Saturday, August 30, 2008
30th August 2008
But alright, i admit it. I overdid it. However, i REALLY could read that many books at that time, except now that school has started, i uhh well, have too many books on my hand and i can't exactly finish reading them. HOW?
Whatever the case, it prompted me to add this little section to my blog, under tagboard. In it states the books i am reading at the moment, and i hope that you'll be inspired to read books as well, this goes mainly to Angel. Hahaha (sniggers). >.<
Oh just an introduction... I borrowed the last two books on my list (by Mary Higgins and Mitch Albom) from Angel, and they're not too bad. If you want to read them too, ask her alright? AND OOOHHHH you've so GOTTA read Kite Runner. Initially i wanted to get the book, since it was listed as one of the 100 greatest books or something (in one of my older posts), but i forgot all about it til Cherie herself borrowed it from the library. It IS available in the libraries by the way. I got mine from Toa Payoh, but i'll probably return it at Queenstown, if you wanna travel all the way to that ulu place.
AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE LIBRARY AT CLEMENTI TO OPEN. I am so gonna be a regular there! =D
Right okay so well, i HIGHLY recommend Kite Runner. It's a bit heavy, as in it's so dramatic and sad, that i simply couldn't read it in a day. But it's really good. In fact i'm intentionally gonna fine myself cause mum wants to read it too, so it's definitely gonna be overdued when i return it. But yeah, do read it! I'll let you know what other books are good along the way alright? Let me get the remaining 14 books in my house out of the way first.
(HUGE SIGH)Yeah yeah, do not comment on my incorrigible habit.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
24th August 2008
In the afternoon, my whole family accompnied me to get my beloved camera, and finally I HAVE MY OWN CAMERA. I'm gonna be a professional photographer like AMELIA!! hahahaa whoots!
right.. my hard earned money. I've been working like nuts last semester and during the holidays. Telemarketer, writer, editor, admin, tuition, baby sitting, wash car, real estate, runner, overnight queuer, COOK! You name it. Whew... no wonder i was so tired everyday, but it was worth it =)
And now, i'm broke. So no going out this semester. I gotta get my 3.7 GPA! Yeah right. Let's stick to 3.6. Scrap that. Let's do 3.5 okay? haha okay nevermind. I'll just do my best and i'll be proud of that grade.
Oh yeah, back to 23rd. I got my camera, after loads of calls to Amelia, cause she's the only one who knows anything about them, and i'm a total idiot when it comes to these stuff.
And tada, in the night, it was FIREWORKS with my beautiful girlfriends! Angel darling, amelia sweetheart, and dear o' wei lian. Too bad kim couldn't make it. Next time girl! =D And knowing us, the outing HAD to be a dramatic one -- with rain. So we sat outside the esplanade on newspapers and plastic bags, holding umbrellas. Yeah a little pathetic. Not as grand as i thought it'd be. But hey, with friends, how bad can it be? Poor amelia was running up and down in the rain adjusting and fussing over her camera. I took pictures too! Yeah but you know, obviously my pictures wouldn't be as beautiful as hers! >.<
Monday, August 18, 2008
Alright family picture of mum, dog and me! Dad's out jogging, IN THE RAIN, right now, so i'll get another later...

(25 minutes later... Dad comes home!)
18th August 2008
Kenneth and i went for the job fair on 16th August, wait a minute. We THOUGHT it was the 16th August. Instead, it was the 15th August! Huge idiots we were. Total waste of time. Why? Cause the fair starts on 16th! But evidently we got our dates wrong -_- Haha no matter, we met with Kai after that.
Interesting session with soft toys. Heart pain for Kai. He kept trying to win toys at the arcade, but i must have jinxed him or something. And after that, when we visited mini toons (or some toy shop), i eagerly reached out for one specific cute toy and alamak, everything on the shelf came out, so i pushed them back. How was i to know there was no BACKING to the shelf, so everything fell out the other way. Geez. Kenneth ran out of the shop laughing, leaving Kai and me there, embarrassed to death. In the end, we gave up putting the toys back, and just sneaked out.
Okay back to the job fair, which i still wanted to check out. I am after all graduating next year, and SHOOT! I have nothing in mind. No direction, no goals, no aim, no... idea. No specialization either. Jia lact. No particular strength as well. DEAD.
Anyway, William asked me along on the TRUE 16th August, so i went. It was pretty interesting. Was quite happy cause i realized Mediacorp has quite a few interesting job scopes.
