Busted

Helloooo

Back due to popular demand, as you can see from the overwhelming response in the comments section on my previous post.

Weather lately has been damn good omg. Why can't it be like this all year round? Half-sunny, half-cloudy skies, a light breeze going around the whole day, fewer thunderstorms. I heart you, December.

Yesterday was a good day

Woke up early to gym with SJ, it was fun haha I think the laughing contributed a lot to the workout. I am sooo unfit haha we did 30 sit-ups each and by 28 I was dying alr. And she kept saying 'two more two more' and I just kept saying 'cannot alr cannot alr' hahahaha

Had lunch at Century Sq's Food Junction. Bad decision because SJ found... a baby centipede in her bowl of ramen. o. m. g. I was having the exact same thing.

It was damn gross! It was black and like slightly more than 3cm long. You could see all its little legs. Contact me for pics.

And to think we've been faithful patronizers of the stall for more than two years. Dunno how many thingies we may have unconsciously ingested already... -cries-

After our disastrous lunch we loitered around T1, just like the old days haha

Got ourselves some library books (found both of the books I've been searching for! What a great day indeed) and I got a pretty new phone cover. (Yeah I got another phone!! Promise to take super duper good care of it from now on :'( )

Went home and got hungry so I bought tangyuan beancurd. It's damn shiok to eat that on a cold dayyyy.

Checked CORS this morning and found out I got all my pre-allocated mods!!11

Left with Science of Music to bid for. Mentally prepared to sacrifice 700 points for it :(

Today is also the second last day of 2014, probably one of the best years of my life so far. (Mainly because of the seven months of holiday)

Feeling lazy to do a recap of the year like I usually do

Can't wait for 2015! It's gonna be another exciting year, especially with my first ever summer break!!! Uni life is damn shiok. When we're not having exams or studying for them, that is.

Lunch and Percolate with melons last Friday. Forgot to mention that service was excellent! And I had to hold my hair back cause it couldn't maintain due to the strong wind... ruined an otherwise lovely shot, sorraye

Look at the number of notes... I am not alone in indulging in my weird sense of humour :')

I can't explain how much I love this

"Life is like coffee. Bitter."

(always thought 'fodder' meant material or substance, but I guess not)

Hi friends!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas, though I didn't have much feel for it this year haha which is really sad cause Christmas is my favourite festive season. Others like Chinese New Year are just super awkward.

Just came back from Bangkok yesterday. Food was good; my stomach has definitely expanded.

However, the last day of the trip was ruined by me losing my brand new iphone6 to a pickpocket. It was really really bad. I almost cried. Can only blame it on my carelessness and bad luck. Literally used it for just one week. You always see it on tv and hear about it from your friends' friends' friends, but you never really expect something like that to actually happen to you. And it really sucks, trust me. Heartpain everytime I think about it, so I'm trying not to think too much about it. Definitely learnt my lesson the hard way.

What bugs me most now is the inconvenience of life without a phone. I feel really disconnected from the social world :(

So to my friends reading this, pls contact me through Facebook! And comment on my blog so I don't feel so lonely. Thanks yall!

Sole comfort now is listening to Happy by Ned's Atomic Dustbin (although it only makes me happy for that three minutes and then I get depressed and have to replay it again) and thinking about how fun next year is gonna be.

Might be having a gig or two next year. Eggcited! Next sem is gonna be crazy.

Also got my results on the 23rd. Kind of regret checking once it came out while I was in Bangkok cause my mood was kinda ruined for that morning haha.

southeast asian studies: A-
sociology: B+
german1: B+
econs: B
linguistics: B-

CAP before s/u-ing was 3.80. CAP after s/u-ing linguistics and econs is 4.17. Was quite depressed because B for econs?! It's a bad sign if I have to s/u the intro mod for my major.

Not satisfied with my results :( though the B- for EL was a little expected cause I skipped the first half of lectures.

And what's with the spam of Bs? :( four Bs for promos, four Bs for 'a' levels, now four Bs for my first sem in uni. Why like that.

Sia la... come to think of it, my O levels also four Bs. Okay now it's creepy.

Really hope I don't end up picking the wrong major. Honestly I envy people who know their strengths and weaknesses and who at my age, have figured out what they want to do with their lives. I'm average at everything.

Tend to be better at subjects that require more crapping than content, as seen from SE1101E, which is the most fluffy-ass, bullcrap thing I've ever studied (albeit interesting). The lecturer himself told us during the last week of lectures not to waste too much time on SE1101E, and to go study for other modules instead.

I might've majored in Anthropology if we had it in Singapore. too bad we don't.

So 2014 is drawing to a close. The year really flashed by. I feel like I haven't actually done anything this year haha. Or maybe not.

