Today my lecturer J.N frowned and asked "...but for you, is this exceptionally slow..? I was expecting more from you ya.." Thus inspiring this current wallpaper.
Byebye keep calm and carry on and Christmas joy, IT'S TIME TO CHIONG AH.
I am sorry I will be skipping outings and being a horrible hermit. Just for these weeks.
I will be back with a life and soul next Feb.
Fighty classmates and coursmates and schoolmates, Lobin Lobin keep fighting.
+
I'm quite glad how the Jan bulletin2010 turned out (on my screen at least). I went to bed all giddy at 6am, to be woken up at 730am for LAKSA. hahahaha! My dad's so cute. But nah, my human transformation isn't working out well. I feel sleepy at 8pm lately.
27th December 2009, @ Puay's Great food from the chef- Jerel, Nat & Co + Funny games from Peter & Yihui
' * ' * ' * '
Meet Takoball, from Ooooosaka! (yes it's a takoyaki ball!)
Thanks for the cute ball, basheer vouches $_$ and nice cakes.
Thank you Philo and Yiyou for your gifts! & everyone for the kind and thoughtful cards, yes even the shit card from Cong *grumbles. always draw shit for me.* (my cam died before I could snap ._.)
If I make my bed in the depths, You are there. Psalm 139: 8b
Was reading this verse and the image replayed literally in my head. I remember being in Hope HK's ministry house and making my bed almost everyday, I got to fold the mattress up before I leave the house because they have to use the space for cg. I couldn't fully grasp the understanding of being in the depths until that period in time. Sometimes the words and the memories of the first boss still rings through my mind and makes me feel like I am never going to make it.
Lately while I am supposed to be giving my full concentration in doing work, my thoughts have been wandering off into space, wondering about what to do after graduation. There's the yearning to see beyond our island-that-feels-like-it's-covered-under-a-belljar. Don't get me wrong, I love SG, I love the comfort here, the cove I can always delve in, hide and be sheltered. I know the bright lights elsewhere are but pretty on the outside, and I know how tough it is to run out of money overseas, to have to handle chores and work and having little friends.
I hate having to miss out years of friends' lives, to not be there for them. I don't want to walk out on Creatives and crazy the workload can get, I enjoy every little victory we have.
On the eve, I left my house for the first time in ten days to meet Faith for lunch! Er, I am a loser who got lost at Orchard MRT HAHA, sheesh town has changed so much. (T_T they have the nicest sushi on earth place at Ion..!) We had a nice one at Dome. It's a comfort eating solid good food again. Lately I have been eating whatever Mum eats, which is like porridge and more porridge x_x
Left Faith and went to Suntec for At The Door. You know your church has grown when you have to phone people to stop and pick up cards you wrote for them. The crowd is too massive to spot your friends in.
This is a quarter of my caregroup lifegroup.
NOBODY gave me cards HAHA, all busy writing for their own lifegroups. I love how minOps thanksgiving happen after Christmas service, so we mutually not write cards by service date.
But I got myself CDs! The last one was... like months ago. In my bid to support Print I buy CDs and not download the electronic format one, but that probably means I gonna have to clear a lot of clutter soon.
And I got
a gingerbread man from Sheeting, I am about to chomp off its little head.
And my first Swatch! This is actually a belated birthday present.
This always happens to all my watches. Till my wrist gain some fats.
/_\ I got nothing much to do today. Because being in a family who don't believe in Christ + not very enthu about holidays, Christmas is like hari raya.
I woke up to my Inbox looking so nice & Christmas-y, then I think it realises I am in Singapore (aka no snow) and went back to normal. Switch to Gmail! :D
Decided to spread the festive cheer to the coursemates working their asses off (and while they are, why am I doing this) a little done-in-a-hurry-wallpaper.
* * *
Household chores are really mundane things. So long as it allows the family to keep on moving forward, I got to do it.
If I ever become a housewife next time (omg what a horrifying thought), I'm gonna buy pretty brooms, cups, cute sponges to make life better.
I am going out tomorrow!!! For At The Door. It's been ten days since I headed out of the house on my own .__.
I was scrubbing stains off the wall when my little cousin went, "your friends are at the door!"
In the midst of clutterclear part two, Huaxiang, Philo, Cong and Puay popped their heads at the door with good stuff for my Mum and my fav chewy junior donuts-with-no-hole-?-thing, and we went for an hour of tauhuay and chit chat.
Your minds must have blown seeing the condition of my house now HAHA.
