Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:23 PM
Will be flying to Korea in about 5 hours' time. And in 12 hours, I'll be breathing the same air as 2PM, FT Island, 2NE1, Girls Generation and Jang Keun Suk. Hahaha, not that I know where they'll be. Well, except for 2PM, they'll be performing at Noise Basement in Gangnam tomorrow night for some Christmas Party. But I'm underage over there. =(
Alright, I'm not there for celebrity stalking or sighting. If I'm really lucky, I might be able to spot one or two celebrities. But I'm not counting on that. I just hope that weather won't be too cold so that I won't find myself shivering or hear my own teeth chattering while sight-seeing.
Okay, I need to go do some last minute packing and checking. Will be back on the 30th!
And before I forget, Merry Christmas in advance! ^^ |
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:16 PM
Had some time to idle around after I came home from collecting my amended testimonial in school, so as promised, I decided to record my playing Without Saying on the piano. No, it's definitely not perfect yet, I didn't have the chance to really practise it, so there are some mistakes and the tempo’s off in some parts because I was basically trying to sight-read off the sheets. Perhaps I'll upload another one when I'm better at it. Then I decided to play Inside My Heart from My Name is Kim Sam Soon OST(I know it's old but it's my fave song from the OST) and Secret Garden by...I-dunno-who, it's just a sheet without the composer's name that I got off a music sheet site because I thought the melody was nice. Lol. Apologies for the mistakes, let's just say I'm not very talented in playing the piano. Hahaha. Just click on the links to listen. ^^ Without Saying
Secret Garden
Inside My HeartThe sound quality of Iphone's voice memo is pretty good! *****Oh yes, something embarrassing happened on my way to school today. I was on Bus 12, sitting all the way at the back of the bus, listening to my Iphone and looking out of the window. Suddenly, at the corner of my eyes, I saw something waving, I turned around and it turned out to be this guy who was sitting 4 seats away from me and had been waving for super long, trying to get my attention because he wanted to ask for directions. And apparently, he was calling me quite loudly(that all the people on the bus turned to look at me) too but I couldn't hear him with my earphones on and continued looking out of the window. -.- When he finally got my attention, the entire bus was staring at me. Gosh, so embarrassing! Lesson learnt: never blast your music that you become oblivious to your surroundings. |
Monday, December 14, 2009 4:42 PM
So yesterday for lunch, we went to Owen Road for traditional Bah Kut Teh. I guess it's traditional because they gave us a small chinese clay teapot and and cute little china cups to drink tea from? I don't know, I haven't eaten alot of Bah Kut Teh throughout my life. Yesterday was my second. Not sure if it's true, but from what I see, I think the Bah Kut Teh are usually sold without the tea? Anyway, the Bah Kut Teh at Owen Road is really nice, but it's pretty unhealthy to eat it frequently due to its high level of cholesterol.
After lunch, we went ION Orchard. Did some more shopping for the trip. And bought a Korean phrase book from Prologue. I definitely can't survive in Korea with my miserable broken Korean. Hahaha. Was feeling alittle hungry, bought wasabi popcorns from Cornery. Yeah, my shop. Lol.
Went to quite a number of places yesterday. After ION, it was Funan IT Mall, Chinatown, then Citysquare. Enjoyed myself alot, but I was super tired by the end of the day.
***** I don't understand how people can play a tune 'by ear' on the piano. I was trying to search for piano sheet for Without Saying from the You're Beautiful OST, and there were some people who uploaded videos of them playing the song onto Youtube. There was this girl who played the whole song perfectly by ear, meaning, there wasn't any music sheet for her to refer to in the first place, she just came up with the notes and all just by listening to the song. And the thing is, she started playing piano for only a year?!?! I played for 12 years and I can't even differentiate one note from the other just by listening(yes I know I'm a failure), let alone, play a song by ear! I don't know but is this a gift thing? Either you have the gift for it or you don't? Then I guess I don't have it.
