IT'S UP!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!

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edit:

i realize i didn't provide any description to this post when 2 of my pals came up to me and said, 'i have no idea what this is about??!?!'

oops.

this is a short clip of the PJC ex-student council playing cranium at david's during the previous meet-up. we were supposed to guess what david and weiyi were trying to portray.

eh-oh! hehehehehe.

mewww!

haha this is not going to be a cat post la.

i just wanted to gush about Mew, the band.

ok that's about it. =)

I know you
And I know it won't take you long
To make me smile.

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ahahahahahaha alvin's a GENIUS/retard (it can go either way).

diremeow "where do you want to go today?" says:
let's form a band called MEWS
then write a song called "i am rhino"

Ms. Moo says:
er.

diremeow "where do you want to go today?" says:
no?

Ms. Moo says:
ok *shrug*

diremeow "where do you want to go today?" says:
"am i rhi,no?"

Ms. Moo says:
OHHHHHHHHHHH

*abashed*

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OH I JUST GOT WHY HE SAID 'MEWS'.

wordplay on Muse!!!!!! SO DESU NE...

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Am I Wry? No

Farah, now that you're here
Can you tell me
Exactly how I should have done?
Farah drives with her eyes closed
Do you ever
Inflict unwanted memories?

I know you
And I know it won't take you long
To make me smile.

Farah, angelic girl
I'll have you
Know it's you and me potentially.

Farah don't pull the carpet
From under me
Indifference is killing me

Am I wry?
Oh my! Fallacy!
Fallacy in my words
Am I wry?

I know you
And I know you're not afraid
To say the least

Diamond ring, diamond ring
But you can't find it
Cold is the night

Diamond ring, diamond ring
But you can't find it
Cold is the night

my nerd fetish

i'd just put up pictures on my facebook, and the one tagline i'd written stuck with me.

it was for one of the pictures showing david, weiyi and i turning into ACS, and i tagged it 'ahh... the school where all my boyfriends are from.'

which made me think about the guys i've dated. there's a trend...

i like NERDS. i like guys who can think, who're smart, and just a bit socially awkward. i've never been attracted to drop-dead gorgeous guys - i see them and run the other way.

so i kinda moved on from guys whom i thought were nerds, to 50% nerds, to an almost nerd, and ending up with A FULL BLOWN NERD.

i like my full-blown nerd. i like analyzing him and watching how he does things in weird ways (though it makes me want to strangle him sometimes)... hey, to each her own ok.

which also leads to this - alvin just sent me a link.

i think he's trying to tell me something.

The Nerd Handbook

excerpt:

The Next High

As you discovered when you were the project, your nerd’s focus can be deliciously overwhelming, but it will stop. Once a nerd believe he fully knows how a system works, the challenge to understand ceases to exist and he moves on in search of The Next High.

While I don’t know who you are or why in the world you chose a nerd for your companion, I do know that you are not a knowable system. I know that you are messy, just like your nerd. Being your own quirky self will be more than enough to present new and interesting challenges to your nerd.

Besides, it’s just as much a nerd’s job to figure you out and maybe someone somewhere is writing an article about your particular quirks. Good news, he’s probably reading it right now.

'coz i'm sweet like that'

i caved!!

alvin and i went to anchorpoint and i bought 2 awesome games!

YOU MUST BE AN IDIOT
















CARCASSONNE













and he bought an even awesomer game!!

KHET

we've got a big, big mess on our hands tonight

i have pictures but i don't even want to put them up and show what a wonderful time i had.

coz it's all crapped up now anyway.

