okay.. i'm too lazy to upload photos here.
1. there are way too much photos.
2. i have no idea where to start
3. i'm too tired.

anyways.. be bored with the words but i think i've been watching too much stuff. on tv. on the net. in the movies. gosh.. my eyes are just popping out.

i've been watching my korean show (the DVD that hock bought for me) and little nonya on tv
watching lame youtube videos
and watched Twlight.

seriously, i think robert pattinson has become so much better looking since his Harry potter days, and he just had better make up artists. and my sister just told me the ending of the whole series. not going to spoil it.. but the book is a good read for a past time, or you can opt for the audio book like my sister. :)

Christmas was quite okay.. spent at a small bar where older people play pool and sing SUPER DUPER OLD CHEENA PIANG AND CANTO songs. we had tons of fun entertaining ourselves playing 5-10 and drinking martell. and eating prata and it was really a big group..

spent yesterday with ryan, grace, janelle, ray and hock yesterday for a lunch party at my place.. and watched wild child and house bunny on my tv.. AHAHHA.. it was chilling with janelle and ray totally falling asleep on my couch with the rest of us happily laughing at the shows.

janice. there are still some people i want to meet.

and before i get too lazy again.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
instead of saying all the usual. i hope 2009 is just another day for everyone.

i fucking miss PERTH. my OWN life. my OWN room. and my friends.

if not for hock i won't come back for holidays to this humid annoying home. that i'm taken for granted as the maid. even though i came back at 6am. i still had to do the nb laundry at 9am. and today i was on my feet since 9am till now. and the moment my sister heard me coming up the stairs, she rushed to the toilet to shower. SHE HAD GOD DAMN AGES TO BATHE while my perth people were downstairs. but NO! when i came back from genting at 1130. she pulled the same stunt. its getting on my nerves, seriously. and when i told her can she like let me use the toilet next time when i'm really tired. she yelled at me. NEXT TIME I'LL LET YOU USE!! YOU HAPPY NOW?

whatever. first complain that my cooking is not as nice as my mum's. please use some brain. my mum has been cooking for what 50 years? and me? max 10 years. if i can cook as well as my mum then something is wrong with my mum's cooking. or i'm just a talent, which i'm obviously not. so TOP COMPARING MY COOKING WITH MY MUM'S. i hate it when i put so much effort in and all people say is. ITS NOT AS NICE AS MUMMY'S.

when people stay together and share things, we learn the art of sharing, thinking for others. but sometimes i feel that i think for my family more that they think for me. maybe because i've lived with min and alex and the rest of my flatmates, i've learnt to share. and be happy. but that never happens at home. or shall i say seldom.

tonight was a really awesome night till that happened, jules with all her sex jokes and unglam past, drea's clubbing stories from Miami, super funny videos from youtube, potluck dinner. i love these people..

anyway.. i met up with the springfield gang. or some of them at least. it wasn't a really good catch up i must say. because i was totally lost in the inside jokes and gossips. but poor julian. haha, was being the center of ridicule the whole night. and at least i managed to see some familiar faces and chit chat with them for a while.

my malaysian trip was good and bad i must say. good because i got to enjoy the company of hock and only him. and after 4 days of bad moods and nausea, it went quite well, with both of us being grumpy at different times and sharing many happy moments. he really gave in to me by a big margin because i was PMS-ing. and i was really touched by the way he took care of me all the way. and how we were so annoyed with the super not nice- cheat tourist food at genting. and we had fun climbing hills and hills of flowers and etc; playing with the jackpot machines and cuddling up with him every night.

(pictures on facebook.. way too many.. way too lazy.. might upload a few i like tmr)

its been almost one month since i'm back. yet i still miss you as much.

janice. sharing is loving; loving is sharing.

i'm damn pissed with my grades and more with myself.

last sem i missed one mark to a Distinction for my plant biotech. this sem i missed one FUCKING mark to a distinction for consumer behaviour.

what the fuck is wrong with me. and i only got a pass for my biochem 2. and a meagre distinction for Marketing research and analysis.

i'm starting to seriously doubt my abilities and myself very much. last sem i can blame myself for not studying till 2 days before my paper. yet this sem, i really spent all of the 16 days studying. and the days before the paper mugging.

maybe i'm just not cut out to be anything. i'm really annoyed at myself, why can't i tell my mum i've got straight As. and she won't be so disappointed. my whole god damn life feels like its slipping from my hands. and i hate this feeling.

and i thought my best would be enough. apparently you need luck and alot of other factors.

janice. i'm just a bummer. and i hate myself.