Oh yes, I found the Ultimate Dare Camp black bottle with a little strip of paper pasted on it with a very familiar handwriting... Jonquek's "Shine His name ; duty" HAHA remember those days when it's cool to start yr one word with a semi colon.
Glad to know Who Killed Christmas went well! Is there recording....? I haven't even watched Rendition Two Y_Y
Their cards made me very smiley. =')
Thank you caregroup, including all you sick people, please get wellllll... very soon.
-
I think this week is going to be very challenging, doing chores, fyp, cards, being there to help Mum, and cleaning all at the same time.
My brain cells are falling asleep by the minute, but I still think this deserves an entry..!
This morning at 4am I finally managed to fall asleep on the sofa at the ward. The next time I go I will bring a fur coat. But thank God, I don't have to go no more. Mum is gonna be home tomorrow. :)
-
So today we carried out Operation Clutterclear hurriedly. If you've been to my place, you will know there's clutter everywhere. So much clutter than Yiyou was saying everywhere you turn there's something to shoot, as in photograph.
It was just my 2nd sister and I, and I was battling the refrigerator and all the oh-my-god-you-wont-believe-this-is-here moments while my sis climbed high to vacuum dust bunnies off the ceiling.
I really completely forgot that my fridge actually has a light behind, and now I am proud to say I can see the light!, and the ice cream staring at me. ",
The stains I took so damn long to scrub reminded me of how long Mum has been shouldering all these shit chores alone, and I'm happy no one pointed fingers at me and my pampered ass. :$
After dinner, my aunt, my little cousin and my eldest nephew, Keven, and my 2nd bro-in-law decided to come for the "exhibition" after hearing us talk in such enthusiasm and disbelief our encounters with "interesting" stuff midst the clutter, including my eldest sis with her fair share at the workshop. Think the creature I am most afraid of x many many many.
And they all got to work to help. The little ones helped to sort the stuff out, and even labelled the boxes.
Keven was singing at the top of his lungs, "we're building a dream....go Singapore!" and humming the Central mall's jingle. Curse these advertising jingles that ring in your head! He was so cute, he couldn't write "clothes" in chinese characters, so he drew a little shirt. Then my little cousin filled in the words.
She saw my room and went ahhhh I love your room, got ladder and sofabed and I like how your table faces the door! HAHA. I felt like a cool elder cousin for (just) a second. Yes, I love my room too, minus the mess- I have 3 printers and 2 lightboxes sitting proudly there (Kiappy, when are you moving them awayyy).
So we cleaned and SNEEZED and cleared and COUGHED and exclaimed together, then my elder cousin, dad, eldest sis all came and helped to move the rubbish and tadaa, we see the floor.
And I found treasures! I mean rather falling short of cool fashion girls who thrift vintage clothes from their mums/thrift stores... but I found a vintage...
harmonica!
& yes, I've always liked harmonicas..! and vintage packaging is my new indulgence.
-
So this very interesting family gathering cheered me up a lot. Been feeling down and (left) out.
Tomorrow morning I will remember to water the plants, boil water, do the laundry... It's time to contribute to the home and household God placed me in, far beyond just doing fine in what I do- in school, and not getting into trouble. It's time to get the pampered ass that grew up taking things for granted to move and to grow up. I think sometimes the role reversal is rather sweet, it's weirdly nice hearing those scrubbing sounds coming from the loo, and knowing it's Dad.
I have an uncle that reminds me a little of charlie chaplin, and I always thought he and my aunt were really sweet together. I guess it's because they were more expressive in their love and all, which is very uncommon for my very asian and very chinese family. She came to visit Mum and told me of the divorce. I was quite shocked, and she spoke with so much regret I wished I could find words to comfort, but I couldn't.
And though my parents have petty cold wars nowadays, I think it still takes a lot of love for people to go through so much shit and dust bunnies, interesting habits and whatnot, and still accept Mum. I need to remember and appreciate quiet Love.
I have a long day tomorrow aka in a few hours'. And I have a FYP that's sitting staring and waiting for me. I'll worry about you soon, because you're not my everything, dear project. (....AND I WILL WORRY ABOUT MY CHRISTMAS CARDS.....)
In short, an advertising awareness campaign for the climate talks in Copenhagen, by Tham Khai Meng, (one of the) Designer of the year at the President's Design Award this year, first Singaporean worldwide Creative director at O&M. US$200 million campaign.
I'm not much of a green person, always claims "the world will end when the world ends.", just that the state we will leave it in might be a lot more jialat if we do nothing.
I don't know if Advertising can ever represent social issues in a fair and true manner. Actually, what can? The art of not lying, yet not telling the complete truth comes into good practice in our world.