Melons meetup earlier today! Not bad la, 4 out of 4.5 attendance. Didn't do much but it was still fun :) also last meetup with Jiams for the year before she flies off to Taiwan (hi Jiams). I miss her already. #overlyattachedbff

Buh-bye. Pls feel free to fb msg me for a chat. I'm gonna be online like I never was.

story of my life

PS. the blog title is just smth random I threw to DT when she asked me for a caption for a pic of our coffee and cakes she was gonna post on Insta. And she really used my quote as her caption hahahaha #MyFriendsAreCuterThanYours

Breathe

I haven't blogged in a week! Hahaha. Goes to show how mundane my days have been. 

Waking up at 4.30am tomorrow to catch our flight to Bangkok... ermahgerd!!! Can't wait to eat loads of good food and lepak for the next five days :))

Met up with some of 12s16 today, like nine or ten of us I think. Had lunch at Simei and then my two minions, zq, wh and I went to wq's house to play Kinect and play with his dog Bobbie (can't get over the name HAHA). Had zi char for dinner too. Super tired now haha

MERRY CHRISTMAS IN ADVANCE YALL!! Much love to all of you reading this! Yes, you! Here's a free hug!

Ending off my terribly short post with my new favourite album. It's so chill I just wanna kick back with some kawfee and good vibes all around. 

Goodbyeeee I'm so excited see all of you in five days!!

You keep eternity, give us the radio

Chanced upon some pretty interesting blogs from various NUS students during the search for reliable module reviews over the past few days. The chronicles of a third-year female student majoring in EL, an Indian guy majoring in Lit pondering the validity of 'Indian' as a race, a Life Science nerd with archives dating back to 2006.

Anyway, nothing much has been up recently. I've just been sleeping 10 hours a day, watching a lot more tv and eating a lot more food. Life is gooooood.

I starting playing Neopets again (lol) and I still suck at everything except Typing Terror.

Had dinner with my folks yesterday, then met Wums for supper! Hadn't seen her in more than two weeks :( She had dinner at Mos, then we had salmon sashimi at sushi express. I always feel guilty for eating sashimi but I love it so much. It was so satisfying haha

Gonna find food now BYE

The tour was over, we'd survived

Planning timetables is so exciting. Hahaha. Intending to take 3 econs mods, a GEM (Science of Music) and German 2 next sem. All the GEMs are super expensive though. Really hoping to get Science of Music because it sounds very interesting... ok, and also because it seems slack and it's non-examinable. Huge plus point there.

But from the archives on CORS, average lowest successful bid is like 700 points. I don't even know if I have at least 700 in either of my accounts!

Anyways, the above is my Sem 1 timetable. I think I was really lucky to get a timetable like that. Those who are not morning people would probably die halfway through the term, especially if they don't live in hostels like me and have to travel 1.5h every day to get to school. I almost died myself having to wake up at 5.30am every day.

Plus I'm one of those people who get super hungry in the morning. Didn't help that german lectures and tutorials (which are all my 8am classes) were very quiet, so my stomach was always making these unearthly noises that could be heard by most in my vicinity.

Sadly, I don't think I'll ever be able to get a timetable as nice as that again haha. But the good news is if I get all my preferred slots, I may be able to squeeze classes into three days. Woohoo!

In other news, Eastpoint re-opened again a few days ago. It feels very different from the old mall :( much less homely, though it's a lot more spacious and cleaner-looking. Hope the crowd dies down soon!

So, last Thurs was a tiring day. After drums, I met my band all the way at Yishun to record demos. First time actually recording stuff in a studio! The end product was okay-ish. I liked my bass work, but my backing vocals were... :( Wish I could have redone them! But there wasn't enough time.

Reached home at 1am. Was super shagged.

Met the Amplified band on Friday! It was an impromptu jam; didn't prepare anything at all. But it was funnnn. Played our old songs, played blues, played pop, played upbeat versions of Christmas carols.

I think I'm inspired by our guitarist T... (hope none of them happen to read my blog) Most guitarists I've met are super technical, and for a lack of a better word, anal people, but I've never come across a guitarist that plays with soul. I can actually hear it in his playing! It makes all the difference. I'm enlightened.

He's also super talented and has perfect hearing. So jelly!!!

But ya. I think more musicians should try to have fun and not be too focused on the technical aspect of playing. Maybe you think that if you're technical, you'll achieve better musicality, but sometimes when you go with the vibe and just follow a feeling, musicality comes naturally.

Haha okay, enough with the serious talk.

