Saturday, March 20, 2004
1. I just got a call from Corrie about orientation. we are split into TRIBES (SURVIVOR), and our big tribe is called blackfeet, which is a highly aggressive fierce cool name, except that whole image seems suddenly odd when you learn, whaddyaknow, we're a FEATHER. mmmm. anyway, my favourite part about all this is that our class is called BAZOOKA! and that was my nickname a few days ago. BAZOOKA! it is by far the best name ive heard.
2. yesterday i spent a lovely day with the shepard who said i look like wally. we watched dirty dancing (HAVANA!), went grocery shopping, health discussing, looking for nuts, looking at shoes, and all about around the exotic stalls at raffles city. :D
3. i just all-again discovered more pictures i quite forgot existed in my computer. vintage children pictures of little boys and girls, JORDI LABANDA, and the beatles. i printed out beatles pictures and SPONGEBOB. :D i printed one for li ping since she's coming tomorrow. awww if ONLY i begun watching spongebob before we went on holiday last december! now i see why li ping went mad at all that spongebob merchandise in dreamworld. the shirt, bag, pencil (?) and spongy yellow stufftoy. i'd buy them all!
4. i love the granola bars i bought yesterday while we were grocery shopping. apple and cranberry chewy bars. did you know, the amount of fat in one granola bar equals the amount of fat in one bar of, say, mars chocolate? thus to reach 45kg so that i may someday skydive, i better eat more chocolate bars.
5. i read the sunday papers (2 thick wads of graywhite paper with great articles) which are the total opposite of weekday papers (bowel-gray and sickening to glance at). did you know the atlantis resort in the bahamas has this ride, this near-verticle drop with the backdrop resembling that of a greek castle perhaps, and at the end of the drop you are launched into a transparent tube enclosed within a blue, shimmering, totally shark filled pool? wow. and this man, this chef, peter knipps (i think) who travels a lot can name which his favourite seats on business class are (19k and 20k i think) and he mentioned something i totally agree with: once he travelled with a nail clipper and it was confiscated. he said, 'it was my favourite nail clipper. i was so upset'.
6. the beatles' no. 1 hits are playing in my room
7. i like my chunks of sea blue turquoise stones with silver wire a lot, they remind me of mauritius though ive never gone there before
8. yesterday i realised that i got just the break i wanted this holiday! even though i stayed home so much I ENDED UP WATCHING ALL THOSE MOVIES (HALLELUJAH, my favourite bit) and doing just enough shopping and had just enough fun and got tons of books to read the nights away and saw almost everyone i wanted to meet (except this time i didnt spend a single day with desiree) like lynn, li ping and yeehan. that thong better let us into his house someday!!!!
9. i have this great immense urge to exercise, mmm. i couldnt find my swimming costume yesterday, so i will rollerblade today. oh and i saw the sunday papers list of 5 things to do today, one was compete in a biathlon held today, 1.5km swimming and 10km running. ive decided to compete in a biathlon some day of my life.
just some things that make me happy this sunday morning
Somewhere, beyond the sea.
BAZOOKA
moled at 3/20/2004 08:48:00 PM
Friday, March 19, 2004
Hello Humberfloob's Real Estate, how can we make your dreams come true?
YOHOHO! today on the way for calin's slot i met joan on the bus and coincidentally she's been sick with cough too. that day danielle and i found out we'd both been home from sunday to wednesday not out of the house at all and we thought we were the only ones! i think today was made of magical odd coincidences. after calin's slot carol and i went out, and we found out we have amazingly a lot in common, its rather scary but all pleasant surprises. like see, we dislike guys gelling their hair, i guessed that the jazz cd she likes is 'pink champagne' (and even when i was about to say it i somehow knew it was that), we like red, have this urge to shave our heads, among others! its amazing when u meet someone like that! like the person was evolving somewhere else on some part of earth and u were simultaneously evolving to something with similar tastes and thoughts at times. just mind blowing.
