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My brother could not stand being quarantined at home for another week so he went out despite the scorching sun blazing down on his chicken pox-ed skin. He says he needs fresh air. Finally, I’m home alone again=)

Tansy, long and I went to collect our certs yesterday. The school was remarkably quiet. I mean we were expecting more of a hustle and bustle even though it was the holidays as we have a reputation of being a mugger school. Anyway, the mugger thing, I can only say that it was never us. We don’t mug a lot. We only mug when exams are nearing. Maybe the Science people were mugging, I don’t know. Long reminded me yesterday that we were talking on the phone till 4am in the morning before our Econs case study exam. I still can’t believe we did that. And we talked nothing about Econs mind you. It was pure crap. Okay I digressed. The main point is that we went back to school to collect our certs. It’s very pretty!!! I mean the folder and the nice paper used and the details. The grades were horrible and my testimonial was somewhat similar to Tansy. I wonder if it was pure laziness for Chrissy to churn out an “exclusive” one for the each of us or if we are just too similar. Somehow I believe in the former.

So we basically lazed around on the nice sofas in the GO, talking to Maxi and did a bit of catching up. We found out that a lot of teachers seem to be leaving the school. Ok just one or two. Poh poh has already left (maybe she and her husband finally decided that they are going to start a family together) and Mrs Chua! Mrs Chua is rumoured to be leaving the school due to Lai Lai’s tekan-ing. It’s such a pity cus she’s a very nice, cute and motherly teacher. But we kinda agreed that it’s better for her. She deserves better than to be traumatized by students like us. Tansy and I wanted to cut our hair after that but auntie wasn’t opened! As I was complaining about my hunger, we decided that we should go and try the White Tangerine Café at Kovan. Alas! It wasn’t open as well. So, after what seems like eons, I decided that I am now able to step into McDonald’s again! Ok lar, I want to eat the Shaker Fries mah….

Yeah, now that Tansy is no longer working and Long is ending her job soon, there’s more people to play with me! (That is if Long have time to spare us in the first place) I shall start planning my low budget outings again! Or rather, I shall only go on low budget outings=) I must lead a frugal life. I’m poor. Or does anybody want to donate to the “Save the Gecko- ying Fund”? Please do donate generously! I accept food as well!

Oh chocolatey Oh!

Yeah I’m getting my hands on the computer again! Ever since my brother begins to stay at home with me, I’m getting deprived. It’s no longer “computer anytime, all the time”. Its “computer sometime”. Pardon the horrible English.

I had a great time yesterday! First of all, I finally met my cousin. We went for Shrek3 together. My treat! Cus its her birthday. Hehe. The movie wasn’t as funny as I expected it to be though. I was fidgeting throughout the whole movie. Then we went to Bakerzinn after that. I had like linguine with brathsworth sausage, strawberry shortcake and steamed milk. There was complimentary rum and raisin ice cream and my cousin ate it. But I aint complaining! That’s because I ate three courses whereas she only had one dessert! All because she says she wants to save calories. Oh wells. The linguine was good. But the portion was a little small. Maybe its just because I have a huge appetite that’s why I think its not sufficient. The strawberry shortcake was really fresh! I mean, the cream was really fresh. It has a very strong milk taste in it somemore. The sweetness of the cake was complimented by a little tinge of sour due to the slices of strawberry in the cake. Overall, it was delightful.

R came over to meet me after his seminar. Yeah we went gai gai. I shant blog about the bits that will bore you guys. I shall talk about food!!! We went to big O for dinner. I had pan-fried cod fish and he had dirty rice (its actually roasted duck rice). The cod fish was crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside! And the mashed potato and spinach and raisins in the dish are superb when eaten with the fish. The mashed potato was creamy enough and the veggies were sweet =) I don’t know about his dirty rice though. But he said it taste good as well. And then the desserts came. I had no choice, I have to take pictures of it!!!



My “O” My
This is cheesecake with chocolate ice cream. The picture shows that there’s a little cup on the plate and that’s actually Hershey’s syrup. The cheesecake was good but I would say that there’s too much chocolate involved. Eating the cheesecake itself makes me want to melt. Eating the ice cream with the cheesecake makes me melt. However, too much Hershey syrup actually kills the dessert. I think I spilled too much.




The Dark Side
I was fickle and I don’t know which one to choose so he got this so I can try both. This is a CHOCOLATE BOMB. Its really thick! The bottom is chocolate brownie, followed by double chocolate ice cream, cookie chunks and then double chocolate ice cream again! Don’t try this alone!

