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Merry Christmas

Yay it’s Christmas!

Anyway I had a wonderful evening with some of my fav ppl in the world on the 22nd. I had the house decorated till it screamed Christmas and we had a super large feast which everybody dressed up super nicely for it. We even got YH into a dress and makeup, which she looked absolutely gorgeous in. Gotta do that more often! 😀 Hahaha.

:P

IM SORRY FOR NOT BLOGGGGIIIIING!~

Uh. Uh.
Here’s the paintings of the 2 dresses I bought this week!

Disappointment

How bitter the taste of disappointment is.
It’s not fun being the choice to go Paris, and then have it snatched away right at the last minute. Truth to be told, I was already cautious on how high I set my hopes and expectations. Still when they got crushed, it was quite a painful blow.

Yes I’m aware of how blessed I am to able to be here in Ireland, 15,000 miles away from home. But when given a choice to travel to somewhere you never thought you’ll in another decade, it’s another thing. Ask someone who has lived in village with huts and no electricity forever if they are unhappy and they’ll shrug.  But offer them a stay in a 5 star hotel and then ask them to go back to their old lives, they will never stop thinking back of the hotel. You can’t miss a decision if it was never mentioned.

Sure, going to Galway instead will probably be fun and all. But when being compared withe the idea of Paris… I don’t know.
How I wish the idea of a trip to Paris was never brought up at all.

Lazing around

I know, I’m sorry, I’m a lazy ass. I WILL blog about Belfast some time soon! Hahaha.
Anyway, we spent the weekend pretty much just lazing around and staying away from the cold.  What a nice waste of a weekend here in Ireland. Haha. It’s rather disappointing though, that we haven’t been able to interact with any of the Irish students. Most of the time we’re just doing our own projects and research, which I guess is not what I envisioned. Hopefully we’ll be able to at least make some friends before heading back to Singapore!

Oh anyway, I created two tumblrs for myself during my lazing time, and well, have also been playing fb games non stop.. Tsk. But yeah,you can have a look at the tumblrs here (:
http://hismasterpiece.tumblr.com
http://zhifeng.tumblr.com

Missing everybody back in SG!

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Ugh! I bet using my laptop for extended periods of time while sitting on my bed is a horrible idea, my back hurts ):

Dublin

Having loads of fun here! (:
Had a visit to Dublin and Belfast last weekend and it was a really cool experience.

Woke up early on Saturday morning and we took a nice long walk to the bus stop which you can see below. It’s like a little hut, kinda cute. Lol. Then of course, considering the fact that I’m travelling with a bunch of slightly crazy people, one of them decided that sitting in the bus stop was a lovely time to use for shaving. Why waste time right? -.-

It was a one and a half hr of bus journey from Carlow to Dublin and the view along the way was gorgeous. Too bad it was pouring when we got off though, the rain made the weather freezing cold to walk in! ): So we froze our way from the bus stop to our hostel. The buildings there looked awesome compared to Singapore though. Every building were unique but all of them managed  to look grand and majestic with their detailed pillars and brick walls. Was really quite a sight to walk through them, even when I felt as though my fingers were gonna fall off most of the time. Anyway, the lower right picture is the hostel we stayed in. We chose it mostly cause.. okay I’m not too sure why the rest chose it , but I loved it’s website design! Hahahahaha. http://www.kinlaydublin.ie/

Unfortunately the people who stayed in the room we booked still haven’t booked out when we arrived, so we decided to go for breakfast instead. Got recommendations on breakfast places from the people at the counter and headed down to d-cafe, the nearest breakfast place to our hostel. (meaning crossing the road) It was a pretty cozy place with a smell that can drive your stomach mad. The guys all ordered the regular breakfast, (boring people), while I ordered the cheese and meat panini. Haha. Everything was really yummy though (:

When we were done with breakfast and had warm happy tummys, we took a “short” walk to the Guinness Storehouse, one of the most famous tourist spots in Dublin. The “short” walk… was damn long la! Btw, did I mention that when they said it was a 10 minutes walk to school from our home back in Carlow, they meant “30 friggin minutes”? -.- Haha but Irish people do walk really fast, like… really fast.  Haha. Anyway we took loads of pictures outside the Guinness Gate, which was kinda tall and cool.

