had a busy schedule since Xmas. had dinner with jamie francis and gerri + family at her house. gerri decided to treat us to a real xmas dinner with turkey, honey backed ham, stuffing, etc. haha. was pretty good i must say. apparently they all like bailey's irish cream which on my first try without coffee tasted pretty sweet. too sweet for my taste in fact. haha. think i will stick with vodka. the ham and gerri's mom's chicken wings were great. the pie and log cake were pretty good too. haha. all in all, a sumptous evening. ended up playing bridge and taboo later on. haha. francis is damn good at taboo. haha. luckily i was his partner and hence we won. it's been such a long while since i've had this much fun with the band pple. i miss the good ol' jc days!

went out with qiang to get ting's belated present as well. followed by studying in school with liang. managed to get some work done so i think i'll be ready to meet tkm again soon. haha. had dinner at sukiya and bought konnyaku jelly home. my mum finished half of it!! and now she's addicted to it. imagine this! she's going all the way to holland v now to see if sushi tei has them!! haha.

went for rwinds concert and i must say that aside from the solos from the horns and the oboes, i thought it went pretty well. at least, i felt it sounded better than last year's. haha. good improvement! haha.

stayed over at liang's house cos my dad got a contractor to resolve the leaving kitchen ceiling. apparently they needed extensive work on both floors, so we all had to vacate the house. haha. grandma and maid went to auntie's house, mom left early for work, and sister was at a chalet. haha. so thankfully, liang was willing to let me stay. haha.

came back to a rather empty house. and we can't use water on the second floor till sunday!! which means i've gotta bathe in the laundry area till sunday! eeks!

ok i'm going to get a haircut. maybe type more when i get back. ooh. mom bought subway for lunch! yumz!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

{10:49 AM}

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haha finally met up with tkm yesterday, after nearly 6 months. discussed lemma 3.1 and proposition 4.1 pretty smoothly and then proceeded to have lunch at sukiya with him. haha. he's such a dedicated father and a good role model. haha. he was worried about his kids who he left at the childcare centre at kent vale that he decided to pop by after lunch to see how they were coping! haha.

anyway, i stupidly forgot to bring my long overdue library book to school when i went to meet tkm. i probably owe the library like $4 worth of fines! anyway dropped by the library after dinner with wu liang yesterday to return the book.

no korean classes for the next 2 weeks. sigh.

have a good day ya all.

{9:56 AM}

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wow. back from an outing.

thought i would celebrate my birthday alone at home. but hexiang came over unexpectedly. with 2 cakes! a small tiramisu from breckos i think, which tasted pretty good. and a big pandan kaya one from bengawan solo, my favourite cake from there. haha. chatted with him at home the whole afternoon. haha it was fun cos i havent really chatted with him for almost a year. i always miss jc life because then we met our friends everyday and had the chance to just sit down and talk about the most senseless things. haha yes herk, we certainly should do this more often. haha. he gave me a ride to the dover mrt after that.

haha a pic of the nice guy who surprised me and sent me to the mrt. haha. GAM SA HAB NI DA! 감사합니다!!

went to city hall to meet qiang and ting for dinner. realised i owed them 2 treats. 1 for getting CAP 5 2 sems ago, and 1 for beating them CAP-wise last sem. so i decided to let they choose where to calim the treat. haha. gave them 3 options. the sushi tei at raffles city, aiwo at raffles city or preggos at swissotel. haha qiang immediately removed preggos from the list because he said it was too expensive. haha that's the problem with letting the treat-ees choose. they become too paiseh to choose expensive places. haha but to me, since i've decided to treat them, the price is not of primary concern since i value our friendship alot more!

anyway they eventually chose aiwo, the health restaurant. haha. they had some chicken stuff with i thought didnt taste very good, but my grilled cod was simply delicious. haha. i love cod. second favourite fish after artic char. haha. we had a good chat after that all the way till 10 before we headed down to menotti for dessert where i treated them to coffee and pastries. haha. they decided to treat it as if i had treated them twice already. haha.

us artillery brothers. haha. i look so hagard though. haha.

haha. all in all, i had a wonderful birthday. haha. the company was most excellent! actually, i was most surprised by herk who practically insisted in coming over to my house even though i kept telling him my oom was messy and there were alot of poeple at home. haha. i love getting pleasantly surprised. haha. i count friends like him among my blessings. haha. i'm very happy! =)

{1:34 AM}

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haha i love birthdays.

i love it when i recieve an sms or a phonecall and the other person says "happy birthday dude!". I don't know why but at least i feel appreciated. that someone out there took the effort to try and remember and then took somemore effort to send a greeting. haha.

