dear kitty.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Day out with Huifang: Jurong re-visited!

Today was almost like going back to my old 'hometown' of sorts, my home for 5 plus years. Went to Jurong today. First was Jurong East, met HF and we took a bus 97 and walked a looong way ( I think we had an informal tour of the exterior IBP)to Penang Place, tired and hungry, all ready to stretch that 21.80 we were going to pay. Heh. If you're wondering ,HF suggested going to PP after watching the food programme,so yup, prove that television does more than dull your brain, it actually gets you going places. We had a long 1.5 hour meal ( seriously time flew so fast!), where I tried stuff like curry chicken and asam laksa that I never did since its opening due to previous prejudices and warped notions I have about certain foods which I still show sometimes.. They had a new dessert too, a red bean kueh, a little reminscent of the hong dou gao I bought from the street stall in HK's Central.After which, we headed to Jurong Point after hearing all the hype about its unbelievable extentsion, which included another long but good walk to JE Mrt after all the curry and char kway teow.
The extension is quite scary, I must say, the minute you step out of the MRT station, whoosh you're greeted by a huge door where many new shops greet you! It's nicer to walk around, and I suspect if I took my time, there would be many things one would feel compelled to buy. But thank God I didn't, so I headed straight to bossini in bid for my hunt for THAT black buttoned jacket, which i saw at Lucky plaza and saw no more since then. Bingo! I spotted it in the rack and was well, I shan't say escatic,but very happy, like yay finally found you-the last piece! Saw an equally smart one which was alittle thicker but obviously it was newer and had less of a discount. But just to add, bossini's collection this season is quite impressive I must say. Gives more bang for the buck than Topshop or Dorothy.P. Fox too, their knitwear's so pretty! Oh just got a phonecall, Jie2 Mars got 2 free tix to Australia cause she overbought! So I got in the house, and I'm out again...

stefie just scribbled this down 12/30/2008

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Thursday, December 25, 2008
back from more than a month of procrastination

I can't believe its been way past a month since i blogged( yes, I think this is starting to be my tag line). Whoa it's Christmas already! As I type this Karen Carpenter is crooning my dream or wish, quite literally because if I want a White( snowy) Christmas in Singapore, I'll just have to dream, dream and keep on dreaming. I don't think I ever want to live to see the day that Singapore snows..that will mean we're in serious trouble because our whole Earth's has gone haywire!It starting to show some signs of it already, in Greece, Argentina...Okay I'm not here to talk about climate change.
Let's talk about more immediate, less earth-shaking matters- today's Xmas service. Huifang came! But the whole choir was on duty so I couldn't be with her throughout the worship. Worship was great,period. The skit cum multi-media presentation was cool too Aunty grace and Uncle Michael are so cute! But beyond that, they were really thought-provoking and reminded me that hey, life isn't all about doing what we always do, even if we do give our best, but putting God in all that we do too! So,yet another wonderful Xmas service were we in some way or another experienced God! Had the traditional Foo family gathering at Mama's, with all the Western, Xmas food (save for the way good curry from Ziyee and sago desert for persistent proponents of Chinese culture) Ziyee joined us this year too, cause she's off tomorow and Peilin's only coming back during CNY.( I think we've got everything except snow, a fireplace and winter wear to make a white Xmas.) But this year, because of the food in the car, the 3 of us have been unwittingly booted( pun unintended) to the MRT train to PL.
Apart from Xmas, there were more highlights from my very somewhat fruitful holidays. First, the bad. Our 3-9 dec family trip to BK with Uncle Ben never came to pass because they wont let us in. And of course, the very very wonderful OCIP trip with 26even more wonderful people to Luoyuan. I shan't say much about the trip, since it's been exactly a month since we left Xiamen. We spent 7 days in Luo Yuan er zhong, 4 days in Nanping Wu yi shan, Fuzhou, Quan Zhou, zhang zhou and Xiamen. Really hope we can go back to Er zhong again, kinda miss the students. Though I seriously doubt that we improved their English standards, but I'm glad I was a blessing to the students for 7 days and perhaps kindled a greater interest in the language :)
Now that everything's over, all the festivities died down(for 2008,CNY is 4 wks aways!) I have this dreadful feeling about 2009. Back to school, PE, lectures, CCA, A LEVELS!! But that's life. Most normal people work hard and then play hard at year's end, when the holiday season kicks in. Only a select few like the rich taitai get to live leisurely lives. In fact, soirees and shoe shoping can become quite a chore too. So I guess the thought of working and going through the motions of life that make it so sian isn't such a bad idea afterall. At least it keeps the thrill of participating in year-end sales or planning for your once a year holiday alive. Most of all, I know there's something more to this life or working and then playing, something that keeps me going.

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Sunday, November 02, 2008
It's been a while..

