Cherie's Shop

Hahaha alright, this is a friend's blog shop, shop blog, whatever it's called. An e-commerce site. Haha

Yep, so here's the link to her shop! Do go take a look see, and BUY BUY BUY if you see anything you want!!

http://simplyjust-shop.blogspot.com

I actually saw a few things i would love haha.

1) Lime green watch - but it'd be too big for my pathetic small wrist
2) The cookie monster tee!!! Haha it's super cute. And i've always loved cookie monster, but unfortunately, it'll only make me look like a little kid if i really wear that. You know? Limitations to my wardrobe? Hahaha

27th February 2008

OKAY! Had a talk with mum today during dinner about my childhood "passions" and "hobbies", which are none actually. Hahahaha

As a kid, i was involved in a thousand and one things, but evidently, i was never good at any of them. Mum said she put me in those programs to "develop potential hidden talents". Unfortunately, these supposedly "hidden talents" have remained hidden til this very day. Snorts.

Here'a a list of what i enrolled in as a small loisa...

- Piano: alright i might have a SMALL talent for it since i've come so far, but i don't REALLY enjoy it. Maybe i should try harder right? Since it's the only thing i can do so far haha

- Ballet: okay a total FLOP. Don't know what possessed me to go into it in the first place. Apparently, mum said it was what i wanted. And she agreed, hoping it would teach me good posture and to be be more graceful. Well, i thought it did, but as quoted by mum...

Mum: It didn't work for you. You're not any more graceful than you were as a baby. You never could walk the catwalk.
Loisa: Maybe i'm better now?
Mum: Don't even try. You'll break the catwalk.
Loisa: -_-" That's a mother's love for you!

- Swimming: Ahh now that's something i'm proud of. Haha. I'm proud of what i can do NOW. Not the process of learning how to swim. Cause, let's just say it was chaos la ah. Crying in the pool. Drinking loads of water. Near drowning. Plus all the head knocking against the edge of the pool, which is probably why i lost all my baby teeth early.

- Art Class: Don't ask.

Loisa: YOU PUT ME IN ART CLASS? How come i can't draw now?
Mum: Perhaps it's a hidden talent. I suspect it'll remain hidden for a very, VERY long time. By the way, you got it from your father.
Loisa: Hmm...
Mum: Anyway, the art teacher was so frustrated with you, he drew everything for you. I always wondered how you could have brought home such beautiful pieces.
Loisa: HEY!! Maybe i ACTUALLY drew them MYSELF.
Mum: Yeah. Sure. You're eating donuts at every class, sitting there watching the teacher draw your pictures FOR you. Licking the icing off your fingers. ARGH!
Loisa: Uhhh... -_-"

- Abacus class and subsequently, "fast finger" counting in school: Okay i did pretty alright in abacus. Even went for exams to get certificates for them. The failure was in the stupid, and i repeat, STUPID, "fast finger" counting thing in primary school. Basically, we're supposed to count real fast with our fingers. No, it's not "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" then use toes to count etc. It's more professional and artistic. Ask me, and i'll show you how in school, the FAILED version of course. Whatever the case, i used abacus mental calculation to replace the fast finger thing. Ridiculous.

- Chinese Dance: Again, don't ask why i was in it, but i was. I dropped it anyway, cause i couldn't take the stress. We had to use this prop, this string thing, and wave it about we we jumped and danced. Aparently, i used it only to entangle myself, and thus falling about all over the stage. That in turn, made every other chinese dancer fall, SO. I went out.

Mum: Yeah, whenever i picked you up, you were always in a HEAP on the floor, with string all around you.
Loisa: Wasn't it dangerous? I could have strangled myself.
Mum: Nah you wouldn't. You were a professional at messing everything up, but without danger involved. Same with the christmas tree. Instead of decorating the tree, you decorated yourself.
Loisa: I wasn't that vain to decorate myself la.
Mum: No, i meant you were so small, you couldn't reach anything, so you tended to wrap yourself up while jumping to reach something.
Loisa: -.-"

Why do conversations with my mum always end up with me going -.-" ??