woke up this morning. and checked my email. had a message from friendster so i was about to delete when i saw the title "someone has sent you a smile". was intrigued. so i logged onto friendster and there lay a happy birthday message from kayjin! haha. it's tiny things like this that make me happy. haha. like i always tell my friends i don't need expensive gifts or dinners. just their company and a bit of their time will do. haha. but i must say, the friendster message from kayjin was totally unexpected and its these kinds of things that leave a lasting impression. haha. big thx to my shi xiong!

haha there's a 2 week break from korean. but in the meantime i've gotta work on my thesis. gotta get all the distractions out of my head and do at least wat tkm expects of me first. haha. easier sed than done though. cos if i could so easily accomplish such a task, i would have already been a graduate from some ivy league uni in the states (well maybe). haha. sadly concentrating on work has never been my forte. haha. in fact, i can consider it my worst attribute. haha. i have the attention span of a cucumber when it comes to studying!

going out with qiang and ting tonight. supposed to treat them for my CAP 5 last sem.

i was watching 내 이름은 김삼순 and got this very famous and perhaps overused quote which i hope will one day really be my mantra.

dance like no one's watching.
sing like no one's listening.
work like you don't need the money.
love like you've never been hurt.
live like there's no tomorrow.

i think sometimes we get to caught up in worrying about what others think, how others feel, about the infinite possibilities in the future, about the potential for disaster, we forget to do the one thing we are supposed to do: LIVE. i know how i keep saying i don't want to live past 70 but that doesnt mean life isnt precious to me. in fact, it makes it all the more important. so i should live everyday as if it were my last, imagining i have terminal stage cancer. haha. why should i worry about tomorrow when there is enough to be concerned about today? why should i bother if people dont appreciate me? why should my life be miserable because of others? haha. today, on my birthday, i realised this. for every one person that has hurts you, there are a dozen more who are willing to comfort you. haha. it just depends on your outlook towards life. haha every individual has the potential to hurt you. but if you were to be bothered about how the person has or can hurt you, then you'll miss out on how the person has or can bring a smile to your face. haha.

new blog song:
Digital Love by Daft Punk

Last night I had a dream about you
In this dream I'm dancing right beside you
And it looked like everyone was having fun
the kind of feeling I've waited so long
Don't stop come a little closer
As we jam the rythm gets stronger
There's nothing wrong with just a little little fun
We were dancing all night long
The time is right to put my arms around you
You're feeling right
You wrap your arms around too
But suddenly I feel the shining sun
Before I knew it this dream was all gone
Ooh I don't know what to do
About this dream and you
I wish this dream comes true
Ooh I don't know what to do
About this dream and you
We'll make this dream come true
Why don't you play the game?
Why don't you play the game?

ok chatting with herk now. shall stop here for now. haha. have a great day everyone!

{11:18 AM}

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umm~~ cucumber~~ *drools*

numa numa

By  Anonymous, at 12:07 AM  

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had an exceptional day yesterady. 2 treats to excellent food.

i didn't really sleep the night because i was thinking of stuff. so i though i would be too tired to enjoy the day. but i was so wrong!!

got ready to meet the dai di brothers at 10 and left about 1130. that still didnt prevent me from being late though. haha. joined terence jiaen and caleb at out of the pan at raffles city and as usual had peking duck. after they insisted on treating me for lunch, we adjourned to gloria jean's later for coffee and more chatting, where i now insisted on buying them a cuppa. haha i think sometimes in life, u get to know a group of friends who dun judge u and who dun expect anything from u. and everytime u meet up with them, u enjoy each others company. i think the dai di brothers are a group of such frends for me. haha a pity we didnt have cards to play dai di. haha! terence is due for marriage next year and jiaen pretty soon after i reckon. haha so right now, we're helping caleb look for someone. haha. anyone interested in a intelligent witty graduate from Ecole Centrale de Paris? haha an avid sports man (read pole vaulter and fencer), and braniac (read quantum physicist). haha!

anyway terence passed me a hardcover version of gordon james' representations and characters of groups!!! with martin liebeck's autograph!!!!! he tried to get gordon james' but he wasnt too contactable! hahaha. was soooo surprised when i recieved it! haha.

terence's present!

we started lunch at 1230h and only finished talking at about 4 when jiaen had to go meet his girlfriend. haha. and it was non stop chatter amongst us 4! haha. i really love such outings. caught a train home after that. by the time i reached home, i was dead tired. fell asleep snoring (probably) till about 6. took a shower and got ready to meet wu liang yong quan and wanmei (aka the tutors) haha!