Wow. I'm super duper convinced that I suck at coming up with titles. Hope the Ed board teachers don't cringe everytime they see the titles I give. Heh. Well, well, as usual, lazy me has refused to type www.blogspot.com and start blogging since promos ended.
My, my, the year has gone by in a f l a s h. Now you see it know you don't! Looking back, I think I always tell myself the same thing, that I've been through much, from feeling sooo uncertain, strange and lost at the starting of the year to slowly warming up and getting into school life and even enjoying it.All I can say and must say is that God has been faithful. Even though half the time I can profess that I can't feel He is there I know at the end of the day, He was and is and will be there. There are so many instances where I just know that He'd be with me so many that I can't type them all!
So let's start with the most recent promos. All Cs one A, of all things GP. That's really a pleasant surprise, my essay and all, its was really Him who helped me during the paper. Not good good results, but for all of it, still am grateful. Then there's PW, I can't have better group mates:)There's the CCA, I seriously couldn't envision myself in any cca from the start and now I don't have one but two!
I'm awfully glad He's seen my through everything, like CCAB and all, but I guess this holidays goanna be a very packed one for me. Let's just say 11days of my Nov will be spent in Fuzhou with 23 other super nice people with 2 teachers for ocip luoyuan, fuzhou,china, 10-14th im coming back everyday from 8-4 to microteach!
Then there's homework..which I sadly to say, didn't really make much progress as I wished I did this week.
But the holidays have been alright so far, had fun last sat was family dinner at Swissotel, (the Central is so Hong Kong!, Family nite on Sun. PW, pw, pw..and oh today was our last pw meeting a jeremy's and it was quite fun :) After pw jeremy, russ and I went to play Rock Band! It was quite funny I was the vocalist and had to sing weird rock songs which I nv knew existed until we came to Dirty Little Secret, man we rocked the house haha! I wish I could play all day but I guess that's life for you, even Paris Hilton doesn't play all day( crooning 'Stars are blind' and trying to live a simple life requires some brains too I suppose.)
Oh I wish I could put up pictures, but lazy lazy tech-unsavvy me.

stefie just scribbled this down 11/02/2008

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

It's been a month since I've blogged..always wanted to but I've been procrastinating well so many things have taken placed since then. Whoa life passes soo quickly like zooom before u know it, it's wk 8 of sch and guess what your promos are in wk 3 of term 4! I guess now I know how it feel like how have an awfully stressed and packed life..that's JC for you. Now I'm quite convinced my body clock is adjusted to sleeping after 1130.It's tiring, sometimes u feel like giving up, strange isn't it? This journey is a short but ardous, tough one. I feel like bursting and all, but I know I can't and I won't, because I've got my Father to lean on:)
So, it was the long-awaited 120th Founder's Day Dinner at Swisotel the Stamford(yes strong sense of deja vu, this was where I was about 5 yrs ago when I went for the diner as a p6). What can I say? It was a blast, seeing all your girlfriends faces 'painted' and everyone all dressed up, some guys showing off their commendable sense of style..heh For me, the dinner started of horribly, felt reaally lonely throughout the dinner as well, like sat almost alone eaating..some painful memories of yesteryear (or last 2 yrs) just came smacking into my face. Oh well, this is just one aspect of school I wish to forget..so glad its over. But had fun of course, lots of pictures definately! Speaking of which, I finally decided to break some little promise I made to myself to not 'conform' and sign on facebook like everyone,despite countless invites. I succumbed to the 'irrestable pressures'and got myself an account..
Other significant events? Huifang's birthday on 9th aug! Bought her strawberry flavoured food and a f1 car jigsaw:)The Ed board farewell at nl2, held on e 28th. We had fun and lots of choc-Russ brought a great choc cake that left me with a series of bad throats, oh not forgetting class debates which we won 1AA2, but didn't get into the semis.Next week is crazy, tests, chi mock exam, and next tues I'm attending a lecture at Ritz Carlton with 39 other ACsians.The lecturer- Aust PM Kevin Rudd! So yeah, I cant wait for it!

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Terms are over, but just when you thought the worse was over..

My 2nd and very unimaginative attempt at a title..Well time always pasts so quickly so yay today is midweek! Finally terms concluded with History on mon!The way Mr Goh describes the way we score for our essays are kind of scary. But I'm not THAT scared I guess..I must say God really saw me through terms. They weren't a breeze I mean i struggled for chem and had that mental block for gp vocab, but it all went so quickly, and before I knew it, it was friday! He really helped me with June Hols revision because if I didn't do it well, I'd be panicking and rushing during the weekend which I nearly did on sunday for SEA.. Well its all over and like what Me Goh said, we have other obstacles and our next target it promos, so we just have to learn from our mistakes.
Went for a run at the stadium with Huifang after interact yesterday, we are each at other's pace! Yay, finally someone:) Hope we can do this every tues..Oh guess what?spent $5.50 on not 2 or 3 but one set of IH notes!It's like all e gp packages we've gotten so far! Oh yes, speaking of gp, once again I'm really grateful to the One above because we did really well for our field trip, and even another teacher praised it to sky high! So it was worth the 4-5 hours huifang and I spent watching people, snapping photos. Like she said, we can be PIs already haha! Anyway this weekend will be eventful for me, meeting my pals at vivo for dinner this fri, saturday is the fairfield funfair, sunday i wanna go out with helen-m + mama's bdae dinner monday is youth day! To celebrate, our class is doing a movie marathon from 11-8plus at Jean's! So yup quite a packed schedule huh? Just as well, enjoy myself before reality bites again and we all go back to the humdrum of school work.

stefie just scribbled this down 7/02/2008

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
I can't think of titles..

