thinky

yknkow when people say they wanna freeze time, it's usually cause they're a bit emotional, or because the moment is perfect and they just wanna stay there foreever?

i wana freeze time now cause the exams are too close. way too close. but things just have to keep going. just keep moving cause the clock's ticking away whether you like it or not.

can't believe it's tmr. doesn't feel like it at all this year. i know i said sometime similar last year, but things have just been so quiet this year. i still havent decided if i like it or not. it just feels different. i guess i'm also kinda caught up with exam prep, so in a way, i might not even feel like it's here till it's gone.

i think im finding all the readings i need to do for hb and ob rather overwhelming and i really wish i could read faster. i'm so thankful that kath decided to give us the relevant reading for the exam today. totally took a whole loada reading off my list. good stuff. i like. the other thing i like is dimples. hahaha. totally random. but still worth mentioning.

thank God that i haven't fallen sick too! a lot of people are falling sick. i'm really glad He's kept me hopppin' healthy!

oh on a side note, i woke up early this morning hoping to bring my sunflowers to the florist to get the bottom of the stems snipped (and get some advice on how to keep them alive as well cause i.. well.. i can't even keep a cactus alive). i tried sawing the stems off with a kitchen knife after scissors failed. but that too did not work because the stem was so thick. but the florist was not around. so i ended up having to stab the stem from different sides and break it off. haha talk about tender loving care!

the more i look at them the more i like them. especially after i managed to make them stand in attention position, instead of pouring over the sides of the blue bucket in all different directions. they didn't look too glamorous then. heh.

i'd like to be an arts student for a day. just so i can sit around and think and over-think. no, scrap that over-think part. over thinking is kinda like paranoia, which is rather unlike me. i would find it extremely draining.

if i could draw well i'd be drawing lotsa stuff now. and who knows, i might even have gone into architechture just like what i'd wanted to be when i was a kid (after learning that e & s's dad designed their house). then again, i guess to a certain extent it is easier for me to find meaning in commerce than in archi, simply because the world speaks money. dont get me wrong im in no way saying that life's all about money.

i got a pleasant surprise call from j today. i could write a paragraph of thoughts on this, but it'd take a lot longer to sift out the things that are bloggable.

so blessed

so blessed.

i really enjoyed myself today. even from the after service lunch conversation i had with jonlee, joel and leland about meeting needs of a certain group of people in society.
d came over with these huge heavy bright things. huge heavy bright PRETTY things :) haha..
well actually i dont really wanna blog about everything cause i'd like them to be just my memories to keep so you'll have to ask me if you wanna know.

d got me this book made of postcards which i have to say is about the quirkiest book i have and i'd like to just take the day off to read it. but no. that has to wait.

ah. i think it's too late in the night to string my thoughts into a coherrent flow of words now.

so.

i think the postcard book's more than just pretty pictures though. i reckon it'll make me think about stuff. it's like a thought sparker. cool.

and.

i really enjoyed the conversations we had.omgosh and i had so much fun playing pac-man with dong! AH! hhaha. well done gogle well done.

gnite world.

google

im rather impressed with how google decorated their search page to mark pacman's 30th birthday today. it's super cool. just go to google.com!
dong wanted to search for something on google today but we ended up playing pacman (and had lotsa fun at it!) on the search page. haha :D i like.

rainbow

for those people who cannot adapt to change easily, im sorry, i decided that the old blog template was a bit too dark. muahaha..

part of me wishes i didn't have this human behaviour essay to do.. so i can focus on my commerce subjects more. but i just can't turn in shoddy work.. who'd be satisfied with handing in an assignment knowing you didn't do your best? right?

im still aching from basketball on saturday by the way. how terribly unfit ey? i still feel like playing though. heh maybe i'll ask yongshen!!

blog surfing

i dont blog surf very much.
but i like it because.. well people sound different.
i sound different when i blog as when i relate to say... dong or ching or gwen.. or.. yeah it's just different and i think that's what happens to other people when they blog too.

ah. hungry. second box of pocky. cham liao.

fun is not rest

before i say anything else i found a new pocky flavour that i really like!! it's the one with strawberry flakes! <3!!
oh but men's pocky still pwns.

the dg came over to cook up a feast and prepare food for today's picnic last night.
eric was the head chef who did most of the work. he got ready a THREE COURSE MEAL.

authentic garlic bread (with self-made garlic spread), two types of soup, pasta and finally, tim tam cheesecake! it took ages to get all that done though. good thing my housemate wasn't home till 1am cause her sister's here from malaysa to stay for 2 months.

