Before the storm...
10:28 PM - Saturday, August 22, 2009
Alrightie, before I do that post on National Day like I promised earlier and a whole bunch of catching up on issues in my life, I JUST HAVE TO GET THIS OUT OF MY SYSTEM!!! hahahaha, alright, I have to admit I have a certain preoccupation with boybands... I mean, why settle for one cute guy singing, when you can have 4 or 5 of them!! Marginal Benefit>Marginal Cost =D So now, I'm gonna list all my favourite boybands and my favourite members of each one =))
Lee <3, Anthony, Simon and Duncan
I've always liked Blue, I mean, their songs are good and they have good singers in Simon and Lee especially. The very first guy I liked from this band was Lee Ryan, he's bloody cute and he's a bad boy, getting arrested for drugs and DUI! Everyone knows bad boys are hard to resist. =D Anyway, after a while, I realised that Duncan was kindof hunky in a weird way, so he ranks like 3rd. Simon has always been fascinating for his amazing body, like look at that muscle man! Wait till he takes off his shirt.. =X
Joey, Lance, Justin, Chris and JC
I mean, honestly, do I even need to explain? Just look at them, Justin was the best looking and had the best voice. Nuff said. Although I had to admit JC came a close second, the rest were just "the people at the back" Heh. =D
Howie, Kevin, AJ, Nick and Brian <3
OK, admit it. At some point in your life, everyone has gone crazy over the Backstreet Boys or Westlife. It's inevitable. Well, in anycase, I just haven't exactly gotten over that stage, I'm perpetually in it. And it's a good thing, cos' they really do make easy listening. =)) Anyway, I always always thought Howie was gay, and methinks I have evidence =O Kevin has impossible thick eyebrows, call me one day and I'll show you. hahahaha.. AJ just really didn't appeal, Nick was a BIT girly back then (honestly I have evidence as well). So obviously (and to tell the truth), Brian was my absolute favourite. He sang the best, back then. He has the best cheekbones, the overall package, the aura. Yup, he was great. =D The first time I saw the BSB, I loved Brian from the start =))
Shane, Bryan, Nick, Kian and Mark <3
OMG, my favourite boyband so far has to be Westlife. No doubts about it, it's definitely them for sure. I mean, its a 4 out of 5!!! 4 hunks out of 5. You can't get better value than that, and if you ask me, they sing better than BSB anyways. =)) So, when I first saw Westlife, I thought Shane was kindof nice, Bryan was cute, Nick was WOW, Kian was EWWWW but oh gosh, MARK WAS THE BOMB!! I love his eyebrows, his devastatingly good-looking smirk and that oh-so-knowing look on his face!! =D Shane was always Ashley's favourite, been arguing with her since forever, but who cares!! Mark is definitely more shuai!! =)) I thought Brian was cute, I mean, he's a super nice guy too!! Giving up his career to look after Delta, darn sweet =)) Nick was an ex-goalkeeper, can you believe that!! He's quite shuai too (not with this hairstyle though, check out later photos!) I have never liked Kian, never understood what people saw in him... -_- And I think I've obsessed enough about Mark, so I shall stop talking about how brilliant he is, or how shuai he is or about how wonderful his singing is. =) Westlife is my all-time fave. Must be that Irish charm XD
Nick <3, Joe and Kevin
When the Jonas Brothers first came out, and I mean with their very first album, the minute I saw them, I fell for Nick. I couldn't understand why half the world was going nuts for Joe when Nick was obviously (in my mind) the cutest and the most talented. (yes people, I don't only go for looks, I like talent too!) People said Nick had horribly curly hair, I found it to be just another part of his appeal! (Go check out Nick's hair in the Burning Up video!!!!!), I hated Joe's floppy hair, it was too long and too "girlish" for me. Heh. I preferred Joe's hair to be spiked as before. If I actually go into my love of the Jonas Brothers and Nick in particular, it would take too long, but ask me one day in person and I'll be happy to oblige you with my dissertation on the subject =) In conclusion, I love Nick, am appreciative of Kevin's guy-next-door image, sense of responsibility and humour. And yes, I actually don't really like Joe..... Take that all you Joe-lovers.
