So.. I started drafting an entry this morning, and well its evening now and I have not even completed that draft. LOL.
I'm no longer inspired to blog these days. My life revolves around work just the way i like it so my life ain't that interesting to begin with :P
I tweet more nowadays just because its convenient and its convenient to do so with my blackberry storm :P

Oh yes i got meself a new phone! Its a month old now so kinda an old update hehe but i've been eyeing this phone eversince it first got announced and well the name of the phone helps as well, storm = arashi. LOLOLOL!



My baby. Of course my wallpaper has to be my favourite boys ;)

Today has been a slow day. I didn't go to work today because of the thing called the cramps. I hate cramps, it feels like a bulldozer ran over my stomach. I don't usually get the cramps but the fasting month always makes my system go out of whack especially now since i'm taking meds for me heart. bleah.

Eid is fast approaching, not that i'm looking forward to it. It'll be the same as every year me thinks. The only thing difference between last year's and this year is that i won't be in the ICU recovering from heart surgery hurhur. What i'm looking forward to more than anything else is my trip to Tokyo in December. 3 more months baby! I am so excited. I hope my monthly savings will be able to cover my whole trip. It ain't exactly a breeze having to save up almost half of my salary each month for the trip but i'm sure it'll be worth it. Experience vs Material things, i very much rather have the former. Material things don't last but memories are precious and part of who you are as a person. Well at least that is what i think.

Saturday with my favourite girls was awesome. Met up with ifah, aida and her hubby for our 'breaking fast picnic' @ Class 95's Movies in the Park. The place was packed when we arrived! and it was only about 6.20pm. We were able to get a spot near the tents but unfortunately we were seated near the public footpath so throughout the first movie, Iron Man, there was a constant stream of people walking up and down the footpath. They were either people who couldn't sit still or came late for the movie. Thank god when it came to the 2nd movie most ppl who brought their young kids started making their way home mainly bcoz i guess their kids were tired. We were able to move towards the center of the viewing area for Transformers: Revenge of the fallen and our new spot was fantastic! Will definitely look forward to the next Movies in the Park. Kudos to Class95 for the awesome event (^-^)b




Heard the buzz about the VMA's today? Well particularly about Kanye West's stunt. He should have not interrupted Taylor Swift's moment on stage when she won the Best Female Video Award. I'm not a huge fan of hers but she did work hard and totally deserved the award. Kanye is simply put an immature egotistical prat. Beyonce is one classy awesome lady when she gave Taylor her moment after she won Video of the Year award. I have new found respect for Beyonce (^-')b

If you have no clue what i'm talking about, here are the videos if you're interested:
( VMAs )

Last but not least HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my darling sis Asyhhie!!!
*throws confetti*
All the best in your future endeavors! Best wishes and God Bless!
I love you sis *hugs*

I'm gonna dedicate this video i'm going to share with you guys to my darling sis. We are HUGE Josh Groban fans and I love this performance Josh did on Oprah. enjoy!



Savannah is one lucky girl aint she? sighs. :)

I don't think I know anything about love. I may somewhat have become a pessimist.
Everytime i feel it, its' gone, it disappears, and all that i have left is the void of what it would have been.
So now maybe I'm afraid to love, afraid that the little flutter in my heart is a potential heartbreak.
I know that nothing in life is certain, but I'm afraid.
Afraid to make the first move. Afraid to take a chance to what may or may not be.
Afraid that what ever baggage that I bring along with me will be too heavy for the other person and i'll just end up being alone
and if that is so wouldn't being alone in the first place be better then ever getting hurt or hurting somebody?

Sometimes I think i'm just in love with the idea of being in love. Sometimes I wonder how wonderful it would be to be in love. But I've always been unlucky in finding love. I'm turning 25 and have yet to fall in love, to experience what that really feels like. But I'm my own worst enemy. When there is any hint of possibilites i push it away, i deny and pretend that i have no feelings whatsoever. Then I'll go home and mull over it, wallow in regret and then I think of all the things why someone could never really love me and the things that I can't offer so I let everything slide, smile and pretend that everything is as it should be.

Sometimes I wish there was someone out there who can show me how wrong I am, someone who wouldn't care that i'm not perfect and who would accept my imperfections, someone who is not afraid to come up to me just to say "hello" instead of thinking how tall and initmidating i look.  Maybe i'm asking for too much. Working on divorce cases at work on a weekly basis sure does not help things aye? haha. Sometimes I do want to believe that there is really someone out there for everyone but is there really one out there for me?

