Pebbles

Alright so for your entertainment,

i'll upload some pictures showing my progress with training my dog. I'm currently teaching her how to pass the ball back to me, and how to dance. She sometimes sings to the radio as well but i didn't train her to do that. In fact i'd love to train her to STOP, but nevermind.

The Cha-Cha



The Singing



The Howling



The Ball (Note again: Gotta stop the music cause this video caught my voice as well

Guinea PIg

Today i saved a guinea pig. Apparently, an old lady was carrying it when it flew off the balcony of a HDB flat and landed on a branch of a nearby tree. Don't ask me how it flew. The only possible reason was that the old lady flung it but never mind. She said it flew, so okay, it flew. Maybe it's one of those flying squirrels, same goes for the guinea pig. When it opens up its arms, there's a blanket like thingy which helps it fly. New species of guinea pig.

ANYWAY, the point it, i swung (yes i swung, not flew) from the balcony, somersaulting into the air like those trapeze acts, and landed on the branch. It's a thick branch by the way. Okay so i didn't somersault, but i really did swing like tarzan so i could reach the tree. It's 2 stories high by the way, so i wouldn't plummet to my death or anything if i had missed. But usually i don't miss. I'd like to think I'm talented enough not to miss. Haha but i'm not. I'm just lucky. But i didn't think of possible consequences at that point of time. So i picked up the pig and stuffed it into my shorts. There was no pockets. Where else could i put it? Certainly not in my mouth. It was wriggling a lot and i think it made a hole in my pants so yeah well. Can sew it.

After i smartly got the pig, i realized i could not possibly swing myself back to the HDB flat. Fantastic right? So who were called to save ME? Fire brigade. GEEZ. BUT thank goodness, while the old lady was making the call, i decided to try to climb down. And somehow i managed it, scraping my knee a bit. Hmm I'm quite good at climbing down trees.

I think i know why. Mum explained it to me before. I can climb down from anywhere very well. But i can rarely climb UP. That's cause i was trained from young. Dad used to put me on branches at botanical gardens etc. But he always forgot to take me down. And then he'll disappear to drink kopi or something. So in order to survive, i had to learn how to climb down. I'm like a backward monkey. I can hug things and slide down very well, but my legs aren't long enough to go up. Maybe that's why I'm terrible at rock climbing. My backside is simply too heavy to lift up and go UP. But my abseiling is like whooaaa... haha... Okay granted that i usually slip off the platform before i am ready to abseil but that's' another story.

Alright enough of the musings of loisa. I just wanted to blog about how the dooms day of a guinea pig was turned into live day.

oh here's a picture of a guinea pig that looks similar to the one i saved.

25th October 2008

Great so i am officially wide awake after drinking more sabah tea. I was so absolutely tired when i get home, but my parents were busy so i had to wait for them to be done before i could wash up and sleep. Thus, the tea.

Since i can't sleep now, but am in no mood to do my reflection paper, i shall blog about today.

Guess what? Today was the UB Masked Party. Yep, at Zouk. (i finally got the name right yay!)

Jane, Christine and i went down REALLY early, and stared into the air til people started arriving. Then we nearly died perspiring to death. We've really got to thank Christine for staying with us. So anyway, it was tough. REALLY tough getting people to take pictures. They just simply didn't want to pay 3 bucks for it! But oh well. We tried, we truly did. And we took so many pictures on our own. -_-

So.. my first and probably last experience of entering a club.

- Had to check ID. -.-
- very dark. But i glowed, cause i wore white. interesting.
- Cannot see anyone. foggy. Kept tripping
- Loud music, headache. At first it made me tap my feet, but after a while the beat was a bit too much for my weak heart
- DEAFENING. btw, i'm STILL deaf. So don't talk to me for the next few days. I can't hear.
- i simply can't dance.
- i simply can't drink either. Taste doesn't appeal to me.

Anyway some people were quite kind =) I know they took pictures because we asked.. Really kind thank you all so much =))

Okay, I've got nothing else to say, so I'll just post pictures.



