~a moment caught in glass~

2009-01-12T15:07:00.000+08:00

I've moved.

http://nocturnalash.wordpress.com/

I might still update here once in a while. But not much.

2008-11-22T03:44:00.001+08:00

"I live no more to shame, nor me, nor you, I'm sorry"

Born from silence, silence full of it
A perfect concert my best friend
So much to live for, so much to die for
If only my heart had a home

Sing what you can't say
Forget what you can't play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes
Walk within my poetry, this dying music
- My loveletter to nobody

Never sigh for better world
It's already composed, played and told
Every thought the music I write
Everything a wish for the night

Wrote for the eclipse, wrote for the virgin
Died for the beauty the one in the garden
Created a kingdom, reached for the wisdom
Failed in becoming a god

Never sigh...

"If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it
Remember only the verse, songmaker's cry the one without tears
For I've given this its strength and it has become my only strength.
Comforting home, mother's lap, chance for immortality
where being wanted became a thrill I never knew
The sweet piano writing down my life"

"Teach me passion for I fear it's gone
Show me love, hold the lorn
So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me
I'm sorry
Time will tell (this bitter farewell)
I live no more to shame nor me nor you
And you... I wish I didn't feel for you anymore..."

A lonely soul
An ocean soul

2008-11-18T14:52:00.002+08:00

Okay, okay... I know I should be studying. Haha. Been a long time since I've done one of these though. Hahaha... Used to do them all the time when I was 17, 18. Got this from Adam's blog.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
Almost 10am, though I wanted to get up earlier.

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Diamonds

3. What’s the last film you saw at the cinema?
Oh gosh, I can't remember. It was prolly really long ago since school has been sucking the life outta me.

4. What’s your favourite TV show?
Without A Trace

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?
Nothing

6. What’s your middle name?
Sara

7. What foods do you dislike?
Carrots, beansprouts

8. What’s your favourite CD at the moment?
I have a few favourites actually.
Gothic Kabbalah, Secret of the Runes - Therion
Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart - Rachael Yamagata
Cult - Apocalyptica

9. What kind of car do you drive?
None at the moment

10. Favourite sandwich?
Tandoori Chicken from Subway. I hope they make it a permanent fixture on the menu!

11. What characteristic do you despise?
Shrewdness

12: Favourite item of clothing?
Jeans, demin skirts

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, you´d go to:
All of Europe! Heh... I'm a greedy person.

14. Are you an organized person?
I would like to think so!

15. Where you’d retire to?
Bed.

16. What’s your most recent memorable birthday?
Prolly my 21st with HALMM. KTV and seafood after that. Fun!

17. What’re you going to do when you finish this?
Study!!!

18. Furthest place you’ve ever been?
Tampa,Florida

19. Where are you now?
My room

20. When’s your birthday?
2 June

21. What’s your shoe size?
5

22. Who’s the last person you spoke to on the phone?
Mummy

23. How many pets do you have?
1 terrapin

24. Any new & exciting news?
What do you think?

25. What you wanted to be when you were little?
Many things. One of them being an astronaut.

26. How’re you today?
Lazy

27. Favourite flower?
Tulip

28. What’re you listening to right now?
Solitude - Candlemass

29. What’s a day on the calendar you’re looking forward to?
24, 25 December

30. What’s the last thing you ate?
Sliced fish mee sua

31. Do you wish on stars?
No

32. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Purple!

35. Favourite soft drink?
Coke Light

36. Favourite restaurant?
Fish & Co

37. Hair colour?
Dark brown with copper highlights

38. What’s your favourite toy as a child?
My cabbage patch doll which still has a special place on my bed.

39. Summer or Winter?
Winter

41. Chocolate or vanilla?
Chocolate

42. Coffee or tea?
Both

43. Do you want your friends answer this meme?
Not if they should be studying.

44. When’s the last time you cried?
Well, I almost did after my disaster paper on Friday.

45. What’s under your bed?
Gift wrap and the other bedsheets I'm not currently using.

46. What did you do last night?
Watch Grey's Anatomy and Friends.

47. What’re you afraid of?
Dogs. Haha.

48. Salty or sweet?
Salty

49. How many keys on your key ring?
2

50. How many years have you been working in your current job?
Not working yet, unfortunately.

51. Favourite day of the week?
Saturday

52. Do you make friends easily?
Yea, I think so.

53. Do you like finding out all this stuff about your friends?
Yea, why not? Could be fun. :P

Okay, time to hit the books!!!

2008-10-30T03:56:00.002+08:00

Hoho, I just remembered I had a blog! Heh. Well, not really. Just didn't have the motivation to update since my last month has been friggin boring. Yes, I am aware that my last post was exactly a month ago.

Exams are coming. My most dreaded period ever. I don't care what people say, studying sucks. Plus it's so hard to get much studying done with all that distraction. Adam borrowed my Live Gothic DVD to watch just now and I just had to sit there beside him and relish it all over again. And I've also been rather hooked on Friends. Ugh!!! I'm such an unproductive person when I'm at home. Just look at what I'm doing now - blogging, for goodness sake!

Well, at least I've got new music to see my through my studying. Not new music per se, rather music that's new to me. I'm really digging Tristania's Beyond the Veil. Been wanting to check it out for the longest time. Finally got around to ripping it. Really good stuff. I enjoy most of the tracks on it. Paradise Lost's Draconian Times wasn't exactly what I expected but it's pretty decent. Didn't quite like the bits of nu-metal here and there at first but I got to appreaciate it more after a while. And Sarah McLachlan's Afterglow is a nice breath of fresh air. What, you thought metal is all I listen to? Haha. Oh and I hope Adam makes that trip down to Queensway on Friday (hey that's tomorrow!). I asked him to order Krux's first album from me through the Queensway Uncle. That's the one thing I've been wanting so badly. Would so much rather buy it from Mats but he hasn't been selling that album on his site for the longest time.

I can't wait for December! Okay, there's FYP to do. But still, at least there's no more studying to do! And there's Christmas! So, so excited about the Festival of Carols and Midnight Mass. And I'm really loving the Latin stuff we'll be doing. And there'll be concerts to go to in December! Checked out the Esplanade Diary and saw a few I'm interested in. Sting will be in town but I'm not sure if I'll be rich enough. Oh and the good news. Singing at the Chai's place on 19 Dec. Yay!

I wanna watch Avenue Q but the timing is just fantastically horrid. Why November?

2008-09-30T02:45:00.002+08:00

And recess week has come to an end. Boo hoo. It was a pretty nice week, I suppose. I still had work to do obviously but it felt good not having to go for lectures. And it was a pretty fruitful week even though I didn't do everything I set out to do.

Things I managed to do:
* Timbre outing! Photos by Nicole on Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=160019&id=546965087
* FYP
* Computer Architecture assignment with the much appreciated help from Evan!
* Read a bit of Programming Languages notes
* First chapter of Advanced Computer Networks
* Whose Line Is It Anyway
* Mind Your Language
* Dinner and chit chat with the girls
* HALMM retreat programme with Lucas and Jarvis

And the things I didn't...
* Catch up on lectures
* Catch up on tutorials
* Prof Comm presentation
* Lust, Caution
* Facial
* Mother-daughter outing

Oh well. It is just one week after all.

2008-09-19T23:47:00.002+08:00

Shopping for Dimple's birthday present with Listya was pretty crazy. We wanted to buy her a g-string (no, not the kind you find on guitars), condoms and pocket sex book and give them to her in a nice sexy package. But of course we couldn't do it in the end coz of various problems.

1) We didn't know her size, so couldn't get the g-string.
2) List was too shy to accompany me into the sex shop at Lucky Plaza!
3) There were so many titles to choose from at Kinokuniya we were spoilt for choice.

We ended up getting her something else. We considered other options as well. One of them being presenting Vikrem to her as a stripper. Hahaha. The funny crazy ideas we have.

Happy Birthday, Dimple!!!

2008-09-11T18:21:00.002+08:00

I was alone in the canteen just now drafting my resume. Came to the Work Experience section and waves and waves of nostalgia just hit me. It's been several months now and I still miss Tangs. If only I could relive every moment of it.

But anyway, I heard from Vina that many people have left already. So things will prolly be rather different there now.

2008-09-04T17:55:00.002+08:00

Okay I know I haven't updated for eternity. Well, what to do. The life of a final year student is an extremely boring one. Studying something you have no interest in makes it even worse.

Yesterday was nice though. One of those rare days when I didn't have to go to school. Spent the morning doing FYP. Urgh. There's no running away from that eh. Bused down to town in the afternoon and bought myself Candlemass' Tales of Creation (which I haven't had the time to listen to yet). Saw it in HMV a couple weeks back, thank goodness it was still there! Bought some Subway cookies before heading to Michael's place for a Shakespere evening. Watched Michael Almereyda's Hamlet. It was not bad. Just kinda weird hearing people speak like that in a modern day contemporary setting. We had some of the best pizzas ever for dinner from Pelican Pizza. Yummy yummy stuff. Definitely better than Canadian Pizza. I think I overate coz I was feeling bloated for the next few hours. Anyway, we continued to watch Roman Polanski's Macbeth after that. Unfortunately, I had to leave halfway coz I had to do my FYP weekly report. Damn you, FYP! It was really disappointing since I was really enjoying the film and it looked very promising. Really lovely location shots too, by the way.

Fifth week of school and the workload just keeps piling higher and higher. Bleah... I hate this. Been kinda sick for the past couple of days. Bad throat, stuffed nose. The throat's better after 2 huge cups of starfruit juice with salt (works every time!) but now I'm starting to cough. Sigh... Must be the crazy weather and the lack of sleep.

2008-08-14T23:47:00.003+08:00

We're just 2 weeks into the semester and I'm already feeling all worn out. Good thing I've got my timetable settled. So yes, STARS war is over for me, at least for this semester, haha. But it ain't looking good, I must say. Not with classes starting at 8.30am on a friggin Monday morning, ending at 9.30pm on Thursdays and having to be back in school at 9.30am on Fridays. I have Wednesdays off but my FYP prof just has to pick that day to meet up. Oh well, that way i get to go for Mass and hang out with the CSA peeps a bit too, since I'm in school. No way am I going to travel all the way to school just for that meeting. And I've managed to get lifts home from Josh! Hope this keeps up! Hahaha...

Therion's Live Gothic DVD has been out for some time now. Can't wait to get my credit card settled so I can order it from Therion Store. The few clips I watched on youtube were amazing. Mats Leven!!!

2008-08-08T12:22:00.002+08:00

2008-08-03T10:53:00.002+08:00

Sigh... The last day of holidays before school and madness starts. 9 more months of school! But it's 9 more long months of hell and torture, especially with the dreaded FYP. Man, I can't wait to graduate.

So yea, I haven't updated for the past few weeks. Been busy with FYP as well as making the most of my remaining days of freedom. FYP sucks. I can already feel it sucking the life out of me. I won't be talking about FYP much here. Not if I can help it.

Went for CSA SP Night last Thursday and had a blast. So nice to see everyone again. Juniors, alumni... Good food too! And it felt kinda weird not to be involved with FOC at all this year. I thought I'd at least help out a bit, or attend most of the camp. But due to my film module (kinda sad that it's over...) and stuff... Oh well, can't be helped. Next year, hopefully? Here's a photo of the seniors taken at SP Night!

More photos on Facebook:
My camera: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=32611&l=6c15a&id=562969076
Kelly's camera: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29818&id=506858164

Hmmm... Ah, I also went for the Garden Festival with Mummy on Monday. No, I'm not interested in gardening. I just went to keep Mummy company and to see what a garden festival's like. And it was very nice indeed! There were some very impressive landscape architecture designs. Both Mum and I had a great time. And I bumped into Listya there. Haha.

Met up with Sarah and Kelly for a Sushi Tei dinner on Friday. Salmon Cha Soba, yum yum. We then headed to Starbucks to chit chat over some coffeee and really divine tiramisu. Told me all their WYD stories. Sounds fun, man. I'll definitely be in Madrid in 2011. And Starbucks is such a great hangout place. Great to just sit and talk. Sigh, I'm really gonna miss having the both of them in school. No more weekly lunches, going home together, spontaneous Jurong Point shopping trips, etc. Gonna miss their company a lot. My final year in NTU is gonna be such a lonely one.

Daddy managed to get tickets for the National Day Parade preview. It was pretty sudden and Adam and I had to sacrifice our usual Saturday plans. I wasn't too keen on going at first, but Mum and Dad were so excited about it, I just had to oblige. And I kinda enjoyed myself, actually. The parade was pretty much the same as previous years, but it was fun. And watching it at Marina instead of the National Stadium was rather refreshing. I still joined HALMM for a bit of night prac after that, by the way. Last weekend before school starts, must spend time with them. Went to eat dimsum and crab with Lucas, Nicole and Andrew after that. Finally reached home at almost 1am. Phew... And I found myself nice and sunburnt! I haven't been sunburnt for a really long time. Heh.

And yes! The Dark Knight was awesome! I can see why most people watched it because of the Joker. Very cool indeed.

2008-07-06T22:55:00.002+08:00

Let's see. Where do I start?

I finally got to watch Prince Caspian on Tuesday. I thought it was pretty awesome. I read the book almost ten years ago so I couldn't really remember it. But I really enjoyed the movie all the same. Dinner at Marche after that. Coz we just had to meet Iris who is back from Melbourne and the profits of the day were going to the victims of the cyclone in Myanmar. I love the rosti, haven't had it for the longest time. Had some divine Baileys dessert as well.

The Toy and Comic Convention was really interesting and quite an eye opener. Spent 3 hours with List checking out the exhibits. We also watched scenes from Final Fantasy Advent Children while sitting in this chair that vibrated according to what was happening in the film. Very very cool, that one. Took many many photos. My camera battery went dead halfway so List has many many more photos. They'll prolly be on Facebook soon.

