Friday, 7 October 2011

Tuition


Ahhhh. Tuition trains me to be more tolerant. Ohmmmmm.... I'm repeating myself with more patience :) I shall try to attend wednesdays and fridays buddhist society programmes. Maybe I can find myself better. I mean understanding not literally.

Alot of very important people are having their birthdays soon. I've no idea what to give them. I want to give them memorable presents. Not sure about the presents being practical or not though. Oh no.



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Sunday, 18 September 2011

miso soup

It seems to have been 5 years since I really picked up a book. ''My sister's keeper'' is keeping me up at night, reading on the bus, while waiting. I used to read like mad 5 years ago! Feels so good!

Ahhhh getting quite tired each weekend, sleeping between lessons at the void deck. Dozing off in lessons! I am getting enough sleep! But my students sometimes drive me insane! One is coorperative, does her work but sooo careless and talkative I can't get her to stop. Then she wants to hear lots of stories and tells me disney is right and i'm wrong about rapunzel!!

I'm gonna keeep my hair coloured for a while. Really like being different :)
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Shing's bday card :D click it!


 Quoting someone from facebook.

My parents: the sweetest people on earth ever. Missing mum's daily warm embraces. No more goodnight hugs for the next couple of months darn it.>.<"
Hmmm...


No more goodnight hugs.

Monday, 15 August 2011

What do I want to be remembered for?

I like this necklace I received from Sipei my cousin for my birthday. I can make any word!

I'm so happy I had my neighbour ask me to help her catch this little darling. :)


Focusing on something to smile about each day, has made me forget about unhappy stuff for a while. But would you deem this as temporary happiness or would you see it as appreciating every aspect of life? Sometimes the simplest things should be cherished as much as the sophisticated stuff. (enlightenment, detachment, knowledge yada yada papaya) Don't you think?

Sunday, 14 August 2011

My new hair. AHhhhh


Ashley took these cool photos. I hope she'll do well in this year's exams.

Friday, 12 August 2011

Baby Changeable lizard

 I spotted this little guy on the pavement one early morning. How lucky can I be! I still hesitate when attempting to catch the adults and always fail but this time I'm so lucky to hold this little guy!
 Refer to previous post on changeable lizard :)

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Everyday smiling

I'm inspired by a personal project my senior is doing, to post something to be grateful of everyday day for a year. A photo that is.

I shall put something to smile about for each day! At least if I've nothing to say, at least I've something to show. :)



 My pretty lights :)







I love post its. HAHA :)

Sunday, 7 August 2011

Updates on the house


Well the sofa's have arrived from re-upholstery, the kitchen cabinets are half done. WITHOUT DOORS AND TABLE TOP! What is this. How many weeks has it been since the promised deadline? if cannot make it don't make empty promises!! Its probably why some people don't get far in their career with attitudes like these.

But overall we are still satisfied :)

Thursday, 4 August 2011

Mom's birthday

My mom didn't like to celebrate her birthday.

"Cannot celebrate birthday see what happened to Humbear" So sorry. I didn't know I shouldn't bring him out and treat for the first time for the 60th birthday. Of course if I believed that 10 days later this would happen I'll still do that because I don't believe its the cause of it. Also don't believe that my facial condition would link to this.

 At least she was pretty welcoming and happy with the pretty cake and petite candles :)

Surprised her!






Well Look at what I found in Humbear's wallet. I have his funny ears. :)


Priscilla Ahn...

I cannot remember what happened on Monday. Oh. lost in bidding, moved stuff to school, had a horrible room, came home, prepared for TUESDAY!!!

So important is this concert such that I fasted from her music for the past two weeks. Yupp for a fortnight I refrained from listening to Priscilla Ahn's music. My first and so far only idol. When she came on stage and almost immediately sang DREAM.... I was close to tears! AGAIN! (maybe I'm having mood/hormonal swings).


Photos with P.Ahn will be up when I get them from Huiting's friend Siti. I hope she doesn't lose them like how Huiting lost my photo with Budak Pantai!!! I love those guys. Danny's cute heheheheheheeeee....

Anyway P.Ahn's new album's music is much like her old one but with different collaborations and musical effects on the keyboard. Its still very whimsical and quirky with a sweet tune. Watching her performance live is brilliant! I think its the way she communicates with the audience, telling stories of how she came up with the song, relating us to the meaning of the song to her, this is much better than just picking up the song from the CD, not knowing fully what is the message of the meaning of the song to the songwriter.