It's been airing on Channel U, and each episode brings viewers to remote villages and places that are about to disappear from our mass of green.
I don't usually enjoy travel shows, I find they are rather "loud" and the places visited are not all that uncommon, and it's always sponsored by some travel agent dying to sell us some packages. The narration and tone of this show is quiet, reflective and melancholic, the places are really remote, and so many scenes look like perfect photographs. They show places we might not even have the courage to visit, or even the opportunity to, and the interaction between the host and the common people makes it a lot more human and real.
I think the team behind this- those doing research, liaising to find English-speaking people in the community, the scriptwriters, camera people, and of course the very sincere and garang host should be very proud of their ten episodes.
Airing every Wednesday, 8pm on Channel U, & repeats at 12midnight, you owls.
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On a side note, Allan Siew, I think you read/watch very interesting things - things I will never find online, thanks for sharing on your blog, together with your thoughts and illus! Interesting article on sex workers during the Christmas season. Er, please keep clear if you're uncomfortable with such topics ^_^
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Thanks for all your concern and sms-es. I'm okay, may everything be okay later on too.
Everyone's drinking happy spiritual potions at SSS.. Heard that Level Up is going great
---
A sudden situation caused us to be in and out of the hospital the past few days, and I'm very grateful to have elder siblings- with cars and licenses and calm heads around.
The days have been spent waiting and waiting for more waiting. And I always wonder if this is already "worldclass healthcare", how is the situation like elsewhere? The only time I've been in a hospital overseas, money solved the issue. How much of the "care" in "healthcare" do the practitioners think and feel about? Various consultations just make me feel this is such a business and this is their career. We are just "customers"- that's what their computer screen refers to us as.
In a renowed private hospital in the Marymount area (now, now, don't go around guessing, did I make it too obvious ^_^), at 6am when we hurried in with my Mum in intense pain, they put her on a bed after quite long a while, and my darting eyes found a slip of green near the wheel of the bed. So I bent down to inspect, and wow, it is the torn off packaging of a durex packet. So that's what they do when they get bored at work? Can't think of what else they could have done with it.
I am just grateful the situation is not too bleak, and may Thursday go smoothly...
At times like this you realise that you're indeed not the god of your own life. When sickness and calamity strike, they do.
Today my lecturer J.N frowned and asked "...but for you, is this exceptionally slow..? I was expecting more from you ya.." Thus inspiring this current wallpaper.
Byebye keep calm and carry on and Christmas joy, IT'S TIME TO CHIONG AH.
I am sorry I will be skipping outings and being a horrible hermit. Just for these weeks.
I will be back with a life and soul next Feb.
Fighty classmates and coursmates and schoolmates, Lobin Lobin keep fighting.
+
I'm quite glad how the Jan bulletin2010 turned out (on my screen at least). I went to bed all giddy at 6am, to be woken up at 730am for LAKSA. hahahaha! My dad's so cute. But nah, my human transformation isn't working out well. I feel sleepy at 8pm lately.
27th December 2009, @ Puay's Great food from the chef- Jerel, Nat & Co + Funny games from Peter & Yihui
' * ' * ' * '
Meet Takoball, from Ooooosaka! (yes it's a takoyaki ball!)
Thanks for the cute ball, basheer vouches $_$ and nice cakes.
Thank you Philo and Yiyou for your gifts! & everyone for the kind and thoughtful cards, yes even the shit card from Cong *grumbles. always draw shit for me.* (my cam died before I could snap ._.)
If I make my bed in the depths, You are there. Psalm 139: 8b
Was reading this verse and the image replayed literally in my head. I remember being in Hope HK's ministry house and making my bed almost everyday, I got to fold the mattress up before I leave the house because they have to use the space for cg. I couldn't fully grasp the understanding of being in the depths until that period in time. Sometimes the words and the memories of the first boss still rings through my mind and makes me feel like I am never going to make it.
Lately while I am supposed to be giving my full concentration in doing work, my thoughts have been wandering off into space, wondering about what to do after graduation. There's the yearning to see beyond our island-that-feels-like-it's-covered-under-a-belljar. Don't get me wrong, I love SG, I love the comfort here, the cove I can always delve in, hide and be sheltered. I know the bright lights elsewhere are but pretty on the outside, and I know how tough it is to run out of money overseas, to have to handle chores and work and having little friends.
I hate having to miss out years of friends' lives, to not be there for them. I don't want to walk out on Creatives and crazy the workload can get, I enjoy every little victory we have.