Fortunately, I managed to find the music sheet for the song. No need to rely on playing it by ear. And yay, I can practise for all I want, till my fingers drop off. Okay, that's gruesome. Maybe I'll record and let you guys hear the song if I perfect playing it. IF. Hahaha, that day will never come. |
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:51 PM
Today, I was shopping in The Face Shop when this little girl held my hand and called me 'Mommy'. FML. |
Monday, December 07, 2009 4:48 PM
So on Friday, I went out with the girls. But before I met them, I had to go back to school to take my testimonial. And Mr Tong was sitting behind this glass panel in the TRC, catching people who weren't in school attire. What's new? I was going out, so obviously I wasn't in school attire. Fortunately, I met Hweeli in front of the TRC, and swopped clothes with her. It was so troublesome! And have you ever seen a student in a school skirt, table-tennis tee and heels? Well, me neither, but I was that student who walked into the TRC to get my testimonial on Friday. Darn, why can't Mr Tong just leave us alone when it's possibly the second-last day we are stepping into the school?
Anyway, the girls and I went Far East Plaza, Tangs, Wisma Atria, Ngee Ann City, then to Citylink and Marina Square. By the time we got to Taka, we were hungry and wanted to eat from the food market at the basement because there were loads of things to eat, Japanese, Korean, Chinese snacks. But there were no seats and we had to eat as we walk. So we ended up at macs. It felt so great to plop down on a chair because our legs were really killing us.
I left early in the evening, while Tracy & Yingiet continued with their shopping.
*** Yesterday morning, I went for Agape's team talk at Plaza Singapura. Yep, I'm back in Agape Floorball! I'm looking forward to playing floorball again. ^^
And thanks Teresa for introducing me the tutoring job! The pay's really good. I'm gonna take it up starting January!
Anyway, after the talk, I went to meet my family at Kallang Leisure Park. I was stuck in the rain and had no choice but to wait for the shuttle bus for nearly 40 minutes! My family was buying winter clothings, but I got nothing from Kallang Leisure Park because they didn't have any winter clothes to my liking.
Then we went to Marina Square where we got wool sweaters/cardigans. I got a black wool cardigan. Then, I saw this white winter coat which I really liked from Fox and the price was really reasonable, actually, it was quite cheap considering it's from Fox. But I didn't get it in the end because it was 100% polyester, no down at all. I asked the saleperson and he told me it's more for 5-10 degrees Celsius but if I wore more on the inside, I should be okay for 0 degrees Celsius and below. I decided not take any chances, I may be okay in Jeju-do but once I get to Seoul, Yong Pyong and Mt Seorak, it's probably going to be freezing cold. Falling ill isn't exactly the best way to enjoy your vacation. Haha.
Then we went to 313 Somerset. Wanted to get black earmuffs from Winter Time but black was out of stock. I wanted to go into Uniqlo upon seeing the colourful winter jackets, I never knew they sold winter jackets. I was trying to search for the end of the queue of people who, like me, were trying to get into Uniqlo as well. When I finally found the end of the queue, forget it man, I would probably get into Uniqlo an hour later.
So we left 313 for Tamp 1 because my mom wanted to go Universal Travelator(or Escalator. Haha, I forgot the name la) to see its winter clothes. I went to Uniqlo instead. Shiok, no queue at all! And they have the exact promotions as 313. People, if you wanna go Uniqlo, go to the one at Tamp 1, not 313 Somerset, unless you don't mind waiting for an hour to get into the store and another hour to pay for your purchases. So in the end, I got a 90% down black jacket from Uniqlo. It looks really nice(like something from SPAO, Girls Generation fans should know which shop I'm talking about), and it's freaking cheap! Only $99.90. We're talking about a 90% down here, the same jacket could easily have cost me at least $250 in other winter clothing stores. Plus, Uniqlo has a whole range of other winter clothes, including fleece jackets, parkas, turtlenecks. I got a few black turtlenecks(I think you can guess by now that my winter attire is all-black, lol), Dad got another sweater.
One interesting observation I made while I was at Uniqlo is that I noticed that the girlfriends/wives would be shopping in Uniqlo while their boyfriends/husbands would be waiting outside, lining up in a row and leaning against the railings. And the thing is, you only get to see this at Uniqlo Tamp 1. Lol.
Then we went Espirit, G2000 and Veeko to get a couple more sweaters and cardigans. Then we got 3 dancing christmas trees for free because apparently Tamp 1 was giving away a dancing christmas tree for each $100 spent. So now I have 3 dancing christmas trees at home and I don't know what to do with them. Lol. We were actually entitled to 5 christmas trees, but no thanks, 3 dancing christmas trees are enough to drive me crazy.