arrived at au petit salut (a nice cosy french restaurant near holland village) about 7-ish. nice ambience, low light, nice background music but yet a friendly enough atmosphere that aloows one to relax and have a hearty chat. haha. i always have a ball of a time with the tutors. haha wanmei's nonstop chatter and wealth of stories. yongquan's silent smile and his ability to put up with consistant (friendly) riddicule (read suanning). and wu liang's perpectual distracted look, hearty laughter, and sometimes naughty comments.

the service was excellent. waiters/waitresses always on hand to help in any way they can. we eventually decided on a sharing dinner, with, for starters, escargot (how could one go without those snails), foie gras (duck/goose liver). had a quail meat dish and another prime beef dish as our mains (those were absolutely yummy), and had a taste of 4 different kinds of dessert including crème brûlée and strawberry sorbet. all in all, a VERY satisfying meal. i would definately go back again if i had the $$$ haha.

i was feeling so happy today, i decided to buy them drinks at wala wala. however, we felt the place to be a little hot and studdy, and so proceeded on to harry's for drinks. ordered 4 different cocktails and rotated them about trying all 4. apparently 2 tasted fruit juicy and 2 more alcohol-y haha. in the end, we played the number guessing game to finish up the drinks because they were all afraid of getting tipsy (hey what? we dont drink that often you know!) haha!

in the end, wanmei was the ultimate winner only hitting the number 2, while wu liang was the ultimate loser (4 penalties), haha i think on 2 or 3 occasions due to my picking the right number and leaving him with no choice but to choose the preset one. haha.

all in all! it was a wonderful day! haha i felt as if it was really my birthday. haha! well

{1:10 PM}

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got back from phuket not too long ago. haha. was a really fun filled trip. haha but i went to puket tired and came back even more tired. haha. my original intention was to go to phuket and to enjoy doing nothing (or close to nothing) on the beach. hence my decision to opt for Kata beach instead of Patong. however, as fate would have it. we didnt really have time to do nothing. i'm glad however, that the company was excellent. haha.

a sad thing or rather a stupid thing, was that i lost my oakley's! yes 500 bucks to the sea god, who according to francis might grant me perfect eyesight if i pray hard enough since i gave him such an expensive offering. haha. anyway i was on a banana boat and i sort of expected the boat to capsize. so i was holding on to my specs at the time when it really did. but it didnt help at all. i should have taken them off before the ride. how stupid could i get rite?

anyway that means i gotta make a new pair soon. think wu liang needs to make a pair to so shall go scouting around on friday probably.

tkm is back and he emailed me today. looks like it's time for me to start working on my thesis again. haha. i cant even remember what i studied before this semester!!

anyway wanmei organised a dinner at au petit salut to celebrate my birthday on the 16th. this saturday. and i think they're gonna treat me, as is the trend!! haha. how cool is that. being treated to a restraunt u've wanted to eat at for soooooooo loooonnng. haha. and i think to quote yongquan, "it's hard not be happy around you three" haha. we're just a bunch of nutty tutors. haha.

my korean classmate has already emailed me with the homework for last week and i've to get it done soon. haha. i think i'm sliding in korean class. haha need to buck up.

the year is coming to an end soon. and a new one will begin. every year around the time of my birthday, i'll start to reflect on the events of the past year. this year has been a good one for me. haha. the new friends i've made, the happy times, the struggle through adversity and the eventual success, the company of important people around me, etc, everything i've experienced and learnt from has been very beneficial. all i hope for in the next year is for the company of the same group of close friends, and a chance to show to myself that for whatever mistakes i've made this year, i've learnt from them and will not make them again.

anyway here's me whining again. there are VERY few people, who would come up to me and say "hey nic, this present if for your birthday, and this other one is for Xmas." haha. it sux having your bdae near and xmas. haha i feel quite cheated every year cos i dun get my fair share of presents!!! HAHAHHAHAHA. so to all reading this, you noe what to do, unless i havent given u a bdae present hahahahah.

in the process of editing my pics. haha but here's one for the people who need a pic. this is me in the middle of a bungy jump. yes. after the jump, during the oscillation, before i was let down.

haha bungy jumping... check... now on to skydiving... haha

haha anyway have a good week everyone! haha. but dun forget my birthday too! haha

{8:05 PM}

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woohoo!! check out those abs and biceps!! hahaha! girls! aren't u grabbing this hunk?? ;P

By  Gerri, at 9:21 PM  

haha "hunk"? haha r u sure u got the right noun?

