Or rather, these photos I have to flaunt. After videos and more videos on my blog, it's time to have a photo update! Starting from my birthday, to a definite mouth-watering post, and very random randoms.

21st May & 9th June 2009; My Nineteen and The Belated Surprise
Korean dinner with all whom I love on the day itself, and a couple of weeks later I receive a belated surprise that I forgot I was supposed to receive, if that made any sense at all.




All the love I received!

It flew halfway across the world to reach me, together with a very lovely BOF designed letter! And yes, I'm laminating the poster for sure. Thank you Chowchow!

This made my day when I opened the letter box and saw a big package in there.

I ♥ this the most from the whole booklet, it's obvious why.

From Shichao, giving me her first self-designed card in her life. I'm honoured (:
(P.S. I made a mistake! The GUESS bag is from Denise and Shichao together!)

And Denise, with her essay-long letter! Thank you dear, I'll be waiting for another essay next year! :p

And lastly, from Shichao! Who says an adult can't play with toys anymore?


1st June 2009; Lobster In The House
Uh huh, it's lobster season yo! And for whatever the occasion was, my brothers and I made a trip to a seafood store in mini Chinatown in the East and carried home a humongous lobster. Of course, we got the guy to clean it for us cause none of us dared to deal with a live one. Here goes, prepare a bucket for your drool!

First up, cooking the lobster roe.

Lobster roe fried egg. Man it was so good, though salty.


This is how big the lobster claws are, comparing to the biggest pair of hands in the family.



Second dish, lobster in chicken&seafood broth with wolfberry and spring onions.

And voila! One meal is done. It took the three of us two hours plus to finish it all, and that was probably the best home-cooked meal we're going to have in a very long while.

At the end of the meal, my pure white nails got tinted red, but it was all worthwhile.

Later that night, I was playing Dai Dee on Viwawa and baby, I was on a winning streak.

5th & 15th June 2009
And now for the random photos I took because I can never leave my camera alone! Oh IXUS, how I adore you so!

After our IKEA trip, this is my elder brother in his throne.

Recently, my elder brother is turning the house into a greenhouse. And something I found very interesting, this is how to grow avocados, apparently.

On a recent IKEA trip, I came back and made myself a princess bed. A pink bedspread, a red pillow and floral touches. This is how sweet dreams are made.


That wasn't too bad aye? At least your computer didn't hang for sure!
And now snippets of today's happening!

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I was waiting for the lift at the lobby to go down to the car park. In the mirror reflection I saw a guy at the front door, but I didn't go open the door for him cause he was already with his keys and the lift came. He walked into the lobby as I walked towards and lift, and I turned to him saying,
"I'm going down."
"Oh okay..."
Then I walked into the lift while he pressed the button to go up. As the lift door was closing on me, he said,
"You smell very nice by the way."
Me in the lift? Heart flutters as the door closed while I laughingly said,
"Thank you!"

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The kid in us came out when we made a trip to the zoo today. We played at the Kids Zoo, got excited over spotting animals and rode the Zoo Mobile three times. Needless to say, we took over a hundred photos on each of our cameras.

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Ravenous us made our way to a Mongolian buffet up north at Pacific Mall. It wasn't really Mongolian though, but they had tangy prawns, teppanyaki likish thing, and most importantly, ice-kacang! Well, not really but close.
And that was my day!
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No I won't be uploading the photos here, but yes it will be up on Facebook soonish! There's tons to upload so it'll take some time. Planning a trip for Canada's Wonderland sometime soon, and more pigging out and playing just round the corner! ♥

For a couple of months now, or maybe even more, I've had this song sitting on my computer without knowing any information from it, something you will hardly find in my iTunes cause I'm OCD and organize my iTunes, including play count. What it is was, was just ______ on my computer. How it got there, I don't quite remember. The first time I heard it, I loved it cause it had so much feeling to it and was really nice. Just last night, I was watching a Korean program called Star Golden Bell and they introduced this lady with her new song. When she sang a line of it, I was thrilled. Now I know what it's called, who sang it and what it means. It was like finding a gem under my pillow.
Here's Like Being Hit By A Bullet (총 맞은 것처럼) by Baek Ji Young (백지영).



If you're interested, here's the english subs with the MV.
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So my job hunt is not going too well, but in such an economy, what am I to do? I had an interview with Buffalo Jeans yesterday and it wasn't too bad. But I finding myself screwing up at the supposed easy question: What is your availability like? I didn't want to lie and say I can work anytime the whole year round and so forth. Instead I told them the truth of not being able to work a month or so when I'm schooling cause I've got to work on my shows in school and yes, my soul is staying with my body. Allana, the manager, then told me that they are actually looking for full time staff in both the summer and fall/winter. Damn. I should have lied. They said that they are having a second round of interview on Monday, and if they want me they will call me back. On my side however, I'm feeling hopeful but is guessing that I will only get disappointed. Sigh. Next stop, interview at Milestones, a restaurant which I doubt I'll get the job too. And then there's Starbucks too.

