The joy of having booked 8 jobs this time for the ushering blast!!!! hahahahaha.... Though i can't make it for all, it just gives me satisfaction to have gotten quite a number of jobs. I can release them to shell or mimi too. hahaha... as usual the system was quite jammed, and sad thing was that i didn't manage to book the william hung show. Would have liked to see what crap he could have come up with.

Anyway, I'm so glad the two days of presentations have gone by.. :) It's been highly stressful trying to come up with those presentations, but at the end of it all guess I've gained quite alot of new knowledge.. well at least now i know what the conflict in northern ireland is all about! Thanks to all the people who've helped in the research process as well.. It's very much appreciated!!

My eye has gone perpetually red. sigh sigh.. perhaps cos i've been straining my eyes too much trying to read all the info off the net. Well it's 2 more tests this week then the stress would be uplifted for awhile. Haha... I'm doing an outdoor event this sunday at the esplanade.. so drop by and say hi if you're there! hahaha I'm going nuts.

Some nutheads are singing karaoke downstairs... how am i going to sleep!!!!! boohoohoohoo. I'm going to pay cher and yans a visit tmr, and mum is coming back from KL!! yay. hahaha somehow I miss her. :)

Gotta go do some math practise now!! I wanna ace my first test. Wheee!!!!

My stomach is about to explode. It's been such a long time since i had buffet! Haha and we just stuffed ourselves crazy at sakae sushi this afternoon... then I felt like there was this huge lump of rice in my tummy that had hardened. It's still there now!!

But oh well I want to thank minwei for the really pretty gifts she thoughtfully bought as well as the effort that she put in to decorate the mirror in such a pretty way.. the lamp is now at my bedside.. perfect for reading and i love it!! Everyone's been so nice and sweet i'm almost becoming diabetic. Joel actually sewed me this butterfly looking thing and i was just damn touched. :) Wai and yuchu, thanks so much for the prezzie too!! I couldn't help but laugh when i saw the postcards... heehee..

Most importantly it was the notes that came along with the present.. which just warms my heart instantly to know that people out there still care so much for me. -hugs-

The week has been bizzare too.. Met pple whom i haven't seen in eons like kenneth and stanley. Kenneth was quite a shocker, cos he was with a girl and all of us didn't know about it, and i met stanley just now in jurong point. haha scared me a little.. cos he put his hand on my shoulder and when i turned around i just couldn't recognise him. Heh well his build has gotten better!!

Had coffee with joel just now and i enjoyed the sharing session alot. Perhaps next week I'll drop by stacie's church and start getting some direction in my religion. :) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH............ these past few days have just been so great i wish life would carry on like this. :) but, reality still has to hit me and I'm going into weekend hibernation to complete all my assignments and prepare for certain tests..

Still, I'm glad I've had a fantastic birthday once again and just, thanks to everyone. Love you guys!!

I'm walking on sunshine... woah oh.. i'm walking on sunshine!! :) :) :)

yup!! it's such a rainy day but i'm still walking on sunshine! Though I'm still lagging pretty much in geography, the events of yesterday have left me smiling nonetheless.

It started off with education studies.. After sitting through a fantastic presentation by the first group, we set out to make plans for our own group and it was a good meeting cos we consolidated our stuff and brainstormed for ideas. Then i had lunch with qingqing and day dreamed through human geog..

I was just thinking about getting a digi cam before i go for the malacca and st.john's island fieldtrip cos then i'll be able to snap some nice pics. So anyway i went to sarah's hostel, and her room was pretty nice but the toilets were gross. Clean but smelly... Then we came back to my house and i cooked a nice meal whilst we awaited stace's arrival.. so stace came, and we crapped through dinner and it's just bliss being able to catch up with some old friends after so long...

We ended the night at about 11 plus as sarah had to head back to hostel, and when i got home my dad gave me a brand new digi cam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -screams in pure joy!- hahaha yup it was such a surprise man.. and i'm so in love with it cos it's damn sleek and small.. just perfect.

So i await yet another good day today.. :) Gonna give tuition then meet up with anne shell and mimi... quite sad that yans and js weren't able to join us.. Yans take care of your tear gland ok? We'll meet up again soon... was supposed to go crash their lecture but gotta give tuition cos tmr is her science paper. haha sometimes i wonder if i'm helping or ruining her by giving some of the weirdest facts of science.. most of the time deduced on my own. haha

cheers to a brand new day!!!!

