i wanna go back...

to Finland.

i miss the weather, the air, the school, the spring, the peacefulness...and of course my wonderful roomie.. i miss u morwenna~~

Now having the 1 week break for this semester. Would be feeling kinda relaxed if there is no fyp. sigh. though there is a midterm coming.. feeling abit stressed abt my student who's gonna take her exam soon. I really hope she'd do well, and i will continue to teach her next yr. her mum is nice to me, even bought me mooncakes!

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Sometimes i just feel very stressed. I think cause this sem's timetable is empty. And the more that I am not really doing things, the more stressed I get. I guess its the feeling like I should be busy, but I am not. But anyway, midterm is coming and project will be more xiong as time passes. fyp.. ArGHHHHhhh:(

Regret cutting my hair again. Everyone who saw me in my newest short hair gave me lousy comments. Well, I wanted to cut it into a nicer shape, but it turned out bad. Everyone told me my previous hairstyle is nicer, and i truly think so too. hai.. wat can i do other than wait for it to grow long again..

Photos of Me, Myself and I... zi lian kuang.. :P

The "Ru Hua" photo!! Scary rite! so UGLY

before haircut

after haircut

Ratatouille

Remy, the rat from Ratatouille
he is much braver than me
he thinks positively
he is confident
he is willing to step out of his comfort zone to pursue his dreams
he is able to persuade others to realise that his dream is realistic
he is not afraid of what his dad and what other rats think of him
and most importantly
he knows what he wants

Ratatouille the movie is cute. though i still find the older works of Pixar better... like finding nemo n the incredibles. :)

thanks

eyebrows!

I went for eyebrow embroidery (xiu mei) 2 days ago... It was a really terrifying experience!

First, I went there cause 'xin xue lai cao'... my cousin was telling me about it and my heart itchy so she recommended me a place and brought me there. So my parents and my cousin went to amk hub there together.

The girl started to pluck off my eyebrows and after she was done, I thought that the shape was not bad! But it wasn't finished yet, because i came here to do the embriodery, not just plucking. And so the girl drew eyebrows for me to see if i like it or not. But the process was long and tedious, and tiring.

too thick on one side.

unbalanced. one up one down... etc.

she drew and redrew for so many times, and then she kept plucking my brows to make it balance. In the end, when she erased off everything, i almost had no brows anymore. I was so terrified and so worried that she cannot get the right shape and balanced brows and my mum was nagging non-stop... Felt terrible and upset, have to pay so much ($250) and yet not being able to enjoy the process. Worse still, walk out eyebrowless.

after what seemed like 10 years, another girl finally got it right. And then she started the real process of embroidery. It was painful. Quite... but I think I got quite a high threshold of pain (since i can deal with removing 4 teeth at one go when i wanted to wear braces last time).

Didn't feel confident that my brows look nice at all after that. Cos I think it looks really TATOOed. And super dark. And my bro laughed at me non stop... yanjun found it weird too. But now then i realised what eyebrow embroidery is: the dark disgusting brows on the skin are starting to shed, and the remaining brows looks not too bad after all! stupid me.. didnt even know they will shed off, thought it will look so damn dark for a long time. Ha... give comments when u see me! --end of story :P

Me with short hair and my naughty but adorable tuition girl whom i really love.

*before the 'eyebrow operation'*

She didnt do well this time round for her exams. scared that im not a good teacher, i hope i am. if she can do well by the end of the yr, then i really know what i wanna be in 1 year's time.. need some assurance that i can teach.

Beautiful fireworks on 18th August

The night view of Marina Bay.

I was there for the FIREWORKS! Of course, the actual thing is much more colorful and exciting than these photos... The music and the fireworks "worked together" and made it really amazing. The different ways the fireworks danced in the sky and even appeared from the water was really cool. i cant describe much, its just a "i hope it never ends" thing!



this is my most favourite photo. i don't like red colour but this was really pretty.

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Today! I acheived something really GREAT!!! Haha... i got a super high score (to me) for bowling today! It is such a superb acheivement, but yet I fear that it is just once... I didn't know how I managed to get these scores also. I was soooo happy that i needed to take a photo of it since it doesnt happen often. (but i really hope it does in future.. heheheh) No open frames, and I would have nearly strike all for a 9pin tap competition!

Yet i still feel a bit down inside me.. a little stressed, a little of skin problem bothering me, feeling unconfident of myself for my final year project. I will be meeting my supervisor for the first time tomr, and hope that it goes well and i know what to do after that. And his opinion of me.. sigh, after all 15% of the marks consistute of my working attitude aka what he thinks of me. So stressful and so bothered. The sad thing is that I think he has no impression of me at all, even though I took his module before and contacted him during that time too. Plus, I am his mentee too... but i never talked much to him. Stressed...............

New haircut!!

Finally! I changed my hairstyle! I've been having looooong hair since Sec 3? yea.. about 7 years already, and I finally decided that it's time to change a new look. Hee.. Now my shoulder length hair only requires a little bit of shampoo and conditioner, and less than 30 seconds to comb! Haha. My damaged hair since half a yr ago has also been got rid of... Hai one thing that i regret is I never take a photo of that bunch of hair that was being chopped off--> could have posted it here. The barber tied my long hair together and cut it off at one go, and the whole bunch was on the floor. Could have used it as a broom or something hahaha. Regret that i never take it home for fun. :P

Watched a great movie -- jay chou's Secret. Nice twist and surprisingly wonderful plot. its a must-watch! really.

