i'm secretly happy that my pa called to ask if i want breakfast :)
teehee. As far as my memory goes back (erms maybe sec1?), the number of times my pa asked me if I want anything is I think less the number of years that I've lived so far.
So I'm secretly happy that there's this change in him! It could be because I did something last night. I initiated a shift of my bed out of my room so that I could finally start on my neatening and cleaning up and packing of my room that's been procrastinated for ages. erms ever since I left JC ie. 2 years ago. He was scolding and nagging at me to throw away my old stuff ever since then but I was always too lazy to make myself handle all that years of stuff (going all the way back to primary school time!).
But I can't stand myself anymore. haha. I can't stand leaving my room just like that with so much stuffffffs. Okay actually I should go continue with my just started work instead of blogging! poof!
oh ya. so to force myself to be done with packing/neatening/organising my stuff asap, I would have to sleep in the living room (since my bed is in the living room now) till I'm done! muahaha. fenella you cannot continue procrastinating! erms but I may hor. nooooooo! cannot cannot cannot. ermss I hope not. :S
okay i must admit im fortunate. i just got to drive my 7th uncle-in-law's 20-year-old manual car from my 4th uncle's place at Choa Chu Kang home to Sembawang under my 7th uncle-in-law's guidance. Okay its been reallyyyy long since I last spoke to my 7th uncle-in-law. Maybe a year? That was when I had quit NTU accountancy and hadn't applied for NUS Science yet. Was it then? Or maybe it could be more recent but I can't remember exactly. Anyway, so he was being really nice by allowing me to drive his car at my mom's suggestion. haha I'm really fortunate to have a mom who dares to ask favours of others. I'm so paiseh. But I shall try to build up my confidence.
I was warning my 7th uncle-in-law that I'm a lousy driver (oh ya by the way we communicate in mandarin) especially at night I'm super dangerous. But he was confident enough to still let me drive despite me also telling him I failed twice before passing. Wow. Luckily the roads were pretty empty. Oh yar but I think it was a pretty lonnggg drive - longer than what a normal driver would take I think. I was going pretty slow since it was a manual car. Erms like maximum only 70km/h instead of like much more when I drove my 3rd uncle's auto car a few weeks back.
Oh yar my dad was in my 3rd uncle's car following us all the way back! And he was so kan cheong lor I think. haha. Coz he called my mom on her mobile a few times (oh yar my mom was in the back seat together with my 7th aunt and my 2 younger cousins). haha my youngest cousin was saying all sorts of cute funny comments like "why is she driving" (coz she's used to her dad driving) and "I'm hungry" (lol she supposedly just had dinner! but yar la I guess it was a couple of hours alr and kids get hungry pretty quickly).
Hmms actually a lot of time at my 4th uncle's place I was stoning like I usually do when I've nothing to do la. Plus I was not really feeling well. Felt heaty. I think it was coz I already wasn't feeling well with my nose giving me problems. nose block lor. if it wasn't block it was runny. basically uncomfortable. then I talked super a lot (by my personal standards la) to Adeline since we met for lunch at about 1pm till before we went separate ways at about 7pm.
Okayy I'm supposed to go bathe now... 23:06. oh ya I got like kind of lost in IMM! gosh. So I was telling Adeline it shows two important points. Either the place is too place or I've amnesia! omg we were at Burger King then in between I went off to toilet on my own and I had such a hard time finding my way back I had to ask a handful of people for directions! faints lor.
But yay. glad I got to meet up with Adeline. yay looking forward to more meet ups with different friends :) have to contact my friends back again. sigh I was the type who always lost her friends due to lack of initiative in keeping contact. I shall take more initiative now! Look for my old friends. okok getting complainss. have to go bathe and sleep early. poof!
oh ya forgot to mention. We had lunch at some chinese food place, I think it was hongkong food erms I forgot the name but its at the 1st level and kind of open air. oh yar I forgot to take photo of the food. lol. nevermind. but my ee fu noodle tasted great :) oh i remember the price. $7.80. before all the plus plus plus. haha. erms I had yuan yang too. they put ying yang on the menu. felt quite weird haha. okayyyy i should gooo off
big news! my application for a rm at residence for AY07/08 sem2 is successful!
