the adventures of JY's shirt

ok fine. so the collage was from last year's collection. I promise to get the new one up after my exams! I was bursting to write this post laaa...

My dear Jinyu,

It's been 2 years since we met during the WAT program. I'm not going to talk about our lovely and wonderful experiences in USA. It's been two years! Surely our friendship has progressed to be more than just shared experiences? So here goes your 2007 bday entry!

It's not about how you have changed my perception of the world.

It's not about how you have been such a selfless gentleman to everyone around you. (for eg, giving up ur bed for me to nap in when i appeared half asleep at your hostel door. treating us to dinner, giving up precious sleep to hear me cry out my woes on your birthday last year, just listening when i had problems).

It's not about how we can talk crap for hours and not feel bored. Or about how we can have this comfortable silence when we are just sitting together.

It's not about how we can have serious discussions where you will help me view topics from different perspective.

It's not about how much you have always been there for me, cheering me up during times of woe and doubling my joy when i have great news to share.

Because it's not about me. It's really about how truly wonderful you are, how much you mean to me and how i will always always love you.

In these two years since we have met, the times we have had hanging out will always been part of my happy memories. No outing with you is complete with your signature phrase of "so nice lor!"complete with a disbelieving look! And who can forget the tummy-aching laughter and fits of giggles that accompany every outing? I swear, you are just like a happy pill. Once you appear, people start feeling loads better!

And i really admire your patience and tolerance levels. Up to date, i have not seen you let your temper get the better of you. Every time you tell me about the unfortunate incidents that you experience (unfairly!) , i wanna jump up and down in sheer frustration for you/ beat up the people who treat you horribly! yet, you'll just look on in amusement and talk about solutions.

There are so many other stuff that i wanna cite to show you how awesome you are. Egs such as your fantastic navigation skills (remembering shortcuts we can take in NYC even though we forgot to bring the map out!), cooking skills, how you never told people that you were doing the housework, your fantastic insight into the world... if i elaborated on the whole list, this would be one hell of a long post indeed. I just wanted to let you know how awesome you are in my eyes. And if the world doesnt know it, well, it's blind la!

Heh. Can you see how much you mean to me from the above paragraphs? I love how you can go back to China and disappear for 3 months, and yet when we meet once again, we'll just slip back into the honest and comfortable zone. :) You have made my NUS school life much happier, enriched my thinking and pretty much brightened up my life with your company. If you think about it, it's pretty amazing how we have stayed close even after two years since we met (considering our different facs, spoken language and house/countries' locations!). Such a special friendship is truly what few can experience and i consider myself very very lucky to have met you and be able to maintain this friendship!

So in short, i just wanna take this special day week to tell you how much i appreciate what a great person and friend you are. I love everything you are, what made you who you are today and what you'll be in the future. Heh. I'm sure that success and happiness would follow you wherever you may go. Confirm, confirm, gurantee, chop my head for you too see ah! (sound familiar?)

It's scary how we are all growing up. With kaki and you graduating this year, it seems like our lifestyles may soon differ drastically. However, i sincerely/really hope that we will still remain good friends. Not just because i never want to lose my best guy friend. But because losing the friendship of the awesome-est guy in the whole wide world would be ............... unthinkable! *shudder* New beginnings in life do not neccessarily mean a loss of old friends. Just like you have always been such an awesome friend, i hope that i can be as good as a friend to you!

I love Jinyu forever and ever and ever! :):):)

Plucked this out from our suitcase of memories. It shall serve as the temporary birthday collage! :)

Happy Birthday Jinyu!

[Song lyrics from "At the Beginning" from OST Disney Anastasia]

And...........


the Picture of the Week goes to ....

Care to guess who the model is? :)

these days of our lives. [Take my hand. We'll make it, i swear.]

ok. so i broke my rule of not surfing blogs before exams. I can't help it! it's the kaypoh instinct in me!

Anyways, i happened to see Alvinna's blog. and Alvinna, you really need a tagboard!
Since she doesnt have one and has disappeared into her little enclave to mug for exams, im just gonna respond to her post here. I don't know if i'm responding in the right way but here goes!

Dear Alvinna,
Let's just say i would much much prefer eating halal food when i can enjoy your company than to eat non-halal food without the pleasure of your company!
Love, adel

Heh. Maybe i'm weird but i love the whole mix of cultures. I like understanding why my muslim friends can't do certain things. It's a very strong representation of their religion and it's truly admirable. Or how my indian friends prefer not to eat beef. It's amazing how one seemingly simple symbol can mean so much in a whole other culture. That's why i love living in Singapore. If you think about it, it's pretty amazing how so many ethnicities with different cultures can manage to co-exist in a small area while other countries have not been successful. Not only do we get to learn about the rich variety of customs and culture out there, we get to know people who live and practise them. And through observation and talks, i get to (somewhat) live that culture through them(tt explains my frequent questions!). Now, how cool is that?

