*018 - new pointe shoes!

Spanking new pointes! Serenades, because they didn’t have my size in Suprima Strong. Thanks to my hideously monstrous bunions, I require pointe shoes in the largest width available, and pretty tapered shoes like Capezios are truly out of the question for me.



Yup, pre-ribboned and pre-crocheted (and pre-broken in and pre-dirtied), because I couldn’t resist. Shall break into them once I sew on the ribbons (:

Strangely, they seem to already have a pretty decent arch (for a new pair of pointe shoes) even though I’ve barely even touched them – I’ve only put them on for a minute in Sonata and another minute to take the photo, haha. Let’s just hope these stay nice and firm. My previous pairs are all break-ankle-soft already.

... Ok, back to capacitance or homeostasis or power series or halogen derivatives or one of the trillions of topics I have yet to touch.

*017 - old currency

So terribly upset. I’ve kept a set of Singapore currency most zealously in a little tin downstairs ever since I was a youngster in primary school. It contained samples of all the ‘special’ notes I’ve managed to find, like the 1976 $1 and $ 5 notes.

Mummy found them and used them because she thought they looked ‘old and dirty’. I don’t think I’ll ever get them back.

Whimsical, I know, but I’ve always been meaning to keep them and pass them on to my little grandchildren ... Relics from the ancient times, blah blah. At least, I think it’s cool to see the different currency a country has had through the decades.

Oh well. I might as well just spend the remaining few, since I’m never going to get my collection back again.

Sigh.

[Edit, the next day]:

Oh my goodness! Mummy's too nice ... I think she felt really bad about using my notes and so she's going back to the shop today to see if she can get them back. -beams-!

*016 - blackout

Wah, first time experiencing a blackout! I had to resort to showering by candlelight, which is not half as romantic as it sounds. More like spooky.


Focus, Evelyn, focus. I haven’t the time to study every single topic for the CTs, especially for Bio, someone please tell me what to do )': Thank God I'm not taking Bio S, though.

*015 - nightmare

My computer is counting down to its death. This is ominous – time to start backing up!

Late news, but, look what arrived by snail mail last week! A mate for my pencil case from my dearest Secret Admirer!


A mate for my pencilcase! You’re such a dear (: Yes, even though you leave ill-omened messages on my tagboard! Thanks so much ... and yes, double date one day! Must tell me more about your good idea alright? ;)

Something funny happened last night.

Brother walks into room, eyes glittering, and says, “Do you know what Maple Story is? I’m downloading it!!” Chuckles and walks out.

For your info, he’s twenty-seven this year. Ahaha!

Sudden rushed decision to revive “Nightmare”, the performance Melissa and I have performed once too many times already, due to yesterday’s calamity. No choice la, at least we don’t have to start from scratch – we promise to try to make it more exciting to watch this time! Better costumes, better choreography, better mood. I hope.

We even have our synopsis done! Thanks to my sister who whipped this up in a flurry while I set the music on repeat-mode to create the mood. I think it’s great. It pays to have an ex-humanities scholar in the house.

The nightmare sweeps over
and our souls are dragged
to far-

away, where tears hit the ground
before our hearts know
to break.

(But light drops -
we are for now caught in sweet morning,
like grass on the horizon surprised by dawn.)

The wolves leap
suddenly.
The sky slams shut like jaws on meat,
and the night thickens so we no longer breathe,
but feel the fangs of terror on our fragile bodies.
Future collapses
into now, and this short terror

is forever

until we die, or wake.

And I should be off to do a little more work before the holidays draw to an end.

*014 - pulling out

So terribly disappointed. I expected more from you guys. Where’s your sense of responsibility? Don’t pull out when you have already committed yourself. You might think it’s just one item but it means a lot when you only have a few to begin with.

Thanks to dear Zhu and Amy for the hugs and tissues and comfort (:

Prayed to God for strength and wisdom while sitting on the sandy tiles outside the hall. I really need Your help.

Sometimes, I really don’t know if I should be cold and unrelenting and authoritative and force people to listen to me. Or should I be smiley and accommodating (as I usually try to be), and then slip away to cry as everything I’m trying so hard to hold onto crumbles and slips through my fingers.

*013 - rugby tournament

Here’s me holding the finger of a giant rugby ball!



Justin asked it if it was feeling warm in there and it was quite funny to hear the rugby ball bellow “HOOOOTTTT” and walk away.

Just looks really flexible here. (After kicking the ball!)



And my favourite photo of today. They all look reaaally good! :D



Well done, guys! Tomorrow’s finals will go great (:

*012 - not colgate, but ...

OH MY GOODNESS THE GROSSEST THING JUST HAPPENED.

I was happily brushing my teeth when I noticed a weird smell every time I bent nearer the mirror to inspect my teeth. A weird, nasty smell.

