home sweet home~~

last to leave for exchange..
and the first to be back from exchange.
muahahaha.

had a nice surprise from norman from the airport..
a lovely bouquet of lilies.. *melts*
heeheee..
and some other thing which i shall not mention as well :P *wink*
i guess some of u will find out when school starts again... hehe

ningbo was great fun..
it was DAMN cold, that sometimes the only thing on my mind was to concentrate on being warm..
it was worse when the wind blew..
worse still when the pathways in the village were made like wind tunnels.. brrrrrr..

the group was rather 'clique-ish' haha.. and was with kenn, irene and engkiat most of the time..
well i'd say like 99% of the time. hahahaha..
but they were great fun :P
hmm don't exactly know what to blog right now..
pictures later.. i'm wayyyyy to lazy right now..

airport staff manning the jetstar counter was so nice..
30kg luggage and wasnt charged for excess baggage..
must have been the student visa status.. heeheee..
or maybe he was just wayyyy to nice cos he didnt even weigh my luggage :D

after spending 4 months in 'spartan' mode, aka, no accessories to choose, limited clothes in the wardrobe, i suddenly feel that my room is waaaaaay too cluttered.
just cleared loads of crap from my dressing table..
more to come from my wardrobe.. and *hehe* selling the stuff online :P

ugh. this post is so incoherent. jumping from topic to topic.
blehh.
i'd better clear out some stuff now..
suddenly i can't stand mess.
*ugh* mummy will be really shocked by this revelation. hahahahahah..
taaa!!!

what a long day it's been.. ack.

went to post office to send back some luggage.
and my goodness. less than a minute out to the post office and the trolley BROKE.
with my 20KG box -_-"" not funny.
especially i was at the bottom of the staircase leading up to my hostel. -______-""""
luckily hong kong people are nice enough to offer help..
THREE people leh!!! just along the staircase!!!
so i had to lug it back to my room and transfer the stuff to my luggage bag..

phew. after that i was soo exhausted i slept for an hour before gg out to central :P
sat on the ferry from tst to central. haha it was so cheap at 2.20hk.
it was kinda like a joy ride.. felt like a little kid on a carousel..

saw the hsbc bank and bank of china.
nearly drooled. haha. it's rather surreal that all the stuff u see in books in reality.
woah.
and stupid me brought the camera without the memory card. 0____-""""
i suppose i will be gg there tmr to snap some shots.
tried it with my handphone, and they turned out horrid. yikes

tried to find my way to hollywood road but got lost instead.
but i stumbled upon 2 arty farty shops that really perked me up..
one was at the end of a street selling pork, fish and veg. it was so weird.
the other was along a small deserted street. but amazingly, there were a few people in it.
haha i is happies that i found such interesting places. :P

hollywood road was not what i expected. it was so stiff and grand. yuk.
so i just glanced at it, and went to find some stuff for mummy.
heheheheheh.. shan't reveal it here.. :P
and i stumbled upon a little teapot shop!!
so sasa, pa and mama ( my grandma) have little souveniers. heeheee..
i hope they all like it.. :P

my feet are aching terribly.
i was struggling to get back home.
that explains why this post is not as lively as ought to be. haha

yum cha (finally!!!) with gloria and sharon (hostel neighbours) tomorrow morning
at the canteen. -_-""" well better than nothing. hehe.
then i'll go to shatin to find something.
and then to central to take pictures. then to hostel then to airport.
i think this may be the final post..
wont be bringing my laptop to china..
so goodbye everyone!!!~~~~

a piece of good news...

Congratulations!
You are successful in your application and will be awarded the NUS SEP Award AY0607.

*meow*

faceless girl loves to daydream~

have i mentioned how HORRIBLE the milk tea here tastes?
it's like cardboard with milk and sugar.

teh tarik gao please.

there are times...

when u feel so stressed and not at the same time.
stressed because a deadline is looming. while the other part of me says, it's ok, i can do it.

when you're stressed, but you dont want to do any work.
(ironic, but it happens to me sometimes. at other times, my efficiency is in proportion with my stress levels.)

when u realise that someone is an overly anal fish-meat.
there are times when u need to be a perfectionist, but there are times when it's absolutely unncecessary.
u try to see the person differently, but u just have this negative disdain for unncessary perfectionists.

when the computer lab is fecking noisy. and u wish u can just shut everyone up.

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on another note, this deadline to me is nothing.
this project is a deadline project.
aka, i see not much meaning to this, and mostly BS,
and hopefully producing nice enough graphics.
all that's in my head is the image of me packing to go home, and spending happy moments back in sg and phuket.
i feel depressed yet not at the same time.
because i cant do what i really want to do (explore the rest of hk), and tied back by something (deadline).
and being rather hurt by being told that my standards are 'whatever'.