I nearly flared up at a good but not too close friend online. So close. I think I'm getting moody over everyone being too busy for each other. Getting insistent that we all have to be, you know... together forever. crazy woo wee..
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National Day Parade Preview.

I love NDP. I love SG!


I want to always attend NDP live. I know its like sometimes quite propaganda-ish... but I love this country all the same. I love the fact that we are and will continue to be racially harmonious, and we have all this international people, and we have HDBs and unique housing structure. I love the town, the MRT the keeping clean policies, and how its mostly peaceful.

This year's parade was a blast, some songs were so funny because of how amazingly propaganda-ish it can be! "I gotta work I gotta work I GOTTA WORK! I gotta rush I gotta rush I gotta RUSH!" And how they infused history all over again but in a new way. How many times can you tell the same story of the Prince and the boat and the lion without it getting stale? Apparently many times! :D I love this year's theme song in a heartbeat (as posted in the earlier blog post), and how they infused the whole song, verse by verse into different parts of the musical.

Also they managed to infuse the military showcase into the storyline, well though it was a dream (you know how you can write Pri school compos as a dream and anything can happen?) it was still good.

Do you ever feel so much for the country you get moved by the anthem and pledge to tears? THATS ME!

NDP makes me all hyper and participative. There was only one wave this time though. how lousy. I don't like how people don't participate and give stares at people (I.E me) who do. I want to spit in their goodie bags cause they make me so mad and unhappy. :( I'll cheer and holler whenever I want if you please. Ridiculous. Don't go for a parade if you're gonna be all stone and silent! come on you can do that in front of your telly!

Not much photos cause Bosty found me irritating as well.

Friday, 29 July 2011

Blank paper.

I like to share stuff about myself. I don't know why. Hmmmm I don't think everyone likes to share why? I'm just wary of people not being interested. How to tell? I need to talk like Karen. When she talks people listen, I think. I don't want to wait till I grow old and start babbling and no one listens hahaha.


I watched a ball of Nugget's fur (after being thrown out by me) fly about and whisk into the neighbour's window. :)


I don't want to believe wiki.

Saturday, 23 July 2011

You'll realise how little you know of a subject despite focused research and two textbooks you'll only write at 1 tenth of your usual pace.

I could churn out 2 Ecology reports by now. I'm not distracted. This is difficult.

Wednesday, 20 July 2011


the view from the kitchen :)

i hate headaches.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Exhausted

Ask me how I feel and I'll say I'm fine. I don't want to lie. It just comes out too fast. Wait a while and I'll get to telling you. "I'm fine" is like an introductory statement.

Anyway the contractor sucks. I'm not being mean. He is lousy and lazy and the moment I met him I should've trusted my gut feeling to go with paying more. Can you imagine you make an appointment to meet at 8 and me and my mom are waiting at the place at 8 and you sms at 830 saying you'll be late? YA DUH 830! and you arrive at 9++. So I realised we can judge a person's attitude towards work the same way. LATE.

There is no kitchen in the house. Painting was done last night at 10pm.

However I'm feeling good because the house is really beautiful. Penthouse! HAHAHAHA

I can't wait to have friends over! Me and my mom like the idea of gatherings. The idea. Because after we get tired we actually don't know how to ask people to leave hahahaha....

ommanepadehum for the contractor to be nice. ommmm


random: empty house is really nice for singing. :)

Dear piano. I'm sorry.

I just read a blog post of a friend regarding doing the bare minimum practicing piano and not improving.


I think about myself, because recently an increase in situations have put me in front of the piano with people who are interested but never played. And I join them. I must confess that despite all these years, despite the piano that is going to be lugged over by 6 men with ropes and mattresses heaving and grunting for $200 and  DESPITE the digital one sitting there now, I've given up and for a LONG LONG TIME I've been claiming that.... I know naught of the playing of the piano. Don't look at me don't ask me to sit down play a song, me? I don't know how to play no no no no.....

To me, 90% of this I feel is true. This is not a baseless claim. I know how to play a piece of two, that 10%.

To me making music should have the thought and understanding of music. What I can do with the piano, is play a piece that has been drilled physically and audio-ly into my fingers and brain. No scales, poor sight reading, no tempo understanding, UGH rhythm, time signatures! I haven't been using my brain. Reproduce the music ah yes can, tempo, "the word that sums up the volume changes and movement thingy", notes, drill it get it, but understand, retain, making it slighlty your own... not me.


I'm a robot and I have quit. I rather not do anything with it. Its shameful.