I left and went back into the toilet a few minutes later.

THEN I REALISED WHAT THE NASTY SMELL WAS.

OH MY GOODNESS.

AHHHHHHH.

A COCKROACH WAS CRAWLING OUT OF THE TOOTHBRUSH HOLDERS.

I screamed and my sister came running – and we both stared in horror at the cockroach happily traipsing through our toothbrushes. And we both realised that we had been brushing with Cockroach instead of Colgate (as Justin so aptly put it)!!

We sprayed it to death and changed all the toothbrushes and gargled with mouthwash together while making upset “mmpphhh!!” noises.

And that’s my gross story for today.

-shudder-


[edit, 2 minutes later:]

What’s up with insects today? My sister just shrieked that there was a weird green praying mantis or grasshopper sitting on her laptop swaying in the breeze.

It’s quite cute actually.

*011 - moral compass

It’s not a very good thing to have parents with so many acquaintances who recognise you, even if you don’t have an inkling of who they are. And generally people who know who my dad is would probably know who Justin’s parents are too. Sigh.

My tear ducts and nasal passages are clogged up but I haven’t run out of tears. The strangest thing is that I’m sitting here snivelling as I’m discussing the budget plans for the gym charity concert and meeting times for teaching the dance tomorrow.

Oh well. It’s been a long time since I’ve been lectured by my Daddy but I love him all the same (: Sometimes I wish he would just yell at me instead of sitting down and talking it out because that’s the kind of ‘scolding’ that never fails to break me down.

But thank God for such understanding and accepting parents who give me the freedom to do what I want but are always there to guide me back when I stray. They've always been perfectly all right with me being in a relationship, but it’s time for me to calibrate my “moral compass” again, as Daddy puts it.

And happy belated month-niversary to us! Thank you for all the wonderful times we’ve had <3 Let’s hope we can work things out together.

*010 - late designs

Really really sorry to all those who have been diligently checking out the Elisa and Evelyn website for the new designs, which we promised to put up in 'early March'! We have a handful of new earrings and bags but we haven't got down to putting them onto the site - it's quite a tedious process, really.

And with the imminent common tests [GP tomorrow, ahh] ... the business just has to proceed more slowly than usual. Many apologies! So if you need earrings/bags by a certain date, you better make your orders, like, now so we can get to work (: Visit our site, or just let me know!

A sneak peak of what's to come! Cuter, bolder, hipper. :D

*009 - lecture booboo

The funniest booboo made by a Chemistry lecturer ever:

While teaching Organic Nitrogen Compounds, meaning to say "You have to learn these 4 reactions",

The teacher instead said, "You have to learn these 4 erections".

The whole LT erupts into laugher and she covers her mouth and goes "Oops, what did I say?" Hahaha XD

*008 - parents in love

Oh dear. Unintentionally conflicting themes/ideas for gym and dance night. That is Not Good. Since the gym item was created first, and the theme for the dance item was just decided upon 9 hours ago, hopefully there’s still time for something to be done. -crosses fingers-

Anyway. Justin had told me briefly last night that he was scratched up from the tournament yesterday, but imagine my surprise when I saw him limping towards me from afar with what appeared to be thick stage makeup at the corner of his left eye.


See what I mean by stage makeup? The bruise/scratch follows the contours of his eye perfectly!


If you can’t tell, I’m pouting at his bruise.


Putting my arm around his waist elicited a yelp from him and this is why! Boohoo ): Better keep an arm’s length away from him until he’s scratch-free!

Thanks for today dear. It’s true that lots of couples around us are having problems; break-ups seem a lot more common than get-togethers, as compared to this time last year [when RJC seemed to be the breeding ground for new couples]. But I think we’re pretty much problem free at the moment ... even Sarah was commenting that we’re “weird” because we hardly ever quarrel [or something to that effect]!

And we haven’t even celebrated Valentine’s Day yet! Ooh, so antiestablishment haha. But bouquets and presents and balloons don’t matter if everyday feels like Valentine’s Day to you!

My secret to staying in love? Trusting God to bless our relationship. (:

When I’m married, I’m determined to go out on regular hot dates with my hubby even when we’re centuries old! :D My parents still go for movies together, and go out for meals by themselves, and I think that’s terribly cute.

It’s delightful to see your parents in love, even in the littlest of ways like when Daddy chooses the nicest chunk of meat for Mummy, or when Mummy clutches on to Daddy’s arm when they’re walking.

I know I’ve posted this before, but this is my all-time favourite picture of them – In Korea, holding hands, caught unawares on film. <3

*007 - revolving restaurant

Laoshi’s dance is getting interesting. Stamping about with imaginary clogs and shuffling to position while going “HAHAHAHA!” for 2 eights ... certainly is nothing like anything I’ve done before. Very fresh and creative, and that’s why I enjoy laoshi’s dances, most of the time.