But its not my 1st choice (Prince George's Park Residences - Aircon, Attached Bathroom $1,870).
Its my 2nd choice that I got (Kuok Foundation House - Single Occupancy $1,020)
sigh no personal toilet... :(
but I guess its okay too.
Let me list the pros of staying Kuok over PGPR. 1) easy access :) 2) convenience - a) affordable food (Engrg canteen, YIH - Subway+canteen+etc, SRC canteen all nearby), b) going home, c) going to any faculty (kind of walkable if the weather is fine), d) near UCC (haha. like I would even frequent UCC, but its a pretty nice place, oh ya very nice clean comfortable toilet! hehe. I purposely went to use their toilet on my way to MPSH just before the start of my last paper - gen bio after remembering that the MPSH toilets were always full of other students) e) near MSPH - no trouble getting to exam venue :S f) easy to wake Smrithi up if she oversleeps for S@S event haha
okay can't think of any more pros at the moment.
hmms that $1020 is still excluding alot of other charges. After adding should be quite ex le...
I can only check-in on 14 Jan 2008, ie. first day of school. But if I stay in FST I would have 8am lecture on that day! Plus 10am lecture plus 4pm lecture. Which means only considering my 4 core modules, I would have only 12pm to 4pm without lessons on 14 Jan 2008. :S Hmms. See how when its nearer the day la. Hope to check-in asap. If not waste time and waste money! May be I shall check-in in the afternoon? Coz the office is only open from 0830 to 1800. Hmms last day of occupancy is 10 May 2008, ie. last day of exams.
wahhhhhhhhhh a cockcroach just scared the hell out of me.
okay that's not what this post is supposed to be about. but anyway, yar! i was about to blog about something else and a cockroach (the common type live adult size!) just appeared like 1 metre away and i started screamminnnngggggg and whininggggg for my mom! hoping that she's get my dad to come catch the cockroach! but there was no response la. so dots. so after the cockroach ran past under my chair to the corner of the study room i decided to take action. got off my chair and went to my parents' room to get my mom to come. haha she was brushing her teeth. anyway so she came. but she kept saying nothing la, no cockroach ma. but there is la! its right under the movable drawers. so i told her to push the drawer aside. oh ya i was afraid so i went over to the sofa about 6 metres away and squat on the sofa to be safer away from the cockroach and continue to give my mom directions. okay so anyway yar she found the cockroach after awhile after more directions. and got my dad to come catch the cockroach.
ekkks my still mischievous dad tried to scare me by telling me he'll put the cockroach to me! and i started screaming again. okay la. its over now. the cockroach is safe at the main rubbish chute which is like outside my home across the lift lobby. haha. yups so im safe now. phew...
okay what was i supposed to blog about. yar my birthday party. oh yar. jiahan was telling me this afternoon that he used aranda for his birthday too and he thinks "its rather expensive but a nice chalet". haha i can quote him coz i haven't closed that chat window. been doing alot of other stuff after i stopped chatting with him in the afternoon. and he said the maximum comfortable number for that place is 50.
oh ya my 3 main aims of my birthday party: 1) to have friends celebrating with me this important day 2) to have each of my groups of frens have their own get-togethers, using my bday party as a way to do so 3) to take photos with the current them! coz i have just learnt that photos really mean soooo much!
i was looking thru my pri and sec and jc photos. gosh. gosh. gosh. so much to say about them. aiya but its late already. 21:22 le. im supposed to be preparing myself for bed now. yay meeting adeline tmr! looking forward to it :)
omg everyone's been soooooooo nice to me! i just read the letters/mini-letters written to me by my bandmates and juniors and seniors. sooooooooooooooo nice!!!!!!!!!!!!! i even cried reading my nanyang seniors' (1 year my senior) letters
sooooooooooo niceeeeeeeee!
im going to kill myself if i lose all my stuff! because it means losing my hardcopy memory. coz my softcopy memory is already extremely lousy. my hardcopy memory are soooooooooo precious!