As friday comes to an end i pause to recollect once again. Seems like i can only blog on a weekly basis nowadays. And hey! I've got two friends who have been given the almost impossible task of having to do blogging as their limited subject. Mine's anorexia. Haha perhaps cos i feel strongly for girls out there who are fast becoming anorexic and also because information will easily be at hand. Plus the damn shirley approved of it so i'd better stick to it. But then comes the problem of having to come up with a thesis statement and it's due on monday. great! I think I'll mug through the two books i've borrowed on sunday and hope to come up with a brief outline and thesis statement.

I'm just glad all my efforts had pleasantly paid off. After hours and hours of research and consolidation i finally came up with my essay outline and submitted it to prof wong. -sings halleluia- for he approved it!! and asked me to proceed. It was seriously brain cell consuming and I feel damn exhausted. So in a bid to cheer myself up i met up with joel and lijun for a small dinner gathering and spent some time at jurong point just talking and sharing with each other. Which put me in a nice and cheery but still tired mood till i got home. And dad gave me a smirk and said hmph i thought you were studying but there you were in jurong point eating for three hours.

And that just really upsets me because it would have made me feel like all the work that i had done was just crap. That I so didn't deserve any take-a-break dinner at all. That dinner should strictly be a shut up and eat then go home kinda thing. And it just evoked all my hidden feelings about everything to do with the discipline thing in my family...

Anyway well my anger and dissappointment has been pacified. I just love talking to mel because she puts me back on the right track. Was supposed to complete my carpe diem essay tonight but i think i'm just going to have a nice sleep and be well rested for the long day ahead tmr. I'm meeting mel!!! and i think i'll go get her something to encourage her through all her agonies. :)

Janice was gone by mid week and i left the airport with a gaping hole in my heart. Never thought i would have felt so empty but when i opened her card to read and saw the little gift she had prepared for me i just couldn't take it anymore. I miss that girl so much!!! And i'm wondering how she's doing over there in UK. Probably still not settled in yet but I'll be praying fervently for her safety and studies in general.. sigh. It's just this big sigh because i know things will never be the same again when she next returns as we battle different ordeals respectively.

Well,

sieze the day --> carpe diem!

Another week of classes have whizzed past yet again.. and most of the time i'm left in the eye of my own storm trying to pick all the pieces up and I'd say I think I've done a pretty good job in trying to keep up to my schedule and getting all organized. hurray!!

Heh. And that, amidst having done one ushering job this week as well as starting to give tuition once again.. I'm just so thankful for dad. One who drives me to tuition as well as ushering and back, and one who makes all my late night dinners when i'm all pooped and dying for a bowl of soup.. I'll be eternally grateful. :) And best of all, he's agreed to sponsor 200 bucks for my digi cam. woohoohoohoo!!!! looks like my dream of getting a real nice digi cam can be realised in one or two months time because halleluia MOE just paid me yesterday. Haha it came as quite a shock because i was expecting pay in september, not this month but guess they're quite efficient!!!!

Ushering on wednesday was quite bad though, because so many things happened at my door i was glad the venue officer didn't blow my head off after the show. Geez. First it was the walkie-ing me and i didn't know she was referring to me. Then the kids were so restless and some ass kept tapping his foot it made an irritating -taptaptaptaptap- sound and i couldn't find the damn leg. And GASP i was made to use the walkie. haha.. cos this time the VO said "angie angie... i need your help(explains the situation and asks me to locate this guy)" -angie hyperventilates, then fumbles with the mike and manages a feeble and midgety "angie here.. I do not see the big guy with a tie on" then blah blah and in the end the outer door usher comes in with another guy to find the big guy. Who is the hirer btw, and when he was asked to go out for awhile he made such a helluva big fuss outside. geez.

Yeah and I gave up my the revenge of the dim sum dollies tonight!!!!! -sobs uncontrollably- All because i had a make up cem102 tutorial.. long story on that one.

