i hate to see you cry
laying there in that position
there's things you need to hear
so turn off your tears and listen

pain throws you heart to the ground
love turns the whole thing around
no, it won't all go the way, it should
but I know the heart of life is good

you know it's nothing new
bad news never had good timing
but then the circle of your friends
will defend the silver lining

pain throws your heart to the ground
love turns the whole thing around
no, it won't all go the way, it should
but I know the heart of life is good

pain throws your heart to the ground
love turns the whole thing around
fear is a friend who's misunderstood
but I know the heart of life is good

i know it's good

john mayer

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it's strange how it works
two days, two people
at the same places we went to
with the same purpose
my heart winced at the thought of what we did
it felt good when it was with you
but i doubt i'll get to feel it again for a very long time
i guess my tears in theatres were for you too
cos i was happy then
intrigued by you
but not now; never again
:)










WEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
naz & i were rushing to the padang from chinatown just now & we were so excited when we heard loads of cheering even from the new parliament house.
when we heard the words itself, both of us got goosebumps. happens when u receive some incredibly good news that you play no direct part in. haha.
we felt like jumping up & down but felt that it'll look idiotic doing it just the two of us in the unenthusiastic older crowd.

we walked through the crowd of school students trying to look for familiar faces to celebrate the occassion. saw saket & chin yang.
& the biggest surprise was when i saw reza at the stands!
didnt stay long to chat but it was good to have seen him again. it's been so long. haha
but naz & I stayed on when the music proved too irresistable for us to leave. haha. & we just danced the night away in the middle of the road! they even played a hindi song 'oh my darling. i love you!'. LOL!
it was just so fun la! too bad they stopped short even before 8.30pm.
but there was another side that was playing 'Dancing in the Moonlight' by Modjo & i did literally that in the middle of the road while heading back to the train station.
if only i could dance to 'you don't know me'.

slow dancing in the moonlight.
i think i shall make that a life resolution.




these numbers bore no pattern
i think i need professional help








yesterday, my sis & i brought my mum to eat at another turkish restaurant in kampung glam; bussorah st to be exact.
did so as a treat for her 56th birthday cos i suddenly feel generous & yearning to try out new or exotic food at a place i've never dined in before. i guess this food adventure started after fadz brought me over to 2 different restaurants for pastas but i like SHIKUDO in citylink best!

i felt good after paying the bill in the restaurant actually. then i bought 2 small teddy bears which were collectors items actually at this shop in arab st selling sasha bears since it was Haha's birthday & i felt rich enough to get the other for that woman. aft those buys, i held on so dearly to whatever amount i was left with cos i've yet to treat dinner after so much prompting.

& i got my crazy side take over me again when i went for ktv with fadz & frens. u know how random i can get so yes, i wasn't shy with my singing or dancing although it was actually a session for fadz to practice for her semi-finals this saturday.

FOREVER LOVE. great choice of song that suits her voice, definitely! i'm sure u'll win more votes even without us voting. but i'll vote for u for sure!

GD LUCK LOVE! DO YOUR BEST & ENJOY THE LIMELIGHT! hehe.

& i just LOVE Haha's reaction to the cake we got for her during training. it was just pure surprise. HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY MAKCIK! May u find your ONE soon.

&i got a small bag from that woman just now. & when i asked what's it for, as in the occasion, she just shrugged it off. she's as random as me. no wonder we get along. LOL!

THANK YOU JENNY! FOR EVERYTHING! :)
i will miss u so in school. sobs



boiler room was just what i needed.
it was just great even when there were only the few of us.
my fren was there all along except for that break for her puff.
hur hur. liar, liar.
but i still love her! hugs babes





slow dancing in the moonlight;
tats wat i feel like doing.
who with,
but jann arden's 'you don't know me'






dearest,

i dreamt of you last night. you & another. she was different, much prettier but i could feel her heart is not true. or was that yours i feel? it felt weird being introduced to her by you in the dream. i kept thinking if your single status for that period of time was true. but i was sure i only loved you as a friend, just cautious of those around you.

but in reality, i know how she looks like. nice but not pretty at all. everyone wonders why & i've concluded the V she's able to satisfy you.

now i'm happy i dreamt that cos dreams usually means the total opposite. i love myself more now.

Love,
Me. :)



my DRO colleague, Shy, came across an article on the electric new paper.

TAIWAN CELEBS POKE FUN AT OUR ENGLISH, UPSET S'POREAN NETIZENS SAY: Our English is not perfect but it's better than yours
By Liew Hanqing
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eYuIg7Tnc7g

i do feel rather annoyed at the outrageous act of the so-called celebs. oh come on! have you heard yourselves speaking English?! it's horrendous! okay, maybe i'm putting too general already. i believe Scholars can speak good english, but these celebs? they speak mandarin everyday on their show, their english sound like their dialect can?! honestly, i've met people from taiwan & china and most times, i have difficulty understanding their english. they say they have problems understanding us, well, they have problems understanding the spoken english of the americans or the british especially.

so really, it's not us, it's them. it's a well-known fact that we have our own english here & that's singlish. (don't remind me of that incident during the symposium our arrongant neighbours said they have manglish in their country. well, too bad ours is more well-known my friends) & yeah, we do have quite a lot of abbrevations but it works well for us here. so, i don't see any problems with that. & it's true what was written in the article. we, singaporeans speak a lot of singlish among ourselves because it has become a habit, a culture in our country. but when the need is there-for presentations in front of VIPs or even to tourists, the standard of english is relatively high.

