german lady

deja vu. sitting here staring at the clock. its past 3am again.

learnt new variations today. i find that the people at this place are quiet and reserved, much unlike the other place. anw, a german lady asked for directions when we were along the spore river. we brought her to the river cruise and gave her some kaya toast to try. hehe. i was talking to her throughout when we were walking towards the river cruise stand. she was travelling alone bcos her husband didnt want to take the 12.5 hour flight here. how brave of her! i wouldnt travel alone in some foreign land. her daughter did an exchange prog in spore last year and wrote down all the places she should visit in a book for her. (saw the book full of scribblings and recommendations) a pity she's flying off the next day to darwin. she's gonna visit her friend in melbourne. we were talking about london as well. she lived near regents park and was there 40 yrs ago! she doesnt even look that old to me. we exchanged emails and phone numbers in the end. she said i could visit her in munich if i go over! such friendliness (: something which i like about the people over there. ;D

its kinda cool how we cross paths with random people in our lives. some making just a blurry imprint, others leaving behind deeper impressions...


off to sleep!

bouldering

im back again! at 3+ am
I went bouldering with eddy today. certainly looks easy but its tough! i think the climbing shoes were too small. my feet was hurting alot in them.
it was my first time bouldering. lousy me. my arms are aching now and my hands feel like they dont have energy. cant grip things and exert force properly. i want to conquer that reclining wall. but cant! was stuck there for so long! i think light people will be able to climb well bcos its easier to support their body weight? oh oh oh, i like the split across walls move. haha. im grabbing onto something and straddling between 2 walls. but my flexibility is going down the drain :( prob need to train up when i go back to sch.

we climbed at yishun safra for quite awhile. or more like, eddy climbed and i watched. lol. the other guys there were gd too! hanging on this piece with no leg support at all. zomg. anw, main thing is FOOD! had this wanton mee at some neighbourhood place. i kinda like the mee and sauce and the wantons arent too bad either. just that they were really small. too bad i cant rmb which block it is, but its just a short distance away from northpoint. speaking of which, northpoint has this stall which sells horrible bubble tea. dont ever buy from there! i prefer my bubble tea at this place near funan. (: prob gonna have it tmr!

im quite excited! next week's gonna be filled with activities. and i planned some! ;D

xx
belle

3.06am

im sitting here on the sofa in my living room at 3.06am in the morning with the sudden realisation that, omg i have about 2 weeks left in sg! summer break just zipped by so quickly. i dont know why livejournal takes so long to load on safari/ firefox and i dont have IE. Blogspot will suffice for now. I dont really blog regularly anyway, this blog is grossly underutilised! oh well.

having completed my internship last month, i've been bumming around pretty much. I cant sleep before 4 or 5 or 6am in the morning and i cant get up early either. eeks. i've been sleeping alot and eating alot, being a fat slob really. ahhh. desperately in need of exercise.! Did i mention i got a new pair of running shoes last sunday? with the intention to run on mon, tue, wed... but it never did occur! and it surely doesnt help that theres a fresh supply of snacks at home easily within reach. dang. seems like all those weight gained will be stuck with me. =/

i kinda like being awake at this hour. Its quiet, cooling and its just calming in a way listening to nature's sounds.

went to JB with some imperial ppl on tuesday! ate so much! it was good fun(:
i didnt dare to try the fish spa though. i was too fearful! dont know why i was so scared! perhaps next time!
i'll leave you with a pic at the seafood restaurant:



nights!

two dance classes

makes annabelle an extremely happy girl! (: i went for 2 classes back to back yesterday! it was soooo fun! thoroughly enjoyed it! hehe. i was out of breath after jiving! i can just feel myself smiling and grinning bcos it feels so good to be dancing again(: whee! and let me disclose something, theres this person in dance class who seems really good. he can shake his hips really well. omg. ! and i made new friends with the dance ppl. yay(: looking forward to dance again next week(: seems like my battered-feet-days are back again. i've already got 5 blisters from yesterday.

moving on, MORE DANCE! did i mention im loving SYTYCD season 4?! i was watching the latest episode on youtube last night. im totally in love with katee n joshua, chelsie n mark and twitchington. watching them is just pure bliss...