Why I haven't used my brain. I keep sleeping when I start to touch the piano. I play a piece or two once or twice, sprawl across the bench and knock out from the exhaustion of my brain. hahahaha. I have a theory that my brain shuts down if I concentrate really hard. Is concentrating the same as focusing??


Regardless of all this, I am not without a skill, I believe that I make a wonderful audience...... except if I concentrate too hard I fall asleep!!!! HAHAHA.....

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Semantic Satiation

-this I have quite often.


Hairy potty is brillant. I like how snape says SWINE! makes me think of kwei. The air of arrogance. though the speech is slower and so articulate. I don't mind watching it again! Of course I have to watch it repeatedly, but i don't mind watching it in the cinemas ahhhhhn....

OH I shan't say much, mafer hasn't watched it. OOPS ;X

Friday, 15 July 2011

Moving house

Reading letters is the worst way to reminisce.

too much ahhh!

Saturday, 9 July 2011

 Nugget....
 Me and Shing went to Rosyth! Its really great didn't expect to be let in but hehehe we were charming enough :D
 This is the lecture theatre where choir practices were held at! And the library is next to it, is were I spent most of my free time. :) Shing and cher plays neopets and I read! Now they've attained a fantastic collection of books.
 AHHHH 2001 SYF! Who do we see?

Friday, 8 July 2011

In chronological order:



And these blog articles.

http://aubenoire.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/falling-in-love/

http://aubenoire.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/use-protection/


After doing this I ponder... Well I shan't say anything about this. Just trying to get it out of my head.

Thursday, 7 July 2011

My jaw

I wish I didn't dislocate my jaw.

It gets stuck alot of times now!

I can't eat properly now. Can't chew large mouthfuls or chunky meats. UH OH! I hope its not permanent! I like to eat. I have to eat! HAHA. I can't lie sideways and yawn! What if i can't sing?

onomatopoeia : words like UGH! BLERGH! RIBBIT! HEEHAW! CHEEPCHEEP! OINK! D'oh! :D I like this word.

The Green Crested Lizard

The Green Adventurer by VicWasHere ::
The Green Adventurer, a photo by VicWasHere :: on Flickr.

Look how pretty they are :)
The green crested lizard, now this species is the one which is native to Singapore like my beloved Plantain squirrel. Its been out competed by the changeable lizard which inhabit the same habitat as well as has the same niche. This is starting to sound like a good FYP.

If only.

There's so many good photos on flickr I wonder why the wildlife websites that are official have sch low quality ones I think people should sell photos to them. Wildlife photography is so interesting. Being a researcher sometimes its so hard to put a visual aspect into words. Nowadays the technology is so powerful! I'm sure many researchers wish to have great photos of their specimens.

Green Crested Lizard by Shawn14595YOu can see the Green crested lizard is of a vibrant striking colour. This may be a reason why its being out competed so easily by its counterpart which is an olive to brown colour, blending in well with the wood and more urban landscapes now.

Maybe its too soon to say but NUS campus and clementi woods park has no green crested lizards, I shall head down to lower pierce and those reserviors around there.


Green Crested Lizard, a photo by Shawn14595 on Flickr.

Changeable Lizard

Changeable Lizard by Praveen.G
Changeable Lizard, a photo by Praveen.G on Flickr.
WOW better one. I wanna hold it.

Changeable Lizard

Changeable Lizard by altaira1124
Changeable Lizard, a photo by altaira1124 on Flickr.
This one is a well grown male I'm guessing, the ones I try to catch are like lanky youths :)

Today is a good day

Well I do mean yesterday. 6/7/11

I woke up early, studied for my test, was a lil sleepy throughout the journey to school.

Then the day got really good when I was walking to sci fac from the src busstop at about 3pm and I spotted a changable lizard within reach! Was my second attempt at catching one of these and I feel braver! During my first attempt in KE7 I was too hesitant and thought the lizard was brave an taunting, I couldn't catch it and it ended up seriously like a scene from bollywood film around the coconut tree. (well it was a palm tree :) )

So that made me glad!

Then I went for my test, didn't have a pencil for a MCQ paper!!! AHHH but very glad my friend had an extra. Test was good!!!! I think. Yippie! What a nice lecturer with nice mix of easy and tough questions. I didn't understand the word tenuous for one of the options and had to ask :( :(. I said I didn't know the meaning of this. After he told me he apologised for using difficult words! SO SWEET!

After the test the sun was shining the day was still cool the lizards were BASKING!!! I spotted on within reach and for my THIRD attempt, I touched it! It thought I wasn't going to harm it, it probably thought I didn't see it, I nearly got it but since it was on a piece of bark and I covered its tail, it managed to slip off and fall head over heels onto the ground and scampered off. :( I'm still elated thought! I touched it!