yay im going to have a 21st bday party! so exciting :) :) :)
thanks to my mom's suggestion! she just told me this morning. and i agreed with her suggestion. but im scared of being the centre of attention! :S i hate being centre of attention! but sherman says its okay because from the 21st bdays he has been to, the only times the bday person is at the centre of attention is when i cut cake! hahaha. as long as i ask my friends to come by the cliques, they'll fall into their own groups for talking and i'll realise at the end of the party that i didn't really get to catch up much with any 1 grp coz i will keep shuttling around and those individual frens will be stuck to the wall. hahaah! gosh such good advice i have. okie so i must NOT invite any frens as individuals! all must come with at least 1 other person!
okie current list of people to invite:
food science ppl (if i get to stay in fst) - 44
chemical sciences society ppl - 14
S@S ppl? just mention and see who wants to come ba.
njcsb - adeline, jiayun, oh no they will be overseas... :( okay. erms. karen also overseas ba. erms sigh i shan't invite anyone from njcsb le since my goodest friends will be overseas :( but how. njcsb is an impt part of my life... still got other ppl ard... jurena, boyang, edo, sharon n shujun, junhao, mabel, sweepeng. ermss point of contact: FENELLA. juniors: ashley, clarice, colleen, dency, jingwei, kuanyee, pauline, regina, siewhan, trinetta. oh ya andrew still has my autograph book!!! erms point of contact: JINGWEI :) seniors: lydia, leepei, weiting, erms cleopas overseas hor. sigh my nice clarinet leader can't come. hmm still got clarice whoops i forgot how to spell her name. point of contact: LYDIA
clarinet nanyang - aiya again jiayun not ard. erms, jac, yumin, chai xinyi, wenyi, mich low, chrissi, joyce lee, mingwei, sigh elise novella jianing all overseas, shuen dont know where.. point of contact: FENELLA to ask jac n yumin n my batch personally, then get CHAI XIN to contact her batch. oh ya seniors! erms soooo long never contact le. okay try to find. oh yar! met one of them the other day. what's her name! argh can't rmb now. anyway still have xinjie, ermss who else?
nj class - jus pam joyce huitian? yuxian
nanyang 2/2 : karen+ sandy+lisa+daisy+eewei+mingyue+siewhui+zhenglan + wangyang (is she overseas?)
nanyang 4/10 : laura+ kaiyun+ mich ang+ teng huiling+ limin+xiebo
primary sch frens - janice, erms boonshan overseas hor, erms, tingweilin, minrui, geraldine ong, gloria, hui yan (yanny!), to huiling, ivy teo, jiayi (ma yi heez), joseph, julia, kianwei, puikwan, weichen, weiliang, chiewsiong
nkf attachment: teckkuan, weizhe, yuenteng
sp1202 class: anyone interested can come. point of contact: BRYAN
buffet, cake
friday: to note: need area to cut cake.
max. number 60 ppl?
haha going down my mobile's phonebook list to see who to add to the list above.
oh and im going to be super low profile so basically what everyone will be doing is to have each of their little get-togethers :) yay! oh ya take photos! yar so basically there's be food, birthday song and photo-taking. yups. simple :)
okay points of contact to ask anyone of their batch :)
okie hope i haven't left out anyone that i want to invite. forgetful fenella...
wah already 3.24pm lo. but i went sunplaza for lunch in between starting this post and now posting it la. okie shall publish it now. edit again later.
For 6 years of my life, holidays in between school are spent on band practices. Now despite having 2 other CCAs, I feel bored :( I miss band practices. Although they were often stressful as I was a weak player, somehow its better than being at home, or better than having to focus on school work all the time during school term, even if it meant hard times juggling academics and performing well for concerts/competitions. I miss those times... though I know its impossible to have that again... Situations have changed. Even those people have changed... My relationship with those people have changed too...
I think I miss having a common aim and working towards it together with a group of people whilst having fun at the same time. Other CCAs are just different... Even though there's common aim too, its just different... :(
But I can't join band now.. the people there are too much better than me :(
boo I'm half-sick. but my packing has reached about 30% completion. yay!
but I realised I had been a terrible friend since primary school. I have a small stack of greeting cards/letters from friends since primary school days and thinking back, I never really sent any greeting cards back. hmms my fault those close friendships are no longer so.
shit I just found that quite a bit of stuff I learnt this sem I had actually learnt before! gosh totally no memory of that...
