Somehow, there were too many pictures taken and sometimes, the below zero deg temp kinda made me lazy to take pics. and so:


Ming zhu tower or issit oriental pearl?

we are the children

this is a small part of the shanghai bund i seriously regretted not having enuff time to walk the whole stretch

xin tian di, their nightlife area. and its still a mystery why they brought us here early morn



my cousin and i

the sky is blue and so is the frozen lake tt we managed to walk across safely w/o plopping down





on the way to ba da ling great wall of CHINA!

on my way up it looks like a long winding snake. i felt like rolling up but newton's law of gravity says NO

on the way down, it is still winding and i really had no choice... but walk down carefully while whining about the steep steps all the way... HEH eeeee

last stop: temple of heaven. this is not to be missed, wonderful and very spacious place. its you alone to the heaven above. there was an echo wall inside and we tried to "hello" one another from opposite sides but to no avail. we only realised we had to face north while doing so when we went out to the entrance. tat is so... careless of us.






that's all folks. i hope i will have another chance soon. china is a great place to visit and shop ard! minus the stinky toilets, touts who charge an exorbitant price thinking we're ignorant ppl and some rude service staff. i love the cold weather there alot alot. and some really good restaurants and the LONG BEANS is very delicious over there. we din get to see the snow this time round again. it only snowed a week after we left. WASTED! anyway there's so many things to talk about, but i am really lazy now. have a whoopy doopy 2007!
Happy new year everyone! Before thinking abt the new year, perhaps we should spend a little moment thinking back on 06 and to some of us, how fucked up it have been and it was tough going thru ups and downs, as always. 06 had been a sort of come and go, hello and bye year. firstly we said goodbye to TP and our beloved project mates whom we stuck to for a couple of sems. secondly, some of us who went back to studying in uni made some new frens, while those who work, same there. during the past year, i'm sure we all missed TP life alot and sometimes i really wished time could have passed slower to let me reminisce abit more. however, this is just a reality and sth we can never avoid. like the old saying goes, 天下无不散的宴席. i'm nt sure if i gotten it exactly but the meaning is as simple as there will always be separation of ppl in this world.

i tried to take it easy but such things bother me a whole lot. but anyway, on sunday 31/12/06, our groupies gathered for a steamboat affair at hui's house. met up with des first in bedok and then the rest. bedok is really a lively place (and i love the buzz station for selling my fave monday mag!), and i am always seeing weird ppl in the bus interchange. and the cannot be forgotten aunty who passed motion right behind the phone booths. tat was a yucky sight. compared to bedok, punggol is boring and the food is not NICE. i also missed hougang my old house, go everywhere also near and the interchange there is really much better than before. the mac there was my frequent breakfast place when i was young. my parents brought us there almost every week and then we would fight for the happy meal toys. hoho.

ok back to parkway parade. we all did shopping for the ingredients and stuff, i'm quite a clunk at supermarketing or wutever. but finally we all managed to get the stuff we want and head back to prepare! so we split jobs and i ended up with chopping the stupid big block of veggie wahahha and peeling quail eggs which was damn fun. and erm... chopping the golden mushrooms. totally fun doing all these together! eh team spirit is impt. so the soup turned out nice and yummy and i ate up alot of the mushrooms and cheese hotdogs for the first time in my life. one thing i super regret was missing the full view of the fireworks. in the past, i used to go for every fireworks event and getting a super clear view and with love.. but things do change and now i guess i'm gonna miss every fireworks thats gonna come around.


Marine parade houses seem to get very good view. BAH!

The colony of houses looks cosy!

V for victory after a war with the food and G for gingerbread man

mushroomsssss!

snapping back to reality and looking ahead to 2007, i've made some resolutions (and wishes) i hope will come true for me:

1) Study harder and pull my CAP up
2) Go HK again this summer holiday
3) Work and earn some cold hard cash
4) Neverending sprees to come
5) Book a yacht for the big day HAHA
6) Be in love and have a darling whom we can do many things together! like exploring ard sg
7) Stay young and at heart
8) Learn yoga to keep fit
9) Go on holiday again with the groupies
10) Stay in love.

`God, please let these resolutions/wishes come true!
Holla everyone! I noe this is coming a little late but a belated merry xmas! though i was already back in sg since xmas day, i was too lazy to blog and post up pictures. busy packing stuff and bidding my modules for next sem. well, i was glad to be able to pass all my modules and i hope to pull up my CAP for the next coming sems! before i go on blabbering about anything else, let the not-so-perfect pictures do abit of erm talking ok.


1st time midnight flight on SQ hiak.


my sis and i

in the maglev train in pudong

chenghuangmiao which has nth much inside but ALOT more outside and which i din go.

Han san si temple

Hotel room

this has a purpose of delusioning the ppl in the olden days becos they have a diff view for every window

Wu zhen

nice scenery and TREES

Hanlin academy

i love the wallpapers!



Nanjing

bustling place with many shops!

practising opera singing in the morn

my cousins

shanghai



our dinner. VERY nice food.



shanghai bund






TO BE CONTINUED.
Before i leave, here's 2 of my best moments of in life:

HK 2006

God noes how much i miss this place..

Above the skies

in the bus tram 'ding ding'

look at the AMOUNT of toys on display they are so damn cute!

i wish my cam was 1000 times better than this

at JUICE

TST with loveeee



AND my favorite restaurant in HK!

some loots

and lastly, i wished my cam was as good as this from nancy's SLR.