Sigh...

26th February 2008

ACKK tomorrow's my COM 242 (Media Effects) exam.

Right now, i'm obviously taking a break haha. I nearly went nuts last night. Felt so overwhelmed with work. Was practically drowning under surveys.

Goodness, never in my entire life had i imagined that tabulating surveys would be this hard! I think it probably felt that way cause there were so many options and categories. GOODNESS. I'm putting all tabulation aside til after the exams. Imagine. The moment i come home on friday, i gotta tackle me and jane's surveys. Gotta combine all the holland village ones together. Juliana's and Pui Ching's ones will be next, the Marine parade cum east coast park. BAH

And finally, i gotta compile all 5 areas of surveys *head swirls* Haha

Mum was roaring away at me yesterday, cause papers were flying all around, i was lying flat on the floor drawing away on rough paper, counting the number of females, males, races, income blah blah. It didn't help that i took up what little WALKING SPACE there was in the house.

WHICH IS WHY, when i get my own place next time, i'll get one with A LOT OF SPACE. Or LITTLE FURNITURE.

BWAHAHAHAH then i'll be able to roll all over the floor without complaints. GRIN CHING!

Back to studying!!

More pictures...

Pebbles and Loisa

Staring at THE DOG in the face

SHE KISSED ME! *yucks* Usually i love being kissed, but not this time!!

Ahhh happy! In love haha

Photos of family

Mum's so happy her legs are waggling

Dad's not THAt strong! Haha he's kinda sinking, but good effort!

Me and Mum. Okay my legs shouldn't be that wide open. Ignore that.

Ahhh WHEEE!

Dog wants to join in the fun!

21st February 2008

WHOOT! Hello people of the world, especially in Singapore!

We are hosting the Singapore Youth olympics!! HAPPY HAPPY! Hahahaha i missed the actual moment though. Dad, mum and me camped in the car from 6.40 til 7.10pm, but there was no news on the radio, so we walked out to the coffee shop to have dinner. The moment we reached the table, everyone stood up cheering and clapping. Mum nearly fell over herself, haha she got a shock. Then we found out that Singapore won the bid. Zzzzzz -.-

But ah well, i'm proud of Singapore. She is small, but she is on her way!! Hahaha

Side note: GREAT things come in small packages. *ahem cough cough* Hahahaha

To end of, here's a stylo picture of myself. I'm pretending to be a male model by the way.

Stylist - Jocelyn (she arranged my scarf)
Fashion designer - Jia zhen (she lent me her sunglasses)
Professional photographer - Eileen (she took the picture)
Model - Loisa (haha who posed for the fun of it)

ps: I'll post the happy family pictures up another day. Having problems with uploading images, and for now, i'm too busy to play around with anything! So sorry, i'll be back with them though! =)

20th February 2008

Today's MGM (marketing) class was classic. Sleep again. Never yawned so often in any class before. Literally nodded off every 5 minutes, and yawned every 5 seconds. Sigh...

Anyway, am in quite a happy mood now. Guess why? WHY? I'm listening to happy songs. Haha, so i'm dancing round the house. Causing chaos really. Cause my dog wants to join in. So there i am carrying Pebbles, and i forced my parents to dance haha. Will upload photos tomorrow. We're such a happy family at times like these. Talking to a friend today, it made me realize how much more work i have to be the counsellor in my parents' marriage. Well counsellor in a way. As in, whenever one is mae at the other, they always come to me. So i have to try to make them happy again. And every valentines day is so stressful haha. So much work for the kid!

Ahhh i hope i'll get to have a happy marriage too haha. Okay a little too far down to think of it BUT... haha

Anyway, if you're reading this, THANK YOU FOR THE SONGS! You made loisa a happy kid.

Bounce bounce bounce. I feel like dancing, dancing... haha

19th February 2008

Here's a video i made for a module i'm currently taking in school!! Haha

Trust me to do it on my dog, PEBBLES! The love of my life. Men are whatever, dogs are forever, yeah? Haha nah, i'm kidding. Anyway, here goes! Enjoy! Oh and believe me, it might look stagnant at first, but watch the whole thing, there's actual movement towards the end. So don't get bored and stop the movie clip halfway!! Oh i nearly forgot, you might want to stop the music of my blog first, before you watch the clip! heh.

