shopping

sigh wont be able to view my pics from my previous posts because the web hosting site seems to be down. so i'm using another one..

anyway my bro's friend told me the shops close at 1pm today..SO i set the alarm to 10am, woke up early just to shop..turns out.. the shops actually closed at 5pm la!! AIYO.. went queens street malls..10 mins walk from my bro's apartment. 2 rows of shopping complexes, which a broad walkway in the middle, with many cafes, benches for your tired feet and space for street performance. well it's pretty small..i finished the whole stretch in..2 hours? the pics below are the original size taken from my phone.. too lazy to resize them..




juggler








casino..hmm think i'll go in and take a look soon..

my buys

2nd day

sunny bank..




nice scenery ya?


say cheese!


dinner at xiao tai pei..


there is a stall named after the show!


yum yum.. bro about to take a bite..


one thing i hate most about aust is that all the shops close really early..it's only 6pm and all the retail shops are closed! damn! no shopping!


bro's friend, jasper, behind the wheels


hMm..sadly the results werent very promising haha.. well not unexpected. almost got a heart attack when he turned into a one-way road..going against the traffic!


south bank.. a very nice place!! behind me is an artificial beach and tall commercial buildings.. hmm like boat quay ya? without all the pubs and restaurants. brisbane is sadly deprived of nightlife, or so it seemed.


went to brisbane's version of pasam malam..a higher class version.. took photo with this old man who was wearing a really funny costume, too bad you cant really tell from the pic. he actually looked rather pissed i didnt buy anything from him. haha..

south bank has a very..courteous culture.. all the cars give way to all the pedestrians!

as you can tell it's not really that cold since i was not even wearing my sweater.


the cinema..the purplish blue backdrop is the curtains covering the screen. we watched war of the worlds. tic prices are around the same as those in sg.. $5.70 for students, $7.20 for adults. week days $5. hMm in aussie dollars hor..


free seating, so there was a long queue outside the cinema long before the show actually started. full house. an emcee even come in and told us to shift inwards so that there will be enough seats for everyone.


curtains opening.. i thought the show was pretty exciting, got me wide eyed thoughout the show..though the ending was a bit "huh huh?". the guys seemed to think the show was crap.. *shrugs* to each his own!

first day

view from the plane..taking off!


long queue at brisbane air port.. clearing customs


from airport to home..storage bridge




bro's apartment


my bro's extremely messy pig sty


equally messy kitchen


petrol kiosk


yiming and bro

touched down at the brisbane air port at 9.20. however the queues were so long that it took me an hour to clear customs and get my baggage. my luggage case weighed 23kg!! unbelievably heavy..not that i brought a lot of stuff....flight was uneventful. i got a window seat, no one beside me. caught several shows on the plane: an episode of sex in the city, miss congenialty 2 (switched movie after half an hour), my bf is type B (fell alseep wile watching it) and the wedding date. oh i liked the wedding date.. slept for 1 or 2 hours. i was flipping around struggling to get maximum leg room, and my butt ached from the hard seat.

brisbane is not cold. 20 deg. it's like having free air cold conditioning everywhere. bro said today is like the hottest day in winter. oh well. i wouldnt mind if it stays this way.

i'm so tired..i desperately need to sleep but bro is sleeping and his room mate is watching tv. that leaves me no room to take a nap.. sigh...

sabbatical

cos i'm leaving on a jet plane.. dont know when i'll be back again..

flight is 12am today! destination: brisbane. dont miss me! will be back on the 16th!

will miss you dearie, jia you for your bball games in kL and hK.. i'll see you when you're back on the 18th! muacks. n dun worry, your girl here will take care of herself.. :)

pics from my phone

finally managed to upload all the images from my phone to the com!!!


a picture of a picture..taken at cartel tampines.. some people thought i took a real picture of the scenery, despite the words "enjoy it"..



toilet at clarke quay..


memorial


guess?


reflection upon the mirror


very clear right? taken at the communic asia exhibition


our booth


starwars


motorcar


the innocent and the punk..hahA..shopping at taka..


at club momo..

what are you?

heard something interesting over the radio yesterday. xin li che yan.

1. when you come home from work, which shoe do you take off first? the left or the right one?
2. when you come home from work, which piece of clothing do you take off first? the upper body one or the lower body one?

soooo....
1. right foot: in love, you're the zhu dong kind. meaning you take initiative, so usually, you end up liking your partner more than he liking you.
left foot: you're BEI DONG. you take more than you give. you wait. so usually your partner likes you more than you like him.