Met up with ex colleagues Edgar, Alice and Jeremy on Friday and had my second expensive dinner for the week. Okay, not that expensive considering it's a Japanese Restaurant, but still... It was good stuff though. It's at Bugis Junction, I think it's called Ajitei. I'll definitely be going back there.

What else?

I got a new phone today! I'm now a proud owner of a Nokia N81 8GB. Finally a phone that doesn't lag and has more than 10MB of memory. Yay! Haven't fully explored the functions yet though. My SIM card wasn't working well with my previous phone and I couldn't store my contacts in the card. So now I have to manually key them in on my new phone. Argh... Need lotsa finger stamina!

I have yet to receive my final paycheque from Tangs. I wonder why?

2008-06-27T21:33:00.002+08:00

Watched Get Smart with Rayne and Edgar last night. It was alright. Funny and pretty smart at some points, not slapstick, but otherwise pretty forgetable. I actually found myself spending most of the time paying attention to the cinematography. Haha. Trying to apply what I learnt in school earlier that morning. Next movie will be Narnia, I hope. When? Sarah?

Anyway, we had Ben & Jerry's ice cream after that. Chunky Monkey is to die for. Yum yum.

I might be checking out the Toy and Comic Convention in Suntec on Sunday. Not really an enthusiast but it should be interesting to go take a look.

2008-06-24T11:55:00.003+08:00

Been quite a long time since I last updated. Long time but nothing much worth blogging about really. So my film module has started and it's really great. I get to watch good films twice a week. I also found out that Joanna's taking the module too. Familiar faces are always a welcome sight.

Managed to meet up with Xuwen last week. Had a yummy Ramen dinner at Raffles City followed by some window shopping before ending the night chatting at Starbucks. It was nice catching up, though she already knows what I've been up to since she reads this.

Sex And The City with Sarah was fun. Both of us agrees that Kelly should have joined us as well though. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie though it felt more like a super extended episode rather than a movie.

So subject registration went well without any issue at all. The smoothest one so far. I hope I'm not killing myself by taking 6 modules. Oh well, I'll see how it goes. I might just tweak my timetable a little after the first 2 weeks of school. Urgh school... Not looking forward to it at all.

What I am looking forward to - Get Smart with ex colleagues on Thursday!

2008-06-13T15:19:00.002+08:00

It's starting to sink in. No more work. No more fun times with nice colleagues. No more staff discount. No more hot guy. School's starting soon. Oh boy, it's all starting to sink in alright. And it doesn't feel good at all! (especially the no staff discount part...)

Here I am blogging in the middle of the day.

Timbre with ex colleagues on Wednesday was crazy fun. My mary janes made my toes hurt quite a bit but other than that I really enjoyed myself. Got to see Rayne again! As well as Alice, Jiaxin, Edgar and Dan. Starting to miss them already! Alice gave me chocolates and a tube of Este Lauder lipgloss. She's awesome! Had a great night of fun and laughter, accompanied by a Sex on the Beach, some beer and good food. Watched 2 bands play, the second being better than the first. Well, the guitarist of the first band was not bad but the overall sound was quite bad. Maybe because we were sitting right next to the subwoofer which made the balance all wrong. The second band played mainly crowd pleasers. T'was a wonderful night out anyhow. Can't wait to do it again.

Went out shopping with Kelly and Sarah yesterday. Cardigan hunting with Knitwear Queen Sarah was a success. Found a nice one at Cotton On that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Ended the night at Starbucks talking about jobs and stuff. Makes me very eager to graduate and get out of the computer field. I'm glad I have a vague idea of what kinda jobs I'll be looking for. Sure beats being aimless and clueless. Hope they manage to find good and fulfilling jobs!

Today's the most uneventful day ever. Read a novel, I shall.

2008-06-08T23:54:00.002+08:00

Oh man, I'm feeling really really empty now. First attachement over, then Con1 camp over. This is bad. Feels as bad as post Cantate Domino.

Last day of work was really sad and I almost cried. Especially when saying my goodbyes before rushing off. I'm really gonna miss everyone terribly. Work might have sucked sometimes but the people there were always nice. I'll definitely visit soon.

On a lighter note, Jeremy dropped by and joined us for lunch. It was really fun and he was as entertaining as usual. He remembers the most random things that happened when we were working together! Talked about lotsa stuff from weird encounters with the people we worked with, to the hot guy to Megadeth. It was like deja vu, man. Had so much fun when he was around.

The Con1 camp went pretty alright. Everything was pretty last minute though. So being Admin IC, I was rather stressed and panicked quite a bit. Good thing Lucas, Geri and Ryan had my back. Facilitating 13-year-olds needed a bit of getting used to as well. This is the youngest group I've ever facilitated so far. It was pretty fun though. Got to spend more time with Lucas, Des, Nicole and Geri which was why I wanted to do this in the first place. My only regret was having to rush down after work on Friday instead of having a proper farewell. Oh well.

So yes. Here I am with nothing more to look forward to. It's a Sunday night and I don't have to go to bed early.

Oh man. This is so sad.

2008-06-04T23:33:00.002+08:00

Today didn't start off well at all. From missing 2 buses, to thinking I'm the worst teacher ever, to having a massive stomachache. But fortunately things picked up after that. Work wasn't as bad as expected and my nose started being less stuffed up. And I met Sarah after work for a bit of shopping. Very productive indeed. Bought a top for myself and something for Kelly. Both from Island Shop! Boy am I gonna miss my staff discount.

Sarah also gave me my birthday present which I totally love! My first threadless tee! Congratulate me! I shall wear it to work on Friday. Hee hee.

Today made me realise how much I miss shopping with Sarah.

This is for long-forgotten light at the end of the world.

2008-06-03T23:58:00.004+08:00

I had a pretty good birthday. Thanks everyone who wished me!

Shopping with Edgar today was friggin funny. So was talking to Jonathan in the project room. =)

A great elevator ride.

Adulruna Rediviva.

Good day.

I'm your follower until heaven's gate.

2008-06-02T00:03:00.002+08:00

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

More retarded late night conversations on MSN. If you're my friend, chances are you'll have heard of the hot guy in office yea? Well, Geri is one entertaining person to talk to online. Heh.

ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
my last week of work...
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
why does time pass so fast
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
hahaha
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
awww
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
dont worry
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
you can exchange contacts~
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
with hot guy~
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
haha
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
i go talk to him tomorrow
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
in my sexy voice, haha.
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
i sound like a friggin bass, man.
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
hahaha..
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
no la
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
he'll think thats sexy la~
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
haha. it's better today lah. hopefully tomorrow i will get my normal voice back.
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
coz it's a fact that altos are way sexier than basses
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
hahahaha

I was smart enough not to say anything about Sopranos since I am after all talking to one! Anyway, we continued as such.

Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
perform for him la~
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:

ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
hahaha sing what
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
any request
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
some pop song
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
hahaha
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
haha
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
definitely not a nursery rhyme la
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
not a christmas carol too
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
haha that was what i was thinking
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
its not christmas
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
hahaha
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
were you thinking ba ba black sheep?
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
no i was thinking of the alphabet
Numero Uno El Stupido False Fronts says:
lol

Hahaha! How's that for some late night entertainment.

2008-06-01T01:09:00.002+08:00

One more week left of work and I'm actually kinda sad. I'm gonna miss my colleagues so much as well as working life. If I spent this semester in school instead of at work, I'd definitely have less time to pursue my interests and spend time with my friends. Also made some really good friends at work.

So anyway, I'm done with symposium. It was rather okay. I think I did better during my trail but I wasn't too bad I think. I didn't burp, Lucas. We went out for a nice dinner at Sushi Tei after work. Food was yummy and cheaper than expected. Was supposed to go to Acid Bar after that but it was packed. Walked all the way to Timbre and as luck would have it, packed too. Walking past Fort Canning brought back beautiful memories of Megadeth and Dream Theater. Hehe. Anyway, I was kinda disappointed since I was looking forward to chilling with a cocktail, listening to good music. So I got home and satisfied my craving by going on YouTube and watching clip after clip of Mats Leven. Haha. Woo hoo! An amazing singer, indeed. I want the Krux CD...

Since we're talking about Leven, here's a bit of my conversation with List.

ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
i want mats leven for my birthday
ash* //I'm your follower until heaven's gate says:
heh heh
<=> Risuchia <=> Now I've got a reason not to like air traffic controllers.... GRRRRRR!!! says:
waqhahahahahaa

Haha. Strange, retarded conversations we have in the middle of the night.

I should sleep! Helping out with outreach tomorrow!

Toodles!

Lucas, thanks for the satay and beer on Wednesday.

Geri, thanks for helping me decide what to wear for my symposium.

Edgar, thanks for you-know-what.

And HALMM! Thanks for the little celebration and the rather interesting method of eating cake. Haha.

Sorry, no photos.

2008-05-25T23:06:00.003+08:00

Ah. Another overdue post. I should really stop being so lazy...

[Concerts]

Attended 2 concerts recently. The first one was Bach's Mass in B Minor performed by The Philharmonic Chamber Choir and The Philharmonic Orchestra. It was very good. Most of the soloists were very impressive. And I was pretty surprised to see Amy singing. Didn't know she sang with that choir. Met the St David's Choir people there too. They were there to support Amy. Dinner at Ichiban Boshi after that. Yummy yummy. Lucas' cha soba looked much more delicious than my unadon though. Oh and Geri and I gave Lucas his birthday present. He liked it so much that he tried it on immediately. :)

I have good taste in shirts eh. Haha. Well, Rayne and Vina helped out on this one actually.

Second concert - Chris Botti. My gosh. It was nothing short of awesome. I thought I was paying just to see Chris Botti but was pleasantly surprised by a rather stellar line up. Billy Childs, whoo hoo!!! All the synchronised parts, trading solos... Kinda felt like a jazz version on Dream Theater. The 90 minute set was definitely too short. Favourite songs of the night - Hallelujah and My Funny Valentine. Bought his new album, Italia, after that. Haven't had the time to listen to it properly though. Oh and that was the second CD I bought that day. Got Apocalyptica's Cult earlier in the day. Really good. Hall of the Mountain King is excellent.

[Of work...]

It's gonna be my last 2 weeks in Tangs. Kinda sad actually. I enjoy working there. Well, the work might suck sometimes but the people are nice and I like the environment. Plus I ain't looking forward to going back to school at all. FYP. Oh no. Ah well. I shall just enjoy my last 2 weeks there. I'm gonna miss my colleagues when I leave. It was Rayne's last day on Friday and I'm missing her already. One thing I'm glad about though. Report submitted, logbook inspected. So no more worries there. Whew.

[Movies]

Watched Love In the Time of Cholera and Stardust on DVD recently. Both are very good I must say. I wanted to read the books first but didn't have the patience. Love In the Time of Cholera was very well done. Very sweet and sad but also with good humour. I'll definitely start exploring more of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's stuff. Stardust, what can I say. I simply love Neil Gaiman and was totally enchanted by Stardust. Awesome cast, great story, good pace. I don't know why it got bad reviews. Yup. So that's it for movies for now. Next up, American Gangster.

Well, that's all for now, I think. I'm off to listen to the Verdi stuff Lucas sent me. The Alto meeting this morning went pretty well.

2008-05-18T03:38:00.002+08:00

Haha, I saw this on Milli's blog and thought it'd be fun to see how mine turns out.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
O Fortuna - Carl Orff

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Helheim - Therion

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Black Sun - Therion (again... haha)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
The Vice - Sonata Arctica

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Libera Me - Gabriel Faure

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Angel's Punishment - Lacuna Coil

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Higher Than Hope - Nightwish

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Countdown to Extinction - Megadeth (!!!)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Strange Deja Vu - Dream Theater

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Voyage of Gurdjieff (The Fourth Way) - Therion (hey the correct number's in there!)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BESTIE?
Bittersweet - James Taylor

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Cold Heritage - Lacuna Coil

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Bloody Red Dungeons - Rhapsody of Fire

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Wine of Aluqah - Therion (gosh... how many Therion songs do I have, man...)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
My Friend of Misery - Metallica (okay now...)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails (that would be some weird dancing.)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Draconian Trilogy I: The Opening - Therion

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Worn Me Down - Rachael Yamagata

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Out of the Shadows - Stratovarius

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
New Age Culture - Dir en Grey

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
The Nomad - Iron Maiden

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
The Southern Deathstyle - Moonspell

Okay, that's just some entertainment since I'm still awake at this hour. A real update will come soon.

2008-05-14T00:05:00.002+08:00

Hello world.

It's past midnight and I don't feel like going to bed at all. It's gonna be a pretty crazy fortnight for me but I'll be able to heave a huge sigh of relief come 23rd May.

Planning the section meeting is giving me a gigantic headache.

Tangs is having their 12% rebate sales these 3 days. Being the efficient shopper I am, I've already bought a belt and a pair of Sennheiser earphones which I have yet to test. Will get Lucas his birthday present too. I wanted to get a pair of slingbacks but as luck would have it, I couldn't find a pair that fits. Prolly a good thing, since I haven't got much money to spend. I have so much to save up for.

I guess I should sleep now, eh?

2008-05-12T22:58:00.004+08:00

I've been wanting to blog many times between now and the last time I updated. But you know, I'm usually either busy or lazy. So I guess this will be sorta a many posts in one post. I had a really busy week last week. Both at work and out.

[Monday]
Think this was a rather boring day. Had a meeting marathon which was very tiring. Got home to find out that the new season of Without A Trace has started and I missed the first episode. Tsk.

[Tuesday]
I actually had nothing planned after work. But Iggy and co called me out to join them for KTV. Well, I'm not really a big fan of KTV, mainly coz I don't know most of the songs they sing. So I said I'd just join them for dinner since I haven't seen them all year. But in the end they convinced me to join them and I later found out that they were also celebrating Iggy's birthday. It was kinda fun. It's been a long while since I've met those uncles coz of IA and all and I missed them terribly. Here's a photo of the girls.