But I do have friends who give me hope. I look at Tania & DS, their relationship, how they give and take, how they have grown stronger as a couple through their ups and downs. Then there's Aida & Wan. all the obstacles they went through in their relationship, proving all those who didn't believe in their relationship wrong, and now married, spending their life together in 'holy matrimony'.

So maybe i shall be a little bit more optimistic, and maybe I shouldn't dwell on such stupidity like love. If its meant to be its meant to be right? I believe in fate and that things happen for a reason and on its own time, i guess I should have a little more faith. Haiz all this talk about love, i swear I think i'm getting old. Holding babies doesn't help either since I can't have one of my own. Now that is another topic altogether LOL!

Moving along, the weekend has been exhausting. I've never been involved in two full days of malay wedding activities. It was definintely an eye opener. Ok i teared up abit during the wedding which i never did expect to. Its kinda bittersweet to see your best friend getting married. I'm so happy for the newlyweds, darling Aida and Wan. I wish both of them the all the love & happiness in the world and the v.best in their future endeavors as a couple and as seperate individuals.

Oh one more thing i learn from this wedding, I will never have mine (If i do ever get married in the far farr future) at the void deck. The heat and humidity! Which brings me to a whole big argument about the sense of having a void deck wedding but then that is a whole different topic altogether which i'm sure will elongate this entry and bore you further ahahaha.

Anyhoo back to the wedding, I have yet to upload all the photos i took during the 2 days but here's a preview :)

( ||: wedding preview :|| )

1. Life has been as good as it can get. I may not have much of a social life as it is since i usually go straight home after work or spend most of my weekend at home but I have no complaints. Staying at home = spending no/less money = more money saved for my tentative trip to Japan!

2. Work has been good. I like my job and the work I do. Still learning the ropes, getting into the rhythm of things and refreshing my memory on areas of law i have slightly forgotten. Ending my standard probation period this month! I guess I had to experience a lot of other things first before I finally find what is right for me and I have a feeling my current job is where i'm suppose to be. . :) I'll do a review on this in a couple of months down the road heh

3. Star Trek and Angels & Demons is out in cinemas! I have yet to watch any of em' yet. Suppose to watch the latter with the siblings tho we have yet to decide on a date yet. Might be watching the former on my own i reckon. If Sa.shi decides to pull out then i'll have no kakis but its ok I am capable of watching a movie on my own (^-')v

4. Went to watch Much Ado About Nothing at Fort Canning Park. My first Shakespeare in the park and i loved it! Picnic and a play under the stars, brilliant! Now why wasn't there such a thing when i was doing Lit in secondary school? :P
My review? The play was brilliantly staged and Adrian Pang totally stole the show with his potrayal of Benedick. The lady who played Beatrice did a splendid job as well. The only gripe i had was with the audio or maybe i just need my hearing checked LOL. But they definitely could have raised the volume a lil louder coz at some parts i was straining to hear what some of the characters were saying. But overall the play was good and I'll definitely be looking forward to the next staged play in the park by SRT (^-')b




5. American Idol! Adam and Kris are the final two! Honestly I had expected an Adam and Danny showdown but i guess Kris secured a place in the final with his rendition of 'Heartless'. What he did with the song was brilliant. Danny did equally well during the final 3 tho Paula's choice didn't help him much. She should known that fast 'dancy' songs could only hurt him right? tsk. Danny's departure was bittersweet and when he sang his song choice again at the end of the show you could just hear the emotions that he put into it. Looking forward to AI finals, tho i reckon Adam would win. Kris has his moments but Adam is the constant performer who kills it everytime.

6. So have you watched The Quiz Show 2 yet? (if you don't know what i'm talking about you can skip this part lol)
Honestly the only reason i started watchin it is because of Sho. Although some might say that the way he hosts the quiz show in the drama might be slightly similar to his regular hosting in Arashi's variety shows but I must say when his drama character goes into his serious mode where he gives a certain 'evil' look and usually says "I know everything about you" it kinda sends a shiver down my spine atashi suki! LOLOL



7. Grey's Anatomy season finale was a shocker. I'm already looking forward to the new season. What will happen to Izzie and George?!?!  Then there's Supernatural too, stupidstupid Sam. He should have listened to Dean now see what he's done. :P

8. My ipod is running out of memory! idk^*#* Now i have a headache of what songs/albums that i need to delete from my ipod nano. le sigh.

9. in other news, darling Lili has given birth to a healthy baby girl!
Ain't she a cutie :)



10.  Singapore public transport still has more room for improvement.  Their service was only better during the week they got fined but after that its back to square one. Late and overcrowded buses during peak hours. and please its not only the 'official' buses that was mentioned in the report that is overcrowded, they should take a look at feeder service buses bluek.  Then there's also the thing with the 'new' buses.  I almost twisted my arm countless times due to the absurd jerking and hard breaking.  Almost lost my  balance and fell a couple of times, I almost fell and sat on a guy hokay!  embarassing much?  Injury suit waiting to happen methinks.