alright i need to start meeting up with people. the past few days i've been happy in my shell and just whiling time away. gymmed on tue, swam on wed and danced on thur :D be proud of me.
but seems like the exercise regime might be broken today. or i might just do a 'walk after dinner'.

crap i am procastinating blogging abt hk. and blogger doesnt help at all bcos it takes so long to upload the pics that i just close the whole window.
relax session ahead! bb.

back!

hey girls! im back from hk! (:
im sooo fat im terribly disgusted with myself. !
rawr.
could everyone who sees this send me an sms? thanks! ( i lost all my sg contacts! )
my bag got stolen when i was in london. (ahh. but i'll save that story for another time!)

im at

terminal 3's airport lounge now. this would be the first time im flying alone! the rest of them are taking a different flight from me and i'll be meeting them at HK airport later. im so sleepy! and i cant believe i met bryon at the airport again! this time, at changi airport, not heathrow. lol.
im still hungry even though i had breakfast with the rest at terminal 1.
i'll prob go grab something now. byeee! (:

back!

yes! im finally back home! (:
i cant believe exams only ended last week and so many things happened in between! one major thing was packing and shifting all the things ive accumulated over the past year to kenway for summer storage. it was quite silly! i brought a camera along wanting to take pictures of the moving process, but i totally forgot about the camera and didnt take any pictures! lol. too busy moving perhaps? but i did take a few photos of all the boxes in my room though. packing is NOT FUN at all! i fell ill because of all the dust (and germs)! and i just finished using a whole box of tissues!
took some pictures with my roommate(: will upload the pictures when i find my cable!

it was quite a coincidence that linette, bryon, wingyee and their friend were all flying on 23rd june noon-ish. and i only found out at arounf 330am on 23rd june? hehe. but we all met up at heathrow terminal 3! how cool is that! again, we took a pic. (arghh. i need to find the cable soon!) anyway, thank god for their help as well as heathrow immigration being really slack? vic actually made it through with two handcarry bags instead of one! we flew on the A380 back to spore. i must say that the screen is much bigger, there was more legroom, wider seats etc. oh and you can plug in your thumbdrive and use word processor... but then, bcos there are more passengers on the flight, you have to wait longer to board, to collect your luggage, to get your meals served. hmmm. and i dont know if the A380 flys at the same altitude as the boeing planes, but my ears were really painful! it just wouldnt pop and i could feel the pressure difference. ouch! (but maybe it was due to the fact that i was ill. blocked nose and blocked ears - not a wonderful feeling!) i couldnt sleep the entire way back and i was so eager to get home i kept looking at the flight path screen, looking at the plane inching towards singapore on the world map. oh well. im back now!

was so happy to see my family after sooooo long! (: my ah kong and ah ma are super cute. love them(: we went for breakfast together. ate so much! and ate lots throughout the day as well. its insane!

anyway, i really gotta go to bed now, have to be awake in less than 3 hours time!
i'll be back soon!
HK beckons(:

blogging

hello!
i know i havent been blogging for the longest time, but then, in the midst of my exams, i suddenly decided that i wanted to blog again! It would be a waste to let my experiences in London just go by like that and i certainly would want to write it down and remember all those things that happened. Thus, i would consider this my mini summer project: to blog about all my travels, life in london, and of course to let my friends know what have been going on in my life. Hopefully i'll be able to keep this up! (:

dumpers at suntec

all 6 of us(:

1. mel: lets fighttttttt!
2. our fingers! (py and i)

3. picture of a screen(:
4. shen n elaine in our heart shape fingers. py and i realised we have flexible fingers!


ben & jerry's!




rawrr. i eat too much!!! im the greeeeedy piggy! i ate one whole big cone!

