*264 - gourmet network

Gourmet Network Meeting #2, in pictures.



Shepherd's pie: GN for "Gourmet Network", of course!




This is what happens when you whisk eggs till light and frothy. And add Bailey's & sugar.




Above-mentioned mixture was used to make bread pudding, yum!




Lunch: Shepherd's pie, salmon, salad. And bread pudding later. Not quite gourmet but we're, um, still learning :P




Gourmet Network members: Justin, Evelyn, Jingwen, Maddy, and Shibani (absent!).




Family portrait (from left): Sleeping infant, naughty child, naughtier child, snooty mother.

*263 - a summary

Time to update about the past few days, or else I would never get around to doing it. I think it's going to be long.

FRIDAY



Cherlene, Evelyn and I decided that the dress code for the night would be dresses (ha ha am I funny?). We had dinner at New York New York, the place with the awesome green furniture and monster burgers that are as large as dinner plates, if not larger. Shared a plate of pasta and a meatball pizza (which I highly recommend - they were the juiciest meatballs I've ever tasted) and we were stuffed to the brim.

Watched La Sylphide, which is not worth talking about, and camwhored on the rooftop garden, disturbing all the couples who were making out. But I don't think they noticed us much. Hehehe.

Such a nice feeling remembering the old times, how we pretty much grew up together for 6+ years, all the time we spent doing the one thing we loved (ballet!), all the silly little things we used to do.

I need to pick ballet up again but I am stiff and old and I don't know where I can go.


SATURDAY



In our one year of running the business together, Elisa and I realised we had never once gone shopping together for jewellery supplies! We either go alone or order stuff online.

So we did! (: We were so happy that Elisa had to do a whirling dervish dance as I bounced into the air. Cool?






Desmond spotted me at the bus stop with Elisa while cycling past (but I didn't spot him!) and that lead to us deciding to meet at Vivocity for dinner & a movie - because he had free movie passes, and because we were both extremely swaku and were probably the last Singaporeans who hadn't been to Vivo (his excuse being NS, and mine being, well, sloth).

He was late in meeting me, and the reason was that he was busy chatting up another girl!! HAHA so mean to me.

Well, the movie plan didn't work out because there wasn't anything worth watching, so we walked around and got lost numerous times and settled for a Japanese charcoal grill dinner (that reminded me of Sinhui haha!) which he very kindly paid for (: We also shopped for his toiletries and between gross green body wash labelled "vitality" and deep luscious pink soap labelled "sensual", well, I thought the choice was obvious! :D

So now I can proudly say that I've been to Vivocity! And thank you Desmond for the treat (:


SUNDAY



The Boyfriend came back!! (: (: (:

I think he looks fabulously gay when he dresses up in a sexy shirt with those funky spectacles. Hehehe.

He returned with lots of nice presents but the biggest and best present is, of course, himself. Ooooh so pleased. Teeheehee end of mush.


MONDAY

Dancing with Maddy, who set the record by being one hour late. Hahaha. To end off the last class of the year, we played some crazy spinning game and competed to see who could turn the most. (I didn't win, nope. Hurtled off into the wall after a while.)


TUESDAY

... was the day Singapore set a new record - highest rainfall in 24 hours in 75 years! It was quite unbelievable to see what havoc the rain could wreak.

1. I awoke to rivers of muddy water running down my wall from the ceiling. They've been doing renovations on the roof, and the silly workers didn't cover up the holes properly, which meant that everything leaked through in the thunderstorm.



2. Justin's mummy chauffeured Justin, Jingwen and I to Maddy's house, but en route we were stopped by a flood along Upper Thomson Road, just a couple of bus stops down from my house. It was my first time seeing a flood in Singapore, and the water level was above the pavement (practically knee-deep)! It was so bad that we couldn't pass, and had to U-turn and make our way to her place from another direction.



(Can you see the submerged pavement? Way cool.)

3. On the way back from Maddy's place by bus, we spotted a good 3 or 4 accidents along the way. Smashed up cars (one with the windshield completely shattered through!) and lots of random vehicles floating around in the middle of the flood.

