Enchantment

Isn't "Yay!" spelt as yay instead of yeah? Why do I see so many mispelling that word? 'Yeah' is pronounced as ye-ah, not yay.

Just take this for example:

Waiter: Would you like your steak to be served medium-raw?
Me: Yeah!

It's just so wrong. It's like you're saying "Yay!" instead of "Yea".

See the difference?

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Also, I see many spelling 'Scared' as 'Scare'.

What. On. Earth.

'Scared' is an adverb whereas 'scare' is a verb. Whenever I read excerpts like this:

"The thunder roared and lightning struck right infront of me. I was so scare..."

they just get on my nerves. I mean, it just sounds totally wrong! This is basic english, shouldn't you already know all the basic fundamentals??

Perhaps such unsightly grammatical, spelling and tense errors occur more frequently amongst singaporean bloggers. Seriously, I've seen too many so I'm pretty convinced by my statement, although I have no solid ground to base it on.

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Heh. Nothing much. Off to church now. Toodles!

My humble old abode is falling apart as days extend into months, and months, years. I've been living in this place called home for slightly more than a decade.

Recently, I've grown to realize that the house is, infact, slowly but surely crumbling, paving its way to mere rubble given a few more years. Okay, I'm exaggerating here.

Hairline cracks can be seen on the once white-washed walls, creaks resulting from rotting wood can be heard. The aircons have one by one gave out their last gust of cold wind and have all retired with one final tired sigh. When I flipped the tap up to wash my hands, it dislodged itself and died in my palm. While the maid was washing dishes, the kitchen tap thought it was smart to give its own Musical Fountain performance and started spurting water all over the place.

There's more, trust me. My poor house. Everything is falling apart. It doesn't help that the internet connection is always screwed up and I'm the one always having to repair it.

No further complaints. I love this place too much to move. I never ever wanna leave. Even when I get married, can I continue living here? Sigh. Sentimental dickhead I am.

I was thinking, is there really someone in some secluded corner of the world far away, who looks exactly like you? I read a book which says that in the whole universe, there are at least 7 other humans who share identical facial characteristics as yourself. It proceeded on to place side by side pictures of two separate individuals, residing in two different ends of the world, with different names, different jobs, living totally different lives

BUT

sharing the same face.

Ohmygawd. Isn't that creepy, but at the same time fascinating? They weren't twins who were separated at birth, by the way. Two mutually exclusive persons, I quote again.

Wow.

Is it possible that right now as I'm sitted awe-struck by my own thoughts infront of the laptop with my fingers flying over the keys, my clone (literally) is perhaps in Hawaii or some other really exotic country dancing away to country music or playing with hula hoops??

Same face, same body. Different personalities, different origins, different lives.

Cool! I would like to meet her first and then faint later due to over-exhilaration or something :D.

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Alright. My bra is 21 this year. Not my undergarment la, as in my blood brother. I just like to call him bra. I am panties, can? That's why we're siblings. Related through an undergarment relationship. Hahaha! Ok not funny.

Anyway, my bra is seriously irritating, infantile and childish. Perhaps he only behaves in this manner to piss me off, but yea, he succeeds every single time, no questions asked.

Yesterday while I was at school, I received a call from an unfamiliar number but I picked up anyway.

Pussyhead with a weird thai slang: "Hi I am xxx calling frm Tom yhang khung thai restaurant. You ordered (goes on to rattle a list of thai delicacies)

He sounded really funny I would have liked to burst out into fits of laughter.

I said "Huh?!"

and he droned on chirpily, repeating whatever he had just said, except in a more irritating manner.

I just hung up the phone while he was talking halfway. A minute later, my bra smsed me "Did you just received a call from a thai restaurant? That was my friend. Isn't he talented? Hahahahahaha!"

Wth. So freaking childish. Both he and his friend must have been utterly bored out of their wits in camp to succumb to playing immature prank calls. I later found out I wasn't the only victim by the way.

Not only that, I logged onto MSN last night, parked my nick there and left the com. Apparently, that stupid bra steathily changed my nick to "I got punked!! By Tom Yhang Khung Thai restaurant!"