im feeling much better now(:

i have been sick the past few days. It got reallyreally bad on tuesday evening. I was on the mrt train with my colleague and was deciding whether or not to go to school since i wasnt feeling well. and after my colleague alighted, things took for the worse. i almost fainted on the mrt. my whole vision was blurred and it was like a semi-blackout. kinda scary. i immediately alighted at the next stop and sat at the bench at the station for a longlong time till i felt i had the strength to walk again. cabbed home from newton mrt. when i reached home, i immediately knocked out on the sofa. didnt have energy. after resting for awhile, my parents brought me to the clinic. i felt bad there too. there were so many sick people around and the queue was awfully long. i really think that being a doctor is an extremely noble profession because you get to alleviate the pain of so many people and make them feel much better. i thought i was pretty sick, but compared to the little girl who was vomitting every few minutes, i was like. omg. ouch. if i felt terrible horrible horrible, she must have felt ten times worse. in any case, the diagnosis was that i got a viral infection in the intestines which caused me to have a mix of fever, runny nose, headache and a very bad case of diarrhoea. having severe diarrhoea is really not a joke. i really felt like dying in the toilet. i didnt say it earlier, but i actually went to the toilet 7 times on monday and a lot of times on tuesday. thank goodness it wasnt so bad when i was at work. it was mostly after or before work when i had diarrhoea. [thats why its a viral infection. it comes and goes and the symptoms will subside and come back again] oops sorry i know that was quite gross. =/
the doctor gave me an mc for the next day. didnt go to work on wednesday. didnt really sleep well the whole of tuesday night either. my head was spinning, my stomach was aching, and i had diarrhoea in the middle of the night. i half-slept for most of wednesday at home, only waking up when i had to take medication or when i had diarrhoea.
for the first time in my life, i didnt eat for 33hours (noon on tuesday till 9 plus on wed night) except drink honey water and plain water! zomg. even i was surprised. maybe i didnt wanna eat because if i didnt eat, i wouldnt have diarrhoea. makes sense right? anyway, i wasnt feeling that bad on wed night. but there was still the "heavy" feeling in the head and nausea.

woke up this morning (thursday). still didnt feel quite well, but headed to work anyway. after all, its only my first week of work and i shouldnt be taking sick leave. today was a busybusy day. there was a lot of work to complete and we were one man down. another guy fell sick too. rawrr. one thing i dont like about the office environment is the proximity of the people and lack of fresh air. The whole project team is sick in varying degrees. quite terrible huh? hope all of us will get well soon before "D-day" comes. As i was saying, there were cartons of boxes to be done. although i was feeling feverish, there was no time to be sick! everyone was busy doing their work. thank goodness for the much needed lunchtime break. the other poor souls in the neighbour department were worse off. they were so busy they didnt even have time to go for lunch. i still think my colleagues are a jovial bunch. they make me laugh the whole day! veryveryveryvery funny! ((((:

busy day at work tmr again.

first day of work

I got up bright and early this morning , eager with anticipation. After all, this is my very first job. I've had no work experience whatsoever. I was greeted by a handsome-looking caucasian guy at the HR dept! ((: met him at the lift lobby and he was so gentlemanly! there were manymany doors and he opened manymany doors. (: anyway, he even made an effort to strike a conversation since i was really early. lol. [no, i do not have a crush on him. i just thought that it would be nice if singaporean guys can be more gentlemanly.]

spent most of the morning learning the system and all. so many things to remember! confusing! thank goodness the person in charge didnt test michelle and i. If not, gg! and as most people would say, working is very boring! monotonous. i really wonder how all the people with office jobs can withstand it. Day in, day out, doing roughly the same stuff. Staring at the computer screen for hours doing transactions... I sat till my butt ached! rawrrr.

colleagues. i was surprised to find quite a handful of people our age. Altogether, 4 girls waiting for A level results (including me), 2 guys who ord-ed and waiting to enter university, and a couple of people in their early twenties. the whole big group of us went out for lunch together. hmmm. and i witnessed the 'chope with tissue paper thing'. it was amusing! [childish! lol.]
i think my colleagues (those my age) are generally a friendly bunch. it was quite funny. they have this tradition where everyone knocks off and walks to the mrt station together. but this being our (michelle and i) first day, we had to go collect our temp staff passes after knocking off. guess what? the whole group tagged along. hehe.

okayokay. enough details. there's work tmr! gotta get up early. gooodnight!

