Friday, March 30, 2007
downtown.
today's daring dinner escapade: coffee club! my old workplace. (but not the same outlet.) memories of wearing that horrid thick uniform came flooding back to me. but how the menu & the food presentation has changed, changed utterly. (i borrow this line from a famous poet; forgot who. haha! maybe yeats.)
lookit this. it's my smoked salmon garlic cream linguini. never has coffee club food been presented in so 'high-class' a fashion when i worked there. anyways, it's superblo humongouso wondrouso! the rolls of salmon make an intriguing sport in dinner besides the endless twirling of pasta.
after-dinner treat was muddy mud pie! of which the size was unchanged (unfortunately). the punk, afore mentioned in "Close Encounter with Iranian Foreigners", enjoyed drowning this Titanic-like ice cream cake in chocolate syrup. too bad i made Titanic collapse on its sides not once, not twice, but FOUR laugh-out-loud times (!) to the horror of the punk. haha. pardon my horrible table manners.
and, while taking pictures with the lovely dessert, i realize i always strike the same pose when with my favourite part of the meal:
my head appears to be always tilted to one side, everytime i take pictures with nice desserts. i think the stress of not digging into it immediately takes a toll on my head too much, eh.
subway cookies made my day too, as they will always. what a blessed, wonderful, enjoyable day! (:
illuminated. 12:38 AM
Monday, March 26, 2007
the sanitised version.
i've not been as conscious of the nameless entities who peruse my blog as i am now. i chance upon people(who i don't deem as friends) who link-me-up without notifying me at all, people who google me, and people who click on others' links to see my 'beautiful' prose.
it's quite a conundrum. on one hand, i'm glad that people do read my blog & appreciate the little bits of humour that occassionally get penned down here. on the other, i feel so confined when i cannot post up personal feelings/occurrences in the fear that the faceless, nameless entities will read it and get into my head or something. but then again, it's always been "a little vagueness here, a little allusion there" for me. still, do ask me if you want to link me, and if i don't know ya that well - read it and weep... well no, read it and keep it to yerself. (:
anyways. had a roaring good time at starbucks today! Hangman made hanging out real fun. (ha. are you getting the hang of it?) well, i should go hang up my boots now. it's too late to hang around blogging. and i won't let myself hang it all out. If you wanna hang on to my every word in this blog...
hang in there, dudes & dudettes. goood night! =D
illuminated. 2:14 AM
Friday, March 23, 2007
the essential question.
i forgot this funny encounter that happened yesterday! we (me and someone who i shall term the punk) were having dinner and this family of foreigners were dining next to us. suddenly a hand stretches over the shoulder of the punk:
Man: Helloo how are you? (Or something to that effect)
the punk: (stunned) oh good, good!
me (shocked & laughing): [still voiceless here]
Man: You're from Japun (Japan)?
the punk: no, no, Singaporean!
Man: huh..? wat's zat?
the punk: oh, Singapore, Singapore...
Man: ahhh i zee! we're from Iran.
[smiles and nods exchanged.]
the punk & me: ohh, Iran! okay.
Man: so, how old are YOU? (points to me)
me (amidst immediate laughter from the punk): err.. i'm twenty-one..?
Man: Woh! tweenty-one? (looks at wife and gestures.)
me: oh so how old is your daughter?
[daughter is tall, wears makeup, and would look 19 in s'pore.]
Man: oh sixteen..and YOU? (points to the punk)
the punk: heh.. erm twenty-two.
Man: wohh! twenty-two (he tells his wife)
after this he asked us what we were studying, and told us he went to Britain to study English, as I am now. interesting.
and with the essential question that was popped at me (by a curious foreigner no less), i am reminded of my eternal youthful aspect. hooray..i guess. o_O
illuminated. 2:51 PM
what a (wonderful) day!
finallyyy my two essays are over & done with! hooray. well, i received some help with my essay, which was about the problem of 'untouchability' in the Indian caste system. This is what the oh-so-helpful fella wrote (and it merits an A*) :
i do hope my prof enjoys my essay with such insightful comments as this one here.
anyways, i headed to school today (thurs) and chanced upon... my doppelganger!! (no jing & lam it's NOT the doppelganger from meridian with the nugget bag. what a nightmare that was!)
this is me clad in shorts and the cutest tee [little yellow birds tt look like mango pudding] and jacket. the red line between my legs is just..WRONG. ignore please. =X
this is the doppelganger (whose identity shall be kept secret) clad in shorts [hmm!] and what looks like a jacket but is in actual fact a long-sleeved top which looks like a jacket anyway [hmm hmm!].
illuminated. 1:58 AM
Monday, March 19, 2007
crow-ing in fear.