Feel free to comment on how talented i am! Haha okay ignore that. Haha. Budding producer, Loisa Koh, at your service! =D Gosh i'm so proud of myself. Never believed i could accomplish something like that. It's pretty fun actually. By the way, if you wanna try it on your own as well, use Windows Movie Maker. It's easy. No problemo at all. Believe me, if i can do this, so can you.

Granted, there'll be no Oscar for me, but who cares? Haha i'm happy! And so's my dog, who just became a star overnight! Hahaha

17th February 2008

Our second date! Definitely more worth it for angel and me this time. I waited for angel, 45 minutes!! AHHH but alright i didn't mind haha. We were supposed to meet Jet and Ja-mes at 5.30pm. But well... haha we decided that we were too full to eat so we shopped around and waited til they were done with dinner. Whoa when we said we'll catch up, angel and me REALLY caught up! We laughed a lot, okay at my expense, again. We entertained each other lar. She was happily criticising my chest area, and the height of my stubby legs. Turn the tables around, and i criticised her "weeny weeny". Okay inside joke. Nevermind.

OKAY ANGEL! I won't wear heels, i won't wear short shorts, so i shall GO FORWARD and ADMIT that i am tiny! OKAY? Slap. But i'm still happy with Me! =)

Well Jolene and Ping May couldn't make it for the movie (slap may since she couldn't make it at the last minute), and slap junxian too since he had work. Oh btw, he had to wear a purple uniform. Haha cute, prune. Haha, nah...

Right so comes to movie. Jumper. Don't know which wise guy picked Row C! And in case you didn't know, row C is the third row from the FRONT. So you get the idea. If we're watching another movie, this time, angel and i will get the tickets. Haha and to think we were there earlier and didn't get them. Okay slap us. Just before the movie, we rushed down to get stuff to eat during the movie, and they stuffed everything into my bag. Smuggling purposed. Should my bag have burst, ROAR from loisa. Haha

Angel and i sat on the inside, and we had to literally turn our butts, fold up our legs and sit sideways to watch. We were pretty comfortable leaning on each other actually, just that it was a little too near the screen. James phone was constantly blinking, so we were illuminated in bright blue light haha.

My review for the movie -->

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Yep. That's it. This was ALMOST as bad as cloverfield. Headache. Jumper. The entire movie was literally "jumping". Jump Jump Jump Jump. Yep, that's what they did. Jumped. Really fast. Headache. Don't ask where they jumped to. Before you could figure out where the place was, they had already jumped to the next location. In the end, i gave up figuring out the purpose and just leaned back into angel. At the end of the movie, i laughed til my tears almost flowed out cause the two boys didn't want to move. So guess what the genius or a genius angel did? She SQUEEZED her way in between the rows. I followed suit. Couldn't stop laughing.

End of the day. Back to home sweet home. I really want to watch sweeny todd though. Love johnny depp! heh =D

16th Februrary 2008

Well well well, this has been on heck of a weekend! And well well well... Not much productive work done! But okay, i need a break after the exams. This week's gonna be nuts anyway.

Interesting two days though! Had a date, not wait, TWO DATES with angel!! Btw girl, if you're reading this, i won't forget your OFFER! Hahahahahah we can't be nuns, so we shall turn the other way! Okay okay okay... Shall quite the rubbish.

Right on saturday, I met up with the "first three months" mates!! WHOA i forgot how nonsensically hilarious they could be. Had fun though. Angel was there, Jo was there, May too, and Jet and Ja-mes! Reason for meeting up? To go visiting! The start of the day was BAD, but nevermind. It got better with friends =) Angel made me run all the way to Macs though grumble. Oh, one problem... the oranges were kinda squashed by the time we got to James' place. I was hoping his mum wouldn't squeeze them, or tada, orange juice. zzzz

OMG his place is like, beautiful! I was hoping i could stay on my best behavior and not roll about on the floor. His floor is squeaky clean and white, and the wind ahhh... oooo... Sigh... *content* The view was well... was... okay, i didn't get to see much of the view. The wall of his balcony is too high. Dumb. How to enjoy scenery like that. Oh and his mum is sweet too. Looks like him. His dad bought KFC for us, but oops, too full to eat. Felt pretty awful about it.