"it's not just 'whatever'. i'm being necessarily whatever. it's not that important to be that accurate, because figures / numbers are mere indications on a map and are rounded up or down to the first decimal anyway. besides, working in a wind tunnel at fecking 5am in the morning is not fun at all."

while i hold this particular person in rather high esteem because he / she is atrociously hardworking, and able to have good designs / drawing skills / analytical skills, etc. but on another note, i can't help but feel that he / she will have high-blood pressure or any stress-related diseases sooner than me because of some anal behaviour.

so.
in the most cheryl-like behaviour...

whatever.



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i realised 2 days ago..
that God has blessed me in a special way..
throughout my 3-4 months in HK,
i have NOT fallen sick even once.
despite the so-called high pollution levels experienced here,
the closest to being sick was being a tad too heaty.
which was quickly remedied by flushing water through my system.
didnt fall sick even with karin, maggie and shinya around me.
yes they fell sick.karin quite terribly indeed.
Thank you Lord :D

even my horrid cramps which i got during SUBMISSION were gotten over with a half-hour nap.
usually it lasts half a day. woo~

i have drawn so many drawings like never before.
and i feel more confident about sketching my ideas / clearly explain what i'm thinking thru my drawings.
hunfry, faceless girl, and many more (not put up here) were created as well.
when i thought there was a drought in my cartoon drawings.
:D

unfortunately though i dont exactly speak with a singlish accent here.
(most of u would complain, " hey u dont even really speak singlish what!!" or get the ubiqutious question " are u from CHIJ?" because of the way i speak -_-""")
my 'accent' here is more ang-moh-fied than ever.
buti feel that my ability to converse properly / pronounce / or issit enunciate? has improved. :P
i still fumble over phasing questions properly sometimes.. but i feel a general improvement..
( i can't ask proper questions because all the fragmented parts of a question come to me ALL AT ONCE in my head, so my mouth takes over my head)
but i still miss talking 'normally' with the 'lah-s', 'meh-s', 'dowan-s', 'aiyohhh-s', etc.

so i thank God for all that He has done for me..
even though i have been a bad girl and attended church only once.
but He has blessed me in more ways that i ever imagined..
there are more changes i've experienced than these 4 changes..
heehee..
so i'm really glad that i'm on this exchange..
even though i NEARLY did not make it because of Mr Teo.. *pinch*owww*
but i guess i was (in a way) meant to take this trip out..
and be more confident of myself in many ways possible :D

:D

this is hilarious.. hahah.. reminds me of Q (korean) who used to smoke just like that..

announcement

i have hk$30 left in my prepaid card.
the handphone will only be used for emergency purposes from now on,
because i am a stingy old auntie and refuse to spend another hk100 to top it up.
incoming overseas calls will not be answered cos probably the minute i answer it, the phone will just die.
sms unless necessary please. i think they charge for incoming. i have no idea. please send your love through email or msn instead. heh :D

will touch down on xing-ga-pour at 1440hours on 19dec..
mummy and norman and whoever may be coming to the airport, please come AN HOUR OR SO after that :P
it's troublesome to wait for me and i may want to shop at duty-free. hahahaha :D
so instead of waiting for damn long (due to experience from S*s* hehe), isnt it nicer that when u arrive, u get to see me already? haha :P

yeaps. back to work.. gah!!!!!!!!
i hate to work after studio submission!! brain dead!
monday! monday i'll be freeeee!!!

deadline for one of my projects has been pushed back to monday instead of saturday!!
egad!!!

which means less time for me to do up my shopping!!!
and less time for me to pack!!!
yikes!!
i need to multi-task.
pronto!
less sleep too!
pooi!

i just realised that i am the youngest m.arch 1 student in cuhk!
0_o""
or rather i think i am.
cos there's year out before they do their masters.
eek!
well. studio's over anyway. hehe

aiyohhhh how to see liddaT???
aiyohhhh -__-""
machiam like seeing a baby in ur tummy thru that machine..

