Greetings frm Canto land.

Im safely in Hong Kong, and i desperately want to know if the JI guy has been caught!
Rest assure if i see him in Hong Kong I WILL DEFINITELY CALL BACK SINGAPORE AND ASSIST THEM IN ANYWAY TO CATCH THAAT BASTARD.

So guys, main thing is, if he is caught, please let me know!!!!!

i have no internet and im leeching on someone's wireless everyday!
But since i've been cultivated by spore as a really good citizen who is bothered about piracy and IP laws, i will not break laws and im will not even hack into that person's system to see what he or she has. Not even if he/she has naked pictures of edison chen, not even if they are scandalous enough to make a nerdy guy horny.

i've started posting pics on face book, so go check it out, its under albums.

the fact that i cant speak canto is making my life hard. Hong Kong pple can speak english well, but i dont understand why they DONT WANT TO SPEAK IT. oh ya, im having a bloody hard time.

I shall not say much except for the fact that i do really miss my close friends and family.

from wendy, to tong!

Hello,
Wendy is flying off to beiJing too, just thought i'll share smtg from her blog.
Oh god, i have very thoughtful friends!
Wendy, sorry we din get to 'pumproom' together! 5 months down the road lah!
heres what she wrote:

Tong, Nic and Gib are leaving next week and I just really wanna WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR YOUR ATTACHMENT AND I'M GONNA MISS YOU GIRLS AND GUYS LOTS AND LOTS AND ALSO WISH YOU A GREAT FLIGHT TO YOUR DESTINATIONS.

" Tong: For all the crazy crazy attitude and cool things you do and say when we go out, you're really REALLY gonna be missed by us for the next 5 months and I just know you're gonna do great cause you're just so determined. Just remember to smile like you always do and don't get beaten when the going gets tough okay! And if you ever feel homesick or anything just know that at he end of these 5 months you're gonna come home to all the great friends that you have made in your life so just stick it out in HK okay! LOVE YOU VERY VERY MUCH :D

I could list down all the people I'm supposed to miss when I'm gone but I think there will only be that few of you who are probably gonna see me in the next few weeks :D "


SWEET WENDY!

24hours.

To be exact,in less than 24 hours.
This time tmr, i will be in my new home, where i will be for the next 5 months, hopefully.
If im lucky, i might have even sneaked a quick H&M visit in between.

It has been drizzling non-stop, feels like an advance farewell.
I've just finished packing, I have to admit it has taken me forever.
Finding out that i have a half a cupboard of unwanted clothes also came as a surprise. The moment i sat on top of my luggage, struggling to close it, was the moment i realise the time has come.

These few days, I have just been busy meeting friend after friend, eating huge portions of food at cafes/restaurants after restaurants. Spending cash as if i will be getting paid 3000USD per month (damn i really wish.)

There is no fear, no anxiety, no excitement running through my veins at all.
Few months back when i first applied for this post, I thought (or rather wished) that when the moment of departure arrives, i will feel a tinge of excitement, no, maybe a truckload of excitement, but NAH, the only 'tinge' of thing I feel is saddness. I guess leaving your loved ones aint as easy as it looks. You can board a plane, leave the country. But to let your heart feel at ease with leaving them, well, its a different matter altogether.

Hong Kong, yea, i can console myself that there will be many pairs of shoes there waiting for me to buy, but how can that make up for all the time that i will not be seeing my friends and family?

The whoel prospect of leaving comfort zone is shiok, no doubt, but facing the faces of my friends at departure will be tough. Because i might always 'proclaim' that i love being alone, no human being can survive without another.

When i heard that I would be taking a 6.30 am flight (meaning i gotta reach at 4.30 friggin am!), i felt quite at ease. It wasnt a timeslot that people would want to be out of their beds and freezing their ass off, not even when Changi is ranked the No.4airport in the world.

Unexpectedly, my closest buddies will all be there. the full troupe, full battalion, full -whatever-you-call-it. Camping in changi airport is not exactly the most exciting thing to do in the middle of the night, but its what those people are going to do. My heart screams out THANK YOU to them, so loud that its deafening. And once again, i come face to face with something i have acknowledged years ago, the fact that i am a bloody lucky person, i am bloody lucky with making friends. They baked goodies for me, give me tea to calm my senses, slam me so hard that i realise things, give me company so good that i would rather not sleep and stay up and talk an entire night (even nights),support my decisions, give me the warmth i need as and when i need, bitch like tabloid magazine writers, pig out till food can literaly flow out from my nose, laugh and get high, and all the things they do to make my heart feel so full. they define friendship for me.


