Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Batu Caves

In another half a day's time, TJCCC will be in KL, Malaysia. BATU CAVES!
Pray that everyone comes back in one piece, and have a helluva fun out there.
Keep the rain away as well please, no flash floods!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Baking

Life's pretty well nice to me except for the rash that happened 2 weeks back, and doesn't look like it's getting any better or worse, and i'm down with cough, sore throat and flu -- all symptoms of H1N1. Good job man... Singapore's afraid of us contracting the flu bug from overseas, what about me spreading to Malaysia? Haha, how thoughtful of me. The flu jab that we took 2 weeks back apparently didn't seem to vaccinate me well enough to prevent this flu bug to attack my weak immune system. Or maybe it's just the jab itself that's working its way to build my defense up.

I'm at Calvin's house making macaroons for the picnic tomorrow at Marina Barrage. Hopefully it turns out niceeee and yummy =D

Rah, Calvin and I watched 2012 at TM yesterday, it was a really nice movie for all the powerful effects that were really woahhh~ amazing. The plot is a bit silly because it's quite impractical for all the work that the government did to try save their silly asses but for that aside, the effects are GOOD.
There's one part where I felt so sad when the little boy messaged his step dad that their camping trip sucks and the way he talked to his dad was so shitty, and when his dad told him "Do you know that what you said hurts my feelings?", i went all soft inside.
The movie's definitely a blockbuster.

Joke of the day:
Calvin: "Eh got anything that's one inch?" (He wanted to draw the circles for the macaroons)
Me: "Your dick"

Friday, November 20, 2009

Flashers/Floods

Flash floods around in the little island here near the equator. I always wished I could be stuck in a flooded place when I was little. I remember how excited i was hopping around the first level of my house at Telok Kurau when I was still so little because the rain had caused a flood to the ankles. While jumping and splashing around from the backyard to the front porch in the flood happily, the parents and maid were busy clearing the water out of the house and moping up everything. Naughty right, i know ;) But the image of me getting stuck in a flood now is highly undesirable and I really pity the cars and pedestrians at Bukit Timah where the flash floods occurred.

These few days i've been walking briskly in the rain and enduring the beyond-comfortable-levels-of-cold bus rides. Brief moments of reflections occur and I just enjoyed the surroundings flash by as the bus kicks up a few puddles along the road.

I think about how life is like right now that I have fewer commitments.
More frequent lunches and dinners with mom at places of my choice(usually we pop quite an amount because of my picky & spoilt preference in food), more shopping experiences which usually end up with more food along the way because both of us don't have much endurance for shopping - we usually buy the priority items and get tired after that before settling for some high tea snacks.
Mom thinks the frozen yogurt is cool and we both agree that Berrylite is nicer than Frolick.

Recently both of us just signed up for yoga classes at True Yoga. The first couple of classes left me aches in places I never knew could ache. These classes intertwined with climbing is much enjoyable especially so when i know yoga complements climbing.
Today when I completed the overhang yellow with Philip belaying me, I felt a new sense of exhilaration since the last time I could do so much when Allen was coaching us in Philip's absence. Hopefully tomorrow I have the balls to attempt babyroof yellow. That was the peak of my climbing before the long hiatus for promos. I'm just this close to getting back my highwall climbing after so long.

Let's not even talk about bouldering. I'm pretty upset that there are so much bouldering comps and so few difficulty ones. Why why why... T.T I'm always so psyched to do highwall but the energy level dips really quickly for bouldering. I guess it's similar to my running style. I like long and slow runs like difficulty climbing, unlike sprints, they require short bursts of energy, which i lack for bouldering.

It's coming close to 3 months since we broke up, I feel as if I have so much stuffs happening in school to occupy my mind that I haven't exactly had any time to reflect everything.
The bid to remain single for as long as I possibly can will kick in till after As. Cross my fingers, i'll be a nun till Uni, and not let my mind stray off to let emotions get the better of me. Afterall, i'm known to be the heartless and emotionless person, right? ;)

The trip to Batu Caves is approaching ever so closely. Hopefully my rash and itch all dies down before the trip. I don't want it to worsen with the mozzies buzzing in the forests, caves and crags.

After the trip, it would be OGL dance practices and work at mom's office. I love the christmas season. Chanel and I would just be happily planning end of year events for the company while wrapping up the presents for gift exchange, that's the fun side of working at the end of the year. The downside is that she has to do the job closing for all the projects(which can be really shitass), and I guess i will be my mom's assistant to do the closing for the financial year. All that extra cash which we earned would probably be spent on shopping by Chanel and I(being the good girl) would put into my savings.
It's pretty nice to have my life juggled between school and real world, makes me get a foothold of the working society and earn that extra edge with my mom's patient nurturing. I think I'm really lucky to have it all paved out... no worries about not finding a job when I graduate. Yet to count all my blessings and I am already more than happy with my life.

Have i mentioned? My brother is so buffed up from NS and he comes home with a stench no matter how many times he bathe with cologne sprayed after that. Can't wait for his POP this December 8th. =D



Makes me recall all the lovely moments and i smile to myself for being strong...

Monday, November 16, 2009

Lazy Sunday

Sleeping in all the way till noon with the cool breeze gently making the curtains do a flowy dance on its own, waking up to a bowl of cereal, reading the sunday times like an old grand-daddy, catching a long relaxed movie for the whole afternoon with the weather being such an angel today - that's what life is all about. Slow and easy, peaceful and calm.