11. Missing darling melly and dee! hope you guys are doing well in school!

Good Sunday Morning medarlings!
I have been quite busy this week as I've just started on my new job! Thus the lack of updates *grinz*

Well i'm back to work in an office and in the legal line to boot. Ah well can't be fussy in this bad economy but surprisingly so far I kinda enjoy the work. Tho my knowledge of legal processes etc are a bit on the rusty side I'm re-learning and refreshing my memory as I go along, plus the work in the office is not concentrated to one area of law which is awesome, so i don't get bored easily LOL. It ranges from criminal cases to civil cases I currently kinda like support all the lawyers who has anything for me to do, from legal research to drafting of letters. The pace is still quite okay as i'm still new, tho i expect it to pick up and i hope i can handle it when it comes to crunch time. *fingers crossed*

I am still getting used to having to waking up early as compared to how i usually have been waking up at noon for the past few months. LOL I now walk to Tampines MRT station from home coz waiting for the bus service to the interchange is such a biatch and when the bus comes its usually full. I figured it'll be a lot faster if i walked, plus i get some morning exercise at the same time!

Falling sick midway through the first week of work is very unpleasent. I had sore throat, running nose, non-stop sneezing and an oncoming feeling of fever. I highly suspect that my system is somewhat sensitive to dust thus the above symptoms coz now over the weekend the awful feeling i have been having has subsided. By Friday I was fed up with the sneezing and running noze in the office that I found some wet wipes in my desk drawer and proceeded to wipe the surfaces of my surrounding work area. I think i'm going to do that everyday before I start work.haha

And what better thing could have cheered me up after a long week of work than Arashi's 2009-2010 Calendar!!!!!
Yes I've finally collected it from Kino after procrastinating. Well also because I was waiting for the Spring discount promotion for members to take effect haha! 20% discount!! woot! So i ended up having paid less than $40 for the calendar wheeeeee~



Oh and an exciting discovery that i just had to blog about! Met up with T.ania, MX & Ling.na on Saturday at Northpoint for Dinner and we found ourselves at the new wing of the mall after walking aimlessly in search of a place to eat. And we came across Ishi Mura, a japanese themed foodcourt! wahhhh We decided to try it out and i LOVE the place! They should have one in Tampines and one in City Hall so I can patronize it everyday! (^-^)v

Me and T.ania decided to try the ebi okonomiyaki and since I was hungry I wanted to try the omelette rice as well. The okonomiyaki looks kinda different to me. I wonder if Singapore has those japanese okonomiyaki restaurants where you can cook your own like those they have in Japan. I would love to try that! Maybe if i visit Japan one day hehe
My salmon omelette rice was yummy! The omelette was all fluffy just the way I like it and the sauce was not 'jelak', it was sure a whole lot better than the local pattaya rice. yumm!

( Fooood! )

Arashi's brand new single, Believe, is my current earworm! It constantly plays in my head all day and it helps that its my current favourite song! I listen to it everyday. I also watch their PV on my ipod when i'm on the train on the way home I kinda love it because the song is kinda like a motivational song too if you listen to their lyrics. wheee~
see: Lyrics & translation (credit to iruy )


you can watch the official PV here


okay back to watchin the latest episode of Mei-chan no Shitsuji!
have a good one!

p.s. - T.ania T.ay! Get well soon!!! Don't strain your foot too much!! (^-^)

Happy New Year me darlings!
I know i haven't been updating much, haven't had the mood to blog lately. When i need to clear my mind what i do nowadays is write and i don't need the internet connection to dothat! lol.

To make up for it and since its the new year and all, I made a new layout for my LJ! yay! Well base codes are of course courtesy of minty_peach 

So, unlike previous years i haven't done any reflections or resolutions whatsoever for the new year. Maybe just a passing thought here and there. 2008 has been a really trying year. Funnily enough it went more or less accordingly to what was predicted for my chinese horosope. hmmmm.
I had an awesome beginning half of the year but not so much towards the later half of the year with my infection, surgery and all.