we watched the cat in the hat!!!!!!that THING ive been wanting to watch since last june. it felt like we were in a playground surrounded by kids, with little kids behind to anxious they didnt take off their bags and were chewing popcorn. kid next to me whining and hugging his mummy cos the show was scary for him. so the cat in the hat! i'd love the hat! it was happy and funny but not quite what i expected. the set and costumes are amazing! lovely polkadotted dresses, neat golden curls tucked behind ears, and thick makeup with blood red lips and blue lidded eyes (mrs kwan the babysitter) i should like being a babysitter. i think i'd make a good babysitter, scaring the kids, playing with them, manicures, pedicures, bubble baths, baking brownies, haircuts? i could use my sesame street muppet voice and play all goody goody with them and watch their big eyes staring puzzedly at me, and the next moment i'll hug them. i might have a detrimental effect on them though.
the esplanade library (my first time there) is absolutely amazing, packed with plays and theatre books i just cant wait to get my hands on, and we met zhon yun who was there, and saw the jazz band (made up of 'cool library staff' from the esplanade library). we saw chocolate, visited the toilet where everything echoes including urinary sounds and saw very nice rings! these silver rings with gemstones there! like turquoise, ruby, or this black stone called...ornix? they are rather celtic lovely splendid. rather unexplainable but i just adore them.
ANYWAY, CHOCOLATE. max brenner's chocolate bar. suckao. chocolate. truffles. cocoa powder. chocolate cake. fudge. chocolate tablets. chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ah today was just lovely gallivanting around! the esplanade is near vjc, it has a lovely library, TONS of chocolate to offer and is a peaceful place with friendly jewellery sellers adorning nice chunky turquoise jewellery. ah, i love the place. i foresee it will be an after school hangout for afternoons of shelf-searching, jewellery ooh-ahing, and most importantly, chocolate sipping. mm mmmmmm. you know when sometimes u can just tell? today i could and when i was going home i told my father its one of the best days of my life. whoopeeee.
moled at 3/19/2004 06:23:00 AM
Thursday, March 18, 2004
i AM going mad! blogging so many times!
i watched american idol! john steven has odd dancing too. the mansion looks absolutely fun! you could make little wet toilet paper balls and throw em all over the ceilings!
has anyone ever wondered why that little informative rectangle at the top of your blog always seems to know what you're thinking? things like fudge, ice cream, austin powers, dr evil, chocolate, john mayer are always appearing there and giving me a pleasant surprise. now a pleasant surprise now would be my cough disappearing, new york super fudge chunk appearing here and having my friends over for a sleepover party.
pina coladas!
moled at 3/18/2004 07:22:00 AM
oh i watched the butterfly effect this evening, i just had to, and just going made me feel better already and less mad and moody and everything staying at home for five consecutive days has made me. it makes one go quite mad, and i've had enough of experiencing this.
i painted all us 3 folks sally hansen nail hardener, even suhern a male. i tricked him and told him it was nail medicine and would be all good and make his 'brittle' nails better. now his hobbity fingers have got em transparent shiny nail hardener. im so proud.
the butterfly effect was the most scary, striking (to quote yeehan), strucking, shocking thing ive watched. i closed my eyes and made my fingers move in my ears at some points so i wouldnt see what would suddenly jump out. i jumped in my seat a few times, and had little fear spasms, and the cinema had only about 10 people, 5 sets of 2 people pairings. the movie is as haunting as the virgin suicides, and nowadays i seem to be so much in touch with all these haunts i think im finally losing that stage of mild obsession with childish things, and tendencies to burst out in 'deck the halls' and all. but, i still love spongebob. the holidays could have turned out so different, i could have been watching cartoons all day long and eating cereal like a couch potato all day and be content as a flobby tv sack, mm, but im glad all this happened, even all this moodiness and madness. nothing like something like this to make you appreciate movies and everything more. plus today the papers all featured parts of the natas travel fair at suntec, i mean they had articles on all these amazing places. they told you that in mauritius you could stay at the hilton and have a romantic getaway, or you could white water raft at new zealand though its still early times, and i never knew that there was sea sports at..where? some funny place! they say france (with a picture of a handsome chef holding bread out a window that looked like it came from the 1800s) and spain are absolutely amazing and melbourne and sydney are great and they tell you all about these places complete with air travel packages. this is the kind of newspaper article to keep! not what the ministers think is the best budget plan (what IS a budget plan?) for 2004. this is like one of the most valuable things the bloody papers have printed!