And that concludes my post on boybands, actually I can think of more boybands that I like, but then very luo suo liao.. Maybe I'll do a part 2!! =D
Have fun looking at the photos, if you want more, like individual of each boyband member, I should have, just ask! =))
Catch-up/Ketchup
11:11 PM - Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I need to play catchup, both personal and academic terms.. sighs. I really need to buck up on my studies.. Especially Econs.. oh gods.. =/
I also need to do a pictures post. I promised earlier in ASEAN Day 2 I think =D I will, soon enough.. Thats some personal catching-up I need to do as well. =)
Ketchup, a horrible pun, a old-school joke. Ketchup you need to catch up. Ketchup is RED.. The colour of passion, the colour of love and the colour of Singapore. That's right. I love Singapore and I'm not afraid to say it without going into the details as to why here. Because I plan to do one whole post on it, especially in accordance with National Day.
I also wanna do a blog post on a certain someone.. Need to decide which someone is more important.. sighs.. Oh well.. we'll see how it goes.. For now, back to reality, and back to eternity.. =)
P.S. Will try to blog soon, oh and I wish KL and SJ the very best together!! =))
ASEAN OUTING!!!! <3
10:27 PM
I was looking forward to this day for quite a while! =D
Dunno how I ended up being the one planning it but it took a while before we managed to get the most number of people who could come, and that was on the 11th of July! =)) The saturday of the week the Year 6s finish their CTs.. Well, Steffi could come on that date which was a fairly big incentive for some of the delegates I guess, haha, she's so busy, it was almost impossible to find a day that she was free!! I even told her I might have to bring her photo! =D
Oh well, in the end, loads of people pulled out last minute, sighs. So on that day, it was just me, Dee Jee, Hanis, Michelle, Amanda, Yu Xin and Matthew.. Come to think of it, quite sad huh. But nevermind, we were so crazy that day wors.. =D
First we went to eat.. At Kopitiam.. Then we went to Kallang Bowl.. And waited.. And camwhored.. And waited somemore.. >:( The staff there were horrible, as usual.. And Dee Jee got slightly pissed.. =O Anyway, we decided against bowling and decided to go and ice skate.. However Dee Jee had to go by 330pm so she went off for a manicure (Don't Ask) and we met Matt and left to go ice skate.. =)) "Mommy" Dee Jee dropped us off at the ice-skating rink and we went in to skate.. Hanis came halfway and skated too.. =D Oh and Michelle was a first-timer and so we spent the 2 hours teaching her how to skate! Gosh she was so stressed!! She was perspiring like crazy in that highly air-conditioned rink, I told her to take her jacket off but she said she was cold!! hahahaha, beat that! Anyway, the thing is, as we rounded the bend at near the entrance (Me and Amanda were helping Michelle). I looked up and saw a familiar face!! BOKKIE WAS THERE!!!! hahaha, anyway, I pointed, Amanda turned to look and she screamed and Michelle fell.. EPIC BEYOND BELIEF!! You could totally see Amanda's =O expression!! hahaha, anyway, we picked Michelle up and went to ambush Mrs Bok.. =D
Anyway, turns out she brought her son, Elliot there to ice skate.. =D We chatted with her, avoided her camera, and basically kept wondering if we should go help Elliot whenever he fell.. =))) At the end of it, Michelle could more or less skate.. And we decided to have dinner together.. =) Amanda and Hanis had to go Orchard though, but I thought they could come with us first so erm.. I made them all go on the 16 bus heading towards Parkway when those 2 should have been taking it in the opposite direction! oops! =/ Anyway, me, Michelle and Matthew went to Parkway to eat dinner at (haha, you guessed it!) Kopitiam again.. =D hahahahaha.. RETARDED HUH.. =D
After that.. we went to Borders to stone and wait for Michelle's dad to pick her up.. =)) We read random books (camwhored twice too! epitome of retardedness!!) and after Michelle left (she really has no sense of direction... tsk), I stayed back with Matt for a while to randomly chat and read books on design -_- I have no idea why also.. lols.. Either way, after examining a book on small houses and bedrooms, I walked with him to the bus stop and then chatted some more with him until his bus came =)
Then I went to join my family and we headed home.. All in all? A fairly fruitful day =)
REALLY REALLY LOVE YOU GUYS! WE NEED ANOTHER OUTING!!
P.S. Another outing, with preferably EVERYONE this time.. =))
Skipping through...
10:15 PM
Gonna skip past the June Hols, nothing much happened except for the fact that I went for buffet like 4 times in that one month.. =D
1. Shangri-La Hotel The Line Buffet (BRILLIANT BEST I EVER HAD)
2. Ritz Carlton Buffet (which is really really bad, don't ever go there.. )
3. Sheraton Towers Buffet (Desserts are the most sinful thing ever)
4. Tung Lok Lunch Buffet (Sharksfin and sashimi are quite good)
I studied for CTs, or tried to... Had my CTs, died through.. HBL was horrible, like Yuesing said "HELL BASED LEARNING MAN!!"
