2 more weeks of classes, 1 week of Final exams and then it's Winter Break!! woohooo!!
Time has really flown by this semester. I have always hated the few weeks after Thanksgiving Break. It's always so much more stressful than the other weeks of the semester.
Thanksgiving was good with the O'Connells. Ate a lot, rested a lot, shopped a lot... Ah.. the bliss of shopping really makes everything so much more better. I got great deals too, for all the things that I wanted. Sweaters *check* for $8 each. Boots *check* marked down from $70 to $20. Black Flats *check* for $12. Jeans *check* 2 pairs for $15 each. Tank tops *check* 2 pairs for $7 each. See! See! Good deals right!!!!
Been having an annoying cough since last week. Can't go to bed without a coughing fit and having to pop in a cough drop to suck on the entire night.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
How could you not love Facebook...
When you open it and find that pictures like these are posted of you...
Tinikling Performance at Diwali
Memories of performing at Diwali for my Senior Year. It cannot get better than that. How many of you can say you've performed at an Indian cultural show, let alone performed an indian dance on stage before (I did the bhangra!) Whoop whoop!
Then, there's pictures like these.. that make me cringe with embarassment but yet reminds me of the good ol' days of innocence.
4 Mawar days with Mrs Ng. Who knew, Mrs Ng and I would actually be friends till this day?
Standard 3 with Puan Sarojini.
Standard 6 with Mrs Loke.
Jeez, how can you hate facebook?!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Ah, I can't wait for a Break
Thanksgiving break starts next Wednesday... wooohooo!
This break, I'll be spending it with the O'Connells.. Bridget decided to make Jin and I her 'show and tell' to bring back home with her. Thanks, B. I appreciate it.
She said, "Su su, come home with me. My mum would love having you and your brother home with us for Thanksgiving. Plus you and her will have so much fun entertaining each other. She'll teach you everything and make you do things with her like the last time when you were the only one who would sit down and decorate that piece of cardboard with her while Annie and I just did our own thing on the couch. It'll be so fun! Come come come!"
Haha. Who can resist that persuasive speech? Not I. So yeah, Thanksgiving with the O'Connells this year.
Can't say that I'm looking forward to that 9 hour drive all the way from Oxford to New York state though. Not New York city this time, but the suburbs area.
The housemates and I had one of our crazy ridiculous episodes again a few nights ago. Annie was making fun of how my 'best friend' arrives at irregular intervals every month ever since the semester started.
Annie: "Su, it's because you're sleeping around! You know how our cycle is affected by the girls you live with. Stop Sleeping Around! Stick to one bed!" (I jump from my bed to B's bed every other day, depending on who sleeps later)
Bridget: "It's because you're not around anymore! Su loves me more now that's why she sleeps with me. Don't be jealous!"
Annie: "Hey! I lived with her first. She loves me more"
Bridget: "She kissed me on the cheek the other day before leaving for class. She didn't do it for you!"
Annie: "WHAT! SU! Whatever! She hates your boy!"
Bridget: "For good reason! But she doesn't like yours too!"
Annie: "Su, who do you hate more...???"
Me: *laughing like crazy and how 2 girls are fighting over me* "I don't hate anyone. Don't put words in my mouth!"
Bridget and Annie: *races over to me to get kisses on the cheek*
Me: "ARRRGGGHHHHHHH. Sexual harassment!!!"
Luckily Dong was around to save me from the whole scenario... then the two of them started harassing him too.. -___-
The episodes end with the two of them having a 'scarf fight' by smacking each other with the ends of the scarf that they were wearing around the house (don't ask me why).
Yeah, you can probably guess by now who the mellow one in the house is... Me!
And the crazy ones... The two of them of course.
Imagine how unbearable and awkwardly weird it was when the both of them weren't talking to each other for a week! The house was a deathbed.. eerily quiet. With no "Ekkkkk"s from Annie and "Ehhhhh"s from Bridget things at Apt 11 really wasn't the same at all!
Ah, good times... good times at Apt 11.
Have I told you girls how much you make me laugh and brighten up my cloudy days?
This break, I'll be spending it with the O'Connells.. Bridget decided to make Jin and I her 'show and tell' to bring back home with her. Thanks, B. I appreciate it.