My main point is that by befriending people like Alvinna, Asilah, Sangeetha, Ramesh, Neela, Lalitha etc. i get the lovely package of knowing awesome people and getting to live another culture through them. Instead of forcing/inconveniencing me with their way of life, it's something i want to experience. :)

Right, i had better step off my soapbox now. It's 2.33 am and my con mno notes are still freshly white. Have i mentioned that my brain feels like there's a blinking light going "info overload! info over load! System hang!"?

Today, i realised why this exam feels so weird. I haven asked Guo An anything... yet! heh!

PS: i forgot to say i love halal food anyways!

breathe in.

exams are coming.

breathe out.

I'm in hell.

breathe in. relax.
OMIGAWDimsuperscrewedwhythehelldiditake6freakingmodulesthissem??imustbesucidal.everyonehasstartedrevisionleavingmeinthedustand
omgiwillsokillanyfreakingasswhotellsmethattheyareslackingla.iwillbeattheirfaceinsideoutitellyou.

breathe out.
when u get giddy with excitement over getting new files, you know you have attained offical geekdom. Now if only i could get the intelligence which is supposed to come in the package...

So anyways! i surfed blogs and chris's blog had some random quiz. It's brainless and secondary schoolish but i much rather do it than listen to the damn con econs webcast.

maybe i should not do this quiz and start watching the webcast.
i love the feeling i get when i wake up only to find that i can sleep in. and i can smile at Audrey and Jie jie as they prepare to go out. :)
i don't understand why people think that dolphins are nice and friendly. Has no one seen their teeth?
i lose sleep over nothing. :)
people say i am the epitome of a social butterfly
love is something that isnt boring
when i like someone i run/shy away from the person
somewhere someone is waiting for her birthday present to arrive at her doorstep :):)
i will always succumb to my current fetish.
'forever' is something i don't want to think about
i never want to climb a million gazillion stairs
i think the current US president should try to gain more respect from the public.
i will never get an STD (hopefully! will do everythin in my power not to get it! Have u seen the google images of STD??)
my past is something i have a love-hate relationship with.
my greatest fear is to fade away into non-existence
i get annoyed when people insult my intelligence by blatently lying to my face.
my dog is the best dog in the world! he's so lovable, you can't not love him! He's the model for most of my photos. gush gush gush...
kisses are the best when given unexpectedly
tomorrow is the day i wear my contact lens! :) :)
i really want to experience a life filled with adventures. And see a shooting star. haven seen one yet.
i have low tolerance for people who are incompetent and yet insist that they are right. And people who play horrid ringtones in the MRT. And people who pretend to be drunk so as to do stupid stuff.


In other news,
Dan has finally been baptised! :) :) Congratulations Dan! So glad you made it..May your journey with God be a fufilling one! Daddy dearest is his Godfather so that makes Godchild #7. Also, Dan let me into the fact that when i change my IC (at the ripe old age of 30), i can insert my confirmation name. Cool stuff! AJT looks so much better than AT.


Claryce just went to extract her wisdom teeth. ouch. The last i heard from her, she had to take so many pills that she might as well eat them for dinner. HAHAHA! We were talkin about how everyone is pulling out their wisdom teeth. Jiahuihas.Alvinnahas.Sherlinhas.YiQihas. We might as well gather all those teeth and rake in the money from the tooth fairy.

Ken just alerted me to the fact that M&Ms have come out with a peanut butter version! Wheeeee! how cool is that concept? If it's really good, my addiction to reese peanut butter cups can be temporaily soothed by M&Ms!

IRC has become the fav haunt of the moment. With SR coming in a close second. It's scary when you spend so much time in school.

current tv boyfriend -- Michael Urie aka Marc from Ugly Betty

Heh.

"The ASS is not curvy!!"

Props to Alvinna for giving the best quote of the week! I giggled when i first read it.

This week has been a seriously crazy week with the flurry of deadlines to be met. Everyday has been spent in IRC, frantically going through old books in order to fish out information for the major construction MNO project. I felt as if i was thrown into a jungle with no map or compass and told by my sadistic teacher to find my own way out. Kudos to Guo An and Ken for pointing me in right directions!

And when we finally finished the draft, he had to wickedly pull out the thick book of an actual tender document and tell us that we are supposed to do something like that in future. I swear, he was grinning in glee as he flipped through that thick stack of documents. He showed us the same stack of documents the last time we came to ask him questions. We had to show him the same appropriate expressions of horror to meet his expectations. Truthfully though, it wasn't that difficult to conjure up such horrified expressions. That book is one scary movie right there.

Anyways! I'm taking time off my geog assignment to de stress here. It's really interesting as we get to examine how the perception of beauty differs over space and time, and how globalisation has affected our perception of beauty. But somehow, i'm experiencing writers' block/ inertia. Heh, I was thinkin that we could describe ourselves like how some journalist will have a short description under their article (for eg. Kathleen is an associate prof who blah blah blah) and i suggested "Asilah, Sher Lin and Adeline are 3 verybeautiful girls irregardless of the country or time period they are in". But, it was Asilah who made the brillant contribution which could rival Alvinna's quote.

" Asilah, Sher Lin and Adeline are 3 very beautiful girls irregardless of the country or time period they are in. So to hell with globalisation/americanisation/ westernisation"

heeheehee!

School's fun again. :) :) :)