By  20 sec interval... fire!!, at 8:20 PM  

WAH RAO!! What did you do to yourself man!!??? Where's the bag of bones gone?? You must have heavily photoshopped it right??? =P

Shit lah... I'm in a dilemma now... I so wanna see all your pics but I so don't wanna see all the fun I missed!!! sob sob sob...

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ah had an excellent time at Brazil Churrascaria last night. excellent food, excellent drinks, but most importantly, excellent company.

as we were celebrating yongquan's birthday, he had the honour of choosing the restaurant. haha. although perhaps i did have some sort of decision over it. haha. hey i don't always bully him as what most people think. tried some brazillian white rum cocktail thing. it was quite sweet. probably sweeter than the normal (is there one that is normal?) rum. but i suppose the alcohol content was pretty low because i didnt even feel a thing.

had all sorts of different meats last nite. i think this must have been the most meat i've ever eaten in one sitting in my entire life. haha from beef hump (which has now become wu liang's meat of choice), to chicken heart (which tasted pretty ok when i added this parsely vegetable dip thing to get rid of the smell, but wasnt too appealing to me when i ate the second one without).

i must say though that the price was a little steep for the meal. a little more and we could have enjoyed a meal at les amis. but it was worth it.

proceeded on to venezia to grab some ice cream. and it was only there that i finally decided to use the camera i brought (what a stupid thing to so right)?

time for me to get a new camera. the iso400 setting photos look very terrible. and the iso 64 ones are too blur because of movement and low light.

anyway, going phuket in 2 days time!! hope it'll be a great trip!! haha

{9:10 AM}

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couldnt really get to sleep again. and as a result. i'm typing this blog at 6 am in the morning. haha.

going out to celebrate yongquan's birthday later at Brazil Churrascaria. heard about this restaurant for a long time. so i will finally get to see how good it is. maybe i can indulge in some venezia icecream after that as well!!!

what would you do with someone who takes you for granted. you know. the kind of person that comes looking for you only when he/she is in need of your help. do still carry on helping the person? or is it only right that you refuse help the next time he/she approaches you? i guess in some senses, like what terence would say, i'm a rather soft person. so most of the time, i'm always being taken advantage of. for example, people who look for me when they want to copy my homework, or when they are in need of help with something, or when they have no one else to turn to, know that i will very rarely turn them away. so can you really consider that my weakness? because i don't stand up for myself in this unfair treatment of affairs. or is it my strength in that i'm still willing (sometimes grudgingly though but nonetheless willing) to offer my help regardless of circumstances. i dont know, but certainly, it's very tiring if you give all the time even to people who just treat you like nothing more than a permanent source of aid. thankfully for me, i'm not that noble a person. thankfully i don't ALWAYS help. i think a person who can do something like that is someone extraordinary. someone with a great heart, compassion, and a genuine love for everyone around him/her.

anyway, looking forward to dinner tonight. ciao!

{6:26 AM}

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finally done with the exams and invigilation. haha.

but as gerri so poignantly put it, it's quite sad to finish a phase of your life and have no one to celebrate it with simply because people have already gone thru this phase or are still in the process of getting thru it.

so here i am. stuck at home again.

thankfully for me, i have korean classes this evening. haha my breath of fresh air.

really looking forward to the phuket trip next week. haha. some sun and some fun.

i've come to realise that i've more or less stepped in to the age range where you either get hitched now or you remain single for eternity. well more or less. haha. like mushrooms popping up after the rain, everyone seems to be more or less set on marriage around this age group (thankfully and technically i've yet to reach that age yet, save for a few more days. haha!!). there are people i know who are, like me, not too keen on this union thing. but on the other end of the spectrum, there are those who desperately (for lack of a better word) see it as a necessity. i know of people who actively seek out dates or attend those speed dating stuff. i mean you might say that if you dont work towards something then you'll probably never achieve it. but then again, i always though these kinds of things should happen naturally and that if it does not happen, then it just means it was not meant to be. haha.

for me, i'm content to spend time with my friends and family. i'm sure there might come a day where my friends all get married (or get married off!!!), and i'll be sulking alone in a corner like what i am doing now, wondering what a dumbass i was to think that my bubble dream would last a lifetime. or maybe this is a wakeup call for me to search for friends with the same mindset as a means of self preservation. haha.

ok this doesnt really make sense huh. haha. nvm. exam stress and the sudden lack of it can do this to you. haha. to all still having exams: GOOD LUCK!!! (i'll lend you all my luck, i think i was pretty lucky for my three papers). to all those not having exams. errm. good day? haha.

{9:59 AM}

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