Printing... still printing.. and my ink is almost dissappearing too... sigh. There's school tmr! haha why am i so excited for right.. oh well there's gonna be a overseas youth expedition briefing tmr and i'm going. wheeee...

-this is home... truly.. where i know i must be-

haha I would have rathered someone esle like kit chan sing that song rather than that twit JJ. He sounded like poop. Anyway mel and i totally enjoyed ourselves yesterday!!! Ok minus the going home part and the fact that we were forced to move to the front to sit.

BUT, i think this is the first time in my life i've ever felt so patriotic. I mean there were actually tears in my eyes as they played a tribute to Mr goh. And i stood up to clap and sing along to the songs when everyone else was seated but i couldn't give a shit. Waved my singapore flag high and with pride and for once didn't exactly curse the person in front of me who had such a sweaty back but it kept touching my knee.

The funpack was so heavy! sheesh.. and the going home was purely hell. Ugly singaporeans shoving and pushing to move front front and even more front when there already is a bottleneck situation. -points at those irritating ah umms.- Whilst i frantically try to take out a fan to kill the heat and prevent small little squished children from dying cos they're so short there's really no air for them down there!!

Ok so this is so different from what i said yesterday afternoon to my sis. Haha i said i hated singapore because we don't have nandos here when even in zimbabwe there is a branch. hmph. But i guess now it's a whole new story.. the national day parade has restored my pride in singapore and hey! I am so looking forward to taking part in it next year. Haha I'm such a sucker for national day parades!!!

ten things that could have constituted to a ruined evening:

-i turn up for work and realise that SHIT i am not group two so actually i can't register for this job.
-i say one million sorries to the venue officer
-we lug alot of phamplets out and my hand starts to ache after one and a half hours
-the water front gets more and more packed every ten mins
-soon i find myself almost squished and still trying to give out the phamplets
-my legs ache after the job's been done and dammit
-there are about 4311231282847 people trying to go home too
-sigh i go to burger king to get a drink for my dehydrated throat and to my horror, there are 12918918 people in the queue
-after eternity i get my drink but crap there's no where i can park my butt
-all i wanted was to sit and stone for a while cos the damn mrt is packed and this guy HAS to put his bloody bag on a chair. so heck it i asked him to remove his damn bag and he gave me an -omg you stupid fatty look- arrrgggghhhhhhh

Nonetheless, i'm still quite happy. That i managed to catch the fireworks (which explains the horrifying amount of nuthead singaporeans who gathered along the waterfront) and it was beautiful. Plus, i just love it when dad's not in town. hahhahaa i'm such a meanie. but yup mum and i had a great dinner last night, as well as tim sum at crystal jade this morning.. then we trooped to the tangs sale and i bought more bras.. yay..!! plus some mascara.. because it was on sale.. got a printer, some new cups for the house and a free fan.. and i think i saw diana tiong there.. hahaha...

my mind is going incoherent so i shall stop.

-Bigggg lazy yawn-

boo. I'm so tired. from packing my table up and coming up with three huge bags to dump. sigh... looking at some of the impulsive buys in the past, i can't help but tell myself how fortunate i've been so i really should stop whining about not having this, or that.

This morning's lesson was b.o.r.i.n.g. Now i wish i hadn't taken up the general elective but oh sigh i've bought the damn text for 46 bucks so i better stick to it. didn't really help that there wasn't anyone i could exactly relate to in the class too.. the girl i was with typed smses whislt i was trying to make a decent conversation. sigh!!!!!

Anyway, kudos to janice.. she is such a pro now at driving!! hahaha whilst cher and i went hysteric in the car, she was calm. And there's this tai tai air around her man! heh. Thank you so much honeys, for being such great friends... :))

Not forgetting... thank you jason. :)

I'm going to give out flyers at the esplanade tmr.. haha!!!! yeah need to chalk up my hours so that they can pay me.. but problem is i have no idea where the espla office is at.. sigh so actually, i have no idea where to go and report.

Thank god monday is a holiday. Oh well at least one more day for me to catch up on all the readings.. and also, i'll be off to the ndp with mel!! can't wait. feel like getting a cap to block the sun out. it's gonna be damn hot i reckon and coming out of the stadium would almost be tantamount to suffocating on the spot but, i love my nation.

Bitter lemon tastes great.