accounts #2 - MOMMY!

as of Apr 30..
groceries and drinks: ~€189
accommodation: €202
sch books: €15
postage & calling cards: €103.50
trips and shopping: ~€1512 (includes 2 trips to paris, belgium/luxembourg, london, amsterdam and italy)
laundry: €16

what a special day :) 1mth and 2days more tho. sigh. je suis d'accord, on a perdu beaucoup trop de temps..oh wells. un tribut à l'amitié et la bonne compagnie..à la tienne!

there's ignorance, there's naivety, there's oblivion, there's indifference. and yet there's also plain stupidity, i'm sorry to say. life generally doesn't treat anyone with concern or kindness, only de temps en temps a safe haven wld come by (nice pple like me :P) and even then the welcome may be short-lived. it's necessary to stand up on your own 2 feet! but then again, maybe it's not even your fault, it may be a question of insufficient EQ/sensitivity/intuition/observation. a little insider information: in rome, act as the romans..of course with discretion..and you'd survive. actually, wld such a person know what discretion means?

haha yikes i've turned into a bitch.

we are all under the same umbrella and we serve the same purpose, same God..but i don't understand it at all. catholicism/roman catholicism. it saddens me to see a church look like a hindu temple. tourists come to asia to see our temples and go to the west to see their churches. what's the difference then? has the house of God become only a monument? or when pple see it then will they sense some sort of spiritual void?

not all roads lead to rome..def not. and not all supernatural beings can answer prayers, believe me, things all happen cos of His sovereignty. Saints do God's work, they are holy pple but they are still humans, why do catholic churches reverenize them? it seems that the churches are glorifying them more than God. it shdn't be that way! je ne comprend pas du tout. it upsets me. no way am i gonna put my philosophy side by side in comparison with other philosophies. so don't ask me why. there are many things that we humans cannot answer, accept His sovereignty.

God does deserve the biggest house of all, the grandest, the most majestic. but He does not live in statues nor in history books nor in paintings. He's alive! He's not dead in Mary's arms or dead on the cross! the catholic church emphasizes too much of that! He's the almighty, in charge of everything. He's omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. and He loves us so much. me, such a sinner, blackened inside out, the prodigal daughter. when will i reach the pt of no return? i dowan to question..

mais il faut n'etre pas tiède. je dois choisir..les choix!!!

la soirée singapourienne - à la plage!

merde, je suis censé étudier..merde.
c'était gros!! commencé un peu ennuyeuse mais après it was swell..plenty of dancing, plenty of 'tatoo-ing' heheee.






we sold strawberries with choc and it proved to be dirty fun :) too bad i can't post videos haha.
the 3 ang mohs in the 1st pic are going to ntu to study next sem!

oh man..sorry guys for taking so long. had to take the photos off someone else's comp.

soo..i went to yet another museum on the 1st sunday of the month (it's free -grinz-)

Musée d'Orsay

so this is zhere qll the vqn goghùs hide: RIGHT. THIS IS THE RESULT OF TYPING ENGLISH ON A FRENCH KEYBOARD. urgh the french!

as i was saying. this is where all the van goghs hide.

vincent van gogh - la méridienne (1890)

claude monet - les déchargeurs de charbon (1875)

edgar degas - danseurs

my exam piece! oh brings back fond memories.

view of paris from the musée. you can see sacré coeur from here! that dome thing on the hill behind. so amazing.

amsterdam was like the #1 place that the exchange students here wanted to go to and went, by the car loads.....including us during the wkend. 6 pple in a Ford! oh man. being SMALL, i was arrowed to hide and be a "bundle of coats" whenever we saw uniformed men at checkpoints. hehee. and mom and dad were so happy that i went to amsterdam cos they've been there before as well..like 20 yrs ago. nope it was not very dirty, in fact the city is quite pretty. but the roads were so messy. cars can overtake via the pavements and u-turn anywhere.