/kicks self

dear bebbie,

I hid myself from failure and fear
O my dear you're a threat to the bad in us all
They tell themselves that each word from your lips
Or the grace in your eyes overcomes any fall

Over the twilight you're listening for me
Darling, go to sleep
Cradled by moonlight, I'm dreaming we'll be
Loved so deep

Floating and fighting, like a kite on a string
Till you cut through my tether and changed everything
From the sky you looked small, but I loved you the same
So I darted back quickly to spell out your name
And when they say that I'm just a terrible kite
You'll tell them you're proud of my marvelous flight

Don't hide yourself inside till I'm old
O my dear you're a threat to the bad we all see
I'm beside myself for the touch of your lips
Or the grace of your eyes that can see good in me

Over the twilight you're listening for me
Darling, go to sleep
Cradled by moonlight, I'm dreaming we'll be
Loved so deep

Floating and fighting, like a kite on a string
Till you cut through my tether and changed everything
From the sky you looked small, but I loved you the same
So I darted back quickly to spell out your name
And when they say that I'm just a terrible kite
You'll tell them you're proud of my marvelous flight

love,
your kite =)

the third day of CNY

dim sum in the morning:







































waiting for alvin to come get me after his soccer get-together:






















steamboat and guitar hero at night!~:

i'm sorry but

i really, really like playing blackjack with my family during CNY.

i guess it's just my family's tradition that's why i always look forward to blackjack... and really, losing all that money to children (or to my mean older cousins, bah) is not a big deal to me...

but alvin somehow begs to differ. he kept kicking me and muttering ' 赌 鬼' ('gambling addict') under his breath while i played all my money away.

...

aiyah dear! i only lost so much coz i won a lot at the beginning mah! at the end of the day, my losses were only, what, $2?

AND U LOST EVERYTHING THEN TOOK MY $2 TO BUILD AN EMPIRE. I HAVE SHARES IN YOUR STOCKPILE OK!! I AM WATCHING YOU!! ALL YOUR EMPIRE'S BASE ARE BELONGS TO ME.

the images below may disturb you if you have this idea of me being a saintly 'no-gambling-okaaay' kinda person. coz i love playing 'ban luck'. i love it to bits. *love*

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it's startinggg... hehehehe




















hwah! ban luck!! 'pay up, pay up!!' XD!!!

























HWAH BAN BAN!!! HWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! sweeeeeeet. 'eh pay up, triple ok!'






















eh you, don't touch my cards can. tsk tsk.




















but of course i didn't just gamble the entire day away la.

at 8pm alvin dragged me to his granduncle's place... and they had dogs!!! :D

can you spot alvin's 'i-am-pretending-to-look-like-an-insane-corgi' look? hehe.

welcome to the family

i love gatherings with my extended family.

last year when i had to stay behind in school for all 3 days of the CNY period and only eat pizza hut/macdonalds, i became really morose and depressed since it was the ONLY TIME in the WHOLE YEAR when i get to see all my nephews and nieces.

guess how much i adore them? =)

so i more than made up for lost time this time around.

ok! pictures galore! :D


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the first wedding of the year -









































































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and CNY day 1 -

damien (the featured nephew of mine) is friggin' adorable. he stuck to me like glue after i swung him around, dragged him all over the floor by his legs, and taught him how to open the snack bottle. he'll be 3 this april. :)































































































i also tried teaching him to feed me people.


























mind you, this is only half of the niece/nephew clan. one is spending time with chuuling (*jealous*), one's in australia nursing a fractured wrist (aiyah she must have fallen on herself and crushed her wrist - she's so chubby!), and three are in malaysia visiting their other baba side (yes, they're the ones with the huge eyes and seem to have fur for eyelashes).

good grief, i'm an aunty to 10... and counting!!

a tip for the guys

the best kind of gift a guy can give his girlfriend, is something that the girl loves, but isn't willing to pay that kind of money to make it hers.

... like my valentine's day gift; i wrangled it out of alvin's hands waaaaay before v-day.

hehe, pictures coming up soon.

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according to the statement above, i make it really easy for alvin because i want so many things that i can't afford.

but on the flipside, it can be difficult for him too coz i can't decide and he keeps having to ask me, 'hey bebbie, what do you really want? ok, seriously... what do you want?'

sometimes, he even weeps a little after that.

i love you dear! :D

and i stuffed my junk (otherwise known as 'spot the differences')

before:




















































and 5 hours after:
























































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only after you start work will you really understand what kind of relief a long weekend gives.

i'm coming back to you, 1pm good-mornings!