office clothes

i have been shopping for office clothes the past few days. rawrrr. i dont like office clothes! and i think they dont like me either. because i look really weird in them. well, not exactly, but my bro said "you look old..." -____- i dont wanna look old! pfft. anyway, first day of work tmr! (:

no more late nights for me! (maybe)

met xiuwen and suyi today!

a dinner date.
restaurants ought to train their new staff properly before letting them serve customers. totally horrendous! omg. they cant even take orders properly! they dont respond to us when we say that dish is suyi's and thats not all. they serve with shaky hands! so wobbly that its terribly funny. and i heard pianggg too. that means he broke a plate. rawrrr. please train new staff! it makes the company look very bad!

the A for annabelle cake they got me. (: thankyou! and the small piece which wasnt very well hidden beneath the peach.

(bytheway, if you're wondering, my birthday is in november, not january!) ;p

the two girls at dinner.(:

on a totally random note, i think it is mighty difficult for a girlfriend to talk to her boyfriend's parents. (not that i have a boyfriend) i'm really impressed at how some people can just talk to their bf's parents! oh well. we'll see what happens next time!

sleepy me. goodnight!

rainy days

thursday
we surprised mel and had lunch with her! (: after lunch, klar, py, and i walked around and proceeded to a secret place for a secret mission! (: it was rather interesting exploring a place we've never visited before. hmmmm.
it was raining so heavily and thankfully we made it back to the shopping centre(:

friday
both of us woke up early in the morning. (: with hopes of a goodgoodgood day. im sorry if i wasnt very enthusiastic and didnt really try to talk a lot bcos i wasnt feeling well. =/ but i sincerely thought that you were very nice to try to make everything happen. all the crazy funny silly things we did. one whole big empty bus with only the two of us and the driver! it was certainly an adventure. hopefully, we'll have many more adventures together. and as we talked, when we're all grown up, all of us will be able to gather together (with our children!) ((:
i didnt tell you, but i was actually quite happy and excited when .... thanks for keeping me company!(:
i wanna see all the guys shaving botak. too bad we cant see, their faces would be nice to watch. teehee(:

anyway, kaya toast dreams!

ballet and physics

i was bored and randomly surfing websites when i came across this:
[i didnt know ballet and physics had things in common] (:

"To perform the more demanding routines, a ballet dancer must appear to defy gravity while working within its constraints. Basic physics and the science of human perception provide insight into how this is accomplished.
For example, during the grand jeté, the dancer may appear to hover. Physically, his/her center of mass describes a parabola, as does a ball, when thrown (or, indeed, any object when in flight and acted upon by only the gravitational force alone). However, advantage is taken of the limitation in the human ability to calculate center of mass when a projectile changes its configuration in flight. When leaping, the dancer extends the arms and legs and lowers the head. The manoeuvre camouflages the fall and leads the audience to perceive the dancer is floating.
A Pas de Chat (step of the cat) creates a similar illusion. The dancer starts from a plié, then during the ascending phase of the leap, successively lifts and rotates each shin inward. For a moment, the dancer appears suspended in air.
The fall must be performed carefully. The laws of physics decree that momentum must be dissipated but a crash landing would destroy the impression of airiness and likely injure the dancer. Part of the solution is a floor designed to absorb shock. The dancer also bends at the knees and rolls the foot from toe to heel. For artistic as well as safety reasons this technique must be taught by a qualified instructor.
Depending on where the dancer places his or her arms and legs, the dancer can make them look longer or shorter depending on their preference. By placing them farther behind the body it creates the illusion of shorter arms or legs, and by moving them forward, longer."

east coast park

went to east coast park yesterday! (:
i reallyreally like rollerblading and SPEEDING on rollerblades. vavavrrooom. anyone wants to go? i dont mind going again!(:
maybe we should rollerblade in the other direction next time since we always go to bedok jetty or we could venture further! (: anyway, i thought timok was nice. he came although he was the only guy except mrchong. bravobravo. i cant stand his skinny legs. rawrr. i want skinny legs! we met rj ppl there! kangya and her classmates, yvonne chan and edwin, gillianne & friend. elaine was there too! but i didnt see her. why never call me ! klar was there too with her family and mark was with his friends? lol. so we were all at east coast although we didnt know beforehand that all of us were going. anywayanyway here are some pics







credit to fc for the idea. lol.