4. And then, just about 50 m in front of us, a tree fell!! It blocked the entire 3 lanes, and I'm just so thankful that it didn't fall a while later as we were travelling beneath it. Lots of strong men hopped out in the rain to help break off branches to clear the side lane, and it was actually quite heartening to see all these strangers lend a hand so readily. No, I didn't do anything to help, and yes, all I did was to stand in the bus and take photos like the useless bum I am.



According to the news, lots of trees fell yesterday, there were accidents galore, floods everywhere (even up to belt level!), landslides, shop houses collapsing, etc ... thank God the rain stopped this morning, not just because we're having a party later! But really, Singapore's not prepared for storms like that, if the rain hadn't stopped, we might be fully submerged by now.

The weather is beautiful at the moment though, it's very sunny and very chilly and it really reminds me of winter! It'll be showering later (according to the forecasts), but for now, ahh. (:

And yesterday, the Gourmet Network minus Shibani met up, but I'll save that for another post. I need to make earrings! Posting the 3rd batch of Christmas orders today, I hope to get at least 7 packages out. (:

*262 - cornell decision

I got deferred.

*261 - not fun meh?

I'm a tad annoyed.

Your idea of a waste of time might be my idea of fulfilment. You make it out to sound so awful, but I sure think it's a hell lot of fun.

It meant so much to me, I honestly thought I would make you proud, but it seems to be something of the contrary.

And then, there's the other problem, which I shall have to address with utmost tact.

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Meant to blog about the past few very happy days: More about the ballet, E & E outing, Vivocity with Desmond, and the fact that JUSTIN IS BACK wheehehehe I missed him so, but I shall wait till I'm cheerier.

Actually I've been really happy lately and I still am, I'm just sulking for a moment so indulge me. Hehehe.

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From the Cornell website:

For Early Decision Applicants: Decision notification will begin on Thursday, December 14 at 5 p.m. EST with the release of online decision information. Decision letters will be placed in the mail the same afternoon.

Oh boy oh boy when will it be my turn?

*260 - ballet gang

3/4 of the "ballet gang". Cherlene, Evelyn, Evelyn. The 4 of us (plus Wenting) used to be so close! It was absolutely wonderful catching up with them again (: The ballet we watched sucked (sorry, SDT!) but the lovely company more than made up for it. <3 <3 <3

*259 - "zhang pang le"

I hate being the fatty of the family.

Maybe I shall do something about this, yeah.

*258 - occupational hazard

Sliced by the wire during enthusiastic wire-twisting. The wonderful thing about this cut is that it doesn't hurt at all, wheee (:

*257 - the suspense is killing me!

Not a word from Cornell!

asdfl;kj%@#!

*256 - cooking lesson!

Had a most terrible night yesterday - went to sleep, woke up an hour later because of the rain and couldn't go back to sleep for hours. Once I wake up it's always difficult to sleep again because random thoughts flood my mind and that's what keeps me up.

Well anyway, we had planned for Tubby to come over to learn to cook today, and then a couple of other classmates asked if they could come over to do some recording for a CD. I had a brilliant idea and so Tubby & I ended up cooking a simple lunch for them (: Guangmian, Yockteng, and Justin. (Not my Justin but my class Justin haha.)

Tubby's 1st time cooking, pretty much, and he wasn't too bad, except that watching him chop veggies made me feel like dying because he looked as though he was going to chop his fingers off. We made cream pasta, grilled fish, and frozen margaritas. Boys eat a lot and so I can't tell if they gobbled everything up because they genuinely liked the food (which they claimed) or whether they were just hungry.



The other boys went back to my room to continue their recording (Justin's voice is amazing and Yockteng is such a viola pro) while Tubby and I fussed around in the kitchen again, making peanut butter cookies! We kinda made them too big so they expanded and stuck together slightly and looked like baos. They were most unhealthy, seeing the mountains of peanut butter and sugar and butter that went into them! But I made the boys bring home all the cookies but one, so I'm safe bwahaha.



[edit] Aww, I'm so heartened because Justin just SMSed to thank me for being a good host! Beams. [/edit]

Tomorrow is the 15th, and I think Cornell's reply is going to arrive tomorrow but then I'm not sure because the site says "mid-December" which is very vague. Like I mentioned to Sinhui, my heart skips a beat and I nearly have cardiac arrest every time I see a new email in my inbox nowadays. Now you know the easiest way to send me into a coma. Hahaha.