Found my sec 4 bio stuff. Right on the top: "Process of Making Yogurt". Print-out of slides 5 other classmates and I prepared for a presentation at the beginning of sec 4! gosh I totally forgot I did that before when we learnt about dairy products in the last FST lecture a few weeks ago...
Flipping thru, there are notes on Fungi, Bacteria (even pretty coloured simplified diagrams on Gram positive and Gram negative cell walls, "peptidoglycan" labelled, research materials on Penicillium and Saccharomyces and Fermentation etc, all of which were touched on in my FST1101 or LSM1301 syllabus but I didn't remember I had learnt them before! faints. Other stuff touched on in LSM1301 that are amongst my sec 4 bio notes include Genetics and Heredity, Diffusion and Osmosis and Plants, these I have slight memory that I learnt before but now that I looked through the notes its different coverage la.
1108am. Okay its almost time. Have to finish up for today's packing session and get ready to go to school le. Hmms roughly 10% done? ahhh. A lot of things I still don't bear to throw. Just putting them into my cupboard in a more organised way with a summary sheet of what's where. boo.
Wah I've finally started packing my bagssss and stacksss of things accumulated since JC. Left my things in bags and stacks everytime new stuff become old stuff and never packed/threw away. I can't bring myself to throw things away, especially when they represent a part of my memories. Problem is I have poor memory so throwing the things away mean throwing my memories away. And I would be a sad case if I throw all my old stuff away leaving myself with nothing tangible to makeup for my non-tangible seriously lacking memory.
Came upon stuff like a half-recipe of chilli crabs that I got from my Math teacher in J2, Mr Tsang. It was before 'A's, I think in Sep/Oct '05. NJ made a special day for the teachers to each do something. There were stuff like animation, games (the kind teachers are interested la), oh ya got magic - I went for that too I think, erms can't remember what else, there were alot more. Yar see one piece of paper to stir up a little memory. If I had thrown it away I would never remind myself such a thing happened. And I wonder if I can try cooking chilli crab one day, which was actually the reason that I got the half-recipe from Mr Tsang and still haven't thrown it away.
Gosh there are sooooo many other things la. How to keep them and keep them in an organised manner. how.
Then there's another scrap piece of paper with my draft of my letter of thanks to my GP tutor, Ms Dorothy Chua, after I got my 'A' level results and extremely surprisingly got A2 for GP (I always get borderline pass or fail for school assignments and exams la). Seeing the piece of paper made me remember that I was actually very grateful to her. I had actually forgotten this... What I remember about her is that she sent me an sms after I had dropped out of NTU accountancy. I suspect my mom sneaked through my phone book and contacted her. Then I didn't reply.. Bad of me la I know. But how to reply. "Sorry Ms Chua I'm such a disappointment I dropped out of uni and don't know what to do with life now."? Oh ya I think I didn't give that letter to her in the end coz I didn't manage to find her that day I wanted to give the letter. or whatever the reason was. Yarr I just found that letter. (Whoops I chucked the small stack of nice envelopes and letter papers into the throw-away bag just now la.) Hmms letter still with me but I did send an sms to thank her. Oh yar in that sms after I dropped out I think she mentioned that she still remembered my sms. But that time after I sent it she didn't reply me la. Lol I think I'm confusing. doesn't matter.
Hmms I still haven't blogged about my exam yest. In the end I didn't sleep in the evening yest coz I couldn't fall asleep despite my brain feeling extremely exhausted. Ended up chatting on msn with a few friends till midnight then I finally shuffled myself to bed. Okays I shall continue with my packing. Argh what a headache I've created for myself.
Wahh my brain is darn exhausted now but I couldn't fall asleep so I shall blog. wait let me munch some bread first. gosh I ate too often the past few weeks with no engagements and only studying + exams, now I get hungry so quickly. hmm I think I over-used my brain yesterday (doing last minute rushed studying - I had 5 out of 12 lectures untouched at the beginning of yest) and today (doing the exam) so even though I slept 5hours the feeling now is like what I felt when I didn't sleep during camps. okay I shall try again to have a nap. Continue later.
well I don't eat healthily on most days but today is one of the more unhealthy ones! I'm having my 4th meal now!
