the girl from nowhere

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 I'm not really sure why I keep this blog anymore. After almost 8 years of blogging I've been seduced by the allure of micro-blogging. Tweeting is now my new addiction, and one that doesn't make me feel guilty for multiple daily posts.

I suppose I'd like to see this blog reach it's tenth birthday though! I'll try to blog lengthy posts once in a while to let everyone know that I'm still alive (:

In the meanwhile, I'm testing the waters over at tumblr...

 So last night, I was a:

1. Door bitch (but here I smiled for the camera. Otherwise I just looked fierce.)


2. A policewoman


4. And a general idiot! (this is my favourite shot of the night. Srsly. This is the "what would've happened if we didn't put our hats on properly and had a wardrobe malfunction" shot.)



And of course I got to share it with sharbaby, which was the best part <3


Thanks to Ali and Cel for coming too <3

This is it. Showtime.

Because regardless of what today and tomorrow signify for me on my ridiculous emotional level, none of that bullshit matters on stage. It doesn't matter that one year ago I got into a car that played a Madeleine Peyroux song. It doesn't matter that one year ago I broke a boy's heart. It doesn't matter.

When the house lights dim and the music starts, you bring it all or die trying.

Bailamos Sin Limites. We dance without limits.

Wikipedia tells me his birthday is this Saturday! cute. He looks so happy and sober here which makes me happy (: His music is so fantastic.

2003: MTV Asia Awards
2004: MTV Asia Awards
2005: - 
2006: Franz Ferdinand
2007: Fall Out Boy
2008: SingFest
2009: Lady Gaga
2010: Imogen Heap (week 13, but if I could go for SISF, I can go for this)

I wonder if I should buy tickets for Pink Martini...

Also, does anyone here want to watch Puccini's La Boheme with me at the end of the month?

Before I adjourn to my Business Processes textbook, important information must be shared.

• January 11: How I Met Your Mother
• January 14: Grey's Anatomy
• January 25: Greek
• March 8: Gossip Girl (WTFFFFFF)
• April 13: Glee (THIS IS EXAM WEEK OMFG)

HAHA. Okay, but anyway Monday mornings are looking up! I love my Ethics professor - he's the most adorable old man EVER! I think all people should grow old and be adorable like that, not dour and pessimistic. This class should prove to be interesting. BSM class later, wonder how that will turn out...

And yes, it is the first day of school and I'm in the library reading my textbook. Don't hate me! I'm just a loner and this gives me something to do with minimal social interaction kthx.

Oh and side note: iTunes Genius playlist is the best invention of all time!

Back from Zouk! Had fun in Velvet Underground with sarahooi, Shawn, David and gang (: Last bit of the night in Mambo wasn't bad either.

Saw a ton of peoplee. It was almost as though at least one person from each stage in my life was there! There were the televeners (we had dinner before that as well!), the Caderas people (Edwin, alex, Sharon), the GEP kids (Seng, Hee, Shaun, Charmaine, Greg), CJ people (Bunz, Mohan, Momo, Graham), SMU people (Jervois, Valmond, Mich Loh), and even TCN jnrs (Cat Chang and Yiming)!! Crazy stuff, basically. This was also why the place was packed to the brim. There was no space to move in Phuture, and after getting groped by guys we (luckily) ran into Jervois and his friends who were nice enough to hang around and prevent that from continuing. There was also a brief foray into the members' bar which was so packed and annoyingly pretentious. We left for Velvet soon after.

All in all it was an alright night, even if my shoes completely massacred my feet ( at some point I was dancing barefoot on the Velvet podium because I figured that would be the safest place to dance sans shoes. Sigh.)

Btw, I type this from my new iPhone! I still love it although everyone else has a BB and tells me I can no longer be their friend ):

Okay I need to watch:

1. New Moon (I don't care that it sucks. It has topless hot boys. I am only going for the eyecandy)
2. Up in the Air (from the director of Thank You For Smoking and Juno)
3. A Single Man (Tom Ford directing, Colin Firth and Julianne Moore acting. Need I say more?)
4. An Education (DOMINIC COOPER)
5. Sherlock Holmes (SQUEE!)
6. New York, I Love You (31st December!)
7. It's Complicated (14th January! alistenhere , justravished , in_cantations ! We watch together ah)
8. Leap Year (whenever it opens. It looks like a good chick flick! I love chick flicks yay they are my guilty pleasure.)
9. Letters to Juliet (another chick flick!)
10. Remember Me (because RPattz looks like he can act in this one)
11. The Men Who Stare At Goats
12. Me and Orson Welles (Yes, Zefron. He is hot. Also, funny.)