[Wednesday]
Iron man! I've been waiting all year to watch this! Met up with Sarah and Kelly for some shopping at Tangs first. Kelly made good use of my staff discount and I managed to use my TFLC as well. Heh heh. Met the guys at Plaza Singapura after that for dinner and the very highly anticipated movie. And very good, it was. One of my favourite superhero movies. Though I thought the character Pepper Potts could be developed more. My only gripe, really. I actually think this one's better than Transformers. And the short clip after the credits! My goodness! Does that mean I can look forward to The Avengers movie? Anyway... Photo! Of the guys this time.

[Thursday]
Sat in for FOC meeting after work. This year's committee's made up of mostly freshies from last year's FOC. I haven't seen them for so long, I actually couldn't recognise some of them! Enthusiastic bunch. Hope this year's FOC will be good. And I hope I can attend. No photo this time.

[Friday]
Rushed down to sing for the Pentecost Triduum after work. My singing kinda sucked coz I was tired, hungry and not warmed up. Yucks. We only got to eat at around 10pm and I was starving to death. Didn't eat anything since lunch. And I was really cranky. A hungry woman is an angry woman, you know. Had quite expensive but quite good chicked rice for dinner and I was all smiles again. Headed to Desmond's place with Adam and Geri after that. We watched August Rush. Brilliant film! A must watch, definitely.

[Saturday]
As you can see, I had a very busy week. So I had to recover and catch up on my sleep by sleeping for 11 hours! Woke up just in time for choir. Hee hee. It was Pentecost and all the Altos were wearing red! Yay!

[Sunday]
Went for HCJC's choir concert with Desmond, Lucas and Geri to support Michael. It was not bad. I found some songs rather interesting. Hung out at Starbucks after that and we ate some yummy donuts as well. Looking forward to our next concert outing of Friday! Without Desmond this time though. Awww...

[Today]
Tiring day at work. Bleah. And I was kinda restless as well. Monday blues? I almost dozed off during today's meeting, man. We're having the next meeting next Tuesday at 4pm. Which sucks coz it's Chris Botti day! Damn! Oh. I watched Without A Trace. Haha.

Okay okay. That's all for now. More photos on Facebook!

2008-04-28T23:23:00.004+08:00

Hahaha. Adam sorta expected me to blog about yesterday eh. So alright I will. About time I updated anyway.

So yesterday started with the both of us oversleeping and leaving for Queensway later than planned. I always feel nostalgic when I step into that place since it was my favourite hangout when I was in JC. First thing we did was to buy bubble tea. Coz what's a visit to Queensway without drinking bubble tea, right? We wanted to go to the CD shop next to the toilet that sells lotsa metal CDs but unfortunately it was closed. Very disappointing indeed.

So we headed to HMV instead and the metal collection there was rather pathetic. And one of the saddest things ever happened. I've been eyeing Candlemass' Dactylis Glomerata for some time now and it's been lying there for the longest time. I finally made up my mind and decided to buy it yesterday since I'll be getting my pay soon. But guess what. It wasn't there anymore. Damn! And it's so very hard to find that album in Singapore! Why do this to me?!?!

Anyway, I ended up getting James Taylor's Best Of album which is pretty good. Adam got Nightwish's Angels Fall First and we left the shop happy. Adam being happier than me of course. We stopped by Starbucks to give our legs a short break before heading to Far East where after lots and lots of walking, we managed to find the shop that sells band tees. Nothing that really appealed to me though. The Dream Theater Train of Thought one was quite nice but I didn't buy it. Well, at least we now know where the shop is and won't have to search the entire building again.

Bused down to Plaza Singapura for dinner after that (bus concession rocks!). Salmon bowl from Yoshinoya made me really full. Oh, while we were taking the bus down there was some drama going on in the bus. About someone not wanting to pay or something. *shrugs*

Okay so that's yesterday. I like such outings. Something I can't seem to be able to do with anyone else except Adam. Maybe it's in the genes or something.

Watched Curse of the Golden Flower on DVD last night. I liked that it was really dramatic with elaborate costumes and sets and all. Music was not bad. But the ending was well, typical Chinese period drama ending. Heh. Chow Yun-Fat played the emperor really well and Jay Chou was better than expected.

Work today was bloody tiring.

Dactylis Glomerata. I still want.

2008-04-22T22:13:00.002+08:00

We celebrated Desmond's birthday last Saturday. Had a nice dinner at Swensens followed by a talk cock session at Starbucks. We were supposed to watch a movie but somehow ended up at Starbucks. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. I'll upload photos to Facebook one of these days. When I'm feeling less lazy. Hee hee.

Oh yes. I heard some rather shocking news about Therion a few days ago. I suppose most fans already know. Oh well... I'm curious to see what the new line up will be like. But I'll also miss the old one loads and loads.

On a more random note, there's another DS game I'm addicted to. Cooking Mama 2!

2008-04-13T23:06:00.002+08:00

The weekends just fly by too quickly. Damn, man. Pretty good weekend though. We sang a birthday song for the archbishop! Haha.

Adam starts school tomorrow so at least I won't be the only one waking up early tomorrow, hee hee.

Darkness drapes my weary eyes
drape the void that grows inside
And I can't take this veil away
I can't find the strength
I tried to shield my scenery
tried to set my mind free
This life has brought me to my knees
Devastation unleashed

Whispers...calling on the wind
Like voices calling from deep within
Shivers...all down your spine
I'm the void that rides your aching mind

Nightfall seems to come my way
and it seems as if to stay
A shadow haunts me from the past
Will it forever last?
A voice is calling in the wind
yon the horizons, and from within
I deem the thought, shall I abide
these ghastly wispers inside?

Whispers...called you on the wind
Like voices called you from deep within
Wither...wane adown the line
I'm the void that rode your aching mind...
[Voices Within - Sirenia]

2008-04-05T23:58:00.002+08:00

Time really flies. It's April already. Just 2 more months till the end of my stint in Tangs. And 2 more months of being a 21 year old. Man, I'm really becoming an old hag soon! Sigh... I like being 21. Not too old, not too young. Oh well, 22 ain't that much of a difference right? But soon I'll be 23... 24... 25! And that's a quarter of a century! *Gasp*

Ah, since I'm turning 22 in 2 months, I might as well do a little wishlist eh? Since I've never actually done one before. This is just for the heck of it though. I'm not really expecting to receive anything from anyone.

1. Therion stuff!
2. The Black Mages CDs.
3. Feist's Serpentwar Saga.
4. Threadless tee. The one that says "This is the oldest I've ever been."
5. Milan jersey.
6. Ang pow with lotsa cash.
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack!
8. A subwoofer.
9. Good eyeliner that doesn't melt in humid old Singapore!
10. An electric guitar... Hee hee...
11. Shoes. Definitely something a girl can never have enough of.
12. More eye make up would be nice.
13. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy novels.
14. Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things.
15. Tickets to a good concert/ musical.

Okay. This is just the materialistic side of things. So no "world peace" nonsense. Haha. Oh and I've got a Nintendo DS lite as my early birthday present! Yes, I've finally got one. Still addicted to Diner Dash thanks to Cheryl. Hahaha.

2008-03-28T23:35:00.004+08:00

Boy am I happy that Mummy and Adam are back. I don't have to do all the housework anymore and I don't have to be alone at home all the time.

The best part is the stuff they bought back for me! Therion's Celebrators of Becoming (YAY!!!) and Secret of the Runes, Levi's jeans, 2 belts, 2 Coach bags, 5 dresses, 2 tees and some makeup! And not to mention... Krispy Kremes!!! Just the mere thought of those make me drool... Yum...

Watched 2 discs of Celebrators of Becoming as well as Nightwish's End of an Era last night. Good stuff, all of them. I've watched Celebrators of Becoming on YouTube many times but nothing beats watching it on DVD, especially since I have a rather big TV. My first thought was, wow, this is huge! Which part of the screen do I look at? Hahaha. End of an Era was good stuff too. And yes, I'm one of those who prefer Nightwish with Tarja. What I don't understand though, is why she needs so many costume changes and how she does it so fast. It's like she just disappears after a song for a few seconds and comes back for the next song in a new dress. How the hell does she do it? I imagine her having little animals backstage helping her dress. Just like in Enchanted. LOL.

So anyway, I ended up having a rather late night after watching all that. Could barely drag myself out of bed for work this morning. I was like a zombie in the office today and had quite a massive headache. I should have thought about work before having that mini symphonic metal marathon eh.

Okay, here's a photo from Easter Vigil. Angie and I!

And here's a photo of my favouritest band ever. Just for the fun of it.

2008-03-25T22:59:00.002+08:00

Mummy and Adam just came back from Florida early this morning, YAY!!! They bought lotsa stuff back for me and most importantly, I'm no longer all alone at home. 3 weeks alone was pretty alright, though it did get rather boring and lonely at times. Dinners were usually lonely affairs. It's great to have them back.

Oh yes. Happy Easter! Easter Vigil was good, as usual. I'll upload photos soon. Had yummy dim sum after that.

I've been kinda sick for the past few days. Down with a slight flu. I'm mostly better now, just that my nose is still all stuffed up and I sound really nasal when I talk. Gah... I wanna recover already.

2008-03-11T22:32:00.002+08:00

Yea, about time I updated huh. Haha. I have quite a few things to blog about... Don't really know where to start.

We celebrated Geri's and Jiam Jiam's birthdays two Saturdays ago. Went for a nice dinner at Herb & Spices after Mass. The food was really yummy and we had lotsa fun taking nonsense photos. The photos are on Facebook, I'm lazy to put them here as well. Haha.

Met up with Geri again last Tuesday. Had a really good dinner at New York New York. After that we headed to Esplanade for Desmond's gig. We only caught the last few songs though. Heh. We listened to Hallelujah Chorus on my mp3 player on our way home and got all psyched up for Easter Vigil. But strangely she hasn't been turning up for the practices. Hmmm.

Dinner with Xuwen on Friday. Gosh, I can't even remember when the last time I met her was. To think we used to live together. Haha. Food at BigO was pretty good stuff. Think I've been there once before with Celine. So anyway, we had a good chat and all. Lotsa stuff to catch up on. And she made me take Neoprints with her. Oh my goodness gracious me. Just imagine two 21-year-olds trying to figure out how to use the friggin machine. But well, I must admit it turned out quite cute in a pretty funny way. I'd put them up here but I'm too lazy to get them scanned. Hah.

Oh my... I just realised that all I've blogged about are dinners after dinners. What the heck.

2008-02-25T23:42:00.003+08:00

I was feeling a little down and out of sorts this morning. So I decided to give myself a treat. Headed down to HMV after work and got that copy of Vovin I've been eyeing for the past few months. 51 friggin bucks. A big hole burnt in my pocket. Yes, I know, I can get it cheaper from Therion Store. But today I didn't mind the few extra bucks for the sake of instant gratification. And maybe if they see that they are actually selling records here, they might decide to come! Hahaha. Yes. Fat hope, right. But I'm allowed to dream, am I not?

Also, I went to check out the Greek Masterpieces from the Louvre exhibition at the National Museum a few days ago. Pretty cool stuff. Got to see some really amazing sculptures and I learnt quite a bit too. I realised that when it comes to Mythology, no matter how widely read you are there are bound to be some stories (or versions of stories) that you don't know of.

This, in my opinion, was the most impressive sculpture there.

2008-02-20T22:13:00.002+08:00

Today, I finally got the chance to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time. To sit down with a good cup of coffee, listen to good music and get lost in the exciting world of Raymond E Feist. Mmmm... Nice.

There's a Milan match tonight but I can't watch coz I have to get up early for work tomorrow. Oh well... Hope i wake up to good news!

2008-02-17T23:07:00.002+08:00

I watched Sweeney Todd on Friday and didn't get to blog about it. It was pretty good actually. I liked it. Okay, so the music wasn't as good as Nightmare and Corpse Bride but it was pretty cool that it was a gothic musical. I was warned that the blood looked like paint and it sure did! But I thought it was pretty effective artistically. The bright red acting as a highlight to each scene where everything else is dark and gloomy (haha learnt from my word and image elective). So not being realistic here is forgivable.

Greg, Polly, Kelly and I went for supper at Youth Park after that. No, no meat pies. Haha. Poor Polly was so traumatised! She was curled up into a ball and squirming during the movie. Anyway, we had carrot cake which was pretty good.

It felt good to chill out after work. No school stress, yay! I'm so not looking forward to going back to school. I much prefer being on IA. Whether I like my job or not is not really an issue here. I just like the overall lifestyle that I'm able to lead during this period of time. I don't feel suffocated with school and I get to have a life at least. I better enjoy it while it lasts.

2008-02-10T02:11:00.000+08:00

I survived 2 days of Chinese New Year. Whew. In between entertaining unknown relatives, I managed to watch 2 movies, read a bit, play some blackjack (and lost 17 bucks...) and ate some good food.

Now I can enjoy the weekends. But it's back to work on Monday. There's gonna be a mountain of stuff waiting for me to do. Bleah.

Gonna watch Sweeney Todd on Friday, hopefully. Really looking forward to that.

Collect the blood of Kingu from the great old sea
And Arrogate the primeval waters
Inside your veins the power of the demon flow
Have you ever searched for your descent?

Gaze into your soul, we are the children of the ancient ones
On the thin facade we are the kindred of the benign gods

Take up and read the tables of your destiny
they hang around the neck of Kingu
Prepare the war between gods deep inside your soul
You are the one to fight in this war!

[Pre-Chorus:]
March for war in your soul. Hail!
Demon Kingu rise, rise, rise from the void. Hail!
Kingu rules the honred dragons, Ugallu, fishmen,
Mushussu, umu, bulls, frogs, scorpions, dogs... Kingu rules the void!

[Chorus:]
Kingu is the blood of man drawn off from this early waren
In your veins you find the strength from the demon's heritage

Chaotic waters covered every part of earth
The old gods split it like shellfish
But in the shells the blood of chaos still remain
Mother Habur suckle her children

[repeat pre-chorus & chorus]

[Bass:]
Kingu, general of the host of chaos, fighting for Tiamat; Bearer of sky and earth

[Soprano:]
Kingu, the mighty master ruling eleven demons
Kingu, your blood is running insinde the heart of mankind

The ancient demon, they will return...
The blood of Kingu... their open gate
[The Blood of Kingu - Therion]

2008-02-04T23:16:00.000+08:00

This conversation happened on MSN the other day. Obviously I changed our nicks to our names to take up less space.