For all the good times, Xinyu, keat, Li Bing, sandy, Cha, wendy, Hui, Le, ila, ying, yuhan, tze, jieying, peirong etc.


laptop's down, so no pictures for those nostalgic moments.

Its off to bathe, then dinner then airport.
Hong Kong, please please please welcome me with open arms.



Goodbye Singapore!

(P.S email me! Laingtlau@hotmail.com, but i'll probably email those people as soon as i get internet access! Love ya people!)

keep it up.

despite all the nitty gritty stuffs happening.
deep within my hear i sincerely believe that everything happens for a reason.
same with the fact that kenneth is coming to HK.
ay least i will have someone to watch over me, in a weird way.

lets keep the energy up.

PS: I love books.

there's always a tinge of sadness when i finish a novel.
sometimes, its simply because of the nature of love being sacrificial, sometimes it is a post syndrome.
the only way to go about clearing off that sadness is to indulge in another book.

often enough, i get too caught up,maybe too over caught up in the relationships in the novels.It just seems so simple to step into someone else's shoes and feel their pain. I cant say the same for joy and happiness thou.

Another Nicholas sparks' novel.'Dear John'.
while the whole world is busy reading Cecelia Ahern, i figured i should go join Nicholas's fan club. He is, after all, more of a senior than Ms Ahern.

The joy of knowing there are like3 more books to finish reading, temporarily throws my mind away from the business traveller magazines i have to familiarize myself with. I can never run away from it thou, i believe i'll be reading them even on the plane, i mean, how much can United Airline offer in terms of in-flight entertainment. Shall wait and see.


Just got back from Libing's house, had a great breakfast, lingered in a great house had a not so great sleep, but that's the least of my concerns.

Li bing, in case ur reading this, I noticed something that really touches my heart.
Every time i stay over at ur house, i wake up to your breakfast table filled with well-prepared food.
Not only so, your water bottle.
A filled up to the brim water bottle.
From the red plastic one to your current yellow one, every morning, always filled.
I think ur really very lucky.(:

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If anyone is reading this, let me do a shout-out:

TONG is leaving Singapore on the 11th March 2008, its a 6am flight!
I have to be at the airport at 4am!
and i will really miss Singapore, im trying not to get to that part.

I really really wanna find a ku-huo-zai (HK Mobster/Gangster/Lao Da) and settle down in HK.
Live of life of thrill, wondering which moment will be the last with my Ku-huo-zai.
NAH, JUST JOKING!
OK, i day dream too much, obviously watch too many HK flicks.



countdown:

11 days.

fly away.

" Yea, im going to L.A to work for 3 months. "
" WOW, 3 MONTHS!? Thats' a long time!"

in my heart, i wondered why she would want to do it. Was there a reason? 3 months was an awfully long time alone. Wait, im forgetting that i once wanted to go to Hong Kong for 5 months, despite knowing that i would be alone. Well, that was until kenneth came along. I will be going to HK anyway, for 5 months, even longer a duration than her.

" Why did you suddenly wanted to go?", i asked.
" SpeedWings, saw a poster in school, thought that im young and needed an adventure."

the longing for an adventure. I thought she maybe also wanted something or someone else. Adventure? that hardly seem apt for a young girl turning 20. But she was the mountaineering kind, i could see from her tan. A trip to L.A, going to national parks and disney land seems compatible with her. Ah, i think we are becoming global students, going all over the world. And i guess im the only one who desire that something extra.



- the somewhat long but short conversation in Ikea.

flee from Zouk flea

ARZZZZZZZZZ ZOUK FLEA IS VERY SCARY.

and did i mention, overly over-rated.
gangs of people unworthy to mention.
oh god, people coming in extremely 'this-cost-less-than-10-bucks-and-it-looks-that-way' kind graphic tees with slippers.
if you look as bad on the top side, at least pay attention to you footwear lah!
issues issues issues.

and i saw like 20 gazillion people turning up with that 'im a geek' glasses.
its over people! OVER (as can be seen by the fact that those geek glasses are turning up in some of the stores in the flea.)
the trend is saying sayonara! good bye! adios! Ciao!