Next stop, junxian's place. Hahahaha he lives so near to kenneth! If i lived there, i'd be dropping in on those two every hour or so. Nah, i think i rather be at tampines to drop in on angel and amelia! Anyway, his house is like, complicating. Kept craning our necks to look for some funny school name. Actually i should have felt like puking already. Motion sickness. But was too annoyed with Jame's sleeves to notice much. So messy. He doesn't know how to roll them up. Felt like grabbing him over to do them myself. Messy. Annoyed. May was real quiet, and i think she's wearing lenses too! Heh.

At junxian's place, it was a little weird at first. Angel and me SO needed to pee! Like real bad haha. But for complicated reasons, we could not. Haha. The rest did though. And i wanted to slap jet numerous times. He was shaking the cny goodies like nuts, and then eat halfway leave the stuff open. AND BOY does he have an appetite. Haha i wouldn't mind competing with him one day. Maybe i could match his. haha. The guys proceeded to entertain the girls, with jokes that i will admit only in here, that angel and i could not catch, until a few seconds later. OKAY LAG. If you notice, we would smile at the end of the joke, and 5 seconds later, ROAR with laughter.

Okay okay, i didn't roar. Angel did. But i snorted. Really tried to behave myself, but i like to snort. So sue me. They're cute la. Hilarious bunch. Even the quiet may giggled beside me. End of visitation. Angel cabbed over to continue her visitation, May went home in the other direction, Jo, Jet, Ja-mes and me left. Zzzzz lousy train ride. Danced on the train. Lack of balance. Kena laughed at. Nearly slid into the pole once, which would resulted in a very unglam untangled mess of loisa, metal, and blood. Remind me to wear shoes with better friction next time.

Had fun surprisingly. I was afraid none of them would remember me since i left them halfway in february after the collection of the Os.

On to Sunday!!

8th February 2008

My family's probably the most informal, non china family ever!!! Okay not the traditional kind i mean.

We had two reunions! Hahaha and even then, not the entire family were there. The first reunion was on the eve of Chinese New Year, but one of my cousins from Austrlia couldn't make it, cause she had a reunion with her father's side. We're related through our mothers.

My first thought when my aunt said "She has a reunion with the OTHER SIDE", i was like, "OTHER SIDE???" What, ghosts? Heaven? What other side? My mum looked at me as if i was insane.

Loisa: Huh? What other side does she have? Reunion with ghosts from heaven??
Mum: -_- You tao nao bo ho seh...
Loisa: *thoughts in head* Zzzzz, say until like that...
Mum: She's eating with her dad's family la...
Loisa: Her father has a FAMILY??
Mum: -____________________-"""" *probable thoughts in head* I have a dumbass of a daughter

It was then that it hit me. OOOMMMGGGG other people have TWO families! I just realized, my family is so superbly small. But even then, it IS a family. And i am so thankful that i at least have THAT.

Well anyway, that aside, we arranged to have a second reunion, on the second day of Chinese New Year. YAY! Double blessings from family, hahaha, unfortunately, no double ang pows -.-

Okay, so for both reunion dinners, we had, peranakan food. A little Chinese, a little Indonesian. OOOMMMGGGG SHIOK!!! I am so peranakan!!! I just realized, i have so much of my heritage in me. There was BUA KELUAK (a kind of nut gravy you eat with curry chicken) and CHAP CHYE (peranakan vegetables). AHH heaven!!

If there was this kind of food in heaven everyday, this truly applies -->

Heaven is a wonderful place,
Filled with BUA KELUAK and CHAP CHYE,
I wanna be where these food are,
Heaven is a wonderful place...