a STOOPID crow hit my head today!! i've always had this fear of crows ( a somewhat suppressed fear). i mean, one hit reena's head back in sec. sch, and xueqi was relentlessly pursued by one in jc. so i've always feared that they might hit me. and today my worst fears were realized! arghh. and i wasn't even eating; i was combing my hair. I HATE CROWS. seriously. when i was in pri. 6, one crow flew down and snatched my packet of super rings! thank God i was with my brother & it didn't attack us. so scary.
i haven't written my essay at all too. spent one whole day in the library researching yesterday. and i have to miss going to my family chalet because of this. sigh. off to write now. ciao.
illuminated. 6:33 PM
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
jumpin' jiminy!
today i mostly satisfied my flash-in-the-pan shopaholic craving. a quick cursory shop, no less. i realize i do buy stuff pretty decisively, but only when i'm alone. i can't decide properly with others around. hmm. andd..i saw this cute shirt! about kfc & the chicken saying to its chick, "he killed your dad". i think it's funny, no? i wanna buy..but we'll see. i need a new bag too. my bag's falling apart, literally.
miss clarity cafe's soft shell crab pasta was yummy! better than pastamania. and then i was reminded of coffee club's pasta. ooh. one day i'll go back to my old workplace and eat there. after this crazy essay writing period's over.
tomorrow i'm headed for a birthday BUFFET!! wooot. can't wait..! thank You :)
illuminated. 11:47 PM
Sunday, March 11, 2007
A (heated?) response:
yes, ugly betty, i so hear you. i don't need to be slim & waifish to be considered pretty.
look at the heart, y'all.
illuminated. 11:36 PM
so much to do, so little time.
feeling swamped. and stressing myself coz 3 essays are due, and i'm struggling to get relevant articles for my essays. 2 are due on the same week..! arghh.
and i also have 4 tuition assignments too. seriously NO time man. what with school & church stuff. gonna drop one tuition and focus on my studies. all this tuition is tiring. can't handle so much.
so, so tired. i want to be 'carefree' and have enough time to do my work, and not look at my schedule for the week and realize how little time i have for my essays. i have to squeeeze out time amidst the busy-ness. time is so precious now. hmm.
ah well. when the going gets tough, the tough get going!
illuminated. 9:49 PM
Thursday, March 08, 2007
my pursuit of happyness:
1. CUTE lucky with his hair standing up!
2. helloooo panda!!!
3. aston's! featuring the ieatSuperburger (though i didn't eat it)
illuminated. 8:27 PM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
tuesdays with csi!
i could watch this show for 30 seasons and more. i'm not kidding. csi rocks my socks & brightens up my day (or night rather)! second on my most-wanted list is prison break. i can watch them escape multiple times too. muahaha. oh, and not forgetting ugly betty. interesting premise.
and today i exercised (!) i walked to and from tuition (at tampines mart). and ended up with breathing in smelly exhaust fumes, near-miss collisions with motorbikes & cars, and horrible red marks on feet coz of my biting slippers. tsk. the sacrifice i make. ;)
illuminated. 1:39 AM
Sunday, March 04, 2007
the paper chase.
my brother got 4As for 'A' level! so, both brothers did very well for the 'O's and 'A's; now they're the cream of the crop. but it's okay. i'd rather be the strawberries on the cream. (ha. ha.) i shall get As too! they'd better give me As considering the amount of time spent writing one dumb essay.
in writing about women being doubly colonised by a foreign race & patriarchy, some people's views shocked me in a sense that they believed the British to be a welcoming presence here. without them, could we have risen out from kampong life to city life? i don't know. many people(myself included?) view colonialism as simply a show of White supremacy. maybe i'm taking a fatalistic view, but i think we Asians will perpetually regard our Western counterparts as better than us, in more ways than we know. look at our dyed hair, our english half-slang, our disdain for Chinese tradition (for most youth at least). i love Alfian Sa'at's poem on the Merlion and on this banana syndrome of ours - yellow on the outside white on the inside. go check it out if you wanna.
and because of my essay, i read Suchen Christine Lim's Rice Bowl. a refreshing view on this paper chase we students absorb ourselves in. a radical nun, a handsome American priest, impressionable young students - they all try to break free of the confines of society...
and fly. high into the sky.
freedom - forever elusive, but forever sought for.
illuminated. 2:24 AM
i do hope my prof enjoys my essay with such insightful comments as this one here. 
this is me clad in shorts and the cutest tee [little yellow birds tt look like mango pudding] and jacket. the red line between my legs is just..WRONG. ignore please. =X 
this is the doppelganger (whose identity shall be kept secret) clad in shorts [hmm!] and what looks like a jacket but is in actual fact a long-sleeved top which looks like a jacket anyway [hmm hmm!].
1. CUTE lucky with his hair standing up!
2. helloooo panda!!!
izzabelle/izzy/bel.