Ash: ya. and bring your doughnut to the slaughter.
Ash: at least that's what it sounds like.
Lucas: daughter lah.
Lucas: what the heck.
Ash: hahahaha

Just a while later, Mummy told me that there were doughnuts in the fridge and asked me to choose which ones I wanted.

HAHA!!! That would make it... Bring the Doughnut to Your Daughter? LOL.

The actual title is Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJaQylDKP2g
It does sound like doughnut!

2008-01-31T23:34:00.000+08:00

Just a quick post before I continue with The Odyssey.

NYDC dinner on Tuesday was lovely. Their desserts are simply yummy and oh so sinful. And Polly and I finally met again after a zillion years. Had a nice chat over dinner. We have to do it again.

Chinese New Year's next week. I don't know if I'm looking forward to it. I'm not exactly fond of visiting relatives I don't even recognise. I'd very much welcome the super long weekend though.

2008-01-27T23:39:00.000+08:00

My life seems to be on repeat mode now.

Monday: work + Without a Trace.
Tuesday: work + Grey's Anatomy.
Wednesday: work.
Thursday: work.
Friday: work.
Saturday: HALMM!!! Oh yeah. I live for Saturdays.
Sunday: whine about weekends being too short.

Throw in the occassional dinner/movie.

Well, it's not a bad thing I guess. I just crave for some excitement sometimes. I guess I'm still suffering from traces of post concert and post Christmas syndrome. I don't feel empty and aimless anymore. Just bored and restless sometimes.

So anyway. 27 Dresses was alright. I kinda enjoyed it, really entertaining and funny. Haha. Yes, I do enjoy my chick flicks. I prefered The Devil Wears Prada though.

Bound to your side and trapped in silence
Just a possession
Is the sex or only violence
That feeds your obsession

You send me to a broken state
Where I can take the pain
Just long enough
That I am numb
That I just disappear

So go on and fight me
Go on and scare me to death
Tell me I asked for it
Tell me I'll never forget
You could give me anything but love
Anything but love

Does it feel good tonight
Hurt me with nothing
Some sort of sick satisfaction
You Get from mind fucking

Oh stripped down to my naked core
The darkest corners of my mind are yours
That's where you live
That's where you breathe

So go on and fight me
Go on and scare me to death
Dare me to leave you
Tell me I'd never forget
You could give me anything but love
Anything but love

Without any faith
Without any light
Condemn me to live
Condemn me to lie
Inside I am dead

So go on and fight me
Go on and scare me to death
I'll be the victim
You'll be the voice in my head
You could give me anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love
Anything but love
[S.O.S. (Anything But Love) - Apocalyptica feat. Cristina Scabbia & Mats Leven]

2008-01-23T22:45:00.000+08:00

Okay to start things off, Dream Theater was awesome! As you can see from the photos. Haha. Never mind that it rained, never mind that I my dinner only consisted of granola bars, never mind that my camera got confiscated halfway through the concert, never mind that they didn't play my favourite song (Metropolis). It was a really surreal night. I managed to get a pretty good view throughout the whole concert. I was directly in front of this huge subwoofer so my body was vibrating the whole time. Haha. There was this kid standing near me. He couldn't have been older than 10 and he knew the words to all the songs. Cool kid eh. Watching them play all their crazy progressive stuff live was really cool. Best songs of the night were The Dark Eternal Night, In The Presence Of Enemies and personal favourite, Home. The encore medly was pretty amazing too. And the animations they showed on the screen were kinda cute. N.A.D.S. = North American Dream Squad. LOL.

So. I met up with the school gang for a Little India lunch on Sunday. The food at Muthu's Curry was excellent. Vikrem gave us a treat which was really sweet of him. I'm glad we met up since we hardly get to see each other these days.

Let's see. Work is still work. Nothing much to say. I've started to fall asleep during the bus rides to the office. Haha. Yea, the journey's not long at all. But i still sleep anyway.

Oh yes. I got Manowar's The Triumph of Steel a few days ago. Pretty good stuff. And I borrowed Homer's The Odyssey from the library. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be an interesting read.

Meeting Kelly on Friday for dinner and a movie (27 Dresses!) and to just catch up. Looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to watching Sweeney Todd as well. I see the advertisement for it every day on my way home and it looks really good. And it's known that the Tim Burton + Johnny Depp combi rarely disappoints.

2008-01-13T17:57:00.000+08:00

Look what arrived on Friday! Cool huh. Hee hee. The silver stuff on the Sirius B cover is Chris Johnsson's signature.

Well well. First week of work went pretty well, I must say. It takes a bit of getting used to. The long hours, the heavy morning traffic (wait, I'm already used to that), the lunch crowds... But the work has been okay so far. It's not slack but at least I ain't running shitty errands. Heard plenty of stories about that. Interns being made to direct traffic and all. Tsk tsk. What I really miss though, is the amount of time I used to have to myself. I get to work before 9am and by the time I get back it's dark. Dinner, shower, a bit of TV or MSN and I'm off to bed. That's it! Seriously. I wonder how the people working there have families and all with such daily schedules. Haha. Okay that's about it for work for now. It's gonna get more demanding and I hope it doesn't get too stressful. One major concern now is the Dream Theater concert on Thursday. I have to get to Fort Canning from the office and I'm so, so, SO worried that I wouldn't be able to knock off at 6.30 sharp. I'll have to pray hard.

Met up with the girls on Friday after work. Was late coz some server decided to act up. It was great seeing them again. Listya hasn't been doing anything at work and Atie has been isolated from the rest of the world. Wandered around Orchard with List after that. Great way to unwind after work but I was totally pooped out when I got home. Had barely enough energy to shower.

When things get dreary at work, I start to miss HALMM. So i was really happy to be singing with them again yesterday. We're starting Latin parts of Mass again. I hope we really start using them for Mass this time round. Latin is good!

I miss wearing T-shirt and jeans every day.

2008-01-09T23:57:00.000+08:00

I ordered some Therion stuff and they're on their way to my doorstep!

Haha. Okay, I just needed to get that out. I'll blog about work some other time. It's way past my bedtime.

Goodnight!

2008-01-02T04:09:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year!

Sorry I haven't been updating. Been kinda lazy. Heh.

2007-12-26T00:11:00.000+08:00

Christmas day just ended about 20 minutes ago. Bleah. Now post christmas syndrome starts. This Christmas was pretty good though. Really enjoyed myself more than I thought I would.

Our concert on Thursday was awesome. We sounded really good. Better than during all our practices. All those long hours spent in church and Marymount... Definitely worth it. The audience was a nice and appreciative one. There were no screwups or anything, especially with the caterer, so that was a huge relief. We hung around outside Lucas' house after that and had loads of fun. Ate McDonalds, played with snails, played Uno Stacko. Reached home slightly before 3am and ready to drop.

Daddy got back on Christmas eve! So nice being able to spend Christmas together. He brought back lotsa stuff from the US! Yayest!

Okay, so I went for Midnight Mass even though I didn't really plan to this year. I was supposed to go with Adam but he made plans to go with his friends. So I went alone. No big deal right, although it does seem a little pathetic. Haha. So I just wandered around outside church before Mass, waiting hopefully for unexpected company. And unexpected company did come in the form of Desmond. Heh heh. Mass was nice. Took some photos and exchanged gifts after that. Then supper at Newton Circus. Reached home at 3.45am. I didn't feel like sleeping, so I stayed up to watch the sunrise. Finally went to bed at 7am.

Stacie invited Adam and I to her place as usual. Something I always look forward to. The food was great. Gorgeous cuttlefish!!! And of course the booze... Haha.

Yea, so this has been a great Christmas. Thanks everyone for your gifts and wishes! And sorry if I haven't given gifts to some of you. It'll come soon enough, okay? Heh.

2007-12-12T22:24:00.000+08:00

Hahaha. Okay so I've been so busy enjoying my holidays that I forgot to blog. My post exam days have been rather packed so I guess I do have a lot to blog about. Unfortunately, I can only remember so much, so I'll be very brief. Haha.

[tHE Conference]

Went down after my last paper so I only joined in after dinner. Hence I had no idea what the first day was about. Except that there was adoration which was pretty good and a lot of mindless jumping around. Second day was fun. There were station games and all and HALMM won everything! YAY! Haha. More jumping around.It was kinda like an extended version of the youth day thing we had in July at the Expo.

[LL's choir concert]

Okay not just Laura-Lynn. Audery-Ann and Tiffany were performing as well so I went to support them. A few HALMMsters went as well. It was pretty good. The second half was a musical and it was pretty High School Musical-ish. Later I heard that it was intended.

[CSA Christmas Party]

The turn out was not as good as last year. But it's nice to see the freshies getting so involved and all. Great company too.

[Concert Preparation]

Okay, this is still ongoing. The concert's just a week away! My my... Kinda exciting, kinda scary. This coming week's gonna be packed with practices and rehearsals and all. So far we're doing okay. Could be better but we ain't that bad. I just hope we don't burn out or anything. I've been looking forward to this for a really long time.

[IA Matters]

After my exams, I sent an email asking if there was anything I could do to prepare myself for the whole attachment thing which obviously will be new to me. Now, all of a sudden I have to go down to CK Tang once a week. Haha. Curiousity killed the cat? Nah, I'm not complaining. I know it may seem like it, but I'm not. At least I won't be shit scared when I walk in on the first day. So what's two hours a week. At least I land myself in Orchard so I can get some Christmas shopping done.

[Shopping]

Sadly, I've barely started my Christmas shopping. I've done my concert related shopping though. Went to town with Crackers on Sunday. Bought tops and shoes to wear for the concert. I got slingbacks! Took Pinkie's advice to stopped buying slip-ons. I'm not too used to wearing slingbacks though. I've got a week to get used to them. If not I have my suede heels as a back up.

[Last Saturday]

This was one heck of a day. Woke up really early to sing for a wedding. Reception and all after that and we were off to Marymount. I thought we were just going there to recce the place. We ended up singing more than half the repertoire there. The singing was not bad on the whole. But it was so bloody hot and humid even though it was raining. So after that we headed back to church for more singing! Well, actually most of us took 40 winks in 03-02 before we started to practise for Mass. We were so damn tired. Surprisingly we sang pretty well for Mass, considering how tired we were. Since we were so pleased with ourselves we had a nice Swensens dinner which was really GREAT! It was so much fun. 14 of us on one long table. Crackers polished off a Megaburger and still had room more fries and ice-cream! Well done. She has done the female species proud. Two earthquakes after that. Gone in mere seconds. We were kinda high after that mainly because of the sugar rush from the ice-cream. Crackers and I were adding the word "mega" in front of all the nouns when we spoke. Haha. Back to church after that for guess what? More singing! Had sectionals for just one song and it was a pretty nice practice. What a day.

[Another Wedding]

A few of us sang for a wedding on Monday. A very nice and happy affair. Awesome food after that! There were prawns in almost every dish! Yum!

Okay that's about all I can remember. Haha. Oh yes. I got my hair done today. At long last. Cut and colour. It's still longish though significantly shorter and not wild and dry like before. And copper. A darker shade than what I got before. I like!

Okay. Off to do some IA reading now.

8 days to concert.

13 days to Christmas.

26 days to start of IA.

36 days to Dream Theater!!!

2007-11-29T01:08:00.000+08:00

Exams!

My last paper will begin in about 12 hours. YAY!!! Long awaited freedom awaits!

I haven't been updating recently coz I promised myself not to bitch about exams this semester. Well, let's just say I'll be very glad if I pass everything. Please pray I do! So. It's HRM tomorrow. Which ain't as bad a module compared to the others. Studying about humans is tons more appealing than studying about computers. I kinda enjoyed studying with Listya today. We were definitely more relaxed than before, when we were studying for our other modules.

We went to bid library@orchard goodbye today. Gosh, I'm gonna miss the place. It was kinda nice studying there for this round of exams. The atmosphere is so much better than Bishan's library. List took photos which I trust she'll send me. Heh heh. Oh and I've spent a grand total of $35 on coffee over the past 2 or 3 weeks. Gah. All that studying has been costing me money!

List needs to stop making me laugh so much.

Christmas concert on 20th December! 8pm at Marymount Convent Chapel. Do come! Practices and sectionals have been going great! I really like our set list for this year. Many of my favourites. And we've been sounding pretty good so far. I hope we put up an awesome performance. I better start taking care of my voice. Swear off prata till then. Anyway I think I already have enough ghee in my body to last 10 lifetimes. GHEE HEE HEE!!!

Crackers needs to stop making me laugh so much too.

Okay bedtime. Gotta wake up early for a last round of last minute revision!

And then... LIBERATION!!!

2007-11-11T21:37:00.000+08:00

Exams. Shit. Argh!!! Tons and tons to study! No time!

Save me...

I've been studying a lot the past few days. But I'm still nowhere near done. Gragh... Well, I guess it's about time to get stressed. Since I've been rather relaxed throughtout the semester. And I won't be having any stress (at least from school work) for the next 7 months or so.

Yeah. I'm stressed now. Finally. After floating through the entire semester. I cannot afford to get crappy grades again, man. And I only realise this at the 11th hour. Ah, crap. I'm screwed.

2007-11-05T15:07:00.000+08:00

This always happens. I know I've got stuff to blog about but I just can't remember what.

I travelled all the way to school today to join Sarah for lunch. Haha. And I didn't even eat coz I already had brunch with Mummy. Anyway, I thought there was gonna be a lecture today. Apparently it's on Wednesday. Gah! I should have checked before coming.

Studying at Starbucks yesterday was pretty nice, except it was freezing. Finally some progress in my studying. I met Nicole Siew there as well. Hmmm... I should go study there again. Make it my new study spot for this round of exams.