My sis and I got our earmuffs from Winter Time at TM. No, I didn't get the black one in the end, I got white. Haha, I decided I don't want to be dressed in all black. So my earmuffs will be white.
*** On Sunday, we went to Plaza Sing to get a few more sweaters(I seriously think that we bought too many sweaters for the trip), gloves, leg warmers, beanies and swimming caps. I got myself a black-and-white-striped knitted beanie. I'm not really fond of beanies because I think they look weird. Someone once told me that wearing a beanie is like wearing...ah, never mind, I shall not say. Hehehe.
After dinner at Plaza Sing, we headed down to People's Park Complex to finish up shopping for our trip. Thermal socks, lip balms, moisturizing lotions, etc.
So, yeah, we managed to finish our winter trip shopping over the weekend.
*** And today, I was supposed to meet Mrs Beetsma at 1pm in school to have the error in my testimonial corrected. I only woke up at 12.15pm?!?! I quickly ate my brunch and flew out of the house. Cabbed down because I was late already. The cabbie started talking to me about A Levels, what I'm going to do in life...when he heard my prelim grades, he was like so shocked. He stared at me in disbelief and said 'Serious?'. He told me that with those kind of grades, I can't get into any universities in Singapore. I don't blame him, he was just being honest. But darn, I can't help it, the whole worrying thing is coming back to me again. Maybe miracles do not exist after all. Man, I wished I never took that cab in the first place. =( |
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:23 PM
Will be flying to Korea in about 5 hours' time. And in 12 hours, I'll be breathing the same air as 2PM, FT Island, 2NE1, Girls Generation and Jang Keun Suk. Hahaha, not that I know where they'll be. Well, except for 2PM, they'll be performing at Noise Basement in Gangnam tomorrow night for some Christmas Party. But I'm underage over there. =(
Alright, I'm not there for celebrity stalking or sighting. If I'm really lucky, I might be able to spot one or two celebrities. But I'm not counting on that. I just hope that weather won't be too cold so that I won't find myself shivering or hear my own teeth chattering while sight-seeing.
Okay, I need to go do some last minute packing and checking. Will be back on the 30th!
And before I forget, Merry Christmas in advance! ^^ |
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:16 PM
Had some time to idle around after I came home from collecting my amended testimonial in school, so as promised, I decided to record my playing Without Saying on the piano. No, it's definitely not perfect yet, I didn't have the chance to really practise it, so there are some mistakes and the tempo’s off in some parts because I was basically trying to sight-read off the sheets. Perhaps I'll upload another one when I'm better at it. Then I decided to play Inside My Heart from My Name is Kim Sam Soon OST(I know it's old but it's my fave song from the OST) and Secret Garden by...I-dunno-who, it's just a sheet without the composer's name that I got off a music sheet site because I thought the melody was nice. Lol. Apologies for the mistakes, let's just say I'm not very talented in playing the piano. Hahaha. Just click on the links to listen. ^^ Without Saying
Secret Garden
Inside My HeartThe sound quality of Iphone's voice memo is pretty good! *****Oh yes, something embarrassing happened on my way to school today. I was on Bus 12, sitting all the way at the back of the bus, listening to my Iphone and looking out of the window. Suddenly, at the corner of my eyes, I saw something waving, I turned around and it turned out to be this guy who was sitting 4 seats away from me and had been waving for super long, trying to get my attention because he wanted to ask for directions. And apparently, he was calling me quite loudly(that all the people on the bus turned to look at me) too but I couldn't hear him with my earphones on and continued looking out of the window. -.- When he finally got my attention, the entire bus was staring at me. Gosh, so embarrassing! Lesson learnt: never blast your music that you become oblivious to your surroundings. |
Monday, December 14, 2009 4:42 PM
So yesterday for lunch, we went to Owen Road for traditional Bah Kut Teh. I guess it's traditional because they gave us a small chinese clay teapot and and cute little china cups to drink tea from? I don't know, I haven't eaten alot of Bah Kut Teh throughout my life. Yesterday was my second. Not sure if it's true, but from what I see, I think the Bah Kut Teh are usually sold without the tea? Anyway, the Bah Kut Teh at Owen Road is really nice, but it's pretty unhealthy to eat it frequently due to its high level of cholesterol.