HAHA I thought I would have a go at the next lizard basking on a tree root but just as I was about to crouch down, two squirrels my favourite plantain squirrels BURST out of the bushes and jumped at the lizard and at me as well! Awesome day yes?!

:) sighs. happy sighs.

After this I was pretty tired, squeezed with the office people all the way back to hougang for tuition at 730, napped at the void deck, had a yummy curry puff... :)

Tuition today was good as well! told her about mummies and pyramids and removing of brains! Helped her with project work of lions and pandas and bears!

Quite worn out by the time I had to make my way back. Do wish I didn't have to travel it was a pain, but my day was better as I made the bus driver's day better cause I was in the mood to greet him on and off the bus. :)

Good day!

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

If I think I can, I can make it work.

Why I feel immature
I  can't handle my school work, emotions, shy during wrong situations like talking to professors. (don't we point at the people talking to profs and comment on how mature and keen on learning and outspoken they are?)
I act irrationally, the way I behave with friends (my mom calls it being the fool),
I don't have deep critical thoughts of worldly issues. too busy with day to day issues and my own.
I only think of myself and people immediately surrounding me. See I hate all these I I I I I I . I should talk like ELMO!

Why Hazel feels mature suddenly
Dealing with situations mostly adults handle.
eg: funeral handling, house buying, opening/closing bank accounts, contract signing, grants of authorisation, meet lawyer, apply for stuff. cheque writing.
Hazel can't explain properly, but Hazel knows these are like practical life stuff that everyone would handle at some point of time. But it makes Hazel feel old doing all these now. On the other hand Hazel feels so prepared for anything that will come her way.


Humbear was funny. He had a few jokes up his sleeve.
There was the pulling his arm out of his sleeve one,
Calling me donkey and dumbo.
Putting his forehead against mine and taking my headaches from me. Then going ARGH ARGH!! so pain! :)
When I ask, "where's ma?" He'll rummage in his pocket and take his fist out and say "Nah here in my pocket"
Catching me unfocused while supposed to do work.
Secretly buying me colour pens when I was younger, keeping those I bought secret from ma too.

I realised its not really the funny stuff anymore. Doesn't seem funny.


I used to be TERRIFIED maybe still am, constantly dreading when my parents would you know... die. does everyone think about it? tell me hor. :)
Like when I was 7. (I did alot of pondering during that age. Starting thinking about why was I born and what is living and dying and do we have souls, and purposes and death. Also did alot of imagining as well hence quite cuckoo in my head) Oh yes so when I was around that age, would wake up in the night and check if my parents were BREATHING! terrifying! wait till they snore or put my finger there.

Now I still do, occasionally, when my mind runs wild. Hmmm. Does it count as mentally preparing myself if I imagine it coming? Sometimes I do too. I feel very bad like it may make it come faster! But my imaginations runs wild and I get to the point where I react like its real. cry of course. Mostly before falling asleep when the mind is like in the drifty portion between thoughts and dreams like the frothy bits of waves as it rolls against the sand. When my mom is most silent and I'm scared that she may turn cold and be not-breathe. Snoring is good.


Blogs have different purposes ya. This one's for sharing my emotions and thoughts. Actually felt shy and thought I'm weird people would think I'm weird. But I realised NOWADAYS people who do come see aren't those mean kaypo comparing mean ones. But the ones who want to know cause they care. Thanks. :) Anyway though I know you're there for me, its hard to SAY all these. Like really lar even my mom! What if I told her all that! I think she'll smack me for imagining her .... Ooh and jy. especially him. too emotional. stuff that cannot be solved.

Today:
I asked my mom to cook oxtail stew, saying so long haven't eaten that. She said, "Humbear's not here already"
She keeps contemplating if she should work. I stubbornly think she doesn't need to. I feel like Humbear, he doesn't think she needs to as well. I think I can. I smile and wave her off.

Alot of times I get demoralised and scared and the thoughts in my head goes as such eg: "I can't be choir head what if.... etc... I can't study and stay hall at the same time... I can't tuition as much... I can. If I think I can I can sure make it happen." Then I get happily surprised by my own change of thoughts its like someone else in there.

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Daylight moth

Flickr <--- pretty photos---->

 I loved catching these daylight moths in secondary school. They stay so still perhaps storing up solar energy and so sometimes they were like a ring on my finger or something for me to go scare my class girls :) They're pretty easy to catch. so fun :)