BUT NOW, my hopes, my dreams, my LIFE, is dashed. Hahaha okay not so dramatic. What i mean is, i'm not so sure if i can enter the working force properly or not. Next year i'm 19. The legal age for CPF funds or something like that, is 21. And when i just did this DISC report thign on the net, its requirements were for the individual to be aged 21 and above, plus have a minimum of 4 O levels. I don't care, although i'm not 21, i just did it. A consultant will call me up after that. How ah? Aiya whatever.
Sigh... Help! Start praying like mad now.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
13th August 2008
CELEBRATIONS! with ASPIRATIONS! Or something along those lines. It's a song, but can't remember the exact lyrics.
Anyway, I'm happily down with the fever and flu, so now that it's gone down a little, I'm quickly blogging before i forget.
Kenneth and i sent Eileen and Jia Zhen off on 11th august, to the airport that is. Sniff sniff. Their luggage are scary. Ha ha and Eileen's hand carry bag is WHOA super heavy!! How to hand carry? Her arms will be very toned when she gets back. I hope their birthday presents come into good use! =D
Watched brokeback mountain, atonement and my fair lady, in that exact order. Mum was wondering why there were so many sexual references but she had fun. Gah mums who have menopause... well.... you get my point.
My birthday this year was very relaxed. Different from other years, but it wasn't that unpleasant. =) Spent time with family at home, albeit a grumpy family -_- But i played with doogie! heh, and talking about dogs, the cruellas next door (my neighbors who hate pebbles) got a DOG! WHOOA like HUHHH?? This will get interesting.
Oh yeah anyway angel gave me mama mia cookies! Ha ha comfort food. Kept eating until sore throat; serves me right i guess. And i had a birthday lunch with Jane and Cherie! Happy!! They know how to get to my heart, ha ha through my stomach. Actually everyone does. This is not good.
But let me tell you more about the brilliant orgasmic potato i had for lunch that day at Jack's Place. OMMMGGG i forgot how much i love that potato, with the SOUR CREAM, the BACON BITS... and OOOHHHH! I died and went to heaven.
Thank you everyone! <3 *SMOOSH*
Ps: Jocelyn, Eileen, Jia Zhen, Steph! 4 months plus is soo long. Can't wait for you guys to come back in January!
Next semester will be interesting. Wonder who our lecturers (except for mr. bob -.-) and classmates will be. We'll all make new friends i guess! =D
Saturday, August 09, 2008
9th August 2008
and you know, about size.. miss gan told us today about a girl in GB who's really small, like me. She's probably smaller than me now though, but it seems she's very self-conscious about it. i think it's sad. i mean, i hate people judging me by how small i am, as in i don't mind teasing, but not in the offensive side. you may say i'm small, but don't say i'm childish. you know? negative connatations? but my point is, she's REALLY upset about it. and i think "poor girl". people have probably been teasing her about it. and i wanna help her. being small isn't all that bad. in fact, i'm beginning to love my smallness. i mean hey, that's me! and i can say with pride that though i'm small, i can do great things. such as... okay. i don't know. you tell me guys! =)
anyway, did you know my dog's growing bigger? she's so timid, but big. my shorts are big too. i'm sad. i can't wear them properly anymore. i've lost my appetite since i started on this "sick every two weeks" routine. so i think i'm eating less, less carbo definitely. perhaps i've lost weight, or my clothes have expanded, cause now i have to tighten my belt a lot! and the front is so crinkled. i'm thinking the clothes singapore makes are ridiculous. Loisa's conclusion -->
If they're too tight, they crumple.
If they're too loose, they crinkle.
either way, bottoms rarely look good on me now. and speaking of bottoms, there's this fish at the bottom on the pond at my place. it looks dead. but dead fish float right? upside down right? they don't sink, do they? maybe tomorrow i'll go poke it, see if it's alive. the last time i put my hand in, the catfish tried to bite me though. cause me to step back and slip into the opposite pond. mmm duckweed doesn't taste nice.
ooo my dog's nose is cold. i'm tired. washing's done now. i'm gonna fold clothes and sleep. bye world.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
zzz
okay i am quite upset. i have an exam tomorrow and now i'm too upset to be studying, and in a way i'm kinda blaming my mum. is it wrong?
i feel her job is consuming her. I mean it's fine, i'm grown, i can handle it on my own. I don't even need her to fetch me from school. I can make my own meals, i study on my own.
BUT, it becomes an issue when everything she forgets, becomes my fault, because she doesn't recall it, and therefore, i did not tell her.