The Guinness Storehouse itself was pretty huge. It just so happens that this year was it’s 250th year so we got the limited edition tickets, yay. (: Anyway it’s pretty much like Science Center, just that it’s all about beer making and proclaiming the awesomeness of Guinness Beer. Was rather educational I guess, haha. After the tour, our ticket allowed each of us a complimentary cup of Guinness so we (obviously, being Singaporean and all) went to get it. That was at the top top top floor which was very very high. Had a 360degree stunning view of Dublin! (: I only drank half of the cup though, Guinness is so bitter! >.< ewch! Anyway, we dropped by the Guinness store before leaving and the guys ended up buying loads of stuff. But it was so expensive there! >.<

So when we were done with the much spending, we finally got our asses out of the storehouse and into the streets where we  saw with much delight, a horse carriage! *squeals* 😀 After an almost nonexistent consideration period on whether to take it, we soon happily hopped onto to carriage which brought us straight back to our hostel. Very convenient (: We went up to our now-empty room to put down the stuff (it had a great view) and then left for the Castle I-Forgot-It’s-Name. Gorgeous place, the castle. The only problem was that we weren’t allowed inside cause we were not part of a tour. ):

After the Castle, we went back to Temple Bar which was where our hostel was located. It was around 5pm at that time, but the sky was already pitch black so… we went for dinner. Haha it’s funny though, cause we ate the lunch set specials for dinner (: But all was good, it was delicious and cheaper. We went downstairs after dinner to the restaurant’s own bar but it was filled to the door with people so.. I guess not. Walked around the road and there were quite a few really talented buskers performing. This guy below was really cool! Haha.

Went back to the hostel pretty soon after that cause all of the bars were packed. Played with James’s 2euros da vinci board game for a while and got bored (he donated the game to the hostel). We did try going out again after that but there was really nothing to do so went back and bathed and slept.
And that’s the end of Dublin. I think I’ll blog about Belfast later. Haha. (:

Carlow!

After more than 24 hours of travelling, I’m in Carlow, Ireland!
And it. is. GORGEOUS. The scenery is stunning and weather was an overzealous air con that has thankfully repeatedly stopped raining whenever we needed to walk, thank you Jesus! Accommodations are also perfect and the school was way coool. I expected a way heavier Irish accent here in Ireland though, but it’s actually pretty normal and understandable. Maybe Hollywood exaggerates a little? Lol.

Anyway, it’s real cool having an Irish name here in Ireland, everybody seems so pleasantly surprised when they hear it. Hahaha! I’m glad how we pronounce it in Singapore is actually correct, hhaha, I was already prepping myself to come to the horrid realization that my name might have been pronounced wrongly my whole life. Haha. So yeah, anyway, I’ll be doing research on SecondLife and other stuff here in ITCarlow for my work in this internship. Doesn’t sound too exciting, but… it’s survivable. Haha. Went grocery shopping after school. Haha and here I’ll tell you a fun fact about Carlow, Ireland… There are no plastic bags! We had to stuff the chicken garlic and all the other stuff into our bag, I even had a celery stick sticking out of my jacket pocket while walkimng home, hahaha.

Oh and anyway, the group of us were planning on going out of the country during the weekends but nothing is confirmed yet. Let’s see how it goes (:

Btw, I don’t know when I’m turning 19 though, on 12am in Sg or 12am here? Hahaha.
Oh wells. Okay I’m exhausted, going to sleep now! Nights world! Really appreciate the people who went to Changi Airport to send me off! (:

Tooodaay~

Today, I had my hair dyed back black, helped put  up the Christmas tree, and have had my Ireland internship confirmed. (: Should be posting photos but I’m too lazy. (as usual)

So anyway like I said, it’s confirmed (!!about time!!), I’m leaving on Sunday at 1050pm for Carlow, Ireland! *excited* Was annoyed at the suddenness of the news but got over it so now I’m just mainly excited. (: I think we’ll be doing a research project there… Haven’t gotten much details on that. That doesn’t sound too fun but, will do, should be manageable. At  around 8 degrees, it’ll be ass freezing cold there though. Already have 2 boxes full of winter stuff I’ll be bringing there. Brr!~ I’m gonna have to bring so much stuff! And it doesn’t help that I’m super kiasu… >.<

This internship will just be a month only though so I’ll be back by Dec 15th. It’s a shame I won’t be here for my birthday or my first yr with the boy.  Oh wells..
*pat pat* Stay strong hon! I’ll be back before you know it and we’ll celebrate Christmas together k (:
Love you!