She said, "Su su, come home with me. My mum would love having you and your brother home with us for Thanksgiving. Plus you and her will have so much fun entertaining each other. She'll teach you everything and make you do things with her like the last time when you were the only one who would sit down and decorate that piece of cardboard with her while Annie and I just did our own thing on the couch. It'll be so fun! Come come come!"
Haha. Who can resist that persuasive speech? Not I. So yeah, Thanksgiving with the O'Connells this year.
Can't say that I'm looking forward to that 9 hour drive all the way from Oxford to New York state though. Not New York city this time, but the suburbs area.
The housemates and I had one of our crazy ridiculous episodes again a few nights ago. Annie was making fun of how my 'best friend' arrives at irregular intervals every month ever since the semester started.
Annie: "Su, it's because you're sleeping around! You know how our cycle is affected by the girls you live with. Stop Sleeping Around! Stick to one bed!" (I jump from my bed to B's bed every other day, depending on who sleeps later)
Bridget: "It's because you're not around anymore! Su loves me more now that's why she sleeps with me. Don't be jealous!"
Annie: "Hey! I lived with her first. She loves me more"
Bridget: "She kissed me on the cheek the other day before leaving for class. She didn't do it for you!"
Annie: "WHAT! SU! Whatever! She hates your boy!"
Bridget: "For good reason! But she doesn't like yours too!"
Annie: "Su, who do you hate more...???"
Me: *laughing like crazy and how 2 girls are fighting over me* "I don't hate anyone. Don't put words in my mouth!"
Bridget and Annie: *races over to me to get kisses on the cheek*
Me: "ARRRGGGHHHHHHH. Sexual harassment!!!"
Luckily Dong was around to save me from the whole scenario... then the two of them started harassing him too.. -___-
The episodes end with the two of them having a 'scarf fight' by smacking each other with the ends of the scarf that they were wearing around the house (don't ask me why).
Yeah, you can probably guess by now who the mellow one in the house is... Me!
And the crazy ones... The two of them of course.
Imagine how unbearable and awkwardly weird it was when the both of them weren't talking to each other for a week! The house was a deathbed.. eerily quiet. With no "Ekkkkk"s from Annie and "Ehhhhh"s from Bridget things at Apt 11 really wasn't the same at all!
Ah, good times... good times at Apt 11.
Have I told you girls how much you make me laugh and brighten up my cloudy days?
"Good friends are ones you can say the words poop, pee, and fart with. Whom you'll feel only 1 minute of embarassment with when they discovered that you accidentally forgot to flush the toilet."
Thursday, November 12, 2009
If someone gave you flowers...
Would you remember?
Coz I didn't. And I felt bad. Haha.
I have a memory problem. I hate acknowleging it but I really do. I think I'm like my mum. We get up from the couch and then head to do something, and we get distracted from doing that something because we see something else along the way that needs to be done, then we forget about what we were originally going to do... and then we walk around aimlessly, wondering what it is that we originally wanted to do. It's rather frustrating.
Like me, I walk to the kitchen to get some cili sos to eat with something, then I see plates piled in the sink. I stop, stare at it and then start washing it because I really cannot tahan seeing so damn many plates in the sink. So I first start putting away the clean dry dishes from the strainer into the cupboard, then I start washing. Then I have to wipe up the sink when I'm done. I turn over and look at the stove.. There are some stains of food from 'college kids' cooking. (Mum and dad, don't freak out) I wipe it off. Then I see that there are water stains on the counter, and wipe those off too. Oh, the Brita water filter isn't filled with water... so I fill that up. Then I head back to the living room to continue eating. I sit down, pick up my spoon... realize that I don't have my cili sos. So I put my bowl down with a sigh and go back into the kitchen to get my cili sos. Except that one of my housemates calls me to look at something. And I forget all about the cili sos all over again. Haha.
But anyway, I digress.