So, thats a brilliant summary of everything, the after-CTs I went through quite in depth already, so my next post is gonna be on the ASEAN outing.. =))
ASEAN Day 4
9:20 PM
This was a really really fun day!! First in the morning was the tour with the overseas delegates! =D
I went with Junwei, Dinah, Rebecca and Huan Jun.. AND YES I WAS THE ONLY JUNIOR AGAIN.. sighs.
hahaha. Anyway, I wore jeans and a teeshirt, cos I thought I would be going to the Christine Suchen-Lim talk later at the NLB.. In anycase, it was FREAKING HOT!! I nearly melted.. =/ Rebecca was the best lah.. Dressed in 2 tank tops and hot shorts.. =D Gosh, it must have killed the "powersuit corporate lady" image that the overseas delegates had of her!! hahaha.. =D
ANYWAY.. We got on the bus and we first went to Funan for breakfast.. There we intro-ed the Indian delegates to Ya Kun!! And we learned that prata did not originate from India x_x And that Merule is a real camwhore! He even took pictures with Ronald Mcdonald!! He claims that Ronald does not sit in that position over in Brunei... -_-
After that, we headed over to the Parliament House area, where we looked at this statue of an elephant.. I honestly don't remember the exact name of the place.. Someone enlighten me? =/ Then after that we went down to the Singapore River and walked along while our guide told us fascinating stories of Singapore's past. =D Merule also took a photo with a python!! SO COOL HUH!! yup yup, anyways, took loads of photos outside by the River before going into the brilliant Singapore Art Museum.. Anyways they gave us this very funky pink sticker with some Emperor dude on it (who coincidentally people think looks like Moses!) After walking through the museum, laughing retardedly all the way, hanging out with the Indian delegates, confirming Lakshmi was dating Akshay, we left the Art Museum and went to take the Singapore Flyer (which also coincidentally isn't that fantastic after all)... We took the Flyer together with the Taiwanese delegates and camwhored, and I just sat on the floor of the Flyer and erm, well, stared down, and erm.. Oh, the Taiwanese teacher, Huang Lao Shi (!!!) came to talk to us.. Well, us being me and Rebecca. Dunno why, we just happened to be there.. =/She talked about what a good job we were doing.. =D Sighs, come to think of it, she's darn nice, hope we get her back next year!! =))
Then we had lunch at the Singapore Flyer, one of the restaurants downstairs.. and I decided that since it was too late, and I hadn't had lunch, that I would skip the Christine Suchen-Lim talk.. Which defeated the purpose of me wearing jeans.. -_- I suffered in the heat for nothing.. -_- Anyway, since I was free til about 4++ I decided to head back to school with Rebecca, but we decided to shop around first! =) We went to The Cocoa Tree and had a fun time playing "Guess The Weight".. =D Basically they were giving 100g of chocolates free with every 300g purchased or something to that effect. So.. I decided to buy for the delegates!! And Rebecca was buying for I dunno what reason.. LOLS.. So we mixed and matched and tried to get the perfect 400g.. =D hahahaha.. Rebecca really really scared me, she was so ZONKED.. =/ She had no idea what I was talking about when I tried to decide which combination to put in.. She didn't understand the simple maths and logic that I put across to her.. Basically, she was so tired, she wasn't absorbing anything..=/ In anycase, we figured out that big toblerone weighs like 3g more than the mini ones.. =D And we bought our choco and headed back to school.. =) I made her sleep on the bus cos' she really really was zonked.. I won't tell you what she did at the bus stop, cos' she'll be super embarrassed.. =D But if you ask me, maybe I'll tell you.. =))
Anyway, I went back to school, left Rebecca at the hostel and went to the canteen in search of my dear dear delegates =) They were happily going nuts at the canteen!! =D So cute, they had this script all prepared and they were planning to parody songs to fit our organ trade theme.. SO CREATIVE HUH!! =)) Actually they had a whole script prepared on a parody of committee sessions, but there were too many inside jokes, the others wouldn't get it.. =/ Oh well, the script made me laugh so badly, so many unglam photos of me laughing!! =( hahahaha, in anycase, stayed around to watch them prepare, laugh at them, shake my head at them camwhoring on Matt's com... (Poor Matt).. And I just wanna say that I'm so so so proud of my council and all these wonderful delegates! You guys put in so much effort into this small performance and even came early to prepare! =) You worked together and came up with a good skit, even though the AV equipment failed on us, you still put up a good show. I am proud of your resilience, your strength in adversity and most of all your fun-loving, party-animal, crazy personalities!!
