A very filling meal of pizza, garlic bread sticks, nuggets and loads of coke with JY

The birthday dudettes. QQ looks like he's about to murder someone.

Tomorrow is pooling with Maggie, Ise, Niko and possibly QQ. Woots! Can't wait! I haven't been pooling in ages! People, I wanna go swim, tan, canoe, play badminton, play basketball, go gym, have chalet, go shopping++ as well! =)) Was supposed to go play bball at Alex's previously but there was a whole bunch of unknown NUS guys invited so I didn't go for it. Sigh.

Poor Che met a flasher at Orchard Road a couple of days ago. Sigh. I told her that she could come to me for therapy if she needs to but I think she'll probably still be traumatised for life. That sick, sick scum of the earth should just pick a secluded corner, curl up and die. I hope he burns in the fury flames of hell.

I decided I should increase my limited store of general knowledge so I finally got around to do some googling. Heard of the term "first/second/etc cousin once/twice/etc removed" since Secondary school but had never got round to finding out its meaning. I finally know that Nicole, Marc, Kelly, Kellen (Spelling?) and oh-no-I-dunno-what's-the-other-kid's-name are my "first cousins once removed" not grand-cousins, as I have been calling them.

I absolutely love this beautiful shot of Kelly at one of the weddings. (I've had been attending so many) Kudos to whoever that took this. Sigh. I so want that photo of Marc eating noodles with his hands with noodles trailing all over the table. That was a very awesome shot too... Or better still, I want a SLR for myself. =))

I made Daddy act cute in a pic with me but I shan't post that up. Spoils the image. Hahaha. I looove Mummy's new dress!

Che and I. She looks naked =X



Beauty didn't go to the wedding dinner but how can I forget to include her since I'm posting family pics?




Lester gor's military-styled wedding photo. I think it's cute.




About 1/6th of the See Family 3rd generation. Lol.



Weddings make us high!





The menu of the day. Drooling already? If you can read what it says that is.

Dessert was totally Western and odd one out of the rest of the dishes. But still yummy. Doesn't this look gooooood? There's even a piece of real gold on it. Gold taste like nothing anyways...



I finally got around to watching 1Litre of Tears. It's said to promise alot of crying and of course, it was no exception for me. From the middle of episode 2, I cried non-stop all the way to the end of the drama series. Sometimes it is merely tears rolling off, other times it's outright crying hard. I alternated between them and there was not a single dry moment. Each time my tears attempted to dry up, there would another thing to make me cry again. A simple sentence, a simple act....they were enough to make me drop tears over and over again. There were times when I simply had to pause the show to bawl my eyes out before continuing because I couldn't watch the show with a teary vision. 1 litre of tears...I'm sure the litre beaker would have overflowed with my tears. I definitely cried more than a litre.

Based on a true story, my heart really aches for Aya and her loved ones. Things that she could do became limited as time went by. I remembered when she said she was afraid of time. One day she would wake up and find out that she hasn't got enough strength in her legs to stand on her own feet anymore. Another day passes and she would realise that people don't seem to understand what she struggles to say anymore. Basic rights such as schooling is also taken away from her. She asked if she could get married...Ikeuchi Aya in the drama has got her Haruto Asou who is always there for her and loves her even when she's in that state. In reality, Kitou Aya has to struggle with Spinocerebellar Ataxis alone...only with her family. She was only 15 and she has to bear with all the pain, all the strange looks from others, hearing that her siblings having to endure teasing from others. She wants to help others when she grows up because she is always getting help from others. But there was nothing she can do. All she could do was write...write till she could no longer hold a pen, till she had to grasp the marker with both palms and scribble a thank you (or arigatou in this case) with much effort. Because of her writing, she did help many. Her words were encouragement, an inspiration to many even to this day. Aya in the drama had her classmates sending her off when they themselves did not want her in school when they see her as a burden but Aya in reality wrote that she wished they had said "Aya-chan, don't leave" instead.

Socrates claimed that human beings cannot learn anything new because what is there to be learnt is already in the soul and when we think that we are learning something new, we're merely recollecting. If this is so, why hasn't anyone recollected the cure for such a cruel disease? To have a conscious mind like anyone else out there and yet be trapped in a body that don't seem to belong to you. You can't control your own body at all, to the point of even choking on food or even choking on your own saliva. When my mum told me that Chew Chor Meng could hardly walk during the Star Awards, I wanted to cry for him as well.

Why does such beautiful people like Aya have to go through all this pain and leave the world this soon? Perhaps God wants these amazing people by his side and took them away prematurely... but it is still so unfair! So unfair that they have to go through such torture in order to show their strength and beauty. So unfair that despite being so brave, their disease still continue to progress, slowly but surely.

Thinking about the show makes me flood my laptop with tears again. I'm scared that sparks might come shooting out from between the keyboard keys. I may be 30 years too late in saying this but... Aya-chan, gambatte!

I love the songs used in the drama, especially Only Human by K. The melody is so sad and the lyrics so aptly written. And the story is so beautiful and touching. I recommend those with tears to spare to watch the drama. I'm sorry if the video contains spoilers.

