Sorry for the long hiatus!! I realise at the end of my last post, i promised photos from the

So the ISA ball was pretty small but it was good cos we had good company. Great time where all the Glenn and Chisholm ppl got to meet up and party it up too!

Let's start with our table..

Canadians- Logan, Alex, Shirley. HK: Kenneth. SG: Me, Min, Amanda. China: Kerry!



Photo of us girls from ex-glenn yay! 

There was more reason for us to go to ISA ball this year cos Ana's one of the organising members!

For the purpose of showing you my outfit, here's a photo (which I also love) of me and fellow Tan, Rachel :P It was my FB profile pic for quite some time hee.

And these are my accessories.. lilac/pink all the way!! :D Made those earrings myself.. but ring is bought from Diva.

Speaking of rings, kenneth managed to make this rose ring out of our napkins! SO PRETTY!

Ever pretty ring maker should get some credit. this is kenneth! haha

My 2 favourite girls here.. i like this photo of them! :D Manda and Kerry~

And one photo each with them below!

And hello alex, u made it to special ppl with special photo feature aha :P

(i doubt he reads this tho..)

Alrighty, enough about the ball, I was gonna write about ... Michelle Branch!! I can't believe how this all randomly played out, but Alex above has friends who are apparently all Michelle fans too. and well, I myself loovee her! So i started googling her recent work cos she has disappeared quite a while! I know from some time back that she was in a 2-pc band called "The wreckers" but they were SO low-profile that I had no idea what was going on there..

Soo.. as i was wiki-ing her. It seems, she is gonna release an album (possibly) next year, 2011! I'm excited for it and I hope it'll come through.. I've her "spirit room" and "hotel paper" album. both which i think are brilliant. Anyone knows where I can grab hold of her indie album "broken bracelet"?

But anyways, this is all really exciting, cos she's gone back to being a solo artiste, and I'd say that is when she's in her best element! We still have to wait for her work to be slowly released but in the meanwhile, i discovered this:



If you can't watch it, it's a collaboration between Michelle Branch and Timbaland. (view: http://youtu.be/MOqxFBKakD0) I guess many people might feel that Timbaland's beats just distract from her talent, but I kinda like the mix! AFter all, her music has always been a bit quirky.. and her melodies are always special (I don't know if i make sense if i say her songs are very "minor" and not "major" so it's all unpredictable!) So I don't think she could really go wrong.. besides, i'm pretty sure she wrote the lyrics for this song.. it was just produced by timbaland.. she was always a strong lyricist in my opinion!

I reckon this can totally tide me through till the next song I hear of Michelle's! :D

Btw, even though I consider my kinda music hip hop and r&b, i didn't really know much about timbaland. I do notice however, from his video "if we ever meet again" with Katy Perry, that he has a lot of quirky expression and is a screen-hogger. I suppose I see why some people would find that extremely annoying.. I would've! Except, i think he's kinda cute.. omg. WHY?!! am i crazy or do u agree... (oh no i can't handle the truth! lol)

baccckkk short update!

Been weeks or work after work, assignments and all that.. but finally last week we had a "rest" week.. well, at least no major tests or work due, so I joined our floor crawl... if anyone remembers, last year's floor crawl was AMAZING. fun hilarious whatnots. Soooo... i was gonna blog about that, but don't have so much time now.. but!! i've got previews..

That's most of my floormates this year in the TV room.

This is Ern, she's a junior from Sg also from my floor (: This year's floor theme is "around the world" so we were all assigned countries. She's obviously, from Italy! And I...

am from Mexico!! That's my team: Katrina, Hannah, Me and Jenna!

I'll be posting photos of great costumes and fun soon. so stay tuned! 

Oh, and see that hot pink skirt i got on? It's from Forever21!! Been shopping online recently and pooled orders with the Glennies to ship in stuff from F21! Got lotsa loot to share with everyone. Speaking of online shopping, I also learnt more about an awesome new web hangout called Jipaban! Looks fun and will totally try it out when I finally get my urgent work done! Another awesome portal to go to for amazing online shopping would be Reebonz ! Their advert is gonna be placed on my blog starting today.. and right now if u join, u might stand to win stuff from Kate Spade! They endeavour to bring u great deals on famous brands... it's great if you're a big fan of MiuMiu like me.. cos they'll have miumiu events almost every month if i'm not wrong! No harm joining cos u never know when u can get a good deal! Cy'all soon!

