My camera smells awesome right now! Cos i just took it out from my bag, and my bag has this sample of Valentino's Valentina. Like a powdery, really luxurious smell :D

I've been eating like some hungry ghost these days, cos my stomach starts churning and growling within 2 hours of my meal! Which is pretty insane. Andddddd my shit was dark green today, scaryyyy.

Whatsapp chat with Michelle and Mel was so funny. And it's heartwarming to know we're still here for one another although we dont meet up <3

I've GOT to get back to working on my report on lectins and trypsin inhibitors, but I can't! I'm so bored by all the journal articles, and it's so difficult finding the relevant ones. So fucking annoying.

Botanic Gardens on Saturday! We bought sushi, fruits, bubble tea and yoghurt for our impromptu picnic hahaha.

The weather was unbelievably humid, so we just sat by Swan Lake then walked to a pavilion nearby, before heading off. 

Love the streak of sunlight :D

This looks like in another country.

I am so short.

Love Botanic Gardens. I like shooting flowers cos of the vibrant colours :D And although it's kind of crowded, somehow the place still maintains a peaceful and serene vibe? Hahahaha.

Okay, so i'm still up at this hour cos I've been tackling the damn cheese report. We did an experiment on proteolysis in Brie and Danish Blue cheeses last week, and the report is due this coming Monday. I'm only done with half of Introduction, done with Methodology and 3/4 thru Results. Have not touched Discussion and Conclusion at all. I always procrastinate on things that require additional information :(

I've got a lab session on lectins in kidney beans later on at 10am. How cooking affects the haemagglutinating activity of lectins, whatever the hell 'haemagglutinating' means :( i think it's to do with blood coagulation? It was supposed to be a 2-day experiment, but the lecturer thinks we can do it in 1 day, so will probably last till quite late!

Okay good night. Off to do other stuff.

Three years ago, this would be what i would've posted.

Today, I'd say the opposite; I just wanna be by myself.

Came so close to saying it, then i kind of broke this promise i made to myself.. Now I'm not so sure of every little fucking thing, not even sure of my feelings. It's like everything's gone numb. I only feel 'OK' and 'Not so OK'. 

I want.

So many things I wanna do in Europe. Not 'so many' actually, but dont know if I can achieve it all.

Road trip

So i'm heading down to JB with my family later, in about 40 minutes' time! Some sort of a road trip....... Hahahahahha. Heading down with some aunts and uncles and cousins to visit my great-grandmother. It's the  last weekend for CNY.

While we're there, we're gg to set off fireworks and firecrackers. The last time we did that was back in 2001/2002, when the entire extended family went together, with my grandfather too. That was the first and only time.

Since my grandfather passed, the family's been different. Initially, only my dad and uncles were heading down for a day. Then I said I wanted to go too, and it turned into some sort of family trip. My intention was to get all my cousins to join in, then my dad woke me up from my fantasy :(

Hopefully next year, we'll all go down tgt.

Timbre

Yesterday was the end of Sem 1!

*throws confetti all over*

Finally, we were done with the exams. I actually did 5 questions in 1.5 hours hahaha #haolian. Supposed to do 4 only. The last 30 min, I flicked through my answer booklet, wrote a few conclusions, drew diagrams of sol and gel dispersions, and rewrote an entire paragraph cos I didn't like how it was squeezed at the bottom of the page.

After the paper, 8 of us went to Timbre @ Old School. My first time there! Usually I go to the one at Substation. 53a was performing later in the night, but we didn't stay. We were the first customers there!

 The eight of us :D Group shot before anyone got red! Actually only me.

Sex on the Beach and Erdinger. My virgin shots! Noob. Only Huihui, Wanni and I shared the shots. So diluted and blah.

 Sunny-side-up and Duck pizza. Smoked salmon in the background! Favourite was the seafood pizza :D

 Strawberry daiquiri! Mine! :D

Bulmer's apple cider. Bottle was pretty!

Pretty fun night! We played the secret number game and I was damn suay to kenna thrice. Had to eat one slice of pizza, finished my daiquiri, then took idk how much of the cider. If only my guessing skills are this awesome to spot questions for exams.

Headed home in a cab, and the damn air freshener was nauseating. My head was in between my knees the entire ride home. When i reached my block, I had to rest at the void deck for a while before gg upstairs. Broke out in cold sweat in the cab too, my skirt stuck to my ass :( i thought it was some weird reaction to the alcohol, but my brother said noone ever breaks out in cold sweat.

The last time I had alcohol was........ I can't rmb when, but it was at O'Leary's at the flyer. I had some cocktail, and was super red and head was spinning cos I downed it in 5 minutes hahaha.

Meeting a buyer for my shoes tmr! I need to sell more of my stuff... Thinking of setting up a blogshop to do it. Still considering.

Dragon

GONG XI FA CAI!


It's the first CNY without Ahkong, and it felt really weird and different.

Reunion dinner with my dad, mum and brother. My brother and i cooked! But he cheated, he steamed the foods only! Actually my mum did the steaming, he did the marinating. And i rolled the cabbage rolls! I also cooked the charsiew-marinated chicken hahaha halal version.

Pen cai was from Edmund's dad :D

This is us on Chu Yi, at my grandma's place. All of us were in different shades of red! 

My brother, and three of my cousins. We're not as close as i'd like us to be. They are awesome photographers! And it's amazing how alike they look.

I always do like weird faces and poses hahahaha. 

Chu Yi was so so different from previous years. Last time, relatives would come and visit us, and the house would be so noisy and festive. This year, only the immediate relatives came over, and a lot of them stayed for awhile only. Last time, we'd all gather in a big circle and play ban luck. This year, it was just 4 cousins, my bro and I, and my uncle. Tiny circle.

Honestly I'm a little disappointed with how things turned out this year. Only a year since Ahkong passed, and the family is already disintegrating. Even on Chu Er, very few people went to my uncle's house.

OMG Funky Chef!!!!! *Hyperventilates, screams and runs around excitedly*
Retarded. I haven't fangirl-ed in a long time hahahahahhaa. And he looks like the fortune cat on his tshirt, which I sourced for him! Hahahahahaha.

3-2-2-2. Our age gaps from the person next to us.

 Love my cousins. This isn't all of them. The six of us went for ice cream at Haagen Dazs, then Dance Dance Dragon at Downtown East, then to Feifei for supper, where we just sat and talked. Plan weddings and stuff HAHAHA so gay. 

 Green tea & hibiscus, caramel biscuit & cream, cappuccino truffle, strawberry cheesecake, rum & raisin, creme brulee.

 Waffle with green tea & hibiscus, tiramisu, strawberry shortcake and creme brulee?

Brownie with macademia nut and caramel biscuit & cream.

We're lohei-ing on Sunday, with relatives from JB and singapore coming over. Yay! I love CNY, not just for the angbaos and wearing new clothes, but i love family gatherings and seeing all my relatives :D

Food Science paper later at 3. So so so screwed.