POL-ITE

Silver yo! We did it. (:

After the months and months of training, sweating, cursing, crying, headaches, we finally did it. It wasn’t easy, we didn’t always believed we could, but we did it. Sigh, feels good (: Wish I myself had performed better considering the fact that if I had won both my games, it would had been a Gold for the ladies, but…. yeah I guess I did my best. Sorry team! >.<
Silver. No longer the last now are we.. (:
And we proved you wrong alright, you who sits in your office chair thinking of ways to close us down, we proved you wrong.  HAH!

Mmm…

 

 

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HAH!

Okay that feels so much better. (:

Ladeeda

Haven’t blogged for a while, oops. (:

Hehe. Not like I’ve been doing much nowadays anyway. Life’s pretty ok, still waiting for news for my OSIP. Waiting for this news week after week is like.. Being in the restaurant where the food you’ve ordered still hasn’t arrived after a gazillion years. You know it should be here by now, but it’s not! And all the excitement that you had for the food is slowly fading and soon after, you just don’t really care what way it comes here or how it is presented, as long as it just shows up on your plate cause you’re so damned hungry!

Yeah wells.
Spent most of my days lazing around with the boy anyway. We had fun of course, and visited underwater world one of the days too. Was a lot smaller than I remembered actually, but my dad says it’s cause we used to keep wanting to go on the travellator again and again and spent most of our time there. Still, the place was cool. Especially enjoyed the touch-the-stingrays pool! The stingrays had this slimy carpety feel to them, almost felt like… well someone spread slime over a carpet. Lol. But it was quite an experience touching them! Haha. Oh, they also like swimming sideways against the walls of the pool so a quarter of their body sticks out of the water, it’s like a shark with a very floppy fin! Haha cute. (:
Lazy to post up pics. You’ll survive.

Hmm what else.. Kleon offered us tix to go for the halloween-ish night safari with him and Elaine on Friday night but we didn’t go in the end cause of the rain ): I was crazily disappointed! I don’t even know why I was THAT disappointed. It was just… ): x 1000.

And then.. there was the community prog with the youth ministry to go to the cerebal palsy centre to spend time with the kids. Al & I were in charge of this 6 year old boy, Joel.
He. Was. Adorable.
Interesting though, even after the 4 hours we spent with him, I still wasn’t sure what was wrong with him.  He seemed like just another normal child, who’s favourite color is orange and doesn’t like dancing.  He likes counting and draws pretty well. He writes his name as Joel Tan K2 2009. And I think he likes me more than Al 😛
I’m glad I went for the event though, learnt so much about these kids and it was such an experience. There was this beautiful small girl with the biggest eyes ever, who only lives in her own world and really cares about nothing else. And then another child, a cute and chubby girl, who had autism couldn’t express herself and could only scream to get attention, taking the servers 10 mins to understand all she wanted was a yellow ball. It was quite painful seeing all these though, but I know these kids were touched by the event and a seed sown in their lives. The event was called “His power, your hands” afterall (:

Today, had a shoot with Shen. Was fun, enjoyed myself. Tomorrow, POL-ITE starts.
Woo! Excited.
It shall be good! 😀

…sniffles.

Men Take Risks to Attract Women

In an effort to determine if there is an evolutionary reason why men are far more likely to participate in dangerous activities,social psychologists at Florida State University tested undergraduates’ risk tolerance using blackjack.Before playing a series of rigged hands, male students were shown pictures of either attractive or unattractive female faces, and then asked how interested they were in finding new sex partners.

The males who saw the pretty faces, and who considered themselves on the prowl, were more likely to ask for a “hit” and risk going over 21 than those who saw the unappealing faces, or who weren’t sexually motivated. When females were given the same test, there were no such discrepancies.