HK 2005




i like the neon boards

if u look closer, u'll realise there's a freaking load of ppl in front



ocean park! i din dare to try TAT ride though. hee

wuts this? its SOOO big and grumpy

and this is a real fish btw. not cartoon nemo wahah.
one of the best streets in HK

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein
when the eyes look further away, the heart follows...

Finally exams are over. General bio paper sucks for being so hard. i dunno why some ppl can leave so early or shake their legs but perhaps they are the so-called elites. after weeks of hibernation, the time has come for me to RELAX and enjoy myself. so i met up with nancy to rush to the shiseido sale! we both had some loots! i got myself whitia samples and ettusais oil free foundation, its super worth the money ok! usual price of the powder i tink abt 50 but we got it for 23bucks! then nancy went back today and i asked her to help me get the pre acne sheets too. hee. so now, i'm jus waiting for fri to arrive and then i will be off to the airport! i hope this trip will be fruitful in the sense that there's many nice stuff to shop and probably a good time for me to do some reflections..

站在大丸前细心看看我的路
再下个车站到天后当然最好
但华丽的星途途中一旦畏高
背后会否还有他拥抱
在百德新街的爱侣
面上有种顾晄自豪
在台上任我唱未必风光更好
人气不过肥皂泡

即使有天开个唱谁又要唱
他不可到现场仍然仿似白活一场
不恋爱教我怎样唱

几多爱歌给我唱还是勉强
台前如何发亮
难及给最爱在耳边低声温柔地唱

白日梦飞翔永不太远太抽象
最后变天后变新娘都是理想
时代的广场谁都总会有奖
我没有歌迷有他景仰

百德新街的爱侣
面上有种顾晄自豪在台上
任我唱未必风光更好
人气不过肥皂泡 ha..

即使有天开个唱谁又要唱
他不可到现场
仍然仿似白活一场
不恋爱教我怎样唱

几多爱歌给我唱还是勉强
台前如何发亮
难及给最爱在耳边低声温柔地唱
其实心里最大理想
跟他归家为他唱

i love this song. u need to view it in unicode. oh man I MISS HK ahhhh~~~ wanna hurry go back there AGAIN next year! though i'll be off soon, HK is still my number 1. HAHAH.

ytd i was flipping thru the old photos, made me realise how much time i've lost, how much time has passed me by, how much friendship and love grew and dissipated all these years.. we girls have grown up alot, stood by each other, a little conflicts here and there but at the end of the days, we're best friends! all the fun times we've been thru makes me feel like crying. not becos i'm sad but becos we did "owned" such moments at least, in our lives. i saw the fun i had in the wax museum in hk, posing with the fake MM and bruce lee, etc. it was really really heart-wrenching to truly realise these were all lost cause. whenever i think, it feels like sth's stuck in my throat.

sigh i can be such a loser sometimes.. anyway, i will miss my dearest frens when i'm off! will try my best to get sth nice for u all (if i had enuff cash hiak hiak) ..

`smashing pumpkins
3 down, 2 to go..

Die ah die.. my econs and stats papers gonna fail... sigh.. i shld hv copied out answers steps into my cheat sheet instead of formulas! i learnt a lesson, but pls let me have a pass for all modules at least please!!! I am desperate. If i gonna get kicked out of school or repeat my module, its the most demoralising thing thats gonna happen to me, ever. this is the ultimate stress level.. the worst kinda exams i've taken. worst than driving test!

anyway, mno was ok, hope i can at least get a B for it.. i realised i cannot do maths related subjects. in poly everything was easy to comprehend and DO if u put in some effort but down here in uni i guess its more of a consistency in learning thing. geez. a discrepancy in the level i am gonna overcome it if given the chance for next sem! gambatte ah!! *pray hard*

i thought about many things during my weeks of confinement.. yes, it drives me crazy to be trapped at home. U noe its been bloody 20 years and what have i accomplished? how do u define accomplishment? i havent found an exact answer yet. but for now it would be to earn big bucks, get a good exciting job/housewife and get married HAHA. perhaps it is a tad too cliche but this is my dream. all in all, i just wanna get intimate with happiness and these are my tools towards attaining that coveted feeling. but these things wasn't just wut i have understood. my long fruitless wait, the pains of going thru those moments just get on my nerves. why am i still doing this? until sth happened, and i finally am determined to say i give up thinking abt it anymore. this is the end of a long dream or nightmare if u call it.

while working in iras i still remb jx said it takes 3 years to forget 1 year of a relationship. though it sounds not quite logical, but if he's correct then it will take me more than 3 years to do so. So WHAT NOW! i must not carry those emotional baggage any further. i am feeling hunched already. After going to uni, alot of ppl have been asking things like 'why nv find bf', 'why cannot find' or why u still single this and that. even my uncle asked me that. how the hell am i gonna answer these senseless stuff. its not that thing abt having a bf tts nonsensical, but rather why do they take for granted i HAVE to find one in uni? i thought abt it quite a long while u noe, plus i was talking to bridget abt it ytd. First thing is that i have NOT met the right one. second, i tink uni life's too busy to focus on finding a bf than to do my projects. of cos if he comes along then great, if not, then wut can i do really. THIRD, i dun really socialise much in uni cos its pretty much boring to stay in sch so i make it a point to have lessons straight and leave asap. Not like TP where things are so much relaxed and fun. lastly, i dun jus grab any guys that come along! *yawns*

There's this newspaper article which mentioned abt girls who slept ard are termed door "knobs" in clubs. the rationale behind was that many guys already had their "turn(s)" at the "knobs". quite cool now tt ppl dun blatantly use the word "Cheap".

`Anyway i miss those days in secondary school and poly!! so FUN so FUn Fun fun......