ZZZZZZZZZ

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oh yar before i conk out, just allow me to post a little excitement over my several pairs of shoes bought over a span of 1.5 months. dug them out during store room clearance (my black gem shoes look ratty at the soles so i left it out).



























(yes dear, you don't see me shopping for shoes anymore do ya? don't freak out and knock yourself on the head in shock again please.)

saying a special kind of grace

i was bathing while my family prepared for our reunion dinner (it's early coz my dad has to work the night shift tomorrow) when i suddenly got a prompting: "say grace for your family and pray for them before you start your reunion dinner."

following that, i heard china chinking against each other and i thought, 'CRAP THEY'RE STARTINGGG!' so i started to pray fervently that they hadn't started eating yet, and even yanked out a bunch of hair in my haste.

-sadness-

i pretty much ran out of my bathroom and HALLELUJAH! they were waiting for meeee, although my dad was complaining that he was going to die of hunger soon (hence there were already rice bits at the side of his mouth and a half eaten fishball in his bowl ahahahahaha!! i love my dad!!).

it was great; when we all settled down i asked my mum if i could say grace for us.

she was all, 'ah you say yourself can already.' (as in, i can just say grace for my family aloud alone and no one will stop me nor bother about it. haha, she's just acting cool. cheh!)

so i grinned and started to pray for the food, for my dad to succeed and have favour at his job, 'i want health! for the family too!' interjected my mum (ahahahahaha and i thought she couldn't be bothered? XD), for my mum to have an easy job, first class honours for adrean, peace, harmony, joy and 'health! health!!' for the entire family.

then we all laughed and tucked in.

teehee. i also secretly prayed for salvation for us all too. shhh... ;)

and we have a fourth convert on msn!

anymore takers?

this is alvin's absolute favourite song, btw. =)

they've left us a FOOTprint

i like how there're 3 of us with similar msn titles. :)

stupid david tan.

pastor eugene's sermon this afternoon was about how 'real men go to church'.

he was explaining that the male numbers in most churches frequently fall below that of women, and though it may be that way because some men feel that church activities cater more to the feminine side, it really shouldn't be the case.

one example ps eugene used of a man who was very in touch with his feelings was, 'psalms was written by david!'

in my mind i thought, 'oh good point.' so i proceeded to write it down in my notebook.

while scribbling halfway through, restless candice suddenly turned to me and said, 'hey did you know david tan is back?'

i burst out, 'WHAT??!!?! THAT @$@$& NEVER EVEN TELL ME! #%&#%^! #%(*^$$#!!!!11!! I ASKED HIM SO MANY TIMES SOMEMORE! I EVEN PRAYED FOR HIM!! #!^$#@!!!'

then i turned back down to my notebook to see what i wrote:




















what a Freudian slip. i laughed my head off!! then i wrote somemore (since i knew i was going to blog about it TO SHOW MY DISPLEASURE WITH THIS ONE DAVID TANZY):





















of course after that he popped by fcbc to 'surprise' me (and a whole bunch of other people).

...

but i'm not going to fall for that! don't come and 'viviaaaaaaaaaaan' me, it's not going to work.

u owe me an ice cream. *mean glare*

spring-cleaning blues

i stare at my junk.

i'm stumped as to where to start clearing.

i'm stumped by my junk.