:X

yayyyy

whoo!!! i'm back!!
running around the track has been such a perk-me-upper..
ran more than i thought i could do. hehe
did more crunches than i thought i could do.
did more push-ups than i thought i could do..

so i'm not as flabulous as i thought i was!!
and i realise that some of the flabs are soft muscles instead of real fats if u know what i mean..
yay..
i hope do do more exercise..
for the short time i have left here.. ack!!!

oh and i have FINALLY seen up close and personal what the soccer guys are up to..
or rather soccer UNCLES.. hahah!!!
and they've got so many of the adidas sanitary pad soccer balls!!
felt like 'koping' one to give norman.. hahahaha..
cos they were kicking it out of the field like nobody's business.

and they had those funny little 'sitting-duck' things.. ugh. my soccer vocab is pathetic.
umm.. when a few guys stand in a row, covering their koochies, while the opposition attempts to kick the ball into the goal.. THAT few guys..
they've got the plastic life-sized 2D versions. hahah it was hilarious looking at those things..
ack.. i feel rather wobbly..
n i love it that the running track had no mosquitoes and doesnt give me the icky prickly heat feeling.
n the park back home is INFESTED with mosquitoes.. eeks!!! n sometimes the occasional wolf-sized stray dog.(o_0)"""

some random day at the OTHER field in school.. yes.. they have TWO fields. yummy.

hmmmm...

u know u havent had enough exercise when...

1) u get cramps in ur neck when u're sleeping
2) u can literally feel ur neck getting released with each heartbeat
3) u cross ur legs on a chair for 10mins, and when u let go, they feel like breaking off
4) u're flabby
5) u're damn flabby.
6) when u walk past the sports stadium, ur legs are raring to run on the track
7) u envy those who are exercising
8) u are like a pig. u eat, u sleep, well, except for the fact that u do some work on the computer.
9) u're absolutely flabulous.
10) u lie to urself in front of the mirror by sucking in ur flabulous tummy.
11) u start fantacising how wonderful u'd look without ur flabulous flabs.
12) when u wave in the pool, ur flabulous arms are able to start off a tsunami.
13) ur thunder tighs ripple off forever whenever u walk. they only stop rippling when u're sleeping or sitting
14) cellulite. huh? what's that?? eeks!!!
15) ur swimmer-shoulders start drooping

hmmm.. how many more examples can u help me think of?
i need to get a hot bod ready for pooket!! heehee

pooket~ 4-7jan.. yipeee!!! :D
ehhh.. i'm off to get a workout lah.. a few rounds round the track should suffice for me.. hehe..
i shall be immobile tmr.. boo.

eaurghghgh!!!!

on my way to IKEA to get a weighing machine.. (haha!! only S$6!!)
i heard...

a guy...
talking with a TA2 voice...
it's damn gross can!!!!!!
if my puke could puke, it would.
-_-""""

apparently, he was late to meet his girlfriend, cos he was hugging her profusely and she with the chao bin face.

but i didnt know that hk guys talked cute as well!!!! *faint*
my frothing at the mouth..
bleaurgh...

pooi.

oh my gosh.
hongkong girls have this fecking ability to talk cute/ act cute aka, be very TA2.
and it's not cute at all. it's fecking annoying and disgusting and childish and abnormal.
ack. 0_o"""
there's this girl's voice drifting from who knows where. possibly the next room. possibly from downstairs.

and the air is so still and quiet that i can hear nothing but that bimbo. eeyuks.
tho i have no idea what she's talking about. but she sounds rather horny to the guy she's talking to. like "oh kiss me, hug me, my boobs are full of milk" hahahah!!! pardon me..

yes i'm mean.
yuk. *giggle giggle act cute*

someone PLEASE help me.
or just smash a hot frying pan onto her face.

winter is here.. teeheehee.. it's time to bring on the scarves and jackets.. or mebbe it's autumn i have no idea... but it feels cold and yummy! heeheehee

just went to shatin to collect my plane tickets to ningbo.. and since the weather was rather nippy.. i had fun 'dressing up'.. i love my little apple bag!! heehee.. yes childish.. but i've been loving apple things since well.. since i started having a memory. hahahah..
and of course little ladybugs too :P

i am feeling rather 'aviator-ish' heehee.. pardon the narcisstic shots.. i'm a closeted photo whore. heehee.. and the shoes!! well.. they're rather cute i think.. and at S$14 too !! :P
budden.. i've got bloody blisters on my baby toes now. dammit.. yeouch!! i can never wear heels!!!

till more photo whoring later!! gotta do my assignment! boo! after submission too! bummer...

submission and such...

it's been such a long time since i've posted something.. so here goes :P

before the submission, there was an iasp exchange student's party.. so i went.. heheh :P
it's like a farewell party.. so i thought, "what the heck.. just go".. even tho it's one week from submission!! heeh that's me before heading down to the restaurant.. what the heck.. it wasnt even one!!! food was raw and we had to bloody cook it ourselves!!! and it was on a rooftop.. so much for paying hk160.. blehh.. basket.