2. upper body: conservative on the bed.
lower body: more..adventurous on the bed.

accurate?

hmm not really for me.

my maria

random pic

lala

the pains of inadequacy

met up with my ex rgs classmates today. one from nus medicine, dad is a private surgeon. just returned from a tour in europe. another reading law in cambridge, both parents are dentists. the third: engineering in imperial. heard she top her cohort. and the last, nus life sciences, poor grades, broke and has never stepped foot in europe before.

that's me.

sigh.

sometimes i got to remind myself that not being able to go abroad to study, is not because i'm any lousier, but because i'm not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. and of course also because i'm not superbly smart enough to get a scholarship.

alright i'm complaining. think abt the poor kids in africa who has no food to eat.. think about the child workers in china.. yadayada..

but i cant help but feel that life is so UNFAIR SOMETIMES. damn it. why cant i buy anything i like without having to worry about money? why cant i go to places like london and paris and japan? why cant i go overseas and study what i really want to study? why cant i have my own car? why why why..

i know it's not so bad. i'm having fun in nus. really i am. and it's not like i'm poor till the point i have to pick peanuts on the streets. just that occasionally, i want more. just that occasionally, i wish for more.

dont we all?


lunch at crystal jade..friends forever!


me and teresa

topicless

hmm don't seem to have much to blog these days. spent the day at dear's place, watched monster-in-law on vcd. not too bad. went city hall then to get hard disk from han fai, which my bro had instructed me to bring it over to aust for him, tgr with his snooker cue, mahjong set and tom yam myojo maggi mee. my bro is sooooooooo troublesome. i have to hand carry the snooker cue cos it's too long and it'll break if i put it into my luggage! -_-

met joel for dinner. he was dressed in some brown jungle t shirt and hideously short hot pants! hahaha. oops. :x ok we had a nice dinner at sakae sushi. talked. hah alright take care guy.. run more.. heh.. and are you sure i've grown fatter???

my day

havent blogged for some days cos there was some prob with my internet connection. extremely frustrating. and my lappie is totally bonkers. sigh. i am not fated to use electronic devices. one thing i have to congratulate myself is that i havent bought ANYTHING yet.. for a week plus? i havent gotten any clothes from the mango sale though i've spotted several good buys. managed to restrain myself from those luring temptations..those lovely tops screaming at me,"hey i'm half price! buy me now!". sigh. painful though. haha. but i must say that one thing that aid me in my determination were the long long long queues, for both the fitting rooms and cashier. and the crowds..it's like a wet market lar.. sigh. i hate waiting.

guess i shouldnt spend, since i'm probably gonna spend a bomb in aussie.

speaking of which, i'm leaving on wed night, 12am, SQ. with a pair of hideous looking glasses, with 2 cracks in one of the lenses. my lenses would take at least 2 weeks to be done, so i figured there isn't much point getting a new pair now.

spent a happy day with dear today. lazing around at home and then heading down to town. he bought himself a nice pair of levis jeans. :)

club momo

liwern, moi and liz

Went club momo on wed night with liwern and liz, my great Eusoffian girlfriends! Seeing them for first time this hols. According to liz who has been working there this hols, club momo is opened by dennis keller and robin leong. Supposedly a lot of celebs visit the pub during weekends. *shrugs* club momo is the previous SOS, with different décor style..nicer I would say. They have a section of the pub called momo live, where there is a live band playing every night.

Got bored after a while at club momo, and club hopped to zouk. Phuture was PACKED to the max, as usual. Even at 3am.

First time i went clubbing after like.. 2 months? record manz. haha. kind of lost touch already.

china face

it has been confirmed! i'm going aussie on the 29th next wed! will be going brisbane first to meet my bro, and then head down to sydney with his friends on the 6th. they will be driving down. cool. :) looking forward to it. it's winter time there.

worked for mum today. took a cab home after that. the taxi driver said i looked like a china woman! he didnt mistaken me for one cos i obviously sound like a typical singaporean. not the first time someone has commented that i look china-girl-rish. blame it on my features..small eyes..fair complexion.. sigh.. i cant exactly take that as a compliment. whatever larr!

the cab driver started chatting with my mum about china women preying on old men and he himself has had many experiences falling target to them. said these zhong guo nu ren are money suckers, cheat old men of their money.. these old men arent dumb, but are merely lonely.. they are exchanging money in return for some comfort and company in life.. because at that age, their wives are mostly preoccupied with taking care of their grandchildren and children, and not too concerned about entertaining their husbands. so once they are able to withdraw their retirement money from their cpf accounts, they spent it on other women, who can fill some sort of emptiness in them. sad isnt it.. those times we see old ocuples walking hand in hand on the streets.. is that scene a one in a million rarity?

box you

my whole body feels sooo sore after the workout today. i used to be fitter. hmm.

attended bodycombat class.. kick boxing in other words. kick boxing class is a pretty intensive sport ya, there was a lot of jumping and boxing around. i was dillgently trying to burn my calories, when i suddenly realised..how come it's raining in the studio huh?? i could feel small droplets of water sprinkling on me. i turned to my right and saw...there was this GUY beside me, who was glistening with sweat.. he was jumping around so vigourously that his sweat was raining on me! EEEK. ok lar, i know it wasnt his fault that he perspires a lot, but still..it was gross.

there was a notice pasted in the ladies' toilet.. "i lost a pair of red/white nike shoes last sat. they are a mother's day present from my children and they mean a lot to me. if you have taken them by mistaken, i would greatly appreciate it if you return them to me." oh no..so sad..! i hope whoever who took her shoes will return them to her. ahh she treasures her present from her children so much.. *heart warming*

inspired

read on the sunday times about this 22 yr old smu guy who invested in stocks, started out with $6000 and have $20,000 (or was it $200,000?) now. i presume he did it in a yr since you can only open a trading acc when you're 21. cool. inspired. i want to learn about stocks too! anyone know? can teach me? blahs~