Jane took this for me when we were testing out the camera =)



Jane, Christine and Me! I love this one =)



I like this one too! Hahaha guess who's in the same school and council as me? Jane Leong! GRIN



Okay this is one of Gerard and me. Somehow we were conned into taking one, but since we did, i wanted one too! haha thank you Gerard. Haha he paid for it for mee GRIN

And now for the finale...



THAT IS PRETTY JANE! Can't you recognize her? Oh you can't see? Okay yeah. You can SOOO tell who took it. Yours truly. That is why, Jane was the one in charge of the camera today. I am obviously not a good photographer.

23rd October 2008

It is now 7.30pm only and i'm falling asleep while standing. zzzz Tough week man! Really pushes you, but everything was done on time, and to the best of my abilities, so yay! haha

Oh guess why i'm standing? Cause i fell asleep in my soup on the table. So i took away the chair hoping i'd keep awake if i'm standing. Ha YEAH RIGHT should have known better. So now i'm typing while waiting for krystel's email then i can start work! =)

My sabah tea is brewing. Yeah i finally opened the packet and tried it. I've been procrastinating. Thank goodness it hasn't expired. Couldn't bear to look at it for.. WAHHH 10 months what the... I'm pathetic man. Haha but ANYWAY, it's DAMM GOOD. You guys should try it! I'll make a cup for you if there's any left after tonight at the rate i'm drinking haha.

Keeps me awake. For like 5 minutes. So i've been drinking every 10 minutes. Yeah, i'm on my third teabag now. And to think that 2 cups of tea can be made from one teabag. SO... there are 17 bags left. Cool! Enough to last til like 4, 5 am?

Sigh...

OO goodie! Just received Krys's email! BACK TO WORK! See ya people! =)

ps: this was posted so late cause i was so kan chiong that i forgot to click "publish post". alamak

14th October 2008

WELL

Council isn't quite working out to be well, erm, fulfilling? Or rather, it's kind of demoralizing. As in we don't seem to be able to help much, or that we're not really needed, so it's a bit zzz. We'll see how it turns out. Macham running around queensway to try and get things done fast then in the end, aiyoo.

tsk tsk.

Gotta remember to borrow shirt from jane on friday. No wait she doesn't have school. Thursday. Jane! If you're reading this, remind me to remind you.

Oh about today's critical thinking class, ZZZZZ. Michelle, cherie, and i were totally zzzz when he went through our mid term answers. Haha... He's an odd lecturer seriously. But class today was quite fascinating. The student advisor plus kevin came down to sit in.

Ummmkay. Nothing much to blog about. SEE PEOPLE? I have nothing to blog about! haha blogging sometimes normal is borrringgg... haha

6th October 2008

Hey so guess what?

Today my oh so loving parents drove off to dinner without me. As in they got into the car, drove off, and left me standing there in the basement carpark. -_-

Picture this.

A family of three walks out of the lift and toward their family car.

Dad unlocks the front two doors and gets into the driver's seat.

Mum gets into the passenger seat.

Kid jingles the door knob, grumbling to mum that dad didn't open ALL the doors AGAIN.

Mum doesn't answer, shuts the door.

Dad starts ignition, and drives off.

Kid runs after the car.

Security guard realizes what happens and chases the car, and knocks the boot.

Dad drives the car away, leaving a pile of rising dust behind him. (okay i exaggerated the pile of dust portion)

Picture the after effect.

Kid frantically calls mum on handphone.

Realizes basement carpark has no reception.

Runs all the way up the the first floor and calls mum again.

Mum's phone is switched off. Battery must have gone flat.

Parents have yet to realize kid is not in the car with them.

Parents drive all the way to the market to eat. They get out of car, and finally realize kid is missing.

End of story.

Fantastic eh? Fantastic.

30th September 2008

Alright, so i guess we're going to the zooo/zouk place for the UB bash. I wonder what our duties will be when we get there. Pretty happy though haha, since we get a discount for the sweatshirt since we're in the council. Cool =) Buy more. HAHA no lar...

We'll be working very hard for the council too... SIGH...

Anyway Jane bought our masks for us!!

In addition to showing me the masks, she wanted to show her very ultra cool webcam... *turns green with envy*

Here's what she did on the webcam!!