Li Bing and i wished that we brought in pa rangs and guns to clear the crowd.
The whole atmosphere was so bad that i walked like 4 rounds and i decided to call it a day.
i spent like $1.50 on a cute fabric badge! and THAT WAS IT!

at least she (LB) managed to get a top, badges(like 9?) and poker cards big enough for my-granny-with-bad-i-sight to play.
not bad considering the conditions, hardly fit for a human to shop.
EWWWEW. its my last zouk flea for the next 6 months. (anyway, im flying off SOON.)

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my camera is going on a strike, ah, maybe its my iphotos.
cant upload pics for nuts man.

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im ashamed to say that i finally bought a white basic, a long white basic, after million of year without one.
CottonOn has become my essential basics paradise.
cheap cheap cheap basics, good fitting basics! (goodbye pull and bear!)

calling for helpless.

so a 4 man(or rather women)project became me, myself and i doing it.
with the help of sandy.

so if we were gonna screw up, like i think we would,its probably my fault, yet not really my fault. i've had enough of this kind of retarded leeching going on since year 1.

I SWEAR I HAVE NEVER FELT SO FUCKING HELPLESS IN MY WHOLE , ALMOST TWO YEARS, IN MCM.
my brother walked in and i just cried.
like i duno what the fuck is going on AT ALL, and the numbers, well, none of them made sense to me despite me trying, for the past two days to understand what they mean.Significance? fuck. ANOVA? fuck. Frequency? fuck. Mean? fuck.

i read the whole chapter on text, and all the notes.
and i just felt like the stupiest dumbfuck on earth.

so after many hours of constant struggling, i decided to give up and do it my own way according to my own understanding. i mean, what could be worst right, i already did the ALL the other questions.Die, then ALL die together.

i cannot possibly emphasis, reiterate of even nag about the importance of EFFICIENT group mates.


for 1 hour, i felt like i was a timebomb (and i really wanted to be one!) so i can go to school tmr and blast at everyone.

as if life could not get worst, my charger is officially dying. like spoilt.
mental note: call up diversitec tmr.



and yes, if by hook or by crook i end up a media researcher, i swear it is only because my future husband is in it too.

monday morning.

i wish i was Delilah.

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i dreamt of ziggy soh.
trust me, its not him that is scary, its the whole advert saga.
i can feel that he is really helping us, subtle-ly.
and i really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
i will not continue advert in year 3 because advert is advert.
but if i ever will, i think it will be because of ziggy soh.

right now.
feels like im holding on to this really thin thread and its gonna break any moment.
its just an analogy of my current state of mind.
and i believe many fellow mates feel exactly the same.(like D-U-H!)

but honestly, to give up at this point of time,
i will just be a huge ass loser who will never be able to look into the light again.


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im starting to pray very hard (and work very hard too) that i will get to go overseas to continue to study.
i am just not prepared to step out in the workforce yet, mentally.
i want to be so much better prepared.

i dont think NTU/BUS/SMU will do any good to me, unless im going for business courses.
getting in is another problem.
Going to the US will be good i think.
polishing up my english will do me good.
refining my writing skills will be hard, but challenging enough for me to want to do it.


lets see how it goes.


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speaking of graduating.
i miss these two women who are graduating really soon.
like i miss them, i dont even know how to go about saying it.
every time i think of them, there is this warm fuzzy feeling that runs through me.
talk about affinity.






oh my lovely ladies.sighs.

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its 9.39am on a monday morning.
im in school, trying to figure out what MRM is really about.
and i drowned in blogger instead.

THIS IS SCARY.

Believing that awfully handsome vampires do actually exist, thanks to Stephenie Meyer.
Hooked on the whole Twilight saga, its hard to move on.

The realness of it all.

been thinking about this week alot, like random happenings.

Top on my list is how i went about introducing my teammates wrongly, i swear their minds were going 'what kind of fucking AD are you!!!???!!'.
ya, i really wanted to punch myself silly.

i think on two particluar days, well,
perhaps i did act abit weird.
and i hate to admit it, abit curel.

Hui recently mentioned that i had taken a liking to calling everyone 'weird'.
well, its true.
Cause my brother said the exact same thing a week ago.

i know this sounds all too weird, but i actually went to watch my brother play in a match.
well, i promised him i would do so a year ago.HAHA.
so much so for being efficient.

Love Journal

random journal i found online.

