Hello, you! *beams*
fantastic stuff, today it was!

First it started off with a $6 (!!!) cab ride to school. Man! It was those pull-hair-out-kick-the-traffic-light kinda jam. But still, first there was one. then there were two. then seven! So at least half the people turned up to pray. good stuff, cannot bluff.

had guava at the arts canteen and well, i guess what the Bible says about the power of words is really true. I don’t know what to think about the issue, just that it cannot be helped since $48 has been plunged into the Office of Satanic Affairs’ cesspool..so yeah. Hmmm…still, highly intriguing stuff.

had project meeting and it was good. hopefully tomorrow’s presentation will be good.

and then waited till 545 to go Holland. Wah seh. The bus ride was insane. 95 took ONE HOUR to get to Holland. I mean, seriously, DUDE! how on earth do we get jams in the campus???

But dinner (and caffeine injection after that) with S was good. Went to Swensens to celebrate our 21st birthdays (since we wont see each other till next year july, gahhhhhhhhhh). Got her the book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” and she gave me a book “My Sister’s Keeper” and a card which I can’t open but I know that Heaven’s Gates do open widely to her. Stop rolling your eyes now you commie girl! waahahahaha.

but first, pictureeeeeeeeeeeeeees! i love digicams man.

saw this on the sidewalk as i was trekking to Holland V. wahseh. this is SOME half-crazed bird man. this pattern of a birdwalking which was imprinted on the cement is that of a mod Sine curve..you know, where everything is above the x-axis. wahaha.

S eating the $4 TOWERING TEMPTATION. we ordered “Cookie Summit” and “Chocolate Freckles Peak” cuz each one only costs $4! offer ended today. phew. wahaha. had pita bread and calamari too. fantastic stuff man.

us at Swensens of course! love the lighting of this.

at the sticker shop along holland avenue. this is like the second or third time i’m accompanying S to buy lanterns. still remember she bought a Powerpuff designed one last time. And to think she calls me bimbola. look who’s talking man… still, fantastic backdrop

My commie friend and her little red book. wahahahaha. that is actually her matric book or whatsoever its called there. and now we’re at Coffee Club.

the world through the eyes of..a…sieve?? sure ain’t rose tinted glasses.

and of course, what would life be without coffee – mocha java – and biscotti? mmmmmmmmmmm. *smacks lips* life IS good when caffeine is thrown into the package.

us bemoaning the fact that she has to go to china and leave poor me behind in singapore. but, we promised that we’ll never be sad losers cuz we have each other…so…

we smile cheesey cherry grins at the end of it all! life will be good, on hindsight maybe. But still. life is good when you have friends like S.

we were talking about how many times she has met friends since she’s come back to singapore. and the list went “blablablah, three times” etc..and when it came to me, it was “n times”. oh well. we’ve surpassed the base classification of numbers and proceeded onto the abstract concept of N. ngeh. wahahaahahah.

on other news. i’m starting to feel really fearful with regards to MEET. bummer. oh well. on happier news, i’ve FINALLY caught up with my lit readings. thank God Hemmingway is so much easier to read as compared to Freud. *wipes sweat off brow*

till next time,
debs who shall avoid chocolate for a while….

hello, you!
the church referral for MEET has been sent. i am impressed at Canon John Benson’s efficiency, did it in one and a half hours..and more importantly, how even when you do the Gideon thingy..the dew on the cotton thingy..God still works.
amazing.
till next time when i’ve cleared my stupid backlog of readings,
debs

Hello, you! All I can say is, God is faithful. All that abstaining from chocolate was worth it (ok, is majorhopefully going to be worth it). WAY TOO HAPPY. *big silly grin*
Till next time,
debs *gringringringringringrin*

Hello, you!
It is finished! No more Freud! Yay! Today I finally managed to squeeze some words out of my mouth for tutorial..can hear all that tutorial participation points going ka-ching! yay! i guess its good to have revolting readings once in a while, at least thats an opinion! talked to Dr. M for a while after class and yes, his assurance that we won’t have any more such readings. YAY!!! maybe I’ll start feeling less dumb soon. *internal nodding*

FINALLY FINALLY settled the venue for Dinner Time Talk. Why they don’t make the system online is something beyond comprehension. Oh well, at least burn some calories plodding to YIH and back. At least the lady was nice. But the food at YIH was sooooooooo bad. The muffin was like a glorified soggy doughnut. Thats the only way to describe it. eeeeeccchhhkkk.