God bless me. And I'm sorry to bore you with my job hunt these few days, there's really nothing much going on in my life.

Nineteen and I'm celebrating my coming-of-age day, well at least it is so here in Canada. You guessed it, I'm very excited. Since I didn't write up a New Year Resolution, I'm guessing my coming-of-age will be a good time to do so.

My Birthday Resolution
1) Get a job, one that I will enjoy working at, even through winter.
2) Have a wardrobe revamp.
3) Shed some weight (I guess this has been a lifelong resolution, and I fail).
4) Manage my time properly when school starts (This too, I've always failed at).
5) Another resolution dedicated to school, I have to bring my GPA up again.
6) Have a blast during my 19 (Easy).

As for my wishes, I'll keep them to myself for it to come true, according to Cinderella (or was it some other fairytale, hmm). And now for my thank yous, to everyone who knows and remembered. Your simple blessing makes my day.
Daddy and Mummy, my brothers, Denise, Shichao, Marielle, Yiwen, Yi Jun, Gregory, Chu Hui, Eunice, David, Doreen, Jamie, Koon Hin, Sheldon, Maurice, Tommy, Audrey, Chris, Fang Shiuan, Kathleen, Andrew McAllister, Naomi, Vanessa Gervais, Tara, Henry, Marianne, Ben, Mikael, Becca, Kate, Lorna, Dylan Chu, Sharmila, Wei Xun, Rosemary, Adina, Yan Ping, Szeloong, Priveena, Kai Ming, Liang Hock, Ryan, Suili, Jim Lee, Shawal, Wan Joo, Jason, Don, Shi Kai, Wee Ting, Janice Chua, Cybil, Nurhazwani, Elaine, Jayson, Jia Hao, Melissa Ow, Beatrice, Janice Pedro, Edison Hou (Eddie), Yann, Jay, Maximus, Jerry, Renisa, Winy, Sandy, Edmund, Jaclyn, Keith, Kuang Yong, Yeow Tong, Miss Chan, Phillip, Merzon and family.
And here goes, one more year before I hit the big twos! Whatever cheesy farewell-18 stuff I'm supposed to say have been said during the New Year's post, so I'm going to skip out on that. As for now, I'm looking forward to what my year will bring for me and have been thankful for everything in my life till this day.
Uber nice weather tomorrow, and just simple meals with all who are dear to me. I'm a happy girl ♥

I'm still half a day away from my birthday here, but already I'm getting birthday wishes from all the lovely people in Singapore! I'll leave my thank yous till later, like how I always do. But let me take this chance to wish all May babies Happy Birthday!

Anyways, here's a sweet treat to all ladies! Well, I've watched it tons of times but all the bright smiles in there still melts my heart. And since I'm becoming a fan girl, let me act like one...
Song Seung Hun is ever so charismatic; Taeyang with his cute small eyes, as well as G-Dragon and something captivating about T.O.P. from Big Bang; Rain with his Full House smile and the list goes on! Ooh, the part where Big Bang goes do-e, do-e, do-e at 1:19 I think is so cute!
And fan girl stops there. Enjoy the MV!

I'm still jobless and it's not going good. The past two weeks, I've been doing nothing but spend money like it's falling from the sky. Sigh. Well, I do feel guilty for spending, but new clothes makes me happy like a little kid with a lollipop. And at least I've been shopping only during sale time, so it's not as bad...right? Oh well, either way I will have to stop doing so and spend wisely, like how the adults always say.
Anyways, over the weekends, I went to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and Casa Loma. The museum is a museum (DUH), but the exhibits were cool. I got very excited walking through the Western eras, from Medieval till Apes, especially after learning about it from Theatre History. And looking at the designs and details of the furniture and costuming gave me even more ideas for future school projects. Yes, school is taking over me. Somehow though, it gave off an eerie feeling when I was walking alone and back with all the ancient relics. Then it was Casa Loma, a former estate of Sir Henry Mill Pellatt built in the early 1900s. He went bankrupt or something and so the castle became a property of the city of Toronto. The rooms was pretty at first sight and soon became a repetition of one another. Fun part came when climbing up to the top of the tower and walking through a eerily cold tunnel to the stables. It was freaky, with single chairs sitting in the middle of nowhere making you think "something" might be on it. Oh we freaked out so much thinking the spirits of the castle would pop out of nowhere.
Victoria's Day holiday, and Marielle came over to our place for a swim! Well, it was 10 minutes of swimming, 30 minutes of photo-taking and a last 10 minutes of swim/floating around. Not productive. After soaking in the pool for so long, we were all starving as a result of not eating anything the whole day. So we settled for buffet at Mandrin! We ate till the extent of wanting to puke and couldn't walk up straight. Marielle was even three months pregnant at the end of it. The things we do to ourselves.