we had a combined cellgroup picnic at carlton gardens today. i thought it was pretty good. i had a quick bball game with jonlee, jiah lit and mandy. yeh! haha.. i joined jonlee for ball with ben and kevin after the picnic as well. good fun man. i havent played like that in a long while and it was really nice. reminded me of when i was 13 and learning off the basketball guys and zi hui. those were good times. i think particularly also because as i look back now i remember going through all the emotional ups and downs of a young teen. a lot of it was attached to basketball, and being part of 2c.

i think i played better then, not that i was ever much good at bball.. buut. yeah, i'd like to play better cause it's something i find really fun, like how people like l4d. haha.






well. i've had quite a lot of fun the past 1.5days. but i need a break. need to rest. but i need to do work too! k. mm. i'll call it a night la. tmr will start earlier!

balls

i was typing an email to the cell "...to throw a frisbee and shoot uh.. shoot some balls? hahaha.. sounds so wrong. play basketball la!", to which m replied "Shoot some HOOPS Elisa! Not balls omg.. :P".

so fortunate to have friends who help me our with expressing my thoughts.

HAHA.

song

if only playing the guitar was as easy to me as typing a blog post.
maybe, just maybe i'll pick it up from someone during the holidays. (i've tried! but it's never worked for me. nevermind. try again.)

:)

i think polariods are really neat. i'd really really like to have lots of polariod pictures.. but if you ask me if i'd get a polariod camera i'd prolly say no. i would however, borrow someone's polariod camera and purchase my own film.

the fire brigade

investing in others requires so much more than just liking people, just simply being nice. it's a tough call, i reckon, to truly be an investor.
time and money would have to have totally different definitions. People would have a different definition.
if only J could be here, like right here sitting beside me, and we'd have a chat. a good long chat.

it's like a dance

we took a tram to the Crowne after dinner at don tojo.
this girl who boarded the tram with 3 of her teen friends was desperate to make the both of us feel awkward cause she just stared at us with a huge grin on her face. i just looked straight back with a smile on my face too. i was determined not to let her have her way.
ah. i guess that's kinda how staring fights in singapore start.

after having dinner with g and her family (and e) at southgate i knew i wanted to take an evening walk there with d, and so tonight we did! :D
annnd.. on the way back d took me on a surprise detour.

but of course i didn't know where we were going until we were almost there because my sense of direction is just. that. bad.
ask my dg, they'd know cause mandy and jonlee never fail to point that out at every opportunity.

we ended up having the best tiramisu ever at the mess hall with it's dim (hopefully energy-saving) lighting and artsy cafe ambience. thoroughly enjoyable. was totally :D by the surprise detour. i didn't see that one coming at all.

AND.. we even managed to pop by mk minimart to go pocky shopping! i ended up just getting the normal one because
1) i was very satisfied with the tiramisu and
2) i didn't wanna spend too much.

you should have seen man - they were selling pocky by the box of TEN too! for ten bucks. talk about having an exam survival kit. that'd be all you need man.

well not quite.

but still.

it's pocky.

ok good night. dont wanna be late for coffee with c tmr morning before service.

unreal

right now i'd like to stop time so that i can sit here and think and just be quiet and rest.
and i'd also like to give all my special people a hug. i really do.

midnight ride NOWWWWW!!

perhaps i should go visit aimee's place again one weekend. yes that'd be a great retreat.

little person

he is jealous for me
his love's like a hurricane

nooooo...

nooooo.... this is a nightmare! i have run out of snack supplies.
how how how how. ok im gonna get banana chips this weekend. or pocky. i havent gone pocky shopping yet. or maybe jackfruit chips.

aiya cannot luh.. ching's calling me a fatty already.

the merciless high d monster

so im supposed to come up with recommendations on how to deal with this 3-man team that cannot make progress on their project because they cannot get past their individual differences.

one of the guys - Winkel - shoudln't even be part of the team because he's so frickin slack and is just a big fat free-rider. SO, in my recommendations i wrote to kick him out.

when adabelle wrote a draft of our report abstract, she typed:
With the focus of completing the project, we would recommend to remove Winkel from the team as he is a form of de-motivation to them. (You serious? Elisa, is this what your recommendations say?)

haha.. i just found that so amusing. can just imagine her going "WHHAAAT? KICK HIM OUT????

macho heart

my bestfriend is super smart and i love her too!
hahahaha. :D

sugar

these assignments had better stop coming in, or i'll never stop snacking.

rain

melbourne rain is more merciless, but also more exciting.
everything seems to move faster. including the people who shiver as they run to find shelter.
rain in singapore falls straight down in verticle lines, but in melbourne, the wind is so strong it makes rain go diagonally and when it hits the ground, there's like a sweeping pattern that makes it look almost digital, like the way christmas lights sweep from one end to another in an array of colours - then there's a pause before the next wave comes.

