Friday, October 31, 2003
Yesterday, study PIPC2 then these words just pop out.....
Dark clouds gathering,
Lightning strikes awakening,
Fires ablazing,
Sunlight scorching,
Exams looming,
Me sweating.
Dreams never come true
4:46 pm
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Another entry about food!! I love to eat nice food....so another recommendation...hehe...I was taking the Mrt as alwaysto reach home when the train stopped at Kallang Mrt..it dawned on me that i wanted to eat the prawn mee that is nearby which many weeks back I had no chance to eat. I thought," Since i got a chance today, why not?" I quickly dashed out of the doors before they can close on me. Whew! Jalan Sultan Prawn Mee is situated along Jalan Ayer and is a stone's throw away only...ok lah...dun gimme the weird face =.='''' ...its actually about 100 to 200m away. It was very packed with many office people. I scanned for an empty table inside the shop. There are various pricing for prawn noodles and big prawn noodles, with a price tag of S$4-S$5 and S$8-S$10 respectively. I ordered the cheapest prawn noodle followed by cooling down with a cup of lemon juice and waited for my prawn mee to arrive. Within minutes, steaming hot prawn noodles was placed infront of me. The soup is dark brown and took a sip, its sweet plus there is substantial amount of oil floating too, i noted. I picked up my chopsticks and began feasting on the noodles. The mee is slightly "chewy", "tao kay" is crunchy and decorated with 5 prawns. I can count. Overall, i am satisfied with the meal, a change from the usual canteen in school. But sad to say, Itas canteen is closing at the end of the month. Gone will be the chicken stew from western muslim stall, chicken rice and noodles from noodles and rice stall, chicken chop and fish & chips from chinese western stall plus the range of drinks offered by the drinks stall. So much for my lunch...now must cramp for exams...zzzzzz...CEP
Dreams never come true
4:23 pm
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Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Today, i made good progress!!! I cut my hair to welcome the start of impending exams! I brought a newspaper clipping to the hair salon...but its actually not real hair salon...its inside a residential house. I sat down on the chair and showed her the design i wanted and further request her to make my hair look natural as if wind has blown my hair kind of styling. She promise to teach me how to style my hair!!!By the way, her name is ilin. She told me that this hair style is very short and ask me whether i really want to cut.. I laughed and replied," i have cut short hair my whole life. This hair is still ok." She snip and cut with her array of instruments for i think 30 to 40 minutes, occasionally chatting about my mom and her preference of keeping her hair style for so many years. Ilin had to slowly integrate my mom's hair style to be more fashionable, and true enough, it has improve since. In the midst of cutting, she recommended to have my hair highlighted to chestnut and look more obvious when i style my hair!! And even offered to be FOC!! I was thrilled and contemplated whether to as number 1, mom factor, she look at highlighted hair and she will screamed! Number 2, is school factor....Aiyah, before long, i said,"ok, but hope is not that obvious." She replied,"i can help u do till it blends with ur hair and give 2 tones." Before process starts, my mom came and took a look. She commented it looks nice and went out to take a seat, waiting for her turn. Ilin and myself have to talk quite softly but when ilin said about colour, my mom came in and asked, what colour?" We were both stunned and couldn't react so fast, but ilin was quick witted and quickly said she still need some more time to touch up my hair. My mom took another look and went out of the room. We both then converse in mandarin about the colour and i laughed uncontrollably at the way we had do things in secrecy. But there is a sense of heart pounding and heart stopping moments that u can't get very much in ur daily boring life. She sweep up all my black hair so my mom will not know the diff and quickly mixed the colour and applied onto my hair, combing every corner .Now my head looks like lots of gel, when ilin recieve a phone call from her hp. And my mom surprisely came in again during her conversation. Ilin quickly explained that its not colour but a special gel that has a brown colour and start "styling" my hair. My mom looked on it with interest. When the drama is over, ilin washed my hair and dried with the hair dryer. Preparing to really style my hair with mousse and gel. She showed me how to run my fingers through my hair with mousse and touched up with gel on the sides and the back. I was smiling and grinning at the results. My hair is short like Sun Yanzi but too bad my face isn't, plus a havoc kind of look..hehe...so unlike of me. I just look totally different person altogether. I like my new look, just can't wait to see the reactions of people this friday. And hopefully i will not get chased out of exam hall.........zzzzz
Dreams never come true
8:47 pm
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Sunday, October 26, 2003
WOW....three days of deliclious food....i'm going to increase my weight....but there's no hurry to rush me to the pyschologist. Hang on....i'm not worried about my weight compared to some...but ahem anyway i do not gain weight easily. I think so if i'm not wrong.
