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whee!~

The 9th of August is a holiday
We don’t have to go to school,
we all can play.
I’m dressed in my best,
especially for today!
Hip hip hooray! It’s our National Day!

Today is the birthday of Singapore
We will celebrate this year,
like never before
I don’t know how it started,
but I know it’s true.
Singapore’s a home for me and you.

So we sing!
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Hip hip hooray! It’s our National Day!

I love this song when I was young, and still do. it’s just so catchy and happy and children-ish. :tongue1 I’m so excited! I’m going to the NDP Preview tomorrow!! all thanks to Mediacorp!! haha i’m like a big fan of Media corp now cos this is the second prize I’ve won in a month! the first prize was from an online contest at their website and I won a $60 Revlon hamper (Lipstick, foundation, nail polish and a notebook haha!) ya so bcos they give me so many prizes, i’m their big fan! haha! :buck1

anw, ya my first time to NDP. and i’m sooo lookin forward to the atmosphere (tryin to ignore the heat and squashy ppl and BO and what not) and the FREE GOODIE BAG!!! whee!~ i love free stuff! haha! and i saw the feature on the packing and moving of the goodie bag on the news just now, and the bag looks quite nice aso leh..hehe..:thumbup:

saw one of my (ex)crushes the other day. didn’t expect that he would turn up for the ‘gathering’. so sad, so long never see him and now he lost weight again! :sad1 my poor baby!! haha and he’s still so nice to me! and gentlemanly!! and i finally got a clear pic of him!! and his MSN too!! wahaha! :beer:

help!

i own a Samsung E-100A phone. i have the WAP address of a website. how do I access the WAP website thru my phone? how do i find out whether my phone can access GPRS? pls help very urgent!!!

do i really care?

was actually in a very good mood cos someone made my day. BUT now my fren is irritating me cos of a meet-up we’re supposed to hv. cos with us going to Denmark and we haven’t seen her for so long due to MT and won’t see her until godknowswhen next year, so she wanna meet up.

long time ago when she proposed the idea i was quite enthu. like haven’t seen her for so long anw. but now i’m juz irritated. like i dun blardy care whether i see u or not lah. it’s so damn hard to coordinate an outing for 5 BUSY ppl. den becos now u free u decide to change date. but ppl not free den u wanna insist on meeting cos u can join ppl on their other pre-arranged meeting to watch a movie. den becos u wanan change date, so the other pre-arranged meeting to watch a movie might be cancelled bcos the person now seems to be not so enthu to go out with ME alrdy. thanks a lot.

i have no time cos i’m flying off soon and i have countless other ppl to meet before i leave. then bcos u free u juz anyhow change everythin and wreck up all my other appointments.

there are some ppl dat i die die muz meet before i leave either bcos they are good frens or bcos i won’t see them till June next yr. i don’t really care whether i meet u or not now cos i’m sure i can meet up with u earli nxt year when i come back. so does it really matter?

ok it’s just not me to be lydat cos i really aprpeciate all the friends i have and i like meeting up with them. but nowadays, when i get into my moods, some ppl u juz gotta let go. no point tryin so hard to meet up or maintain a r/s cos there’s just not enuf time. if u’re impt enuf i will mk time for u, but if ur’e not then too bad. as we all get busier with our own stuff, where have so much time to meet up so often anw rite? i think it’s more impt to spend more time and effort to maintain a good close r/se with ppl dat u are closer to, your inner circle. rather then dividing out your time and effort betwn those that u are close to, and those that you are not so close to in your outer circle.

maybe i’m just old. maybe i’m just PMS-ing.

sick again

i realised dat the :pill: i’m takin for my flu is making my hands shaky. there i am holding onto the spoon, having juz scooped the soup from the bowl and about to move the spoon from the bowl to my mouth and i see my hands trembling slightly. omg :oogle:

sick again cos i was just sick 2 wks ago and i thought i was ok and then it came back again, this time worse than before. :shake: was it cos i completed my antibiotics too late? ha but i hope i get well soon before i fly off! horrible feelin to be sick on holiday.