Stupid idiot. Grrrr. He thinks it's so funny. And he's like 21?

School thus far has been great, that's because tutorial classes have not kicked in yet. It's great seeing my pals again. Mad fun and hysterical laughters are sure to lurk in every corner of the school with them around :p.

My final year in poly and am being coined with the term "Senior". How old. I wanna be a freshie all over again. Then again, maybe not. Heh. Freshies are babies. Wa Ha Ha.

The pictures that follow were taken during... lecture break. So very predictable of us girls. Nothing has changed since sem 1.1. Lol.


Gena is posing a retarded pose for the camera in the background! HAHAHA!


Requires an observation of the background again. Did you sense lots of Sam's and Amber's narcissm swirling in the air?





I missed Jupiter Cafe's fish & chips and Bizpark's chicken chop HEAPS LOADS TONNES during the hols!


Family of Birks. Getting cosy in TP library with cold jokes and incessant rain for company.

I was dozing off while driving yesterday. My eyelids felt like there were several gold bars sitting atop them. If only they were gold bars, then I can reach out my hand, pluck those damn gold bars off and splurge on them shoppaholic needs!

After my drive, I was so sleepy and drained out that I gave Chomp Chomp and KTV a miss. Went to Ryan's place to accompany him instead.

No school today! What's on my agenda?

Agenda

1. Attempt to get Ryan out of bed
2. Stare at Ryan's unattractive gestures during sleep
3. Drag Ryan out of bed by pulling his good arm
4. Watch Ryan bathe (HAHA)
5. Feed Ryan his meal/s while he watches TV
6. Drive
7. Ryan
8. Drive
9. Ryan

Well, you get the drift.

I have food cravings now!! Feeling hungry again even after having Teppanyaki and Tori Q and a handful of Van Houten chocolates for lunch.

I'm craving for...

• Teppanyaki sliced beef ( I can eat it everyday for my 3 meals! I just love it.)
• Coffee Bean's cheesecake
• Crystal Jade's food
• Geylang dim sum
• Pastamania's spaghetti bolognese
• XXL chicken

I AM HUNGRY.

My mouth is itching for food and my stomach's growling for more food.

Feed me.

Last Thursday, I worked at Raffles Place with Sah and Yas as a flyer distributor. Heh.

I was stationed somewhere near the MRT and leaning over my pile of flyers when I heard someone scream "Grace Jiangggggggg!!!"

I turned around to find Sam waving at me excitedly. What joy it was to find a good friend working so close to me.

Needless to say, Sah Yas Sam Brian and I eventually congregated together even though we were supposed to be stationed separately.

I left my stack of flyers on top of the newspaper stand but when I came back to get more flyers, I found out that the whole pile of about 400 flyers was gone! Disappeared into thin air!

Yayness! So lucky! Don't have to distribute! Wahaha!



Because of that, we ended up finishing off the flyers darn early, so we went to BK to have a bite and slack.

Instant cash after that. Hehe!

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School starts tomorrow. So long and goodbye, farewell and au revoir to my 2 months holiday. I'm kinda looking forward to school actually, since I will be in the same class as Sah and my timetable rocks BIG TIME!

Or I thought it rocked big time till I saw Sam's timetable. Wth! She goes to school an average of 2 hrs a day.

Doesn't that just rocks my socks or what?! It just screams SLACKISH BABY!

After seeing her timetable, I feel like dropping an elective. Gahhh.

To my favourite guy, it's our 7th month today hon!

:D

But you'll be "celebrating" at the hospital instead. We could not celebrate our 6th and 7th month together but I'm sure there are many more months further ahead for us to celebrate, right? :)





This is the dead 3 months old Nissan Murano, driven by a 2 months old license holder, who has been with his girlfriend for 7 months as of today.







The site of the accident. Catch the fallen barricade along the stretch of rd at Bedok MRT.

Okay its like 1.19 am and I can't freaking get to sleep. I am wide awake for heaven's sake and I've to get up at like 8 am tomorrow cos I'll be working.