:O

Let my shadows prove the sunshine

i stepped into the shower yesterday after a crazy kids party last night... and was suddenly filled with overwhelming joy.

i have to say, this week was teetering on the edge of becoming immensely stressful and spinning out of control, but somehow, just somehow... everything moved like clockwork with no glitches and even when there were times i felt quite suffocated by the sheer number of things going on, i managed to find space to breathe and then get back to the matter at hand.

i thank God for holding everything in His hands. i was glad for QT to be so apt, for the recent psalms i've been reading to be all on persevering through all obstacles, waiting on, calling upon and depending on the Lord. throughout the week, i just kept reading about having confidence, not to feel inadequate, to desire to seek Him in all the choices we make, and asking for help. i think i did it. i actually managed to do good work!

originally i had been pretty stressed out by churning out a 97k order of equipment. it's bloody 97k. the order is pretty huge - more than 10 items. i had to go through a long admin process which i thought as going to be incredibly tedious, BUT! i did it! and it's not hard at all, i was just scaring myself, haha! which was quite a huge relief man.

even though the purchase order has bounced back to me, it's not because i filled in the electronic form wrongly... i just have to be LESS DETAILED. woohoo!! of course i can do that. hurhur. when monday comes i'll get that out of the way at once. XD

the malaria conference at ntu was DA BOMB. i enjoyed myself, can you believe it? i was pretty overwhelmed at first; alvin and i kept wow-ing at how all the big shots were super sharp and shot good shit questions at each speaker. but they asked questions that were meant to bring everyone's attention to a problem that we might all face (as researchers) and not to belittle the presenter.

the whole conference was light hearted and especially good for me because i have a constant fear of one of our NTU collaborators (he's incredibly results driven... to the extent you just feel rather jumpy around him) but he was pretty friendly at the conference.
















and yes, alvin and i were wearing the EXACT SAME THING. contrary to belief, it was not planned at all. i almost fell off my seat at paya lebar mrt station when i spotted him coming towards me. alvin didn't even realize it until he came close enough for me to protest, 'WAH LAU! WHY YOU WEAR THE SAME THING??!?! we're gonna look so weird at the conference!'

during the poster presentation, we even had Brewerkz come in and serve beer. i bet it's my prof's idea. ahahaha... the poster presentation was pretty darn good as well, we got many suggestions as to how we might be able to improve our data and people were actually interested to see what hits we got! :D

halfway through the conference, i was introduced to one of the VIPs from Novartis *gasp* (maybe i'd like to work there; discussing options with my prof now), and i felt this strong feeling that perhaps i really do belong in malaria studies. i've been grappling with this issue for a long time, and now that i've got a slight prompting... i'll keep on praying about it! i'll see where the coming year takes me. :D

THE MALARIA CONFERENCE ROCKED!!! i've got passion in me for research once more, and so does alvin! the race to publish a paper is really pretty exciting. much better than racing to hand in your honours thesis *YAWN*...

















and of course. the switchfoot concert. what can i say, but that it was totally

AWESOME!!! XD
















josh, alvin and i rushed down from NTU to expo - cab fare was a whopping $38 bucks, stupid extra 35% peak hour charge and jam on the PIE (oh ho, look, i just unwittingly made a funny, how witty of me).

i was too excited to eat and had a little motion sickness from being in the cab for too long, so we all skipped dinner (i wonder how alvin survived). we picked alanna from the mrt station, and thanks to pete who brought all our barang home with him, we could go into the concert with no baggage at all!






























this is a very unflattering photo. alvin is not that fat, his shirt is just extremely lao4-lao3. ANYWAYS! it was already 730 and i hadn't exchanged my pass for a wristband yet - and still taking pictures somemore!! :O

we had orange wristbands; we are allowed into $90 area, but were to be in a separate queue from alanna and josh. we asked, they said yes you can queue in the green wristband queue, so we did, then just before we got in, they stopped us. i pleaded, they relented... AND WE WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO MANAGED TO GET IN. thank God, thank God. they'd wanted us to scram and re-queue. sigh, guys you've GOT to have better communication man.

maybe they relented because they could tell i was about to flare up if they didn't let me in. that other person said can what! don't punish us for your lack of communication. i'm just glad alvin and i didn't have to get angry over this.

we breezed over to the t-shirt counter (the shirts were only $15!!! it's almost $40 to import from US) and alanna and i went mad and bought 2 shirts each. i also got a free tee when i bought firefight's green single. heh.