Let's see... Thursday was All Saints Day. A day of good food, it was. Listya's birthday lunch after school at Pizza Hut. Lotsa crap and laughter. Went down to church after that to get some studying done before practice started. I had to cantor so I was in formal clothes all day. Which wasn't so bad, actually. I mean it wasn't THAT formal. I hope I didn't screw up my psalm too badly. Swensens after that! Yummy! Had some sambal fish thingo which was lovely. And even more crap and laughter. Ice cream was good too. Chicky Stewy Chocolate. Hahaha!

It's been more than a week since Megadeth and I still have Hangar 18 and Symphony of Destruction playing in my head at random moments. Reminds me of a term that popped up during one of my conversations with Crackers - a Megadeth tumor. Lol.

2007-10-28T18:36:00.000+08:00

Megadeth was awesome! I don't even know where to start! I totally couldn't believe I was there watching them live. Dave Mustaine and James LoMenzo were just in front of me. OMG.

I had 3 hours of draggy tutorials before that which I kinda regretted attending. Rushed to meet Lucas & co for dinner after dumping my stuff in the locker. Thank God for lockers! Fish & co for dinner. Yum!

Lucas and I tried to find our way to the concert venue after that and got lost. We ended up walking one big round round Fort Canning. And the funny thing is there was a bunch of kids following us, thinking we knew where we were going. Hahah! We were rather early so I tried to find a good spot. Which is totally useless coz once the thing starts and the crowd starts moving, everything changes and it's MAD! I was constantly pushing and grabbing people to make sure I didn't lose my balance. Gosh, what an experience. I was covered with sweat. Mine and a million other's. Being so short, I couldn't see a thing at some points and Lucas was nice enough to carry me. Woo hoo! See, I have such a nice friend. LOL.

Best song of the night - Symphony of Destruction. I went slightly berserk during that song and when I looked around after that I realised my friends were nowhere in sight. Hahaha. Managed to find Crystal and Natalia after that. I don't know how. There was just people and more people everywhere.

After the thing ended, I followed Crystal and Natalia to catch a last glimpse of them as the van was leaving. XD

Went to chill outside Starbucks after that coz there were no seats inside. I drank this funny blackberry green tea thing which tasted rather interesting. It was a funky shade of green. Like my Shokubutsu bath foam. LOL. I wanted to get water coz I was so super dehydrated, but there wasn't anymore Ice Mountain mineral water at the 7-11 there. Heh yes, I'm that fussy.

When I got home, I looked in the mirror and got a shock. I looked like Sadako! Hahaha... Well, except Sadako didn't have half copper hair. And a shower has never brought that much relief in a long time. I think the last time was during FOC when I was covered in mud and flour.

Oh and surprisingly I managed to wake up at 7.30am the next morning to sing for a wedding. Even Adam was surprised. Haha. Be proud of me.

2007-10-25T17:08:00.000+08:00

I only had one tutorial today thanks to e-learning. And it was an enjoyable tutorial. I didn't wanna waste all that travelling time so here I am slacking in the library, trying to get some studying done. STUDY STUDY STUDY!!! Anyway, today's a rather relaxing day. Very good. I have no more deadlines to contend with! I sorta screwed up my lab demo yesterday but it's okay. It's over and at least I don't have to spend any more time on it now. Such a pain in the ass.

I'm very happy and excited now. Going to watch Megadeth tomorrow!!! I just found out that Lucas and Crystal will be going so I decided to join them. Hee hee! Last minute decision. Bought my ticket on the way to school today. Yayest!!! But I'm a poor girl now... I still have to get my bus and train concession for the next month. There goes more money. Blah.

I wish I were smarter. Then I'd know how to do my Database tutorials and won't be so screwed.

I saw Emilio on the way to school today. But he didn't see me.

I should stop being so random.

Happy birthday Sarah!!!

2007-10-22T22:34:00.000+08:00

More music to add to my music library! Got Apocalyptica's new album yesterday. It's pretty good. Their instrumentals are good stuff. And I've always loved the sound of the cello.

Nightwish! Dark Passion Play's one awesome album. Okay, there were a couple of tracks I didn't like so much and I still prefer Tarja to Anette but there are some gems in here! The Poet and the Pendulum is a masterpiece! It has a really intense and dramatic sound which I love. Other good songs include Last of the Wilds, Master Passion Greed, Sahara, Amaranth and 7 Days to the Wolves.

Oh and I dug up this old CD i bought when I was still in JC. Dir en grey's Vulgar. Yeah. Back then when I was still into visual kei. It was an impulse buy but a really good one! I ended up listening to it all the time while I was studying for my A levels. I ripped it into my laptop last night and listened to it again after like, what, 3 years? I still kinda enjoy it... Heh heh. It has some pretty good stuff.

Gosh, why does time have to pass to fast? Just a while ago, it felt like the semester just started. Now? We're into week 11 and exams are 3 weeks away. Damn damn damn. I've tried studying but I can't seem to retain anything in my poor little brain. A couple hours later I feel like I'm back to square one. And the secondary school formula of just listen in class and do your homework and you don't need to study doesn't work anymore. Gah... Time to haunt the library again? Man, I need variety! Need to source out other good studying spots.

Looking forward to meeting Serene tomorrow! She's moved to Bukit Timah. Bleah... I'll miss having her staying just down the road from me. Desmond's moving too. Oh well.

2007-10-17T17:39:00.000+08:00

I wanted to watch Heroes but the stupid school network is so bloody slow. It annoys me!!! I watched episodes 1 and 2 of season 2 last night, hence depriving myself of more sleep. I'm always doing stupid things like that.

I'm getting bored reading my Genes lecture notes. I should have printed fewer slides in a page. The words are so small now. I'm just killing my eyes.

I'm pretty cranky now coz my mp3 player went flat and I'm suffering from music withdrawal symptoms now. Silence in the library is so so not good for the mental health.

Oh I got an A for the Database lab thingo. Hurray.

I should be off to Mass soon.

Grey's Anatomy tonight!

2007-10-11T13:55:00.000+08:00

Today has been a good day.

Firstly, no traffic jam on the way to school! I left the house late and I was all panicky but to my surprise, my journey on bus 52 was oh so smooth! Lovely!

Business plan presentation was alright. Well, I thought we did pretty well for the presentation but somehow fell short during the Q&A part. I didn't leave feeling satisfied but oh well, it's a load off my back. It was loads of fun preparing for it though. My group rocks!

C K Tang!!! I'll be doing my Industrial Attachment there next year. I just received the email and my interview was a success! Yay!!! The job scope sounds pretty demanding though... Looks like I'll have to do some preparation before I start work there. Oh i hope the pay's good...

I can't wait for Dream Theater! I'll be going with Benedict and his Vietnamese friend. So exciting! Tickets cost 95 bucks which is not very expensive compared to other concerts. Oh 17 January, could you please come now?

Hmmm... I'm in the mood for a movie tonight. *wink*

2007-10-07T21:56:00.001+08:00

So. The interview went pretty well. It was rather informal and the guy who interviewed me was nice. I hope I get it! Hee... Thanks everyone for all your pre-interview wishes!

A few of us HALMMsters went to St Ignatius Church to sing for Ivan's friend's wedding yesterday. The church was wow. The accoustics were WOW. Just talk at your normal volume and everyone in the church would be able to hear you. The sounds of heels against the floor just echoes thoughout the church. If only the accoustics at Holy Spirit were as good. Or almost as good. The reception after the wedding was excellent. The food was catered from Botak Jones and it was so good. Free lunch! Hee hee!

Lucas, Andrew and I went to check out concert venues after that. It'll be either at Marymount Convent or St Theresa's Home. Both are good in their own ways, so I'm not sure were we'll decide on. This concert thing is getting exciting.

Today was pretty boring. Accompanied Lucas for a meeting about the youth conference before heading to the library. The conference will be on 29 and 30 November. That means I'll have to miss the first day since my last paper in on the 29th. Bleah...

Business plan presentation coming up on Thursday! Our group sorta volunteered to do it this week instead of the next. How smart of us. We're hoping to set the standard so high, the other groups will feel stressed. How evil of us. Heh heh. So. I better get started on my slides instead of blogging nonsense here.

Ciao!

2007-10-05T14:38:00.000+08:00

OMG. My interview at C K Tang is today. And I was just informed yesterday.

AAHHHHH!!!!!!

Wish me luck.

2007-10-01T13:35:00.000+08:00

Look at that! Just look at that! Can't see? Click on it!

Ashley is just about ready to explode...

BOOOOOMMM!!!!

Now i can go through hell week with a smile. =D

Right... Off to work on lab report now...

2007-09-30T17:18:00.000+08:00

You scored as Dance, You should be a Dance major! Like a lithe ballerina, you dance because you believe there is beauty in expressing the physical form.

Theater

100%

Dance

100%

Journalism

100%

Linguistics

92%

English

92%

Art

83%

Sociology

83%

Psychology

67%

Philosophy

58%

Anthropology

58%

Mathematics

42%

Engineering

33%

Biology

33%

Chemistry

17%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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Haha. I got this from Kelly's blog. OMG. Dance. Haha. Well, I did spend 10 years learning ballet. So I guess it's pretty accurate. Look at all the majors I scored 100% in. Absolutely nothing like the Computer Engineering I'm doing.

2007-09-30T16:23:00.000+08:00

That's it. End of recess week. Man, I want more. Like Kelly said, we should be given a recess month instead of a recess week. I'm far from completing what I've set out to do during the week. I have yet to get my new supply of contact lenses. Hair still needs touching up. I still have no new school bag. And I didn't get as much revision done as I'd wanted to.

I did get the opportunity to enjoy myself a bit though. KTV on Wednesday was fun. I was just there for a couple of hours but I enjoyed myself. Didn't know any Chinese songs though. Haha. KTV on my birthday was the best. No Chinese songs! Well, actually there was one...

I also got to meet up with Leng Sim for lunch. I just love catching up with old friends. She gave me a whole bunch of very pretty accessories as my very belated birthday present! That made me happy alright. And Ichiban Sushi's good. Yumm...

Shopping yesterday was okay. Pretty disappointed that I couldn't find a nice bag that I could use for school. No nice shoes as well. I ended up buying a Metallica DVD which is pretty cool. I always step out of HMV with a list of CDs I wanna get. This time round it's...
-KT Tunstall's new album
-Megadeth's United Abominations
-The new Apocalyptica one
-That one by HIM. Can't remember the title.
-Nightwish's Oceanborn. And Dark Passion Play when it's released here.

My solo for Adeste Fideles is a killer! Woo hoo! I can't wait till I have the time to learn it properly! Will school work just go away, please...

This coming week's gonna be hell. Lab report due Monday, Computer Networks lab also on Monsay, Database lab on Tuesday, business plan due Thursday. Damn. And I have 3 8.30am days! Damn again. Gonna get working on the business plan now. I'll be in front of my laptop all day today.

Sigh... Recess week, I bid you goodbye...

2007-09-25T13:13:00.000+08:00

I'm back in school for remedial. There's a session going on every day but I'll just be attending today's. Maybe tomorrow's. I definitely wouldn't be travelling for 3 hours a day during my precious recess week.

I'm supposed to be studying but here I am blogging. Oh well. I'll hit the books tonight. There's a business plan to do, Database lab stuff and another lab report. Just kill me. Sigh... I need to find a place to study. Home has too many distractions, school is too far and boring. Bishan library is nice but too crowded. Gah... I might just study in church. I dunno. But it gets kinda lonely if I don't have company. Room #03-02 is really big. And I'm really small.

I need lunch but I don't wanna eat alone. It just feels weird especially in school. I like being alone. I like to go book and CD shopping alone. I like to go jogging at Bishan Park alone. I like to attend Mass alone. I like walking along the waterfront at Esplanade alone. And yes, I do eat alone sometimes. Just not in school. Don't ask me why. I have no idea.

KTVing tomorrow! Yay! Yes, I know. I just listed out all the work I have to do this week. But oh well. A night of fun just sounds too tempting. Haha. What's wrong with me? I foresee myself slogging my ass off rushing to meet deadlines after that.

I've got a big blister on my big toe and it hurts. Haha. Yes. Big Toe. I hurt! Ouch!

2007-09-24T00:20:00.000+08:00

You know, I really have to make full use of this recess week. To catch up on work and to take a break. I know I sound like I'm contradicting myself. But that's exactly what I plan to do. To catch up and take a break, I mean. Not to contradict myself.

Marketing section of business plan's half done! Well, not really actually. There's still stuff that needs to be discussed with the rest of the group. You know what? Marketing is really interesting! I've been pouring over Sarah's Marketing textbook for a couple of hours... Really interesting stuff. I'll prolly wanna take a Marketing module for my Business elective. And maybe a career in Marketing?

And Database lab stuff lies undone. Sigh... It's not that I don't wanna do it. I just have no idea how to. Seriously. I've been reading up, looking for resources online, but I'm still clueless. I'm putting in the effort but sadly I just don't have the mental capacity for this. And sadly, that makes me seem like a total slacker. Yeah, I'm no geek, that's for sure. I do have a life outside school. I have to have one. But I do put in the effort to do what is required of me. I'm stupid and I can't help it. I really am. Uh... Help needed here! Someone? Anyone?

Metallica's been keeping me company... Nice...

2007-09-21T16:43:00.000+08:00

Recess week's here! I get a proper recess week this time. Yay! Gotta catch up on all my work... Sigh... And work on business plan! Whee!!! Oh well, at least I won't have to travel all the way to school that much during the next week. There's an interview skills workshop on Friday though. I'm kinda looking forward to that. It's gonna be a whole day affair. Hope it'll be useful and I can get some tips for my interview if C K Tang decides to call. I've been looking at my phone every few minutes for the past few days waiting for their call.

Many weddings coming up. Every other weekend starting from tomorrow. Ah, tomorrow. We're supposed to meet at 8.15am. Gah. Saturdays are supposed to be for sleeping in!

