Emily Bear February 26, 2008
I am officially IN LOVE with this girl. She the most adorable little angel I have ever seen. Even her name is soooooooooooooo cute.
Oh, and did I mention she’s also one of the most talented 6 year old I have ever seen? Not only does she plays the piano so well (I think she started playing when she was 4 or 5) and studies classical music and jazz, she COMPOSES. YES! She can compose a tune in TEN minutes!!!
Like, what was I doing when I was 6? Going to kindergarden, learning my ABCs and eating biscuits and milo, then going home to play with my barbie dolls. A long cry from her lor…
Emily on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, performing “Thanks”
A song she wrote for Ellen, aptly named “Ellen’s Song”
And my favourite – “The Love in Us”
If I ever have a child, I am definitely sending him/her for piano lessons.
I need sleep February 19, 2008
Today I was a walking zombie. Can’t imagine how I actually managed to survive being in school from 11.30am to 9.00pm, with nothing but meetings after meetings.
I don’t like having meetings when I am sleepy and tired coz I tend to be grouchy and will snap at anyone who makes a single mistake. Fortunately, I didn’t face that situation today (although I did try very hard to hold my tongue during 1 particular meeting when this girl kept bossing me around).
I’m kinda writing rubbish coz my fingers are moving and words are coming out but I’m not too sure if I am processing them in my brain.
Tomorrow is another loooonnnggggggg day. Have to rush fyp draft 1 coz stupid tutor wants to meet us on wed. What are the chances that he picks wed when we gave him the option of wed, thurs and fri? So low that I am shocked we are that suay. Then again, we’re always suay.
I should be finishing my report but I am too tired from doing 311. Which is another stupid subject, by the way.
SHOULD STOP COMPLAINING. SHALL GO SLEEP.
Go back to Vietnam!!! February 18, 2008
OMG I AM DAMN FUCKING PISSED OFF NOW!!!
He is honestly the most stupid and retarded person I have ever met in this whole world! With just a turn of his idiotic brain, he brought us down to 3rd place when we were 1st!!!
Highlights of his stupidity:
1. Continuing to buy more new features when we already had 5. Like, hello?!? Can’t you see that no one else is investing in Tech 1 anymore?!?
2. Buying THREE new features at a go for Tech 2. Excuse me, does your grandfather print money?!?!
3. BUYING the new features instead of RESEARCHING them. R&D STANDS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, NOT BUY AND DEVELOPMENT YOU DIMWIT!!! Do you know your wasteful spending has costed a total of $220,000?!?!?
4. Not increasing the PRICE of the products when he has increased the no. of features. I seriously don’t get it. If you’re so adamant on having more new features, shouldn’t you at least have the brains to increase the selling price?!?! What do we look like?!?! A charitable organisation?!?!?
5. Selling in US when the case clearly told us that the corporate tax rate there is 38% while Asia is 18%. OBVIOUSLY you should sell less in US and more in Asia right?!?!?
OMG doesn’t he have any common sense at all?!?! Or is that word too chim for him?!?! Any 3 year old kid can understand the logic behind the game! I am seriously soooooooooooooooooooo pissed off that I could just kill him!!!!!!
I heart Angus House February 15, 2008
Everything was the way it exactly should be – perfect.
Looking happy and pretty/handsome and all ready for dinner!
Hideout for the night – Angus House at Ngee Ann City. A quaint little restaurant tucked away in a corner on the 4th storey, just outside Takashimaya. Everything about it is so classy and yet simplistic- from the furniture to the deco to the waitresses who were dressed as french maids.
No photos of the waitresses, but think along the line of this…
LOL.
Everything was so Valentine’s Day – pink table placemats, pink towels, pink cocktails…
The Food
Hors d’oeuvres: Fried Cod with Potato and Sauce (didn’t pay attention to what the menu said)
The batter was light and crisp and the fish was really really really fresh as it simply flaked off when you try to cut it. Good control of timing as batter was golden brown and fish wasn’t dry. Goes well with the sauce (wished I knew what it was).
Soup: Cream Soup with Vegetables and (I think) Crab Meat
I could have sworn the menu said Wild Forest Mushroom Soup. Zzzzzz…… Anyway, soup was kinda bah coz it wasn’t hot and it tasted Campbell-ish.
Salad: Greens with Smoked Salmon and Japanese Dressing and Bacon Bits
I liked this. The dressing is not the typical heavy fat-ladden sort, but a light sour dressing. I can’t quite pin-point what sauce was used to make the dressing, but I know I tried it before. Possibly some sort of Japanese vinegar. Anyway, the sour dressing complements the saltiness of the salmon and bacon bits, thereby achieving an harmonic balance.
Main Course: Grilled Angus Ribeye Steak (Medium-Rare)
The highlight of the whole dinner – the steak. Served sizzling hot with potato and carrot on the sides and similar sour Japanese sauce. While the small slice of lime seems rather insignificant, it is actually very powerful as it brought out a strong fragrance. Don’t play play!
What impressed me was the quality that the restaurant is committed to deliver. Most restaurants make use of “festivities” such as Valentine’s Day and Christmas Eve to rip their customers off by offering expensive sets and yet serving miniscule portions. But look at this!