On the eve, I left my house for the first time in ten days to meet Faith for lunch! Er, I am a loser who got lost at Orchard MRT HAHA, sheesh town has changed so much. (T_T they have the nicest sushi on earth place at Ion..!) We had a nice one at Dome. It's a comfort eating solid good food again. Lately I have been eating whatever Mum eats, which is like porridge and more porridge x_x
Left Faith and went to Suntec for At The Door. You know your church has grown when you have to phone people to stop and pick up cards you wrote for them. The crowd is too massive to spot your friends in.
This is a quarter of my caregroup lifegroup.
NOBODY gave me cards HAHA, all busy writing for their own lifegroups. I love how minOps thanksgiving happen after Christmas service, so we mutually not write cards by service date.
But I got myself CDs! The last one was... like months ago. In my bid to support Print I buy CDs and not download the electronic format one, but that probably means I gonna have to clear a lot of clutter soon.
And I got
a gingerbread man from Sheeting, I am about to chomp off its little head.
And my first Swatch! This is actually a belated birthday present.
This always happens to all my watches. Till my wrist gain some fats.
/_\ I got nothing much to do today. Because being in a family who don't believe in Christ + not very enthu about holidays, Christmas is like hari raya.
I woke up to my Inbox looking so nice & Christmas-y, then I think it realises I am in Singapore (aka no snow) and went back to normal. Switch to Gmail! :D
Decided to spread the festive cheer to the coursemates working their asses off (and while they are, why am I doing this) a little done-in-a-hurry-wallpaper.
* * *
Household chores are really mundane things. So long as it allows the family to keep on moving forward, I got to do it.
If I ever become a housewife next time (omg what a horrifying thought), I'm gonna buy pretty brooms, cups, cute sponges to make life better.
I am going out tomorrow!!! For At The Door. It's been ten days since I headed out of the house on my own .__.
I was scrubbing stains off the wall when my little cousin went, "your friends are at the door!"
In the midst of clutterclear part two, Huaxiang, Philo, Cong and Puay popped their heads at the door with good stuff for my Mum and my fav chewy junior donuts-with-no-hole-?-thing, and we went for an hour of tauhuay and chit chat.
Your minds must have blown seeing the condition of my house now HAHA.
Oh yes, I found the Ultimate Dare Camp black bottle with a little strip of paper pasted on it with a very familiar handwriting... Jonquek's "Shine His name ; duty" HAHA remember those days when it's cool to start yr one word with a semi colon.
Glad to know Who Killed Christmas went well! Is there recording....? I haven't even watched Rendition Two Y_Y
Their cards made me very smiley. =')
Thank you caregroup, including all you sick people, please get wellllll... very soon.
-
I think this week is going to be very challenging, doing chores, fyp, cards, being there to help Mum, and cleaning all at the same time.
My brain cells are falling asleep by the minute, but I still think this deserves an entry..!
This morning at 4am I finally managed to fall asleep on the sofa at the ward. The next time I go I will bring a fur coat. But thank God, I don't have to go no more. Mum is gonna be home tomorrow. :)
-
So today we carried out Operation Clutterclear hurriedly. If you've been to my place, you will know there's clutter everywhere. So much clutter than Yiyou was saying everywhere you turn there's something to shoot, as in photograph.
It was just my 2nd sister and I, and I was battling the refrigerator and all the oh-my-god-you-wont-believe-this-is-here moments while my sis climbed high to vacuum dust bunnies off the ceiling.
I really completely forgot that my fridge actually has a light behind, and now I am proud to say I can see the light!, and the ice cream staring at me. ",
The stains I took so damn long to scrub reminded me of how long Mum has been shouldering all these shit chores alone, and I'm happy no one pointed fingers at me and my pampered ass. :$
After dinner, my aunt, my little cousin and my eldest nephew, Keven, and my 2nd bro-in-law decided to come for the "exhibition" after hearing us talk in such enthusiasm and disbelief our encounters with "interesting" stuff midst the clutter, including my eldest sis with her fair share at the workshop. Think the creature I am most afraid of x many many many.
And they all got to work to help. The little ones helped to sort the stuff out, and even labelled the boxes.
Keven was singing at the top of his lungs, "we're building a dream....go Singapore!" and humming the Central mall's jingle. Curse these advertising jingles that ring in your head! He was so cute, he couldn't write "clothes" in chinese characters, so he drew a little shirt. Then my little cousin filled in the words.
She saw my room and went ahhhh I love your room, got ladder and sofabed and I like how your table faces the door! HAHA. I felt like a cool elder cousin for (just) a second. Yes, I love my room too, minus the mess- I have 3 printers and 2 lightboxes sitting proudly there (Kiappy, when are you moving them awayyy).
