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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!!

the reason why I'm writing this today is to wish someone, who's born on the same day as Halloween Day, HAPPY 22th BIRTHDAY! Guess who? Guess most of you know who I'm talking about already. IT'S MY BIG BROTHER, JUSTIN TAN JIAN WEI!! :) {I'm really not used to calling his full name as I'm always giving him loads of nicknames!} I'm going to dedicate this whole entry to my brother aka Black Pepper Crab, Fatty Bon Bon and many more. :)

My brother has always been a smart-ass in my family. The smartest one among the 3 siblings. He was formerly from RI, Hwa Chong JC and right now in SMU's Accountancy. I've always envied him for being so smart to be able to achieve such good grades during exams. As compared to him, I'm more stupid. Since young, he has always been the one who takes care of me as my Mom is always very busy at work. I still remembered there was once when I was secretly snacking away while doing my hw, I was being 'caught in action' by him. As a punishment, I had to run all the way to the life lobby and back for 15 times! Can you imagine he'll even think of such punishment? Partly because he used to hold the highest position in his sec school's NCC. He had has always been very strict to me since my schooling days (e.g. ordering me to go shower, do hw, eat my dinner, etc) Anyway those commanding days are finally over! These days, he'll always pop by my room and disturb me and my Panda bears (especially my beloved PanPan!) I'll do the same and threaten to throw his dinosaur bear into the dustbin if he can't stop kicking my Panda bear. He's the 'murderer' who cost my Panda bear to lose his eye and nose! HUMPH!! I've yet to seek revenge from him!

Anyway I'd like to wish him a HAPPY 22TH HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY! MAY ALL HIS WISHES WILL NOT COME TRUE! heehee!! :) Hope he finds a suitable gf asap!! Don't be so choosy! Otherwise when you reach 30, you're still hunting for one! :)

The one in orange shirt is my big brother!! :) Pls ignore the expression on his 'blackened' face!


Wednesday, October 31, 2007
7:20 PM

I've been feeling pretty upset with myself for the past few days. I went to receive my LCCI results from SSTC after lessons ytd afternoon. Sad to say, this time round, I didn't make it through. I only have myself to blame for not preparing enough for it before I took the exams in June. I waited for about half an hr before I could get my result slip from the principal. The moment I saw her looking at my results, my heart sank to right to the bottom. SIGH! Seriously I'm not sure whether I should retake the exams in June or not cos I seem to have missed the interest in Accounts now. I don't wish to spend my career life staring at numbers all day long. I'd like to try some new things. But right now, I've nothing in mind. I hope I can make the cut to get into Uni after my poly life otherwise I may have to start working. After collecting my results slip, I went to the cafe at the basement of Park Mall and stoned for more than an hr. At first I really have no idea how am I going to break the news to my mom who always has high hopes in me. How am I going to tell her that I've lost my interest in Accounts? Initially I wanted to join the gals at AMK for desserts but I've lost my appetite after collecting my disastrous results. SORRY GALS, FOR NOT ABLE TO TURN UP! HOPE I CAN MAKE IT THE NEXT TIME ROUND! As the punishment for flunking my exams, I'm barred from using the computer, tv and even the freedom of reading thriller books whenever my mom is around. My mom was super duper upset and pissed with my results and gave me a full 2 hr lecture when I got home. In the meantime, I should focus all my time in my studies and not dwell on all these upsetting matters. CHEER UP, TAN YUE XIN!!! :) (i shall go and hug my panda bear to sleep now!)

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
9:11 PM

PHEW! the weekend is finally here!! The week went by pretty fast unlike during hols when it takes ages to wait for fri to come cos I'll be stuck at home every single day! :)
Yesterday, I went KBox singing with Maine, ShiJun and Arwin straight after lessons. It was such a coincidence that we met our friends there as well, somemore they were singing at the next room! By the time i reached home, it was almost 11.30pm. I still have yet to get started with my tutorials which are piling up like Mt. Everest!
Today's lessons only last 2 hrs (Biz Finance tutorial and EFMA's lecture) Even though I felt sleepy during the lecture, but i find the content of the lecture pretty alright as I've learnt that before. After lecture, JiaJia and I walked around the sch just to get the Self-Application IPP form. For those of you who are intending to find the company of your own, pls go to SBM Admin Office (Blk C, Lvl 1). :) JiaJia and I went back to CSC and had a little chat with Ms Noh after I've gotten the forms. It've been almost 4 mths since we left CSC! fortunately Ms Noh still remember our names! But she can't really remember which particular batch of students are we in. :P
Anyway I'd like to share a youtube video which features my fav animal, PANDA!! This video is showing baby pandas which are around 6 mths old, they are being kept in a nursery apart from their mothers. THEY LOOK SO ADORABLE!!