You can expect tons of photos at the end of the long weekend, but I can't upload them! Well, we exceeded our bandwith for this month and are curbing our internet usage. So that's that. I'm going shoe-shopping now!

Marielle, this is for you! And give me comments too!

Every single strand of my hair ended with a split end, and thus it was a sign that I needed a trim. Then I figured that I wanted to thicken my fringe too. So I happily skipped to Korea town (yea, right) on Friday for a trim! I went to Hair 1010, and the Korean lady was very friendly. At the end of the hair cut, it looked pretty and it fell nicely to the side.
Here goes! This is how my hair was before the haircut, taken just recently (Hehe, I know, sorry. This is the only proper picture of myself I have, and it's not the full hair, but what matters is the fringe).



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So I went home and after my shower, my side bangs didn't quite fall into place as a side bang.
Instead, it turned out to be...

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Tada! Bangs, bangs!
So here's the dilemma: My hair doesn't quite look like how it looks like in the photo, it's way messier cause it wasn't intended to be bangs. People, people, help me! Leave me your comments!

1) Should I just leave my hair as it is and wait for it to grow out into side bangs like before, only thicker; But what if it doesn't grow out nicely by my 19th?
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2) Should I go for another trim to trim it into proper bangs?

I would appreciate all your comments! Thanks in advance!

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Life after school for the past two weeks have been hanging out with friends and watching K-dramas till the wee hours of the night! I've recently completed watching Boys Before Flowers and boy was it awesome. While watching it, I realised how fake and over-exaggerated the Taiwanese version was. And Lee Min Ho is so, very hot! Plus, I love their soundtrack! I recommend it to anyone who has a lot of time at hands, and want to watch some drama!
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Also, I've been looking hard for a job. Dropping resumes everywhere but none called back. Sigh. Again, bless me hard cause a job will save my life! Well, kinda.

A crazy, wild ride it has been. Oh yes, it has.
A month plus since I've last updated, and yet again so much have happened within this short period.
Before you read the following, ask yourself if you want to read the rants of others. If you don't, move on to read after the italics. If you do, you're more than welcome to start.

From mid-March till April, it was nothing but weeks of insanity trying to juggle the massive workload I had on my plate. Assignments and projects just started piling up on one another in class. But the work doesn't stop there. Show calls took up whatever supposed free time I had when I wasn't in class, and these calls would last till the wee hours of the night. During this period, a ran a high temperature, hardly had any sleep and sometimes couldn't even find time to eat. Show finally drew to an end which meant that I could take a breather...or not. Remember those projects and assignments that piled up? Yea, it dragged on for quite a bit till the last day of school. Then came exams. For a couple of weeks I got stressed out till the extent of tearing up while studying, Why? Cause I understood nothing at all about lights and sound despite trying very hard to, and had too small a brain to contain a trillion facts about the history of theatre. Yes, yes, you read all these status on Facebook and in the end I screwed up both papers big time. As for other papers, I'm still crossing my fingers. What I got from this whole period: worse dark circles under my eyes, as though they weren't bad enough, and rough hands.
You might think that you've had your share of such an experience, but really, it's nothing like what you had at all. Before you can shrug that shoulder of yours and say, "Tsk, what you've been through is nothing", I'd say why not lets switch positions in my next school term!
Oh Theatre! Everyone undermines you so!

The whole point of my rant was, I'm proud of myself. Despite all that, I managed to pull through it all and proved that I'm still the strong girl I was last semester. This is the kind of motivation I need for myself if I'm going to have to survive the next three years of my life. As for now, I'm just glad summer is here. Four whole months away from school, a break well-deserved. But at the same time, I'm trying to get myself a job. I dropped resumes at a few retail outlets, and I need to drop more elsewhere. Wish me good luck on that! As for the rest of the summer, I plan to bask under the sun before the snow drops in on us again.

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And now I proudly present to you my maquette for Romeo&Juliet! We had to choose and design the set for a scene of Romeo&Juliet, so I picked the crypt scene where the star-crossed lovers died in the name of love. My concept was based on the theme of eternal love: the sand representing sand flowing out from a broken hour glass. Then there's the handless, broken clock which meant that time would stop there and then. And I fused my concept with the oriental classic, The Butterfly Lovers. Credits to my brothers, especially Chihoe, for staying up with me to build my maquette! I wouldn't have been able to complete it on time without their help. And again, I'm very proud of my work.














As for now, goodnight world.
안녕! ^^