a moment to remember

~songs in my head~

没有地球太阳还是会绕.

But I don’t care what they say. I’m in love with you.

I just wanna fall and lose myself Laughing so hard it hurts like hell Forget about everything and run away, yeah

~ MOTTO ~
:: if you have tried your best, there's no need for regrets. ::

~ THOUGHTS ~
By ourselves we are too weak to hold our own even for a moment.

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God" (Romans 8:28)

For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.

"God has given, God has taken, blessed be the name of God" (Job 1:21)

"I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out – plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” (Jeremiah 29:11)

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:: juz taking a moment to remember ::

Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:39 PM

random

I'm officially obsessed with lipstick + lip gloss
Flipping through magazines
Every shade appealed to me
Hot pink, baby pink, nude, fuschia, red... Etc
Probably only pantone colors can aptly describe the various shades haha..
MAC, shishedo, chanel, Revlon...
Darling can I use your capitaland vouchers - put them to good use??? :p

Sigh... Miss him lots.
No sunday talk today cuz he's in KL for colleague's wedding
Saturdays are always so perfect and lazy
Hehe...
Looking forward to the next week =)
i feel like we've been tog for longer than just over 3 months..
(well, that is technically true, cuz i can't think of any other guy friend whom i can say knows more about me in the last 5 years than him, or any guy who can say they know me better than roland does - this fact is irreplaceable, it's like first mover advantage haha..)
in a way, friendship is the solid foundation on which this relationship is based on... we "saved" lots of time because trust, respect and understanding was already formed as friends...

and suddenly, i quite miss the bintan trip...
hanging out with csbs on the beach and just tuang-ing..
csbs is a very valued group of friends to me,
and no doubt it is also because of the existence of this group in my uni days,
that helped me gained this wonderful relationship today :)
i hope next yr perhaps we can go for such a trip together again
dont mind going back bintan, or batam, or bangkok..
the next time, hopefully shu wan and shu hui will be able to join us too!
looking at the photos from the trip that's 5 months ago..
i realised that the phuket photos are not uploaded yet!
shujing and roland.. the two lazy people...
hence my phuket post never came... hahah, because no photos!

Life is funny, because we never can quite anticipate its changes.

---Somewhere between our laughs, our long talks, our silly little fights, and all our jokes, I fell in love.

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:33 PM

15 minutes

On monday, roland & i went to have lunch with wenxin at this cafe called "15 minutes"

its housed inside lasalle...

we went during lunch because its canteen-style and everything is supposed to be ready for collection within 15minutes...

and because they give you this vibrator...hehehe....

it's called patron pager actually.

when your food is ready, this pager will vibrator, shake and light up in red!

like this... but of course it was vibrating.

wenxin showing off her sexy mole.

this was the only photo i remembered to take of the food we ordered.

because after that we were too eager to start...

this was roland's pasta - something with special pink sauce

that tasted somewhat like, sauce with red wine, in my opinion.

i forgot what roland said it tasted like...

i ordered mushroom arriabiata and it was pretty spicy, with jalapenos in it

wenxin had fish & chips, the fries and coleslaw was pretty good. but i din try the fish.

prices were below $10..

i want to go try the salads.. they put the veggies in this cookie jar and you can shake it

and then pour it out onto a plate.

gimmicky but its fun.

group shot...

candid shot taken by wenxin.

love it :)

there is this look of camaraderie & affection in our eyes... hahaha
it was unknowing & unintended.

i love my almond-colored cardigan too! its so versatile and comfy!!

definitely a great buy.

on impulse, and out of boredom with my hair (i have this bad habit of hankering for long long hair and then when i have it, i will have the itch to snip it),

i went to the hairdresser to snip off my hair & dye it violet.

all for only $22.60

$2.80 for cut and $19.80 for dye

the dye came out uneven lah! but well for such a cheap price i guess i cant really complain..

now i look like i only dyed the top 3 inches of my hair...

and the rest is still like black..

view from the back....

love this skirt and belt set that i bought from f21!

and as promised, a shot of my new sports shoes..

so minty right.. matched my pedicure...

im quite excited about my next pedicure..

lots of colors i would like to try!

all these look good for christmas... sparkly!

the gold will look funny on toes though...

this forest green is beautiful~

and i want to apply this beautiful shade on my toes!!

"you dont know jacques" shade.

too bad i have to wait another week to do my toes...

