of chords and bars

not being able to bar your guitar properly is prolly the most irritating thing on earth
the notes sound possibly constipated, your wrist strains under the relentless efforts of chording
i really think i should buy one of those pint-sized guitars which are about a third of mine
it'll save me a lot of pain, but cost me a hole in my pocket..

gahh why did god make man and woman unequal?!

i have a little bonnet..

guess who's got a brand new bonnet?

ok not that new.

she looks soo sad in that bonnet!

but too bad she has an itchy mouth and a wound on her back leg

on second thought.. it actually looks like a loudhailer.

and then on third thought, it looks like a flower.

poor baby

its a happy day

youknow, i thot today was gonna be a bad day when i woke up cranky, bestowed with disobedient kinks of hair
it didnt help that today was the german test as well (which i did pretty badly actually)
but at the end of the day, the whole day doesnt seem that bad anymore.

infact, at the end of the day, as im sitting here
with sore and aching muscles (from pilates where we worked our asses off literally)
with a burning butt (dont ask) and a little high from that chocolate indulgence just now
and maybe a few checked items in my to-do list
i feel rather deliriously happy!

i feel strangely magically loved. by all those happy people today whom sprinkled their happy dust on me
its nice to feel appreciated and loved (: to know that your actions and words have made someone as happy as they've made you
its just this childish joyousness, that makes me want to spread the love even more (:

so to all those happypeople out there who made me smile today...
big thankews big hugs and big iloveyous! (:

its a happy day, and i thank God for the weather
its a happy day, and i'm living it for my God!
it's a happy day, and things are gonna get better
living each day in the promises of God's words! (:

meine wochenende..

the weekends have come and gone, and im so not ready to go back to school yet
good things never last, but i nv imagined this weekend to pass by THAT quickly
theres this dread of stepping over the Sunday-monday boundary for the work it entails
something that i might not be able to deal with in my current flu-symptomatic state

anyhow. we brought my doggies to sentosa beach on saturday to expand their horizons beyond cookie jars and pip-squeak toys
the first thing ginger did when we arrived was to dig a huge hole in the sand
before running around like a mad dog chasing after insects, scaling rocks, digging more holes, and.. swimming, albeit involuntarily.



bubble covered in the sand that ginger threw up while digging..






in an attempt to help my dogs conquer their fear of water (they're both water dogs anyway), we decided to give them a helping hand and plucked them off the shore, and plonked them in the sea for them to swim
as nature would have it, both dogs were pretty gd swimmers!
but they had a quirk of paddling their paws in mid air way before they're even dropped into the water. like those turtles paddling furiously to escape without knowing they're being held up by their shell..
so after laughing at ginger for the 60billionth time, we decided to take a video of her as evidence of her quirky turtle-behavior.. (:



it was reallyy funny. i couldnt stop laughing when i first saw it. hahaha.

anw. mac and i met up with regi, evynn and aaron to watch 'stomp the yard' after that
(which was a really sucky bring-it-on-wannabe show btw)
we got to watch a few breakdancers jam at the cineleisure atrium..
and one of the dancers looked a LOT like my cousin. it was like a total replica
(except he wasnt my cousin)

aanndd. today i received my pooh coloring book from celine (: muahaha.
the whole world kept asking me why i was carrying a coloring book around hahaha
and guess who ended up coloring the book...



NOT ME.

hahaha ok i colored a leetyll. while waiting for the guys to finish jamming we found crayons and started coloring the book, and laughing at how pooh doesnt wear pants.

ok. i have about 21 min till my break is over and i'll force german words into my brain
so till next time, aufweidersehn! (:

dog

this was what i saw today while sending my sister to school in the morning
i was trailing a mini van, and although i was groggy from lack of sleep, this really cracked me up
ok maybe im not a very observant person, and maybe this has been around for some time
so pardon me for asking, but when did dogs start to become regular passengers?!
and how come there're no vans that have logos for "1 CAT", or "1 BIRD", or "1 HAMSTER"?
mind you, this van was not an spca van, or any other animal-related industry van for that matter..
so given that situational context, it would have been rather hilarious for me.
tho on a side note, the picture was rather badly taken because its not easy trying to control your steering wheel and take a nice picture of moving traffic with your phone camera.

so anyhow. i blogged all these in a futile attempt to procrastinate to hitting the books
i ought to return to my dearly beloved pages that are waiting eagerly for me to pore through them

ta-ta

a picture paints a thousand words

winter camp has officially begun! but this time, its to rush unfinished work, instead of to study for exams
the workload never seems to end no matter how hard we drive our engines..
it's like the finish line keeps getting moved, further and further away from my reach
but with that said, today was a rather productive day camping in the library
for one, i finally saw liren in nus, after a whole nine months of successfully missing each other
and then i finished my part for our english report, plus i finished the required tutorials for tmr.
so it aint that bad for now i guess..