Nightwish! I love Nightwish! Finally managed to get Once again. From Adam. Had it ages ago but lost it when I had to reformat my lappie.

Okay. Gotta get ready for yoga now. Last session.

[Long Lost Love]

Trees have dropped their leaves,
Clouds their waters
All this burden is killing me

Distance is covering your way,
Tears your memory
All this beauty is killing me

Oh, do you care,
I still feel for you
So aware,
What should be lost is there

I fear I will never find anyone
I know my greatest pain is yet to come
Will we find each other in the dark
My long lost love

[One More Night To Live]

Safely away from the world
In a dream, timeless domain
A child, dreamy eyed,
Mother's mirror, father's pride

I wish I could come back to you
Once again feel the rain
Falling inside me
Cleaning all that I've become

My home is far but the rest it lies so close
With my long lost love under the black rose
You told I had the eyes of a wolf
Search them and find the beauty of the beast

All of my songs can only be composed of the greatest of pains
Every single verse can only be born of the greatest of wishes
I wish I had one more night to live

A saint blessed me, drank me deeply
Spitting out the misery in me
Still a sinner rapes 1000 saints
Sharing the the same hell with me

Sanest choice in the insane world...
Beware the beast but enjoy the feast he offers

[Christabel]

"Oh, sweet Christabel. Share with me your poem.
For I know now, I'm a puppet on this silent stage show.
I'm but a poet who failed his best play.
A Dead Boy, who failed to write an endingTo each of his poems."

[Beauty of the Beast - Nightwish]

2007-09-18T09:23:00.000+08:00

I was freakin late for school today. Stupid traffic jam. Lessons should not start at 8.30am! School's so tiresome... Damn. Managed to beat the Monday blues yesterday but not today. Oh but today isn't Monday. So that makes it Tuesday blues. Hmmm... Sounds weird.

Anyway, here's my formula for beating the Monday blues.

Step 1: Have 8 hours of sleep and night before and wake up nice and fresh!

Step 2: Start of the day with a nice brunch of fishball noodles from the nice auntie at the hawker center.

Step 3: Spend travelling time wisely by reading The Catcher In The Rye and listening to Dream Theater.

There you go! 3 easy steps! Only works if classes start at 11.30 though. Heh.

2007-09-11T23:43:00.000+08:00

I watched this last Friday night. I love it to bits! One of the best classic romances ever. The meeting of two like souls... How sweet... And I love Audrey Hepburn! She's stunning, beautiful and a great actress. Definitely one of the most gorgeous women ever. I fell asleep with Moonriver playing in my head that night.

Sigh... I love watching good movies. But sadly, with school and all I hardly have the time now. I'm dying to watch Ratatouille!!!

Oh yes. The freshies organised a steamboat outing on Saturday evening and I forgot to go for it. There was no night practice after Mass, which I'm so used to having that I just assumed I was free when Adam suggested we play pool. Hahaha. What a scatterbrain I am. Pool was fun though. Played at AMK with Gabriel, Lucas, Venus and Adam. I couldn't really play but it was still fun. I had a few lucky shots. Yay!

Alright then.

Just a quick update.

:D

2007-09-07T16:46:00.000+08:00

Hello. I had stuff to blog about. But sadly, I can't remember what they are now.

I got my grey contacts! They took a while to get used to but I think they look nice! I'll prolly be wearing them for the whole month. They cost $18 and I wanna make it worth every cent. My other pair I'll be saving for December. With christmas and carolling and all, it'll be a great time to have nice grey eyes!

I watched The Jeweler's Shop on Tuesday. A play written by Pope John Paul II, about love and marriage. Excellent script of course and very well done. I'd wanna get the book. Or watch it again. Have to catch all those bits I might have missed out since it was my first time watching it. It was good though, and everyone should watch it.

Wednesday was such a stressful day for me. Applications for our attachment had to be submitted by 5pm. I had to skip my 3 hour lecture to complete my resume. I don't think it was that bad. There're some stuff I failed to add but let's not think about it already. It's a good enough resume. Well, except for the sucky grades of course. C K Tang!!! I want it so badly... From what the company has described about their intership programmme, it sounds really interesting and prolly something I can learn a lot from. I know I've said a million times that I don't wanna work in the Computer Engineering industry. But this one's related to business so it'll prolly be less dry and boring. And it'll look good one me if I wanna do something in the business field after I graduate. So please pray that I get it!

I've got to go for yoga in awhile. Hope it'll be fun. It'll leave me aching for the next 2 days of course. I'll have difficulty standing, sitting and kneeling during Mass tomorrow. Haha.

The weekends are here! Hurray for weekends! I wish weekends didn't have to end. School's too boring. Stoning or sleeping during lectures, not knowing what's going on, frantically copying answers during tutorials, trying in vain to make sense of everything during labs... Bleah... This sucks. The only fun module is HRM. It's time consuming but we have fun doing it. And I totally love my project group! Let's hope we kick ass for our business plan. Our proposed budget ain't looking too good though. $2000 on forks! How insane is that, man?!

Haha. And I've run out of things to rant about.

Toodles.

2007-09-02T22:26:00.001+08:00

Yet another week is over. Time's passing really fast. Too fast, too fast. We're on to the fifth week of school already! Oh my!

It's time for us to choose our attachment companies. My my, so many things to think about. I want to do something interesting and hopefully be able to learn something. Well, I hardly find anything related to Computer Engineering interesting, but there has to be something, right? And I need to work somewhere nearby. Yes. NEED. I'd die if I have to travel to Jurong, Tuas or Changi. I'd be late for work everyday, like how I'm always late for school. And my supervisors will give me a terrible grade. And it's so annoying that I can only apply for one interviewing company. All the good comapnies are interviewing. And those that are not are crap and far away. Grrr...

Yoga on Friday. It felt great. Feeling all your muscles stretching is really wonderful, though I've been aching all over ever since. No, I'm not a masochist. It's a satisfying kinda pain which makes me feel like I've actually done some work. That kinda pain feels good. It's like taking off your pointe shoes and seeing bleeding and blistered toes. Gosh, talking about pointe shoes. It's been years since I last touched them. My ankles are now too weak to be doing anything en pointe anymore. What a waste.

I finally borrowed The Catcher In the Rye. I've been wanting to read it for ages.

Ironing my clothes while watching Oprah is great. I should make it my Sunday ritual.

2007-08-26T23:29:00.000+08:00

Oh dear... The weekends are coming to an end... I'm having premature Monday blues now. Sunday night blues?

WOMAD was awesome! Sarah and I were kinda overwhelmed when we first entered. The place was huge and there were many, many, many people. Watched Clube do Balanco, Shooglenifty and Asian Dub Foundation. We both liked Shooglenifty best. Hee hee. Gibson and Ensemble Shanbezadeh workshops were good too. And we also spent half the time people watching. Haha. I'll post photos after Sarah has sent them to me.

Timbre after that was awesome too. I totally love the place. There are trees inside! Fantastic atmosphere, good band. The pizza was not bad too. I'm definitely going back there. Now I know why Kelly likes it so much.

I miss my camera. It's in Florida... Boo hoo...

I did some studying today. Not bad huh? Last semester was bad so I guess I should try make it up by getting decent grades this time. Studying in church with Crystal and Lucas was nice. It's always good to have company. Database isn't too bad a module. At least not yet. And I hope it remains this way.

Adam just came back from Malacca today. Welcome back, Adam!!! He bought back mangoes. I hope they're yummy.

2007-08-23T00:34:00.000+08:00

Hahaha, I'm back to blogging in the middle of the night. But I don't plan to go to school till about noon since it's Union Day. So I'm safe.

And I'm happy! Why? Hmmm... Let's see...

1) I'm going for Womad on Friday!!!

2) I caught the first episode of Grey's Anatomy. Ah... Still my favourite TV show along with Heroes.

3) Benedict lent me a Sting CD and I just ripped it into my dear lappie! Yay!

4) Many freshies at Mass today. Feels good, man...

5) Sarah offered to share her locker with me and taught me how to use her very complicated lock. How sweet of her...

6) I bought a new jacket! It's lovely and it's magic! The moment I put it on my fats magically disappear. Haha.

School's getting tiring. I end at 5.30pm almost every day and by the time I get home I'm too tired to do anything. I'm enjoying HRM though. Pretty interesting subject. I've been carry heavy textbooks all over school for the past couple of days. If this continues, I'll end up with really toned arms!

Haha. I better stop now. My brain's starting to shut down. I'll blog more some other time. I'll try to blog more often now! Hee...

2007-08-19T14:45:00.000+08:00

2 weeks of school gone. Work's starting to pile up but fortunately this semester won't be as bad as my last.

I needed new music to accompany me during my 3 hours of travelling to and from school. So i got Lisa Ono's Soul & Bossa and ripped Nightwish's Century Child from Adam. I'm enjoying both very much. And I'm currently hooked on Sting. I've just spent the whole afternoon watching Sting videos on YouTube in between completing tutorial questions (trying to complete, rather). Now I'm trying to get my hands on as many of his songs as I can. If you have any, do send them to me if you see me online. XD

I need exercise too. I'm all out of shape now. Sighers. I might go for a jog later if it ain't raining. I wanna swim but I haven't got the time. Stupid school. Oh and I signed up for 5 sessions of yoga with Sarah! Sounds exciting eh? Yay. I hope it provides the relaxation I need after a hectic week at school.

School. Argh. It's gonna start full swing next week (i.e., tomorrow...) and I'm not looking forward to it at all.

The rain just got heavier. Bleah.

2007-08-05T23:10:00.000+08:00

Ah, damn. It's back to school tomorrow and I'm so not prepared.

I'm in my third year already! Time really flies. Oh well. Hope all goes well this semester. That's all I ask for. Just let me study in peace and let me still have time for myself. But I somehow feel I'm asking for too much. 2 more years! Just let me get this over and done with! Please! Well, at this point I suppose all the preparation I can do is to pack my bag and lay out my clothes for tomorrow. And I need more music to see me through this new sem!

I've been enjoying the last bits of my holidays. Friday was spent watching the Simpsons Movie with the FOC guys and Sarah. It's funny in a lame way. We hung out at Cafe Cartel after and chatted and laughed till it was time to catch the last bus. I finally met Sarah! She's back from Europe. And after hearing about her trip, I'm now dying to go to Rome. In addition, I've been watching all the travel shows about Italy! ASHLEY WANTS TO GO TO ROME!!!

Sigh... I'm gonna miss having so much free time on my hands.

2007-07-29T19:09:00.000+08:00

Haha. Something my dear brother drew for me. You'll only get it if you're a HALMMster.

2007-07-29T17:17:00.000+08:00

Okay I've got lots to blog about but I don't really know where to start.

FOC's over! It went pretty well I think. I hope. Haha. Very tiring and stressful 4 days. Only slept 10 hours in total. But it was quite an experience. I've grown closer to the comm and they're fantastic people. 19 freshies! I hope all of them will remain active in CSA. Then next year's FOC comm won't be shorthanded. Like we were. SP night was fun! People like Kelly and Lynnette came. Had fun laughing charades and I was yelling out random guesses. I so love amusing myself. Heh. Anyway, I'm relieved it's over. No need to go for meetings, no need to prepare agenda, no need to worry if this or that has been done. A huge, huge load off my back.

Fr Louis Fossion passed away on Thursday morning. I was at Pasir Ris with my group during the mini amazing race when I heard the news and I was stunned. I never got to know him very well but he was both inspiring and adorable. Sang for his memorial mass on Friday and his funeral yesterday. Very grand affair. I cried like a baby on both days. His cremation was a very sad moment for everyone. I couldn't even sing.

Thankfully we managed to kinda cheer up by the time we were back in church after the cremation. We played frisbee while waiting for choir practice to start and all was good. Lucas' banana drink's really good! Yummy!

Okay I think I should stop blogging now if not I'll never stop. Hee hee.

2007-07-10T22:30:00.000+08:00

Hello! I know, I know. I haven't been blogging very regularly. Forgive me!

Haha. Well. I went for the Youth Day convention at the Expo on Saturday as a facilitator. What great fun it was! All the shouting and jumping up and down was crazy. Yeah, sure, I'm not a P&W person but oh well... I was thinking since I was already there I might as well do whatever everyone else was doing and do what I was supposed to do as a facilitator (which is? Inspire?). So yea. I sang (shouted, rather) all the songs I usually label as rubbish and all that. And guess what? I actually enjoyed myself! I still think it has zero spiritual benefits though. You want spiritual, just go attend mass, I say.

And combined practices for Fr Foission's mass has started on Sunday. Apparently that was their third practice but we didn't know they've started. I have no idea why. Stacie and I only found out on that day itself coz we attended 11am and the choir asked us why we haven't been joining them for the past 2 practices. Bah. And I really love the repertoire! Hallelujah Chorus, Ave Verum Corpus and mass parts from Missa de Angelis!

Okay, I found this on Peter's blog. Looks fun so I'm trying it out. Hee hee.

step one: go to imdb.com and look up ten of your favorite movies.

step two: post five official imdb “plot keywords” for these ten picks.

step three: have your friends guess the movie titles.

1. Flashback Sequence, Conductor, Arson, Dedicated Teacher
2. Fascist, Teenage Girl, Satire, Character Name In Title
3. William Shakespeare, Bohemian, Based On True Story, Sieze The Day
4. Rags To Riches, Horse Race, 1910s, Diction Lessons
5. Morse Code, Flashback Sequence, Body Landing On Car, Twist Ending
6. Multiple Story Line, London England, Narration, Office Romance
7. Dancer, Vow Of Silence, Motivational Speaker, Independent Film
8. Tragic Incident, Cultural Misunderstanding, Suicide, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
9. Good Versus Evil, Disturbing, Disembowelment, Grape
10. Cartoon Reality Crossover, Nazi, Witchcraft, Con Artist

Heh heh. Okay! I love so many movies, it's so hard to choose just 10. Bleah.