---Somewhere between our laughs, our long talks, our silly little fights, and all our jokes, I fell in love.

Labels: i have atrocious friends, if love wasnt so atrocious I would have stayed blind, whoever invented fashion committed an atrocious crime

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:30 PM

Happy birthday, Valerie!

it was a great 24th birthday.
i think im really lucky to have someone to celebrate my birthday with every year.
this year, i celebrated with csbs, wenxin and of course, somebody special.
Wht makes it unique is that this is not the first time he is celebrating my bday, but its the first time tht we get a private celebration planned by him:)
Funnily wenxin and roland both happened to bring me to eat at the same place - PS Cafe.
When roland heard tht wenxin brought me there, he HUH very loudly and asked me which branch but I didn't think it will be so zhun
Then on my actual bday, he told me tt we are gg ps cafe but luckily it was a diff outlet he intended to bring me to... Hehe, anyway the menus turned out to be different as well. The mood and atmosphere were very varied too.
Wenxin gave me the most kinky present ever received, thumbs up!!
Lol.. I was definitely shocked.
Roland gave me something I wanted and needed, but it was the way he presented and the little extra things he did for the present tht made me happy. His efforts in revealing the gift and these little gestures were very thoughtful.
And not to mention, it was the tender loving care tht I received on tht day tht really made it very very memorable. Simple but well spent birthday tht I wil remember:)

Some pictures of PS Cafe

The starter was simple but very good. Esp the tomatoes, they were in some tangy sweet sauce, yummy

Roland's beef sandwich, huge

My veggie pasta, abit dry

This dessert was goooood!!! I was ooohing and ahhhing all the way.
Ginger pudding with earl grey cream sauce served with a scoop of vanilla icecream.
The earl grey sauce was very creamy thick but not too jelat, I'm gg back for somemore;)

Our shots. How come I'm the bday girl but he's the one getting the kiss?
I demand a refund hahaha

This was taken by e waitress with denise keller in the backgrd. She seems to have aged and is even more skinny now.

Overall, I enjoyed this year's bday a lot, and all the ppl tht usually might forget my bday didn't this year, and thus I m really happy tt I'm being remembered. Some were v prompt and sincere too. But of cuz thr is the -_- person whom I rather not wish me because the wishing always sounds so contrived, like nothing better to say.

I'm not so looking forward to nx year or the nx because it will be 25, 26 yrs! Mid 20s boooo!! Further and further from my sweet 16 dream. Apparently lots of ppl know of my this 'wishful' saying lol

I'm so slpy now, jus reaching hm from body combat session II with jacq at china sq..
I'm not as chi dun today hehe.. But thk my new sports shoes are a tad too big!
Shall post photos of my 1st sports shoes nx time, hahaha
I need another sports bra and socks.. Now only gt one each, too pathetic lah..
Shall end the post with the song below.

Don McLean - And I Love You So

And I love you so.
The people ask me how,
How I’ve lived till now.
I tell them I don’t know.

I guess they understand
How lonely life has been.
But life began again
The day you took my hand.

And, yes, I know how lonely life can be.
The shadows follow me, and the night won’t set me free.
But I don’t let the evening get me down
Now that you’re around me.

And you love me, too.
Your thoughts are just for me;
You set my spirit free.
I’m happy that you do.

The book of life is brief
And once a page is read,
All but love is dead.
That is my belief.

And, yes, I know how loveless life can be.
The shadows follow me, and the night won’t set me free.
But I don’t let the evening bring me down
Now that you’re around me.

And I love you so.
The people ask me how,
How I’ve lived till now.
I tell them, "i don’t know."

---Somewhere between our laughs, our long talks, our silly little fights, and all our jokes, I fell in love.

Labels: i have atrocious friends, if love wasnt so atrocious I would have stayed blind

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:33 PM

phuket memories 08/07 - 12/07

brought along my instax mini to phuket... here are the photos shujing scanned...
the hello kitty ones are really cute. every photo frame is different!
i want the disney series next! (: love all the photos we took! too bad ms hor didnt allow me to take of her wearing her damn rocker jacket. :P

this was taken at maya bay.

if you can see the numerous magazine pasting at the back of the photo, it is because the toilet sliding window was intended to be translucent... haha... we were frantically pasting them up the moment we arrived there... at 12 midnight, can u imagine?

i think this speaks volumes... so i shall leave it as that (:

this was taken at maya bay and another beach that we went to.... during our phiphi island hopping. love the sun rays and the clear waters. oh and the sand.