Need I say more? Its such a sinful indulgence! I would suggest that one dessert to be shared among two. Don’t be kukus like us cus we ordered one each. So it was kind of overwhelming as the chocolates aren’t exactly the kind that could be eaten in large proportions like dark chocolate. However, cant really blame us. Their menu does not have pictures to show their courses.

I’m so satisfied=)

dry run

I’m reliving my porridge days again. Yes I’ve finally gotten my lower brace and it is hurting me. (No prizes if you managed to guess what colour I chose correctly) I feel as though my whole mouth is on fire. What, with wires poking at the walls of my mouth everywhere and cheek cells that are hooked onto the anchors of the brace, its terrible. Not to mention that I have develop a gigantic ulcer on my lower lip. And pieces of food stuck everywhere in the mouth. Kudos to those who have survived their “metal” days. I’m trying hard to survive right now. Hopefully I’ll get used to it soon. I cant live without food. Proper food. Not that porridge aint proper. But having too much of it will kill my love for it.

So right now, I’m eating my lunch (yes porridge) as I’m typing this. As my brother is down with chicken pox, I have the whole steamed egg to myself. Hiak Hiak. Well, he can have the whole plate of steamed meat. I’m not fighting with him for it. See, I’m kind. I share. One plate each.

As my cousin is off for a holiday in China, or to be exact, Hainan Island, I have two nights free from tuition. And I feel good! I mean, I could finally have dinner at 8ish and not 9ish or 10ish. And dinner at 8ish means its hot. Dinner at 9ish and 10ish means its cold. It seems like I can never stop talking about food.

Ok, I went to the mph book sale with sher last Friday. Check this out!

I got very good bargains! In fact, I bought all six of them at only $39! That’s like 6 plus per book. Judging from the fact that one book is usually $20 or so, I saved more than $80! I was so happy despite having to lug the heavy things back home. And I made a promise to myself that I’m not going to buy anymore books for the next say 3 months or so. Unless it’s a very good book, or its during a sale.

I’ve been very hardworking! I finally finished watching sher’s vcds. Or rather, the Korean dramas that she lent me. I still got some movies to go and I’ll be finally done! I think it’s about time that I start to get things in perspective instead of lying around doing nothing. For a start, I finally accepted the NUS thingy, a little tad late I know. Now I don’t have to think anymore about where I should go since I’ve already done the inevitable. I’m going out later to get a better passport size photo taken. Sigh, I hope it’ll turn out nice since its going to be on my student pass. –makes a mental note to help the poor brother buy his lotion for his chicken pox on the way

Tansy’s ending her job on Thursday! That means she got more time for me! Yippies!

Of little cousins and songs

Sometimes, I feel as though I act too much like a man. Instead of being nice and patient over my little cousin’s minute problem of not being able to find a song that she like, I was way too practical and harsh.

“I also cannot help you. What you want me to do?”

Or maybe you would be like me too. If your little cousins only bug you just to ask you to find songs for them. And every time your messenger window shows her face, it’s “Jie. Can help me find song?” It doesn’t help when the songs that she listens to are not the kind that I like. I don’t stand to gain.

I told you I’m a man.

the old people

Did I mention that I was so smart that I spoiled my room door so now it locks automatically whenever I close it? And no, I cant unlock it either. So nobody can open my door now whenever I close it and I got a good excuse for why I’m locking myself in the room – The door is spoilt!

Actually my brother’s room door is like that as well. Or rather, was like that as well. His door had this “auto-lock syndrome” for a few years before it reverts itself back to normal recently. Speaking of my brother, he dint go to work for four days last week (took 3 days urgent leave and 1 day mc for dental) and spend the whole time at home with me, whining about why he dint fall sick like me despite eating the same food as me and staying in the same house for four days 24/7. So now he got what he wants. He’s at home again, in his bed because he had a bad flu. Hohoho.