i watched 300 ytd at cine (: its a tetesterone flooded show with awesome graphics, albeit a tad too gory
(we saw a few heads getting sliced off in slow-mo, and also the gory details of what nerves would look like)
the people in the show were half-naked half of the time (hey they were spartans)
but when the half-naked people are guys with great abs and toned arms, im not complaining =p
but seriously, that show could win the show-with-guys-with-the-best-bodies.
seriously

on sunday regi, lide, and mac came over to my place for movie marathon cuz the sun was too bloody hot to do anything else other than to become couch-potatoes under the aircon
we finished "the prestige" and watched half of "butterfly effect", and i LOVE the 60 billion twists in the prestige
makes the show so much more unpredictable. and hard to follow in a sense haha.

sighh recently.. parking fees and ERP charges have been bleeding me dry :(
esp since they set up the electronic parking system in NUS. garghh. my freee parkingg :(
i need to get season parking next semm...

timeless time

you know, when time gets the better of you, all you want is to just grab it by its backside, swing it around, and make it chase you again.
which is exactly what i did, although i did close one eye to the lessons that ive ponned in order to do so
but these two days of self-declared semester break has been really beneficial towards my mental health
in fact, im already at desperate housewives episode 9!

im really counting down the days till summer breakkk. i cant wait to live my agenda-less wandering life again
it was almost perfect (:

so she had a bad day..

today was not a good day. because, today, i learnt that:

1)doing ur english midterm exam when you're feeling half dead and half sleeping spells disaster because it leads to you forgetting almost everything you've tried to cram into your head the night before, and also, forgetting that the paper has negative marking. imagine all my mistakes multiplying themselves negatively, plus the empty scores from the blanks that i left.. i really dont think there's much marks left for me to claim

2) murphy's law does enact itself from time to time, but usually when you're feeling the most desperate and urgent. so we finally redid our german recording for the movie project, and just when we were about to complete and close up the movie, the site froze and turned into a white screen with nothing on it. guess how we resolved it? we did it again.

3) when all of the above happens to you in one day, and you're feeling extremely tired as it is, you become a road hazard. especially in the night, when you're too tired to think, and forget to turn on the headlights. not good not good. my examiner would be turning in his carseat if he knew how i had been driving today.

yes, after all that said, there is one redeeming factor
since all my midterms are unofficially officially over, i get to watch my desperate housewives in peace now (:

way back into love..

i really thank god for how things turn out in the end.

through this i really see the work of god in my life. in our lives.

within these three days, ive experienced desperation, frustration, and hopelessness to a degree that i would never have imagined possible. or at least not to the people concerned.

but things really worked out just fine (:

now i can finally take a deep breath, heave a HUGE sigh of relief, and smile properly in 3 days.

so today was my first proper break, in ages.

we went to watch "music and lyrics". and it was a REALLY nice showw.

finally, a good show that's not "action more than substance", but a nice, chick, romance comedy (:

everyone should go watch it! a sure-laugh sure cry flick.

we also drove down to marina south pier (: to just enjoy the night breeze under the stars.

the roof garden is a really nice place to just chill and look out over to the ships and the jetty

and parking's free and abundant too! so no worries there (:

All I want to do is find a way back into love

I can't make it through without a way back into love

And when I open my heart to you

I'm hoping you'll show me what to do..

just like me

you know you havent exercised for a rly damned long time when you ache like crazy after an hour of stretching, rolling, leg-lifting, modified situps, breathing exercises, and lots more.
i came back frm pilates class feeling like i've run 16 km, done several hundred pushups, and not rested at all
my only consolation is my imagination of all those fats (bakwa, pineappletarts, candies) slowly eliminating themselves
or giving a pat on my own back by telling myself tt im juz that inch closer to my perfect waistline.


but that hour passed rather quickly. you know, it was fun
torturing ourselves in vividly hilarious positions, exchanging pained smiles with one another trying to hold still in those awkward states..
but all knowing that its for the betterment of our figure and extermination of fats
it was fun, because you didnt have to think about anything.
in that hour, all we did was to listen, comprehend the instructions, and do it.
it was nice, not having to think.
thinking's fine. but over-thinking.. now thats a sin.

how i wish i can get away from all of this... right now.

hey, at least the kid thinks penguins are funny too. just like me.