After lunch, we went ION Orchard. Did some more shopping for the trip. And bought a Korean phrase book from Prologue. I definitely can't survive in Korea with my miserable broken Korean. Hahaha. Was feeling alittle hungry, bought wasabi popcorns from Cornery. Yeah, my shop. Lol.
Went to quite a number of places yesterday. After ION, it was Funan IT Mall, Chinatown, then Citysquare. Enjoyed myself alot, but I was super tired by the end of the day.
***** I don't understand how people can play a tune 'by ear' on the piano. I was trying to search for piano sheet for Without Saying from the You're Beautiful OST, and there were some people who uploaded videos of them playing the song onto Youtube. There was this girl who played the whole song perfectly by ear, meaning, there wasn't any music sheet for her to refer to in the first place, she just came up with the notes and all just by listening to the song. And the thing is, she started playing piano for only a year?!?! I played for 12 years and I can't even differentiate one note from the other just by listening(yes I know I'm a failure), let alone, play a song by ear! I don't know but is this a gift thing? Either you have the gift for it or you don't? Then I guess I don't have it.
Fortunately, I managed to find the music sheet for the song. No need to rely on playing it by ear. And yay, I can practise for all I want, till my fingers drop off. Okay, that's gruesome. Maybe I'll record and let you guys hear the song if I perfect playing it. IF. Hahaha, that day will never come. |
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:51 PM
Today, I was shopping in The Face Shop when this little girl held my hand and called me 'Mommy'. FML. |
Monday, December 07, 2009 4:48 PM
So on Friday, I went out with the girls. But before I met them, I had to go back to school to take my testimonial. And Mr Tong was sitting behind this glass panel in the TRC, catching people who weren't in school attire. What's new? I was going out, so obviously I wasn't in school attire. Fortunately, I met Hweeli in front of the TRC, and swopped clothes with her. It was so troublesome! And have you ever seen a student in a school skirt, table-tennis tee and heels? Well, me neither, but I was that student who walked into the TRC to get my testimonial on Friday. Darn, why can't Mr Tong just leave us alone when it's possibly the second-last day we are stepping into the school?
Anyway, the girls and I went Far East Plaza, Tangs, Wisma Atria, Ngee Ann City, then to Citylink and Marina Square. By the time we got to Taka, we were hungry and wanted to eat from the food market at the basement because there were loads of things to eat, Japanese, Korean, Chinese snacks. But there were no seats and we had to eat as we walk. So we ended up at macs. It felt so great to plop down on a chair because our legs were really killing us.
I left early in the evening, while Tracy & Yingiet continued with their shopping.
*** Yesterday morning, I went for Agape's team talk at Plaza Singapura. Yep, I'm back in Agape Floorball! I'm looking forward to playing floorball again. ^^
And thanks Teresa for introducing me the tutoring job! The pay's really good. I'm gonna take it up starting January!
Anyway, after the talk, I went to meet my family at Kallang Leisure Park. I was stuck in the rain and had no choice but to wait for the shuttle bus for nearly 40 minutes! My family was buying winter clothings, but I got nothing from Kallang Leisure Park because they didn't have any winter clothes to my liking.
Then we went to Marina Square where we got wool sweaters/cardigans. I got a black wool cardigan. Then, I saw this white winter coat which I really liked from Fox and the price was really reasonable, actually, it was quite cheap considering it's from Fox. But I didn't get it in the end because it was 100% polyester, no down at all. I asked the saleperson and he told me it's more for 5-10 degrees Celsius but if I wore more on the inside, I should be okay for 0 degrees Celsius and below. I decided not take any chances, I may be okay in Jeju-do but once I get to Seoul, Yong Pyong and Mt Seorak, it's probably going to be freezing cold. Falling ill isn't exactly the best way to enjoy your vacation. Haha.
Then we went to 313 Somerset. Wanted to get black earmuffs from Winter Time but black was out of stock. I wanted to go into Uniqlo upon seeing the colourful winter jackets, I never knew they sold winter jackets. I was trying to search for the end of the queue of people who, like me, were trying to get into Uniqlo as well. When I finally found the end of the queue, forget it man, I would probably get into Uniqlo an hour later.