Let's zoom into today's highlight...I went Yogesh house in Macpherson for a lunch, courtesy of her mom!!! Joynes,Jasmin and myself were lucky enough to taste her mom's south indian cooking. Her mom was friendly and hosipitable to us as she asked us to eat more. We were treated to briyana rice with generous helping of kurma curry with chicken. The curry was delicious!!! I like curry so much could be due to the training since young.My paternal grandmother was a nonya cooked curry during Chinese New Year and help myself to it. Must be due to the nonya blood in me...heh.... I tried some yougut when offered. It was onions in salad cream. I thought the onions will taste raw and unpleasant but they fitted well with the cream!! Moments later, a plate of crispy papadum emerged from the kitchen. My eyes lighted up with anticipation because my favourite tidbit is served. Without any hesitation, i gobbled down a few pieces. i smiled. After that, we flipped through photographs and watch some of her personal videos.. I got myself another Henna, thanks to Yogesh!!! A design that looks intricate...one on my wrist that looks like a bracelet and another on my third finger that looks like a ring.... Last but not least, her kind mother parted her tidbits of muruku and papadum skins to let us savour her south indian cooking...... :)
Dreams never come true
8:48 pm
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Actually, i was suppose to post yesterday....com not cooperating with me...haiz..can't be help.. anyway...i want to introduce two famous food outlets within Chinatown, i ate with much anticipation. ..heh...my all time favourite food is crayfish horfun in Hong Lim Complex. The food stall is call Tuck Kee Ipoh Hor Fun located at blk 531A of Hong Lim Complex, a stall number 41A. I ordered crayfish and prawns hor fun costing S$3.50, they have raise the price by 50 cents, but what the heck, people still flock there anyway. The two plates were steaming hot!! Before long they are right into my mom and my growling tummies. But before fast forwarding to the ending part, rewind......On the plate was home made thin kway teow which u can't get elsewhere plus 2 halves of crayfish which i think not many people has eaten before must less seen them, if ur lucky there might be crayfish roe but doesn't appeal to me..heh...Some vegetables and prawns decorate the disposable plate and a generous serving of sweet flavoury gravy pour on top of the ensemble. And of course u cannot forgot about the hot chili that has a great combination with the prawns and crayfish....The chili taste really brings me fond memories...i remembered i used to taste chili similiar to this in primary school, it was when i was eating fishballs at 20 cents per piece and dip them in sweet sauce or chili...followed by 20 cents syrup drink next door...oops ventured to far from my topic...but ahhhh....what heavenly food!! After this, my mom and myself went to eat the Hock Lam Street Beef Kway Teow at 22 China Street #01-10 Far East Square, this contraversial dispute between two brothers. This stall is owned by Anthony Tan, elder one, who claims that his is the original Hock Lam Street beef kway teow inherited from his father and had work for him since 12. This bowl of kway teow do not come cheap with a price of at least S$4. My mom ordered S$5 and shared with me. My mom excluded the kway teow and much more "tao gay" is added. The black soup was sweet and my mom commented that they added some herbs, which i think is too little to even notice. The highlight of the dish is the smooth and tender beef dipped in chili, excellent. This two dishes enabled me to skip dinner altogether...hehehe....anyone interested can give me a call and we go flock there.....