suddenly some part of me yearns to watch love actually right now. ah that would be the nicest thing. tomorrow its cat in the hat hopefully, all wonky. i need to find someone to watch it with. i absolutely think movies are one of the best things in the world, just this nice package, you get a good snuggly seat, food and get to watch such an extraordinary piece of film. its absurd how erica from tsd says she hasnt been into a cinema once, or how my family doesnt really see all this i see at the films. which reminds me i think im over writing a will, though i do have certain wishes, which are that no one reads my diaries and all are free to look at my organisers.
people really should do mad things for people, like i should try to get my father a spanky wanky haircut, unlike the curls and side parting he's had since he was, i think, 10, honest, so he'll finally have some spanky wanky in his life and perhaps turn into a spanky wanky person himself, which isnt too late for a 43 year old male living in this asian western country caught up in work and family.
the chaos theory states that the mere fluttering of a butterfly's wings in new york can transform storm systems in tibet next month, from a part of 'how to be happy, dammit' and the butterfly effect's opening sequence.
oho! american idol beckons!!!!!!!!!!!! i have a question, is being hedonistic having an extreme personality type, or just a RATHER strong description of someone? mm, tooodly woodly wool lums.
moled at 3/18/2004 06:04:00 AM
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
COUGH!
Hello again.
Im home again, and this is the 5th day ive stayed home, a record obviously. li ping came over on tuesday and we had a nice time chatting and having prata! this is all puzzling me. im home resting, but i dont feel rested or satisfied or happy, and today i visited a new doctor who gave me 5 types of medicine which scares me. one syrup, antibiotics, and 3 other types of tablets.
last night's american idol finals is the happiest thing that has happened to me this holiday!!!!! there is derangement, excitement and frustration in that one sentence. john stevens' grandparents are so adorable!!!!! they look like little turtles! and jon's family is adorable too and his dancing is absurd. the whole show, was just awesome!
COUGH!
and again, COUGH!, today i will stay home and be a good liddle girl and eat onion egg and porridge and my tablets (2 tsps 3 times a day, 1 tablet 2 times a day, times 3, 2 tablets 3 times a day) and read 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' and feel enriched. cough.
HAHA or i could mess with my cousin and sister. i just told su hern he has brittle nails so i will apply nail strengtheners for him later! yeehee. i shall mess my house and my cousin and sister up today. this is truly quite sad.
moled at 3/17/2004 08:15:00 PM
Sunday, March 14, 2004
oh mamamia! im home to recover from all this once and for all so that i may soon return to eating anything i want, getting sleep at night and EATING CHOCOLATE AND ICE CREAM. im dying for some chunks of pure brown chocolate. i just finished reading the virgin suicides. one bit goes:
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason. When we thought of the girls along these lines, it was as feverish creatures, exhaling soupy breath, succumbing day by day in their isolated ward. We went outside with our hair wet in the hopes of catching fly ourselves so that we might share in their delirium.
my sister is asking me every 5 minutes if i would like to be served, then diligently writing down in her blue hello kitty diary benedict gave me for christmas years ago (which i gave her) whatever i order (the latest is one ribena pastille), and then we both have to sign our names there. now, to device my plan of watching all those movies by the end of the holidays! i am just dying to watch every single one of them.