1) i don't even care about my birthday. i mean, not that i don't care, but it isn't necessary for the family to like throw a party, or give me presents. but my mum INSISTS on having a family dinner for me, and she was so excited about it. So i felt touched, and became excited too. So they said they couldn't make it on 8th, i said fine, 9th or 10th. I have plans on 8th anyway, and i was telling her how plans were constantly changing and that i was a little frustrated with it. and just now, while planning my schedule, i just asked if the dinner was 9th or 10th And she can tell me," you tell me lar. you always changing your plans." So i was like huh? My plans are always on the 8th, nothing to do with 9th or 10th. So in the midst of studying, i got annoyed, and shot back (not even impatiently but perhaps my words weren't nice enough?).
"huh, i thought you couldn't decide on 9th or 10th? you said 9th maybe shouldn't cause of ndp."
Wahh, then because of that, she went "I DIDN'T SAY BECAUSE OF NDP. I said because of national day!!! You keep changing your plans.. SO NOW WHAT? You want 9th or 10th??"
I was quite annoyed by then, cause she keeps denying stuff, and say i don't tell her properly. She herself forgets, then shoot it back at me. But i have learnt my lesson, i feel i have become a better person because i have learnt not to argue. Instead, i force everything down, and said...
"okay, i will not argue. Which day will be more convenient for you?"
i thought this was quite nice already. she still not happy, said i have a very patronizing tone. IN what way? the, "okay i will not argue?" i REFUSE to say "okay, which day will be more convenient for you" simply because that means i am wrong and she is right. That to be, is simply unjust. and i am tired of ALWAYS being in the wrong. Sometimes, i doubt myself, and upon reflection, realize i was rude or etc. But in this case, and others of course, it is just ridiculous. She's simply deleting whatever i said.
there is a difference between respect, elders, filial piety, and unjust accusations.
2) she says picking me up after school every day is a token of affection. I would certainly agree. HOWEVER, if it is going to take up so much of her time, which leads to her being grumpy, and consistently FORGETTING EVERYTHING i tell her cause she's always in the rush, WHAT IS THE POINT? i would rather take the bus home on my own. It makes no difference. Cause everytime i wait for her at the atrium, it takes so long, the time for me to go home by public transport is sometimes faster. AND it saves petrol if i take the bus. so why bother? what's the point, really? if it only makes everyone so unhappy?
I'm so so so upset as i'm typing this. I hate having bad blood between mum and me. i gave up communication with dad, cause it's really no use. At least he gave up on me too, so i don't have to constantly fight with him.
Sigh nevermind. After prayer tonight, we'll all cool off. Have a good night everyone!
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
6th August 2008
Us. Right.
ZZZZZZ
Advertising in. Advertising out.
This is what the exam's all about.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
30th July 2008
Thank you Lord.
*Heavy dramatic sigh* am doing my powerpoint presentation now... SIGH again... snore...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
29th July 2008
My point is.. I TOOK A fuhhrigging CAB! And it was extremely expensive. Haha Eileen said it's not too bad, but i just can't accept that anyone will pay over 15 dollars for a ride home. It's like, the cost of two movie tickets or 150,000 fishballs or 75,000 meat balls! OOMMMGGG
Okay but since it's for audrey, i did it. =))
Now never again. And the uncle was whoa, F1 racer. He was driving at 120 km/hr. I think i would have fainted in the car, had i not been so afraid he'll drive me to some place other than my home. Why? Cause he's partially deaf, and his comfortable language is Chinese. Soo.. you can guess and imagine the conversation we had when i first got into the cab.
Loisa: Uncle, Mount Sinai Rise.
Uncle: Ha? Simi??
Loisa: Si what? Mount Sinai Rise. Ulu pandan na pian.
Uncle: HAH? Wo ting bu dao.
Loisa: UUULLLUUU PAN-DDDDAAANNN!!
Uncle: Orh, ghim moh na bian ah?
Loisa: Si si.
Uncle? HAH??
Loisa: DUI GHIM MO NA LI!
-cab ride-
Uncle: xiao jie, zhuan ze bian ah?
Loisa: ha? BU SHI BU SHI! Ni...
Uncle: ni yao qu boon lay?!
Loisa: WHHHATT?? Nono, ni zi zou.. dao na ke... shan? (translation: you go straight, to that hill.)
Uncle: Zi bian ah?
Loisa: ah. Then ni zuan you, no zhuan zuo, no zuan.... turn left LEFT!
Uncle: Aiyo.
I'm not taking a cab anytime soon. Gotta stick to cheeep public transport.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
19th July 2008
Decided to take pictures with cousins and family (aunts and uncles) cause seriously, how often do i get to see them? No, the important question is, how often do we look this good? Haha if i'm in the mood, after i've got some sleep (had around 3 hours of sleep last night), i'll post some pretty pictures.
