Another youtube video that bf found. :)
fun and relaxing to watch! well choreographed :)



As you can probably tell.. bf and i are both having a youtube session now. hee.

Salsa Celtic Fusion

Heh. Wed is over! haha. it's my longest day of school.. but well.. i only have 2 days of school this term :P

Anyway, just spent my evening watching salsa videos on youtube, and interestingly, this is my first time doing so considering how long i've been dancing salsa. heh. Normally i just watch one or two and I get bored. lol. Anyway, i came across this video which i thought was pretty cool...(will vote it as my fav video for the night). I think they did a great job in fusing the two types of dances together to make it entertaining and interesting throughout the whole performance. Enjoy!

my first CPF letter

I received my first CPF letter today welcoming me as a member. dots.
I never knew my internship was contributed to CPF...

Argh! This makes me feel old........

the Bernese Oberland

Zm found a series of videos on youtube of Switzerland. And this is a video on my absolute favourite part of Switz, The Bernese Oberland. (yesh, it is the place you hear me swooning about whenever i think of the Schweiz. I can still remember almost every scene in this video) If you plan to go to Switzerland for a holiday, this area is a must-go! bare min. is 2 nights

it's been a long long while since i went socialing with bf. the event at dxo was entertaining, and i think it's my first salsa event that i have attended! (aside from ladc ones) So hopeless right? Getting permission to go out at night (i.e. outings which involves me going home after 12midnight) is just "argh!". It's so bad that sometimes i rather not go through the hassle.

well as usual, i didn't dance much considering that erm.. well.. people just don't ask me to dance in general :P But think bf enjoyed himself, so that's nice :) Plus we started the evening with leisure tennis with my sis (who is getting back her stroke from all that Austrailian Open watching :P) and ended off with supper at Jalan Kayu... so nice evening as a whole.

I took the extra effort to bring my camera last night so that i can snap pics of us, considering that we're graduating soon? But silly me. not used to snapping i guess, didn't take a single shot.
sigh. i miss my nice camera phone. miss taking random shots as and when i feel like it.

oh well. time to do homework. I've a lot cuz i've been avoiding them. crap.

finally made contact with her again.



hope i can go this thurs.

and hope she will be going down too. :)

Jan update

i know i've promised manda to update my blog quite some time ago... but i realised it's been quite difficult! haha. NOthin much to blog about... or perhaps i'm a bit rusty. Well.. guess i just start with updates.. haha. hopefully it will get better as the weeks go by..

• finally done with my hr internship at philips! haha.. i honestly didn't learn much there, especially since my bosses never seem to be around. I think for one month, it was a matter of them giving me a task to do without instructions and i will just have to fumble around it. Many of you might be thinking: "you can't possibly expect instructions all the time" or something like that. But honestly? i seriously don't feel comfortable editing employee's salary or performance rating profile in a way I deem suitable. On the other hand, there were perks to the internship: the peeps were nice, I made a friend or two (the only young peeps i could find in the company), food at toa payoh is cheap and good (yesss... i sound auntie here) and of course the $$! (though i don't think i've been paid yet)
• Week 4 of school is approaching.. and for some weirdo reason, even though i'm only taking 3 modules, i feel as if I just had my heaviest week 2 and 3 ever! I seem to have lots of weekly hw to rush.
• I finally had a talk with rabbit after so long. I guess the whole saga is finally over.. and i think we're both glad. i know the cow is glad too. lol. Unfortunately, the rabbit is back in sg with not so good news.. just hope he manages to be fine even though things are pretty crappy for him now.
• Skyped my dear manda twice! although we kept getting cut off! *pout* It was somewhat nostalgic to use skype again, bringing back the exchange memories.... i was using skype more than msn then.
• Dance is stressful but super satisfying when i get it right. Looking forward to the item, but also praying damn hard that I can get it. STRESSSSSS... For the first time, i'm actually asking my non-SMU friends to go watch me perform. lol. stress factor level up! just hope i get to perform in the first place! want this quite badly... (bf... help?)

okiez. tt's all i can think for now.. sleeping time :P

The Art House

I've always loved this place and been waiting for a chance to watch a performance there. I recently got the opportunity - LADC graduating scholars did a showcase over there and it was awesome. Enjoyed myself tremendously.

The Art House is still as great as ever... with displays of little snippets of old Singapore. The pics here don't do any justice but would recommend it as a nice little place to tour when free. I have to admit that being there again brought back some memories but i guess some stuff are inevitable.

As you can tell.. it was raining after the show... but it was nice rain. (yes... me and my rain moments).. but i think this was one of my nicest rain moments :P I walked barefoot from the Art House to Raffles MRT cuz I had horrible flip flops.. it was fun! haha. but we still got wet lah.

Anyway.. this post is technically WAY overdue..I was internet-less for one whole week.. it's absolutely depressing. Anyway, the result of that is that I FINALLY changed to singnet broadband from pacific internet cuz well simply put, i needed a new modem and it's erm.. half the price for twice the speed. yes yes.. silly me. Hopefully this will put an end to my 3 year? continuous internet problems...