Dreams never come true
8:27 pm
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Saturday, October 25, 2003
Reminisce of my Life
i only live 18 years of my life only...but anyway..i was from Zhangde Primary just 2 busstops from my house and my cca was a librarian.when i tell my friends i use to be librarian, they laughed..funny.. then in GESS...where i was in computer club for 2 years but canoeing start crawling into my life. i made a major switch to canoeing as my cca. boy, i love it so much even though the tranings were strenuous. We trained at the Kallang basin, warming up by running all the way to Benjamin Shears bridge and back..think its about 2.4km..there was once we ran to near the end of Marina Promenade Park. I think i was spliting in two. I was proud of my acheivements in Interschool Canoeing Championships...till this day i still remember the trials and tribulations during that period. But that's a past, now i'm in poly another major turn in life with no CCA...think i'm going to lose my sporty physique...shucks
Dreams never come true
12:51 pm
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Friday, October 24, 2003
Yesterday, I had a nice lunch of Indian crusine. After OSH quizzes, its time to unwind!! Yeah!! Jia Hui, her friend, Shani, Yogesh and I decided to eat lunch in Little India!! We went to Saranvan Abhavan restaurant along Belilios Lane to eat and found out from Yogesh that this restaurant is a franchise of a popular restaurant in India! ok...now focus on food. When i went into the restaurant, i have an instant feeling of being in a fast food outlet...no offense though...but some how i feel it should have an exotic Indian feel. But anyway, nice food is the major part here..heh..Yogesh recommended us to eat Poori set. It comes with 2 pieces of "chapati lookalike", pardon my ignorance, with 2 side dishes. With school's pushing for PBL learning, i independently asked Yogesh what are the names for the various food which is the "chapati lookalike" is actually poori la that accompanies dhal and potato masala. We can quench our thirst which is a favourite for indians is a yellow drink call badam kheer. Strange it may seem, just imagine it is bundung disguising in yellow coat...hehehe...It tasted foreign at first but gradually has a milk taste. The potato masala and dhal were nice....oops is nice even now..heh.. After this, i was still hungry and Yogesh treated me with 2 samosas that look like "bazhang" shape. It tasted rich and great to eat with a tinge of spices. The potato filling and crisp skin.......Upon watching table after table being served with metal cups, I was enlighten it was actually coffee not teh terik. I couldn't resist myself and ordered a cup. It came with a metal cup with coffee and about 5 cm high metal saucer. Yogesh do a teh terik treatment to it when it was set on the table. I caught a whiff of coffee fragrance...."This gonna be another heavenly drink," I thought. It was indeed true when i first sip it, its specially brewed and eh..its not ur typical 3 in 1 coffee. I was delighted with the array of food I ate.
Next, we went through a pasar malam nearby which sold many punjabi dresses and Shani was browsing, hoping to find a bargain. After viewing so many shops, we came by a little corner offering Henna services! It was priced S$5 a hand. I got myself a Henna on my left hand!!! I chose a simple design however it became slightly complicated and differ a little from my choice...haiz...but its ok. I'm not very particular anyway. From then on, i had to be aware of my surroundings, worrying not to bump into people or clothes that come in the way and spoil the henna design. It was a close shave once, lucky. Right after we finished browsing i make my way home, occasionally getting glances from other people, must be the henna, the eye catching degisn!
Dreams never come true
5:06 pm
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Saturday, October 18, 2003
Another poem......thought easily for first few verses but took some time for others.....hope i can get a feeling of how an artist felt......
Superstar
what does it feel like a superstar
shining brightly under the shimmering light
finding oneself only too bright
Surrounded by everyone making so it all so tight
Well verse in the arts
Intergrating three parts
Dancing ,singing, acting
These making up the terrific delicate cuts
Looking in the mirror dancing with grace
behind the beauty of all is only a face
when do I ever come out of this ugly phase
or continue to trap in a merciless place?
voices are trained to beautiful language, its assume
lifeless score sheets are turn to melodious tunes
will I be the one who croon
that grapes are not dried into prunes
Moving with fluidity
Emotions flowing like eternity
Will I make audiences dance with sanity?
Or go crazy with insanity?
Is this a price of fame
for I could not blame
This is a job I like to proclaim
"Life would not be the same
if ever arts is a nagging pain"
Dreams never come true
9:58 pm
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Sunday, October 12, 2003
On a lighter mood.........my dream of getting a console is not too far!!! After my exams, all my dreams and hopes will come!!!!! PS2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My fav game........
Onimusha………
He slice with his blade
Without having to contemplate
With vengeance n hate
Do I come to his aid?