I'm working a one day job, 4 hrs to be specific, with the girls tomorrow.

All that unwanted energy aside, I have to say I need to work out those flabs. They're getting on my nerves. I can't stand flabs, not anymore! I crave for a toned tummy and yes, I am determined to achieve it this time! I'm gonna do crunches and situps till i'm out of breath but still I WON'T GIVE UP!

Give me a couple of months or more. Toned tummy, here I come! I am so gonna have a flatter tummy, I don't care!

I wanna hit the gym sometime soon. Anyone?

This week has been like a dream, drifting out of the boundaries of ordinary life and into the extraordinary, wafting out of dreams again and getting hit by a gust of reality.

There was Ryan's accident, as well as more melodrama from my best friend. In fact, before Ryan called me to inform me about the accident, I was on the phone with Anisah, hearing an intoxicatingly mind-blowing story and getting the shock of my life (more about that later, or maybe not).

Before the accident...

When we had not met up with each other yet and were still in our own homes, Ryan smsed me and told me to cab down to his place instead of him coming over. Cos the jigsaw puzzle that we were suppose to complete together is at his home. That would give us something extra to do.

But me being lazy and with the rain to top it off, Ryan took the car and drove to my place instead.

We went to Pasir Ris park that night, enjoying the sea breeze. Actually, we were a little irritated by the mosquitoes that found endless joy in sucking our blood. We left after less than an hour there.

Initially before going to the park, he tried to persuade me to catch a movie at TM. I persistently refused because I don't fancy watching movies and I wasn't in the mood for one that night.

So that was how we ended up at the park la.


Later, we were still happily savouring ice cream at cafe cartel.

Then, we ran out of things to do.

We drove around aimlessly in the car and ended up in front of my home. It was only 11 pm, I didn't wanna go home that early, so he parked the car outside my house and both of us just slacked inside.

I told him to call up the guys to ask if they wanted to play mahjong since we were rotting and had nothing to do. However, even that was called off.

Listening to nursery ryhmes in the car...




Peeking our heads out of the sunroof...



He only left at 12+ because I had to go back inside the house and call Anisah to comfort her. That in itself is a looong story.

And he got into an accident on the way back home.

I feel bad. I feel like its partly my fault cos why didn't I

• cab to his place instead of being lazy and getting him to drive over?
• agree to watch Eight Below with him when he begged me?
• just go home instead of getting him to accompany me until 12+
• why didn't the guys wanna play mahjong??

The car is badly wrecked beyond repair. It is a new car, barely 3 months old :(. It was a severe accident. The car actually toppled to its side, flew over the barricade, landed on the other side and all the while, my poor darling was inside.

He told me it is weird that he escaped with only a fractured shoulder, horrible scratches and a queasy stomach, given the condition of the car. I think so too. But I still feel bad, like I am partly to be blamed.

I know that what-if(s) are of no use now. I am just so thankful that Ryan is not badly hurt. Dear, I'll help you copy notes during lectures, not to worry ok.

I'm sorry :(.

Ryan met with an accident on the way back from my place. The whole car flipped and its all smashed up now. He called me from the hospital and told me he crashed the car.

I'm so worried but thankfully he escaped unscathed with minor bruises and cuts and a dislocated right shoulder.

I'm sorry dear. If I had cabbed to your place instead of you driving over, maybe the accident wouldn't happen.

How to sleep tonight?

:( :( :(

I love you dear.

My nightmare came true.

At Hans!

1. Steve and Amber
2. Pretty babe
3. The three girls
4. Wahaha! Love this pic! Cock eye!

This is Sam's phone! Look at the state it is in! It has been Scooby's chew toy. Haha!

I'm waiting for dearie to reach my place now. I miss him loads. I wanna hug you, kiss you, cuddle you hahaha!

Yes, that's right. I'm blogging right in the comforts of my own room using the laptop. The feeling is great!

If only I can blog in bed! Surf the net in bed! Watch TV in bed! Watch VCDs in bed!

How nice!

But not eat in bed la. That's a very untidy deed. I wouldn't wanna sleep on crumbs!