Everyone seems to be expecting me to get accepted except for myself (or maybe they're all just being nice), and I'm terrified and I'm terrified and I'm terrified. It sucks to know that you have a tiny chance of getting it but at the same time also knowing that the likelihood is really AWFULLY small and you don't know whether to give up or to continue hoping.

Having said that, I realise I've been trying to stop hoping because I don't want to be so disappointed when the rejection comes. But on the other hand, I've never actually stopped hoping.

*255 - papillon

Butterflies like flowers (:

I must say, I'm pleased as punch with how this pair turned out. Lots of people make wire butterflies, I'm sure, but I don't think I've seen any that look quite like this. I think I crushed at least 5 crystals and wasted metres of wire trying to make it!

I'm also pleased as punch because for the past 2 days that I've been sick, I've been cooped up at home, busy completing the mountain of earring orders, and I posted out a bagful of parcels today! Nearly screamed as I watched the lady at the counter stamp the envelopes extremely heartily - but since I didn't hear any bubble wrap go 'pop' I suppose the earrings are fine.

I really ought to be doing my uni apps instead. But gaurghh I can't get myself started. Perhaps I shall begin now, seeing that the next few days are going to be pretty busy. Oh pooey.


PS: Don't worry Shib we'll think about you! Enjoy yourself in Melbourne (:

*254 - all that jazz

OH. MY. GOODNESS.

The Somebody Who Made My Day found this blog and I can hardly believe it and I am oh-so-very-embarrassed! Hahaha. Wow!

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Anyway I've been feeling stuffed up and flu-ish all day, so I'm popping some medicine and once the sleepiness sets in I shall be off.

I'm in a terrific mood despite that because Maddy makes me happy - even before I saw her today I was already giggling out loud at an SMS from her for a good 30 seconds or so before I finally found her. Followed by continuous laughing till we parted ways hahaha. We were both in awful condition (as in, ill) but we took 2 consecutive dance classes anyway, and though I'm all the more snivelly and sick I think it was well worth it.

And I was praised for my split leaps for the first time ever!! Gosh! Laoshi (gym) always scolded me for being too fat to jump nicely, so it was really quite encouraging today. (:

Classes end pretty late (near 10 pm) and getting home from there has always been a chore for us. But today as we were waiting forlornly at the bus stop, I got a ring from Daddy who happened to be in the area, and so we got chauffeured all the way home, yay! (:

Sounds like a good day, no? (:

*253 - somebody made my day

I've been hovering on the line between sick and not-sick for the past week, and I think I just crossed over the edge to sick, but I hope that by the end of today after more medicine and maybe a nap (especially since I have this annoying habit of waking up at 8) when it's time to meet Maddy I'll be over on the other side, or back on the line at least.

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He made my day yesterday, aww yeahh. I'm one happy girl (:

I'm so privileged and utterly undeserving. One little thing led to another, and somehow all the little hesitant decisions paved the way to THIS. Kaboom. If I had just said 'no' at one time (there were so many opportunities for that, and I nearly did), it would be a completely different story.

Wow.

Now that's something to look forward to.

I still can't believe he cared.

(:

[I realise I sound like an idiotic love-sick bimbo, which is quite funny really, because it's nothing of that sort.

(I mean, idiotic, unfortunately true, bimbo, admittedly, and love-sick, of course!, but not for this particular person!)

JUSTIN when you come back ask me about this I need to tell somebody what happened but I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TELL!]

And speaking of Justin - 1st signs of life from him at 2 am last night! (: I miss him oh so much, but I'm glad he sounds like he's having a fabulous time over there. Life's been exciting but it's just different without him around. <3

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In other news, I walked into random cafes yesterday on a whim and asked if they needed part time service crew. Lots of on-the-spot interviews that I didn't prepare for but I guess I didn't need to. Seems like everybody's itching to hire, so I guess I'm all set for beginning work in January. I didn't know it was so EASY getting a job haha just walk in, fill out a form, have a quick interview, and they accept you on the spot.