I guess I remember different things that people do for me, with me or say to me. And most of the time, it's not the type of presents they got me for Christimas or whatever.. it's other things like.. Annie, how she would always tell me "Suling, you know your opinions matter a lot to me. If it's anyone that I would listen to, it's you." or Hui who would always be my comrade right next to me (all the time) whenever we go out in groups. I don't know why it's always like that, but it just is. We stick to each other, and find one another across the sea of people when we lose sight of the other. My brother, whom despite us getting into petty arguments (most of time, I know I'm the one who starts it) would still do huge ass favors for me like moving all my apartment furniture on his own to his room. Or Dong, who would always always be willing to do any big or small favor for me, who's the person I can turn to when I need a break from everyone. Laila, who would always try on clothes with me without buying them, who would never ever judge any bad behavior or mine. Jovi, who despite so many years, still bothers to read my long ass complaining emails, whom I know when we finally meet again, we'll just pick up where we left off like that *snaps fingers*. Yuyee, whom I always think as that person who would run in the rain with me without an umbrella. Satvinder, whom always always drives me around when he cans... whom doesn't mind linking arms with me in the mall.
It's things like these I guess that leaves impressions on me. Imprints in my memory. Whatever you want to call it. Small things that span over a long period of time, know what I mean. Things that you know you can count on. That it's not that you expect that person to do, but that you know they would try their best to do if they could. It's not the flowers, or anything like that.
Then again, ,maybe I'm just making excuses for my bad memory and just justifying what I remember to be "more important".
Oops.
Coz I didn't. And I felt bad. Haha.
I have a memory problem. I hate acknowleging it but I really do. I think I'm like my mum. We get up from the couch and then head to do something, and we get distracted from doing that something because we see something else along the way that needs to be done, then we forget about what we were originally going to do... and then we walk around aimlessly, wondering what it is that we originally wanted to do. It's rather frustrating.
Like me, I walk to the kitchen to get some cili sos to eat with something, then I see plates piled in the sink. I stop, stare at it and then start washing it because I really cannot tahan seeing so damn many plates in the sink. So I first start putting away the clean dry dishes from the strainer into the cupboard, then I start washing. Then I have to wipe up the sink when I'm done. I turn over and look at the stove.. There are some stains of food from 'college kids' cooking. (Mum and dad, don't freak out) I wipe it off. Then I see that there are water stains on the counter, and wipe those off too. Oh, the Brita water filter isn't filled with water... so I fill that up. Then I head back to the living room to continue eating. I sit down, pick up my spoon... realize that I don't have my cili sos. So I put my bowl down with a sigh and go back into the kitchen to get my cili sos. Except that one of my housemates calls me to look at something. And I forget all about the cili sos all over again. Haha.
But anyway, I digress.
I guess I remember different things that people do for me, with me or say to me. And most of the time, it's not the type of presents they got me for Christimas or whatever.. it's other things like.. Annie, how she would always tell me "Suling, you know your opinions matter a lot to me. If it's anyone that I would listen to, it's you." or Hui who would always be my comrade right next to me (all the time) whenever we go out in groups. I don't know why it's always like that, but it just is. We stick to each other, and find one another across the sea of people when we lose sight of the other. My brother, whom despite us getting into petty arguments (most of time, I know I'm the one who starts it) would still do huge ass favors for me like moving all my apartment furniture on his own to his room. Or Dong, who would always always be willing to do any big or small favor for me, who's the person I can turn to when I need a break from everyone. Laila, who would always try on clothes with me without buying them, who would never ever judge any bad behavior or mine. Jovi, who despite so many years, still bothers to read my long ass complaining emails, whom I know when we finally meet again, we'll just pick up where we left off like that *snaps fingers*. Yuyee, whom I always think as that person who would run in the rain with me without an umbrella. Satvinder, whom always always drives me around when he cans... whom doesn't mind linking arms with me in the mall.
It's things like these I guess that leaves impressions on me. Imprints in my memory. Whatever you want to call it. Small things that span over a long period of time, know what I mean. Things that you know you can count on. That it's not that you expect that person to do, but that you know they would try their best to do if they could. It's not the flowers, or anything like that.
Then again, ,maybe I'm just making excuses for my bad memory and just justifying what I remember to be "more important".
Oops.
Monday, November 9, 2009
a *better* normal
Do you remember those bad weeks that you had..? And then when that week is over, a good week follows. There's that week where everything goes wrong... friends and arguing, and then the week where everyone's all fine and dandy with each other again, and the sun seems to be shining brighter than usual, or happy things seem to happen randomly every so often throughout the week. I think bad weeks or bad days just make us appreciate the happy days more. Without bad days, how are we to appreciate when the good days come along?