Okay, so the two middle lines are made up, but ah hahaha you get my point. Oh yeah, and since my mum and her sisters are of the indonesian blood, they're the peranakans or "baba", who love these authentic food. The husbands all hate it! Down the line are my female cousins, who all love it as well, INCLUDING ME. And guess what, their boyfriends don't like the taste of that food! AAHHHAHAHA truly, the females are of this bloodline =)

Anyway, back to my wonderful non traditional family. We gather to eat, as a family, but we don't exactly talk as a family. Instead, during our meal, we're watching tv. After the meal, we're still watching that same movie, til it's time to go home, we say bye bye, then leave. -.- I suppose that isn't the way traditional families do their reunion? I'm not sure. But it sure is fascinating to me!! Someone do tell me what's the usual Chinese way of having a reunion. Is there the tossing of the what, lo hei thingy?

Talking about movies, during today's dinner, we watched King Kong. I was seriously whimpering at the end already. The only thing that stopped me from crying was that i wanted to portray myself as a big girl now, not the baby of the family. Men are so cruel. If you have watched the movie, you would know how cruel they were to the monkey/gorilla fella. He was in pain, he was hurt... If i were in the cinema, i would have just wailed already.

Sniff. I definitely would not want to watch THAT movie again. =(

4th February 2008

ROARRRRR *shakes mane* *bares teeth*

then *bursts into tears*

Haha, i'm currently a leo who's trying to act tough but in the end, cannot make it hahaha.

I'm a little furstrated that's all. I've been constantly sick since november last year, and it's slowing down my work progress.

And this Nutrition Food Analysis is seriosuly the final death of me. After painfully figuring out and estimating AND breaking down the food i've ate in the last 3 days, i decided to input all my data into the website and analyze my diet. And guess what?

-PAGE ERROR-

ZZZZ this is the 7th time i've done it, and believe me, it's no easy task. Requires brains, eyesight, coordination, and it is TEDIOUS!!!

ROOOAARRR!!

So. Well. Hrmph! *chews on gummy*

28th January 2008

This is preposterous. Ridiculous. Obscene. Inconsiderate. Rubbish!!

Singaporeans, in general, are getting on my nerves. Where's the heart? The consideration? The love? The morals? The values?

Most importantly, WHERE IS THE DARN QUEUE???

I was having dinner with my parents after the doctor's appointment. Lovely dinner =) Anyway, halfway through it, i offered to get drinks for everyone. Simple orders really. A hot tea, and one milo peng.

So i walked happily to the drinks counter and stood in line. An old lady stood behind me. Suddenly, the line became a triangle, then a circle, then simply a mass of people. I of course, was somehow pushed to the outer rim of the mass. Huh. How on earth was i going to order like that? So i stuck my hands out as if i had durians under my armpits, and began pushing as politely as possible (okay so pushing isn't very polite, but rather i MOVED in between little spaces) through the mass of people to the counter.

I shouted out my orders "AUNTIE! TEI YI BEI! HAI YOU MILO-PENG!!!" Wah next thing i knew, one shove and i was right back where i DIDN'T belong. At the outer rim of the masses yet again. Hmm the old lady was still there as well. Next thing i knew, an Indian man squeezed past the old lady and yelled, "Tiger beer! Two more bottles!" He paid and left.

I was like "What the...???" EXCUSE ME? Do you have eyes? This is a QUEUE? As distorted the shape of the queue was, it's still a queue! Just because you ordered earlier on, doesn't give you the priority to get first hand service. If you want to purchase more drinks, join the QUEUE man!! You know? Q.U.E.U.E.?

Finally, the masses disappeared and only the old lady and i were left. Obviously, the drinks auntie neglected my order, so i reordered. I was pretty pissed and grumpy by then. Wah then goodness knows what happened, some guy came behind the old lady, and said,"Milo peng, kopi-o, pepsi light, hai yo green tea".

AND THE AUNTIE IMMEDIATELY PREPARED THE DRINKS FOR HIM AND GAVE HIM THE MILO THEY HAD INITIALLY MADE FOR ME!