I'm finding it a difficult task to type using this laptop. Every successful sentence that I typed thus far required at least 5 wrong alphabets. Hehe.

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My Birkis have arrived!

Went to Amber's house today with Ryan, Gena, Sam and Steve to collect them!




Hmm... I find that Virgin Whisper White looks very photogenic. It looks better on photograph than in reality, but it's still nice after all, so no complaints.

I love the Pop Energy birki. It's very vibrant! The girls' birkies turned out great too. Goody!

Thanks Amber for your help with the transactions and everything! Hugs.

I don't know if this lappy allows me to load pics frm my hp. So I'll blog about today's outing (with pics) when I get to use the PC.

In the next post, perhaps ;)?

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It was an impulsive entry and I am sorry I blew my top the way I did. I am sorry for the harsh words used, but not the way I felt/feel towards you.

I'll be fine again tomorrow. A sleep in my canopy bed drives all my sorrows away.

:)

The supper at Geylang was delicious!

Once you have been to Ikea and have seen all the drool-worthy stuff there, you just can't help going back there again just for the perks!

Which was what I did, and I dragged the girls along with me!


Let's start off with some self shots. WAHAHA.


Anisah and I on the train, yakking all the way to Queenstown.

When we reached Ikea, all our stomachs were growling. Some had eaten lunch while some had not, but all stomachs were calling out for food all the same. We hurriedly made our way to Ikea Bistro for food.


This was what I ordered.

• Swedish Meatballs
• Cheesecake
• Orange juice

I was greedy and thought that 10 meatballs wasn't gonna be filling, so I ordered a side dish of cheesecake to go along with.

What I've learnt? Don't be complacent when it comes to meatballs, cos they are really filling although they may look like the tiniest things to you when you're sooo hungry you could gobble up a cow!

Anisah's meal of Fish & Chips. It's a kid's meal btw. She felt cheated cos apparently she thought it would come in adult's portion. Her blurness sparked off a certain maternal instinct in me which left me wanting to feed her my potatoes from my meal all day so she would be full. Heh.

And the greediest (as well as the hungriest) lady of the day would have to be Sam.

• Swedish Meatballs
• Chicken Wings
• Fries
• Orange juice

As expected, we had to help finish up her food. Most of the fries were left untouched, though. Greedy Sam ;p!

Ok. I need some serious enlightenment. What's the jam for ar? Do you dip the meatballs in it or something?

Jam and meatballs just do not click!

We all squealed like bimbos when we saw this cupboard. It's something right out of Happy House! It's a kid's room but I wouldn't mind having a cupboard like that now!

Why didn't I have such a rocking room like that in the pic when I was a kid? The kids nowadays get it all! Hehe.

Main attraction is the princessy chandeliar that hangs above their heads. SO NICE!

HEHE! I love this pic! Try showering fully clothed. It's fun!

Comfy sofas activate our sleepy cells. Snoooooooze.

As lovingly quoted by the Gena and Sam, "The pornstar pose!"

A decorative film roll thingy which allows you to slot photographs inside. SOO NICE! Gena and I are gonna get it!

We all bought some stuff at Ikea, then we headed to do some shopping at the mall across the road.

For my own reference, stuff I bought this week:

• Gold bag
• Black vintage pumps
• Tube dress

Not gonna post up pics cos some people just love cramping your style by also wanting to get whatever you've gotten. So nah.

Ha.

I was rudely awakened by the aircon repairmen just a few moments ago, who had opened my room door without first knocking, which I deem as extremely rude.

Nobody informed me about them coming today.

And I was still in bed dressed in just an oversized tee and nothing else! Walau... Talk about a rude awakening.

I reluctantly dragged myself to my bathroom, did a quick wash-up and jumped into something more modestly clad.

They're still repairing my aircon. I want my bed. I'm still so sleepy lor. :(

I realized...

as I read through all the posts in here so far...

that most of them reflect my pent-up angst!

Sheesh.

K la, the next post will be a fun one, I promise!

Thank God for long hair. Dug out my long forsaken VS curler and started having fun with curls again.