Anyways, I watched Seven Pounds with JH today. I loooooove, love, love the movie. It had been extremely confusing at first because of the arty farty directing but when the truth comes to light, everything fits and makes sense. The movie is slow with little action but it allows me to get into the mood of the show and I just can't stop myself and ended up tearing up many times. The storyplot is so touching, I cried at least thrice in the last 15 minutes. JH was complaining to JY that his left sleeve was very wet. I have no idea why it is so. =X

People who haven't watched the movie and are planning to watch, you should not find out too much about the movie beforehand. I think the producer of the movie had not wanted to reveal much about the movie for good reason. Before I watched the movie, I knew absolutely nothing about it other than Will Smith being in it and it came from the producer of The Pursuit of Happyness. It may be very confusing at first but when it finally dawned on me what the show is about, I really appreciate the ambiguity in the start.

I love the title too. Out of curiosity, I went to google the meaning of the title. Taken from Shakespeare's idea in his book The Merchant of Venice, a pound of flesh is demanded for every debt one owes. I think Shakespeare is pretty warped in the mind. Anyways, I love the double meaning in the movie title because it is both metaphorical in the Shakespearian way, but also literal since Smith's character literally gave flesh (and a house) to pay his debts. Seven debts, seven pounds.

Camwhoring!

Pretty pink Christmas tree!

Sleepover!

My new haircut...pretty big change huh? JY was saying how she can predict what Michael's gonna say about my fringe...

So adorable!


Stuck inside QQ's bag....

...And being carried around in his bag.

Friday

Met up with JH for dinner after 2 weeks of ignoring him. Lol!

Saturday

Pool with JH at Parkway! Had not been pooling since exam period...even after countless practice, I'm still as horrible at pool as I was before. Sigh! Anybody wanna go play pool with me? I need loads of practice! Or better still, I want a pool table for Christmas! Lol!

Sunday

JY and I went to Yum Cha Restaurant for our dim sum brunch. Yum! We had siew mai and char siew bao, chicken wrapped in paper thingy, xiao long bao, prawn dumplings and spicy dumplings. I love the prawn dumplings! The char siew bao and spicy dumplings were pretty good too. But other than that, I think the food is quite mediocre and is overpriced. We shall look for more dim sum places to visit! And maybe go HongKong and make Michael bring us to "yum cha" every morning! Yummy!

After a very filling breakfast, we shopped at Chinatown. Found many places that sold cheap, branded perfume. Then we spent hours shopping for Swaroski crystals...and many pretty charms for handcraft, to make a couple of Christmas presents! We're going to make them tomorrow at my place...I hope it'll turn out pretty!

After shopping, I met up with Maggie at Cineleisure for our GCO gathering. We watched Bolt and had a buffet dinner in the function room after that. Bolt is sooooooo cute and the movie is quite funny..but Maggie and I were utterly appalled to find out that Bolt, an adorable furry dog, is voiced by John Travolta. Zomg. Dinner after that was...pretty awkward. We're just not very close to the other GCOs to havoc around. Food was pretty ok though, and lucky draw prizes were ipod shuffles! Neither of us won though. Lol.

Food, glorious food!

Nice function room all to ourselves!

Maggie and me!

Ningzhi, Maggie and me

Monday

It's a public holiday so JH and I decided to stay at home and watch movies online over a tub of B&J's. We had breakfast then went grocery shopping. After that, we returned to my place where I cooked the bit of linguine with cabonara sauce from the previous time and toasted JY's favourite CP Mexican wings! Too bad she can't have them coz JH and I ate up all of them. Lol! We also shared half a tub of Dublin Mudslide! Yummy-ness!! I love JH Ben and Jerry! I shall secretly gobble up the rest of the tub over the week. =X

JH and I =))

Irish Cream Liqueur Ice Cream with Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies and Coffee Fudge Swirl. Am I tempting you already?

P.S 06S04ians, I sent you guys an email about the Christmas party. Check it out and reply soon, yeah? Can't wait for it! Wheee!

Finally was Disney Live: 3 Classic Fairy Tales....I watched the show thrice! I also did premiere ushering for the first time of my life. I became more of a child-booster-seat-delivery-woman and was kept so busy the entire time, I could hardly watch the show that day...but I think I enjoyed my job that day, and felt very much accomplished. As for the show, it's a children's show so there wasn't real singing. The stage props were very nice though, the way they made the backdrop and stairs move around and manipulate a small stage to become different settings. Much thought was put in as well to mask the stage when Cinderella changed her gown and when the Beast become a prince. I thought the use of the veil to create a misty atmosphere and the way the lights were made blinding when shone on the veil was very smart. I was also made to hold the door for the 3 princesses and Mickey one evening, and Belle is so polite and really princess-y, and Mickey is just plain cute and friendly. =))

I'm too lazy to type anymore. I wrote 3 freaking essays on Southeast Asia today, so I have no more energy... A bientot!