7am: Mac's hotcakes with sausage + hashbrown + tea (shared with my mom) 9/10am: snacked on dried plums or whatever that's called 11+am: Chicken rice (油雞飯) Just before 4pm: Subway ham sub now 10pm: Nissin spicy seafood cup noodles
wahhh all super high in salt/sodium!
and I'm going to sleep soon. ahhhh. my tummy's gonna bulge even more. haiyo. I didn't want to eat the cup noodles coz of it but I gave in to my craving for more savoury food. (could have had bread la, I bought Bonjour pandan bread too. and now that I've finished my cup noodles I actually still feel like munching on some bread!)
gosh studying makes me get hungry easily. I finished the whole plate of chicken rice yet I was already hungry at 3pm! less than 4hours! boo
I totally shouldn't be blogging now (am in Temasek Hall study room and everyone else is hard at work) but this is an important realisation which I think I never really identified previously. I never thought of myself as someone who has a liking for nature but just now on my way to the toilet, (haha yar another of my frequent toilet visits whenever I'm doing work/studying,) I had this realisation.
Then I thought back on the ah hoc activities I chose to take part in - going to Endau Rompin with Green Link at the end of J1, going to the Maldives (overseas community involvement thingy) during March hols of J2 and climbing Mount Ophir with Janice and her church friends at the end of the May after 'A' levels, all give me plenty of exposure to nature!
And also how going out into the open air makes me happy (when its not hot la and I actually noticed this only recently during my toilet visits hah and last week when I went to my grandma's place in between studying), seems to show that I actually have a liking for nature. Gosh. I'm surprised I realised this only now. okai pooff!
edited to add: oh ya whoops I'm back. I forgot to mention. Ahhhh. I have no weekend this week :( Erms not like I really had weekends during the semester la. It was all so busy, but at least they did seem and feel like "Saturdays" and "Sundays". On the other hand, today really doesn't seem/feel like a "Sunday" at all, and yesterday didn't seem/feel like a "Saturday" either, apart from mornings hanging out with my mom. Okay la, I had my "mid-week break" on Wednesday already..
learning everything all over is so sianzzz... the problem with not touching lecture notes at all during the whole sem after every lecture... its already my 3th day on it and I'm only on the 4th lecture for my LSM1301 general bio (I skipped the 1st)... total of 12 lectures! ahhhhh!
(Got this thru email from Irene. I think this is meant for the Christian God and I'm actually not Christian, supposedly Buddhist but I behave more like a free thinker. Anyway, I think these - mainly the 1st 8 points - are very useful words to bring meaning into my life. and anyone else's too if they bother)
The below is copied straight from the email:
10 things God won't ask you on that day
1. God won't ask you what kind of car you drove
He'll ask you how many people you drove who didn't have transportation
2. God won't ask the square footage of your house
He'll ask how many people you welcomed into your home
3. God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet
He'll ask about the people you helped to clothe
4. God won't ask what your highest salary was
He'll ask if you compromised your character to obtain it
5. God won't ask what your job title was
He'll ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability
6. God won't ask how many friends you had
He'll ask how many people to whom you were a friend
!
7. God won't ask you which neighbourhood you lived in
He'll ask you how you treated your neighbours
8. God won't ask about the colour of your skin
He'll ask about the content of your character
9. God won't ask why it took you so long to seek salvation
He'll lovingly take you to your mansion in heaven and not the gates of hell
10. God won't have to ask how many people you sent this to
Have Read
'04 year-end holidays (highest number of books read in a long time)
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (gd read)
-Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky by Meg Cabot (fun read)
-Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (must read - inspirational)
-Slab Rat by Ted Heller (full of office politics and R21 stuff - not for kids)
-The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (makes u want to finish it)
-A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks (simple but meaningful)
-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (can identify with)
-The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (romantic love story with too much R21 stuff)
-Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks (even more R21. ugh)
-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
-Unstrung Heroes by Franz Lidz (autobiography about his four uncles and father)
-The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (very unique POV of an autistic boy)
-The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux (love the breadth of the plot, one of my favourites)
-Wild Orchids by Jude Deveraux (alternating between two first persons' view - unique, but don't like e plot)
-Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (philosophy tb in a story; gets abit dry though plot saved)
-forgot what i read...-
-Working Wonders by Jenny Colgan (story of an urban planner)
-Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (impressive intelligence with bits of great humour)
-Just between Us by Cathy Kelly (thickest bk i've ever read-600+pg, too long for me but not bad)
ha, started a few bks but didn't enjoy them enough to read more.
