red

is the colour of roses.
Of cherries and apples,
of steamed crabs and lobsters.

It is also the colour of delicious tuna sashimi,
beautiful maple leaves
and the Kaihalulu Beach in Maui.

Red is now the colour of my arm,
of CM's arm
and ah tan's nose as well=))

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This is the result of going cycling at noon. When the sun is the strongest, beating us with its powerful rays. I havent been so red for a very long time. Even though I'm burning right now, I feel happy. Maybe its the Vitamin D, or maybe it has been a beautiful day at the beach.

On a side note, you can never trust the weather forecast from NEA.

be better

It has been an awfully long time. The last post was about me complaining about work and stuff but I dint even go into the details and I’m already starting a new phase of my life. Or should I just say another stage in my life. I’m kind of enjoying the days as it goes by. School has started and the true horror hasn’t struck but it has been good so far (c’mon, it has only been two days). I’m foreseeing a really busy semester and a fulfilling one as well.

Life has been easier after choosing the major. Now, I can actually set my goals on things that I can see and things that I can focus on. I know what direction I’m suppose to go in and I’m going to work so fucking hard to get it. It’s time to pull those pathetic grades up.

You know, life is good when you have almost everything. I’m pretty contented with my dosage of family, friends and fiction.

PS: It would be better if moolah can grow on trees thou. Then there will be no problems with fieldtrips, holidays blah blah blah.

Losing da mojo

I cannot see how I am going to cope with the next two months. To me, its an ordeal. To others, it might just be the norm. Or that my situation is even better than them. They can't fathom, they do not understand how I feel. Sometimes, I don't understand myself either.

I've only work for two days. Two days of waking up at 06.30 and reaching home only at 19.30. If I have tuition on that day, I'll reach home at 21.20. During the weekends, I have tuition in the morning. I have to be waken up by the stupid alarm seven days a week. I'll have a reasonable amount of money by the end of the month but I don't know if I can take it. I said I don't know because I have not exactly experienced the whole ordeal (situation) yet but I'll experience it this week.

But I guess I need to do this. May I get over it fast enough.

I guess I have to stop napping in the afternoons. I’m having a horrible time trying to fall asleep at night and often stay awake till 3 or 4 in the morning. It doesn’t help when there are little people online at these unearthly hours to talk to me. And I don’t think it will be nice to call people just to get them to talk to me cause I might wake them up from their deep slumber.

So what can I do? I browse through the websites that I’ve already looked at a gazillion times, I listen to songs/ download songs and I read books. Because of this, I can finish a book in one night or maybe two nights, depending on the thickness of the book. I can’t bring myself to do things like looking for a job, arranging my bookshelf (which is pretty neat by the way) or clearing up my wardrobe as it requires more physical or mental energy than I’m willing to spent. Because, I plan to sleep.

And I was just thinking about the things that I’ve been doing the previous week and I realize it was kind of everything but productivity. The thing that I remembered most is the amount of good food, not to mention, unhealthy food, that I have been stuffing myself with the past few days. No wonder my stomach doesn’t feel well these days. And I remember I always have a weak stomach since young. It is all coming back again.

And when I still can blog about frivolous things like these, I realize how lucky I am. The news has been bombarded with the disasters that have strike Myanmar, China and Philippines. Being someone who studies Geography, I kind of understand how these things work and happened but I still can’t help wondering why it has to happen.

tlw

I have been watching the L word. Yeah, like finally I've finished season 4 and am onto season 5. I know I'm slow but yeah.

And I kind of need to get this of my chest. I so hate Jenny.

Ps: I saw the advertisement for The Arena last week on ch 5,and Dr. S was wearing a sailor suit. He should do that in school. Makes life more interesting for us.

unfit.

I went running today.

I finally got about to doing it. After not running, or jogging for close to a year, I felt that I needed the adrenaline rush again. I had visions of me completing say 10 rounds around the park. It would be long and slow considering how long I was off from exercising. But I can tell you, I failed terribly.

I only managed to do 5 rounds and it was a torture.

I was disappointed with myself but I guess I really needed to stop. I think I was just looking for something when I'm not yet fit for it. I've forgotton that running is a process, and to achieve that adrenaline rush, it takes time, determination and endurance. It was just kind of difficult for me to get this idea into my head cus I kind of take my fitness for granted. I mean after playing a sport and training actively it for the last 8 years, I didnt think that I would 'degenerate' till this rate.

I told my brother about it when I got home and he laughed at me. Frankly speaking, even though he finished 10km last year, I doubt he can do any better than me now. Hees.

Over my head

If Singapore have seasons, we will be experiencing summer now.

I'm so glad that exams are over. It feels so unbelievable, that everything is over and I can now embrace my three months holiday. Well, the end of exams for Sem 2 also signify the end of my first year in uni. It seems like it got over too quickly, and nothing seems to have changed since the first day I entered school. And even though I only end on Tuesday, I already began celebrations on Saturday.

R. and I went to the 'Seafood Paradise' near our place after I developed this craving for crabs.

We reached around 5.15pm and my, thank goodness we had a table. I guess we were really lucky as more of the tables are already reserved. So the next time if we were to visit, I guess we better call in advance to reserve. I dint know about this place until R. told me about it and I was surprised that there were actually quite good food that could be found near my place.

We ordered fried rice and chilli crabs with mantou. By the end of it all, we were utterly full. The fried rice was very nice with scallops and crunchy prawns and I think, prawn roe in them. They also have this sauce that we can dip the prawns into that was kind of tangy and sweet at the same time so it made it very appetizing. However, it kind of cool off too fast so it wasnt that nice after we had the first bowl.

The crabs were utterly delicious. We had a 1.1kg crab all to ourselves and oh mine, it was remarkable. The 'gong' were almost the same size as my fist and the shells come off very easily. Just peel and ta-dah! The sauce were thick and spicy which goes very well with their fried mantou. Their mantous were so crispy~ When compared to the ones I had in Xiao Hou Lou at ECP, theirs were heaven. After finishing the crabs, we even ordered extra mantous so as not to waste the sauce.
The crabs cost $36 per kg so if you have a tad money to spare and have a craving to fulfill, this place is not bad to satisfy that craving. Overall, we spent $63 including towels, nuts, drinks, mantou and service charge. The fried rice cost $10 and we thought that it was quite cheap. As for the price of the crabs, go figure. Hehe.

Waiting time (for food) is approximately 30minutes to 40 minutes regardless of crowd or no crowd. Guess they need to cook slowly and carefully in order to serve good and delicious food to the table. You know, 'man gong chu si huo'.

I have already come up with mini list of things that I need to do this hols. Hopefully, I'm able to achieve them and not procrastinate and slack like previous hols. Wish me luck.

Till then`