I can be an example of that. i do speak singlish often to my friends, with much expletives, & every now and then, i practise my mother tongue with my peers too. but once i'm at work, I speak standard english and sometimes, with an accent. british, some say. it can get tiring sometimes though. haha.

anyway, i feel that our english is a good asian mixed. it may not be perfect, but good enough for others from the US, the UK or even from Asia, to understand. so don't criticise us because we're from a multi-ligual nation, just look at yourselves in the miror and listen to you speak. you'll notice that sometimes, you don't even understand what you're saying.

HAH!









i made a rather impulse decision, to buy catherine lim's novel-A Leap Of Love cos i simply couldn't wait to know what the story & upcoming movie is all about. but deep inside, there was still a longing to read something to make me a believer again.

silly, you might say. to read a fictionous tale of unwavering belief in true love & the belief of the privilege given to women to propose to the men instead of the conventional way.

but i achieved just that. i was determined to finish reading the book within the day although i had a lunch date with fidah for her birthday. fine, it was luncher (lunch+dinner cos we had the meal so much later than planned!) but i closed the book after reading the last line, having a stronger belief in that SOMEONE out there. i shall not look for love, it will tell me when the right one comes.

there is a place i want to go to, but i don't know where
there is someone i want to meet, but i don't know whom

as i let the story unfold, i pictured li lin, qi yuwu, joan chen & ananda matthew everingham as they carried out the characters of li-ann, K.S., jocelyn & jeremy respectively. i still can't wait till the movie is out cos it seems tat some scenes are different from those written.


nothing's changed, i'll still be the same. the very one u know before that kiss. let love come on its own, with hopes that i'll notice when it knocks on my door.

you appeared but the feeling's gone
we were just a memory i'll never forget



i bumped into mr richard & terrance at funan mall when i was on my way to chinatown to get my long-awaited sun block (cos its cheaper there. haha) they laughed when i showed them the crest on my polo-tee but i stood unfazed & smiled cos i'm earning and doing rather well in ducktours. i love my job & i enjoy every single bit even when i'm challenged with some tough guests, but like wat peili said earlier on, i learnt more in my previous job but here, i have fun & i earn every month excluding my tips! HAH!

anw, i didnt get the sun block in the end. i was contemplating between nivea's sun block cum whitening and banana boat's block cos i'm getting too tanned but i wanna whiten my skin too! the shopkeeper was then telling me against nivea cos of the chemical 'paraben' in their products (methyl & propyl paraben). he went on saying that nivea is produced in Thailand and that Asians do not read the labels since we don't understand what the chemicals do. well, i can't agree more. all he did was to encourage paraben-free products and said that white spots were caused by it. i was quite hapless cos it's true i dunno what chemicals is being used and what effects is REALLY has but i didn't wanna trust the shopkeeper that quickly because hey, i was in chinatown! basically i didn't know what to do & who to trust so being a student from RP, i did my research & found this article.

Keeping Well-Preserved
Cosmetic preservatives makers offer alternatives as widely used parabens come under scrutiny
Marc S. Reisch.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8346specialtychem3.html
"...The first appeared in the Journal of Applied Toxicology [2004, 24, 5] about two years ago. Researchers studied breast tumors from 20 patients and detected the presence of minute amounts of parabens in the tissue. Since parabens are known to be weak estrogen mimics, the paper suggested a connection between the presence of parabens in breast tissue and breast cancer."
"Then in September, Japanese researchers presented a paper at a conference of the International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists in Florence, Italy, that added to concerns over parabens. The researchers, mostly from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, applied lotion containing just one type of paraben—methylparaben—twice a day for a month to the skin of 12 Japanese volunteers. They found that methylparaben did not metabolize in the strateum corneum, the outermost layer of the epidermis, and suggested that its presence accelerated skin aging.."
"Critics point out that it is difficult to reach any broad conclusions about parabens based on the small number of samples in the two studies.."

you might be thinking why are nivea products or any brands using the chemical is still out? well, like what the shopkeeper said, there is still market for it. people are still buying the products so they're still supplying. & it's also stated in the article that there has to be a larger scale or more research done to concretely prove the assumption true since only 2 studies has been done.

& to be safe rather than sorry, i'm just gonna go for banana boat's sun block.

then i did some impulse shopping on 2 tops when i was really looking for some cds/dvds to buy.
swing while you're winning - robbie williams
shine - bond
how to save a life - the fray
home song stories
in the land of women

& as i walk back to the interchange, i heard a familar song being sung by the talented basker who happens to be my fren's dad. i recognised it straightway from the movie My Best Friend's Wedding, the scene where Jule's best fren looked for her & embraced her before setting off with his new wife after his wedding dinner.

denniz at work

sipping the sweet cocktail he made. Nice!

& dennis made me a cocktail which was sweet with ribena in it and i got to try hoegaarden beer. tasted like ginger to me. hahaha. but better than tiger, definitely. i was snapping pics of myself, the place and dennis at work when i spotted the glimmering bottle of Absolut Disco! oh how excited i was!! i noe tat boy mentioned bout the bottle and i read up bout it being a limited edition bottle. it's so nice kayy?! so of course i had some cam-whoring sessions with it. lol.

hello absolut disco! :D

even though the only fren i had there was dennis, i did enjoy myself actually! so THANK YOU DENNIZ!!! :D

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