'06
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel (novel based on true story; a lot to learn from the book - animals, religions,
survival, appreciation of simplicity; marvelous descriptions of both the tangible and the intangible,
such that I could feel their realness; bits of very enjoyable humour; a must read)
-The Complete Analects of Confucius, Volume 1 - Asiapac Comic Series (some good teachings.
didn't read everything though)
-The Parable of the Pipeline by Burke Hedges (lent to me by Shujun; like she said, its a short version
of Rich Dad Poor Dad - good financial tips)
-The Alchemist by Paul Coelho (simple story with deep meaning)
-Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
(hai, doesn't seem to be working for me - cos im not applying..)
-haven't been updating from Jun'06 to Jul'07-
'07
-Take a Chance by Sarah Webb (very interesting twist towards the end)
'08
-A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer (very saddening. made me realise how significant family is in how a child behaves)
-Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite by Paul Arden (refreshing book with many pics)
-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Rui Zafon (amazing how people can think of so much plot to pack into one book, wld b a gd tv series)
-The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (the story is interesting but i think the ending cld hv been better written)
-This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes (a bit thought-provoking on relationships but i didnt like e abrupt ending)
-Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (gd knowledge but partly qte repetitive)
-For One More Day by Mitch Albom
-The C Words by Mark Mason (made me keep wanting to read on. light & funny)
'09
-Return to Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux (another good read from Deveraux)
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (gosh such vivid descriptions! very well written book. i liked d theme of friendship and the realness of the story)
'10
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (a must-read!! i love the expressed thoughts of the protagonist, esp those about friendships, and the writing style - it seems like she's telling me her story specifically to me)
How to Save Your Own Life by Michael Gates Gill (an inspiring read, for emotional liberation and greater joy in life)
Reading
on hold
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Waiting for chance to get hold of
The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
Gotai Fumanzoku or An Unsatisfactory Body (Translated into English as No One's Perfect) by Hirotada Otatake
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Other Recommended Readings by Marc
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin – Few books have had as significant an impact on the way society views the natural world and the genesis of humankind.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – Gladwell looks at how a small idea, or product concept, can spread like a virus and spark global sociological changes. Specifically, he analyzes “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – This is a tale that lingers on the topic of attaining and maintaining a disciplined heart as it relates to one’s emotional and moral life. Dickens states that we must learn to go against “the first mistaken impulse of the undisciplined heart.”
Lolita – This is the kind of book that blows your mind wide open to conflicting feelings of life, love and corruption… and at times makes you deeply question your own perceptions of each. The story is as devious as it is beautiful.
Getting Things Done by David Allen – The quintessential guide to organizing your life and getting things done. Nuff said.
How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman – 900 pages of simple instructions on how to cook everything you could ever dream of eating. Pretty much the greatest cookbook ever written. Get through a few recipes each week, and you’ll be a master chef by the time you’re 30.
Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner – Franz Wisner had it all… a great job and a beautiful fiancée. Life was good. But then his fiancée dumped him days before their wedding, and his boss basically fired him. So he dragged his younger brother to Costa Rica for his already-scheduled honeymoon and they never turned back… around the world they went for two full years. This is a fun, heartfelt adventure story about life, relationships, and self discovery.
Self-note: Tip for my future business =D
give employees reasonably high pay to keep them- otherwise they are unlikely to stay loyal.
treat employees not according to how well they treat me but how conscientious they are at work
(of course, musn't expect them to only do work throughout the entire working hours -
give some breathing space too, we are humans, not machines) Movies watched(listing started on 6jan08)
in cinema from VCD/DVD
1Sep07: "Hairspray" w TK, GH & SH
14Sep07: "Ratatouille" w mom & extended family
28Dec07: "The Pianist" w Jus & Pam (heartbreaking but good lessons; i recommend!)