BUT, i wonder why i got a pounding headache after that. It must have been caused by the rush from sending my bro to pasir ris to book in. It's always like that. Runs in the Lee family. Not late not gan chiong one. Mom loves the toilet bowl that she can sit on it for hours, in the day, noon and night. Early in the morning, she's the reason why i'm late for school. In the evening, she's the reason why my brother is always nearly late and always nearly close to confinement because of that. It's a stupid habit. I'm glad both my brother and I didn't inherit her lousy time management skill.

After that, we had dinner at Bedok Corner. Sambal stingray, sotong, kangkong, roti john, tauhu telok, hokkien mee & bandung to top it all off. Sadly the famous cheng tng stall closed before we could order some for dessert. Completing all that palate with fruits and red wine at my uncle's place after that.

What a nice way to end off the school year.
And it marks the start of another new phase - climbing season + catching up with friends

Wishing to just curl up in bed with a good book for the whole day and the thing is that it's going to be fulfilled!

I'm contented; and contentment breeds happiness.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

My romantic date

with calvin eng wei guo today. We took slow strolls along the pavements of the roads with the cars swooshing by in the rain and the little droplets of rain that felt like love. But i had my climb on shirt wrapped around my head, which made me looked retarded.
But I told him that, it's alright, cos i only go to Queensway once in a blue moon, so no one will recognise this retarded person anyway. HAHAHA

I've never had so much fun in such a long timeee, one to one company ftw. He was there to lug the big red plastic bag of climbing shirts and i told him he looked like clement who went to climb asia to mass buy climbing accessories for the climbing club.

We fooled around in Ikea after that. That bugger wanted to take a grill pan to fake-whack me and ended up whacking his own hand cos the handle was retractable then the pan retracted when he lifted it up to whack me. How smart right. We were like shopping for home stuffs in ikea like we were already a family and living together k. He talks as if like "EH I GOT GRILL PAN LIAO LA STILL SEE FOR WHAT" and i said "YOU THINK YOUR HOUSE GOT GRILL PAN MEANS MY HOUSE HAVE MEH???"

After that, we couldn't bear to leave each other. But he bear to see me take a freezing bus home by myself that was a really long and lonely journey AND GO OFF FOR HIS LOVELY DINNER AT VIVO WITH HIS DAD FETCHING HIM THERE. How disappointing.

P.S This post is under the influence of calvin eng wei guo, hence the overly emotional and dramatic portions. the usually calm me wouldn't blog so excitedly. HAHAHAHA

Monday, November 09, 2009

When life takes a stroll

You see, you get too much inspiration when you are so busy with life and when you want to blog about it, you complain of the lack of time. Now that I have so much time on my hands, I haven't got an ounce of inspiration for blogging.

Just a little update...

It's roughly 2-3 weeks more before the climbing club set off for our virgin overseas trip to Batu Caves! If i said i was exhilarated, it'd be an understatement. I really, really, cannot find words to express my love for outdoor climbing. It's like an art itself, the flow and grace is like when i was so into Slaloming back then. It's not just about executing a particular move, it's about executing it with poise. Philip does it so well, and you know how many years of hard work he has put into polishing and refining those techniques.

The school term is coming to an end soon, with the last lap of PW coming so close, I'm thinking of ways to busy myself for the holidays. Apparently, it's not very fruitful because all i've been doing is watch movies and sleep. Trust me, when i say sleep, i really mean sleep. Apart from the 8 hours of priority sleep that i get nightly, I have those long hours of naps in the afternoons and mornings. I feel like a big baby who needs at least 16 hours of sleep per day. How am i going to be survive when i start working?!
You can't just heck the work and put your head down whenever the sleepiness start setting in like in school.

My mom has already started chasing me about the time when i can start going to office to start work for my holidays. When i think of how busy i am going to be, I really wonder if i can work for the full 5 days from 9-6pm. Oh well, i guess we will see when it comes eh.

Being the much fickle-minded person i am, i think my future lies in interior designing. After so many years... i still have so much passion for it. My mind, body and soul respond to it so actively. I still remember i was skating alone around the bedok reservoir area, then I saw this newly launched condo with the bright yellow lights and white interior furnishing standing out from the construction site, I stopped in my tracks and marvelled at the design. Tell me how I can ignore this burning desire and go into Econs?

Sunday, November 01, 2009

like father like son

All those times of feeling that I needed a father's love are down-scaled when in comparison to my brother. Now that he's in the NS, he really needs that father figure so much more than me. I feel so miserable for him thinking how pathetic i was without a father, but I've never thought of how much harder it is for my brother to cope with.

Today we went to eat dinner before he booked in, and he mentioned about his best friend's dad sending his friend to and fro from camp to home, how his dad always reminded him to come home earlier because he needed to book in the next day. Just this little sharing of feelings made me feel sooo sad for him... I tried to console by saying optimistically that "mommy can do that too!", obviously it didn't help. It's not the same.

I watched the sister's keeper with my mom on Saturday... it was so heartwarming. My tears just kept flowing. The quality life that we are all seeking is so easy to say and picture, but so hard to attain in reality.

A family's bond transcends everything else.

Aside from that, I would like to dedicate this to all my friends who have been through promos, titans and slogging our guts out for PW with me. Without you guys, there wouldn't be me.



Remember that this is not the end of our journey, there's so much more ahead in life to look forward to. Don't let minor setbacks make you lose sight of the big picture.