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i watched my first r21 movie today: Wilde.

its a movie about oscar wilde, famous writer-poet and his struggle with his homosexuality, fatherhood and marriage. there were many scenes of him making out (ie french-kissing and other hyper-action) with other men, really grotesque. i had to squint my eyes from time to time cuz i couldn't take it.

there were also a few scenes of the back view of naked men. but i wasn't very disturbed. after seeing all the nude paintings in AEP classes, this is NOTHING. (its only the back view!)

edit: "squint my hair"???

its american idol final results day. the show started at 8am.

9.56am (in the office), i was frantically pressing the 'refresh' button on youtube, checking to see if anyone has uploaded the results vid.

10.00am No sign of vids. SMS comes in. its elise sending me an sms from US.
*excitement*
sms says: david won ami!
*faints* of cuz david won, but which one??!?! *feels like strangling elise*

10.01am sends reply to elise: which one!!

10.03am elise replies: Lol i know. I purposely said that in case you didn't want me to spoil it for you. It's cook.
*disappointment sets in* *weeps for archuleta* *rants to marie*

10.07am elise replies: Lol won by 12million votes. Going to pick Lee up now.
*sad!!!!!!!!!*

if u had watched the performances last nite, you'd have known dat david cook was just average, his usual self, didn't do anything that showed he's going for gold. but archuleta was fabulous. simon cowell told archie after his 3rd performance that he had just witnessed archie put up a knockout fight.

sighs. so wanted archuleta to win so that we can all fulfill a young boy's dream. but oh well, he's going to go on and do more great things. i dun hate cook. i actually like him too, he's my daughtry-kinda guy. i'd buy his album, that i know for sure. i'd buy both albums la. haha.

this season has been exciting. i actually watched right from the start. i only noticed cook from top 12 onwards. i remember archuleta from his hollywood round when he sang "Heaven". i thought it was really good. and his rendition of john lennon's "imagine" at top 20 round was memorable. sigh. i hope the poor boy isnt weeping his eyes out. he definitely deserves to win!

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marie, my fellow intern, just threw over a paper-plane. (we sit facing each other, separated by the cubicle wall). inside, she wrote: 5 mins to go! :)

herein ends day 2.

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heehee, nothing beats feeling like i have nothing to do.

zark has been bugging me to blog. she's bored. BORED is a good thing okie, zark? DUN FORGET dat we will be scrambling around with public law and company law textbooks when school starts.

so sunday morning was spent in church. lunch was at soup spoon. dan is never sick of soup spoon. he claims its in the mind. they probably add a lot of msg into his soup. sorry fi for making u wait... after that, fi n i walked a bit to look at shoes. i tried to find a pair of decent black court shoes, but im utterly disappointed at the current selection that the shops offer. on my way home, i rmb a swank shoe shop above tpy mrt, so i decided to go there n found a pair at $15. very happy with my buy.

sidetracking, spore weather is horrible these days. i really wish cameron's weather can be imported here.

sat was anntic day, as set by boss weeks ago. he just got back from montreal and bought us M&M pens from the M&M shop. i almost believed him when he said the ink is made of chocolate n can be eaten. anyway the pens were cute! thanks boss, for remembering ur prawns while u were having so much fun in canada n london.

dor n i met in the morning at orchard to do our brows. then we parted ways for a while so i can go to m1 shop at paragon n she can go n hunt for her m0ngolian dictionary at kino. then we set off for clementi to shop for groceries. but jaryl was early so he had gotten all the items while waiting for us. the weather was horrid so we cabbed to pok's house. i heard boss had retreated to pok's house when he heard we were meeting to buy groceries. like a king la!

so we cooked dinner which consists (was going to write "constituted". shudders. i use dat word a lot in my memos. shudders) of pok's fried rice n kiwi chicken, fi n shan's potato salad n nuggets fried by me. food was good :) then we played the baby photo game n pictionary. oh yeah! before we cooked, shan fi n i went anchorpoint to buy nachos n cheese n drinks for the boys who were engrossed with xbox.

i bored with narrating. internship starts tmr. expect this place to be rather silent for the time being, cuz there's prob not much to blog about.

Dear world,

i'm back from the cooling cameron highlands. had a thoroughly good time there fellowshipping with my cute anntic comm and spending time with God. Thank God for providing us with such a nice place for the camp in Dec, im sure the vcfers are going to love the place as well.

