well.. i've signed in to change Jules' link to her new page.

and i'm glad the first day of Chinese New Year is over, but we are still feeling exhausted from all the cooking and cleaning. i think at last 80 people and 1 dog turned up at my house. which seriously made the maid ME damn tired.

not talking about that. i had a damn nice dinner and walk around (and up) swissotel with my family with my eldest sister. will update later with the photos.

i really don't know if i'm looking forward to go back. because time passes like a freaking time machine back in perth. and sooner than i know. its all over. the 2 years. i was lamenting that my nephews and nieces are really growing up fast, i remember them as babies, now one is already in secondary school. and all of the boys are just sprouting like trees towering over me. oh well.

janice. gummy for me.

i'm sick and tired of cleaning the whole house, because of the construction next door my house is like full of dirt and sand. and my parents are rushing over the whole cny gathering at my house that its driving me crazy because i have to fit their last minute schedule into my very tight weekend schedule.

ah. whatever. is this what Chinese new year supposed to be? driving me to the brink of insanity?

I met one of my ex classmates Jayne from SPF on tne train with grace. it was really nice seeing her again. it gently reminded me how time flies. how we all have changed. how she is a mummy (pretty mummy though- on the side note.. i love pretty mummy) now and having to earn to support her own family with her husband. how she made me realise that we have to learn to be street smart and cash smart.

too much to think about too little time. sometimes people ask me why i stress myself out with small matters while the make merry their time away. maybe i'm just like that to me, life is too imperfect.

janice. i'm too imperfect.

just because I'm curious.. i went to check the met station of murdoch uni.. and the Max temperature today? 42.5.. NICE.. I'm so going to come out of the airport in my bra and panties..

10and I've started transferring the photos from my camera to my computer.. grr.. i have like onlygb of free space left.. oh well.. gotta spend some time sorting out and rearranging the stuff inside my computer. feeling like a karang guni man.. because i feel everything is useful..

before they changed the deco to I've pictures from so long ago.. from the stroll and dinner at orchard with hock after ChristmasChinese new year stuff. to my lunch with my lovelies at my house. the shopping at far east turned Indian food. dinner with Ben and farzana at bedok eating super unhealthy food. to the dinner with my uni people (and Zac's BABY). bowling with hock.

27/12/2008.. Hock and I went to Wheelock Place.
the Christmas deco this year was really a sign of the recession. but we still enjoyed the stroll down orchard road all sticky and sweaty with the tons of Singaporeans.
saw the Sweet Family.. which is damn lame..
had dinner at The Pasta Shop by Sakae.. which sucks like ass.. and was super a waste of money.. please never ever eat there..
and watched a movie.. but i can't remember what it was anymore.. haha..

28/12/2008: My Poly Care Group Besties came over for lunch

and everyone helped with the cooking.. it was damn fun..
Ryan beating the eggs for tiramisu.. and the rest of us in the kitchen making mushroom soup, mashed potato with gravy and etc.
lunch is served!!
and dessert.. after like 2 movies Ryan left and we went upstairs to have wineplay 5-10 and do tons of lame stuff..

30/12/2008: Far east shopping turned Indian Dinner
it really looked quite dodgy.. but we decided to try it.. and it was really quite good.. but rather expensive.. it was like 70 plus for 3 of us..
and we got to try alot of weird seeds and spices.. and laugh at tons of shit
but the food was really not bad especially the chicken tika..

1/1/2009: dinner/bbq with the alumni at Edwin's place.. all pictures are with Sheryl..

2/1/2009: Dinner with Ben and Farzana at Bedok
awesome company and more awesome gossips.. wah...
and hawker food? best!

7/1/2009: Ramen at central to meet zac's baby.
so much more sex talk due to jules' presence.. and our future in the current economy crisis? Open a sex clinic.
jules: sex therapist
jon: auditor/ finance
drea, min and i: marketing department
joel: photography?? media
zac: a mascot as a walking vagina.. HAHAHHAHAHAHAH..

13/1/2008: bowling with hock
check out my super lousy score.. hai..
janice.. I'm so lousy.

i'll upload pictures TMR! all the weeks of pictures from eons since Christmas.

and i'll update tmr too. Yes i leave everything till T-O-M-M-O-R-R-O-W

but isn't it lovely. * i promise

anyway the real reason for me procrastinating, is the fact that the OMFD gazillion photos and videos i have is overtaking all the space in my hard disk. soon i'll be like alex having hard disks and fans connected to his super power computer. now my lonely IBM is taking the toll..

oh.. i shall mention my new friend too. Mr. PPStream. it is according to wikipedia: PPStream is a Chinese peer-to-peer streaming video network software. hence its all in Chinese but there are like tons of movies, English Chinese jap Korean, the most updates series like CSI!! gossip girl, prison break etc, my lovely KOREAN shows, hong kong and Taiwanese dramas, etc etc.. ALL AT MY FINGERTIPS. but the drawback?
ALL THE NAMES ARE IN CHINESE! thank god my Chinese is still relatively good and there are pictures to guide me.

okay. my ibanking security device has DIED on me. NB.. need to go to the bank tmr.

janice. i'm going to Perth in one month. again for the last time?

its been like 5 days since new year. and i guess nothing has changed much. i'm glad that the economy is sort of picking up. it brings hope to me finding a full time job by mid next year.

and i've booked tiger airways return to perth with hock.
SO I'M NOT GOING TO DIE ON A CB QANTAS PLANE!
but i hope that hock won't feel its too squished up for him. as everyone know i'm short. so trips like these that have super small leg space seldom affect me. just hope he doesn't turn into that grumpy old man.

i've been thinking and looking around at parents of my friends. how can someone live with someone else for like more than half a lifetime? i have to admit that Hock and i have sort of thought of our future, and i know that i can see 'us' together for a long long time. but HOW? can my mother stand my father? HOW? maybe when i'm old i will come to understand.

i was lamenting to Hock about how upset i was that my 22nd (and his 23rd) birthday will not be spent with him AGAIN (3 years in a row) since we were helping albert buy flowers for stephanie. Then he just looked at me. with his small beady eyes. hoping that i'll understand. And i did. 1 more year was all he asked for.

"i always know when you are upset"

these few days have been spent laying down. spent time with the alumni on new year's day. being honest, we were only there for each other. i really want to help, but, my heart just doesn't feel right. we don't feel like one family anymore. the stares and smiles seem so mediocre, the laughs are not like they used to be. maybe we've lost the innocence. i'm worried yet relieved.
janice. peace!