but that's not the point. of course. it's amsterdam! amsterdam's the place full of kopitiams selling 草 hehee. il faut écrire en français maintenant.. :P j'ai essayé les herbes, 2 sticks et 1 gateau au chocolat avec herbes, "space cakes" -grinz- it wasn't much of an issue actually, for me at least. je pense que c'est à cause de mon abondance des graisse. mais il y avais un personne qui était très stoned. c'était un peu effrayant pour nous, mais une bonne et nécessaire éxperience, bien sur. je ne peux pas mettre des photos, pour des raisons évident! hehee. sauf ça peut-etre..

and of course amsterdam's red light district, and its fish tanks. one particular person has been bugging me for photos of the girls..sorry no can do, didn't take any, or rather, couldn't take any. i don't want big, burly black men descending on me and my camera. anyway, the girls start working at like 3pm (who needs them at 3pm?!) they stand in front of big windows like shophouses, men just knock on them and the girls will open the doors and bargaining begins. then when a deal is clinched, the curtains close. pretty interesting concept. dutch girls on the streets are really really sexy and most are pretty. and then when you go to the fish tanks, these sexy pretty girls seem to disappear and fat druggies dominate. sunken cheeks, sagging bellies and obvious ribcages. well ok not all, some are truly pretty.

entering the district by car is cool. there's like this barrier that moves down when the sensor senses a car. it's that thing that ida's standing on hehh.

saw the anne frank house as well. and omg i can't believe an RG girl hasn't read the diary of anne frank..so uncultured, so ashamed of her tsk tsk :P it was amazing and my goosebumps kept standing on end. it was the real hiding place of anne frank and they conserved it pretty ok. but the story was played out really well in this museum.

we also went to kukenhoff, the tulip fields. so pretty!! i don't hafta go to jeju to see such beautiful flowers already.

after amsterdam, we stopped by antwerp, belgium for a day. t'was so screwed up cos we left ams too late and reached antwerp's formule1 at like 3am..and they cancelled our freakin reservation!! and for some unknown reason, unknown even to the locals, all the rooms in all the hotels in antwerp were fully booked. except for ONE. so in the end, me, manda and cs stayed in that room and the rest slept in the car haha.

every shop was closed on sunday and yet there were so many pple milling about..wonder what they do. and there was this grp of students who were siesta-ing in the middle of the square (background of photo). and pple actually thot they were street artistes and dropped them some coins. haha funny. nth much else to see there lah, main thing was just the fountain, a castle and some big underground drainage system.

our dear lydia wasn't here cos she was visiting other castles in Loire as well, with the rest of the exchange students, organized by the student grp in charge of exchange pple. haha she just HAD to go there, where all the hedonistic fun was. heh but she enjoyed it, i hope..and so did the rest. oh wells, they said Loire isn't worth visiting without gd company. phew i didn't miss much then.

all the BESTEST to all my darling buddies in singapore!!

mug mug Mug MUG hard and mug mug mug smart ok :) i have faith in all of you. and may the peace and wisdom of God be with you always.

-HUGZ-

and my dearies down-under..gd lark. i miss melbourne!

my turn will come sooon :( dang.

i love binging. i love my milk and cereal. i love my butter and choc chip cookies. i love running away. i love not facing the problem. i love peanut butter crepes. i love my beers. i love watching my gilmore girls/smallville/desperate housewives and not thinking bout anything. and then i love jogging it all off. but why why why must you make me think about it. i'm on holiday. it's unfair. i'm unfair. so i should not drag you down anymore. but you'd never agree. i'm unwilling to make effort. i'm not convinced that i should. i'm damn double standards. help me cos i can't help that. i haven't settled down yet. you know that. i'm so not right for anything serious. taking things for granted now. wld it be the same when i'm back? you said you don't know me anymore. maybe tt's right. don't try to understand me. it's not easy. i'm complicated. it's only for pple who are committed to me. but here i go again. screwing things up. as always. can you take it?

过火 -- 在我眼里

是否对我承诺了太多

还是你原本给的就不够

我始终有千万种理由

你一直都跟随我的感受

让我疯 让我去放纵

你是多想再给我机会

多想问我究竟 爱谁

是你给我自由过了火