I realised that I’ve resumed my Library Walk..which is the shuffleshuffle-sniffsniff-swing water bottle thing I do when plopped in the library. Insane man. Its only week three!!! WHY??? I am de-volving again..into an amorphous blob which feeds incessantly and occassionally pokes out an arm out the green slime to turn a page, underline something, draw graffiti or in the rarest moments of inspiration, annotate my notes. sigh.

went for yet another two sessions at the writing centre today. and guess what, no one turned up!!! YAYYYYYYY!!! 16bucks to do my readings (finally started on them!). How much better can life get? Realised that Z.’s cousin imports Croc shoes. And gets them 30% cheaper. Hmmm. I like the “athens” one but its still not in singapore yet. pshaw! its good to have friends with lobang. muahaha. as I was doing a geog reading, i realised that fetishes for Indian guys are actually just perpetuations of “othering”, and the whole Edward Said ‘orientalism’ thing. hmm. no good. no good at all. ok, shall stick to one ethnic group. meanwhile, shall find my hair wax to re-tune my cute guy radar. I am getting bored in the library when the model-engin (whaahahha) is no longer *small sigh* there. pui.

went to JE library to return and get more books, of which one is “Divine Secrets of the YAYA sisterhood”..super interesting, half way through already. Another is “anthropology” where this guy chronicles his love life by writing one paragraph per key word, like “ouija” so the book consists of 100 paragraphs. coolness.

And how is it possible that I managed to plough through so much of “Divine Secrets”? Well, because my parents werent home for dinner. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! on the day I thought we were all going to eat dinner. Apparently they went to St. George’s for some anglican cambodian thing and due to my lack of a confirmed attendance of being proxy for Aunty B., they just went ahead without me. *pout* fine. had a PostPaul dinner..which is, Post Cereal and Paul milk yummyfied meal. hence could do the hold-book-in-one-hand-spoon-in-the-other thing. Coolness.

Shall proceed to conquer the land of readings. *pushes up specs* wahaha. i look forward to a time of mugging. *pushes specs again*

till next time,
debs who does the Library Walk and Push-up routine

Hello, you!
So, it was the first CG session of the year, huh? Pretty interesting, thankfully without any painful icebreakers. I still remember last year’s one..and all the alliteration of our names and the ants on the table. And now, we’re all year twos and above. Man, time doesn’t fly, it zooms. By God’s grace we had a bumper crop of freshmen, and one not-so-fresh-man..and hopefully, these people will stay. AND AND AND..we’ve got an indian guy! *squee* cheap thrill..but still!!!!
Tourism lecture today made me think ALOT. Who on earth would have thought that the SIA girl is actually pandering to the old ways of using sex to sell? And the whole developing country and prostitution made me think about Song Pan again, and how the school was just beside the prostitution den and the girls we taught would just go to “work” after school.
Had a really bad time getting to Science today. Walked up a slope akin to the one i used to rush up NJ and trekked and trekked and trekked. Couldn’t find that stupid “Dept of Bio Sci” so I asked around. First person I asked, replied “Ni Qiu Kan Di Tu”. Thanks ah, I am a geog major, and I am holding a map, of course if i know how to get there i WOULD RIGHT. *whaps the person on the head* don’t think u got maotsetong behind you ah.. pui. and then proceeded to ask six other people. in the end, gave up, trekked somemore..and guess what, ended up in front of an AQUARIUM!!! gahhhhhhh. it’s a jungle out there! i hatehatehatehate science!!!
plus, the graded Lab report was like super tough la. I cant do physical geog to save my life so how on earth am i going to shade all the areas above the elevation of 30m when all the lines LOOK the same!!! urghs.
oh well.
good thing is, the transport project has some semblance of sanity.
bad thing, i haven’t read freud yet. stupid idiotic guy. 70 pg reading..and i’ve ploughed through 50 pages. that shall be enough. *snub*
my daddy is not the nicest person on earth. was complaining about putting on weight and how nobody likes fat people in singapore. then he was like..”oh, just get somebody who loves love handle la.” thank you. that makes life all the more bearable. puiiiiii. double puiiiii.
oh well.
till next time,
debs who shall go cultivate an eating disorder some time soon..in the near future…when chocolate has been wiped off the face of the earth

