Sentosa

Aik leng, Chanel, Deirdre and I finally executed our sentosa plan today. Like, finally. The plan had been pending since last year. Nice day to head down to the beach. Wasn't crowded. And i'm bent on avoiding crowds after countdown @marina. Thank God for the good weather! I think it rained on other parts of S'pore, but we were spared! So, yay, our little picnic wasn't ruined.

We're so lovin' tram rides.

Peek-a-boo!

Hello, down there!

hmm... who's terrifying my dearies?

Must be Mr BODS.

Deirdre is a blonde! =D
Now, what's she gawking at?

"Who's that on my bridge?" said the troll.

Just us. =)

We're on the bridge!

The wind was having fun making bird's nests out of our hair.

The very happy us.

Girlies, we'll go for our chompchomp and water theme park plan after CNY! =)

V-day Celebration

Shirley and I baked a cake! Both of us have never, NEVER baked before. Got a pack of brownie mix, a packet of hershley's kissables and a heart shaped tray. First attempt which consist of half the mix turned uncuttable, rock-hard. Because oh-so-smart me accidentally cancelled the convection oven setting after pre-heating the oven. But the second one turned out well! And ta-dah! (Not that hopeless in the kitchen afterall).

S stands not for superman, but Solitarians!

Shirley and I later decided that S for Shirley and Sheryl.

The rest of the [solitarians] came over to my house later in the evening.

Some snapshots (we were having fun with the self-timer function):

2nd row (from left to right): Kaymiang, Liting, Shirley

1st row: Sheryl, Amelia, and my handsome fan.

10, 9... 6... 3, 2... -silence-

(My curtain as the back drop)

And the ultimate silly-face goes to... ...

Liting!

Our dearest president finally decided to show up at 8.40. Pizza by the poolside. Truth or dare. One of the dares was for km to ask this group of 4 guys "wanna try my brownie (half-eaten, rock hard brownie), I made them myself." But they left, so she was spared. (So were the guys).

Thanks Xue Chun, Kaymiang, Liting, Shirley and Amelia for the enjoyable valentine's day evening!

And to the rest out there, hope you all had a

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Valentine's Day

Some Valentine's day traditions...

In Wales wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favourite decorations on the spoons. The decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!"

In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.

In some countries, a young woman may receive a gift of clothing from a young man. If she keeps the gift, it means she will marry him.

I used to look forward to valentine's day. A tradition in tkgs: we would all go to school with bags of gifts for our friends. A fun-filled 'event' full of love, chocolates, sweets, cookies, flowers, little notes and letters. There were some more not-so-common kinds of gifts though. I can vaguely remember a friend receiving a g-string.

The same tradition continued in tj. I remember stacey, rach, daph and i wanted to put the guys on a quest. We gave the guys a red, heart-shaped balloon, and a bottle full of water (must have been the silliest they ever received). And hey had to solve a 'puzzle'. Each week after v-day, a particular girl would give another note (actually written by us) to a particular one of them. Well, the truth was, we had to buy time. Our plan was to compile all the photos of the fun times we had together into a video clip. Haha, but till now, the plan remained as a plan.

Nevertheless, the guys were really sweet. They gave us this:

Each pebble had alphabets from our names written on it. As for the video clip, the guys beat us to it. They did one for daphne for her birthday. =)

More updates on v-day dinner with [solitarians]!

holidays

A new blog, a fresh start.

Exams are finally over. No more of 'i'm so not in the mood to study' and sinking my butt on the chair at the desk drowning in a pile of lecture notes. Yet, there isn't any intention of finding a temp this hols. Maybe I'm just missing the kind of hols that were spent slacking, with hols homework chucked aside till the very last minute, the stayovers. So no 8 to 5 kind of job for me this hols. I must enjoy it to the fullest before I start regreting it in the future.

Next up:
Shopping sprees
Chill out with solitarians
Day-out with Viv
Jogging with Yvonne (the last time i jogged would probably be in jc)
Long over-dued Sentosa trip with Chanel, Aikleng and Deirdre (we should call ourself the CADS, haha..)
Tjcab pracs
CNY steamboat gathering with ex09
Coffeebean breakfast with Mitch
GA marathon at Stef's

Check out Songs in my pockets by Bethany Joy Lenz @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uZ9jcnr2F0
Enjoy this really really nice song! =)

My older entries can be found at my old, abandoned blog:
http://pepperfever.blogspot.com