Out of all the places I went to, I've decided on Essential Brew, not just because my brother's a close friend of one of the shareholders heh heh, but it's the whole learning environment that attracts me. Seems fun and happening too! The pay is not fabulous, even the boss admitted to me, but what they offer makes up for that, and I think I'll gain a lot. Besides, there are chances of pay increments, which I think it quite rare for part timers, so let's just hope I'm fabulous enough to get one!

People who live near Holland V come and visit me next year (:

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Seems like the medication is working, I'm floating around in a half-daze already, so back to bed I go, 2 hours after I woke up.

*252 - we're trend setters,

Yes we are.

I suppose imitation is the best form of flattery! We would never have dreamt that it would come to the point where one day people start copying our designs and even plagiarising our little write-ups. And all the various business offers that some would die for. Amazing - and quite cute really to think that just one year ago we were rejoicing over how brilliant we were in creating Emmie. I guess our creations only got more complex and now we've even got the whole wire-twisty thing going that defines us, well, kind of. The profits are probably lower than you might imagine (I'm not sure why you might imagine but it's not very high), but it's been fun, it's been thrilling, it's been nail-breaking and flesh-splitting (haha!), and it's definitely been more than fulfilling.

But there's one little problem - manicured nails are not for girls who make jewellery.

*251 - ramble ramble

I miss Becky a lot. Just a couple of SMSes and settling a date for next week got me all gigglegigglehappy and made me realise once again that she's quite irreplaceable and we really should keep in contact. Cheers to the reunification of Bim and Bo! (:

And this is what Jingwen and I do when we're bored - play MSN games. It's quite thrilling really.

My schedule tomorrow puzzles me. There's church, but the early services are too early, and the later services clash with my rendezvous (haha) with Jerry, and then there's dinner at the Rose Cafe (perhaps I'll eat first and then ask if they need part time waitresses haha), and everything either clashes horribly or there's too much time in between one thing or the other and I'm not sure how to work things out.

I went for a quick swim today and my swimming costume tan is so stark that when I'm naked I look like I'm wearing a white swimming costume. But I suppose noone cares.

I'm becoming nocturnal but for a good cause! The 3 or 4 of us been spending a couple of nights excitedly planning a party at Huilin's, and reminiscing about the good ole times, and I have to say we're the most hippening primary one classmates ever. I can't wait to see everybody (:

Tubby just scared me. AHHH. Scholarship and university applications here I come.

*250 - sepia toned loving

A flurry of shots the sister snapped within the two minutes before we dashed out of the house. She's good at clicketty-clicking when you're unaware and the photos often turn out looking pretty nice and posed although I was mostly laughing and throwing stuff into my bag and rushing around in a panic.

(There were a lot more, but there's no need for so much me, me, me, is there?)

*249 - prom pictures

Edit: Click HERE! Or in the sidebar.

Edit again: Bangkok photos are also up HERE and in the sidebar but I don't expect anyone but the 4 of us who went together to be interested in the least in the photos but I like to look at them so there (:

HELLO Linette are you seeing this heehee (:


Pre Prom Preparations

... were a lot more fun than prom itself, it seemed. Haha! Perhaps it was because of my resolute decision to do everything myself at the lowest cost possible. It just doesn't make logical sense to me to spend so much for a few hours worth of phototaking.

Bought a dress online (on sale!) from the USA some time ago, dug out an old pair of heels (but I love them they're comfy and pretty), curled my own hair, did my own makeup, made my own bracelet, painted my own nails - well you may turn your nose up at me and scoff at my minimal expenditures, but I have to say I had a blast doing all that by myself. Hehehe. Sadly, not a single other girl wanted to join me in my cost-free preparations, so I had Justin come over and amuse himself with Pinball while I preened.


Curling my hair, the old fashioned way! With torn up rolls of magazine, a million bobby pins, and a large bottle of styling mousse. It was crazy fun haha! And, I nearly suffocated to death trying to take a nap and trying not to squish the curlers at the same time.


Imagine my horror when we removed the curlers and discovered just how CURLY my hair was. Hahaha.


But no worries, we teased it into shape and it turned out pretty nice (: I like how you can see my dramatic grimace in the mirror reflection.


And yes, I did my own makeup.