Friday, October 19, 2007
3:01 PM

3 days had passed after the start of the new school semester! For the first 2 days, i was trying to get back to the rhythm of the school life as it've been at least 6 mths since i last touched a textbook. Imagine during TEP, every single day after you get back frm sch, you either watch tv programs or surf Internet. Now i've to go back to my textbooks, tutorials, ICAs, projects and even the horrendous exams once again! This morning, during Biz Law tutorial, my P.E.M just announced to the class that our IPP will be from 11 Feb to 26 Apr! it's going to start straight after our final sem exams. THERE'S NO BREAK FOR US except Sat and Sun! Life is going to get tougher towards the end of the year when we'll be crammed up with projects and preparation for exams. I really hope that this semester will turn out smoothly! shall cross my fingers on that! :)
today's SCM tutorial was cancelled and we ended up having 4 hrs break. Guess what, these 4 hrs were spent chatting around with my friends in Macs canteen. LOL! I've finally met up with Elaine, ShiJun, JiaHui and Jean for lunch ever since TEP starts for them! I really miss them alot ever since we've split classes during Year 2. Hopefully we can still meet up tgt more often during this semester!
On my way home after NE, i met someone whom I've lost contact for almost 1 yr! Being a typical sotong, i didn't recognise her when she said hi to me cos I've forgotten who she is!! SORRY, SHI MIN! I've short term memory! I can't believe that it's almost 1 year since we retook our 'O' levels English tgt at Bukit Panjang Govt High! the last time I saw you after our exams was at Heeren's Nike shop where you were working at. LOL! As we chatted on our way back home, we found similar things between us (e.g our email addresses were created way back when we were Pri 5 which explains why our emails are so 'toot'!) Hope we can go out tgt one of these days and chat even more, k? TAKE CARE, GIRL! all the best in the call center! :)

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
5:33 PM

I'M DEAD TIRED AFTER A LONG DAY OUTSIDE!
I woke up at around 8.30am by my mom's naggings! Rushed to meet Elaine at Yishun's station to get her notes and textbooks from her at 11 but being a famous 'Late Queen', I was late by 15 mins! LOL! Anyway wanna thank Elaine for offering me her precious notes and textbooks! I'll take good care of them till the end of the semester! :) Hurried back home and got changed before heading to Dhoby Ghaut to meet up with the CSC people! For the first time, I was on time!! LOL! What a pity that not everyone had turned up, only 10 ppl turned up instead! But overall we had loads of fun and laughter playing board games @ Mind Cafe. We played all the way till 6 even though Yi Rui, May Ying, Solomon & Ee Chin left halfway. What a pity that we didn't take pics tgt! After we took pics after the games, I headed over to P.S. to meet up with JiaHui for dinner. We went to Ajisen for ramen! :) We had a nice chat over dinner as well as during window shopping. We didn't stay out too long as poor JieJie had been standing all the day at Giordarno. Hopefully when school term starts, we'll still have time to go out tgt for meals! I really miss the Genting trip we've went! I can't believe it've been almost a month since we've gotten back from Genting! Oh man! Time really zoomed past!