Hello, you! had a wonderful fun picnic with R., A. and S. today at the Botanic Gardens. BUT I AM SO ANGRY!!! The stupid laptop crashed while I was uploading my pictures and then it deleted everything from the memory card and computer. ARGH. and there were so many nice pretty and fun pictures. I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!! but oh well. All the Bollywood, fighting and Matrix pictures and birdie and swan pictures ARE GONE. ARGHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
oh well.
dammit.
anyway… my contribution. spam, peppermint tea, pears and psuedo-cups..cuz i couldnt find proper ones. heh.
S. taking a picture of me taking a picture of her
All of us!
What a beautiful day!

Sigh, i really wish i could recover my pictures. I am sad. But I had alot of fun. Just eating and taking funny photos. Oh well. at least S still has some. *pout* oh well. sigh.
but it was super fun. had cheese spread, grapes, cookies, sandwhiches, Doritos, juice, tea, apple crumble. YAY
I think I should cultivate an eating disorder soon. If not, I would seriously grow fat.
ARGHS. stupid crashing device. WHY!!!!!
oh well.
till next time,
debs

Hello, you!
While waiting for mummy to finish her cosmetic ritual, i read the ingredients of our body wash.. “Peppermint Exfoliating Wash by Body Shop”..so it read “Aqua, sodium laureth sulfate, Pumice….Caramel”. I was like, wert!!! Pumice I understand cuz its an exolifant..but caramel? DUDE! No wonder I’ve been putting on weight.
Today, while struggling with Freud in the library, i was looking out and saw an Indian worker painting. Not the most interesting thing ever..but it made me think. Why am i so fortunate, to be on this side of the window, reading “civilisation and its discontents” and that guy, is on the other side of the window, painting a metal casing? And how often do we stop to thank people who do such thankless jobs which make our environment cleaner?
I have a serious problem. USP is losing its lustre, fast. I’ve not felt so dumb for such an extended period of time. Sometimes I just want to shrivel up (sounds like a prune) and disappear from the face of the classroom. sighsighsigh. why must the modules inflict so much pain? Every single day of school I have one USP class..and hence, for the whole week, I just feel dumb the whole time. bah. how on earth am I supposed to know what “The Mentality of Aesthetic Modernity” means?? and Freud is so warped I can just puke my guts out.
Funny random thought. At dinner, i realised if i ever have kids, to pay extra attention with the chinese name. M.’s story of Shi Ting was too funny to forget.
Random happy thought. I got a new nameless cousin today. One more to forcefeed and tickle. Too fun.
Today’s experience at FT made me understand why Ms C is so against powerpoint. For ten minutes I just copied whatever was on the slide and nothing went in. This is a current new record of spacing out..ten minutes. man! And another record was set in the library, where 20 pages took four hours to read. Oh no. This so does not bode well.
Saw many many people at FT. was super glad to see all the fossilised exhibts. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy again. M didn’t manage to procure me a cute french doctor/pilot/loverboy. Sigh. shall stick to the indian variety i guess. The MEET persentation struck a chord within my heart because it reminded me so much of Song Pan. One day. I will return.
Went home with M. Its amazing how even though we went to all the same schools since primary school, I never really talked to her. Oh well. There will always be a start. So, YAY to that.
Till next time,
debs who wants more chicken pie

Hello, you! So many thoughts runnning through my head (all the things you said, all the things you said, running through my head, running through my head!). Shall attempt to be logical. Ok, chronology works best.

1. I’ve been involve in 7 accidents. Today in transport class I learnt that even if you’re on a bicycle and you fell down, it is considered a vehicular accident because, well, a bicycle is a vehicle! and since i’ve tried to learn how to ride a bike seven times (i thought i would *finally* get it right on the perfect number, but..no..) i’ve been in 7 accidents..of which the worst was the final one at Pangkor Island where I went straight through a bougainvilla bush, fell over a ditch, rolled across the asphalt road and fell into a ditch on the other side of the road. All thanks to my father. heh. I shall try one more time for austerity’s sake. when I am more brave. I do not wish to look like road kill again though.

