yayyy im going AUSTRALIA for my grad trip!
its gonna be an awesome road trip for the 6 of us!

tickets booked/ 13days/ 24may-5june/ 6 of us/ 3boys3girls/ one car

while we're still working our way out on the humongous map for our routes and stuff.

yippie and since we're touching down at brisbane first thing first,

shopping at their factory outlets are gonna be crazy!!

i dono what elses fun over there cos i haven done any research,

but we're definitely going to scream out lungs out either at USB

(Universal Studios Brisbane not the USB port youre thinking of) or Gold Coast!

and then we'll mainly be travelling ard Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide the Kangaroo Island

to see furry animals carrying their pouches hopping all around!!

IM SOO EXCITED that im even prepared to learn songs to sing along for our road trip!

'we'll be alright' by travis mcCoy sounds pretty cool

and i love its chorus so hippy and catchy woohoo AUSSIE HERE WEEEEEE COMEEE!!

'awesomeee performance by gaga at the grammy's as well as in her music video
and i totally dig into the lyrics of this new song of hers!'

It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
'Cause you were born this way, baby

My mama told me when I was young
We're all born superstars
She rolled my hair, put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir

"There's nothin' wrong with lovin' who you are"
She said, "'Cause He made you perfect, babe"
"So hold your head up, girl and you you'll go far,
Listen to me when I say"

I'm beautiful in my way,
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Don't hide yourself in regret,
Just love yourself and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Ooo, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
Baby, I was born this way
...
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be!

Give yourself prudence and love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice the truth
In the religion of the insecure
I must be myself, respect my youth

A different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M (hey, hey, hey)
I love my life, I love this record and
 

Mi amore vole fe yah

I'm beautiful in my way,
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Don't hide yourself in regret,
Just love yourself and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Ooo, there ain't no other way
Baby, I was born this way
...

( Queen , Don't be , Queen )

Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen
You're black, white, beige, chola descent
You're Lebanese, you're orient
Whether life's disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied or teased
 

Rejoice and love yourself today
'Cause baby, you were born this way

No matter gay, straight or bi
lesbian, transgendered life
I'm on the right track, baby
 

I was born to survive

No matter black, white or beige
chola or orient made
I'm on the right track, baby 

I was born to be brave

[something interesting that happened today]

i boarded this train alone from amk and theres this taller guy just next to me where he goes:
"hey, hi! can i ask you something?"
me: 'uh-huh?'
him: "are you a model?"
me: "nop im not"
him: "oh ive always thought ure a model"
me: "ha *smiles*, uh always?"
him: "you know, you look very familiar. i always see you in NUS science, are you from NUS?"
me: "ya, science" *smile* (while thinking to myself wow this is creepy)
him: "ha because youre tall you see. and ive always wondered how itll feel if youre standing next to me. *beams at our reflections on the train doors* ah there youre at my eyebrow level."
me: *super awkward smile*

him: "are you serious when you say youre not a model?"

and then blah blah blah we went on talking till ive finally reached my stop to alight.
oh wow hes a stats graduate for like 1 and a half years already but he still remembers my face?
guess my heights really something that makes me outstanding. roarrrs!

me just returned from a sumptuous meal with my relatives on my maternal side (^-^)v! food's great and the company's great too! ive always enjoyed gatherings with my mum's side. they're all such caring and lovely people but everyone's been soo busy for this feb that we only had time now for a cny reunion dinner altogether. its a little late, but hey what are the 15days of cny for right? dinner started off with a lao yu sheng for a prosperous year ahead, followed by shark's fins soup, scallops, prawns, pig trotters, chilli crab/ black pepper crab, some other smaller dishes and then yam paste for dessert. hee yummy yums that these are all my favourite dishes. happy me happy me tummy!

yayy im finally finding time to overload this space with photos for my jan/feb♥! till then, updates! they're all below!

 my bunny of abundance angpows collected on cny day1 :D

happy that ive received the most amount this year compared to any other previous years

went to eunice house for some new year visiting and wow,

her family houses really pretty pussy willow!

its definitely the fluffiest ive ever seen, like 7cm huge?

i didnt know they could open up to this size ^_^

 heres pretty eunice with those blossomed pussy willows

 happy rabbit 2011 to all!

steamboat is the wayyy to go for chinese new year!

and cheers to the sumptuous spread of  food eunice prepard for us :D

 everything looks soo flesh right (:(:(: yeah hotdog still remains as my favourite steamboat-must-have food. i know, its kiddo food!

 tsk what to do when theres 6 tai tais in the house?