Saturday, October 13, 2007
12:12 AM

Early this morning at around 8.30am, I woken up by a loud commotion downstairs. I walked to my window and peered out. Guess what, i saw abt 3 police cars parked at the opposite flat of my hse. But I couldn't really see what's happening opposite as i wasn't wearing my specs (all thanks to my 600 degrees of myopia!) I went back to sleep ignoring the commotion. I woke up one hour later to go for my morning run. When I was running, I saw there's a blue Police tent by the rubbish chute. Then I finally realised that someone must have fallen to his/her death in the morning! There were quite a no. of onlookers crowding around the crime scene where was being cordoned off. I heard from my mom that if someone commited suicide, he/her will be handcuffed even though he has passed away. The reason for doing so is that committing suicide is a crime. Seriously I'm not sure if this is true or not. I pity those who commit suicide as they must be facing difficulties which they aren't sure how to solve them. They ended up committing suicide as a way to solve these difficulties. I hope that the decreased can rest in peace and live without worries in Heaven.
~Our lives are like a candle in the wind.~ by Carl Sandburg
UPDATE: I heard from my mom that the decreased is a maid who commited suicide by jumping off from the kitchen! She heard the news over the radio. My mom advised me not to walk to that area in case her 'soul' is still wandering over there. OH GOSH!! it's really freaking me out cos I can see the rubbish chute from my bedroom window!!

Tuesday, October 09, 2007
5:51 PM

I had a really bad day at work all because of a Korean girl patient. All thanks to her! At the start of the day, everything were pretty smooth until when the Korean girl came in for a consultation along with her sister. At the age of 13, she was already carrying a designer bag and 80GB Ipod. Problems started arising when Doc and I needed to get her records done asap. She had the 'I Can't Be Bothered' attitude when Doc was taking photos of her. She started screaming away when we wanted to take pics of her mouth. It's such an easy task which a 5 yr old kid can even finish it without any hassle. Guess what, when Doc was taking moulds of her teeth, she was practically screaming at her top of her voice and pulling Doc's hands away from her mouth (as though Doc & I were going to kidnap her under the eyes of her parents). When I was placing my hands on her shoulders to confort her from the uneasiness of the mould inside her mouth, she pinched my arm right at that moment! IN FRONT OF MY BOSS AND HER PARENTS! WHAT THE BANANA! At that point of time, I almost wanted to shout vulgarities at that idiotic girl! Finally when all records were done, she's being 'FREED'. My boss decided to give her a small gift to reward for her 'sportiness'. Oh Gosh! then should I give her a big kiss for pinching me? I can't wait to kick her out of the clinic at that very moment. But that spoiled little brat threw the gift on the floor and walked away! I've yet to see such ill-mannered kid before and she's already 13! I really wondered where did she learn her manners from as her parents were very nice souls! In the end, for the rest of my work I kept being picked on by my boss who's in a bad mood as well. SIGH! I've to suffer all those nagging and picking by my boss all thanks to that 13 yr-old spoiled brat! :(

Saturday, October 06, 2007
10:17 PM

Today, I went out with the gals (Elaine, PeiFen, XuanLi, JiaHui, Germaine, ShiJun, HuiLing & HuiTing) to Changi Airport's Swensens for XL & PeiFen's belated b'dae celebrations. The ambience and food were pretty good. Here's the pic of the few of us! :)

After lunch, we headed to King Albert's OG as our 'Paris Girl', PeiFen needed to get winterwear for her Paris Immersion Trip in Jan. We were like typical aunties trying out all kinds of winterwear from coats to gloves). We went to Ice Monster to have desserts before heading home.

Our Dessert of The Day! (pls ignore the 'gigantic' spoons!)


Friday, October 05, 2007
10:09 PM

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO AYUMI HAMASAKI!!

Her birthday actually was yesterday, 2nd Oct. She has finally turned 29 this year! I've fallen in love with her music since I was pri 5 with the influence of my pri-sch classmates at that time. Even though I always being asked by my friends, why do I like her so much despite the fact that I don't even understand Japanese language, I should say that I'm impressed with the way she penned her thoughts into her lyrics and her unique vocals which set her apart from other Japanese singers. I still vaguely remembered that when I bought her album {I am...} out of my pocket money for the very first time. I bought her album out of curousity due to her unique album cover as seen below.

It depicts Hamasaki, dressed in an outfit of leaves, wandering through a sunny desert from dawn until dusk. A dove travels alongside her in each picture. The dove is rumoured to symbolize peace in respect to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This album ended up as one of my most favourite albums of her. From then onwards, I began to buy her albums everytime they are released. Below are the albums/single which I've collected for the past 5 years:



Lastly I'll support her music all the way till she retires from the Music world! HAPPY BELATED 29TH BIRTHDAY, AYU! Music Heals The World! :)

Wednesday, October 03, 2007
1:40 PM