Whoa what nonsense is this? He paid then left with his drinks. The lady then stared at me expectantly, probably waiting for me to order my drinks. By then i was spluttering in indignant and anger. "splutter splutter, MILO-PENG, splutter, teh, splutter snort. OKAY?? splutter"

Then i got my drinks.

WAHH i was mad as hell. The next person who cut my queue or the old lady's, i would have made sure he/she will never reproduce again. Seriously. Was controlling myself already. I then literally HOPPED with rage back to the dinner table. Of course, 20 minutes had passed by then. SNORT.

19th January 2008

*ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh coughs coughs*

-pants-

Right. This flu/cough bug of mine is very annoying. It's been a more than a month already. I've had it since the exams, it's so frustrating. A few others have caught it as well. Drink lots of water everyone. This bug doesn't seem to be going away for a while. Try not to catch it!!

Anyway, school has started again, and my blog looks... stuck. I guess it's because i've been to the library and have got myself wound into the nose-in-the-book habit again, and have no liking for the Internet at the moment. The only reason i'm posting this is so my mum's and my face do not come up and stare hauntingly at me everytime i click on my website.

Classes have been... well... erm... Okay. I confess. Majority seem... sleepable. Haha. It's the voices of the lecturers i think. Whatever the case, i have quite a few American lecturers this semester, including one from Ireland!! (psst. WESTLIFE! hahaha) Eileen said she's lost in her facilitator's blue eyes (she's also from Ireland), yet mine is way too strict and fierce for me to stare into her eyes. I'm scared. I rather stare at my notes. Ah well.

Rightho. A new goal for this semester. Alright, the same old goal. Do as well as possible, praise the Lord for whatever i get. Amen.

Turkey Photos

Alright here are the photos!!





Yep, romantic. Just mum and dad.



Me and mum at the foot of the oldest oak tree in Turkey!



Beautiful view...



hahaha i couldn't resist. Turkish puppies!!



Now take a good look at this. This is soo pretty! It's actual cave houses, just like those you see in Flintstones!! hahaha People REALLY used to live there, all the way til 1958 or something like that.



Ahhh another interesting thing. "Turkish Naturel Organic Viagra Market". Hahahaha! Of course, mum and me HAD to go take a look. Dad was too shy, said he didn't need it anyway. *cheeky grin* Anyway, CHEY! They were selling nuts!! Turkish nuts! Now now, i mean the real nuts. Don't be cheeky there. Good thing we went to take a look, cause the nuts ARE GOOD. They had samples there. The viagra thing was probably a marketing gimmick or something. Dad was suspicious, said maybe the nuts were coated with viagra. -.- Well zzz to him! hahaha



If you look closely, i'm about to cry soon from the cold. Dad was a little slow in taking pictures, so our smiles weren't really smiles, but frozen ones from the cold. Our noses were red and dripping.



See? My arms are stuck in my jacket! This is a hot spring or something. No sorry, my bad. It's a mountain top where the water flows down, and apparently, the water is "hot" (they said it's hot but it's warm), so we were allowed to stick our feet in a bit. Didn't help in warming us up though.



There, a clearer picture!



Ahhh the folks are posing



And uhh so am i...



Haha oops, couldn't resist again! A turkish cat!! haha



The ruins of a roman empire...



The panaromic view from the top...



And that's the FAKE trojan horse. The real one's in erm... can't remember. The guide was speaking too fast and my brain was frozen. There's dad and me peeking out from the second level, and some anonymous fella fro the top level. If you look closely, i've wrapped my scarf around my entire head, Istanbul style. Way too cold up there. The wind... ugh.. BBRRRR

Yep that's about it! =) GO VISIT TURKEY!

Turkey Trip (23rd December 2007 - 1st January 2008)

HELLOOOO i am BACK! From my Turkey trip! Yeah yeah funny place to go, but ah well. Somewhere exotic, and EXOTIC IT WAS!

Piece of advice for exotic goers: Bring maggie mee, thick clothing, loads of toilet/tissue paper, a travel pillow (one of those you can put around your neck and sleep on), a teaspoon/medicinal spoon for doh --> medicine, and perhaps a bed.