I'm stuck at work doing nothing cuz both my supervisors are not around and thus have no work to do.
Well.. technically i still have stuff outstanding, but require clarification from people who are not around :S
i am officially bored.

Kinda thankful that my mum's dept is having a christmas lunch later. Can crash! hee... and there will be really good food.. so how can i resist?

I had a really wonderful day yesterday. Had training in the morning, and I tried being a "guy" (just the casino bit). And I am aching a little cuz I had to hold a stronger frame yesterday. so pathetic right? But it was really fun.. i love trainings. and i really really like the dance studio in the cca room. The day was made more perfect as finally, after so long, zm had dinner at my place and everything went smoothly. I guess that really means a lot to me cuz i'm just happy that he finally managed to spend some time with my parents... peacefully. It's been something that I want for a very very long time. My mum made the effort to cook really great food last night even though she was injured.. and zm and i just pretty much gobbled everything up. He will be coming for dinner this sat again for tang yuan and christmas eve. haha.. 3 times a week after so long! a bit overdose but wth. :P

We also connected my 8 year old speaker to our new study area and amazingly it's working despite its pretty dirty looking state. I essentially created a nice area for me to watch all my videos and animes just across my room! yippee!! *grins*

ok. i shall now try and find work for myself to do. sigh.
looking forward to my one week leave! heh.

manda. alina. slumber slumber k?

no mood to blog! i so need to try and fix my vista settings.... nothing ever loads properly and that's depressing. Anybody a vista expert? lazy to play ard with my com. haha.

Anyway, i've starting my internship at Philips doing HR. lol. indecisive me.
It's HR, but i kinda enjoy it. the peeps there are no where near my age but they're nice, and i get quite a bit of freedom. I suppose it's a nice holiday internship.

i miss dancing. caderas peeps are like going union like crazy but i can't :( pout pout.

manda is leaving in less than a month's time to France! will so miss her... think i'm going to be really lonely in school next term... :(

dear all,

i have wonderfully lost my phone AGAIN. yesh AGAIN? HOW? i left it in the toilet AGAIN. and it disappeared within 15mins. lots of f-ing dishonest people in Singapore unfortunately. seriously. sometimes i wonder why i need to be so nice.

pls text me your number again unless ya sure i memorized your number by heart.

A nice day + misc

I realised that it's been a while since I heard my dad laugh. It's not because he's not happy.. as in.. he has always been cheeky and i do always see him smile, but not really laugh? like tickled by something kind of laugh? Maybe cause I'm hardly around him, except when he sends me to school or back home, which usually only involve small talk or news here and there. Well, i heard him laugh today, and it felt good. :) It was just cuz he was watching scooby doo 2, I guess somewhere inside him, he is still a kid who appreciates simple humour. It was really nice.

My sis called me from hawaii today and we did talk for quite a while. :) I was pleasantly surprised cuz phone bill very expensive... but maybe she spend too many days with hubby already, need other people to communicate with. hee. She asked me whether i wanted anything from there or Tokyo (fyi, she's on her honeymoon). So nice to have an elder sis right? heh. Anyway, glad she's having a good time.

I did my first photoshoot today. well.. not much of a photoshoot, just went around taking photos for my VDM project. Tiring work I must say, but it was an enjoyable group to work with.

Purchase of the day: Stikfas!! so excited! they were selling it for $2 for the really really basic pack at the flea market in school. I bought one red and one yellow, plus one bigger set. I hope bf likes it too... *grins* So excited! Sometimes i wonder whether i was born a girl. haha... must be all the LEGO upbringing...

i want to buy an MP3. ren bu zu le! Thinking of the Creative Zen.. Pretty nice... enough to excite me but not too expensive? Still ex... that's why still considering :(
Any other MP3 player recommendations?

I wish i can dance better. it's really quite depressing. I amire Esther's determination... wish i can be determined as her. but i'm so easily demoralised these days. :( I'm FINALLY learning a new routine, we are doing a salsa-hiphop routine. haha. All the seniors just lack the groove lah. regrests not taking proper hip hop classes. I want the groove too! I'm so soft now.. gonna need lots of practice. help buddy!!! hahah.

having work overload now. well.. technically it's not really overload? just that i do reports REALLY SLOWLY. it's quite depressing. can't seem to collect my thoughts properly, feel as if i'm back in JC staring at my GP essay questions during exam and only start writing like half hour after the exam has started cuz i just can't start? The points are there, i just can't start and connect the dots. Frustrating.

SBM Fun Fact 2: Why Reebok failed

This TV advertisment was part of one of Reebok's marketing campaign called UBU (1989 to 1992). It is fun entertainment but definitely not an image any normal consumer would want to associate with. In fact, i do kinda find it freaky weird. What were they thinking?

SBM lesson fun fact

Do you know that Facebook had a growth of 2424% in 2006?
And considering that many of my friends only joined facebook this year, I'm quite sure the rates are still super high. the wonders of digital media...

Thanks Twin!

my bro and his sleepy eyes. heh. he blames it on the flash.