1st south Oscars and my own after party :P

Think i've mentioned earlier that my floor had an Oscars night... basically it was really our own 1st south awards night and it was aweeesommee!! Made the right choice to attend, i do pick and choose my events unfortunately, not as party crazy as most floor mates. but i still love them so (:

There was a barbie before event started. Kudos to Ben and BFG for dinner :P

Best barbie had in Oz, with steak (and wings later) on top of the usual sausage, onions and meat patties.

Rob, before he left for Pursa for his bday thing.

Look at all those drinks! Ha. And a bucket of punch. (that was constantly refilled. thirsty anyone?)

Margi and Ben, our awesome RAs on stage, about to start off the Oscars event.

Most everyone got an award. Some are mighty apt and others hilarious to say the least!

Me receiving my "Queen bee- you invited" award. Ben explaining that I've got heaps of people in my room all the time, now that's true. lol. also telling the story about how he forgot to invite me to my own floor bday celebration  XP (how tan do i look here!)

Ben, Joee, Me.

Me n margi~

Me and Alex, my next door neighbour~

Steph, she does podiatry too (:

Me and Jimmy~ (mr GHD was it?) Floor cutie. XP

Mr Cuddle me Elmo! BFG.

That's Paddy. There used to be so little guys on the floor! haha.

But now there's also Curt. 1 of 3 new additions! (Altho minus Jamie. sad.)

And when I got round to take pics with girls, they're almost all gone. waiting for Pursa. But here's Alanna!

Oh yes, can't forget the Lees!

Didn't go to Pursa, just did not feel up to actually getting out into the city, so decided to stay and then headed off to Eagle bar with our other friends (: Turned out to be a pretty good night.

The live band. Front man commented he liked my shoes! lol.

Said shoes.(which i was seriously wobbling in :P)

Ana, Joee, Min

Min, Jerilyn and Ana. with their (signature) poses. haha.

Sheng and Steve

The crowd grew. Danced till my feet could take it no longer :P

Left.. about 1am yea? Hung out with Jerilyn, Ana and Joee some more till late. was really tired and hungover that day after. which was blogged about so read that. haha.

Hungoverrrr but still able to emo.

Sosoososososososo hungover and tired. goshhhhh.

We had our Oscars -1st South Style yesterday. That's like our private mini awards night for 1st south! Had the most awesome bbq ever in Aus. There was steak n wings too, on top of meat patties and sausages. Then proceeded to drink punch... which was a mix of a hell lot of different drinks, pretty sure there was juice, or was it cordial? and then just a whole variety of alcohol. all in one big tub. probably had 3 or 4 cups of that...

Then, Alana dragged me to her room and I had a glass of Bella, sparkling wine/champagne. Very nice.. Finished that pretty quickly even tho I was flaming red by that time. But then after a while, i got less red. and in fact, the high-ness seems to have worn off after that! So when we headed off to eagle bar, I drank some more. Just one "glass" of wine. wasn't too bad too. Then headed back, drank some more at Joee's.. Red Label + Sprite. Maybe 2 cups in total. not sure. drinking games, it was. Anyways, only got back at ... 430? That was bad. Was quite an absent-minded (literally faded in n out of genuine 'consciousness' haha) scribe. Writing on the poster, copying word for word, and i managed to miss quite a few words, miswrite some words.. and just.. ARGH. lol. i don't feel that hungover as compared to feeling just soooo tired. gah. Will blog about last night with photos later or tmr (:

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Read gege's blog abt her uncle's cancer.. sorry to hear about it gege. I really wish him all the best! Cancer.. it plagues more n more ppl nowadays, and I won't lie.. I have a fear of getting cancer myself. It's always at the back of my mind... cos I believe it might be genetic.. shrugs. But that's not my point. Point is, someone extremely dear to me had an episode of cancer.. and he's been alright for years now. But who's to say it's not coming back? *touch wood* I mean, i realise i've almost assumed it wouldn't... but obviously it might... Makes me wanna cherish this person even more.. I'll be no short of going hysterical/devastated if anything happens to him... Fuck, this is soooo bad. Thinking about death too much lately. And it scares the shit out of me.. I keep praying nothing majorly disruptive happens within these years i'm in Aus.. cos I get so much less time to be with my loved ones back home.. it's gonna haunt me all my life. deep breaths in. no crying ):

Well, i should get some sleep, and stop brooding over what i cannot control, and just try to make sure i do what's best i can, and not regret anything in the future. On that, i should learn to take care of myself too, for the ones i love.. cos i wish they'd do that for me too...

Mid Autumn Festival~

Ah, the moon was round~ on a beautiful saturday night. haha.

Singsoc @ LTU organised a Mid Autumn Festival + Hari Raya Puasa celebration. We had some foreign friends (note: non-sg) join in.. so it started with some vids introducing both festivals.

Not much on Puasa, just some cookies. There were mooncakes which were of course, the highlight of many for MAF. Tried a few flavours like durian, white lotus, red bean...etc.

There were a few activities like taboo, quizzes on the videos and don't forget the lyrics singapore version, also we got to taste some foods and guess their ingredients.. all the while accumulating points in teams.

Min and Mandy

Joee and Sheng

Guess what....?

We won!! HA. that's us receiving our prize..

Faezah, Xuet Ying and our team. (2 members left earlier)

Our goodie bags + distributed prize of sugar crackers, mamee noodles and "Xiang Bings" (literally translated to fragrant biscuits)

Happy happy of course! Especially the Lees... speaking of them...

Min and Joee.. doing up our lanterns

Unglam to the max, but only one of me with lantern. :P

We had sparklers with our goodie bags!

The end of the night, we hung our lanterns on the tiny tree outside college. Whee~ Lantern tree.

Us with Amie and Beatrice.

Twas a pretty good night (:

Oh! The international sweaters are here.. they are actually pretty good.

A bunch of us taking photo together. very blurry tho. The sweater is custom-made to each of us...

has our names on it ^^ or nicknames. Shall post another photo of mine soon.

A smashing start to holidays.

And so the holidays started... Saturday was a smashing opening I suppose :P Me, Ana and Amanda went to the city to get our fix of Harajuku crepes. Yummy!! Then we shopped around and finally had dinner. Let's do the chronological thing!

Me on the bus..

Happy just listening to my music with my pretty earphones :P

Really in a mood to camwhore. These lenses are Geo Angel Blues (if anyone's curious..)

First stop, melbourne central... and it was almost straight to Harajuku crepes! We were soo hungry, haven't had our lunch. Their menu was so drool-worthy that we sat inside and had 2 each! It was also raining and freezing outside, so we hardly wanted to leave!! I had the chicken pizza crepe (savoury) and the Cold Custard and ice cream crepe (cold). Besides the savoury and cold crepes, there are also hot sweet ones and deluxe (think cheesecakes/brownies stuffed inside) ones!

Us happily having our crepes!

My chicken pizza crepe

Cold custard and ice cream crepe

After crepe lunch, we went off to shop around melbourne central. then went to little bourke to find a crumpler specialty shop, where Amanda bought a bag for her bro. I never really took to Crumplers, what with almost every other person donning one back home. But I saw this photo album sititng at the counter and flipped through it... some super cool designs there! The sales guy then told me they were custom made!! That really interested me, gee!! If i ever got a crumpler, I'd definitely get one that is unique to myself. Preferably designed by me too.. ooh yay! The guy gave us a tiny box of crumpler matches before we left, really really tiny! (length's about the diameter of 10c in SG and 5c in AUS) But they work, and we were warned not to burn ourselves lol. cute!