School's starting on monday... sobzz... doubt whether i have the energy to STUDY, after sooooo long.

bored.........

been slacking nowadays. waiting for school to start... wish i'm doing something more productive but this is really the very last holiday to nua!! Argh. Im really not looking forward to the hectic nus life again... sometimes i wish i can just rewind back to the days in finland where my main concern is "what should i cook today for lunch?" Sometimes when i'm too bored i'll just walk to the big supermarket and take my time to choose the ingredients for my food. The wide choices of cheese, pasta and ready marinated meat is so amazing as compared to ntuc. aww.. how i miss finland.

Just had a tuition session with my pri 1 kid. enjoying it more n more, cuz she is more willing to listen to me now that she is closer to me.

Suffered nose bleed after taking the medicine, so the doc advised me to take it on alternate days instead. now better alr...

Update on Taiwan trip!

Shopping everyday... alot of xiao chi so we ate them everyday! Cheap cheap bags and clothes, cheap food... totally a place for girls. :) Let the photos do the talking. hee

yummies

coffin bread

ah ma de suan mei tang

on the mrt

the tallest building

jiu fen

dan shui

lovers' bridge

and lastly, of cos KTV!! ok la, 15 per person still got shui jiao and popcorn chicken :)

Happy Birthday Mingwai!

Clarke quay's central is not bad! The shops are quite different from what I see in usual shopping centres. We celebrated ming's birthday at a japanese pasta restaurant today.. the food is yummy! Its called Pasta de Waraku.

mouth-watering huh.. there's this special Waku sauce and creamy tomato sauce :)


Heard about this doughnut factory 4hr queue...?!?! (worse than going into Vatican City!!!) Gonna check it out @raffles city.

leaving sg again

Been slacking and doing nothing since i came back. Feel very tired these few days. Doing nothing much productive except to give a pri 1 kid tuition... So far we had only 2 lessons together. Sigh, she gave me quite abit of headache for the 2nd lesson. Cried, shy, scared of me( i dont know why), didnt learn her spelling, didn't want tuition. And i'm going to be away for one week.. when i come back i can only expect her to still treat me like a stranger.

Yup I am going to taiwan for a short hol from mon-fri with my two lovely friends. Yay! So excited to see the fashion there and buy clothes! haha. But heard that temperature is 35 deg.. omG...

s.h.e album is really good.

durian season, have been eating durian like 4 times a week. that's quite alot...

skin condition has been really bad. Finally went to see a doctor, really hoping that i would recover by 3 mths as the doc said. :(

Xi Jie

Launch of new JJ album!! :P

France, Paris

Paris is really pretty, but not as romantic as i thought :)
Honestly, I am really lazy to update abt every single country liao. Ha.. So i guess I will just stop after I finish Paris... :P

Arc de Triumph

Paris Disneyland!

favourite disney~

Notre dame

My Favourite Eiffel Tower

Super super views from the top

Lovely Eiffel Shadow

Moulin Rouge

Has been a week since i came back. Really feels great to be home. :):):)

finland kakis.. let's bbq today! :P

UK, London

We started off really badly. Daryl's luggage went missing after our flight from Finland to London. We intended to leave our luggages with tingjun and we were due to leave London the next day, even if the luggage arrive tomorrow, it would not be in time. In the end we couldnt get it in time and had to leave without all our neccessities. Luckily though, it was found and sent to tingjun later on.

Didn't really had the time and mood to tour London.

Famous red buses.

On the london bridge. No.. its not falling down!

Surprisingly the famous bridge in London is not the London bridge but this. Tower bridge.

The London Eye

Big Ben.

London's tube is veryvery busy. The lines are really complicated and the staff have to update the status of the lines every hourly or half hrly at every station. When the tube is down, its really troublesome.

After a bu san bu si day in London, we headed off for the airport. And from here on, our hearts raced like crazy. OMG. I will never forget this "amazing race". We went to the nearest station where we can catch a bus to the airport. But we realised that from there the bus takes nearly 2 hrs to get to the airport!! And we just missed one (luckily, if not we sure late still). So we flagged a taxi, and the driver told us it's too expensive! 80pounds = abt 270sing! And so he told us he can fetch us to Victoria station to take a train to the airport. The taxi journey took quite long as the roads were busy and we realised that we could have saved the time and money by taking the tube (we alr have the day pass to the tube). When we reached, we ran to catch the nex train to the airport, took 40mins. No, it was not yet a relief, cause when we reached the station, we had to take a stupid 5-10 mins shuttle bus! Ok and so we reached the airport and to our greatest horror, the airport is so disgusting - the check in queues are sooooooooooooo long (that i think it could take 1.5 hrs to queue!!!) After queuing for awhile, we realised we cannot make it as it was 20mins b4 check in closes. We tried an express queue meant for a different flight, which we werent supposed to queue. Luckily the person allowed us to check in. Daryl went "yay, let's open champagne and celebrate". No.. its not over. The checking of baggage queue is even longer than ever. So we tried to ask the person in front of us to allow us to jump the queue, and then the next in front and the next in front etc. After awhile, we decided to just run to the front, crawl under the table and jump everyone's queue. Finally when we got in, our stupid plane was delayed.

Luton airport. sigh.