Here are my top 10 high and low-lights of the year 2008 in no particular order:

( my 2008 in summary )

New Year's Eve was a blast compared to the previous 2 years where i've actually stayed at home doing nothing. Spent it with my sisters at the Esplanade. I love it when there are Live band performances at the outdoor theater. Four bands performed that night, Quasimodo, You and Whose Army?, Tiramisu and Mathilda & the Motherfunkys.
YAWA? was a yawn, Tiramisu was hilarious & fun but i enjoyed Quasimodo's performance the most. They really have catchy tunes and despite having a foot injury, the lead singer knows how to build rapport with the audience. The only problem i had with the band was that the back up vocals were somewhat out of tune heh
Mathilda & the Motherfunkys performed after the fireworks were over.  As much as I wanted to hear her perform, on her 2nd song some drunk angmohs decided to start their own dancing party in the middle of the audience and well since it became somesort of a green light the surrounding foreign workers who were mainly 'banglas' decided to join in and well all hell broke loose.  So we decided to do a quick escape lol.

( NYE08! )

Anyways i'm not really sure what i am looking forward to the new year, however the top priority on my list right now is to get a job. lol.
I do hope i can get one soon, i'm dying of boredom at home and i have bills to pay bluek. :P
Next thing would be to find what i'm looking for, maybe understand where i'm heading in life, make plans and work towards new goals. Okay its all very vague but i know i'll get to where i need to go and maybe finally be lucky in love lol i wish.

oh and i want to travel! Hopefully if i can save up enough by year's end maybe i'll take a trip to somewhere. I'm not sure where yet but we'll see *wink*

Also 2009 would be bittersweet because of my close friends who will be going away to further their studies abroad.
I am so going to miss them.  Let's meet up before you fly off okay :)

This is very very veryyy bad.
I thought i could hold on to my impulses BUT
I am such a failure. I tried to hold out telling myself that i have to stop spending and dipping into my june trip air plane ticket funds since
i have not received last month's pay yetttttttt
There's so much hype about the recently released JE calenders,
and as much as i love NEWS however Arashi's 08-09 Calendar is too tempting! It doesn't help that the calendar is in A5 size (which means you can bring it anywhere with you) and it comes with a cookbook!


credit to memory_angel for the scans

okie thing is the calendar seems to be sold out every where. Cdjapan, Amazon Japan etc but i finally found a site that has stock and provides free shipping!!! Omg this must be sign right?
ok so i ordered and hopefully *fingers crossed* everything goes smoothly and the calendar will be in my hands soon!
badbadbadddddddazi.
lol. =P

I love the weather nowadays. I don't mind the rain as long as its cold. It reminds me of London.
I miss London.


photo credit: azi

speaking of which i know i owe my Winter Trip pics. =P
My bad ikonwiknow.  I'll post em' up as soon as i've finished editing and uploading em' all. 2GB worth of photos is no jokeee
ehehhehehe

Anyhooo i've received my very first snackster package from my US partner Chelsea!
Thanks Chelsea!
I hope you like yours too!

ok for the uneducated, snacksters  is this community on LJ that periodically arranges members to swap snack packages from different countries. How awesome is that?! Being able to try different snacks from different countries without needing to travel. wootwoot!

otay since i'm kinda bored at work with the boss not in and all
i decided to take the time to do a photo collage of my memories of 2007
since it was a tradition in my old blog why stop now aye? (^-')b

"your first asian idol is..."

my gut was already telling me, I won't be surprised if its Hady Mirza.

"Hady Mirza from Singapore!"

O_o"... i turned to my sister, "adik did i hear that correctly?"

"yes Hady won!"

and we all started screaming. and it was close to midnight mind you.
wahahahhahaha
oh my goodness Hady Mirza is the first Asian Idol!

and there you have it,
when my gut feeling is really strong it is never wrong!
lol!

even tho i didn't watch the performance show except for snippets that was shown during the voting time period.  I do agree that it wasn't Hady's best performance and according to my sister, talents from Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines were loads better. And even tho Singapore's disadvantage is that we are a smaller nation among the rest, the voting system i reckon helped Hady alot. Hady is one lucky dude.
All in all, my heartfelt congratulations to him. As much as there are many voices of disagreements of who should have won, hey there are all still winners in their own right aye? (^-')b

I actually just got back to the office from a Christmas buffet lunch with the team and one of our clients. Daymn i am FULL. Couple this with the current cool rainy weather and I am ready to fall asleep! lol!

I LOVE BUFFETS! <3

The past few days has really been a gastronomical pleasing. Tis' the season i suppose. hehe..
on the other hand its kinda like "eat all you think you can eat now coz in europe you'll be suffering muahahhahah" feeling. wahahahaha!