4 shall mahjong while 2 catch their korean dramas on the telly!

im one of the ones by the mahjong table ofcos XD

eunice the beginner's playing not bad for her first round and im soo looking forward to us playing MJ more often together!

yayyy met up with the comtech clique for our cny gathering too!

we seriously need a cooler nickname comtech sounds so weird?

anyways, we had a super filling meal at NEWYORKNEWYORK before

going down to ashley's place to see her meow!(her rabbit's name)

and gamble our night away $.$

*likes* the comfy sofa seats at the corner of nyny and

they do serve huge portions for the appetisers combo!

theres buffalo wings, fried mushrooms, fried calamaris and potato wedges

i'll definitely order it again the next time im dining in there (;

  since dinner's at nyny means that we can have our candy floss for freeeeee

the waiter even offered to bring us our candy flosssss if

we're lazy to go spin it on our own haha :DD

its just how spoilt we people are nowww!

meet meow! ashley's fatty rabbit which tends to act all quiet and gentle on the outside

while its secretly cultivating the mood to bomb lotsa black balls of shit out afterwards

haha its a full-of-shit-generator really!

  nuff playing with rabbit and its blackjack time!

we all dug out coins to gamble since ashley took out her tray of coins first

still, i managed to win $5 from this while kaixin became the biggest winner of $30

while she started off with $0. lucky hands she has!

and because her winning is aso the cause of the rest of the guys losing,

they suggested switching to gamble over mahjong instead!

lucky me won another $4 from here. haa i just dowon to be the loser cos you'll get laugh at.

tsk spencer, boon and ah loy, buck up kays else you guys really

have to take off your pants if you lose again!

❤this collage of us with that huge pink bow on❤
plus the guys do look really cute with it! epic fun (;

 

the happy birthday girl and i :p

and another amazing pic taken by the iphone pudding app!
just nice, each of us in one box strip (;
ps: i braided up my fringe for the night yayy, its visible from here!

this will be us doing a 喜怒哀乐 from left-to-right! :D

alright back to the main theme of the night's gathering:

1st birthday celebration of the year for January baby Shinye!
we're all turning 23 this year and through some casual conversation,
i remed that shinye mentioned she would like her birthday gathering to be held at the Macdonalds/
as it hasnt been done in any of the years before. and so i organised this for her,
to celebrate her birthday in her teenage dream way/
together with that pink bow for her to wear throughout the night :p
cute huh, we happened to chance upon it while we were doing some new year shopping for (;
oh well these pictures may not look like we're at a macdonalds eating fast food for dinner, but it is!
- a long table at the far end of the branch at raffles city.
we totally had the whole area to ourselves and even had our 捞鱼生 afterwards
w/o any staff poking us out XD love the whole company for the fun
and we're all planning for a grad trip together in may'11!
im mega excited about this hee cannot wait!
cannot wait cannot wait to go to a foreign place altogether for the first time :D
and yeap for this special reason, we've chose to go to the Philippines for our grad trip!
theres this very beautiful Borocay beach over there and if plannings go well,
we might be able to squeeze places like Vietnam and Cambodia into our itinerary too!

this is one happy photo! where everyone look all smiley
because im the great photographer who took this shot :D

 HUAT AR! forget about the fortune and wealth,
all i want is to be happy and healthy this year (:(:(:

got down to marina barrage for a kite flying/ picnic gathering with the people ive known from the previous comtech job too/
and there we were, making our way through to get the kite up that blue sky!
hilarious max because the wind was too strong and none of us actually know how to fly a kite :p

 
 then, within 30mins the sky turned all dark and gloomy. which meant we had to pack our stuff back indoors. 


tsk, can anyone imagine this? junxiang actually went to find the directions to get to marina barrage and printed this out. best of all, we're going to marina barrage not marina bay sands! NOOB we call him. and even if he gives excuses that he's been too used to studying at Aust that hes afraid he'll get lost here, still he could have saved this info in his phone right?!! n-o-o-b!

and so this was what lasted us through our unplanned indoor activities-
camwhoring plus some usual sabotage games.

yep and this is the output from our camwhoring fun- each of us posing with the pretty little flower ashley had with her!
the guys looking awkwardly cute and the girls look pretty sweet with it :DD

  
 heres a few photoshopped effects ive applied on our photos. this will be under crosseffect.

colorpencil effect

oil painting effect

and this threshold effect. i purposefully chose a different color for each of us and if you look carefully,
its actually chosen accordingly to our personality haha XD
gayish purplish jon, sunshine aiping, real man ahloy, pinkish me, teacher ashley,
little red hat kaixin, blockhead boon, armyish junxiang and branded taolian!

alls fun for our day out. and thou the wet weather may dampen our mood a little,
theres always those happy random things we do to make up for it (:(:(:

met up with siying for a light but filling dinner while the rest of our jc classmates got busy with their schedule
and couldnt join us for a dinner gathering. still, dinner at mache's great with my significant twin! XD

thankyou siying for the handmade birthday card and belated birthday present!
you know im gonna use it when i have the chance to (:(:(:
and yayyy thats me out with my headband and dang~ my huge butterfly ring too!

[yes we're reserved for each other anytime anywhere]

meals' good but things are always a little dry over at mache



love them balloons for kids dining in :DDDDD

yes its dessert time and we've got ourselves a raspberry cheesecake!
the raspberry looks are too hairy to be eaten but well they don contribute much to any taste
yums, sweet tooth/tummy satisfied and we're both out to hang ard at town area after that.