The weather was very nice. Good to be away from the hot and humid spore right after exams. On tues, we met at 7.30am at kranji mrt. i was there early, at 6.45am. we took a bus to woodlands checkpoint, and through the malaysian checkpoint. then we got on the bus again to get to larkin bus terminal. we reached there at 9+ am and realized that the 9.30am bus we had bought tickets (rm 24) on somehow had no seats for us (dunno how the msian booking system works), so they gave us seats on the 10.30am bus. so weiying n i shooed the comm into macdonalds while we went to hunt down calvin who had enthusiastically embarked on his task of finding cheap buses that we can charter for the camp in dec. mac is cheap in msia, but the size of serving was smaller. i didnt eat mac, i had donuts which we bought from dunkin donuts.

onto the bus again at 10.30am. we got to KL at 2.45pm, and bought tickets (rm 18) for the 3.30pm bus to cameron. the bus came late and we sat inside the bus ticket cum grocery shop to wiat for it. meanwhile, we started eating the kfc we had bought and the sight was really funny. we were seated in 2 rows facing each other, on white plastic chairs, like how maid agencies display their maids outside the agency office in shopping centres.

the ride from KL to cameron highlands was supposed to take 4 hours but we travelled from 4pm to 9.30pm. it was very dark when the bus ascended the hill (mountain?) and thank God we got up there safely. we reached tanah rata town and went to have dinner: naan, nasi goreng, mee goreng before heading off to barre ij centre which is where anntic is going to be in dec. we were ushered into our dormitory, and told that lights out was at 12. so we rushed to bath and was really thankful that there was hot water in the shower.

day 2 wed
before we went to eat breakfast, we decided to book bus tickets back to spore. we walked the whole town n couldnt find the bus company that sold bus tickets direct to spore. when we finally found the place, it was the first place we had stopped at in the morning to look for a map of cameron. sigh. hahahaha.

we had prata for breakfast, then went back to the centre. ryan led worship and reflection. what was supposed to be 30mins became 1 hour. then we went to the building opposite barre centre to visit huien's missionary friend. she baked scones for us and they were so quaint and lovely. michelle ate 7 scones, to our bemusement!

in the afternoon, we went trekking to explore the feasibility of bringing the campers out for some nature trekking. we decided to go on the 30mins route to waterfall. we were quite disappointed that the waterfall turned out to be this unimpressive pool of water descending very little height. there was a trek ahead and my comm, the excited and adventurous lot, decided to climb up to the clock tower. towards the top, i was panting and exhausted. the steps were steep and high, but i made it to the top, thanks to Brothers Securities. (cal and ryan were wearing their 'brother' shirts). i think we trekked for 2-3 hours and then we went on this road that will bring us up to Healthy Strawberry Farm.

at the farm, we ate fresh strawberry ice. OH, that was sOOOooo000oooo good! we met a couple from KL who bought strawberries and insisted on sharing it with us. such nice pple! then we set off on the road back to tanah rata. it'd take close to an hour to get there. we went past the smokehouse that sold the best scones and tea at cameron, but some pple were sick of scones, so we decided to move on.

then "the rain came down and the ark came up"...there was no ark, but we started running when the rain started. we didnt have umbrellas, just jackets. my jacket is non-waterproof, but it can hold up a bit of water. then a bus came along and we hopped on. we were so happy!!!!!! weiying said she was praying furiously for a bus, and it really came along. its not often to see a public bus travelling around, supposed to be 1 an hour i heard.

we got back to tanah rata, safe from the rain. we had steamboat (rm 13 per person). it was so scrumptious, especially in the rainy and cold weather and after trekking for several hours. before going back to the centre, we checked out another steamboat place 500m from the centre and decided to book it for the camp.

back at the centre, we bathed. we had worship, a devotion on prayer then one hour of corporate prayer for ourselves and also the theme of the camp. after prayer, we had personal sharing until it was lights out.

day 3 thurs
woke up at 8am and went for breakfast. we kept having prata n naan. the food in cameron is either malay or chinese. the teh tarik was GOOD so everyone kept ordering that too.

we had worship when we got back to the centre and 30mins of personal devotion time. then we had a meeting to brainstorm for theme and workshop topics.