Approx. 31hours before I fly off to Konstanz, Germany with Na.zu.rahhhhh.
wootwoot! I'm extremely excited and nervous all at the same time.
Heard from my aunt who lives there that its getting colder every day! I hope I packed enough thermals/shirts/sweaters to last me during my week there.


oklah i need to quickly wrap somethings and go off to do some errands before my trip tomorrow.
Shall leave you guys with photos!

My birthday weekend two weekends ago was a blast. Spent it with people i wanted to spend it with the most, well except for a few missing here and there but its okay.

One thing about meeting up with friends that I have not seen for quite a while sometimes feels like a family reunion. Family reunion in the sense of questions that are often asked during these kind of gatherings.
Questions like:
"So any new boyfriend?"
"Until when you want to stay single?"
"Are you sure you're still single?"
"Don't you have anyone you like at the moment?"
"You want me to find someone for you?"

^_^ "

Now is it so wrong to stay perfectly happy in 'single-dom'?
Finefine there are those depressing moments when you are surrounded by couples and you're like the odd one out. But look on the bright side. Firstly I don't need to worry about anyone else's affairs except for myself, I don't need to 'report' my whereabouts to anybody except for my mum of course if i'm going to be home v.late and i can spend my money only on myself and my family and friends.

My usual answer to my friends would be, I usually scare off men.
Sometimes i honestly think i do.
Here are 5 reasons i think why:
1 - I am often told that i look 'fierce' even when i don't mean to
2 - I am taller than the average singapore women
3 - When my good opinion of a person/guy is gone then its pretty hard to convince me otherwise
4 - I hardly dress up, I'm usually in t-shirt and jeans, even for work (may not be relevant here but sometimes more often than not ppl always think i'm a student)
5 - I'm not the easiest person to love

so there you go. Maybe next time when i'm being asked the same kind of questions, i should just refer them to this blog entry and save me from having to repeat myself. lol.


Well back to the topic on my birthday,
I know i owe people photos, my apologies, i will send them asap!
Summary of photos under cut:

( Birthday Madness: the summary )

In other news...
Last week was pretty eventful. Start out feeling sick in the beginning of the week, sore throat + flu + cough+fever, but dragged myself to work nonetheless, then there was the Animation Nation screenings that i promised to watch with my fourth brother. Somehow that week was pretty much 'suay'. haiz.
AND the most humorous part of the week was when i became 'cinderella' on Thursday evening well except for the magic and prince charming part which was missing.

What happened on that fateful day was that I had a dinner thingy at ECP with a group of people who was involved in a project that the company is managing. As T.ania and myself were invited, we arrived there about 15 minutes earlier and decided to sit at the breakwater to kill time and chat. So when it was time to proceed to the restaurant, as we were standing up, my left sandal suddenly slipped off my feet and slid down the breakwater into the sea. Both of us didn't dare to try and retrieve it as the current/waves looked too strong. So there I was standing with only one sandal on my feet. Since i can't possible walk with only one sandal, took off the remaining one and went barefooted throughout the whole evening. LoL. I'm sure M.atthew enjoyed my misfortune since he looked like he enjoyed telling everyone that sat beside him about my predicament tsktsk.. This was probably one of the most hilarious thing that has happened to me. Well better the sandal than me right? Like what Mrs Tan said, that dinner will be an event that i will never forget. haha.. Anyways thanks again M.atthew for the ride back home, much appreciated. (^-^)

13 more days before my trip!
I am uberly excited! I know Naz is too!
I find myself buying loads of things that i need in preparation for our trip and I've got to stop spending if I want to have any spending money during the trip. Hopefully I now have everything i need.

I've been alone in the office the whole day. The boss is currently having his eye check up and he only told me at the last minute that he was not coming in for the day and instead working from his home in the morning.

So for the whole day I've been taking my own sweet time to complete my tasks and now I have nothing else to do but just sit and wait till knock off. I've been keeping myself company with the likes of Micheal Buble, Sugababes, Maroon5 and James Morrison. The benefits of having a stereo system in the office. =P
In the meantime I've also been familiarizing myself with the office, going thru the cabinets, getting a sense what is where. I even took photos! But i'll upload it some other time considering I don't have a card reader with me at the moment.

Speaking of photos,
Saturday was awesome!
Tania's Birthday celebration Dinner at China Square. Funny how we got lost finding the place considering the Birthday girl was not sure where the place was exactly. And lo and behold, the place is only a stone throw away from my office. wahahhaha. I only just discovered it on Monday when i was running errands for the boss. Lolx! 

As per my previous entry, me and Rodney decided to try our hand at baking, which we did!
So Rodney being the great unicorn that he is, decided to share various pics of his first supermarket shopping and baking adventure!

a sneak peek of our wonderful wonderful outcome..