Continued wandering, walking.. and went into Target. We kinda went into a swimsuit frenzy, those at ripcurl, billabong and sea folly were too exp. Haha. The designs were not as nice, but more budget-friendly of course. And I really just wanted practical swimsuit for me to swim in.. figured I wanna swim too!(on top of gym) :D Got a tankini (like finally!) and swim shorts. The other 2 were way too picky so they didn't manage to get anything. We then headed off towards the restaurant that we thought had hotpot (our initial plans!) to meet with Jeri, Vanessa, Gen, Sharon. Alas, there wasn't hotpot there and we walked off to china town to find and nope, no luck. In the end, we just went into a Chinese restaurant selling Hunan(if i'm not wrong) dishes, it was pretty good :D

After dinner, went off to the Asian mart to do some shopping. Whee, happy!

My haul! Vitasoy, Poifull jellybeans, Amond paste, bean biscuit sticks, Tao Kae Noi seaweed snack and Nissin Instant Ramen. w00t!!

Happy to find all these yummy food that i haven't had in a while. Hope the almond paste is any good.. haha. Bought the vitasoy for the days I can't be bothered to eat Glenn breakfast. Reminds me of the early days at IFP riverwalk where I'll grab vitasoy or milo to drink for breakfast everyday. heh. Also reminds me of gege :D

Oh yes, before I end the part on Saturday,gotta show u the crazy fashion I showed off in the city today. Wore my bambi tunic as seen in above photos with ... GOLD LEGGINGS!

Blingbling! Some Asian guys were like staring and pointing on the streets. how rude.

Lol, James saw my tights before I left and was like all "Those are AWESOME TIGHTS!! Never seen anyone wearing golden tights! Where'd u get them? They're golden!!!" Funny as. I thought they actually looked pretty good. So nayy to all u haters.

Yupyup, sunday was a break for me. A bunch of them went to Royal Melbourne show, it's really like a big fun fair with rides and also lots of animals on display.. Too bad I missed it ): What i REALLY missed tho, is the $10 croc deals!! WHAT ON EARTH?! Min bought a pair of crocs slippers(thongs) at just $10!! I rmb gf's croc slippers are so comfy, and I'd have definitely bought them if I saw them. but i didn't go...gah.

And then Monday.. I went to Footscray with Gen, Jerilyn, Rachel, Kerry, Sharon to do rock climbing! w00ts!! I don't have any photos, gotta grab some from the others when they finally upload it lol. (could take a while..) Happy cos I managed to reach one peak at least.  A lot of the walls were so hard! I get stuck halfway and don't know how to get up anymore haha. Managed to get up to certain heights at least. But there were so many walls there, it was fun (:  My forearm is seriously cramping now tho, not fun at all. And apparently I also banged my knees many many times. Resulting in this...

Horrid horrid bruised knees. gah. Check out the left one!

Well, living with the pain right now. Hope it all goes well soon, so i can resume my gym :S Ache ache ache! Also, climbing shoes are such bitches!! I chose to hire them cos they somehow make it easier to climb, compressing the feet and forcing ur toes to point. But it got so bad after climbing a few walls, I thought my 2nd toe on each foot was going to break. I remember thinking "What on earth is a podiatrist like me doing to my own feet?!" Pretty sure it's BAD... no, beyond BAD for the feet. And i was thinking we should totally extend our services to climbing gyms and climbers next time. -nods-

After hours of climbing, went to a Korean-Chinese restaurant on Victoria rd (Haan Guuk Guan). Bbq meat at half price on Mondays!! Super awesome. We ended up with a really cheap meal.. about $8 each for the rest? And $12 for me cos i shared a Dau Bhuk Gee (spicy rice cake) with ana and kerry. still cheap tho, for the amount of food we had. The waiter was seriously impressed, or should i say horrified by how much we could eat. Cos we finished what looked like an over-order. And we also grabbed lots and lots of side dishes (free refills), i won't be surprised if it was like 40+ plates of them.. he thought we wouldn't finish but we did!! he was mumbling "how did u finish?!?" when he collected the plates lol! amazing.. :P

Very satisfying meal, and we all had plans to return, but we're afraid we might be banned :S Ahhh. Korean food FTW! :D I shall leave my Japanese food urge to Singapore. cos i haven't found good ones here yet hah. Shall sign off now~ workworkwork time!