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So i was just writing this article about making a 'Love Journal'.
well, laugh all you can, but its for my school magazine.
the randomest topic i have ever written about in my whole entire life.

but im truly very inspired by my own piece.
so inspired that i think i will embark on a journey to do another journal.
i know i haven been saying this for ages, but i still had to mention it, if i had a boyfriend, yea.
making a journal together will be fun.
in my mind now, i can already picture someone who will embark on this project with me.
HAHA!
gotta go hound someone for pictures we took together.

had a call from the editor yesterday, all the way from HK.
if i had known it was something like a phone interview, i would had better prepared myself.
i sounded like a bloody fool while on the phone.
shame on tong!

can't cry over spilled milk.OOPS.

Cute love journal i found online:

one thing.

went for a steamboat dinner awhile ago.
spending money on food is always the best solution after a long day of shopping.

i miss going for steak with my mum,
come to think of it.
before i can even spend time with her, im flying off to hong kong.
lol, life and its many twists and turns.

well, back to steamboating.
we went to 'tian tian' the so-called famous one.
well, the soup was awfully good, they CLAIMED it was msg-less..
but i woke up at 3am in the morning lusting for water.
so, well, you get the point.

it was like steamboat buffet, so naturally, i gorged myself silly.
but i think chong li bing gorged herself sillier than me!
HAHA, that girl has stamina man, i swear!

and we both left tian tian feeling very contented.










life is still good.
when food, friendship and relationships come together.


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ah, yes yes i forgot to add.
open house turned out good.
im so proud of the year 1s.
and every one who did their best to help while we were running about like crazy people.
i guess we (fmsa) still pass for managing skills.


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eyeliner.

Ah, i finally did something exciting.
i FINALLY got the eye liner that i have been looking for the last 2 months.
K-Palette!
great slim liquid eyeliner brush!




like WOW WOW.
i've checked, its made in JAPAN!
no more china product scare.



so anyway i really need to trim my eyebrow.
but that aside, wow, the brush was really fun.
ah, with some training, i think i'll be able to do the prada eyeliner thing soon.LOLS.



ok, i could even like draw my inner lids without much problem!
whoosh.

oh well, this post shows how i've really gone nuts.
too much work too little fun.




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240.

Fear.
the world that rips my guts out.
3 days in a role, i swear u had better stop appearing in front of me suddenly.
im freaked out.
i wished i had a body guard.
im on my toes all the time.
i swear its not just me thinking too much.

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did i mention,
i love FMSA.

239.

leave me alone.
when you do that to me,
it's almost as if i should anticipate a further contact point.
you belong in the heart of another.

238

im on the verge of venturing out alone to have things done my way.
but now im back to Square one.


its these little things that kill me, and yet heighten my insecurities towards you.

237 - for company.

i never expected this to ever happen.
Kenneth and i are going to HK together!

there is this over-flowing pool of emotions bursting within me.
a part of me wants to jump in joy,
yes indeed my mum will not be there but the forces above gave me kenneth for company.
as much as i am a loner, yes a super loner, having company in a strange land is bliss, for now.

i cant explain how much i want to jump up and scream,
go about telling the world ' WE ARE GOIN TO CONQUER HONG KONG'.
well, not exactly conquer but we in this together.

starting life anew somewhere with company,
i cant say it was what i originally wanted, i wanted time alone, away from everyone i knew,
away from my home, away from everyone i ever felt a single emotion for, away from everything that i was forced to take a responsibility for, and just see my mum's face every now and then.

that was what i wanted.
but i guess with kenneth, its for the best.

i cant wait to start writing, start getting slammed (like how sng does it)
how does it feel?
cant wait to end advertising.

but i will miss keat ying very much.
Xin yu will need me.
brother will want to drink the milo i make.
but dad, i dont want to miss my dad.



for now, whirlwind thoughts of HK tempt me.

236 - a moment to remember

since when did i start leaving my ipod with empty battery so i have an opportunity to sleep peacefully on the bus.
that aside, here goes.

My HK/China/Macau trip at a glance.














those were the times.

it's a wrap.

new year resolutions are utterly useless in my case.

i make new years resolutions and i break them, all the time.

thus i end up unearthing new year resolutions from years ago for a good laugh.

i just want to give thanks to 2007, however good/rotten it might be.

PLEASE let good luck roll in like bundles of fresh air.