all over this post im dying and dying, i think ive died twice already. the things we die for. last night my sister and i slept in my grandmother's room since she's out of town. and as usual it got scary at night, and i needed to wake her up just like i always wake up my grandmother from her snores so that i would feel a little less scared. last night was one of the scariest. the moment i entered, the room looked so orange and dim and all those clothes hanging everywhere made it worse. my cough and cramps made it worse and i got so wary of the room and drifted in and out of sleep for hours wondering whether i should bravely get up and turn on the tv or lie there knowing i would fall asleep soon. and i did eventually. it was one of the first few times i really felt like an insomniac, just exactly like that poem. it was odd when my violent phlegmy coughs echoed off the orange shadowy walls and ceilings in the still of the night and there i was, paralysed with cramps, still not able to sleep.
today lynn asked me when im free and said, 'silly sick little lamb, when are you free?' hohoho. ah yes we MUST watch the virgin suicides!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! absolutely have to! while gorging on new york super fudge chunk! lunch is ready, then i will sedate myself with medicine and proceed to rest like an ancient egyptian mummy on my brother's bed and read 'a handful of dust' which promises to be scandalous funny and full of affairs. yummy.
moled at 3/14/2004 08:45:00 PM
killing me softly
yesterday was a really fufilling day whereby i borrowed books from the library which i havent done in at least 7 years because i like owning books and cant ever bear to return them. anyway, the red headed woman and i went to kinokuniya and the orchard library and spent an enriching day.....with books. i bought 'the virgin suicides' (which i have been eyeing for months and which i read a tenth of last time) and 'the no. 1 ladies' detective agency' (this exotic adventurous feeling book) and borrowed 'a handful of dust' (scandalous looking book, by waugh) and a book on theatre. ooooh, boooooooks! i am two thirds through the virgin suicides! i spent all day reading it, it's..intriguing, and i love it. i realise that after i have read something intriguing or watched an intense movie i can't stop my eyes from widening perpetually and stare straight into space while performing repetitive actions like knocking my knuckles or whistling the same tune, and i become very aware of my breathing while being stuck mentally in the book or movie. i did that during dinner and surprised myself with the discovery.
i have just added to my possessions a fourth red and white item. first it was the socks, then the shirt, then the shorts and now its a long sleeved shirt. never will i have a lack of national day attire. never will i have a lack of christmas candy cane cat in the hat attire! thats better. i love red and white!!
isnt it rather senseless that people work all their lives and slog so hard and maintain the vicious cycle of their silly awkward stressed pathetic lives without much thought, and when they're 60 they're too immobile to parasail or skydive and they get infected with diseases? might be better off spending all their money doing all the fun stuff when they were young then finding some way to die or live in happy poverty. all those people on the train every morning, the china nurses going to work at tan tock seng reading their novels or trying to sleep, those old people carrying impossibly heavy plastic bags that cut into their skin, those single middle aged men who go to work in high denims, a laptop and horrid hair and sad faces, that jittery plump man who cant stop looking at others and murmuring to himself and just all those people on the train. an influx of face after face, face staring at face on the lighted train even when its dark outside. its all rather absurd. but well, just another thing i think about on the train.
anyway, my wheezing cough might just evolve to bronchitis or asthma or something soon (PARANOIA) so im going to do all i can to recover!!! i will be sedated by the drowsy medicine for as long as it takes for me to fully recover. oh spongebob today was funny. sandy (the squirrel in the astronaut's suit and a flower in her hair) took off her suit, then the transparent bowl thing over her head (which is part of an astronaut's suit), just to prove that land animals can live in the sea and she didnt need her suit to stay alive. so she was just a squirrel in a purple bikini. spongebob, mister crab and the squid (fearing for her breathing mechanism) went, 'SANDY!!!!!!', and patrick (the fat beige starfish) went, 'Sandy is a gurrrrrl?'
i cant stop coughing ITS KILLING ME. ohhh freakamama damn that virus and the dust that emits from my 20 year old dried blood colored carpet filled with zillions (yes zillions) of microscopic dustmites you cant see unless you use an electron microscope, that makes every inhalation tickle my throat annoyingly and makes me want to cough and retch at the same time!!!! im going to retire to that book now, i think we're on to lux's suicide. ah yes, suicides. interesting.
moled at 3/14/2004 05:08:00 AM