Rouge bar counter. Our first ever clubbing session together was here long long time ago. Now it is more like a chill-out place. The good thing is that it wasn't crowded.. so we could chat and catch-up :) Great DJ, and great band with 3 vocalists. Perfect solution to my not-so-great day.

French Beer! had it the first time when I was in Paris. Bit gas-ey but not too bad :)

Sister's "Hen Night"

during the mid-term break, my sis had her 'hen night'. It included a wonderful japanese dinner near Corpthorne Hotel, mambo @ zouk, a night stay at Swissotel Hotel, and of course R&R session at the hotel pool the next day. I had class on thursday morning and didn't join the R&R session, but it really felt great waking up at 8.30am (instead of 7.30am) and walking to school for a 9am class. lol. jealous? After class, went back to the hotel and studied a bit by the hotel pool and had a clean bath b4 my meeting. Too bad i'm not paris hilton or something, would probably propose to stay in swissotel for the rest of my school days. haha.

Well.. all i can say is that the hotel was GREAT! i didn't have such a fantastic impression the last time i was there (Amanda's birthday). But this time, with the perfect view (think we got the best view possible) and a bigger room, it was really quite an experience. It was like a pampering session. heh.

Mambo was interesting. After all, how often do I get to club with a bunch of 28 (plus minus) year old people! They definitely did enjoy the mambo music. My sister is already beginning to feel her age and didn't really last the whole night. heh. But she did get picked up! by a guy with the most horrendous pick up line though.

As a whole, it was a cool experience, hope my sis did enjoy herself despite the initial stress :)

Sis's hen night pics from Swissotel room

how i'm feeling right now

Facebook's Little Treats

As we all know, Facebook is currently the latest craze around, even our Profs and parents are beginning to use Facebook. (which is a funky yet scary thought). Although I've been holding on to a Facebook account since god knows when, I only started using it during my exchange because a) it was easier to post photos b) it the was the common medium used among the students, whether you are from Hong Kong, Switzerland, Canada, or Argentina. And only from last week, I finally started addressing that whole long list of invites on the right side of my homepage. It was kinda scary how it kept getting longer and longer as more and more programs get introduced to Facebook. I used to think that it was a list of stupid and complicating programs, and was wondering why my friends were spamming me. But as I started to explore the extensive list, I realised that I was getting addicted to these little ingenious add-ons!

In the last week, I started buying people drinks and pastries, decorating other peeps rooms (and working on mine), played pac man, and adopted a fluffy white tiger (which I haven’t figured out what I’m supposed to do with it. Lol)
I seriously think that by introducing these interactive little programs, Facebook has successfully evolved from the Friendster era. It’s not just a platform to connect people, but enables us to interact and shower bits and pieces of love to others. After all, there is no denying that it’s difficult to meet all our friends during school term, doesn’t mean we cease all contact.  I just wish that they allow me to mass reject invites though… there is only ‘this’ amount of add-ons I need on my Facebook.

Mondays

I think I have a love-hate relationship with Mondays this semester.

On the down side, my Mondays are my longest days. I start school at 8.30am and have a second class from 3.30pm to 8pm. Between classes, it is usually filled up with meetings. So essentially, I can vote it as my longest day in my whole SMU life.

On the up side, the company is great. I spent my Mondays (8.30am to 3.30pm) with my SP groupmates: 3 year three boyos who have been doing projects together. They make the lesson and the meetings erm.. entertaining… with crap talking and jokes. Vf is the head crap talker, and tk is the backup crapper who sides vf cuz he know he will lose the battle if he takes his own stand :P. wj is often on neutral ground, sometimes on their side, sometimes a receiver of their jokes too. I seem to be always on the losing end, though I try my best to hold my ground… the rest just goes right past me. I think my ignoring skills have improved 

Although I have to admit that at times hanging out with them is rather draining (considering that I tend to have very little energy in me in the first place. My ‘energizer’ battery only functions up to Week 2 of school term now), I still do enjoy it.

Last Monday, I had two virgin experiences. One was my virgin non-caderas related Frujch experience. The library is soooooo dammmmnn crowded on Monday afternoons that Frujch might just become my new hiding spot. Had a Chocomint milkshake which did a pretty decent job on brightening my Monday. 

The second virgin experience was me finally doing my own design using Photoshop/InDesign for my VDM (Visual Design in Marketing)assignment. I’m sooooo proud of myself. LOL. Really! VDM classes usually work like this: Prof will first start class late, he then teaches for about 15 mins to half hour about some concepts of design. For the rest of the class, we are grouped randomly to do the assignment for the day. The practical assignments are a really good idea, but it is ABSOLUTELY DEPRESSING when you DO NOT know how to use Photoshop! (My OS system dieded so I did not have my lappie with me for several lessons). And considering the time limit and a missing lappie, I never got the chance to get hands-on experience. Last week was an exception cuz the assignment was pretty much an individual assignment….and I’m just so proud of myself! Haha. I know.. a bit bhb, but I suppose I finally learnt a tweeny bit of photoshop? It’s far from fantastic. but nonetheless a stepping stone? And I think I get a high from using Photoshop.