Look at how thick the ribeye is! And it was sooooooooooooo juicy and tender, definitely no 偷工减料in this restaurant! I officially declare that this is the BEST steak I have ever eaten (and I have eaten quite a few).
Dessert: Valentine’s Day Special
Isn’t this just absolutely gorgeous?!?! It had all sorts of berries piled on top with mango sauce and bits of Jell-o drizzled around. Can feel all the sincerity and dedication that the chefs put into this intricate little piece of artwork.
Think its just a simple dessert? Think again!
Chocolate oozing out from the inside. I can’t quite decide if this was a panna cotta or a cheesecake coz the white outer layer tastes like philly cream cheese.
Heart shaped strawberry chocolate! So SWEET!!!
Stuffed and uber happy! Best dinner ever!
I heart Angus House lots lots. I will be back soon, hopefully.
My sweet sweet Valentine February 14, 2008
Came home from school and was greeted by this lovely sight!
Simin is feeling very very very very very very very very very very loved!
I love you too dear! Muacks muacks!
Can’t wait to show dear my pressie for him and then its off to dinner at Angus!
Help me I’m drowning… February 13, 2008
This is the final semester of my university studies and yet I have a strange ominous feeling that this is going to be the worst. I feel like I am not in control of many things which I should be in control of.
I am totally lagging behind for 214 and 311 and my notes are mostly empty coz I couldn’t wake up in time to attend lectures. In the past, I used to pon lectures too but I couldn’t still roughly catch what the tutorial was all about and participate. Now, I find it hard to participate coz of the ra-ra boys and the mere fact that I don’t quite feel like speaking up anymore.
I am unable to take charge of projects as I used to simply because there are so many of them that I am overwhelmed and I cannot keep track of which ones are due! 214 has 3 “small” ones and 1 “medium” project plus an individual one, 215 has 2 “small” ones and 1 “big” one, 311 has……countless. Have to prepare tutorial questions every week (in powerpoint, no less), have to play virtual game, have to make TWO presentations on our thoughts about the game plus one other dunnowhatpresentation. ARGH!!!!!!! How to remember so many?!?!?! In the end, I have no choice but to take the back seat and be passive, letting others take charge and remind me of when the deadlines are. Which I don’t quite like coz when you are passive it means that you have to give up some control and authority. Not my style. Bleahx.
My fyp is also lagging, although this is largely due to our anal supervisor who wants to have the report ONE week before the official dateline and he takes TWO weeks to read through a report when others only need ONE. Best of all, he can’t even remember our team and what we are doing, let alone give constructive suggestions! It is soooooooooo tedious to have to work on something for 7 months!!!
Just filled up my organiser with the various deadlines……….I feel like flushing it down the toilet bowl already. Zzzzz….
Why, EDC, why? February 6, 2008
So the big secret is out – The photos are real. Or at least, that’s what I inferred from his apology.
It’s not that I have anything against casual sex, but I just don’t understand why people have to video/photograph the process. I mean, what’s the thrill of watching yourself on video?
And even if you had to take photos of yourself and your girlfriend(s) for keepsakes, at least delete them when you guys break up right? I mean, isn’t it very awkward that you still keep them and look through them every now and then when you guys are not together anymore?
EDC: Yo wassup Cecilia! How’s Nic and the baby?
Cecilia: Everything’s fine…
EDC: Cool, cool. Can see that pregnancy hasn’t done much to that haaaawwwwwwttttttttttttt ass of yours! *winks*
Cecilia: WHAT?!?!
And to think that EDC and Nic were classmates! Means they were friends! Imagine how you would feel if your friend has nude photos of your wife!
But if you really will die without your photo collection, then use your common sense and store them in an external hard drive before sending your comp for repair! Like, duh right?
It’s ok if you don’t love me February 5, 2008
It feels weird that even though we are both in the same room, the same living space, we don’t speak to each other. This is despite the fact that we have not seen each other in a few months, and throughout this entire period of absence I believe I only spoke to him once on the phone (and that lasted less than 30 secs too).
No doubt, my family isn’t quite like others. We don’t share secrets, thoughts or problems. But when we finally do “share”, it’s when we really cannot stand each other anymore and are about to blow, resorting to shouting and yelling and name-calling to release the frustration within. Other than that, the adults’ affairs are not to be discussed with the children and us, children, are assumed to have nothing to worry about other than our studies. (Relationships are a big no-no until you leave the grasp of MOE.)
Sometimes I wonder if it’s just me. They seem to communicate perfectly well with my brother and sister. He sends sms-es to them, he asks them on recent happenings, but not me. It’s hard to tell myself “It’s ok, its not your fault” when the facts are so clear and right in my face.
Do parents have to love their children? I remember watching Tyra Bank’s show the other day and a mum was talking about how she wanted to give her daughter up for adoption because she cannot stand her anymore. If such things were morally acceptable in my family, I think I would have been shipped to Uzbekistan as a child prostitute. (Ok, I don’t really know if child prostitution is rampant in Uzbekistan so don’t quote me)
Princess Simin February 4, 2008
I have a new chest of drawers that is soooooooo preeeettttyyyyyyyyyyy.
Carefully guarded by my bear bear and pig pig. It plays music when you open the lower drawer. Sugar Plum Dance from The Nutcracker, one of my all-time favourite!
I’m a PRINCESS! Hoho.. Thanks dear for the lovely present!