Mama Kong Kong! Did you see the wedding? You were there right? I could feel you guys.. G looked gorgeous! And as much as i refuse to admit it, cause he's taken my cousin away, Victor is kinda nice. And he loves her. I wanna play with their baby. I hope they'll let me =))
You first grandchild is now married mama kong kong! Soon it'll be my turn! Okay not that soon zzzz... Maybe i won't get married. haha i'll think about it.
Okay back to studying. Sigh, another day of little sleep. Really will sneeze and cough lungs out. Oh and guess what? The theme of the wedding was "popcorn", so... The food was different flavors of popcorn. SURE SORE THROAT! *cough*
=)) Anyway as out of place i felt, it was a happy occasion. =))
Thursday, July 17, 2008
17th July 2008
Anyway, we bumped into an asian dog and a caucasian boy. I say asian dog cause it's one SUPERBLY ugly cute chinese crest. And i say caucasian boy cause my mum said he's one. Obviously i didn't take notice of him at all, i was more interested in the dog. But somehow, when our dogs met, i was going ga-ga-goochi over the doggie, and my mum kept smiling idiotically at the boy. I was wondering why, but i couldn't see him clearly anyway.
Picture a boy with dark hair, black clothes, under the shadows of a tree, at 8.32pm in the night. Scary right? The dark knight. >.<
And yes, my mum was so eager to set me up that she checked the time and practically ordered me to go back to that tree again tomorrow at 8.32pm. Too bad i've got cell group! haha boys can wait. God first hahaha
Loisa: Why? He's very cute ah?
Mum: YESS GAHH Very... *shivers with glee* CUUUTEE!
Loisa: -_- as cute as his chinese crest dog?
Mum: YESS as cute as his... WHAT??!
Loisa: *humming as she walks off*
Mum: *muttering behind*
17th July 2008
I left the conversation with a clear conscience and on a nice note, and i am not going back.
But it's still sad, to me lar. That they are people out there who feel so sad and miserable about their lives, and therefore go out and ruin everyone else's lives whom are the opposites of them. I think it isn't fair to judge and make snide comments, but i don't think i was wrong to make the first tag in the first place. And i really did it in love, not in anger, not in arrogance, and certainly not to show I'm a saint, cause for goodness sake, I'm SOOOO far from a saint, it's laughable! Man if people call me a saint, it's probably the biggest compliment ever! =))
Anyway, i think the bottom line is that this silly person has effectively made me doubt myself. I know religion is a sensitive topic, and that is why i made sure never to push anyone, although churches always tell us to evangelize blah blah, but i try not to make anyone feel uncomfortable. And i thought i was saying it in love to a fellow sister and friend i truly care about, so BAH. Now i don't even dare to say God bless to anyone except family and cell group.
And as I'm typing this, I'm thinking, STUPID SATAN has put this doubt in me! I don't care. I'm going to carry on doing whatever i think is right. God will guide me. MY God. The ONE GOD I BELIEVE IN. So there. Putty.
Ha ha okay the last two fragments are so childlike, but it seemed so funny, for emphasis. Ha ha
Which leads me to think about something else. Rarely do i stand up for myself, nor get mad or even realize when people supposedly bully or make use of me. And when i do realize, i find it hard to counter attack. But, when my friends or family gets into trouble or are insulted, suddenly I'm able to do something, or at least feel something, like horrendous anger ha ha. Okay not so dramatic but something like that. Okay never mind. Dog just licked my face and i lost my train of thought.
Random babbling. Alright see ya... and Here's to everyone out there, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, free thinkers, whoever. GOD BLESS! From the bottom of Loisa's heart. I want the best for you, I'm not forcing you to accept my God. It's my way of wishing you well! Byee!! =)
Monday, July 14, 2008
14th July 2008
ANYWAY, he cleverly bought one on discount, and when he came home, he poked me in my eye, and asked me to go fix it. Clever man. Know how to buy, don't know how to put it together -_-
So i was Loisa, the builder, can we fix it?
Loisa, the builder, YES I CAN!
Yep, i did it. Hammered my finger but it happens haha. SO now it's done! Happy =)
IKEA's stuff are quite idiot proof. Very easy to fix. Yada! =))
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Top 100 Books
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ/(any other blog you have) so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
Here's my list anyway... =)
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
9th July 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
4th July 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
3rd July 2008
Anyway afternoon class was more fun. Well not during lesson of course, but after class! Cherie's new laptop has this webcam thing that has various hilarious backgrounds, so we took them all! Hahaha i'll show you a few of the pictures... Every single 1 of them is nice... I won't show all 22 of them!! Hahaha yes, that's how many we took, but i'll show you the real cracked up ones, plus a sweet one of us all! =)
Yep that's life in University at Buffalo, at SIM! Haha =)