Prom - Classmates

Hmm so many photos to choose from. I'll be uploading them all onto shutterfly so here is a small selection of photos in which (1) I look retarded (2) I look ugly or (3) there are a number of people inside. Just because I'm sick of looking at photos where everyone's looking pretty pretty glam glam. Teeheehee.


With Gabrielle and Yiling, who didn't seem to notice that Gabrielle and I were making silly faces. And Angel in the darkness behind us. (Whoops, that sounds a tad sinister haha!)


Charity who looked completely different! Nono, I'm not just talking about this photo haha, but she really looked very different in a good way. Never noticed her eyes were so big until she finally took off the spectacles.


"Lizhan why you never smile in the photos! Smile for me smile for me!" So I tried to copy his teeth-baring smile. He looks like a cartoon character, I just can't place which one exactly.


Jon, Ethel, Liru. Whoopsies someone's blinking!


Gabrielle, Jeslyn. "Let's take a candid shot!!" -all begin to sway around and fling hands in the air wildly-


Tubby says "Let's take ANOTHER photo!" So we wave our arms about and go "wheee".


Class beauties (well, not everyone's here).


The class. Photo stolen from Tubby and then edited. (:


Other People


Just! Who's always knows when I need a motivational message from him. Hehe. We need to Chingay again.


Evelyn Chew, who pointed out that we have a photo together at pretty much every stage of our lives. And Banana who gave me a blood clot on my toe thanks to her heels. Hehehe don't worry Lychee still loves you <3


Bryon Teo. Primary 1 to 3 partners! We used to loathe each other so much that we refused to hold hands when walking down to recess, so we held pinkies instead.


The Bangkok gang. Hehe (:


Hanloong wearing "his mum's top". Haha! Yes, I do find this photo a little disturbing, yes.


Kevin so handsome (: Hehe I really really LOVE his outfit. Like, really really. (:


xY!! So shocked to see you there! All pearly and gloved (: And sorry for shoving you to the front, but then again you got proposed to, so maybe I'm not so sorry after all ;)


Post Prom Party

Got in free of charge, thanks to Glen, and without my ID, thanks to Nina. (: Interesting sights there, for example all of us in shock after seeing * and * Being One. Lost my voice promptly after screaming to be heard over the racket.


Hello Sandhya! (: We DID take a photo and here it is! It was a nice surprise seeing you there. Teehee we both got very disturbed in the hotel room because of someone and someone, which made me vacate the bed and crawl into hers to complain. OK TELL ME STORY (:


Lizhan on his way to being intoxicated! :D


Joel is actually trying to be cutesy but my arm wasn't long enough to include his cutesy fingers.


The obligatory slutty-poses-at-the-club photo. Hehe.


And the obligatory hello-I-am-an-alcoholic photo as well. Hehe.


Some Handsome Ruggers & Our Rooms


The Handsome Boyfriend looking particularly handsome here.


Handsome Bodyguard doing his favourite pose. With Handsome Senthil peering at him unamused.


Wenloong looking Very Handsome with my red clutch that matches perfectly with his outfit.


Handsome Ilman with the rubber lips. Too bad I forgot to ask him to do it for me ):


What a random photo. Jaafer trying to look like a Bad Boy toying with a cigarette, and Wenloong ("at my cervix", so his t-shirt claims) trying to make me look like a Bad Girl with a cigarette tucked behind my ear. (Actually noone in this photo smokes haha.)


This is what we look like after sleeping at 6.30 am. Had a fitful night thanks to noisy boys who snore and grunt and cough in their sleep. Haha! I have to say, Just is really funny when he sleeps, but let's not mention what the boys did to him here. Hehehe.

My sleep cycle is all screwy from sleeping at 6.30 am and waking at 10? 11? And then going home for an hour's nap at 4 pm. And then sleeping at 2.30 am because of a Very Exciting Discussion with Kerrie Huilin Bryon, and waking up at 8 am today just because I always wake up at around that time.


Anyway I'll upload my photos in Shutterfly soon because I know some people need to steal the photos (:

Fun as I make it out to be here, prom itself was actually not eventful at all. I generally hovered around my table and waited for people to come by, because I was lazy and tired and bored.

I suppose at the end of the day, what matters most is looking at the millions of photos that we took, and recalling all the precious, precious memories.