T16:59:00.003+08:00

MORE THIS:

LESS THIS:

oh me oh my oh bother

2010-06-17T20:47:00.001+08:00

I really wish my obsessiveness was more useful than it is now.......

Which is not at all.

相反的預購

2010-06-16T11:32:00.001+08:00

pre-order starts today
let the droolfest begin

1990

2010-06-13T19:30:00.004+08:00

My cousin unearthed some photos a few days ago and they're amusingly.... Telling.

And let me just say I've also found the reason I now only dress in monochromatic colors. I must have completely exhausted my usage of colorful, borderline visual assaultive clothing in my younger days.

Case in point.

o hai
bowl cut, check. choppy fringe, check.

c'mere!
let's get chummy!

wait wait no waaaiiit you're getting too close!!!!
3 words bro: personal space issues.

ahh.. see how this works for both of us?

And then my favorite....
....
...
..

DUDE.
WHAAAAAAAT.

PS. We all have no idea who this little mystery man is.

H 23RD, EVMW [ii]

2010-06-10T11:52:00.001+08:00

burfday brunch

Day of the 22nd we all traipsed down to Spruce! This Spruce very act exclusive seriously. Tried booking them for dinner the night before ("Sorry we can only seat 6!" My reply was "UH WE'RE QUITE SKINNY CAN SQUEEZE".. Yeh that didn't work.) and then again for brunch ("Yes Ma'm.. Brunch at 9AM or 1PM?")

OKAY FINE SCRAP BRUNCH LET'S DO LUNCH.

of sayangs and eggs benny

o i c what u did there

We ~~wined and dined~~ lunched and ...crunched our way through a few passable dishes, surrounded by phoenix park's lush greenery and slightly pretentious girls/boys in slightly pretentious sundresses/ khakis galore. Which of course I adored because I am very slightly pretentious. Brunch is totally the new black.

So I turned the awkward age of 23 without too much fanfare, pomp or circumstance. (sidenote: i used to be a CHAMP at playing pomp and circumstance on my clarinet when i was 8. baller amirite?!) Truth be told, I was contented enough being surrounded by most of my best girls, finally having a legit reason to wear my polka dotted stepford wife dress and an afternoon in with Jing ♫. Hot dang that came out sounding a lot sadder than it actually was I promise I was a happy camper and no less ♥

polaroid for posterity!
(why do we all look like oompa loompas)
happy 23rd, me.

100,000 VIEWS AND BEYOND LET'S GO

2010-06-07T23:02:00.005+08:00

偏偏要去愛
偏偏要等待

永遠的唯一 ♡

As much as I hate being told what to do and threats normally backfire when used on me.... Fine Golden Typhoon. You hella got me this time. Not so worried about the votes because we need 10,000 indiv votes on Yahoo by the 11th and we've already got about 7,000. (Though if you're so inclined please go vote! Top right hand corner, click the orange button that says "推薦") Right now we just need to bump up the views of the video (worth it, totally worth it. swear.) to at least 100,000. Record company's all up on us like "BITCHES THE VIDEO HAS TO GET 100,000 VIEWS OR WE WON'T RELEASE THE FULL MV!!!!!!!!"

FRACK YOU AND YOUR FRACKING MARKETING STRATEGIES.

THAT I HAVE FALLEN FOR.

Help. View?

professionalism is overrated

2010-06-07T16:34:00.008+08:00

THOUGHT PROVOKING INFORMATION AHEAD:

First there was this,
Then there was this,
Then ~professionalism~ kicked in, so this,
But.....

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE YOU MET JING?!

HOW TO RESIST YOU TELL ME
how. to. resist. *crumbles dramatically*

I maintain the stance that (my) productivity spikes because of Jing. Cubicle littered with her pictures + desktop + music on replay = WONDERWORKER WU!

DALLAS ✈ COMIN' AT US

2010-06-04T10:31:00.003+08:00

lovers in paradallas

My favorite thing to do during vacations is to live like I'm local. I don't know why, maybe I really just don't have innate wanderlust nor adventurousness (wa mouthful) but I much prefer spending hours on end at grocery stores and malls, enjoying days that start and end with ~~froyo~~ home cooked meals. Day after day filled with this freeing nothingness that vacations inevitably bring but living under the wonderful pretense that it's my real life.. All day every day. Malls. Nothingness. Yogurt. Oh wouldn't it be nice. *dreamy drooly face*

Right and obviously I'm not a fan of sightseeing or cultural things or you know.. Learning. Not proud of this.

YOU HANDSOME FELLA, YOU.

Anyhoo. We got to spend pretty hard core family time in Dallas.. And by hardcore I just mean amount of time spent together because our activities would not be considered hard core by any means. I mean.. Unless you consider activities like shopping at target, sending B to school, looking up recipes for 'chai png' and making one helluva good dinner, rainy sunday morning church, ... hard core that is. Then you know. You're looking at the hardest corest (?) family there ever was. I'm officially retiring the term hard core.

I wish we didn't have to be apart 90% of the time, but I guess that's why there's all the more to cherish when we are together.

SEE YOU SOON MR SLEEPY ♥
!!! 2 weeks !!!

a variety of whimsical verse

not in heart

LA FAMILIA / MEGAPOST

but the butter

diabolical d.

enamored

completely incomplete

awakening

love note to tumblr

hbd, kkb

fan-account - SHINee THE 1ST CONCERT IN SINGAPORE 2011

ptb = practically the bomb

be mine?

in the daytime, time for celebration

VLOG #1: 082011

we were meant to be

ain't easy

you know i'm such a fool for you

byebye braceface

taken with taipei

indignant is the word of the day

e11even

hb, evmw

i got stripes

dazed days

otk my ot3

kisses for bliss

riding hard on the last ledge of every lie

how dramatic

to the shores of freedom

no future in nostalgia

pretty place

notes from +214

the unbearable lightness of being shallow

tokki new year

desktop version dongswoon

STORY OF MY LIFE

hb, cmy

BEAMING CHINESE BABY

appropriate

lee jinki, you are impeccable

the fatty profatssor

annnnd she's safe!

i wear shades indoors and i cannot lie

preparing for surgery!

let's fly

kibummy is so yummy

hi self it's me

sleeping b-eauty

rollin with the homies

bliss chua

if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it

i want to go to there

i da naaa

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS

va goes to a va lon

NEORAGO

blink twice and then you're gone

TOW i failed to edit.... at all

what you sed, ted

Obsesshes confesshes

embers and envelopes

TOW!

annyeonghaseyo!

pdemo

LYCH

of parents and pringles

us at uss

Absence needs a sock in the gut

lattice skies

hey baby

sunday mama

美人兒 阿 美人兒

你是唯一

what's my age again

GOOD JOB EVMW

hb, cyky

feeding myself like a 12 year old

BRB BLUBBERING

It's raining it's pouring

美人兒阿美人兒