I'm so hooked on Marie Digby!Argh it's the dreaded last week of holidays. Reality bites it's back to sch SOON and we will be welcome with a GP paper to kickstart our long awaited and dreaded! terms. Oh well but Thank God for a nice holiday compared to most people my Cca took up minimal time.Felt a bit like o levels cause I only went for MPS once, then Interact outing on fri the 13, went back yesterday fer Lit- Miss Jay is so nice:)Tomorow chem with Miss So and Serina and IH. Speaking of friday the outing to Labourdor only 5 of us- Julia, me Huifang, Enting and Jasmine turned up! But it was really fun, the kids are so nice so diff from ours..My 2 new ( nine years old)boyfriends ( a boy who is a friend..) Jack and Rodrick, Huifang's whiny insect-phobic girls, Julia's clean freak but nice-looking Dexter! It was really tiring, but had fun! Sat had the 1st recording for aunty ave's demo cd, quite a fun experience, there's another one this sat..a good way to round up the dreaded dreaded weekend.Had a nice family outing yesterday to Parkway with Mama. She's so cute! She bought a nike pencil case for herself partly because "I see all of you all buy things i also want to buy!" So now you know where gracie got that from..Well Iseatan's really her playground, she was trying necklaces, looking at bags let the whole shop was hers!:) Well yesterday was a good trip everyone in the family got something! Here's what (julia)and I got:
1. A green MNG basis shirt ( yay it has the word "barcelona" on it!)
2. 2 braclets, 1 green beaded cuff from Island Shop
3. A gold necklace with green encrusted jewels from Diva
okay I think green is starting to be my favourite color..
Going to great world today to finally meet the r to r person! Ahh!!Splashed at the bottom of the papers the advert read:
I Love MNG
SALE up to 50%
starting tomorow at 2.pm
The never ending cycle of shopping-think i'll end this GSS cycle myself- I've got books to hit, highly doubt I'll go. Shopping isn't life and life isn't about shopping.

stefie just scribbled this down 6/17/2008

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Friday, June 06, 2008

So I'm back from church camp, the highlight of my holiday is over :( Now it's back to earth, to the books, to the studying, to the realisation that your term exams are waiting for you at the end of the holidays. Not a very pleasant thought eh? Well, i, like everyone else, am not ready for the exams! It seems so scary..like some Golliath,but wait David killed Goliath right? Haha. Well, the three nights at KL were good ones,albeit not so nice sleep on the 1st 2 nights and some frustrating and annoying moments.it was enjoyable like any church camp. Spiritually very refreshing too, learnt many things and feel recharged now..and of course maximum consumer satisfaction with the wonderful shopping although I was very annoyed because I bought NOTHING on the 1st 2 days only got erm undergarments and watched Prince Caspian. Speaking of which, about 31 of us went to Pavillion- the newest and certainly most atas addition to the shopping belt in BB to watch the movie. Quite alright,though it can be cheesy sometimes, the battle scenes left my feeling dreary the kissing scene between caspian and susan was totally unnecessary.Wonder what will CS Lewis say if he saw how his story being distorted.. But I love their Brit accents! And oh I love Edmund's ruddy cheeks! Prince caspian isn't dashing..he looks like a blur prince in distress who can't save his damsel! But quite a nice movie..at a nice price too! RM9! Oh I think it's because the Sing Dollar is stronger now, almost everything we bought we really satisfyingly inexpensive when i converted! Even the tops viv and julia wanted to get was cheaper by 5 bucks than down here! So here's what made me a consumer satisfied to the max:
1. A pink NafNaf watch @ $78
2. Dark brown Diesel shorts
3. Pair of brown heels from Times Square
4. A blue leather bag from Vicci, Sungei wang during some last min shopping!
Of course, though im satisfied, I have a feeling I won't stop here. I just saw a Tangs ad in the papers. The sale is massive and it's calling my name.
Shopping of course, wasn't supposed to be the main highlight.There was e annual treasure hunt. Well I must say, i take my hat of the brains behind it.. I mean playing a treasure hunt in the same place for 3 times, yet keeping it so new and different!Though it was a good holiday and camp for me, I do hope that future ones would really allow us to bond and grow closer. Think holiday resorts with facilities for games and leisure, devoid of shopping centres, at least not as many. Think that way, we truly can bond as a church.

stefie just scribbled this down 6/06/2008

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