Over the past weekend, my friends and I performed our Filipino Tinikling dance at Diwali. YEAH! It's senior year and I actually got to perform at Diwali. It was really exciting. I should have told my parents about it, but with practices and rehearsals, things were rather hectic. We even added a short Indian Bhangra part in it. It was nothing less than Amazing!
Things at the apartment is back to normal. And I can't help but smile, walking through the door and seeing Annie and Bridget back in the living room, sitting across from each other, making fun of me. I had to rush back from class today because I received two desperate phonecalls from the both of them informing me of the arrival of our Forever 21 clothes. Yeah, I'm a subscriber to Forever21's online website, and received a promotion email about being able to buy clothes with free shipping from 10/31 to 11/2. Obviously we went online and shopped. We went a little crazy, not gonna lie. And have been waiting with anticipation since. I walked through the door and the two of them were already tearing the package apart like hungry crows to a carcass! Then of course, we did the much needed fashion show for each other. I didn't realize that the colors of the tops I picked out were all a different shade of green. I thought I picked out a variety of colors, but I guess not. Still happy with my purchases though. ;D
I haven't had Starbucks in ages. The Peppermint Hot Chocolate that I had last night while sitting outside was amazing. Oh, and while I was going through the crap in my wallet, I found 3 McD coupons for *free* medium fries, a McD gift card and a Starbucks giftcard that I received last Christmas that I totally forgot about.
I can tell.. this week will be a good one.
The house next to my aparment complex is having a party with music blasting and a tonne of people screaming. "Do you know what it feels like, loving someone.. who's in a rush to throw you away" *singing* Oh, I haven't heard that song in long time!
Did I tell you that the weather in Oxford in going to be sunny and warm (Autumn standards) this whole week. Even Better!
Over the past weekend, my friends and I performed our Filipino Tinikling dance at Diwali. YEAH! It's senior year and I actually got to perform at Diwali. It was really exciting. I should have told my parents about it, but with practices and rehearsals, things were rather hectic. We even added a short Indian Bhangra part in it. It was nothing less than Amazing!
Things at the apartment is back to normal. And I can't help but smile, walking through the door and seeing Annie and Bridget back in the living room, sitting across from each other, making fun of me. I had to rush back from class today because I received two desperate phonecalls from the both of them informing me of the arrival of our Forever 21 clothes. Yeah, I'm a subscriber to Forever21's online website, and received a promotion email about being able to buy clothes with free shipping from 10/31 to 11/2. Obviously we went online and shopped. We went a little crazy, not gonna lie. And have been waiting with anticipation since. I walked through the door and the two of them were already tearing the package apart like hungry crows to a carcass! Then of course, we did the much needed fashion show for each other. I didn't realize that the colors of the tops I picked out were all a different shade of green. I thought I picked out a variety of colors, but I guess not. Still happy with my purchases though. ;D
I haven't had Starbucks in ages. The Peppermint Hot Chocolate that I had last night while sitting outside was amazing. Oh, and while I was going through the crap in my wallet, I found 3 McD coupons for *free* medium fries, a McD gift card and a Starbucks giftcard that I received last Christmas that I totally forgot about.
I can tell.. this week will be a good one.
The house next to my aparment complex is having a party with music blasting and a tonne of people screaming. "Do you know what it feels like, loving someone.. who's in a rush to throw you away" *singing* Oh, I haven't heard that song in long time!
Did I tell you that the weather in Oxford in going to be sunny and warm (Autumn standards) this whole week. Even Better!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Senior year Halloween..
My favorite pictures from Halloween!!
The group picture of us getting ready in my apartment, minus Qiao Wen and Bridget... There's the sailor, Wonder Woman (i didn't even know that I was Wonder Woman until someone pointed it out and I was like.. Oh, yeah! ;D), the office hottie, Christmas tree, Queen of Hearts, Dorothy from Wizard of Oz and the po-po (police woman)
Now, how often do you see Wonder Woman and a sailor hand in hand? =D
Awesome roomie picture.
Bumped into Megan in recession uptown.. ;D
This is how busy and packed Uptown always is during Halloween. Everyone's in costumes, roaming the streets. It's pretty crazy.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 22nd BRIDGET!
May senior year, despite it's challenges and difficulties be a memorable one for you.
Opening her birthday pack from Annie and I. Amongst other stuff, we gave her a 'much wanted' "Everybody loves an asian boy" tshirt.
