many mini updates!

shopping outing with these 2 bizarre ladies (candice&sophia) *grins to show dimples*


and i FINALLY beat candice in squash for the first time 2 days ago! 18-16! AND before that in scrabble, by no less than 80 points! ok she WAS feeling sick during the squash game... and she DID get terible scrabble pieces... well... *another grin*


this is what happens when 2 pple who love to cook, love to eat as well...



lily has a lovely new couch :) as this odd-looking giant looks on...


*HUGE smile*

i LOVE musicals

two AMAZING videos

multi-language Do You Hear The People Sing


original cast performing At The End Of The Day and One Day More:

pics part 3: we made a baby!

we made a baby, and it's a boy!

(ok a stuffed dog named baby, to be exact :P)

so after a huge buffet lunch at suntec we were like (1) ooh customized stuffed toy shop let's go (2) ooh cute stuffed toys, maybe another time (3) oh let's just make a stuff toy now...


Candice, Baby's birth certificate, Baby and his baby, the little carrier Baby stayed in for a while...




additions to the usual car party :)

pics part 2: sam the faci!

have spent the holidays training to be a faci for the freshmen camp in a few weeks time... some photos :)

2-day faci workshop in school! this team was very nice to work with... nice people, fun atmosphere :)









3-day mock camp at OBS east coast (which i got home from yesterday lol)... now THIS was an amazing team... nice AND extremely competent. everything went super smoothly: broke many of the records for the games, built the team up through all the stages of development, and bonded really well in the process :) really awesome


we really DID wash out the competition lol. 4 minute timing for the barrles-and-beams raft activity! gosh! :)




playing silly games - camp staples :D


DA team

pics part 1: family back!

ok so my whole family has been home the past few weeks :)



the kids and their respective spouses hosted a 60th birthday party at raffles hotel for my dad :) i'm very proud of the video i made for him hehe







and cutest of all... my niece sophia came back too!! she's SO adorable :)









all of us also spent an afternoon at a professional photographer taking family and personal photos :) shall post some up soon!

dancers, a label, learnings and a journey

how many times must i say... it happened because the dancers just appeared out of nowhere and the banana trees just SPROUTED out of the ground and started swaying in the wind so i had no choice. duh.



well i'll touch on something i like to tell people, that happened very nicely for us: what is "being attached"? it's really just a label a guy and a girl give themselves to tell the rest of the world that both of them are "taken".

a relationship does not start the moment the couple call themselves "attached"; in fact it may be a long process that takes tears, sweat, and even some blood... :)



i've learned a lot about myself through this process. one lesson i learned was that i cannot be as adamantly unchanging as a i used to be, and that it's possible to change the way i behave and keep who i am - my beliefs and inward character - intact.



well, this was a journey i never expected would end up here. and i'm glad because where i am now is the nicest place i know. *smile*

what i feel now...

very happy and very blessed :)

doodles during finance class :D

this last drawing was done to a poem i scribbled in class, but lazy to dig the poem out now so here's just the drawing :D

mere hint

i now know one reason i felt that icy burden...

it's cos there's something there my heart wants so much, but it's not in the least attainable in the foreseeable future, and it's so vague and elusive that i don't know if i should even try

and the worst part is that this is something that i can't tell anyone, other than by elusive and vauge posts, like this one, that although only hints at it, is enough to get the burden off my chest for a while

don't read too much into this btw - whatever you're guessing is probably wrong. like i said it's just here for me to unload a bit of the burden lol

:)

frozen solid

i have this image of a hand holding my heart, but it's all frozen over. the hand and the heart: both frozen solid with icicles (well the ice things that hang from caves' ceilings) forming... as if the hand and heart were thrust into a -100 degrees winter and got frozen in an instant, and they are now just there, just like that. and the heart's trying to beat, but it's hard.

3 types of people in smu

3 types of people i've come across in smu so far

1. those who are really good at playing the stock market and don't brag about it
2. those who pretend to be good at playing the stock market and brag about it
3. those who really know nothing

just hit me very suddenly that i fall in category 3 :D

Tango con Amigos

It was a childhood dream come true. Dancing in a posh ballroom full of couples in suits and gowns, and little tables all around... With the lights dimmed and petals on the tables.


Like i said, posh.


The girl who braved walking around town with cuts in her foot to dance with me:


Perfomance by Javier Rodriguez and Andrea Misse from Argentina. They're... very, very famous. Watching them perform tango in the flesh is like watching Michael Jackson performing right in front of you.




Lovely :)

changing sam

just now a friend mentioned that my realising that people do change, is the biggest change of all

that's so true :)

i think i...

Just found the English translation for I Think I Love You... *mellow feelings*

It's very true, you know. Our lives are all like Korean dramas. It's just that we don't see things from the audience's viewpoint...

home alone: cooking dinner!

ok lesson 2: how i made tonight's dinner! ok so i stocked my fridge FULL of vegetables a few days ago and decided i'd cook something nice out of it tonight. a veggie meat dish and a veggie egg dish :D

1. rolled pants up. i'm a VERY messy cook.


2. ingredients prepared! i like to soak mushrooms in hot water for a long time so the mushroom smell isn't too strong :D deboned and sliced raw chicken thighs marinaded in soya sauce, sugar, vinegar, sesame oil and ginger powder... and a LOT of chopped onion for the stir-fry :D and that's bell peppers and spring onion :)


3. egg dish! easy! and healthy too... 5 egg whites, 1 egg yolk ^_^

turning it over chunk by chunk...


4. now the stir-fry. fried a whole lot of tiny chopped-up onion and garlic till the lot smells good, and i added some spring onion a mushroom at this point to get the flavour in the oil :) again, a healthy dish! lots of veg and olive oil!

next i put the chicken and bell peppers over the oil. some notion that the flavour will enter the chicken and peppers or something :D

whee!


5. final product!

and

home alone: building a cabinet!

ok today's lesson: how to build a cabinet you plan to use to store old books in your attic!

first, clean the place up! vacuum and wipe the dirt and dust away and do a good hard mop of the area :)


start building!



after some hard work and a few mistakes and frustration and etc, done!


:)