Heck that's right, we went nuts for the rest of the night, cheering and screaming, shouting, taking photos and generally loads of laughter! =))
I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!! =))
ASEAN Day 3
8:56 PM
OMG THIS IS SO FREAKING OVERDUE... I'm gonna try and clear all the owed posts in eh.. 2 hours! hahaha, wishz me luck! =)
Alright, ASEAN Day 3. Gosh, its been almost 2 months since then, but the memories are still dear to my heart and clear in my mind! =))
This was the day of the first Plenary Session, and of course the ending of the Crisis!! Well, since I wasn't there for the Crisis.. I can't say much.. =D Oh and Plenary Session was also kindof boring for me, since my resolution wasn't being discussed!! >:( Oh well, in anycase, I stayed outside and spammed food.. =D Yay!! hahahaha, oh, oh and in the morning, Rebecca was freaking out BIG TIME!! She kept asking me for the list of proceedings, I called back to Admin Room so many times, first to Steffi then to Yi Hsin. Then finally I ran back myself. Then just as I was turning the Admin Room upside down to search for a copy of the proceedings, Rebecca called to say she found a copy over there in the PAC.. -_- Any Dunmanian knows that the PAC is freaking far away from the Conference Room... And I was in court shoes.. And I RAN over to the Admin Room cos' Becs said she needed the proceedings ASAP. (And she said it with this really frantic look on her face, so I ran, despite the pain...) OH WELL...
Oh, this was also the day Steffi fell sick.. =(( She went back to the Admin Room to rest while I "guarded" her lappie (a beautiful MAC!!).. haha.. anyway.. Did I mention that this was the day I wore my uber uber chio RED blouse from G2000?? Oh gosh, I love that shirt. For the one and only reason that it is freaking RED!! And everyone was like o.O when I stepped into Admin Room, I got eh.. 5 greetings of 恭喜发财! in just 20 minutes.. -_- The problem with that shirt? It was too flashy and bright.. Which on the whole is not too bad, considering my flashy and colourful character.. =D BUT the problem was, since I was wearing highly uncomfortable and slightly loose court shoes.... When I went onto the stage, I was dying already.. When I came off the stage however, I apparently slipped and fell sitting onto the stage.. x_x The best part? I had no idea how I ended up on my butt.. o.o Ms Aw and Ms Devi were like shocked out of their minds.. =/ I was just erm. IN SHOCK.. hahahahaha.. Oh well, lesson learned. =D
This was also the day I got to interact more with the delegates!! We ate lunch together at some "abandoned" staircase near the PAC.. =D We traded phone numbers and I loudly announced mine slowly so all would get it =D GOSH I CAN'T HELP MYSELF SOMETIMES.. XD Basically we talked and talked and talked, and I found out more about them, and they probably found out more about me.. =D I think Michelle must have been shocked, given that she's known me longer than they all have and I think I spoke more in that 30 minutes than I ever had to her.. =/
Alright, so ladeedadeelah.. Skip the rest of the boring (plenary session whole day mah) day and straight to debrief.. =) Debrief was kept decently short, seeing as I had no idea what Plenary was about.. I kindof just stoned.. =D hehe.. If I remember correctly, this was the day I went to have dinner with some random other ASEAN people.. Actually not very random.. Come to think of it, I was the only junior there.. =/ I went with Rebecca, Jun Wei, Huan Jun, Joseph, Wynne and Steffi. WOAH.. It's like a Who's Who list of Smart People.. Guess who was the odd one out?? Anyway, I think it was lucky that I was there in the sense that all of them were DYING... Literally.. Steffi was sick and tired. Rebecca was tired sick. Joseph was also super tired. Junwei and Huan Jun were only kept alive by food.. hahahaha.. And I was the only vaguely still able to run on adrenaline one.. O.o So I helped Steffi and Rebecca choose their food, made sure Steffi had water and whatnot, yeah and generally tried to stay awake. In the end I was exhausted though! Even blur pok Rebecca noticed.. She was like "Nicole, are you alright? You just suddenly stopped talking.." So to all my friends, if I stop talking, something is really wrong. =D
Anyway, to end off the day, Mom and Dad came to pick me up and I gave Wynne a lift home. =)
ONWARD TO ASEAN DAY 4!!