2Jan08: "I Am Legend" w Sherm (scary! but good acting; thought provoking; i recommend!)
5-6Jan08: "A Good Year" alone (excellent show! i like the acting; funny; good lessons; touches my heart; i recommend!)
11Jan08: "Le Grand Chef" w WLing, JT & Irene (good! funny, very touching, :) nice; watch if like humour+meaning+food)
7Feb08 (CNY 初一): "Ah Long Pte Ltd" w parents (pretty hilarious - but u gotta understand dialects, some teary parts. wells typical of jack neo movies but with diff content)
11Mar08: "The Leap Year" w Sherm (so sweet! :) and apart from couple relationship it touches the theme of mother-daughter and best friends too)
6Jun08: "P.S. I Love You" w Sherm (don't know if its coz we watched it on laptop, coz it didn't impress me as much as it did for him in cinema)
8Jun08: "The Forbidden Kingdom" w Lisa, Karen & Sandy (ums..guess i'm really not into kungfu)
8Jun08: "What Happens in Vegas" w Lisa, Karen & Sandy (simple,relaxing show)
7Jul08: "我和狗狗的10个约定" w Sherm, his ma & sisters (very simple,touching but actually not my type of show)
10Jul08: "Before Sunrise" w Sherm (hmm maybe watchg on laptop really affects appreciatn of movies..)
30Sep08: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" w Sherm (i didn't like it as much as i thought i wld when i saw the ads)
31Dec08: "Yes Man" w Mom (inspiring and funny)
11Feb08: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" w Mom (not as impressive as i thought it wld be)
1Jul09: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" w Yumei, YY & Matt (the best thing was the soundtrack. heh.)
14Aug09: "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra" w Joyce (it was awesome! best action movie i've ever watched)
17Aug09: "Food, Inc." w SYL & RuiQ (learnt some stuff abt the American food industry but it was a bit boring and not worth the $10)
22Sep09: "The Time Traveller's Wife" w WB, VanD, WLing, CHL, Irene, VanQ, Mf, Pg (i liked it. having read the book really helps w udsg)
21Nov09: "Gokusen" w Mf, Eva, Tony, Sarah (funny inspirational movie)
24Dec09: "十月围城" w Tony, WLing, VanQ (action action and a bit funny? tony criticised the plot. my fav scene was the running n jumping through the crowd along the five-foot ways w/o cuts)
30Dec09: "Sherlock Holmes" w Irene, Tony, Sweetee (my favourite genre of books made into a movie - what else can be more cool? acting effects humour excitement suspense all in)
12Jan10: "Avatar 3D" w Mom (didn't appreciate the digital effects which everyone wowed about. content etc was so-so. cathay's 3D glasses were too heavy for me)
8Feb10: "The Truman Show" w Ky n sis n Yuhshin (a must-watch. very thought-provoking, funny. reminder to be spontaneous and create your life the way you want, instead of falling into a typical routine
14Feb10: "New York, I Love You" w Mom (I loved it! a good couple movie with meaningful pointers to keep it going. but i think some stories could be more developed)
16Feb10: rewatched "The Pianist" (still find it good, tho i still feel first viewings are the best)
17Feb10: "Valentine's Day" w CHL n WB (laughed throughout - a feel-good movie; liked the fact that the various stories binded tog so well with the little surprises here and there, vs NY ILU in which each story was separate)
20Feb10: "赤壁二" w Addy, Karen, Sharon, SJ (should have watched the first one first cos i ended up not knowing who's who and what's happening and had to keep asking :/ and couldn't pay attn.. if not i think it should be a pretty good movie..)
4Mar10: "Alice in Wonderland 3D" w Mf (i found the 3D effects of this @ CCK Shaw SO much better than Avatar @ The Cathay =/ and the movie was much more enjoyable too! - cheered a sad me up :)) favourite quote - the Mad Hatter: “You used to be much muchier before. ... You have lost your muchness.”)