So we left 313 for Tamp 1 because my mom wanted to go Universal Travelator(or Escalator. Haha, I forgot the name la) to see its winter clothes. I went to Uniqlo instead. Shiok, no queue at all! And they have the exact promotions as 313. People, if you wanna go Uniqlo, go to the one at Tamp 1, not 313 Somerset, unless you don't mind waiting for an hour to get into the store and another hour to pay for your purchases. So in the end, I got a 90% down black jacket from Uniqlo. It looks really nice(like something from SPAO, Girls Generation fans should know which shop I'm talking about), and it's freaking cheap! Only $99.90. We're talking about a 90% down here, the same jacket could easily have cost me at least $250 in other winter clothing stores. Plus, Uniqlo has a whole range of other winter clothes, including fleece jackets, parkas, turtlenecks. I got a few black turtlenecks(I think you can guess by now that my winter attire is all-black, lol), Dad got another sweater.
One interesting observation I made while I was at Uniqlo is that I noticed that the girlfriends/wives would be shopping in Uniqlo while their boyfriends/husbands would be waiting outside, lining up in a row and leaning against the railings. And the thing is, you only get to see this at Uniqlo Tamp 1. Lol.
Then we went Espirit, G2000 and Veeko to get a couple more sweaters and cardigans. Then we got 3 dancing christmas trees for free because apparently Tamp 1 was giving away a dancing christmas tree for each $100 spent. So now I have 3 dancing christmas trees at home and I don't know what to do with them. Lol. We were actually entitled to 5 christmas trees, but no thanks, 3 dancing christmas trees are enough to drive me crazy.
My sis and I got our earmuffs from Winter Time at TM. No, I didn't get the black one in the end, I got white. Haha, I decided I don't want to be dressed in all black. So my earmuffs will be white.
*** On Sunday, we went to Plaza Sing to get a few more sweaters(I seriously think that we bought too many sweaters for the trip), gloves, leg warmers, beanies and swimming caps. I got myself a black-and-white-striped knitted beanie. I'm not really fond of beanies because I think they look weird. Someone once told me that wearing a beanie is like wearing...ah, never mind, I shall not say. Hehehe.
After dinner at Plaza Sing, we headed down to People's Park Complex to finish up shopping for our trip. Thermal socks, lip balms, moisturizing lotions, etc.
So, yeah, we managed to finish our winter trip shopping over the weekend.
*** And today, I was supposed to meet Mrs Beetsma at 1pm in school to have the error in my testimonial corrected. I only woke up at 12.15pm?!?! I quickly ate my brunch and flew out of the house. Cabbed down because I was late already. The cabbie started talking to me about A Levels, what I'm going to do in life...when he heard my prelim grades, he was like so shocked. He stared at me in disbelief and said 'Serious?'. He told me that with those kind of grades, I can't get into any universities in Singapore. I don't blame him, he was just being honest. But darn, I can't help it, the whole worrying thing is coming back to me again. Maybe miracles do not exist after all. Man, I wished I never took that cab in the first place. =( |
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First of all, I'm a Kpop fan, especially of 2PM, MBLAQ, 2NE1 and FT Island. Actually, I like Kpop, Korean entertainment, Korean dramas, Korean language, Korean culture, Korean food, basically anything Korean. So I guess you can call me a fan of Korea.
Second, eating is one of my favourite pastimes. I think my size says it all. =P I'm not picky about food but there's only one thing that I don't like eating, that is, sweet potato.
Third, I love sports. Been playing table tennis for about 6 years now, and floorball, 2 years. But I would have to say that I like floorball more. I don't know, but putting the ball into the goal, making an accurate pass, chasing after the ball, even sweating like a pig, gives me the sense of satisfaction that nothing else can.
Fourth, I can't live without the Internet. You can take away my phone, TV, mp3, bed, but please don't take away my Internet because...I just can't live without the internet.
Lastly, if there's anything I dislike, it would have to be making decisions. Where to go, what to eat, what to do next, which is nicer/better...I just don't like deciding. I always leave it to others because honestly, it doesn't matter where we're going, what we're eating or what we're doing to do. What matters most is the company and whether we're having a great time together.
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