am still having fun cos a break is always good, but i realised dat once in a while, i feel abit aimless? worthless? like no purpose in life u knw? everyday just wake up, watch the clock and realise that it’s time for going out, go out, come home, watch the clock and realise that it’s time for bed. it’s so aimless and purpose-less. can’t believe i would actually feel this way seeing as i’m such a pig and slacking is my fav pasttime. ha.

i still cannot forget the fact that my dream bank didn’t want me this hols. Talking to Big Adrian last week suddenly made me feel like doing an additional internship at my dream bank next year before I start on my perm job. i’m mad lah, but i reallie reallie wanna knw how it’s like to be in a bank, and in my dream bank especially. :sad1

ok off to bath! :pill: is mkin me sleepy…

what to do?

we went for an exchange briefing in school last Thurs, and i was so glad to meet up with Serene cos she has so much information about Aarhus.

firstly, i am very upset to learn that i don’t have a private toilet attached to my hostel room. i thought i would have because students who’ve been there before and stayed near the ghetto have a private toilet. i know i’ve been whining a lot about it, but i just think it’s incredibly troublesome to have to gather your toothbrush/toothpaste/facial wash every morning and every night, and to have to gather all your bathing stuff every day when you bath. that’s a total of 3 trips per day!! and sometimes i can be quite anal about cleanliness, and if i don’t have my own toilet, i won’t know how clean it is and i’ll be really anal about where i put my stuff inside the toilet/bathroom.

secondly, the good thing about our hostel is that it’s where all the international students would be, so it means we can make more friends and interact a lot more. as opposed to the hostel near school, which would be made up mainly of Danish students. it also means that more parties would be held there. BUT the bad thing is that our hostel is near the ghetto. i so don’t dare to post this on LJ cos i didn’t even dare to tell my family (other than my sis, cos they would be so damn worried for me). the ghetto is very famous in Aarhus, because it’s where the second generation immigrants stay. because they are immigrants there, they cannot assimiliate into the society there and there’s a rift between the Danish and them. as such, the immigrants in turn, discriminate against the minority, such as Asian Chinese. which is us. Serene and HL had a run in with them on the bus. The very same bus that we would have to take everyday to get from our hostel to school and back again. how bad is it gonna be? of course we can walk, which is one hour. or cycle, except that YT doesn’t know how to. and of course the basic thing would be to sit near the bus driver and ignore them. but it’s still scary nonetheless. and with the constant parties, it could be hard to study or do homework if i need to do so.

thirdly, the other scary thing is that because it’s near the ghetto, and we’re Asian Chinese, if we were to walk alone, we could get attacked, which was what happened to one of Serene’s friends. apparently her Danish friends didn’t face the same problem. well it could be a coincidental, one-off thing, but it worries me still.

Follow the white rabbit

wheee!!~ anyone noticed anything different?

there’s an additional link on the right column, under Blogroll!! that’s my new blog, in LJ, specially to blog for my exchange and also bcos if i don’t get LJ, i’m never gonna know what’s happening in Evie’s life! haha

anw yea, will still post here and in LJ as well. just that LJ may be more open i think? cos may wanna hand that link out to other friends and family who would be interested in keeping in touch with my activities while i’m overseas. for more details (and my usual whining) on my pre-Denmark term trip, click on the link on the right!!

something stupid

let me tell you smthn stupid. last Fri i was in sch until 11pm!! tryin to book the hostels and trains/planes for my travel trip before sch starts. machiam like rushin project lydat. noone was in sch at such a late hour lor. at least we managed to finish bookin all the stuff for the trip.