shujing lying there under the colorful umbrellas, very retro. there was another pic of her at the beach but she refuse to scan in! kns. nice lor.

tic tac toe.

on our last day, we walked all the way to karon beach.

nice big waves there. looked scary though.

me and shujing playing connect 4 at the cafe while having our dinner! wooo~~
we each won one game! (:

walking back to kata beach to find FOOD!! we walked for like 30 mins at least without any breakfast (no eggs for roland) haha... shujing was like "can we take taxi!!!??" and then roland went "aiya... its just another 5-10mins walk" but after another 10mins, we are still not yet near our destination... and then roland will go "another 5-10mins only, really..." while me and sj try to keep our cool under the hot sun.

will post the other photos when the lazy bum retrieves from his camera.

---

Somewhere between our laughs, our long talks, our silly little fights, and all our jokes, I fell in love.

Labels: holidays, i have atrocious friends

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Monday, July 26, 2010 9:25 PM

visual orgasm

recently, i picked up the term visual orgasm from my colleague kaka.
she uses it to refer to her daily ogles at korean boybands like super junior, 2am etc.
haha... i havent done a pictorial post on the things that please me visually for the longest time.
need to spruce up my blog abit with the things i like. (:

first of all, though i havent been online shopping much for these couple of months, the vintage thrift stores on ebay are getting alot of likes from me! the dresses are really pretty and unique. the only reason that stops me from buying is the bids go on too high! plus they are in USD so after conversion, i dont think its worth the money.

but well, just to show some of the pretty things i found:

saw these prada bags in real life recently. nice but the other lambskin one is still the best design.
although my colleague claims their bags are not very good in quality.

love the jumpsuit on her. tall people have such advantage.

been into shoes again recently. but see only, never buy.
i will probably buy a black pair of heels soon though. theres always room for excuse for a pair of classic black heels. these are not the real christian louboutins of course..

and i thought these steve madden heels are to-die-for!!

i saw someone selling this almost new canon s90 online for $500. (why am i buying everything online..... even the blackberry phone.. was through email with singtel hahaa)
it is like a compact dslr with the body of a digital camera. very tempting because wenxin told me that her cousin is using it and its how awesome. cant get over the beautiful black matt finish but im afraid i might find the features a little too cheem for a novice like me. shall see how. the last camera i got, i tried to buy a cheaper one but lets just say sometimes you get what you pay for. haha. that was a casio, so i am swearing off casio camera for now. shall go for good old trusty canon. although it is probably just me, because wenxin used her casio camera for a good no. of years, dropped it like 100 times and still it worked better than mine.

and then here are some photos from my company's outing about 2 months ago?
at east coast park... i remembered cycling from one end of east coast to the jetty area.. my bum hurt! but it was all worth it...

there are a couple of changes for Q3 in my job.
change in scope of work and there is a new guy taking over as my client.
not really looking forward, but i guess i got to try to see the silver linings..
one of my colleague is leaving for DDB soon.. it brings back some pangs of envy and recollection of my interviews at LB and tribal DDB, especially when i see that sometimes its not about your job ability/experience... your work attitude can suck but you just need luck and know the right people.. get the right connections.. she said she will lookout for me over there, but im not sure i am ready to leave as yet.

its 5months already here, and i need to push myself to complete that 1 year before i leave, i guess... perhaps i am those who get bored and feel unchallenged easily. but i miss 'that' kind of advertising/branding... creating from scratch, and feeling involved in a project that brings me satisfaction when i see it out on shelfs/newspaper/tv... just like when i see the new magnolia logo with the two blue cloudy-like brackets/swirls nowadays, it always brings a smile on my face as i remember the days at design bridge.

one day....
i am keeping this in mind....

as for the topic of "no other", things have been great, and are getting better (:
finally, it is more or less out in the open and friends' reactions have been sometimes awkward but mostly encouraging, and i feel relieved and glad just to be able to behave normally now..
to receive their blessings probably helped alot..
it was definitely an unexpected relationship to come along,
but it is also definitely something that opened up alot of possibilities once i started exploring.
i must say it feels better than i could have ever expected or imagined.
it feels like right there infront of us all along,
but just when you thought you knew that person well...
you realised it was just but the 1st layer....
and there are more and more layers to be known and for me to discover...
(:

--

Somewhere between our laughs, our long talks, our silly little fights, and all our jokes, I fell in love.

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