Dreams never come true
8:57 pm
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Super sux.......was sick on thursday 9 oct....can feel my throat was dry the day before. I knew a wave of sickness will hit me,i know how to judge its coming!! I thought i just eat a few lozenges, things will be fine,but i'm soooo wrong. I was having CEP lab, i quickly call my mom to boil "luo han guo", her ultimate herbal remedy for sore throats. I didn't like drinking it but what the heck, when ur so ill, ur just wanna try anything to sooth that throat. I was taking ampicillin at first but it didn't work so my mom gave me a stronger dose of antibiotics, which is the erythromycin and sort of helps. My mom have a concoction of drugs for me to take, Ventolin, chlorpheniramine,polaramine, the usual panadol and a innocent green pill call Bisolvon. I was getting better day by day until today then i realized the innocent green pill is to cough out the phlegm. And not that bad, i thought. When i start coughing, i can't stop as i can feel the phlegm stuck at the throat refusing to come out and cough even harder, using all the little strength i had! My tears rolled down and continued coughing till i felt like vomitting the phlegm!!! I feel so angry and betrayed as to take this drug and make me suffer for the good results of this drug.. I was so angry i glared at my mom and only gave her short and abrupt answers when she ask me if i felt better!? i was not given a choice loh, thankfully Neo gets to choose between the red and blue pill....i was forced to take the red pill.......zzzzzzzz From now on, i better take care of myself and I dun have to suffer these uncomfortness any sooner. But sad to say, those evil bacteria will show no mercy against the human cell and will attempt to wreck havoc and bring me into a world of misery...shucks
Dreams never come true
8:49 pm
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Friday, October 03, 2003
Ahh...qian nu you hun again... I begin to discover 2 dialogues the Empress had with 2 different persons..I realized the Empress isn't real but the Moon Demon!!! She told Qiye to go look for xiao qian!! ISn't it following fate of the tragic 7 lifetime lovers??? Meeting equates to more troubles..... Empress now tell Meiji not to interfere in the affairs of Yuer, by letting her do whatever she wanted which is to kill the Emperor!! This means there will be chaos with both the humans and the demons!! Why?! ah...this is a story...if everything is so peaceful then there will be no drama serials...such a paradox......haiz....some how though humans like drama...hahaha
Dreams never come true
12:10 am
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Thursday, October 02, 2003
Movie Highlight of the Week!!
Infernal Affairs II
I wanted to watch my teacher mr kim...but timing of the show was suppose to watch was wrong. With the internal conflict of watching and not watching any movie, ahh what the heck...just watch, ended up watching Infernal Affairs. And here i go one hand with a coke and another with nachos..my mouth hanging on to the poor ticket..by then my saliva would have drip if not for my swift moment..ahaha...sat at row K03 in PS theatre 8. Adverts are sometimes so annoying...ahh...nvm ..now back to the action. I watch the first Infernal Affairs and found the plot abit cheem and had great impact. Now i am here to watch the second part which in actual fact is the prelude of the original. I found it to be quite confusing..just wonder if those who didn't watch it will geddit..hmmm…now to what I interprete from the show.
HAiz..the story so cheem until tired to write out….i’ll just post comments..i think Shawn Yue’s acting is not bad…better then Edison Chen….The story involves Shawn as Yau a brother to Hau, technically should be from mafia type of family but has join the police force to arrest his very own brother?! I can imagine him undergoing internal struggle.. arresting his brother when he treated him quite nicely OR having to face a dead brother due to manipulation between another person from the mafia or the police? Will ever justice overcome emotions? Wonder if this is so……maybe Infernal Affairs 3 will tell me… I can’t find a link between Edison’s character in the movie..beats me…must read First….lolz.....
Dreams never come true
9:38 pm
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........qian nu you hun is just so shiok and touching!!! Episode 30 of Qian Nu You Hun is just is just too good to describe!?!? The whole episode was focusing on the pair...Yan Hongye and Zhuge Liuyun!!!! Bai fa hongye so cold but some how chemistry is bonkers, able to make the impossible into possible. Or is it just my wishful thinking? Or just a innocent girl looking for love?? Or just a cruel fact that its a hopeless romantic tv show that people watch?? aiyah.....who cares, i like can le...wahhahaha.... just wonder whether real life is so damn cruel at times...people only felt real love when it is going to be lost....haiz...let's now listen poems.........
Why am I not allow to feel
When all things have come to a kneel
When will my wounds ever will heal
When will this feeling be
Like sweet honeys of the bee
When will ever I feel so free like the sea
Dreams never come true
12:08 am
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