at least the beer was free. but not like i love beer or something.. -_-"""

on our way there, there was some huge condo-cum-bungalow-cum-semid development.. and boy was it HUGEE!!!! the rooms were HUGE, the swimming pool and tennis courts were HUGE.. the kitchens were HUGE.. every room was well furnished.. wah!!!! and of course there were some angmohs walking their dogs, etc...

warau....

anyway back to the topic..

this was some "Chinese Fear Factor" and incidentally the contestants were all angmohs.. hahaha!! and guess what they served up!??!

pig's blood, durian, fried whole fish, pig's heart, pig's intestines.. all fine if u ask me!! haha.. but no, i wouldnt choose to eat them either.. hehe..

but they were nearly puking all over the place.. and the guy in the dark blue shirt was literally swallowing everything.. haha!!! second guy from the left (only his head is showing) still smelt of durian even though he brushed his teeth THRICE. hahahaha :X lolx lolx lolx but good job for being so onz!! :P

p.s. - notice the beers they had.. haha it was to help 'mask' the taste of the food.. hurhur..

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so up next! u guys probably know that i've had shitty submissions for the past 2 weeks.. :P

the sun was beginning to set at like 3pm.. dammit. hahaha but the scenery was pretty great outside the window :P and mr construction worker was fixing up the roof.. btw.. he's just like 10m away from me or something like that.. :P

top pic - the terrible mess from my previous studio ( we did a proj with the juniors)

bottom pic - my mess. yes.. les messirables.. hehe.. notice the 3 chairs - one metal stool, 3 stacked black chairs, and one roller chair (covered with heaps of paper at the right side of the pic)..

i rotated the use of them.. hahaha... btw.. the 3 stacked chairs were of course the most comfortable.. and they make a great BED.. hehe u should know my 'style' :P

and notice the mess of papers on the floor.. haha i was too lazy to throw them into the bin ( too far away from me lahhhh).. so i started swiping them onto the floor. hehe.. well of course i did sweep it all away after submission!!!

the model i made.. heehee. rather happy with this one, cos not only did i finish it, it's the first time i lasered it!! so all the floors and walls were not wonky and the model was rather rock steady. heeheh.. too bad i cant bring it home :P

bottom 2 pics are the back facade.. top pic is the front facade..

oOOO and i must tell this!!! 3 of my panels were chosen for an exhibition!!! and the final model from the previous project.. i have no idea why either, cos my panels are damn ugly can!!!!

hehe but i is happies that at least there's something good in my project.. which i obviously do not know of :X i shall try to find out some time.. heehee *grinz*

i will not show my panels.. cos i is ashamed of the ugliness of it all.. :X it's the typical 'cheryl' style if u know what i mean.. pik piak pik piak everywhere.. hehehe

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next up!! foodie!!! heheeh..

maggie and i went to shatin to get our tickets to go home.. so she brought me to a little shop for lunch.. and wow!!! damn nice can!!! it's the first pic.. pork chop noodles..

the pork chop was so smooth and drizzled with a sweet sauce.. wahh~~~ *droool* and the noodles were a refreshing change from the horrible food in campus.. hehe. it came with a drink as well!! and i ordered a mango tea~ wooo!!!~~

i love mango juices :P

bottom 2 pics.. hehe my own concoctions.. instant noodles with ham and mini wantons. hehe the seaweed was part of the noodle package.. the second one is actually canned soup and i added some crumbled seaweed crackers as garnishing.. hehehe :P

i love seaweed as well!! hehehehe.. :P

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finally the day after submission, aka yesterday, i headed down to mongkok :P and tst.. !! a pic of the moon at 5pm in mongkok.. so nice eh!! teehee.. but i guess no one else noticed cos it was damn crowded and everyone was jostling and scurrying about doing their shopping!!!! i went to the side of the pavement where no one was walking.. hehe :P

mongkok mongkok.. what else would it be without the crowds and the smells.. hehe.. puke..

oh!! btw!! takopachi balls were selling for S$2 for 6 of them.. wooo!!! heheeh.. :P they didnt come with those fish flakes and such.. but damn cheap when u're damn hungry can!! heeheeee PLUS! there was a mountain of SEAWEED that came with it.. teeheehee...

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it's so cold now.. brrrr.. 20 deg in my room and it was rather fun wearing a scarf out in the streets.. it's sasa's stripey fcuk one.. :P huuhuu.. i is shivering my toes off in my room..

ok lah not so cold.. but not so fun to do work now yah.. heheee..
hehee.. hope u've enjoyed this post..

till later!! tata :P

yikes.. 2 more weeks left in hk..
i'm missing it already.. :(
*miao*

but it's kinda ironic cos i'm gg back to the pple i love :P
but.. i still LOVE hong kong!! wheeee!!!!