final chinese presentation...

i had my final one day.

and it was bloody hilarious.

it started out well enough...without notes and all. just trying to wing it.

and then my mind just went blank.

my mind went blank of all those chinese characters i prepared on my notes.

and my mind doesn't really go blank in english. but it did in chinese. =P

so i just stood there and went "crap, i lost it".

and then people started laughing and my professor just looked really amused.

i shuffled to the side to look at my notes, before continuing and finishing it off.

that was the start of a whole string of chinese-english boo boos. the other groups, that is.

i was the boo boo of my group. =P

ah well, hope we didn't get a bad grade because of me.

on the bright side, my group's done for the chinese presentations!

now to concentrate on the next two next week. =(

a few delayed pictures of my "not-so-secret" birthday surprise monday...


muchas gracias, ladies and gentlemen.

doggie woggie...

if you know snuffy hubby and i, you'd know we love dogs.

but we can't have none now because hubby's parents don't want dogs in the house.

you can imagine my delight when my girl friend, jac, asked if i wanted to go to the pet farm with her to pick up her labrador retriever pup. =)

here're some pictures from our little adventure today (with some peeing and pooping involved)...


good night ollie. =)

as i near my next birthday...

i find myself having wierd dreams.

of those dreams include me going back to SIA and getting back to dancing proper.

of course, these are merely themes of the dreams. the ways which the themes appear are rather interesting. ah well.

this also means i haven't had much sleep, since dreams mean that your brain's working overtime.

i've been looking forward to this friday for a couple of weeks now, because i'll be able to spend the whole day with the hubby and family.

and so, i'm trying to get everything done before friday, so i can enjoy the day, then head back to books before going to class on saturday.

yes, saturday. sigh.

and i had hoped i could bake another batch of something this weekend.

last saturday we baked a batch of yummy coconut-chocolate chip cupcakes, with coconut-vanilla frosting (homemade) and coconut flakes on top.


and it got rave reviews!

you can imagine my elation since this is my first real try at baking. =P

after which we all packed off to chomp chomp for dinner...before heading back home for a round of saturday night mahjong...


el dia this year is going to be a small and quiet affair, even though it's on a public holiday.

quite unlike last year's...which was rather quiet, but not so small.

i will miss josee on this day, because she was the sneaky one who hatched the plan (which included snuffy hubby) for my little celebration last year.

i hope she likes our gift. =)

on a separate note, i love how snuffy hubby sends me messages and the occasional mms through the days to perk me up. especially during really long days at school.

here's one of the pictures he sent me last monday while i was recording my radio show in school with the tag "Save me!"...

The Leap Years

the hubby and me finally went to catch the movie tonight, after much procrastinating.

we read the reviews about how lackluster it was, and got smses from friends on how good it was...and they encouraged us to watch it because Corrinne May's songs are featured in the movie.

we weren't really that keen, but i guess i gave in to the gnawing feeling to see what the movie was like.

the storyline had seemed rather interesting.

now that i've seen it, i have to say i'm rather disappointed.

the two leads were very good-looking, but had no chemistry whatsoever. they were individually rather emotive, but together...there was just no spark.

the only believeable relationships in the show were that of mother and daughter and li-ann's group of girlfriends.

it's set in singapore, and at the windows cafe, which brings back many good memories for me. our office was once situated at club street, right above senso and the wine bar. the boss and i would regularly head down to windows for a chat and coffee. windows has since been torn down to make way for a new cafe. and the club street area has changed tremendously.

seeing windows on the big screen and club street the way i remembered it was rather heartwarming. so that did it for me.

the music featured was appropriate for the movie, but was not appropriate in the way it was used in the movie. long excerpts of Corrinne May's songs were used for several sequences...and even though they seemed to fit the mood of those sequences, they were overused. the movie almost seemed like a prolonged MTV with some speech and drama embedded inside.

there were also too many obviously voiced-over bits and somewhat jumpcuts. it seemed like the whole movie was done in soft focus, which made me wonder if the makers were trying to hide something. or did they just want it to be dreamy?

i love Corrinne May's music, and bawled when "Little Superhero Girl" played (because that was the song that kinda brought the hubby and i together). but there was just a little too much of Ms May in the movie.

perhaps the content is just not movie material. after all, it spans over several leap years and putting it on the big screen could make it rather draggy.

i've only read a couple of catherine lim's books to date, but i'm quite sure her novel (which the movie is based on) should be comprehensive enough for a good read.

maybe we should've stuck to going for "no country for old men".

but on some level, i'm glad we watched it.

perhaps only the hubby will know what i mean.

some positive reinforcement for the crazy week that was...

last week was a crazy one...but i've finally handed up my chinese essay.

now to get started on our group chinese essay assignment. =P

so the hubby and i decided to reward me with a chill day at the SMU animal day and an evening of mahjong with my family.

snuffy hubby and me love dogs to bits, so today was a dream for us.

some of my favorite shots of the day...