I am trawling through apple.com/trailers. Can you tell? HAHA

Edit: Since we're on the subject of movies, I've just seen the Golden Globe nominees, and I think it's a pretty close race all around this time! There really isn't one standout in any category I think. Except maybe Best Original Song. But I'm biased. "Cinema Italiano" from Nine was stuck in my head for a whole week. And I haven't even watched the movie yet!

My Dubai guidebook said something like "Driving when it rains is hazardous simply because Dubai drivers are not used to wet weather driving. There is a considerable increase in the number of traffic accidents during wet weather." I found this statement extremely lulz-y, until it rained on the last day I was there and during a 20 minute cab ride, I witnessed 3 accidents. Apparently it rains only about 6 times a year?

JUST GOT HOME.
Before my long post with photographs of Dubai when I get back from training later, I just wanted to say PRAISE THE LORD, GOD IS GOOD, NOTHING I DO IS WITHOUT HIS GRACE. Basically, I jut checked my grades. What I thought would be an EPIC disaster of like Richter scale proportions turned out to be like WOAH! And even made my GPA go up!

Amazing.

PS: should I go to Zoukout?

Leaving for Dubai tonight! So excited. (H&M!!!!!!) Also, very appreciative of the email I found in my inbox yesterday. It was from Ethan, Pei Hua and Clement's friend whom I met at Zouk on Wednesday night. He did his internship in Dubai so he sent me a long email of stuff I should do and good places to eat at! How nice. This is probably due to the fact that I was very tipsy and easily excitable on Wednesday and he probably figured that I wouldn't remember half the things him and PH were telling me. HAHA.

Oh Wednesday night was SO MUCH FUN though! The whole world was there and it was nice seeing everyone again! Photos here stolen from Facebook.


Still sober at the start of the night...




By the end of the night...clearly gone.


But love as always to Jia Hong and Shar! It almost felt like back when we were young!
Thursday did not exist for me. I got up at like 4pm? And fell asleep at 1030pm.

Went to the Penguin Book Warehouse Sale on Friday. $3/$5/$8 books! Bought (amongst other things) Jane Austen's Persuasion, one of those Learn French books (with accompanying CD) and the QI Annual "E" series. Exciting.

I am now aching all over from yesterday's training, and praying fervently that the plane ride later does not kill me.

Bye bye people! See you when I get back!

Yes, there is a lot of Jakob because I LOVE HIM AND HE IS BRILLIANCE.
Also, yeah Ellenore's starting to grow on me.

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I have survived yet another (not-so-hellish) term (: Exams ended on Monday and while that paper was rather annoying, Aaron's belated birthday BBQ with the Caderas people after was immensely amusing!

After waking up at 2.30pm yesterday (oh the wonderful luxuries of freedom!), I bummed around for a bit before going for the ACF Budget Briefing which was a complete an utter bore. But then again, I'm not the financial secretary, so I suppose if I found it interesting I'd probably need to get my head examined. They said it would end at 8.30pm, but it ended an hour earlier, so I window-shopped at Raffles City for a bit.

Made my way down to Union Square after that. I hate that they've now done away with the "free entry before 9pm" policy, because now I have to pay $9.55 if I go on any day other than Wednesday. And Wednesdays are so crowded and not conducive for dancing! How frustrating. When I got there the guys were standing outside waiting for more of us to show up for "critical mass" because it was empty and depressing inside. But about an hour after we finally went in, the place started filling up. It wasn't that bad a night! I sucked majorly at first (which was to be expected given that I haven't danced in 2.5 weeks), but it got better as the night progressed.

Today I went to Ikea with Steph! We have decided that from now on we shall make it a point to organise shopping trips to unconventional places! Oh man we spent like...4 hours meandering through Ikea looking at ALL THE PRETTY THINGS! Managed to get my sister a Christmas present, so it was a fruitful trip.

And now! I shall go and figure out what to wear later. IT IS TIME FOR ZOUK! Hooray!

My grandma just called and my mum picked up the phone. Thinking that it was me, my grandma asked if she could "talk to your mummy". My mum screeched "YOU ARE MY MUMMY!!!"

lulz.

ps. did I mention that my paper today was from 9am - 11am? I reached home at 10.40am after finishing the paper omfg.

Just watched Joseph Gordon Levitt's SNL monologue from yesterday. While not immensely funny, anything that references Singin' In The Rain (with almost identical set pieces!!) is completely awesome in my book (:

Post-exam plans: Re-watch Singin' In The Rain. Also watch Broadway Melody and Jean Harlow's Libeled Lady. Bought those 2 DVDs ages ago, but haven't gotten round to watching them.