2007-07-01T22:32:00.000+08:00

I'm back in Singapore! Man, it's good to be back.

I've been back since Tuesday actually. But was to jetlagged and busy unpaking to blog.

Busy days since I got back! Unpaking's such a chore. And there're gifts to sort out. Went all the way to NTU on Thursday to meet Mrs Lam about FOC. 3 hours of travelling just to talk to her for half an hour. Why must NTU be so far away? Argh. Mrs Lam was a really nice lady though.

Yesterday was such a long day. Had to go to CAYC for Youth Day facilitator training. I had to cantor for mass later that day so I had to go there in formal clothes. Rushed down to church in a cab after the training. Learnt the psalm half an hour before mass. Before I knew it, I was up at the ambo and to my horror I forgot the psalm tone! Lucky for me, I heard Gabriel playing it and I was saved from humiliation. Whew.

Just one month of holidays left. I better enjoy it as much as I can. This week's gonna be a busy week!

2007-06-23T01:11:00.000+08:00

Still in Florida!

I'm kinda missing home already. But still having fun. I miss Singapore food! It's okay though. I'll be back in a few days. Yay.

Sarah's in Berlin now. We didn't get to meet before she left. Boo.

Oh oh. Great Singapore Sale will still be on when I get back! Shopping! I've been shopping here as well but everything's expensive. I did buy lotsa stuff though. Okay not that much but I did spend quite a lot of money. Like I said. EXPENSIVE!!!

Okay. Nothing much to blog about actually. Days are usually spent watching TV till Daddy comes back from work. Then he can take us out. I'm watching Jeopardy now. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody just now. Hilarious.

2007-06-13T12:28:00.000+08:00

Hello!

Okay I know I haven't been blogging for an awfully long time. I've been busy. And there haven't been much to blog about. Or maybe there is.

I'm finally 21. Heh heh. It doesn't feel like much of a difference but well, 21 is 21. Spent my birthday with HALMM. It was awesome! KTV followed by seafood supper. My throat felt really bad after that but it was a whole lot of fun! Thanks guys! Love ya! And thanks to all who wished me as well. And for all the lovely presents.

I'm in Florida now! Woo hoo! Will only be back in Singapore on 26 June. That's a really long time yea? I'm sure everyone back home is missing me like hell. Hee. Anyway. It's been fun so far. Spent the last few days in Orlando. Went to Disneyland! Magic Kingdom on Saturday and MGM on Sunday. I had a blast! It was much better than Tokyo. Stuff everyone absolutely cannot miss are Mickey's PhilarMagic in Magic Kingdom and the Disney-MGM Studios Backlot Tour at MGM.

Spent the whole day shopping yesterday. Just one day and I've spent almost half my money. Whoa... Shoes, bags, make up, shades... Snapple flavoured lip balm! How cute is that! There were also other interesting flavours like Hershey's, Coke, 7-up and even popcorn!

Okay that should be all for now. I'm getting tired of typing. Haha.

2007-05-25T03:40:00.000+08:00

Ashley is a very happy girl.

2007-05-18T22:49:00.000+08:00

Woah... It's been a long time since I last blogged. School's finally out. Whew... Been enjoying my holidays pretty much. I've finally got the time to live life a little. Days have been spent visiting the library, shopping, hanging out, lazing at home and doing FOC stuff.

Got the chance to meet Celine for a little while just now. The girl's been back from Melbourne since last year and I haven't gotten the chance to meet her till today. We had loads to talk about. It's amazing how we've managed to remain best of friends after all these years. Of all my primary school friends, it's only her and Xuwen that I'm still in contact with.

Ascension mass last night was good. But it somehow means that Easter is coming to an end soon. And I have to wait another year for my favourite season to come again. Oh well. Better enjoy what's left of it!

I actually borrowed a romance novel from the library. Oh man. Haha. What's gotten into me? Yes, I was determined to break out of my fantasy rut, but... Romance? Hahaha. To think that not too long ago, I swore I would never read anything that didn't involve blood and gore. I enjoyed the romance though. But somehow I think the next time I visit the library, I'll be back to borrowing something by Feist.

I've been watching plenty of movies! The Da Vinci Code and Seven were good films! And there was New York Minute for me to get my little dose of chick flick. North Country was pretty good too. And there's Babel and Dead Poet's Society left to watch.

Yeah. So that's my holidays for you. Have to enjoy it all I can before hell starts again in August. Gosh. I don't even wanna think about it. And I shouldn't! Holidays just started!

So. I have to wake up early tomorrow if I wanna help with the ISP thing. It's about 11pm and I have yet to take a shower. I shouldn't be spending any more time in front of the computer.

2007-05-06T22:06:00.000+08:00

Exams are over!!! At long last... I'm not exactly free yet though. There's still DDP and FOC among other things. But still. At least I don't have to mug my days away anymore. I think I did terribly for my last 3 papers, by the way. Bleah...

Had our first round of outreach today. Went pretty well, I guess. Hope we'd get many freshies this year. Outreach. Haha. It's kinda fun actually. Though embarrassing at times. But it also means I won't be free for the next five weekends. Oh well. At least it's enjoyable, somehow.

DDP. Bleah. I'm supposed to be having holidays now! What a great way to burst my bubble. Exams are over and I've got to go to school tomorrow and every day for the next week. Not something I look forward to.

Spidey 3 wasn't as good as expected. The plot was kinda weak and the parts that were supposed to be sad weren't that sad. Some parts were funny though. The "dancing", the guy at the French restaurant and the girl with the camera.

Pastamania was yummy.

Ah. We're going full steam ahead for FOC now. Exciting yet daunting. It was fun being programmer last year. This year it'd be more responsibilities, more liasing with SAO and I suspect more worries. I sure hope everything works out fine. The feeling you get seeing your FOC materialise is really great. But first we need money... MONEY!!! Heh. Well, at least I can proudly say we have a good and strong committee this year. Just like we did last year.

Okay. That's my post exam blog. Lol.

2007-04-25T23:19:00.000+08:00

Well, it's been a pretty good 2 days!

Firstly... 1 paper down, 4 more to go! All done with Software Engineering. It was a pretty okay paper. One of my better ones so far actually. Can't be sure of a good grade, but I can safely say that I will pass. Well then. I seem to have started this exam period on a good note. Let's just hope this keeps up, shall we? Although I highly doubt so, considering I've got OS, microC and Instrumentation and Data Acquisition back-to-back on 2, 3 and 4 May. How I'm going to cram everything in such a short time, I have no idea. Not forgetting there's still Language Puzzle on 30 April! This is driving me bonkers...

Oh and secondly! I can now drive legally! Not that I've been driving illegally, by the way. Yup. Finally passed the test! Whew... I thought I'd fail again. The tester kept nagging at me so I was pretty certain he wouldn't pass me. Heh. Daddy will prolly let me try driving his CRV. Daunting!

Alright then. I've got 4 modules to study for by next week. Better get back to my notes! *glares at my thick stack of OS notes*

2007-04-20T22:46:00.000+08:00

Great. Now I have both Luke and Listya's stuff to do. Haha, Luke and Listya. Anyway, I'll do them later. My brain's in no condition to answer such stuff now. Heh.

It's exam time. I hate exams. I need a life. Seriously. Spending my days in school or in the library burying my nose in my huge pile of notes ain't fun at all. So much to study, so little time. Gragh...

I want a holiday. I want to go shopping. I want to go to the beach. I want a movie marathon. I want to buy a new CD. I want to have a nice meal at an exotic restaurant. I want a manicure. I want to watch a musical. I want to go for a concert. I want to watch Heroes. I want to read a nice heartwarming book. I want to read something by Raymond E Feist. I want to play FFXII. I want to chill out at a nice cafe. I want to learn Latin. I want to watch Grey's Anatomy. I want to sleep for 10 hours. I want to buy a dress. I want to eat sushi. I want to lie in the open and watch the clouds.

But for now, it's time to hit my huge pile of notes.

I want exams to be over.

2007-04-13T23:58:00.000+08:00

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2007-04-08T02:07:00.000+08:00

I'm tired. I have yet to remove my makeup. Glitter and all. My feet hurt from standing in heels for so long. But still. I must be one of the happiest girls in the world now.

Easter Vigil. My favourite event in the entire year. This year's was great again. No surprise. It was just joy joy joy throughout the whole vigil. Hallelujah Chorus. LOVE.

I wish this night didn't have to end.

Congrats, Max!

I obviously don't sound very coherrent now.

Oh well.

HAPPINESS!!!

Happy Easter, all!

I'll post photos soon.

2007-03-19T13:31:00.000+08:00

Today's Monday. I don't like Mondays. Mondays mean school. I don't like school. Why can't the weekends be longer?

Rachael Yamagata's concert was fun. She's so funny! I got my CD signed after that. Queued for about an hour. I can't believe I did that! I thought I'd have outgrown this whole autograph session phase by now. And I forgot to bring my camera. Otherwise there'll be photos to put up here. Gah. Oh well. Anyway, it was 300 after that. All blood and gore but I kinda liked it.

So that was my first choir practice I missed in quite a while. I immediately called Geri after the concert to ask how the Altos were doing. Yeah. Being Section Leader makes me feel like a Mommy. I told that to Desmond and he said he feels like a grandfather. So that makes him my Dad. Nice.

KFC, Burger King, Icekimo. Sinful. And it's Lent now. Well done, Ashley. Aren't you supposed to be losing weight too?

11am mass with Christine yesterday. The most convenient one since there was combined practice after that. Practice was good. Did the entire Hallelujah Chorus. Messy but fun. Haha. I'm looking forward to Easter Vigil. Which reminds me, my group has to choose hymns soon.

Oh yes. Christine's phone. The both of us were walking back to church for practice after lunch. We were about to walk into church when she realised her phone was missing. So we retraced our steps in search for it. Thank God we found it. Where? On the road, under a parked lorry. Just how it ended up there we have no idea.

Please pray I get through this week. I've got tones of school work to do and there's barely time to study. I'm clueless about most of my modules. And I don't like to blog about school much coz it's boring and it pisses me off.

Christine, I love your straight hair!

2007-02-25T13:09:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow will mark the beginning of my so-called "recess" week. More like torture week, actually. I'll be stuck in the lab from 9am to 5pm every day. And meetings after that every other day. So, what recess week? This sounds worse than usual school days. I have to wake up before the sun rises every single day! Bah. I should stop complaining about having to wake up early. I mean, I asked for this, didn't I? But I don't understand why the school has to do this to us poor students. I mean, isn't life hard enough coping with 4 super tough and time consuming modules? Why dump this fifth module on us during this semester? The students in other engineering courses get to to their project module after their exams, during the holidays. Okay, I'll get to enjoy my holidays more. But seriously! What are they trying to achieve by spreading us so thin on one semester?! Sadistic bunch of people.

I haven't been feeling too good for the past few days. It started with a splitting headache and nausea on Friday, so I slept most of the day away. Yesterday it was an upset tummy. Didn't let it get in the way of choir though. Po Chai Pills did the trick!

I sang for 12 hours yesterday. My my. What a feat. Practice for Rite of Election started at 10.30am. We sang for the really long mass at 2pm and had to start mass practice immediately after. By the time night practice ended, it was already 10plus at night. Woah.

I thought we'd be starting to practise for Easter Vigil today. But no, practices start next Sunday. Sigh. So I'll be spending the whole day at home today. Makes me feel like a vampire. No, actually it doesn't. I have no idea why I suddenly thought of vampires. Anyway, vampires don't stay at home all day. They go out to feed at night. Okay now, I really have no idea why I'm suddenly talking about vampires.

I should start getting some work done. I've got a never ending pile to work to do. I wish this would stop already.

2007-02-20T02:47:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!

It's late and I should be asleep. What the hell am I doing blogging at this hour?

Well, the last two days were a whole lot of fun. I sure enjoyed the much needed break. Spent the two days at Grandma's place as well as visiting other relatives. Lotsa goodies, ang paos to receive... It's good! I got to spend time with my cousins. Something I always enjoy, considering how rare it is that all 5 of us meet up. 2 days together with the Xbox, my laptop and a deck of cards. How nice.

But it's weird. There are relatives whom I see only once a year. They come visit and, well, what am I supposed to say to them? I barely know them. I'm not unfriendly or anti-social but I find it really awkward to try have a conversation with someone you're supposed to know, but don't. Man, these people must think I'm really boring. Oh well. I do only see them once a year anyway.

Okay then. I guess I really should go to bed. I've got to meet Sarah tomorrow for some much needed retail therapy. I hope the post CNY sales have begun!

Goodnight!

2007-02-09T17:43:00.000+08:00

Yay! Friday! Weekends are finally here... Boy was this week tiring. I don't like school. It leaves me with no time and energy left to do anything else. Bah. I need to shop!

Fundraising this weekend! I sure hope all goes well. This has been such a nagging worry at the back of my head for the past week or so. I just don't wanna screw anything up.

Busy busy busy. Argh.

Things I'm looking forward to:
~Chinese New Year - 18th to 29th Feb
~Rite of Election - 24th Feb
~The Phantom of the Opera - 1st April
~Easter Vigil - 7th April
~Holidays! - 12 May
~My 21st birthday! - 2 June

And I'm still looking for someone to go watch Rachael Yamagata with.

2007-02-05T00:11:00.000+08:00

Hey.

I'm still alive. I haven't been updating because I've been so damn busy. School's a killer. Argh.

I hate school. 6 modules and 4 projects really sucks.

And there's FOC too. Fundraising next weekend.

Blah blah. Now you see why I'm too busy to update.

But besides school I don't really have much complaints. I guess I really do prefer staying at home. Travelling for 3 hours a day is a waste of time but I still end up feeling better. And I still get to spend time with my dear friends despite having a huge pile of work to do.

Studying at Icekimo with Nicole was nice. Definitely a more fruitful way of spending my weekends compared to the times I used to just slack at home and do absolutely nothing. My excuse? I only spend the weekends at home so I better enjoy it! Haha. No such excuse anymore. It's time Ashley starts spending her weekends doing useful stuff.