there was a slightly nasty incident when a group cut queue to get the shirts. i cannot stand for this type of behaviour. i shouted at them and chased them off of course. but they still managed to get like, one shirt. idiots.

but it was pretty funny how alvin and i just glared at them (alvin can look pretty psychotic when he wants to) and shouted to everyone that they were cutting queue. i remember your face guys. do it again and i won't be just standing in the queue and shouting anymore. *mean face*

the firefight kick-started the concert... but the sound was all wrong, and i honestly felt that they had a better performance at the anberlin/copeland concert. oh wells. i still like them anyways coz first impressions count. =)

then there was west grand boulevard, which alanna and alvin hated at first, coz they thought it was still daphne khoo (?) leading, but they totally went bonkers when they realized 'OH IT'S THE ORIGINAL FRONT MAN!!'

halfway through their performance, we shifted around to look for candice... and while alanna and josh refused to squeeze into the crowd, alvin and i delved in and joined pretty much half of the youth worship ministry. we kept making jokes about how odd being in max pavilion, almost like we were in service, how the band wished worship could have crowds like that, how worship this sunday might just feel really surreal to them all etc.

i have to agree, when i stepped into hall 10, it really felt like i was going to service. hahahahahaha.

when switchfoot came onto the stage it was gooooood! i can't remember the full song list, but i think they started with a Meant to Live rift and then went into Oh! Gravity. hahaha... and during stars, i was at the right height for the lights to shine straight into my vision everytime he sang, 'when i look at the stars.... stars!!' *blinded*

the mood was just fantastic man. sigh.

er, i think i was quite 自 high. i thought everyone was jumping along with me... but apparently i was the only one grinning and jumping on the spot. bleh. regardless, i went crazy on my own, yay! it's good to be thick-skinned. hehe.

and besides, i had to jump; i could hardly look past ben's shoulder! :(

the crowd was well behaved; everyone kinda screamed (but no pushing) when jon foreman climbed the railing TWICE, once in the middle and once really close to us. :D

out came the cameras and handphones. the light effects at expo were fantastic (why aren't they used during worship?? hahaha!) especially when they performed 'Stars'... and they sang 24!!! i hugged candice when they started coz apparently, it's both our special song AND WE'RE 24!! yay yay.

ah, i'm getting all excited again. need to relax my cramping fingers. *breathes*


























from what alvin and i have pieced together, this should be the setlist: oh! gravity, ammunition, stars, this is your life, we're one tonight mashed with the shadow proves the sunshine (i think i liked this one the best), only hope (yay yay yay :D), learning to breathe, chem 6a (like, 1.5 minutes of it), gone mashed with crazy in love (dedicated especially to beyonce *LOL*), american dream (where they froze suddenly for a full 3-4 minutes and was just totally mind-blowing), ON FIRE!, awakening, meant to live, dirty second hands, encores: twenty four, dare you to move ... yeah i think that's all.

wow that's quite a number of songs.

i love rock concerts, i really do. until bad behaviour happens. there was a mosh pit of a grand total of 4 people (hahahaha sad case) and by moshing i mean they were jumping into people to rile them up. apparently someone did a flying kick at the end of the song which amused alvin to no end. and some %$#$# person threw a CAN which almost hit shujun if she was taller. it hit the guy next to her, a huge impact right at his temple. it totally killed our mood for that point coz all of us near that guy were all so worried for him.

that person who threw the can is an ass. a brainless git. a HUGE schmuck.

but he was okay and didn't bleed, so we continued rocking out. i'm still waiting for alvin and greg's videos. :)

by the time we ended, i couldn't barely walk properly coz i was tiptoeing 95% of the time. my legs were jellified!!

it was really, really good. XD

and then the kids party! it was out of control!! but i'm still thankful coz there were almost 30 children and they enjoyed themselves! yay! first outreach program this year - a minor success. :D

ah... great week of satisfying spiritual work and actual PAID work.

and now! housework! it's spring cleaning time!! have a great weekend ahead, everyone. *grin*

arghhh!!!

i can totally identify to this.