Okay i'm joking about the bed but seriously.

Right about the trip, thank goodness the scenery made up for everything, cause all else was... BAD! Really chilly weather, odd food, not-supposed-to-be-budget-but-really-is-budget hotels, funny service, equally funny water... you name it! Okay i'm sorry, i'm not criticing Turkey. It's a great place really. Very historically and culturally memorable, but to live there and eat there, WHOA, had i been there for more than 10 days, i think i wouldn't have made it out alive. As it is, i already fell sick. Just the normal stuff --> cough, flu, fever. But the sore throat is ONE OF A KIND. The worse one i've ever got in my entire life. My entire throat was like.. ooo ahhh gahhh *cough* I know how it started. The weather was very dry and cold, and i was shivering like mad, obviously due to the LACK OF CLOTHES.

This i blame the MOTHER. Haha nah not really, but really. Nah, but it IS her. I said, "Mummy, better bring more clothes, especially since i'm a sum po kia (skinny, scared of cold, kid)." Mum replied,"No la! Don't need! Short sleeves and one jacket can already. It's ONLY going to be slightly above 10 degrees."

HAH! SLIGHTLY ABOVE 10 DEGREES MY COLD BUTT!! It went down to negative 3 degrees! *shiver shiver* So yeah, the weather made my throat very uncomfortable. And the Turkish food is extremely unhealthy! It's all fried! Chicken kebabs, fried fish, potato strips etc. Alright they're very nice, BUT still bad for the throat. And their soup plus salads! They're either too bland, or too sweet -.- Did i mention Turkish people have a VERY sweet tooth? Yep, try the Turkish delights.

Oh yeah, talking about Turkish delights, sorry guys, i only brought back a few, and everyone has to share, cause guess what? RIGHHT! I ran out of money there. Everything's SOOO expensive! And the currency Lira, is almost 1-1 with the US dollar! Whoa the standard of living there is extremely high and pricey! So ah, my family didn't spend much. We didn't even buy anything for ourselves. All we got were souvenirs for friends and family, then we ran out. The toilets there are costly as well. And because my throat was so dry, we had to get a cup of tea (which is considered the cheapest possible thing there in Turkey at every pit stop. Come the last 3 days, all of us suffered, cause we couldn't even buy water (water there is very dirty, so we have to buy bottles), considering how painful our dehydrated throats were already. On the shopping day, everyone bought loads of stuff, and the KOH family was the only one who sat at Macs and stared at each other since we had no money to purchase anything. -.- Zzzzz

Moving on to the hotels. They were all 4 star hotels, but totally lousy. As what one family said, "They are 4 star budget hotels la!" The water is rusty. RUSTY! As in the bathing water that is. The shower heads are all cracked, and it's so... arghh! Even if there was hot water, which there WASN'T, all you wanna do is jump into the shower, sprinkle water on yourself, who cares about soaping and scrubbing, and jump out. Which was erm, precisely what i did. BUT i bathed properly when i got back to Singapore ALRIGHT? Stop giving me that look. I know you are!!

Number 2: The heaters in the hotel rooms were not working as well, so well, you know how cold it gets in the nights. So yeahhh, BRRRR??

Number 3: The last hotel we went to, was called "Cartoon Hotel". And honestly, cartoon by name, cartoon by nature. Why? CAUSE THE BEDS COLLAPSE WHILE YOU ARE ON THEM! Yep! I was sleeping on it, and suddenly i found myself sliding down and at the foot of the bed. So i exchanged beds with my dad, and almost immediately, the poor dazed guy found himself plonked on the floor. I gave him back the bed and slept with my mum instead. Tight squeeze but ahh, so warm. =)

Number 4: ROAARRR the service AHHHH slap slap! The service is so bad. My mum was so piqued! It seemed that for the very reason that we are Asians, we were not treated as well as the Caucasians, so the waiters constantly cleared our plates very quickly without asking, even when it was obviously obviously even to the dumb that we were not done yet. And by the way, teaspoons are almost non-existent in Turkey. We could hardly find one to borrow when we needed one to take our medicine with. Even when we did, communication was such a hurdle that most often that not, we estimated a teaspoon and poured medicine from the bottle into our mouths. Yes don't try that at home children. You might get drugged. We didn't have stirrers either, so we used the ends of our toothbrush to stir our tea and milo. Yeah yeah yeah. -__-