anw let me tell u smthn more stupid. while bookin the plane tix online, HY was askin me, “eh last name is our name ah? first name is surname?” i dug out my registration form which stated very plainly that last name is surname but i dunno why i stupidly told her yes. i remembered i was quite tired at that time. i guess most prob it was me, unless i said otherwise and she was the blur one but i doubt. anw by the time we realised the mistake, the bookin was already confirmed. then we started panicking. like what if they are so ngiao and don’t let us board the plane? then sure kns. then i was lookin at the confirmation slip which says that “changes to flight/date/name are subject to a fee” i was like omg. then i saw that changes made within 2 hrs aft the bookin would be free of charge. so i kan cheong spider alrdy. i looked at the confirmation slip and saw the Danish, Norwegian, and i think Swedish numbers on it. so i actually took my HANDPHONE and called the Danish number, seeing as my flight would be departing from Denmark. like i have no f-king idea how much they are gonna charge me, and on a handphone some more. but i was panicking like mad lah!! :noshake:

then the automated voice was speakin in Danish!! like wth. i dunno what she was sayin; i could juz barely make out the “press 1, press 2, press 3” thing. but i couldn’t mk out the options. so u knw normally when u call these hotlines, the last option is normally “press 0 (or sm other number) to speak to the operator”. well it could prolly be different in Denmark, but i just pressed 0. then the woman started talkin dunno wat rubbish again, and i just pressed 0 again. then i got disconnected! haha must be cos i anyhow pressed the wrong button. i think the call took 2 mins max? how much would that cost? :shake:

anw, i just suddenly remembered abt Rob aft i got off the phone; dunno why i didn’t think abt him earlier, i could have saved the money from makin the call!! thank goodness he was online, and i got got him to help me call the Norwegian number. he got it changed in the end, and apparently the operator said there’s no charge for changing names!! :what: anw he was tryin to calm me down while i was frantically tryin to explain the whole mess to him thru MSN and thinkin abt all the horrible scenarios that could happen if we couldn’t change our names. he said it doesn’t really matter becos our names are still the same, just the order is switched but it shldn’t mk much of a difference anw. i was worried that they would be stickler for rules but he said that’s only in Singapore!! :tongue1

anw yea i was just so grateful that he was online at that time; that he was on MSN even while he was at work; that he was free to call for me (even if he had to do it during worktime + thru lunch time cos he had to wait on the line and he got disconnected as well!); that he was willing to help me. i think i would have been worried sick if we couldn’t change it and HY would have killed me if we had to pay extra charges.

i guess i would really have to drop by and see him when i get to Denmark. hope i really can squeeze in the time to visit all the non-major cities where all my friends are. he’s in Stavanger now, shld be heading to Trondheim aft the summer hols. ZH’s friend is in Maastrich in Netherlands; Yvonne would be in Amsterdam. Amsterdam shldnt be a problem – i’m so lookin foward to going there and hopefully meetin up with her! (tho she didn’t sound very enthu abt it haha) YX wld be in Brugge; YL would be in Lund; Isa in Bath. and not forgettin Ig in London! confirm must stop there while he’s there. i just hope i have the money to do so!!

well anw more abt my travel trip next time. feelin quite tired now. :shroom:

Walking Adventures II

well Walkin Adventures I just consisted of me walkin from Bugis to Aljunied bcos i was so darn full aft a hugeass buffet, i felt like walkin and i was wearing track shoes. according to some online website, the walk was only abt 3+ km?? it felt like it was longer!! :turtle:

anw went for Walkin Adventures II today!! went for the Treetop Walk at MacRitchie Reservoir. ok i’m siao lah dun ask me why, i muz hv been delirious when i agreed to go for this. anw it was a double date, so there was company, so it wasn’t so bad. except it’s nt very romantic lah like it was raining this morning and there was squishy mud everywhere. well if you didn’t already know, the HSBC Treetop Walk was built by HSBC for nature recreation and also for forest canopy research. BUT i was so cheated haha. We had to walk a total of about 10km to get to and from the suspension bridge that was the Treetop Walk. The Treetop Walk is only about 200m and we had to walk about 5km from the park to the bridge, and another 5 km out to the carpark again.

