HAPPY NEW YEAR + NEW YORK I'M COMING + OH NO I'M OLD

Happy new year first of all to everyone in Singapore and well, everyone across the pond. I am here in San Francisco typing this on my little sad blog, reminiscing.

1) A Level results (yay Jiawen, yay me, yay Janjan, yay Hweeying, yay Kai, yay Berly, yay Ong, yay everyone)

2) Play hard (hello Q are you reading!) + Paint hard (davido-kun)

3) Dengue fever + Typhus Fever = - 8 kg and immediately +10 kg (SO WHAT'S THE POINT)

4) Surprise party at my house (yes the one that I went nuts at)

5) Leaving for SF (greener grass? I don't know yet)

6) Interior Architecture and Design + Merchandising = Killer and satisfying at the same time

7) First time meeting crazy Indonesians with Birkins and Bentleys at age 17

8) First time meeting a hot teacher! (no likey likey anymore)

9) My good friend lost someone close to her. Noone knew how to deal with it, but she's coping well (yay)

10) LA trip to visit my cousins. First of many trips I think.

11) My sister announces she is getting married in July next year!

12) All throughout the year missing Singapore and friends

In fact, I miss Singapore so much, that my friends here (those from Singapore too) are meeting up at some Singaporean restaurant for some chicken rice loving this afternoon. 

What I think/hope 2008 will look like:

1) FUN IN NEW YORK TO KICK OFF MY SEMESTER/YEAR (hoi Xinky)

2) Better grades

3) Weight loss

4) Sister's wedding

5) Trips to Jakarta since now I have friends (nanny nanny poo poo)

6) SINGAPORE SINGAPORE SINGAPORE

7) Good food in Indonesia

8) My friends coming here to visit!!

Okay I'm tired. Good luck with your resolutions, everyone.

It is all a matter of timing

Have been watching too many DVDs, my eyes hurt.

"You said 'I do'! I guess that means we're married".

Sarah Jessica Parker once told Vanity Fair,

"If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward".

I hate to be quoting celebrities on the merits of Barneys. But I must.

Yesterday I was in there, and put on the most flattering, well-fitting garment I have ever encountered in my whole entire life. What could I have done but purchase it even at the risk of being evicted by my landlord for inability to pay rent? Well to be honest there were lots of things I could have done, but I thought I could wear it on one of my sister's parties. Maybe her engagement party. Or the dinner at home. Whatever. 

All I want for New Year is a Saudi prince with oil mines.

Mogwai Holiday

Listening to songs that make me a bit happy/high/delirious. The very songs that drive people to slit their wrists. All my friends love these songs, no?

And again, we must give it to the Americans once more! For astute businessmen. For entrepreneurial ideas. I love Netflix (I know Val and Q will too). So you pay a monthly subscription fee and you can rent DVDs for however long you want, and depending on what plan you subscribe for. So anyway I subscribed for the 3-DVDs-at-a-time plan, and I pay 16.99 only!!!!! AND their selection is great, they so far have 98% of the movies I've always wanted to see but never got the chance to. And right now I am surfing the freaking library to keep my Queue full! And my DVDs are supposed to arrive tomorrow.

I know that I am turning into the kind of people who talk about shit no one really gives a flying fuck about. It is also a good front for pretending I have a life, which I don't. When I did have (kind of) a life in Singapore, I used to be more involved in writing about more brain numbing/stimulating topics. However, the opposite is true for now. Everything is in a state of decay. Without exercise, my brain will atrophy.

Not making the effort though. I can't even be bothered to subscribe to newspapers here. I have a lot to learn, and not enough determination to learn. About local and national politics. There are simply too many things to take in. In this state, this is what's happening. The neighboring state is more than likely to experience a radically different situation. ARGH not like Singapore everything is.. Everything. You know? There is only One truth. That is That. 

Once again, I (unsuccessfully) attempt to delve into something deep, something my lone brain cell cannot grasp properly.

Good for both of us (my single brain cell and me), because tomorrow is Boxing Day, a day commonly associated with sales all over the city. I am taking me and my brain cell out shopping tomorrow. Although there is nothing to dress up for, I must stock up for winter, not unlike storing food for winter.

Finally Finals

  So finals are over!! The downside is that I have noone here at the moment. I am going to be terribly lonely, and walking around town alone, having meals alone (hopefully I get too lazy to eat by myself and will lose some weight).Pictures?