So we also switched our instruments for fun. Me being me, I picked up T's guitar and blurted my first thought, "It's so short!" (and then winced internally at my thoughtlessness)

It's probably funny, but it felt weird holding an electric guitar. The neck is shorter than that of a bass guitar, and also feels stumpier because of the extra two strings. It was also more difficult to play than I'd imagined because the strings are much thinner and closer together.

Level of respect for electric guitarists just went up a little.

Maybe I'll pick up electric guitar someday. It seems fun

Went out for a drink on Sat night, at Redhouse. It was supposed to be six of us but in the end it was just me, SJ, Jinx and Linus. Nothing much lah haha since the noisy ones weren't there.

Spent Sunday at home. Home-cooked lap cheong fried rice and hot green tea... yummm.

Met Lianne and Tania today! Finally went somewhere other than Tampines hahaha. We tried Stateland Cafe at Bali Lane, which is right next to Haji Lane. Pasta was decent, although nothing to rave about. Tania's "laksa" poached egg toast with hollandaise sauce was quite good though.

Went to Wonderland Cafe after that. They got a matcha latte and we shared a slice of Rosemary cake and a slice of Dark Chocolate Coffee cake.
Lianne: "The dark chocolate coffee cake tastes like the Kopi sweet." LOL quite true though

Walked around a bit then came home. Town is getting boring man. I think we should just stick to Tampines and Tania's house from now on. HAHA. I seriously think we're getting old

Came home to leftover fried rice (still yummz)

Ok abrupt end bye

Climb atop a carousel

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Potato salad

My first love

Found this on my table haha

Would love to dress like this every day. So damn comfy omg. #takingslobtothenextlevel

Excuse my shorts

Would you pay $119 for a melon? #melonmadness

My talented friends. WHY

When you tell your friends to 'look ugly' then you realize you were the only one who tried...

I love all the candid shots haha

Attempted to fry rösti for lunch for my mum and I yesterday. Wasn't very successful haha ohwellz

BYE

Happy

New favourite song! Found this when I was searching for bands with two bass players. So much good vibes. Lovelovelove omg I feel so happy just listening to this right now. Most apt song title ever

Remember when you used to be a rascal?

I think I've developed an aversion towards peppermint tea after I had to drink it when I puked. Haha. Caught a whiff of it just now and my stomach did a little take. Funny what the brain does.

It's been less than a week since finals ended and life has never been better! It's like the A level break all over again cause unlike the primary and secondary school days, the holidays now are actually real holidays and we don't have homework or assignments to chiong. YAYYY.

Woke up early last Saturday morning and lamented to my mum that I had nothing to do. Then she said, "Wanna go to Parkway with me? We can visit your cousin then meet your dad for dinner." And I was like whoa cause she just settled the day's plans for me. Haha.

It was nice, awkward time as usual. I've always felt like the oddball in my extended family, so everyone thinks I'm the good kid that doesn't talk much, but truth is I just have nothing to say haha

Met up with Lumster and SJ on Sunday at tampines to do our Christmas cards. They both put a crazy amount of effort into their cards!! Spoil market sia.

Spent Monday nua-ing at home. Watched '3 Idiots' which is a super good movie! I just watched it again last night. Everyone I know who has watched it loves the movie.

Met Lumster on tuesday to have lunch at Working Title (again). K lah, I've come to a conclusion: the food is average at best, but what keeps me going back is the coffee and the chill ambience. In a lot of cafes like maybe Department of Caffeine, everyone seems super busy (probably because it's situated at Tanjong Pagar road, the 'office area') and you feel like getting out of there asap when you're done with your food.

But at WT it's like... I can lepak there the whole afternoon. Anyway, the food is still reasonably priced and the tater tots are quite good. Sinful, but good.

SJ ended school early and came to find us, and after camwhoring a bit at Haji Lane (took a lot of hilarious pictures HAHA) we headed to tampines to watch Interstellar! It was a damn good movie! Really mind-blowing. After that we had prata while discussing the movie and random scientific theories hahaha

Met Carmen on Wednesday to check out the new Eastpoint mall and have lunch. The new layout seems really confusing. Or maybe I'm just not used to it yet. Not many shops on the ground and upper floors are open yet too. Can't wait for the rest! The inhabitants of Simei have been deprived of food variety for far too long.

Then she came over and we watched Running Man and nua-ed and Photobooth-ed. Running Man is actually quite funny haha.

Today and tomorrow are gunna be music-ky days. There's drums later, then I'm meeting the band tonight and meeting the Amplified band tomorrow. Yayzza!!

Ok bye

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

Can't listen to these beautiful songs without getting into a Christmas mood :)











Always wondered why the singers in Band Aid looked so sullen... then I realized they were British and not American like I thought... hahahaha