2. Its amazing how refreshing it can be to be in the presence of friends. Even though mondays are my worst days (10-6 with only an hour break!!!!) it is going for lecture with people like R. and S. that make it all the better. Was seriously dreading the welcome tea because I had like the headahce from hell. So it was good that there was not much need to socialise at dinner since F. was beside me and coming from the same school, I did not need to rack my bruised brains for conversation topics. But, once again, SF never failed to amaze me. The amount of people at the welcome tea (and yes, we had green tea!) was amazing!! And slowly bitbybit the headache went away. So, YAY to that!

3. I love my family. As in, seriously. Even though we can mime pulling each other’s hair out behind each other’s backs, we still love each other. And all the stuff we’ve been through even since I can remember, nothing beats them. Especially after what daddy told me yesterday about him and mummy last time, makes life all that more special. *beams* Sometimes I feel guilty that I don’t eat my mummy’s fantabulous food at home and just ta-pau it to school (in my get-out-of-potential-debt mode) and miss eating at the family table. sigh. I shall go home by nine every night except for mondays, thursdays and saturdays. *emphatatic nod*

4. Lessons from EARC. So, it has been almost three months! My goodness! And this leads nicely from the interview for NYC by S. Ok, yes, I did it for the free movie passes (WAHOOEY! *heh* March of the Penguins here we go! *waddles*). But seriously, how can a society which sees an ever increasing number of Christians NOT BE IMPACTED by them? WHAT ARE WE DOING??? If the orphans, widows and aliens are on God’s heart, how can it not be on ours?? And this saddens me greatly. The fields are white unto harvest in SINGAPORE! At our own backyard!! (or in my case, IN MY HDB block!!!!) And what am I doing? Sitting on my lazy bum??? GAH!!! I asked E. what the exco plans to do with regards to social justice and she said all they have planned is a talk during one of the FTs next sem on it. Granted it may be too much work for who-so-ever (I’ve no idea if this falls under evangelism, missions, whatever category) to do..but seriously!!! *bangs head on said crevice* I hope they say something about it at tomorrow’s FT (ok, today since it is 12:10) if not, when the right time comes, I will squeak about the plan which has been fermenting in my head for the longest time possible. Longest time being qualified as the longest time I’ve ever kept something to myself. Which is, by most human standards, not exceptionately long. But still. I try. I really hope they say something about it..BUT. what if they don’t. Then how. It may seem like over stepping boundaries huh. Oh well. Time will tell. And meanwhile, no rash action on my part. All ezecma, stand clear.

5. Happy thoughts! I think I’ve got a fantastic job at the writing centre. I enjoy it. *beams*

6. I really should go do the kitsch vs avant-garde readings now.

7. Since I can’t do my religious study minor, I shall go SBC for night class. cheaper too man. by 90%. HAH. ok, i’ve reached my favourite number. shall go. *salute*

till next time,
debs who is suprisingly not sick of whole grain bread yet

ARGH!!!!!
MORONS!!!!!
Or more importantly, MORON!! Why didn’t I read the stupid uni guidelines earlier?? I thought we had to do 5 Exposures??? But why is it now reduced to three (excluding major)??
I just did the module classification thingy and they said 12 MCs for exposures. ARGHS. and I did 16!!!!!!!!!!
Which means i cant do my religious studies minor any more!!!!! Because if i have 7 UEs, at least one goes to USP CBM, 2 have been take up by Eng and Lit, which means I am left with 4 spaces and a minor requires 6 spaces..and if i do SEP at an Australian Uni (which I want to!!), i can only do four modules..which sadly means I would have to do THREE EXTRA MODULES to do my minor. WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY???? That is two special sem ($1000!) and one six module sem. ARGHS. why am i so dumb!!!!!!!
and as a matter of semantics, i am dumb.
I lost my voice all thanks to my neighbours who burn their joss papers outside my room window. Perils of staying on the second flood and opening your windows at night. Hello, the government kindly provided enclosed bins for you to burn. there is NO NEED for you to renact the situation in the Indonesian jungles and create a micro climate of haze in clementi.
The really sad thing is, mummy made wonderful curry. the rempah was fantastic. and now, i can’t eat it. URGH.
ARGHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. stupid stupid me. stupid stupid school.
till next time,
debs

Hello, you! I am SO full now. The dinner party thingy at J.’s place was fantastic. But first, today. Today was an interesting day.
It started off with lit class and me not doing my readings. We spent two hours discussing the difference between modernism, modernity and modernisation. Since I had not much in my brain to begin with (I actually did the readings, but for the next class..sigh, what a doofus) I started to yak with G. She told me funny stories about NJ and how there was this bio teacher called Ms Goh Pek Hwa who was so terrible that they had this cheer for her which began:

I say “Goh Pek”, you say “Hwa”
GOH PEK HWA
GOH PEK HWA

hahahahahah. I had to stifle my laughter. The only thing which captured my interest was the one on kitsch and avant garde…oh well, till tuesday then! Meanwhile, the seven syllable reading from hades is gone and done for. HAH.
And then I went to collect back my notes from S. I was seriously fortunate A. was there with her and I said “Oh, see you later” and she was like “uh, why? the meeting is cancelled. E. messaged us this morning to say it has been cancelled because more than half the com cant make it.” Jaw drop. Imagine if i did not meet her, I would have wasted time stupidly waiting til 5.30pm because NO ONE TOLD ME. initially I thought my phone was dying on me as usual and so I saw T. in the canteen and asked her if she knew, and lo and behold, she didn’t. So after that I messaged three more people, H., M. and C. and guess what, two out of the three didn’t know. I was irate, to say the least. My pet peeve is people who waste my time by either being late, or not informing/doing stuff which they are supposed to do. So yeah..love is patient yadayada. BUT. please. respect my time as much as I respect yours. Oh well. *shrugs* So I went home and watched happy stuff like Debbie Travis’ “facelift”. Oh man..i lovelovelove that show.
And the best part is still to come. Dinner, at Resort de Teo because Mistress De Teo is selling property in calutta so younger Mistress de Teo opened up her place. Oh boy oh boy. I will just let the pictures and captions do the talking.

This is how our feast began. The three of us (S. and P. weren’t there yet), four types of crab, some meat thing, some pseudo-blessed chicken, druken herby prawns, mantou, fishie, lovely lovely vegetable (the nua kind which don’t require chewing) and dessert (which deserves a picture on its own).

Closeup of the blackpepper crabbieeeeeeeee. The pincers were HUGE. almost as big as a paw. Half way through the dinner, S. and me stopped eating the crabs because our index fingers and thumbs were tired from peeling off the shell from the gigantic crabs. The pepper was excellent and the chilli crab sauce was FANTASTIC with the mantou.

S. and J. hamming it up for the camera before the meal started.

And dessert. That is the world’s best cheesecake which makes Mr. W. melt and Ms. C. crumble. Thick yummy graham cracker crust, creamchesse filling with generous generous helpings of chocolate chips which were slightly gooey and oh so yummy. Baked to perfection. I remember going for extra lit lessons with Ms. C. because J. had given her an entire pie dish during that lit class and Ms. C shared it with the people who turned up. Muahaha.

Me. Yum. YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Close up of my heavenly sweet cheesecake. Moist and gooey and crumbly and chocolatey all at the same time. And I was given a generous portion. YUM.

The after effects of our dining. Everything was gone except half of the pseudo-blessed chicken.

J. with half of the present S. and I got her (ok, disclaimer, S. bought and split the bill). It is this timer for cup noodles. It will ring after three minutes. It was for J. to bring back with her to America..not that I think there would be much beibeimian there, but still..hilarious. Also got her a pair of key chains, both of female figurines..one with a hook (hehhehheh) and another with horns (hehhehheh).

Me with S. after our cheesecake, watching Team America.

Me with S. who I finally get to meet after she’s been in Dresden for like two and a half years already!!! And she still has the same role she held in Exco, now only in Germany’s student council. haha. Some things never change.

I had alot of fun tonight. I guess it more than made up for the crappy shock I had in the afternoon. The company was good fun and the food was fantastic. The movie was so bad it was good. Haha. Team America had dialogue like [blond blue eyed marionette - terrorist fighter] “You mean it would be like 9-11?” [stern dark hair/eye marionette - terrorist fighter's instructor] “No, it would be a thousand times worse than 9-11.” [blond blue-eyed marionette] “Wow, that would be..*pregnant pause* Nine hundred and Eleven Thousand times worse”. OH MAN!!
Had to catch the 1145pm 166 bus home. Was afraid that the bus service would have stopped..but oh well, could save money.
So yeah, I can’t wait for tomorrow. I hope we manage to pull our stunt off tmr. Wahahaha.
Till next time,
debs…who can have her cheesecake and eat it.