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went to the field opposite my house to play frisbee with my family today.
my mum can throw the frisbee better than me!
and ben was flying the remote control airplane.
i need more exercise.

and im still jobless! :(

byebye.

going back to school!

hey! today i woke up early in the morning to meet the lovely ladies for breakfast! wow whee. we were so excited the moment we got out of bed. we're finally going back to school! there was the general feeling " i feel so weird wearing school uniform" "wake up so early" "im so sleepy" but nonetheless, we were all reallyreally hyped up about going back to school. (:

here it is! presenting, our beloved rjc!

i was paparazzi taking shots of them.

teehee. anyway, it felt good to be back! (: but, i think orientation was rather boring. catching up and talking is way better. somehow i feel that being in school attire (or maybe its just the environment) gives me an added sense of familarity and i feel much more comfortable talking and saying stuff. truthfully, i was a little surprised at how i actually just told some things. very different from another situation yes? okay some of you wont know what im talking about. but if you do, do a compare and contrast.

yup. anyway, i thought we all talked quite a bit today and i liked it that everyone say what they wanted. different from just going out and always playing the same few games? hmmm. i dont know. i think we've all grown older and maybe being in a "pensive mood" is part and parcel of it. sometimes i think i should be more tolerant/sensitive/understanding. rawrrr. dont feel like writing anymore. goodnight.

happy new year!

hello 2007! byebye 2006.
its really fast! im growing old too quickly.

new year's eve countdown spent with the girls.

its quite cool. i think i spent the most new year's eve/ new year and christmas eve/ christmas with klar and shen(: [2004, 2005, 2006/07]

we managed to catch the fireworks display from boat quay! veryveryvery pretty. i liked the gold dust shimmery ones which linger for quite awhile(: its quite amazing aint it? i caught some other fireworks display on tv too. i thought the taipei one was scary. the whole building (taipei 101) seemed like it was gonna explode.

after i got home i watched take the lead! ((: i loved the three person tango! way cool. by the way, anyone has the very last song when the credits were rolling? send me! the song goes something like "it was fascination, i know. and it might have been there, at the start. passing lanes, brief romance, and i might have gone on my way.... "

had the first dinner of the year at my grandma's place. that was the place where i grew up. used to stay there when i was younger(: haha. anyone lives near there? i can cycle over to visit when i go there. (:

some pictures i took when i went cycling around. 1. swan lake ave! 2. the veryvery old convenience store i used to buy icecream from. I remember i always liked going there bcos i get to eat yummy icecream! ((:

sunset(:

my bro and i on the bike.

i was screaming so much when i sat behind and he took me for a ride. but it was fun!

yup. that pretty much sums up my day. happy new year once again. here's wishing everyone an exciting and fulfilling year ahead! (:

Egypt!

pictures from the egypt trip: (:
(warning: alot of pics!)
i took over 1000 pics there! only posted a fraction of it here, so it isnt alot? haha.
enjoy!(:

changi airport, on the airplane, transit at dubai, cairo airport

giza pyramids & the camels

the sphinx & the step pyramids

rameses II museum, the perfume shop.

mohammud ali mosque

marketplace

check out the guy balancing all that bread on his head!

i met shuhao (my og mate) at the domestic airport at 5am in the morning?

bro & I making silly faces! haha(:

aswan dam

boat ride to the temple

abu simbel

the cruise on the nile river. kom ombo temple

horse carriage ride(:

hurghada, red sea. clear blue waters.

extremely bumpy safari ride. practically a rollercoaster ride!

bedouin village. we had to eat dinner in darkness except for the occasional flashes from cameras and the little light from candles.

animal enclosures. the cow was twice the size of a normal one! the king's palace.

the cute kids, egypt duty free, dubai duty free, pictures taken from the airplane

food. i prefer spore food anytime! haha. (:

goodnight! bye! (: i can tell you lots more about egypt! (: next time perhaps.