MY GRADES ARE GOING TO BE OUT ON MONDAY.. THE SAME DAY AS MY HOILDAY. OMG.

it can either go both ways.

the way life plays tricks on me.

on a side note, i met uncle jon poh today at the ever hot tampines popular bookshop. can't wait to see jules and min and drea and zac and the rest.. its been too long.

janice. i'm so tired, singapore is way too crowded.

i met my darlings on tuesday for lunch at grace's workplace. the people working at TTSh are weird..

1. we said we were looking for her and she works at the inpatient pharmacy. so we wanted to wait outside. the woman at the information board at least repeated 5 times that we needed a pass to get in.

2. at the canteen, the people working at the dessert stall asked grace if she was a staff when she was wearing her uniform

it was a good lunch.. though we forgot to take pictures as we were busy eating and filling up grace's precious 45 min.. and those idiots were more happy to see what i bought for them rather than me.

how sad is that? hhahaha.. kidding..

janice, i've only been to the gym twice since i came back. bad bad bad.

our 1 year and 6 months anniversary felt weird. because we both forgot about it till the day before. and we had our own activities planned for the day except dinner. by the time we met we were both damn tired.. and hock was relatively annoyed with his blur contact lens.
we decided to go to ichiban at plaza sing. (full of people everywhere. where is the economic slowdown i ask?) if you are looking for relatively good, value for money and big filling portions of japanese food. this is the place to be. we were so full, i didn't even finish half the rice.

and the staff were quite friendly. so not too bad. we spent about $55 for both of us.

talking about money. i'm super upset that our 4D went down the drain. we bought our malaysian trip booking number 5829.. and second prize? 2958!! ccb!!
damn damn damn sian.. or else we'll have a few free trips. gross.. this is how one gets addicted to gambling.
back to plaza sing.. the whole place was decked out in these shiny streamer like things.. really gorgeous.. but some how i feel this year the decorations at orchard for christmas has toned down a little. (a sign of cost cutting)
happy anniversary baby.

just 1 more bus stop from my house, you must board the bus. what a small world. i just feel i'mi've made. and i'm glad you've moved on. sorry for the decision

before meeting hock i attended the Ping Yi ROD. if not for ben and farzana i doubt i'll even make the effort. i guess we've sort of reached a consensus. i really don't know how can i ever be the past me in band.

australia has made me gain so much yet lose so much. yet all those endearing memories will be etched in my heart. and when i look at their uniform, i feel proud for all the time i've sacrificed into designing all the lanyards. all the time ben was my model and the guys helping me cut and burning and melting them together. getting all the sizes done. finding a company to mass produce them.
now i watch these young kids wear them with so much pride. i'm proud of them of their future. though they will never know. i'm happy to see a part of me follow the band.

"the lanyard will always be yours" ben.
the trumpet section. sadly only know the alumni and NONE of the band members..
the whole alumni that attended. and some of the volunteers for the outdoor.
my old section girls... and sheryl who was about to run the standard chartered full marathon. crazy girl...

Lastly.. the last day of rented car. we went to ghim moh. to eat my favourite chicken rice. THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME CHICKEN RICE IN SINGAPORE.
after that we returned the car and went to queue for hock's sister's standard chartered race pack
we queued for like half hour only. thank god we went early.
and went to john little expo sale.. and we ended up buying a BIG bag of food like seaweed, biscuits, prawn crackers. and underwear. haha.. we are such greedy pigs..
janice.. this is hotness...

Its been 1 year and 6 months.
(though it seems much longer)

i love you.

janice. happy anniversary. i'm really happy.

the second day after renting the car started really late.. because we sent my sister to wisma to have her hair cut.. AND ORCHARD IS SUPER CONFUSING. even the bloody GPS gave us wrong instructions at 1 junction. grr..

so we went round and round.. hock was having fun getting used to the traffic..

then we went to pick his mummy up and went to IMM to return some oxygen tank that he dad didn't use.

and we sent his mum back to hougang.. and then we had lunch at 3pm.. chicken rice at hougang.. supposed to go to my favourite ghim moh to eat.. but we decided to eat it the next day to send hock's mummy back home.

then drove back to tampines to pick wen yan, qing an and sharon for dinner at dempsey... wanted to eat at PS cafe, but i only managed to find it after dinner. dempsey is really a nice place for the rich man. so we ate at long beach @ dempsey.
didn't take a picture of the rice that we ordered. food was really good, and it was like $15 per person. so kudos. but if we ordered crab.. the bill would have broken our wallets and emptied our pockets.
QA and Sharon..
its was really quite stressful with the staff being super attentive and water being filled every 3 minutes.
Then we started to cam whore around with all the stone statues..
with the merlion..