Outing with tansy last Saturday! Goodness! We, the old folks decided to venture into town after lightyears of not going there. Can you imagine? I went town! Ok, that was kind of exaggerating but I think I hadn’t been there for like 1 year plus? That’s how bad it is. I mean, all we ever hang out was at Chinatown, bugis and maybe sometimes, marina square. We are the lok kok flip flops heartland pple. Anw, I blew half of my tuition pay (from two kids) there (somebody tell me it’s the excitement of going town again) while tansy only spend like 30 buckeroos. Everytime like that one lor! I always spend more than her. I know why, she wants to wait until she goes out with her mum so she can get her mum to get the stuffs for her. The day ended with melon ice cream that we dripped all over the place as we walked from cine to somerset. Ok, I dripped. And I flicked melted ice cream onto her hand as well (I rock). Hmms.. Right now, I’m just gonna scrimp for so that I can “man zai er gui” when I go for mph book sale at expo with smelly sher in two weeks time. –grins

Off to watch vcds!

pass the tissue please

Its late afternoon and I’m at home listening to James Morrison’s You Give Me Something. Its raining now and I’m all wrapped up in the old PL jacket. I have my MJ mug and a tissue box beside me because I need to drink more water and blow my nose and I thought it would be nice if everything is within my reach. With the PL jacket and the MJ mug, you would think that I must miss school. Well in actual fact, I do miss school, a little teeny weeny bit.

I’m really sick of being ill. I’ve finished the medicine that the doctor prescribed and I have nothing else to keep me going except the panadols stored at home. Nontheless, I think I should visit the doctor again if I don’t get better by this Friday. That would only mean spending more money, sigh.

Everything has been in a mess since the last day I ended work and I hadn’t got a chance to put it right. Mainly because I spend the whole day in bed ( ok i spend half the day going for tuitions), blowing my nose and littering the floor with tissues. My storybooks are all over the place, I have no idea where I chucked my uni letters and I seriously think I look like crap. And when you think you look like crap, the last thing you want is to be recognized by some juniors at the bus stop and that was exactly what happened to me just now.

Ill, from the sick perspective

I know I’m falling ill a little too often. And yes, I’m ill again (I shall refrain from using the word sick. According to chrissy, sick is a mental condition). I had a shock on Tuesday when my temperature rose to 38degrees. I don’t get fever often you see. So when it went down on Wednesday, I dint really give it much thought anymore. But the problem is, I dint know my thermometer was spoilt. I think I dropped it too often. So when I thought my temp went down, it didn’t at all. It was still 38 degrees. After much nagging from my mum and R, I finally decided to pay the doctor a visit.

To think that I went to a clinic, not the polyclinic mind you, and I still have to wait for 2 hours. So I was sitting there, sniffing real hard and feeling like shit for 2 hours before it was finally my turn. I was ushered out after less than 5 minutes in the doctor’s room. Then, I continue to wait to get my medicine. Ah, life is a waiting game.

I don’t like to visit doctors. Not because I’m afraid of them or because I’m afraid of taking medicines. I don’t like to visit them because I’ll be stuck in an area full of ill people that look so gloomy and sad that I’ll be feeling even more gloomy and sad. I know I cant expect people to look real happy and cheerful when they are not feeling well but yeah, you get my point. And not only am I stuck in an area full of gloomy and sad people, I’m stuck in an area full of germs. I know I contribute to the germs floating there too but I just don’t like it! And then I have to wait. And wait. And wait and wait and wait. I feel like a selfish asshole but heck. But the worst part is not all of those mentioned above. The main reason why I don’t like to visit doctors, or in this case, don’t want to visit doctors is because my mum dint give me money to see one despite nagging at me to go visit the doctor. So today, 32 buckeroos flew away from my wallet. I can eat Katong Chicken Rice EIGHT times with that money! EIGHT TIMES! Get it?

Right now, I’m mentally awake and physically tired. I just cant bring myself to sleep again after sleeping the whole day. Ok I did do something constructive, like pulling myself out of bed to tuition, looking all grey and gloomy. I had tuition in my “oh, so sexy” voice and I felt like killing my cousin half the time. Restless kid plus ill tutor equals horrible tuition. I actually wanted to cancel tuition since my doctor ordered me to have ample rest but sigh, his exam is taking place next week so I practically have no choice at all. Such a good soul I am. LOL.

And because I was ill, I pangseh-ed sher on weds and tansy today. Felt so bad lar! Sher even called me today and asked me to go out but I aint able to make it. ARGH!

Contract ended last Friday so I spent most of my days at home=) Pure bliss. Stayed in bed most of the time due to lack of energy but I did some reading. Happy cans! It used to be only work and tuition. Now I have time for more things such as reading! Lets see, R bought me two books and I still have 3 books that I have not read so…that means I have lots of reading to do! I can foresee constructive time spent at home!

Received both NTU and NUS letters already. Both schools start in August. That means, I gotta find a job again. Anybody have any lobang to offer, contact me ok!

I have no idea when that time is no longer measured by minutes, hours, days, weeks or months.
Its measured by when I’m going to be able to see R again.