Party food in line with B's "Desperate Housewife" themed party. Pumpkin chip cookies, veggie and ranch dip, preppy colored sugar cookies, peanut butter bar... and green and pink napkins and plates.. ;D
Love you, Bridget!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
I truly believe....
That we owe it to ourselves to be a happy and content person. Yeah, life gets us down sometimes... you don't do well in the GRE, you get a bad grade for an exam, the friends you're with don't get along, your professor just ruined your day by calling you out in class, the guy you like don't exactly think that being friends with you is a good decision, the people you work with turn out to be jerks... but at the end of it all, I think it is up to ourselves to try and make ourselves happier. What is the use of dwelling on sad and angry emotions if it's going to end up consuming your mind and you can't even eat, sleep, party or do homework.
I know, easier said than done right? But honestly, life sucks sometimes. And the things we want end up slipping from our grasps. But what can we do about it? It happens. "Shit happens," as Joliana would always say. I say it's okay to wallow in sadness and anger and annoyance for a period of time, that's natural. But then after that short wallow period, I think we owe it to ourselves to pick up our feet and get on with our lives. I honestly don't think that it is at all healthy to those emotions consume your daily life. Why on earth would you want yourself to be miserable and let down by all these shitty things that life throws you. Dwelling in your hole of negative emotions only mean that you're letting yourself be defeated. Do you not love yourself enough to want to be happy? Do you not look around and see that other people around you are worried about you? Do you honestly think that wallowing in your so called 'grief' is going to change anything? It's not going to change anything.
You either choose to move on, or you continue shedding those useless tears. And honestly, why on earth would you want to waste your emotions, your thoughts, your tears... on a person who has continually hurt you, or who doesn't even really care about you? Why would you let your anger out on other people just because you are unhappy? You can't force circumstances to change directions. What you can do is to live with those circumstances and make peace with them. If you make a step and you realize that it's the wrong one, you can always take a step in a different direction, and the more steps you take, the further you will get from that wrong path. It doesn't mean that you wasted your time and energy taking that one wrong step, at least you know the outcome of that path and won't forever be wondering.
If you don't make that choice to be happy with yourself and the decisions you make,
it doesn't matter that it's a sunny day outside and the birds are chirping...
it doesn't matter that your friends are going out of their way to cheer you up...
it doesn't matter that you have a huge slice of yummy chocolate cake in front of you...
it doesn't matter that your favorite song came on the radio just as you turned it on...
Nothing will matter...
until you decide that you owe it to yourself to be happy.
Correct?
I know, easier said than done right? But honestly, life sucks sometimes. And the things we want end up slipping from our grasps. But what can we do about it? It happens. "Shit happens," as Joliana would always say. I say it's okay to wallow in sadness and anger and annoyance for a period of time, that's natural. But then after that short wallow period, I think we owe it to ourselves to pick up our feet and get on with our lives. I honestly don't think that it is at all healthy to those emotions consume your daily life. Why on earth would you want yourself to be miserable and let down by all these shitty things that life throws you. Dwelling in your hole of negative emotions only mean that you're letting yourself be defeated. Do you not love yourself enough to want to be happy? Do you not look around and see that other people around you are worried about you? Do you honestly think that wallowing in your so called 'grief' is going to change anything? It's not going to change anything.
You either choose to move on, or you continue shedding those useless tears. And honestly, why on earth would you want to waste your emotions, your thoughts, your tears... on a person who has continually hurt you, or who doesn't even really care about you? Why would you let your anger out on other people just because you are unhappy? You can't force circumstances to change directions. What you can do is to live with those circumstances and make peace with them. If you make a step and you realize that it's the wrong one, you can always take a step in a different direction, and the more steps you take, the further you will get from that wrong path. It doesn't mean that you wasted your time and energy taking that one wrong step, at least you know the outcome of that path and won't forever be wondering.
If you don't make that choice to be happy with yourself and the decisions you make,
it doesn't matter that it's a sunny day outside and the birds are chirping...
it doesn't matter that your friends are going out of their way to cheer you up...
it doesn't matter that you have a huge slice of yummy chocolate cake in front of you...
it doesn't matter that your favorite song came on the radio just as you turned it on...
Nothing will matter...
until you decide that you owe it to yourself to be happy.
Correct?
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