hock with elephants
wen yan being super glam.. hahaha

then we were off the cheesecake cafe at siglap.. yumm..
the verdict. the non cheesecakes are better.. haha.. but the ambiance was really nice and quaint. and i met sheryl, charity and lisa there too. pleasant surprise.

janice. time to sleep. gym tmr!

i've been so caught up with hock and the housework at home that i haven't really had time to blog or anything else.

the pros and cons.. sometimes i really don't know what else to do, just go with the flow i guess.

anyway.. hock rented a toyota rush so we could go to all those inaccessible places, run some errands for his family and also for him to practice his driving.
i think it looks like a little rhino.. so we call it a 小犀牛 , it looks really big from the front, but its actually damn short.. quite cute though.. the boot opens like a door. and its relatively fuel efficient, counting all the places we went.

and thank god we had the GPS. or else we'll be so lost. hock loves the GPS. haha. but it gets quite annoying sometimes with that monotonous tone.

First stop before collecting the car. TP!! for my beloved muslim food at design canteen..
OMG!! the chili for the nasi lemak is heaven! on a side note.. i've been eating and eating.. gyming tomorrow with hock.. i'm like trying to eat the whole of Singapore in 1 week. gross..
the we drove to mandai. to pay respects to his dad and my grandpa..
and we saw monkeys.. like ALOT of monkeys.. and when i wound down the window to take a picture.. this monkey thought i was going to feed it. DREAM ON!!!

then we walked to uppper seletar reservoir to stroll and climbed up some observatory tower to chill for a while..
it was really pretty.. some of it reminded me of western Australia..

then we drove to the bottle tree park at Yishun..
ironically these trees come from australia.. yet i'm looking at them here..
and there was like prawing, dinners and swan rides. OMG, super gawdy. haha..

then we ate again! at casuarina curry at upper thompson.. i had 1 and a half prata.. pineapple prata. it was not bad.. this place is good for people that like crispy pratas. i'm not really a fan of crispy pratas. i love the rubbery floury ones.
then we met wen yan, ah men and qingan for dinner AGAIN! at siglap.. hock and i shared like 1 meal..
then headed to ice cream chefs. its quite a cool concept. you choose the ice cream with mixers then they'll mix it for u. hock and i had blueberry ice cream with famous amos cookies. ah men had kaya ice cream!! and wen yan had the most bitter cappuccino ice cream.

janice. life has been good!

i've been spending quite alot of time at home and with hock these few days and i love bumming around. :)

well..the pictures taken from his place are up now.. i've been way too lazy to upload them..

on a lighter note.. hock and i are going to malaysia. haha.. not exactly my first time going.. but as far as i remember i can't really remember going to all the countries my parents brought me when i was young.

quote from my mum: " waste my money bringing you all over the world". and i can't agree more. whats the point of bringing whiny kids on a plane to another country when you still have to take care of them, placate them on the plane and at the end of the day, they (which includes me) will not remember half the places they've been too.

and i vaguely remember that when i was young, we were going to America and on the plane i was seated with my dad.. and my mum was allocated another seat.. and i just kept throwing a fit by kicking on the chair in front of me to wanna sit with mummy. oh well. i was such a spoilt brat.
we are going to cameron and genting highlands. :) for 3 days 2 nights. though its just a simple trip i think we'll enjoy each other's company. saving money for the perth trip next year.
the 'model' posing his new clothes. AHAHAHHAHAHA..
and his absinthe.. which i managed to smuggle back. :)

and all the stuff he bought me.
my 魔王 DVD!! omg.. i love joo ji hoon!!
and the infamous curry paste..

janice.. time to do laundry..

i'm still uploading the pictures that i've been taking these few days with dear..

BUT I REALLY REALLY MISS PERTH.. AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE AND WERE THERE!!!

but i'm enjoying my time back home very very much..

but lets see my last few days back in the outbacks.
min yi chen.. being super intelligent.. throwing her nike top into the dryer.. and the glue came out.. haha.. the shirt is now with JJ.. (will's rat)
and jules.. with her LV and chanel bag.. designed by min..
and of course.. my spider bites that shocked the world..

it was quite sad when rob left in the middle of the night.. all of us took turns to say goodbye.. i was studying till like 230am..
and he left a shit load of stuff that we all took here and there...
janice.. all packed up.. those last few days were exhausting.. but rewarding..