So we cleaned and SNEEZED and cleared and COUGHED and exclaimed together, then my elder cousin, dad, eldest sis all came and helped to move the rubbish and tadaa, we see the floor.
And I found treasures! I mean rather falling short of cool fashion girls who thrift vintage clothes from their mums/thrift stores... but I found a vintage...
harmonica!
& yes, I've always liked harmonicas..! and vintage packaging is my new indulgence.
-
So this very interesting family gathering cheered me up a lot. Been feeling down and (left) out.
Tomorrow morning I will remember to water the plants, boil water, do the laundry... It's time to contribute to the home and household God placed me in, far beyond just doing fine in what I do- in school, and not getting into trouble. It's time to get the pampered ass that grew up taking things for granted to move and to grow up. I think sometimes the role reversal is rather sweet, it's weirdly nice hearing those scrubbing sounds coming from the loo, and knowing it's Dad.
I have an uncle that reminds me a little of charlie chaplin, and I always thought he and my aunt were really sweet together. I guess it's because they were more expressive in their love and all, which is very uncommon for my very asian and very chinese family. She came to visit Mum and told me of the divorce. I was quite shocked, and she spoke with so much regret I wished I could find words to comfort, but I couldn't.
And though my parents have petty cold wars nowadays, I think it still takes a lot of love for people to go through so much shit and dust bunnies, interesting habits and whatnot, and still accept Mum. I need to remember and appreciate quiet Love.
I have a long day tomorrow aka in a few hours'. And I have a FYP that's sitting staring and waiting for me. I'll worry about you soon, because you're not my everything, dear project. (....AND I WILL WORRY ABOUT MY CHRISTMAS CARDS.....)
In short, an advertising awareness campaign for the climate talks in Copenhagen, by Tham Khai Meng, (one of the) Designer of the year at the President's Design Award this year, first Singaporean worldwide Creative director at O&M. US$200 million campaign.
I'm not much of a green person, always claims "the world will end when the world ends.", just that the state we will leave it in might be a lot more jialat if we do nothing.
I don't know if Advertising can ever represent social issues in a fair and true manner. Actually, what can? The art of not lying, yet not telling the complete truth comes into good practice in our world.
It's been airing on Channel U, and each episode brings viewers to remote villages and places that are about to disappear from our mass of green.
I don't usually enjoy travel shows, I find they are rather "loud" and the places visited are not all that uncommon, and it's always sponsored by some travel agent dying to sell us some packages. The narration and tone of this show is quiet, reflective and melancholic, the places are really remote, and so many scenes look like perfect photographs. They show places we might not even have the courage to visit, or even the opportunity to, and the interaction between the host and the common people makes it a lot more human and real.
I think the team behind this- those doing research, liaising to find English-speaking people in the community, the scriptwriters, camera people, and of course the very sincere and garang host should be very proud of their ten episodes.
Airing every Wednesday, 8pm on Channel U, & repeats at 12midnight, you owls.
-----
On a side note, Allan Siew, I think you read/watch very interesting things - things I will never find online, thanks for sharing on your blog, together with your thoughts and illus! Interesting article on sex workers during the Christmas season. Er, please keep clear if you're uncomfortable with such topics ^_^
-----
Thanks for all your concern and sms-es. I'm okay, may everything be okay later on too.
Everyone's drinking happy spiritual potions at SSS.. Heard that Level Up is going great
---
A sudden situation caused us to be in and out of the hospital the past few days, and I'm very grateful to have elder siblings- with cars and licenses and calm heads around.
The days have been spent waiting and waiting for more waiting. And I always wonder if this is already "worldclass healthcare", how is the situation like elsewhere? The only time I've been in a hospital overseas, money solved the issue. How much of the "care" in "healthcare" do the practitioners think and feel about? Various consultations just make me feel this is such a business and this is their career. We are just "customers"- that's what their computer screen refers to us as.
In a renowed private hospital in the Marymount area (now, now, don't go around guessing, did I make it too obvious ^_^), at 6am when we hurried in with my Mum in intense pain, they put her on a bed after quite long a while, and my darting eyes found a slip of green near the wheel of the bed. So I bent down to inspect, and wow, it is the torn off packaging of a durex packet. So that's what they do when they get bored at work? Can't think of what else they could have done with it.
I am just grateful the situation is not too bleak, and may Thursday go smoothly...
At times like this you realise that you're indeed not the god of your own life. When sickness and calamity strike, they do.
10:28 PM
mi-cielo
means My Sky in Spanish, and this place is where I share my piece of the huge sky with you.