I just wanna be alone.

I feel all topsy-turvy inside for all the wrong reasons. I feel PMS-sey and gawd that sucks a hell lot. Why won't my period just come?! This hey-i'm-coming-hey-i-don't-think-i'm-coming-yet feeling is making me hit the roof!

Gah.

To my dearest mom and dad whom I love so dearly

To this marvellous couple who had lavished me with all the love and care they possibly could since the very day I was brought into this world,

To mummy and papa,

as much as I love and care for you, sometimes the both of you can just make me shrivel up in anger. Many a times, I feel wrongly misunderstood.

Dad, you seem to always think that I don't give it my best shot. And that I don't put in enough effort in my studies. When you come back home at night after work, you'll ask me why aren't I studying and wasting my time on worthless activities instead (playing the com). You'll remark that you seldom see me spending time on the expensive education that you had worked so hard to put me through.

But dad, ask yourself this question. What time do you and mom come home at night? Most of the time it's midnight or past midnight.

What time do you go to work in the mornings? Earlier than I wake up.

So while you're working in the office, sometimes I'll be at home doing my revision and tutorials. I admit I don't revise every single day like some fucked up nerd, but I do spend time studying.

I don't understand why you won't believe me when I say I really do put in the effort. Of course you won't be able to see me studying at such an unearthly hr at the time you reach home. I'm not a machine who mugs 24/7!!

When I get a B for my test, you think it's because I did not prepare for it and jumped to one horrid conclusion: All play and no work makes Grace a daughter to be disappointed in.

?!?!?!

So what about being top in class? Scoring 7 points for Os? Scoring As in poly? Don't all that mean anything to you, or is that still not good enough for you?

If you're hoping for a genius of a daughter, sorry, but I'm no genius. I'm just an ordinary girl who has to work for her grades.

I've decided. I'm not gonna argue with you the next time you disbelieve in me again.

I've so much to say, but at times like now, I believe it's wiser to just keep mum. Well, actually it's cos I know once I start pouring out my feelings, it'll be hard for me to stop. So I shall put a stop here :p.

The best way to avoid a quarrel is keep quiet and imagine that you're softly blending into the background when their naggings threaten to shatter the windowpanes anytime.

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Botak Scoobs!

He makes me wanna own a maltese of my own too.

There's so much I wanna achieve in life, I don't know where to start. I may have the brilliance, but if I lack the resources, there can't even be a start.

Dream big, not small. If you dream small, it's not a dream. It's hope. If you dream too big, that dream becomes intangible, so yea, BEST WISHES TO YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVOURS.

Don't look at me with judgemental eyes, cos more than likely, my eyes will fill with the same scorn for you. I am only human, so sue me. You are only human, so sorry, I won't shoot you.

Understand me completely and I will pay you a million bucks.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oX4Xvy6vcGw
Click for music video.

Lifehouse - Take me away (Acoustic)

This time all I want is you
There is no one else
Who can take your place

This time you burned me with your eyes
You see past all the lies
You take it all away

I've seen it all
And it's never enough
It keeps leaving me needing you

Take me away
Take me away
I've got nothing left to say
Just take me away

I try to make my way to you
But still I feel so lost
I don't know what else I can do

I've seen it all
And it's never enough
It keeps leaving me needing you

Take me away
Take me away
I've got nothing left to say
Just take me away

Don't give up on me yet
Don't forget who I am
I know I'm not there yet
But don't let me stay here alone

This time all I want is you
There is no one else
Who can take your place

I've seen enough
And it's never enough
It keeps me leaving me needing you

Take me away
Take me away
I've got nothing left to say
Just take me away

Take me away
Take me away
I've got nothing left to say
Just take me away

A new blog URL, cos I didn't really like the other one that much anyway ;). I predict this will stay for a long time.

So friends, please update your links!

The old blog will be where all my memories reside. I'll create new ones with this new blog. I'll get more personal with this blog and I don't wish to publicize it, so it'll be sorta a private affair.

Well, I prefer it this way!

So Lo and Behold, under-her-skin.blogspot.com!

Haha.