And the ultimate...

Bored

Okay for those in UB who might happen to miss us in Singapore... -.- haha





Hee

F1 in Singapore 2008

so i went to watch the F1. And i'm too lazy to let you on about the experience, so i'll let the pictures entertain you. Gotta study anyway... It was extremely deafening by the way. And oh yeah, i didn't actually have tickets to watch it at the grand stand. We sneaked to dad's office to watch it.

The beautiful view...

The Race Track (it might be blur cause i had to zoom in from the 28th floor)

Another picture of the track... Oh and that little blur you see in the middle of the picture is the leading car at that point of time. Ferrari if i remember correctly...

Yeah okay, dad snapped a picture of mum and me. We were quite annoyed cause we wanted to watch the race... So i put it up here to prove i was there hahaa

This one too. See? It was so loud that the man (a volunteer) had to stuff earphones into his ears)

There, some videos for you to enjoy. =)





You won't believe what i had to climb and stand on just to take this video. Sorry i had to zoom in during the video itself. I didn't want to miss anything so i quickly started the recording.



Oh for the last video, the racers are slowing down cause it's the end already; thus, the applause and stuff. =)

28th September 2008

Update on the cruellas who live beside me! (Note to those who do not know, the Cruellas are my neighbors who hate my dog.)

Anyway, about a month back, they got themselves a dog. HA! Such a joke. They hate dogs so much, they poured hot water through our shared balcony at my darling Pebbles. Then they get a dog of their own. NONSENSE.

For about two weeks, they've been verbally abusing their own puppy. THey constantly scream at it whenever it howls. Mind you, it's a pitiful howl. What do you expect? It's a PUPPY in a NEW ENRIVONRMENT. Give it some love man!

Well after those two weeks, i never heard a sound from the puppy again. Just today, we bumped into our neighbors. Guess what we found out? It seems tat they're sueing the pet shop where they got that puppy from. WHY? Cause their puppy died. -_- It was 3 months old, and it died within two weeks the moment it went to their home.

SEE???

And she has actually had the nerve to ask if i wanted her doggie food and whitening chemicals to keep the fur coat of the dog white. CRAZY. I think that's what killed her puppy. HELLO, 3 months old puppy. CANNOT EAT DRY WHOLE FOOD. It has to drink milk. THEN you pound the pellets and mix it with the milk. ZZZZ. And at such a young age, isn't it dangerous to bathe your tiny frightened puppy in whitening chemicals??

That woman is insane i tell you. Poor puppy. She cannot have a dog. She shouldn't have a dog. I know this is what, critical thinking, "moral obligation" or something. BUT STILL. She does weird things and then she sues everyone. Did i mention that she raised hell at AVA about my Pebbles, saying that pebbles is abused because she keeps barking at her? IT IS BECAUSE YOU THREW HOT WATER AT MY DOG DUMB DUMB.

okay fed up. Right nevermind. I'm done with my ranting and comments. ZzzzZZZzzz

Fire Drill September 2008

ZZZ PANT PANT PANNNNTT

So you get the idea.

I'm back from my excursion... I fought the fire bravely, with a mini extinguisher, which was SUPERBLY heavy by the way. I was given a fireman's hat by one of the Malay fireman. Heee souvenir.

And yeah i was cheapskate. I walked round to EVERY block on my estate to get free drinks... hahahah cause they had a box of packet drinks at every lobby.

AND OMG the fire alarm is ONE KIND OF PIERCING. Both pebbles and i hid in the bomb shelter.

"MAY DAY MAY DAY!!"

And there was SMOKE can... CHOKE. ZZZZ not fire smoke, BBQ SMOKE! People were bbq-ing during a fire drill!!!!

NONSENSE. haha but yep that was my experience. Anyone needs any questions answered about evacuation plans? I have them all! hahahaa

alright that's it. Off to dinner! Finally get to use the lift.

ps: I died around 14th floor. I couldn't walk up the rest of the flights of stairs. SO i cheated. I waited for the lift to start then i rode it back up to my floor.