(source)

Toni&Guy hairshow

Group shot!

Yay about time I posted the pictures 😀
Toni&Guy’s hair show was alot of fun and was a nice way making moolah while getting a free new cut and color (:

Chantal & I. Love her hair! 😀

Me, Priscilla and Chantal. Hehe contrast!

Loads of pretty girls there for the show! It was a super long day, starting at 7am but it ended around 2pm. Anyway, it took a week for my hair to get to the way it is and I have photos for you guys! Okay la, I know it looks sorta zhilian-ish, but for recording down purposes kay! 😛
Show was on a Thursday. On Sunday they cut it, Monday for 6 hours they bleach it the color in the third picture. Quite awful and ahlian-ny with the bleach below, hahaha. So I stayed mostly home on Tues and Wed. Then wore a cap to Dad’s bday at Lawrys though. (Yum!!) Finally on Thursday, they colored my hair for the hair show. (:
Do like it quite abit, but would be dying it back black soon I guess. Still kinda prefer black 😀

Painting

Did this last night with the my new photoshop cs4 in my new reformatted laptop (:
I know it rough and gory and all.. but that’s my Jesus.
(The real scene was probably alot worse but.. yeah.)

Weirdness

We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them in mutual weirdness and call it love

Gory to Glory

I was cute once… and then I wasn’t.. and then I REALLY wasn’t… then I finally got better -.-

So now I present you, the epitome of toot-ness! Hahaha. Don’t laugh too loudly though, bet you had that awkward growing up stage too!
Sis on the left, yours truly on the right.

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I’m the one who looks fair and cute and cant seem to locate the camera.

2.

I like have, huge eye pupils! They’re like marbles!

3.

This is not fair, the photos were taken at a different timing.

4.

Stupid buckteeth. -.-

5.

Hahaha this is unanimously agreed as the WORST PHOTO EVER.

6.

Sis looks like the a real estate agent! Haha.

7.

Whew.

Mmm

If I close my eyes and open them again, will all these have gone away?
I don’t like sleeping while knowing you’re in pain.
Watching itself was painful. I really hope they gave you painkillers tonight.
Sometimes in the hospital when you’re finally asleep, I wonder what would it be like if I was in your place. If I was the one hurting and you’re the one taking care. I think you’ll be better at taking care of me then I will ever be of you.
Kinda sucks in a way, haha. But then this whole experience is suckish anyway.
Yesterday when you were still bedridden was especially scary. I remember sitting there while you groaned in pain wondering when was the next time you’ll be able to hug me. Was it selfish to think of that? Hmm. Thank God that everything got better today though. It was a relief waking up to the news that no operation is needed and you’re allowed to sit up again. Definetly love getting hugs from my boy. (:
Sigh, get well soon now. Gotta buy you more gummy bears tml.

Bleah, hospitals are such mentally draining places..

Tired ):

More of exhausted actually. Hmm.
Don’t really know how to blog this down, everything just keeps happening its frizzling my brain a little. Poof.
School labs are closed and everybody in my group has laptop problems, which equals to very little work done for our MP. Little work done = little marks = quite fustrating really. ):
On the bright side, I had a cooking lesson from Elaine a couple of nights ago, really fun, enjoyed that part. (: Then there was doing NAPHA today along with Yinghui. Results were not satisfactory, but was more fun than expected. I think it;s the company. Haha. Will be back to retake it again next year.

And then there’s of course.. this. Alastair just got himself landed in the hospital from a back injury in NS. My clumsy boy.
Hai. Had to be sent straight to the hospital from tekong. If you heard how he was telling me he was on the way to the hospital, you would have thought he was joking too. How I wish he was. Bleah. Anyway, I was in the midst of baking a whole bunch of heart shaped scones for him, he msges me halfway to say he’s on the drip and can’t eat. There goes my chance of using the food-is-the-way-to-a-man’s-heart logic…
Hahaha…
I don’t like being worried..
):

GMH

http://www.givesmehope.com/

This site provides a good change from FML. Haha. Beats getting kicks out of seeing people having suckier lives than yours. (:

To Al <3

And today makes it 9 months! (:
Haha, love!