BUT HEY! The scenery was BEAUTIFUL! Word are not enough to describe i. There is so much HISTORY in Turkey! In both the Asian and European continents! OOooo And of course, we learnt a lot about it in our UGC courses. The Hellenistic ages, the nomads, Alexander the Great, Troy, the Turks, the battles... So mach CULTURE and STORIES and ooo... AHHH

All i can say is, you HAVE to visit Turkey at least ONCE in your life. It's a life experience. Really. But once is enough. Really as well. =D I'll post a few pictures up the next time alright? A little tired now. All that medication is making me real drowsy. I walked straight into the balcony door earlier on, thinking that it was open. -.- Mum laughed til her face ached. Grumble. -.-

Night everyone! =)

ps: i'll show you turkish dogs and cats as well okay? Funny eh, how Turkey is 99.9 percent Muslim, yet the Muslims there take in dogs and care for them as well! Different cultures i guess. But the animals there are so tame and adorable! Hee!! =) happy

23rd December 2007

Okay so the results for the last semester is out! And simply by the grace of God, and Him alone, i somehow got a B+ for COM 337 (Communications theory). I was sick that day so i did really badly for that one, not to mention that due to my extremely wrong immune system, i was late for the exam. A whole HALF HOUR! zzzz

Moving on, i didn't do too badly overall. But i refuse to remain a B or B+ student. I must, and WILL, get As along the way. Yep, work harder, play less, erm haha eat less and exercise more too! =) SO help me!

Anyway, i'm off for a family holiday (ahhh happy) and will be away during Christmas and New Year's, but look for me after that when i'm back alright? See you guys!

A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

God bless all of you

*hug* =)

love, loisa

5th November 2007

WHOOT! 3 exams are over and done with!

COM 337 and NUTRITION,

HERE I COME!

*cries*

Dear Lord, bless me with SLEEP! and CONCENTRATION! and LOVE for YOU and YOU ALWAYS! -grin

In Jesus' name i pray,

AMEN!!!

24th November 2007

Do you think i'm a killer? I think i am. What do i do about it? Oh no!

I've been cranky since last night, so today i decided to let all that maniac out. I saw a couple of mimosas or touch-me-nots at my granddad's place today. Are they really called touch-me-nots, or is my mum pulling my leg again?

Whatever the case, i almost killed a couple of them. I was playing with them with child-like fascination, continuously poking them when i realized they no longer opened. OOO so mad!!

Out of guilt, i had a moment of silence, 5 minutes. Said a little prayer for them just in case, and opened my eyes. They were open! I had even been tricked by mother nature!!

Ooo maddening!! I started stomping all over the pavement today, full of anger and wrath, and my killer instincts came out again. The all mighty Loisa stood in the middle of the road, all ready to ROAR with belligerance, probably attack a few drivers with acrimony, strike out with asperity at innocent bystanders... ... ... ...

When i felt the wind in my hair.

Immediately, Loisa turned all graceful like, and struck a post, still in the middle of the road. Her arms lifted above her gracefully, she smiled an oscar winning smile, and her hair twirled behind her, like the atumn leaves falling around her... ... ...

THEN

*BEEP BEEEP BEEEPPPP*

Oh well. My mum was tired of staring at my antics. I didn't even noticed she was back in the car.

Ah well. The randomness of loisa. I'm obviously off today. VERY off. zzzzz

KEN

oh but wait! There's one happy thing!! GRIN HEH HEH

Jocelyn just came back from Japan, and she bought me a picture of...

OOOOMMMMGGGGG everybody scream now....

KEN!!! Miyake Ken from V6! hehehehehehe

Yep so heh heh. He's kinda staring at me from the table so... that makes my day! wahahahaha

grin

THANK YOU JOCE! -hug-