bet you never noticed that. or maybe im just weird. muahaha. :)

faith that you had

when we were younger and less skeptical we were closer to seeing His greatness, and believing that He can do all things.

come be like a child.

the vegan co-op

aimee, hamish and i were chased out of the co-op shop at the union house today.
i walked in to look for a seat, but everyone turned around to look at me (perhaps also because i was the only asian there) and.. i had two sausages, one in each hand.

when aimee came up beside me, one of the guys with dreadlocks said that the area was only for co-op volunteers or customers only.

aimee went on to tell him that she was going to get tea.

but he told us that it was a vegan place and he felt very confronted by the fact that i was holding dead animals in my hand.

so we were purged!!!!!



i wonder what would have happened if i had gone "oh.. uh ok.. i'll just eat my sausages now then and you wont have to see them anymore."

monuments

people built altars and monuments to remember significant events.
i think smells, words and pictures help me remember them. and touch too actually.

maybe that's why i would really enjoy scrapbooking. it allows me to create, and translate my memories into picture/word form.. and not to mention - it's colourful too!

too bad it's an expensive hobby. if it weren't i would be getting ribbons and rivets and buttons and those pretty little decorative patterns.

oh the irony

i just got a facebook message from je. i cannot stand the irony of it. cannot stand it.
anyway, i got a praise point! :) my human behaviour essay went well.

and im working on my organisational behaviour team assignment now. God gives good ideas and i reckon He knows a lot more about organizational behaviour than anyone of us do - so. i. need. Your. help!

p just sent me the links for two youtube videos that talk about His love. i havent watched them yet, but i know that that love is real and.. well if i were to draw it, it would look like a fluffly, warm, white blanket that is so huge it can cover the whole universe. yeah!

im in a good mood now also because my attempt at cooking thai green curry was fantastic! muahaha.. AND i had a nice warm cup of chai latte. yum yum yum.

the happy lawyers

the conversation i had with a's parents today was really delightful. somehow (i have no idea how this works) but i was very encouraged by just seeing how freely uncle l sang, and how the two of them just felt so full of joy? i'd really like to have the opportunity to learn from them, strange as it sounds, especially since i hardly know anything about them.

i rushed to the library to work on my ob assignment after service and i had no time to grab lunch. d was gonna come to the city just to get me lunch.. and... haha secretly i really would have liked him to come. but i figured it'd be really troublesome and he'd have a lot of time to kill between then and service. i was so hungry though. but i managed to pop by a convenience store to get a tiny packet of nuts before rushing to m's place for bs. plus j got me an energy bar so that kept me sufficiently filled for awhile. :)

i spent 4 bucks on those nuts though. so.. no pocky shopping for me. i was hoping to get pocky this week because i discovered that mk minimart had quite a wide range of pocky and pocky-like snacks. i like fran too.. well i've only tried the green tea one and it's YUUUUM. no time and no money!

facebook tells you quite a bit about a person doesnt it. because there are so many photos and photos tell a lot.

i could go on blogging for awhile because i've got quite a few things running through my mind today. buuuut i've got reading to do. rahh!

According to John

What a beautiful smile
A radiant girl
Fell in love first time I saw her
She stays on my mind
I’d give anything
To know everything about her

There’s light in her eyes
And I know it’s all for him
She carries on and on
Like he was her best friend

She’s in love
It’s not hard to see
But I would like to believe it was with me
Someone got a hold of her heart
And he won’t let go
And I know She’s in love

She looks to the sky
When she talks about him
She believes he hung the moon
Said he had to go away
She waits for his return
Says he’s coming for her soon


How can this be fair?
This guy can walk on water
Don’t guess I’ve got a prayer
He’s written love letters - to reach her

She worships the ground he walks on
She just smiles when she says his name
It’s a match made in heaven
I can’t compete with the King of Kings

touching john mayer's hand

ehaha. k would never wash his hand again if he ever touched john mayer's hand with it.

i wonder if i have that same awe for anyone at all.




philip island 2 years back had so many little sweet surprises. <3

thoughtful surprises

my disposable water bottle must have been lying somewhere around the big house. i don't know. i had completely forgotten about it and wasn't intending to keep it, much less look for it.

but i eventually found it as i was packing to leave (without meaning to) placed right next to his, filled to the brim with water. :)

kitkat

i thnk i really need a break la.
just take me away to a beach faraway. drive me in a car so that i can look out the window and enjoy the silence.

bean sprout

i wanna grow i wanna grow i wanna grow.
and i dont want anything to get in my Gardener's way.