bcos it was raining, BC drove us to Thomson Plaza for BK breakfast haha. it was still raining aft we finished eating, but i decided we might as well get on with it since it looked as though it wasn’t going to clear and i wasn’t waking up blardy early on a rainy Sun morning for nothin. so anw we headed for the reservoir and after a while it stopped raining, so it got easier to walk cos we didn’t have to hold umbrellas. the sky was clearer and you could hear all the forest sounds. wow there were people actually running in the forest ok!! gosh they are so enthu!! i can nv be like them man haha. i guess i would have appreciated the hike more if i wasn’t so tired. hell man i’m super unfit still want me to hike uphill downhill for such a long distance?! :cuckoo:

anw the view from the suspension bridge is very very nice!!! but i have a slight phobia of heights lah so the bridge was abit scary as well. cos when u try to look down at the trees beneath, you realise that you’re actually 200m above ground!! there were other spots along the way that were very nice as well, like this tower, about 5 storeys high, that we climbed to the top and could see a long distance away. but nobody brought cameras so no pics :sad1 anw i looked like hell so i refused to use SV’s hp camera to tk pics.

maybe bcos it was raining so there weren’t many animals out and about. quite sad to see those signboards along the way describing the wildlife and stuff but when i peered at the foliage, i cannot see anything. :sad1 either we were too noisy or it was raining so they were all sleeping or smthn haha. ok lah, let’s see now, i saw birds, butterflies, moths, one spider (wondered if it was alive or dead cos it was hanging from the branch with all its eight legs folded/dangling beneath it). ya dat’s it man haha. so sad leh..i nv see any pangolin, or terrapin or fishes. :pout1

aft tt we went to Shunfu Mart for lunch. hm i was hungry but i couldn’t find anythin nice to eat? mebbe over hungry? cos i was already hungry when we started the walk!!! haha but i refused to eat the pau in my bag bcos that was my emergency ration – in case we got lost in the jungle and got no food to eat!!!! hahahahhaha! oh but there’s this nice cake stall there called “Chocolat n Spice”. It was reviewed in the papers before i think, cos i saw the news clippings at the stall, but i don’t rem reading abt it. Anw the aroma of baked choc was in the air, and you can smell it everytime u walk past the stall. There was also a long queue in front of the stall. So aft lunch we went to pack some home. It’s not exactly excellent, but it still retains its chocolate aroma up till now and the taste is not bad too. but i’m nt likely to go there ever again lah..esp if i’m nt gg on this walk anymore!!

eh my legs are killin me now but at least i had fun. though it’s not something i would go through again. this is the kinda thing i would go once just to have fun, and know that at least i’ve been there and made it through. kinda like AFA u knw? hahaha. the walkin torture is one thing; i guess i just don’t appreciate forests all that much? if it was mountains and seas mebbe lah. when i came home the birds chirpin and the green tree outside my house made me panic a little. :what: haha but it was good cos i managed to come up with one poem haha. haven’t been writing for so darn long, ever since jc? cos school work is just so busy. everytime i have the inspiration to write, i don’t have the time or the ‘feeling’ to sit down and do so. but this walk enabled me to come up with something. if i feel like it, may wanna try and write some more later, just to capture what I was feeling on the way. well may be going for the Canopy Walk soon (i think that’s what it’s called!) – i only hope it doesn’t rain the next time!!!

Friday Five!

1. What is the one outfit/piece of clothing/accessory you own that makes you feel incredibly good whenever you wear it? Why?
–> Does high heels count?? the higher the betta, cos it makes me feel taller!!! :tongue1
2. What do you do to make yourself feel better when you’re in a funk?
–> Sleep!! or read a book.
3. Has anyone ever surprised you in a way that let you know you were special? How?
–> Yes thru an sms or call; it’s the words that matter.
4. When you are having a “good day,” how do you spread the happiness to others?
–> Say “Hi!” and smile at everyone
5. What is one thing that puts you in a bad mood, no matter how good you were previously feeling?
–> When I get news about things that are not going my way or when something crops up suddenly and spoils my plans for the day