then the 3 yr1 girls went out with ryan to buy marrybrown for lunch. huien, wy, cal n i stayed back to play diamant. it was quite fun. after lunch was a continuation of personal sharing from last night. we shared till 5pm and realized we dun have enough time for dinner cuz the bus was coming at 6pm to go to ipoh. i bought some bread (they complained that its hard. tsk tsk. sporeans like to complain) cuz ryan was hungry already.

got to ipoh and bought tickets for 9.30pm non-stop bus back to spore (rm 48). went to grab dinner at a ramly burger store at the roadside. ipoh town is very 1960s, 1970s style.

we reached spore at 6am in the morning.

had a lovely trip. thank God for the great company, fresh and cool air at cameron, all the sights and sounds, and many personal moments with Him. :)

okie for update on day 2 and 3 of freedom....

day 2 (fri)
went town to buy stuff, met fi for lunch to maxwell food centre n then accompanied her to fuji xerox tower to repair her camera. went to town to meet dorea, window-shopped at taka, decided to take a rest at mos burger. then dorea left, so fi n i went watsons to buy stuff.

here's a list of things dat i bought yday:
sunglasses
big bottle of evening primrose oil vitamins
toiletries for cameron trip next week
a really nice photo frame
a cute tumbler

day 3
went cycling with cg at east park. started off at 10am n finished at 2pm.
we cycled from east coast to changi beach..26km, 4 hrs, my legs are dying. my butt hurts. my thighs are overstretched. ouch.
btw i saw one of the nicest countryside in spore..the nice overhanging forestry was really very pretty. n the weather today was perfect, windy n a bit chilly. not sunny at all.

then we had lunch at hongkong cafe. the food is really overrated, there's nothing so great abt it. rather average. and then headed home to teach piano, so here i am.

today im blogging for zark, who has slept and slacked and is bored with nothing to do....

so what happened today??????!!!!!!
*****END OF EXAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!*************

freedom is SWEET. i can feel it, taste it, see it. OH, so sweet.

so after the traumatic 2.5hour crim paper, the gang which consists of 4 girls+1 guy (note: he's not gay) went to town to have lunch at some korean chicken fast food outlet. then we watched ironman which was surprisingly good cuz of the thrill. after that we walked around hmv in heeren, before going paragon to look at some handphones. (note: i didnt drag them down. they agreed to come with me cuz we had nothing better to do. YES EXAMS ARE OVER!)

and then we headed off to brewerkz to find that we missed the happy hour by 10 mins. so we went to have dinner at highlander instead and went back to cafe iguana for drinks.

that's wat we did.

and i received an sms midway the movie to tell me to check my email for the breakdown of grades for lawr. ouch. happy with one component, the rest...eh i was consistent with watever i've been getting ie. not good. let's hope the other modules are better than this, or else, next sem would be a choice between working harder (to pull up grades) or working lesser (as its not always worth it to mug hard).

came home, and watched american idol results show. HAPPY to say that jason castrow is out! yayyyyyyy.

i know, i know. im supposed to be reading those crim essays.

here to share some of simon cowell's best insults.

#1
(after girl has sung)
simon: do u take singing lessons?
girl: yes
simon: who is your teacher?
girl: this woman up in montana
simon: do you have a lawyer?
girl: no
simon: get a lawyer and sue the teacher.

#2
(after girl has sung)
randy: you're not ready for hollywood
paula: unfortunately, you're not ready yet
simon: unfortunately, you'll never be ready

oh simon u rock!

to all my lovely commentators who would love to see me in the butterfly dress, here's the shorter version...
now, this is usd 330. the longer version is usd 396.

i am in love with this dress that brooke white wore on american idol last week.yes, its typical me to love butterfly prints. its so nice but costs $400 USD!
http://www.shopbop.com/butterfly-dress-satin-belt-alice/vp/v=1/845524441817937.htm?folderID=2534374302023685&fm=browse-brand-viewall-shopbysize

anyway simon cowell was the ultimate judge yday, like any other day actually. he said this about the top 5 contestants in one breath: forgettable, above average, nightmare, amateurish, old-fashioned.
that's why i love simon cowell. he needs to go tack-school like i did. maybe if i didnt enter suzy
s tackschool, i might be as good or better than simon today.