Lunch with the dear boyfriend and (sort of with) Just and Sarah in the canteen ... Must remember to thank Justin for staying back, in Just’s words, “to eat bao” with me when all the other ruggers went out for lunch. (: Just and Justin were in their new TIGHT jerseys ... oo sexay!

The ruggers had a tournament after that but having dance, I couldn’t go watch. Boohoo. But congrats for winning every single game! :D




[The guy holding the ball in both photos is Justin! (: Pictures courtesy of Justin’s dad!]

Went out with the family for dinner in some revolving restaurant. A wedding dinner was happening concurrently, for some strange reason, so we caught sight of the bride and groom hurrying in and out and cutting the cake and stuff like that.

As usual, whenever I bring my camera out, I naturally have no choice but to take a million photos!

Here goes.

Interesting egg + scallops + fish + I’m-not-sure-what-else dish!



Peking duck! While Elisa was opening her mouth to take a bite, I yelled “Stop! Grin and look at me!” and this is what I captured.



Fish’s gaping mouth! Looks pretty gross, don’t you think so? :D



Meat that you stuff into a bun. One of the few ‘normal’ photos of Elisa and I, where we are actually smiling nicely and not doing anything spectacularly out of the ordinary.



Me and my health conscious family ... when eating some deep fried egg white with red bean paste thingies, we had to squish the excess oil out of the puff with tissue [just like the way I treat my fries sometimes]. Look at the amount of oil that came out from one puff [and this is not all the oil there is in one puff]!



Elisa tries to discreetly pat the oil away ... in case the chef sees us and has a fit. While Joel gleefully removes all traces of oil by pressing hard on (and flattening) his puff.



And lastly, while we were waiting for them to dabao our leftovers (haha), I snapped a lovely series of photos entitled the “Stoopid Face Series”. Everyone was strangely obliging.











Lovely (: I’m nice and full now, and probably about 3 kg heavier than what I was at the beginning of the day. Haha!

*006 - little bundles of joy

I’ve been so amazingly busy. I think one of the hardest parts of being a leader, to me, is to let go and trust your dear friends to complete whatever you assign to them for you, instead of trying to be the one who runs around doing everything. Just a little insecurity on my part, because I want everything to be perfect. Sometimes I don’t realise that distributing the workload is the only way to get everything perfect.

On that note, thanks to all my friends who have been keeping me sane (: In particular, Boyfriend Number Two, whom I’ve grown to depend on so much. I don’t know how I would survive in school otherwise! (Ooh how promiscuous!!) Much love to Liru <3 (And don’t listen to her if she insists she’s Girlfriend Number One. I refuse to be bi!)

And I must say this now, in case Boyfriend Number One gets jealous ... I love Justin too! Haha! <3 <3

Gym concert, dance night, common tests, daily work, business (haha) ... Life is just so hectic nowadays. Whenever I’m not doing work, I’m trying to think up steps in my head. (Yeah, that’s what I’m actually doing when I look like I’m zoning out!) ( ... Okay, maybe I am just zoning out.)

Thankfully, no matter how little rest I get or how much I grumble and cry, God continues to command His blessings upon me and never fails to help me handle each day’s problems ... so I’ll never have to worry about tomorrow. (: All the little bundles of joy He sends my way, like good morning SMSes and decorating ruggers’ arms with snapping killer fish and sneaking meaningful chats with friends during tutorials and dancing in classrooms with Indian music blaring over the speakers, really helps to get me through each day.

A rather old picture I never posted – Chinese New Year, in my room. We forced an amused Mummy to take this photo of us standing back to back. This is concrete proof that Justin is indeed taller than I am :D

I played taboo for the first time in my life today! The peculiar thing was that I played it with Wenloong, and 4 other random teachers that we didn’t even know. Hmm!

I’m really really lousy at taboo but I think I might be getting the hang of it. (:

Some memorable moments from taboo:

Wenloong: “When you can’t say what the f- ..., you say ..?”
Teachers: -look disconcerted-
(Ans: Freak)

Chem teacher: “Something rich in beta carotene.”
(Ans: Carrot)

A teacher: “An element ...”
Chem teacher: -blinks- “There are so many! Iron, argon, zinc, aluminium, calcium, argon, ...” (and rattles on and on)
(Ans: Copper)

Wenloong: “The thing in school that always spoil.”
A teacher answers straight away: “The lift.”
(Ans: Lift! :D)

A teacher: “The round thing that you put on the ... round thing ... that you put in the oven.”
(Ans: Pepperoni)

Me: “It floats ...”
Wenloong: “Shit?”
(Ans: Iceberg)

Haha, fun stuff. Prata-ed with Wenloong, Mark and Justin after that ... and was sent all the way home! Thanks dear (:

*005 - do re mi ...