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1) Happy birthday Sonja one day before Brent's final project was due. We died, and her 23rd birthday was spent in the Interior Architecture building.

2) Cupcakes from Safeway.

3) My interior project. The bloody Blogger won't let me upload my outdoor project.

4) Misato and Jennifer being bad asses.

5) Sonja is white as snow. Transparent bitch. And I was freezing (think you can tell)

6) Sketching class is huge and I don't know even half of their names, I only know er abt 7 people. But good class nonetheless.

7) Posing in class pretending we were all done with our work.

8) Stacia and Awan in my room? Cue the messy wardrobe.

9) Sonja in the cold of Cheesecake Factory balcony. And going back to Reykjavik :(

OK nothing else, gotta get ready for shopping. Just in case I don't bother to upload tomorrow, merry christmas!

Hang On Little Tomato

Aw finally the long awaited photos that I (barely) managed to capture of HT (Hot Teacher).

HAHAH well let's try to not make this 

so obvious I was dying pretending to be taking a picture of the classroom interior.... SO oh my God you guys owe me a lot. Or

 maybe this is just an excuse so I get a picture of him.. Maybe.

OMG FUCK I cannot upload more.. Actually I have more. Oh well make do lah ok? Make do.

ENJOY.

I'm so upset that the term is ending = No more class with HT next term

/edit: xinxin keeps saying I'm blind. AM I BLIND? My excuse is I like starving artists hahahahah WHAT THE FUCK can you all slap me now.

Fat Food

I am so glad I came online I was asleep for 13 hours.

The biggest portion of tiramisu you've ever seen.

Caught in the rain

So I was stranded in the middle of nowhere today. It was cold.. And raining.

I *don't* do rain. These pictures were taken at 2 PM. Why so glum, San Francisco?

I (don't) need all the friends I can get

So anyway what's new but me screwing up my blog template because I'm so sick of it. And IF ANY OF YOU DVC PEOPLE READ THIS THEN FUCK OFF CAUSE I KNOW YOU GOOGLE MY NAME AND ARRIVED HERE. Okay there, I said it.

Apparently some of the people I perceive to be good people aren't as good as they appear to be. I think I must be smarter when choosing friends. And I thought I was good at reading people! So anyway innocence is overrated. And subtlety too. So I am waging a war against Indonesians in San Francisco Bay Area (haw haw cute).

I wonder why I haven't spoken to Siti and Ong in the past few weeks? (Siti if you're r

eading this, I am still fat and not skinny so...). Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 

Quote unquote Jiawen.

I am concerned with my diet. I'm going off on a tangent here.. Er not just because I've put on an enormous amount of weight, but also I am starting to adopt the Classic American Meal Plans and I'm worried about my health. Really.

Run through of meals on a typical day:

8 AM - half of a sandwich from one of the little cafes at the pier

1130 AM - candy (usually Twix because they sell this in the vending machines in school)

2 PM - the other half of sandwich bought earlier

230 PM - something sweet god knows what

530 PM - banana

8 PM - some instant ramen or kimchi noodles (no wonder my hair is falling out)

11 PM - banana for snack

And that is normal weekday. On weekends, I have pasta + tiramisu or steak or some form of fried seafood plus my friends' drinks.

HOW TO NOT PUT ON 1 million pounds? 

I wish I had pictures to post.. But maybe I don't. Or maybe I do.

Wait.

Normal American Diet. 

Rule #1 

Eat ketchup with everything.

Rule #2

Always ask for extra sauce even if you don't need it.

Rule #3 (also known as the Golden Rule)

Fry everything.

Ok the last one was a bad pun. Bye friends and lovers I'm off to sketch for my lover (I wish).

/edit:  hate my tagboard so please leave a comment? kthxbye

"Terry look at Stella's condom"

So said my friend to my teacher. Sigh, bad day. I am so irritable.

On another really really upsetting note, I am not 21 yet. Which means that I am missing Aimee Mann's 2nd Annual Christmas Show in the city tonight. Sigh. Worse, I would have gone alone even if I had noone to go with. But upon allegedly asking the alleged "friends", the alleged friends allegedly said they wouldn't come even if they had a choice. Nice.

School is kind of a bitch - I know you guys are having your holidays in singapore. Oh well. My school is kind of a bitch. Okay I realised I said that before. 

AND GOD I CAN'T WRITE FOR NUTS.