September 21 2008

Alright stab me people. Kill me. Drown me. Inject me. Okay no, don't inject me. I hate needles.

Anyway, later I'm gonna exercise. Not voluntary of course, but very much unwillingly due to the command by my management downstairs. There's gonna be a fire drill in a few hours time. Everyone is required to participate, including wheelchair bound citizens. Unless you're not at home, every living thing is required to WALK DOWN THE STAIRS and congregate at the lobby. Pets included. Plants not. They can rot and die in our smoking houses. -_-

And in case you were unaware, i live on the 21st story. WALKING DOWN 21 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS CARRYING A BARKY DOG IS NOT MY IDEA OF A CALMING RESTFUL SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Walk down never mind. Must carry dog and walk back upstairs, cause the lifts will not restart til 3 hours later. I do not intend to waste 3 hours of my life talking to neighbors. If they were nice neighbors maybe. But horrible neighbors? No way...

My thighs had better be thin after this, and my calves muscular. ha.

Okay ha ha i sound like one of those grumpy old ladies... Alright will update you on how i fare later.

I have this odd feeling I'll climb down a few stories, change my mind, climb back up, and hide in my room while the red bulls or red rhinos break into random homes to check for illegal immigrants like me who refuse to participate in necessary fire drills.

ah well. toodle loo! Later alligator! =D

7th September 2008

Story of the Week (might be of the Month since i'm so ultra busy)

The Attack by the BABY Praying Mantis (emphasis: BABY)

"i was happily eating macdonalds and it POOF quite hard into my right cheek, i swat it and swing my hands madly at the UFO. then it landed at my eye level near me and was like ready to box me la, you know like some martial arts stance... then i blew it away and it won't go away la. it came back and landed on my drink and it flew near my face again, i scream and it lands on my shirt, i flick and it lands on the floor. then my bf squished it"

(Howe, J. 2008)

So people, the moral of this real life experience teaches you how to handle the future VICIOUS babiy praying mantis you might meet in time to come...

Learn. Execute. Victory.

30th August 2008

Alright people. SO i'm kinda in trouble here. During the holidays, i borrowed tons of books from all numerous libraries, and i mean TONS. Toa payoh library, National library, Tampines library, Queenstown library, Bukit Merah library, Bedok library, Bukit Panjang library... Goodness knows how many libraries i've been to!! And i was so greedy, that i upgraded my library card to the premium membership, which entitles you to borrow 8 books at a time. Not only did i upgrade mine, i upgraded my mum's too! So i could borrow 16 books!! But there's a reason for this - my granddad's card is no longer in use since he passed away, so...

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.

24th August 2008

Alright although the date this post is posted on is 24th... it's about 23rd August.

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! >.<

Nevermind company was lovely enough. I love you girls!

Yeah well, mum and i were bored, so we decided to play with the web cam i bought from Jane. Interesting. We didn't know it was possible to take pictures/videos of YOURSELF, without CONNECTING to anyone else. So yep, what else can two bored people do but experiment with functions?



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

OKAY great. I am now panicking.

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.

13th August 2008

okay quite happy. We got all our results back and we didn't do too badly =D

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

swensons

oh yeah, after that darnn advertising exam.. here's where we landed up!

9th August 2008

okay i am drunk. just drank some alcohol in the fridge cause i thought it was water and i was dehydrating. this post has no real purpose, except for myself to see how drunk i am tomorrow morning, when i wake up with a splitting headache and puffy eyes. just talked to gary on msn and i don't know what rubbish i came up with. which reminds me, i saw some rubbish downstairs, in this huge paper bag thing. then i realized it's actually soil in it. i think they were replanting the plants. for what purpose i don't know, when all the dogs will just dig everything up again. besides, it's unhealthy for the dogs because they use fertilizers. and they don't need fertilizers when the dogs poo are enough. there've been some really inconsiderate people in my condo these days. they simply don't pick up their dog poo. speaking of dogs, i have to a revelation today. the smaller the dogs, the more barky they are, and more defensive they are, they more agressive they are. like my dog, like chi hua huas. probably to make up for their size? the bigger they are, the more mild they are.

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.