Something funny that happened in the canteen today as Justin was sending me off to the bus stop ...

-Rae walks past and waves-
Me: -waves back- (turns to Justin and says) The next time you see her wave and say ‘Hi Rae’ cos she’s my friend!
Justin: Rae?
Me: Yeah say hi to her next time ok!
Justin: Mi? But she’s so far away!
Me: Okay la okay la.
Justin: Haha, I’m just ti-sing (teasing)! I will, al-do (although) I can’t even recognise her.

Haha, I must remember to tell Rae the next time I see her, that her name sparked off a whole musical conversation between Justin and I.

Yesterday was a crazy day as Wednesdays usually are – But I survived on God’s strength, whoopee! Amy who was fasting for ash Wednesday survived well too (yay)! PE in the morning consisted of running and frisbee. After lessons ended, I went to the dance studio at 1 ... had Dance Night preview ... followed by Zaki’s dance where I nearly collapsed from fatigue (but thankfully didn’t feel like sitting down and bawling like last week) ... trudged off to the canteen for a quick drink and then to the gym at 8 ... choreographed and practised for the gym concert until about 9.45 ... and reached home at about 10.15.

Phewhh. Long long day, but it kinda makes me happy to know my muscles aren’t stagnating (:

Have lots of stuff to do, on top of the mountains of homework that I should be catching up on. I’m up to my eyeballs in work, so tata for now!

*004 - talk to the hand

I’ve been having kiddy relapses these few days. My “talk to the hand” interpretation (which everybody is thoroughly sick of) proves it!


She can talk ...


And she can go “AHHH” too!



Yesterday’s version cracked me up in the midst of a physics lecture and I ended up drawing on Liru and Joel’s hands as well (beware of sitting next to me!):

Cute fish ...


Becomes KILLER fish!!



I think I amuse myself too easily XD

*003 - NO MORE STUDYING CHINESE ...

... for the rest of my life bwahahaha. Praise God (:

*002 - FINALLY!

Finally! After hours of painstakingly tweaking html codes (I confess I am far from a html wiz) I finally got this blog to, well, look like an exact replicate of the previous layout at diary-x, hahaha :D

- happyhappy dance -

Now everybody, click on the "Elisa and Evelyn" icon on the right and start shopping! [/end shameless advertising]

Chinese results out tomorrow arrghghhghghhCHOKE. Please let me get at least a C6.

*001 - so, diary-x really died.

I don't believe diary-x died on me. [And its millions of other users, haha!]

Thank God I have backups of almost every entry written in under-the-waves, but all the entries in my very-first-blog-which-hardly-anyone-knows-about are gone ): That was the blog that contained everything related to N, and also the beginning few months of being with Justin. Oh well! I'll just have to rely on my brain to keep the memories safe and sound (:

So much has happened since I last blogged, um, 2 weeks ago? Oh but first to explain why latte love - It's the name of my favourite lip gloss!! Ahaha the bimbo in me is revealing herself, gasp.


Tiny blurry picture of me, homework and latte to match the new blog name. Hahaha. Since I had no time to do anything else apart from copying html codes from my previous blog, we'll just have to wait and see if I manage to think up a more coffee-ish template one day.

As some people know, I haven't exactly been at my jolliest over the past few weeks (last week in particular). But thank God for today's sermon: the more you identify with the old Adam ("I'm always so tired, always so stressed", blahblah) the more nasty stuff will manifest in your life! Identify with Jesus instead and His blessings will pour forth :D Our disappointments may be God's appointments!

Reminder to self: Keep trusting God to provide and quit trying to handle everything by myself!

And to end off, here's what I was halfway publishing on the 12th of this month, when diary-x died at that exact moment. Just to commemorate that fateful instant [and not to waste a perfectly good photo entry (which is the main point actually)]! Here:

[12 Feb]

Just some photos from today because I have no time to say anything substantial. Went to the boyfriend's church, squelched through a wet market for one of the first times in my life, had lunch with the family, bai nian-ed at his place (hey, it's the last day of CNY today ok), fell asleep on the boyfriend's bed twice while he fixed up the computer, got chauffeured home by his parents. Nice day (:

Spider on the ceiling, just to show that my camera's zoom works.



YELLOW UDDERS! Ooooh. Maybe someone can tell me what these strange fruit are.



Frogs! They all look like Kermit, don't they?



Bloody fish. [As in, the fish is bloody. Bloody fish sounds vaguely rude (think bloody hell), or maybe it's just me.]



Lastly, Justin's CUTE bunny, Chippy, lying on my lap!