Nicole, Crystal, Gabriel, Adam and I were playing floorball with crushed up paper and brooms. Hillarious! Photos are here!

2007-01-17T14:49:00.000+08:00

I'm waiting for class to start and I'm bored. Second week in school. It sucks having to wake up early but I guess it's better than staying in hall. At least I get back to civilization every day. School's still okay. We haven't really started on most of our projects yet so I guess I better enjoy life while I still can. Life wouldn't be this easy in a couple of weeks, I'm sure.

And yes, I'm chairing FOC this year. Starting to feel the stress already.

My Fair Lady with Staz was awesome! Great show, great company. And I just love going to the Esplanade. It's such a nice place to just hang out and walk around.

"Your words are spirit Lord, and they are life!" Yay! I'm cantoring this Saturday. My first psalm of the year. I haven't cantored in a while! I just wish this cough of mine could just go away and leave me alone.

I want Chinese New Year to come. I want the holiday. I've gotten most of my clothes already. One of which is a lovely purple Mango skirt! Haha...

Argh. I'm bored.

2007-01-08T21:14:00.000+08:00

First day of school. Oh man. Why must the holidays past so fast? Just had 2 lectures today and I'm already dreading this semester. The workload's gonna be really heavy. Sighers. I wanted to join Celebration Chorus again. But I don't think I can judging from how things are this sem. I'll still sing for Easter Vigil though! Can't wait for that!

I hope I get through this sem. Wish me luck. I start at 8.30am tomorrow. That means I'll have to wake up at six. Oh man.

2007-01-02T19:50:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year!!!

2007. I'll be turning 21 this year. Sure feels old. My my. Anyway, hope this year will be a good one. 2006b has been quite a roller coaster ride for me. 2 hell semesters in school, CSA FOC, Celebration Chorus, carolling, inhaling helium for the first time... Not to mention all those emotional ups and downs.

School starts next week. I don't want school to start. Well, at least I won't be staying in hall anymore. So hopefully I'll be happier? This semester's gonna suck. The worst semester of the entire course, I heard. Yikes. My results were bad. It better not get any worse.

I miss carolling already. We didn't have that many engagements this time round but those we had were pretty good! I'm looking forward to this year's carolling season already. I wanna sing at Icekimo again!

Yup. Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone who wished me happy new year. Cecilia, Eugene, Venus, Serene, Jiam Jiam, Jarad, Desmond, Dominic, Dorothy and anyone else I might have forgotten. Thanks for remembering me and sorry if I didn't reply any of you! I'd like to wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR too! Hee hee.

2006-12-25T23:45:00.000+08:00

Before it's too late, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Hope everyone had a wonderful day today, coz I sure did!

Woke up just in time for mass. We went to Christ the King instead coz we were too late to attend the 11am one at Holy Spirit. After mass, I spent the rest of the day at Staz's place and had a blast! Had lotsa good food. Yummy... But her dog, Snuffy, really freaked me out. He kept wanting to steal my food. Greedy dog.

Christmas Eve. Spent the day with my family. We had good food too! Had a relatively quiet Christmas Eve this year. Since I wasn't singing for midnight mass or SJI mass. Daddy bought me a new MP3 player! It's a Creative Zen Vision M. Same as Adam and Luke. I haven't started using it yet but I'm liking it already. I can store videos in it! So cool right? But the only thing is it's bright green. Why green? Why why why?

Carolling's officially over although we have one more performance at the Dinner and Dance on Friday. We didn't have that many engagements this year but the few we had were pretty good! I particularly liked the one we did at Michael's Mum's friend's house. Good acoustics, good audience, good food. What's not to like? And we sang pretty well too.

I'll be moving all my junk out of hall tomorrow. It's gonna be dirty. Eew.

2006-12-17T01:52:00.000+08:00

It's a little too late to be blogging but I haven't been blogging for the longest time, so I might as well update now. Yup. Woah... a month since my last post. I've been busy, yea. First exams, then Japan trip and choir camp.

Japan was awesome! It was nice and cold and I finally went to Disneyland! People. So many people! I queued for about one and a half hours for the Jack Skellington ride. Heh heh. But since I'm such a fan, it was all worth it. And the ride was great too. Even Daddy enjoyed it. I just wished it didn't have to rain on the day we went there. Freezing!!! Brrr... Mount Fuji was nice too! It looked like something out of Lord of the Rings. Yes yes, I know I'm talking about Japan, not New Zealand.

Choir camp. It was great fun and the game of charades Geri and I planned turned out to be pretty entertaining! We brushed up on all our carols and parts of mass which made me happy. And we learnt some Latin stuff which made me happier! Haha. I love Latin. I wasn't feeling well on the second day but I still had a good time. *grins*

Most of my time is taken up by carolling now. This rocks. We're sounding surprisingly good this year. Yay! And the rest of my time will be taken up by shopping and bumming. I sure do love my holidays. Haha.

2006-11-16T11:54:00.000+08:00

It's that time of the year again. That dreaded time. The time when you get buried under a pile of notes, drink lotsa coffee and the library becomes your second home. I just had my first paper. It was alright. Better than expected but that doesn't guarantee a good grade.

Good music to study to:
`Evanescence
`Within Temptaion
`The Corrs
`Dream Theater
`Duran Duran
`Lacuna Coil
`Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Ｉ think my CD player has been working harder than me. Haha.

2006-11-07T23:30:00.000+08:00

Okay. Here's my update for the weekend.

[Saturday]
Whoa!!! Crazy man. Singing for 12 hours. Total madness. It was kinda fun. But too tiring. I woke up at 7.30 coz we were told to be in church by 8.30 to warm up for Louisa's sister's wedding which we were told was supposed to be at 10.30. Just as I was getting ready to leave, I received an sms saying that the wedding's at 12 and we'd be meeting at 10.30 instead. Grrr... So I ended up meeting Pinkie for breakfast instead. I knew I wouldn't have time for lunch so I had a heavy breakfast. Then we went to church for the wedding and all. Lucas and I left early coz we had to go for our Requiem rehearsal. Sang with the orchestra and all. Quite cool. After that we zoomed back to church. I was very hungry despite having had a heavy breakfast. My stomach only got to be filled after mass. Yong Tau Foo!!! Yummy!!! And the Maggi Japanese corn soup after that. I love that man. I know it tastes artificial. But I love it. After mass practice till 10.30. Yup. 10.30am to 10.30pm. What a feat!

[Sunday]
Performance day! It was pretty good except for some *ahem* parts. Haha! Late dinner after that at Adam Road was yummy! Dessert at a "high class Icekimo" after that. Geri and I ordered a mudpie. Mocha ice cream, milo powder and chocolate chips. Sure way to get high. Haha. Oh! And I was wearing my suede heels! Tiring but oh so pretty!

[Monday]
I didn't go to school. Haha. Stayed at home all day until sectionals in the evening. We did Here We Come a-Carolling. I don't like that song. Bleah.

[Today]
Had lab. :( But I was like wasting time there. Didn't know how to do the stuff. Plus there was no quiz. Met Jin Hua and Angeline for lunch then home sweet home. I've been reading my CPE201 notes. But I barely understand anything. Sucks.

I'm tired...

2006-11-02T11:31:00.000+08:00

Okay. I deserve to be shot. I was supposed to study after mass last night. I ended up watching a movie with Daddy. What the hell is wrong with me.

Cantoring. My throat was really dry but I think I did okay for my psalm. My acclamation was bad. I was slightly off. Argh. Why do I always screw up my acclamations.

Today's the last Thursday practice for Faure's Requiem. The performance is on Sunday and I'm kinda excited. I think I'll miss going for practices on Thursdays though. Somehow these practices made life less dull. I'll feel so empty after it's all over. But just for awhile, before I get busy with exams and then carolling.

I wonder how the guys sectionals went last night. I was tempted to go take a peek but I didn't.

Okay, time to hit the books again.

2006-11-01T14:49:00.000+08:00

CPE201 lab report all done and submitted!!! YAY!!! That's like the biggest load off my shoulder. Whew...

"Such are the men who seek your face, O Lord."
Heh heh. That's the psalm i'm doing later. I better not screw up! Hahaha... Happy All Saints Day!

Finally. I get to study for my quiz. Gee, I hope 2 days is enough. Everyone's been reminding me how important this quiz is. Yikes.

Okay, I'll leave with a quote from my favourite drama series of the moment.

MEREDITH: [narrating] "The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good, and twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad, and no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams."

2006-10-31T14:46:00.000+08:00

This line is inspired by a post on Cynthia's blog:

Life rocks, when you hafta pon lecture to cantor.

Haha.

I've been in a surprisingly good mood these days, considering exams are coming and I've got a quiz on Friday I've yet to study for. I think I know why.
1. I've been going home more often. I find the long bus rides home rather therapeutic. And it's always nice to go home to a happy family.
2. CPE201 lab assessment's over. Gone are the dreaded days spent rotting in the lab.
3. Carolling practices have started. That means I get to see my darlings not once, not twice, but three times a week!

Now. Talk about exams coming. I have so much to study. And my first paper's in two weeks. I'm dead. Very dead. The mugging has to start now. But it can't coz I've got a report to do that's due tomorrow. Okay. So let the mugging start tomorrow then.

And it's official. I'm moving out of hall on 31 Dec. Yup. No more depressing hall, no more lonely nights spent being homesick, no more disgusting chocolate smell, no more climbing up to the 4th floor everyday. Sounds good!

I can't wait for the hols! Things to look forward to...
`CSA Christmas party
`Japan trip
`HALMM camp
`Carolling engagements
`Christmas
`Dinner and Dance

Oh and one more thing. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

And may I cantor well tomorrow.

In the bleak midwinter,
frosty wind made moan,
earth stood hard as iron,
water like a stone;
snow had fallen, snow on snow,
snow on snow,
in the bleak midwinter,
long ago.

2006-10-23T12:25:00.000+08:00

He's just the kind of man
You hear about
Who leaves his family for
An easy out
They never saw the signs
He never said a word
He couldn't take another day

Carry me to the shoreline
Bury me in the sand
Walk me across the water
In the writing of a tired hand
You'll see the message getting clearer
And maybe you'll understand

Once the stone
You're crawling under
(once the stone)
Is lifted off your shoulders
(lifted off)
Once the cloud that's raining
Over your head disappears
The noise that you'll hear
Is the crashing down of hollow years

She's not the kind of girl
You hear about
She'll never want another
She'll never be without
She'll give you all the signs
She'll tell you everything
Then turn around and walk away

Carry me to the shoreline
Bury me in the sand
(into the waves)
Walk me across the water
In the echoes of a tired voice
You'll hear the message getting clearer
And maybe you'll have no choice

Once the stone
You're crawling under
(once the stone)
Is lifted off your shoulders
(lifted off)
Once the cloud that's raining
Over your head disappears
The noise that you'll hear
Is the crashing down of hollow years

Carry me to the shoreline
Bury me in the sand
(into the waves)
Walk me across the water
And maybe you'll understand

Once the stone
You're crawling under
Is lifted off your shoulders
Once the cloud that's raining
Over your head disappears
The noise that you'll hear
Is the crashing down
(crashing down, crashing down, crashing down)
Crashing down of hollow years

Once the stone
You're crawling under
Once the stone
You're crawling under
Once the stone
You're crawling under
Once the stone
You're crawling under
Once the stone
You're crawling under
Once the stone
You're crawling under
Once the stone
You're crawling under
[Hollow Years - Dream Theater]

Ah... I love this song so much. I can put it on repeat all day and not get sick of it.

I get to be home lots this week! Hurray! E-learning week plus public holiday. Rocks man.

Girls sectionals later. Hope it goes well.

Oh yes. I managed to get a skirt for the Faure thing. Now I need a blouse. To all those people I messaged asking for help about the skirt, thank you all so very much!

2006-10-18T15:23:00.000+08:00

I haven't updated in a while. I've been busy. Very busy.

Let's see... I went to the Starbucks at The Cathay with Polly on Saturday before choir. I totally love it there! Nice and cozy with free Wi-Fi access. We did our assignment for Word and Image there. Discussed lots but did write much. The essay's due today and I managed to finish it last night. Whew. One load off my shoulder.

I've been stressed and homesick lately. The CPE201 lab project is kinda freaking me out. And there's CPE203 too. Here I am, in the lab, trying to complete lab 4 for CPE203 to no avail. There's an error in my FSP and I have no idea what's wrong with it. Blah blah. So here I am taking a breather, blogging, blog-hopping and listening to Dream Theater's Octavarium. The madness of CPE201 lab starts again tomorrow. Someone save me.

I'm looking forward to carolling. We're having our first practice this Friday. Kinda late but I think we'd be able to finish everything. I hope we have a good carolling season this year. I wanna sing at Icekimo again!

And what's up with my tagboard, man.

2006-10-11T14:55:00.000+08:00

My daddy is so sweet! He knew I've been feeling rather depressed lately so yesterday morning, he sent me an sms saying "Wakey wakey. Have a nice day ahead". Ah, I have the sweetest dad on earth. I love Daddy!!!

I'm feeling better today. I hope this lasts. I miss being happy and hyper.

Went out with Serene and Jasmine on Monday. Went shopping at City Hall area. I didn't buy anything though. Serene bought a really nice bag. I'd have gotten one too but she bought the last one. Bummer.

I'm going home today! Ain't going to school tomorrow. Rejoice~!

2006-10-05T08:39:00.000+08:00

I feel worse. I thought I'd feel better but I feel worse. No, I'm not talking about being sick. I'm talking about me feeling down ever since school started. I don't know why I'm feeling this way. I really don't. I've even lost the desire to sleep in, which explains why I'm up so early even though I start at 10.30 today. I thought I'd be okay by now. Maybe it's just suddenly starting school after a week break. But I think not. I didn't feel this bad when school just started after a 3 month break. Oh well. I'll just try to focus on one happy thought today. Home.