18Mar10: "Nodame Cantabile" w Irene, Mf (i thoroughly enjoyed some of the orchestra pieces - SO impressive! the expressions of the actors were really amusing :D)
23Apr10: "Ice Kacang Puppy Love" w Mom (funny, touching and meaningful - about love between friends and family. i cried 3 tissues! cos some touching parts i could really understand the feelings of the characters involved)
Inception
Letters to God (very simple Christian movie)
22Nov10: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" w Ame, Irene (they loved it. pretty good, i guess the main problem i had was that im not familiar with HP :X)
13Dec10: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" w Sj (not bad, could follow the story unlike HP. like the meaningful teachings, too long - in a post)
2Mar11: "The King's Speech" w Ame (hilarious, inspirational, tho it doesn't impress me that much to understand why it's the Oscar winner)
Mar11: "10 Things I Hate About You" very funny. silly sweet high school romance. just right for having breaks in between doing homework
23May11: "Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides" w Wb Yl Ame Pg (pretty good - scenery, freakish parts, fighting scenes, dressing, humour, bits of Christianity like when the Spanish said "only God gives life")
6Jun11: "Xmen First Class" w Wb Ame Pg (i was very keen on watching it and it was really good! intellectual, makes sense, cool action, some humour)
9Jun11: "Legally Blonde 2" w Irene (seems like some dumb blonde movie but kind of meaningful too - speaking up for yourself and what you stand for)
17Jun11: "Something Borrowed" w Sandy Lisa (quite funny, somewhat meaningful wrt friendships. they didn't like the lack of sense for one part tho)
16Jul11: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" w Irene, Sweetee, Kw (not bad. i didn't understand some parts again but the humour and effects were pretty good)
Aug11 "Horrible Bosses" w Ma (she fell asleep! gosh. the movie was very crude i must say but there was the humour)
25Oct11: "The Three Musketeers" w H (i would rate it 3.5 for humour/intellectual language and 4 for action. it's by the same producer or director as Sherlock! but a bit less awesome albeit a good chill out movie)
5Nov11: "Real Steel" w Hl (action packed but not too hardcore for me. i liked that there was the father and son element and how the father eventually softened his heart and especially the part when charlie was having trouble telling max sth and max was so understanding saying "Don't worry. Your secret's safe with me." touching and demonstrates true fighting spirit)
12Dec11: "50/50" w L (adopting her words - a heavy topic put across in a lighthearted way, but not taking away d meaning. most of it was rather hollywood-ish trashiness but there were a couple of punch lines "u can't change ur parents, but u can change d way u respond to them.")
25Dec11: "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" w KY (ultimate action packed! super tense almost throughout the movie, and interesting Tom Cruise made it such that not everything happened smoothly - he would jump and misland and get all sorts of injuries..it's really the courage to jump without hesitation even though you are not sure you'll be alive after that. KY loved d movie and said she would watch it again!)
3Jan12: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" w KY (i love mystery (: and the witty sarcastic dialogues. good level of excitement with the action. didn't understand some parts as usual. i like Holmes and Watson they depict such a true pair of buddies ;D)
23Jan12: "You are the Apple of My Eye" w mom (now i understand why guys like this movie so much - the anxiety of chasing after a girl and the acts schoolboys do to get the girl's attention and hopefully affection. the initial fluttering and the subsequent quarrelling)
22Mar12: "The Iron Lady" w KY (really love Thatcher's sharp words. inspiring and thought-provoking, tho i was still left uncertain of what to do with my life, the movie is definitely an encouraging one)
29Mar12: "Barney's Version" w SJ (a funny movie of a screwed up life of a man who had 3 wives, smoked and drank but very heartwarming at the same time, the relationships with the dad and the 3th wife - quotable quotes!)
27Apr12: "The Hunger Games" w Mom
4May12" "Avengers" w MF n PS (funny, action-packed)
7Jul12: "The Amazing Spiderman"
21Jul12: "The Dark Knight Rises" (fantastic depth, loved the twists)
20Aug12: "ParaNorman" w Mom (simple funny animated movie, heartwarming support)
Performances watched (listing started on 25Apr10)
20Jan10: Patrick Marber's Closer by outoftheBLUE, NUS Science w Pam (
13Mar10: The Rain Came Down Like Pearls the Night I Died... The New Musical - Sing & Tell by Mark Chan w Addy & Jy
21Mar10: Quintessence by NUSCO w CHL